Thought the park was a bit scaled down from the crappy photo's of it but it's actually good sized, they have a real nice half 6ft spine half 5 foot street spine mini ramp that is new which no one has pictures of. The rest of it is 5-9ft quarters and good hips and lines everywhere.
The one box jump is one good crank from a 9 foot wall and really takes a LOT of effort to clear. But it goes up to a nice 5 ft quarter with a 2ft tall 1ft back sub box which caused me to rip my pants and tweak my wrist.
The one big thing I noticed about riding in a foreign zone with no friends is that it is really hard to be motivated to push stuff to the next level. I was playing it safe all night, not doing anything which I had a high crash rate on before when I rode.
No Fufanu's, nothing to fakie, tried one ice pick slider but no stalls, did a few really nice smith grinds I was proud of, jumping was useless, didn't even jump the spine I was so mellow, and I had no motivation to try. Sucks not riding with friends...
Given it was my first time back on a 20 inch in a LONG time I still could have done more. The rental knee pads didn't do much for making me comfortable and after about a hour and a half my hands got sweaty which caused grips to get slick and I lost all confidence, that was also right after the nice slam off the sub box (just caught the coping come back in from a double peg stall on the sub).
My flow is all but gone, manuals are the same. They were starting to make a reappearance towards the later part of the night but I just couldn't flow the park because you have to go big and commit to make a real nice flowing line and I just wasn't ready for it.
Maybe a few weeks from now I will be back, I really do need to upgrade a few parts though, my brakes have so much flex I have no trust in them whatsoever.
Here is an older pic of the park, everything is bigger than it appears.
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