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Burnside Skate Park in Portland, Oregon was built by skateboarders, originally without permission, but eventually was sanctioned by the city, and has become one of the best skate parks in the world.
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  • Is this park the one in Paranoid Park?

    Awesome documentary, but skating isn't very useful.

    Peace.
    aquamammal
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  • There are 13 million skateboarders in the US alone, according to the American Sports Data Corporation, which tracks the recreational trends of over 100 activities.

    94.7% of these skaters are between the ages of 9 and 24, meaning: about 1:6 American youth fancy themselves skateboarders (ratio depends upon region).

    About once per week a skateboarder is struck and killed in traffic. Indeed: automobiles are the number one cause of skateboarder death, and the number one reason for hospitalization.

    This facility isn't the the first skatepark, and it's not even the best. But it's the first successful large-scale "smash and grab" project, which reclaimed blighted public land for recreational skateboarder use.

    It's almost 18 years old, still protected by a City of Portland resolution, and has served as a model leveraged for similar projects across the US and around the world.
    kdahlgren
  • I used to love the Burnside level in Tony Hawks Pro Skater!
    clemwilson
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  • Terrific pod. Sk8rz have always been an industrious sort!
    joebrilliant
  • This documentary is legit.

    Big ups to the P-Town Skate Scene

    & Chris Bredesen, PJ's 4 life SON!!
    PJwhat
  • I love seeing Portland being featured in a Pod, I heart Oregon!!!!!!
    KarlitoMosquito
  • Man, that's awesome. I skated Burnside 2 years ago for the first time and it's INSANE. So well built, and now to know how it got there... So rad. Great job guys. You stuck it to the man and he couldn't deny you. Power in numbers!!!

    This is a model for what's really possible with drive, determination, and a little risk taking-
    Great work.
    onechance
  • great story. i went to middle school and high school in a small town in oklahoma and started a petition and had meetings with the city council and really got a movement going for a skatepark there. They approved designs and everything but we couldn't ever raise the funding. I went off to college and that city had a skatepark so i gave up on the original small town. 6 years later, they finally built the skatepark - and it's awesome. ...but they didn't even mention my name in the newspaper...just "started a few years back by a local kid" - ha. all is good. great job.
    erichinson
  • wow everybody knows this park...i didnt even know it was built by skateboarders, thank you
    fiLakaMrPink
  • I enjoyed this pod. I am not a skate boarder (I am a grandmother) but I was glad to see how people took back their community. These young men should be applauded for what they did. However the comment about a 32-year-old talking to a ten-year-old disturbed me. I am afraid that might give pedophiles an idea they may not have had. I wish that part had been edited. It would be nice if it could be edited now just to be on the safe side. Other than that, I thought this was a wonderful pod.
    petitetiger
  • Fantastic!
    zexsports
  • the best place on earth. followed by washington street in SD
    waveon
  • Every time I see this pod it makes me want to "go down to skate park..yeah!"
    TravG73
  • This was a fantastic pod.
    I love it when a station like current sheds light on the positivity that skateboarding can bring.
    Burnside is truly one of skateboardings greatest success stories.
    Skateboarding has been nothing but a positive force in my life, and I only wish the general public could open up their minds to it a bit more.
    timothyalan

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