New indoor park Evansville IN

**sniffleless** · 10-28-2009 09:55 PM

Check it out.
Killer Skate Park and Shop opening Saturday Evansville Courier & Press

A nice looking wooden indoor park. That spine ramp looks like fun. I haven't skated something like that in years.

**smallss** · 10-29-2009 10:31 AM

"you won't have to wear pads or helmets if over 18"
####### awesome. park looks like the dopest dope I've ever smoked. can't wait to make the 140 mile drive as soon as my ankle heals.

**Hot Wheels** · 10-29-2009 03:59 PM

Snifleless - let the St. Louis Boyz (Cartel) know how it is and
maybe we could do a road trip this winter?

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**WillJ** · 10-29-2009 04:02 PM

looks fun till there's 20+ kids in there trying to get run over

**sniffleless** · 10-29-2009 07:19 PM

I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to go over and try it. Maybe Thanksgiving weekend. I'd love to skate that spine ramp. I do have a brand new set of Ace trucks that still haven't tasted coping yet. I just need to go. Skate something.

**smallss** · 10-30-2009 06:26 PM

spine is not so much my steez, but that elongated 5 and fun box have the JP38 written all over em. some good lines... maybe we'll see ya up there sniff.

**kobudo** · 11-02-2009 09:39 PM

I made it over there last Sunday to get some new 60mm wheels and bearings for the short board... I won't have time to go ride it until Wednesday. The owner and his wife both work there, and are super nice people. They're open 10-10 Tuesday thru Sunday, IIRC it's $6 for a three hour session or $10 for an all-day pass.

I'll be hitting it early on Wednesday to avoid the kids, they need some sound deadening material in there as it can get LOUD when a lot of people are skating it... Their prices are really reasonable on parts too.

**kobudo** · 11-04-2009 05:19 PM

Been skating there all day, at 5 it started getting a bit crowded for my taste... probably wouldn't be so bad if I haven't lost all ability to ride ramps over 5 years of not doing parks and ramps. The owner said it should start emptying out in a few hours, so I'm gonna head back over after getting a bite to eat. I took a few pics with the cell phone for those who are interested:

**sniffleless** · 11-04-2009 06:09 PM

Wow that looks like fun. Makes me wish I hadn't lost all my ramp skills. I'll still have to check that out next time I'm in Evansville. Maybe I'll even get to skate.
Do they have season passes? How much?
How well stocked is the skate shop?

**kobudo** · 11-04-2009 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by sniffleless

Wow that looks like fun. Makes me wish I hadn't lost all my ramp skills. I'll still have to check that out next time I'm in Evansville. Maybe I'll even get to skate.
Do they have season passes? How much?
How well stocked is the skate shop?

They have month passes... but it's a certain number of three-hour sessions for (I think) 60 bucks-ish, I can ask them next time I'm in. No kidding on losing the ramp skills... I was never great, but I could at least rock to fakie in ages past. Today I kept blowing it just rolling most of the way up the six-foot and back down fakie, and forget about dropping in. I spent most of my day rolling down the incline next to the rail & step-up in the front of the first picture and middle of the second one, and messing around on the banks towards the back with the funbox & rail/bench thing between them. There were some folks there ripping it up though...

As far as stock, he has a room full of boards, and a counter full of everything else you would need. Plenty of blanks, and all of it new-school... though I did find a nice set of new Caballero Autobahn wheels in 60mm that fit nicely under my little park popsicle. He has mentioned that he has a few bigger decks bordering on old school because his brother prefers 'em, the one I saw (his brother's) was a Powell Peralta deck with big Indy trucks. Unfortunately I didn't see any trucks for sale down there that would work with a 9"-plus deck. He has a few of his old-school decks hanging on the barrier between the park and the shop (you can see one in the first pic), but they're just decoration. I would be surprised if he sold anything truly retro.

Blank new-school decks are $35, right now all the shoes are $46, and the cheapest bearings (Lucky bearings with metal cages) are $14. So the prices are pretty reasonable for brick & mortar stores.

I honestly wasn't sure what you had in mind product-wise, but let me know and I can ask him if he stocks it.