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miamia11
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July 25, 2005 - 11:35 AM |
 
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I come from Canada to Shanghai every summer with my 15-year-old son. He loves skateboarding but we don't know anyone here and he doesn't know where to skate - could somebody tell me where the skateboarders hang out? Thanks! |
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yangguifei
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July 25, 2005 - 12:02 PM |
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I know some have a spot at Zhongshan park...
Maybe you can ask in skateshops? There are 2 or 3 of them on shanxi nan lu, between huaihai lu and julu lu. |
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miamia11
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July 25, 2005 - 12:48 PM |
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Thanks Yangguifei We'll check them out. He went to Zhongshan Park but didn't see any skaters..... |
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littlefox
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July 26, 2005 - 02:58 PM |
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I have seen local teenagers skateboarding in front of Century Park metro station. Looks like an ideal place for skateboard, spacious and fresh air. Have fun! |
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crikey
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July 26, 2005 - 05:01 PM |
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Century Park Metro station??? Are you sure?
The Shanghai Science & Technology Museum Park (just above the trainstation) appears to be skaters (and inline-skaters) paradise. If he street skates, he'd probably love that place on quiet day.
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miamia11
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July 26, 2005 - 09:58 PM |
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littlefox and crikey, many thanks! He'll check them out tomorrow. |
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littlefox
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July 27, 2005 - 09:57 AM |
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Century Park Metro station??? Are you sure?
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You are right, crikey.
miamia11, please ignore my previous post, yes, it should be shanghai science museum stop, damn my brain must fall asleep when I was posting. |
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karnex420
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July 27, 2005 - 11:33 AM |
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Check out where Peoples Park meets Jinling Lu. |
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striker
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Sep 23, 2005 - 02:14 AM |
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Hey guys,
I've checked out some site that for skaters in China. There is a team call the Black Knights. It seems like they have access to a park or some good spots. Is there an existing park in Shanghai and are there a lot skaters in general in SH? |
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mmd1227
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Sep 23, 2005 - 05:08 AM |
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yes, there are lots. My 20 year old son(college student) skates every day. |
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mmd1227
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Sep 23, 2005 - 05:09 AM |
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there willl be a park which is due to open on October 6 |
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striker
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Sep 23, 2005 - 06:02 AM |
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Awesome! thanks for the info mmd1227, good to hear that there is a healthy contingent of skaters in SH. I'll be coming in the end of Oct, beginning of Nov. Will it be too cold to skate? I snowboard now and have revisited skateboarding after many, many long years of not keeping up. I'm sure your son is pretty good. I'm just looking to hang out and ride around a bit. |
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mmd1227
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Sep 23, 2005 - 07:03 AM |
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no, November will not be too cold to skate. My son is an avid snowboarder(as is my husband),but skating comes first. He skates right through all the streets here, as do most of his friends. |
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krez
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The new park will be the worlds largest Skatepark, Shanghai Jiangwan Skatepark, a USD 12.35MILLION investment. Due to open earrly next month. It is located in the north eastern outskirts of Shanghai - it's a 12.000 sqm facility. You can see this on the front page of the Shanghai Daily, from September 21 -
The following is from Shanghai Daily
www.shanghaidaily.com
Skateboard 'showdown'
Zhou Zuyi
2005-09-08 Beijing Time
An artist's impression of how Jiangwan Skatepark will look when finished.
Local exponents of skateboarding have a new home away from the parks and squares of the downtown area where they currently perform. And, as Zhou Zuyi reports, an international tournament next month should go a long way towards boosting the popularity of extreme sports in Shanghai.
Willie Santos traveled halfway around the globe from San Diego in southern California to Shanghai with only one piece of luggage: his skateboard.
Time has left its mark on his skateboard which is now stained and worn. "I can't remember exactly how many years it has been with me but it must be a long, long time," says Santos, a former world champion skateboarder.
The trip to Shanghai was the latest travel credential of its flying owner. He was in town briefly to shoot a skating video at the newly built Jiangwan Skatepark, a 12,000-square-meter complex of concrete bowls, banks, hips and rails.
"A tremendous experience," says Santos, and he should know — he is the owner of a community "skatepark" back in San Diego. "I like the mega-pipe here especially," he says. "It takes real guts and skill to do tricks on that."
