What happened in 2024?

What happened in 2024?

Why is the sky blue?

What is concrete?

2024 was another great year.

I hit 36 new parks for a total of 572!

Top 3 - LaSalle -  Buffalo, NY

Unity - Northville, MI

Luke Nelson - Medina, NY

New Parks 2024

1. Impact 2.0 @ Evergreen Brick Works #537
2. Wellesley Rec Complex Skatepark 3/30 
3. Ripley, ON #539 5/23
   
4. LaSalle/Buffalo Skate Plaza #540 6/20
   
5. Outer Harbour DIY
6. Lakeside Bike 
7. Bryce Buchholz Memorial- Lancaster Skatepark
8. Alix Rice Peace Park Skatepark
9. Phatman Boardshop & Park
10. Ives Skatepark - Tonawanda
11. NF skatepark - NF NY
12. Pefferlaw Pump Track & Skatepark 6/26
    
13. 22 Wing Skatepark- CFB North Bay 7/08
    
14. Extreme Park- Kirkland Lake #550!
15. Carter Antila Memorial- New Liskeard/Temisakming Shores
16. Temagami Skatepark
17. Waterford, ON. 7/26 #553 
18. Sonny Belch Skate Dot, Belleville 8/12
    
19. Bismark Park Skatepark- Cambridge 8/14 #555
20. Stork Family YMCA- Waterloo
21. RIM Pump Track- Waterloo
22. Dowling 2.0 8/23 
23. Highland DIY Skatepark 9/12
    
24. Unity Skatepark, Northville, MI #560 
25. Luke Nelson Skatepark- Medina, NY 9/16
    
26. The Railyard Skatepark- Lockport, NY
27. Lewistown, NY. Twin of Mold-master 1.0
28. Nobleton Pump Track 10/9
29. Manotick Skatepark & pump track 565 10/10
30. Findlay Creek
31. Greely skatepark
32. George Jowett Memorial random ramp near Morrisburg. 
33. Southfields Skatepark, Caledon. 10/14
34. Oakville 16 mile Creek Skatepark & Pumptrack 10/18
35. McNally st Skate Dot, Georgetown 10/25
36. Brimorton/Meadowglen Sk8 Dot 12/02

Honourable mentions - Wellesley, Southfields & Bismark Park, Cambridge.

I went to the states a couple times.

Let's Go Buffalo!

2 trips up north.

My kids have started to make some trips with me.

My Halloween costume was a miniature replica of The Hoof. I built it out of cardboard over the winter and then made a little edit. My costume won the Later Skaters Halloween Bash best over-all costume.

On the Advocacy side, I've continued to push for more parks in Pickering as well as getting the West Shore Skate Spot usable again after an ill advised paint job. Pickering is working on new parks (slowly) and recently updated the 10yr Parks & Rec Master Plan with includes quite a bit about All-Wheels Parks.

The West Shore Skate Spot Spring Clean-up collected over 300lbs of waste from the area.

I've been freelance consulting on projects for a few years but I made an official post. Let me help you! Free Skatepark Consultations.

Southfields in Caledon finally opened adding to my pre-work park network. I barged on Thanksgiving. Park 569.

My Battle against CRC continues with another 2 botched concrete jobs  (there's a third I haven't been able to lurk yet).  One of their pre-fab installations too a bite out of my wheel and one of the concrete spots failed so bad the central feature was rebuilt within a few months.

Before

After

Check out Their Best and Worst.

I dug deep into Toronto's Parks project page and found 14 previously unknown Skate Feature projects (Everything from skateparks to skate dots & legal street spots).  I then discovered 2 of the projects are complete.

Brimorton Skate Dot

Skateboarding is awesome. Don't gatekeep. Don't be a kook. Don't yuck somebody else's yum. Build stuff. Skate the way you want. Progression, not Perfection.

Rest in Peace Patti McGee

We got a Damn Patti board when we found out we were having a girl.  Patti signed the deck and wished my daughter a 'happy birthday' every year. She's a legend and will never be forgotten.