I’ve been skateboarding since I was about 12.  Needless to say, it’s a huge part of my life and it makes me look seriously cool.  Yep, believe that.

Talking to a friend a few years ago, he mentioned his cousin works for DLRCoCo in the parks department and that they were planning to build a skatepark in Blackrock park.  I began combing over DLR’s website and soon after, they released their draft masterplan for the park where they mentioned they’ll be building a skatepark at the old circus ground, which has been neglected over the years.

And then Covid happened.  I suddenly had a lot of spare time and needed to keep up on top of graphic-y things, so I started throwing around some designs on paper and later in C4D.  It seemed easy at first, but nope, there’s a lot to bear in mind.  That all ended up snowballing and I’ve since set up a website – https://blackrockskatepark.com/ –  and Instagram account to go with it – https://www.instagram.com/blackrockskatepark/– trying to keep the park on track and NOT have some pre-build ramps come over on a ship from a factory.  Planning and construction processes move at a glacial pace, so what you’re looking at here is a bunch of concept plans to show what could work, or could not not.

The idea is to have a skatepark, pump track, bouldering wall and callisthenics bars installed in the park, which would be a hugely successful amenity for the city.  So yeah, I’m getting involved and absolutely stuck in with this one.