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Old 05-18-2008, 09:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Some may look at this park like its the worst park ever.
But I have been having so much fun here lately It'd be chill if some other's come thrash it.

It has a concrete kidney shaped "Pool" that is much more like a ditch, located at the bottom of a hill that the park is built on.

I'll try to get some pictures up sometime.

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Old 05-21-2008, 05:23 PM   #2 (permalink)
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This park is really cool - this is the first pool I ever tried to skate - and holy crap it is difficult! Thanks again for meeting me there Rob.

Anyone who rides banks, pools would totally dig this place. It's a great street skaters place to shred too.

Also - the CCSU parking garage is jjust around the corner.
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Old 05-22-2008, 08:02 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The shittier the skate park the more fun it is. The one at fairfield is horrible but we skate it anyways and it's a lot of fun.
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Old 05-22-2008, 08:04 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Ok, I think I'm going to head up there tomorrow or so. Give me a call if you're down 203 767 8024
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Old 05-22-2008, 10:43 AM   #5 (permalink)
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There are varying degrees of "shitty." That one looks like it qualifies for "slightly janky and dubiously constructed;" but we should save "shitty" for truly awful parks like this one.
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Old 05-22-2008, 02:06 PM   #6 (permalink)
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There are varying degrees of "shitty." That one looks like it qualifies for "slightly janky and dubiously constructed;" but we should save "shitty" for truly awful parks like this one.
HA!

Ya its better than that park.


But if anyone is planning on skating it either:

A. Bring a broom

or

B. Give the sun some time to dry up the rain.

The pool was built by idiots and the drainage is higher than the lowest points in the pool so water builds up to near a foot deep

Saturday???????
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Old 05-23-2008, 08:50 AM   #7 (permalink)
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#### you max, I love that janky shitty ass park. I can't go to New britain today anyways, my starter motor is shot. But maybe tomorrow.
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Old 06-01-2008, 08:23 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I'll be at the park busting some air's today.
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Old 06-01-2008, 10:20 AM   #9 (permalink)
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There are varying degrees of "shitty." That one looks like it qualifies for "slightly janky and dubiously constructed;" but we should save "shitty" for truly awful parks like this one.
Dude, did you see the xGNARxCOREx graffiti text they used for the sign? No way you can call that "shitty!"
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Old 06-01-2008, 08:19 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Dude, did you see the xGNARxCOREx graffiti text they used for the sign? No way you can call that "shitty!"
Bad skateparks eh?

Go to Chesire, and skate with me and some of my friends lol.

Nvm don't, that park is horrible beyond belief with no ledges, concrete, pool.

Just straight up crap metal.
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Old 06-02-2008, 05:14 AM   #11 (permalink)
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nice try max but there is still smooth asphalt you can skate in Bristol...unlike Newport which is so sh1tty they put it on the border of the next city...not to mention the fact that it's covered in sand
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nice try max but there is still smooth asphalt you can skate in Bristol...unlike Newport which is so sh1tty they put it on the border of the next city...not to mention the fact that it's covered in sand

haha, i was down there several weeks ago surfing and had my drifter in my trunk, so i figured i'd check it out, it probably wouldn't be such a bad park if it had smooth concrete instead of asphault and DIDN'T have at least 800 pounds of sand spread everywhere between the trannys.
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Old 06-02-2008, 06:41 AM   #13 (permalink)
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haha, i was down there several weeks ago surfing and had my drifter in my trunk, so i figured i'd check it out, it probably wouldn't be such a bad park if it had smooth concrete instead of asphault and DIDN'T have at least 800 pounds of sand spread everywhere between the trannys.
what sad is the skate spots Newport had and destroyed, most under the justification of building that POS park more than a mile from anyone who skateboards...Perotti park across from the Panera was curb and ledge heaven, Seaside Banks, King Center Banks, Long Wharf banks, Salve bowl, Creamery curbs. Not to mention Skater Island which llived entirely too short a life. One of the cool city councelmen tried to get the city to build a Breaking Grounds Skatepark next to the King Center (nearly downtown but still in a neighborhood) but the City's only response was "the park we have doesn't get used by Newporters and only gets used 3-4 months a year" nearly every skater in attendence (myself included) said the same thing "put a crappy prefab park more than a mile from any neighborhood (I'm not including Middletown which is where the park almost is) and you are correct no one is going to go there" Hell even Jamestown has a better park and Newporters will pay the toll to skate it rather than waste time at easton's beach.
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