Why Are They Taking Away the Skatepark Everyone Loves

Malibu skate park is finally being built. As you can see, this is some footage of them going to work building it, constructing it, and laying it all out. It's super exciting time because this is a new skate park. The only thing I'm very concerned about is the temporary park. It was built in 2023 and it was supposed to be temporary until this one got built, but with COVID and just a lot of backtracks, it hasn't been built. Decided to head over there because it's one of my favorite parks and honestly, I wasn't too hyped when I saw this. The temporary park is closed due to permanent skatepark construction. I figured that I would do the best I could to get a session in because I made the drive. And honestly, this is going to be one of my last sessions here. Um, I'll go more into detail towards the ending of the video, but as you can see, I'm just going all around because this park has a lot of meaning to a lot of skateboarders and a lot of beginners. And just this place is such a beautiful park. Even if it's a temporary park, this actually for me feels like it's a better design than the actual park only because it's not intimidating. It's very friendly and you can have fun here. But yeah, I wanted to make sure that I went around one last time before I started skating. And the video is brought to you by Ble just sent me their AI sports glasses, and I'm testing them out today. Looking back at the footage, I saw that the glasses didn't really capture the board, but it did capture like me rolling up to it and rolling away and just kind of where my head goes. Cool thing about these glasses is once you hold the button, it starts filming, you press the button, it takes a photo while you're filming. So, you can still be filming even after it takes the photo. The lenses have UV protection and within the app, you can see the videos that you take or the photos that you take. My favorite part is that even after I filmed for 20 minutes, they didn't stop recording. Let me know what you think about these glasses. This flat bar is probably one of the best things here. Um, I saw the plans for the actual park. They don't have a flat bar. This is the one thing that I am very critical for a lot of parks not having a flat bar or a round bar, whatever you want to call it. It actually sucks. This is one of the best things to warm up to. Uh, every time I've been here, I legit just do that and then I skate the bump to bar. Bro, the bump to bar is the best obstacle for me here. This is like the most non-intimidating bump to bar. It's not that long. It's pretty short and it's not high at all. Seriously, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've always like thought of so many tricks that I've been wanting to do here. And it's kind of a bummer because my session just ended here, right? As soon as I landed the big spin, I went back up to try one more trick. And I was told uh by a worker like, "Hey, what am I doing here?" And I just told him, "Yo, I was talking to someone." He saw me talking to someone and he asked if they let me skate. And I just said I didn't even talk to him about that. But we were talking about something else, which you're going to see the footage of me talking to that guy. But man, what a sad way to leave the park. Just being told that, yeah, if you're skating here and other people see you skating here, they're going to just think that it's okay to skate cuz you're skating here. So, basically, I'm the problem. And I get it. People are they're just doing their job. And I kind of accepted it. I did want to try to make my way into getting a longer session, but homie wasn't having it. But here's a conversation with one of the workers that knows what's up. >> You want to have something for all levels of skill. You want to bring new kids where they can have a spot to practice. They could jump on this. You can't just send them up, go off that rail. You got to have little You got to start somewhere. So, you got to have all levels of of uh abilities and different things. And we know we need to be creative. That's what's good for the brain. It's good for the body. >> It's good for human beings. You want people to be creative. Everyone that designs these things, these are professionals designing this and they're looking at all the designs around the world. It's it's this is new. They're going to have the cutting edge information and they always try to improve and whatever the competitions are pulling, they're going to try to build it towards that, you know. Uh that's what I would think. and they they might have a bidden thing or I would say my experience in all these things check online make sure it's Saturday morning and get here first if you want to buy a piece of that's how I would take it if you really truly wanted something I would try to get here early and someone says oh I already have dibs on this and say well what if I bought it off of you know everything's for sale if you wanted that bad >> I just got done talking to one of the workers that takes care and maintenance this whole park at Malibu He said that they're going to have an auction for all these ramps right here. I did see that online and it just bums me out because this is one of my favorite parks. Regardless that they're going to be building the new park, which you can see over there for me is just a bummer because this is one of the parks that is just really fun. It has everything. It has that little piece, the stair set, and the bump to borrow at the very end. The craziest thing is that and there's an article that says the temporary skate park is going to be opened for the duration of construction. I guess they went back on that and here's the post where they have the information on the whole sale. Uh there's a lot um I'll link everything in the description. There's a lot of comments that people are bummed to. There's a lot of comments on that post, but here's some of them. um the article that I grabbed the information that the skatepark was supposed to remain open. A lot of people feel that it should be donated to communities and yeah, it's funny that your temporary parks can be better than your regular parks. I agree. The bull is the only thing in my life that I care about. I resonate because that bump to bar is all I cared about. Now I can't skate it. And whoever thought this was going to be a good move to sell piece by piece is a Regardless what's going on, this is going to be the new skatepark at Malibu. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about it. I just know that the temporary park brought so many people together. Not only that, it was just the right park in so many ways and many reasons. And I often thought about that park more than I should have. Honestly, to me, that temporary park will always be in my top three skate parks. That'll be it for me, y'all. Let me know what you think about it. I'll link everything down in the description so you can go find out