The pipe he mentions is really huge and looks like a huge tube without a roof. It measures more than 40 meters in length and is 4.1 meters in diameter.
"The park has more than verve," says a proud John Dai, the manager with SMP International, the park's licensing company. "In fact, the park is biggest of its kind in the world."
Jiangwan Skatepark is located on the northeastern fringe of the city and cost about 100 million yuan (US$12.35 million) to build. Its aim is to become the hub for extreme sports in Asia.
Unlike the Western mainstream view of the sport — which looks on practitioners of street-born extreme sports as juvenile delinquents and nuisances — it has been welcomed in this part of the world. It is not uncommon to see passers-by stopping to enjoy spontaneous performances put on by teenage skateboarders in People's Square. Some exhibitions and competitions that have been held over the past couple of years have also helped to nurture an ever-growing fan base for the bone-bruising extreme sport.
But the construction of the skatepark heralds the beginning of something much bigger. Next month, the official opening of the venue will feature the holding of the "SMP Gravity Shanghai Showdown," an extreme sports meet that will gather together the world's top competitors in half-pipe inline skating, BMX bike riding and, naturally, skateboarding. Santos and Japan's Yasutoko Brothers will be the headliners in the "Showdown."
"The event will kick-start the park's bid to become the mecca for extreme sports in the region," says Dai.
SMP will also insert live-band performances and a demonstration of freestyle motorbike racing during the two days of the tournament on October 6-7 for the entertainment of the crowd of spectators estimated to be some 10,000 strong.
But aside from putting itself on the global map, the Jiangwan arena also has a local agenda. Eight Chinese skaters and bike riders have been given wild cards into the tournament and, more importantly, the venue will be open to local X-sports buffs free of charge, at least for the first few months after the grand opening.
"Street-skating is dangerous and a safe and well-managed venue like ours will persuade parents to allow their kids to play the sport," says Dai. "That, in turn, will help the sport's growth here in town."
A fixed venue that gathers large number of X-sports aficionados also appeals to sponsors.
"This means signage opportunities before a large number of spectators at the park and it will also be easy for television to broadcast events," says Jiang Xiaobin, a member of the local marketing crew of the US extreme sports gear maker, Quicksilver. "It is what we have been dreaming of for so long."
Until the new skatepark opens, Shanghai will still see its small but die-hard extreme sports community do their kick-flips and other manoeuvers in the public parks and squares of the downtown area. However, the Jiangwan playground will see this sponsor-friendly congregation of target customers in a new location and this should arouse more business interest in the fledgling sport.
But positive sentiment about the skatepark is not universal.
"The big-name competitions and castle-like skateparks may be good for sponsors but not skaters," says Leo Tong, a local amateur inline skater who prefers to do his tricks on the stairs at People's Square. "The essence of the sport is to do it in your own way and do it on something that doesn't look like it's meant for skating. That's what the originality of the sport is all about." |
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striker
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Sep 24, 2005 - 03:30 AM |
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| no, November will not be too cold to skate. My son is an avid snowboarder(as is my husband),but skating comes first. He skates right through all the streets here, as do most of his friends. |
That is just blowing my mind! Your husband snowboards as well! That is great to hear! Your family sounds cool. I live in Toronto Canada and maybe moving to China to work, ie: SH. I'm 31 so I can't keep up with the bone crushing tricks that my younger peers dare to do.
However, it is great to hear that SH will be putting up a park. Thanks also to Krez for posting the article for me. You guys are great. I appreciate the info. |
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striker
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Sep 24, 2005 - 03:41 AM |
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One more question: Are there any ski resorts in China? |
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mmd1227
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Sep 24, 2005 - 05:55 AM |
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yes, further up north near Beijing, etc. My husband and son also took a snowboarding trip last winter to Nagano,Japan(north of Tokyo), they said it was great. |
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mmd1227
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Sep 24, 2005 - 05:56 AM |
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p.s. 31 is young...look at what Tony Hawk can do! |
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natty
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Oct 02, 2005 - 06:34 PM |
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hey
my bro skates here but went up to jiang wan town a few days ago and cou;dn't find the new skate park
does anyone have exack details of where we can find it???
nat |
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