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    Park Skatepark and Grande Prairie Skatepark Strategy open house was hosted on October 24th at 6:00 pm in a Muskoseepi Park meeting room facing the proposed expansion site. This open house is part of the council directed Skateboard Park Strategy to access existing parks and recommend new areas and designs that will meet current needs and look ten years into future needs (Grande Prairie Skatepark Strategy, 2017). During this open house participant input on both locations for future skateparks and

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    The window rolled down. 8 shots were fired from a handgun towards us with nowhere to hide. I shouldn’t be alive right now. August 7, 2017, was the scariest day of my life, the day I was shot at in a drive-by at Martha Lake Skatepark. The day started off normal, I woke up around 2:17 PM because I just got back from a trip to Japan the day before and I was really jetlagged. I grabbed my phone and called my friend Justin. “Yo, wassup man! How’s it been?” He said as he answered the phone. “I’m good

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    where it is possible to smoke in general, and because skaters tend to smoke marijuana quite blatantly instead of moving to a remote area. The routine activity theory could explain this phenomenon with an emphasis on the lack of a guardian in the skateparks. As the theory focuses on the situation of the delinquent behavior, rather than the

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    those circumstances, the first skatepark opened nearly 15 years after skateboarding had been created. Then a couple months later a man named Bill Richard, who owned a surf shop, contacted The Chicago Roller Skate company and arranged a deal to produce a few sets of roller

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    I was at the north field skatepark trying to land a trick that me and my friend learned recently at a different skatepark, it was called a front foot impossible it wraps around your front foot but it normally goes around your left foot that's why it is a difficult trick, so when I was skating around we decided to start tying the trick and it was going pretty good until I randomly just started falling a lot which made me start to sweat and get mad, it was like the skatepark could feel the heat from

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    Rough Draft - Unit 2 EA 2 In today's society you see kids as well as adults at skateparks, in the neighborhood, the park,etc. All riding skateboards, but not wearing a helmet. To them they trust themselves that they won't crash but it's not always them that can cause themselves to crash but other skaters, cars, even people out on a nice run, you turn a corner and next thing you know bang, you crash. With all these dangers you think it would make sense to strap on a helmet. But for some reason skaters

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    Oak Park Research Paper

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    in oak park, my third and final reason is that there are health benefits l will tell you the best reasons why we should have a skate park in lovely oak park Reducing property damage The first reason there should be a skate park in oak park is skateparks reduce property damage. For example when you go to a public park one of the many things you see are chipped stairs. One of the main reasons why is skaters and scooter riders have metal pegs and very strong decks. This shows Once a thing like that

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    1975, a slalom and freestyle contest were held at the ocean festival. Even though skateboarding wasn’t that advanced with tricks, they did have simple tricks because skateboarders knew how to go up and down ramps (Care). In 1976, the first outdoor skatepark was opened in Florida (Werner 108). Eventually, they did advance in tricks, and one of the most common tricks used was finally invented. In 1978, skateboarding had a drastic turn that would

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    My Birthday Day

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    me and some friends down to visit her and my grandpa. The day after we got there my grandma wanted to take us to a skatepark in columbia but we had a slight problem. We didn’t know how to get there so we had to wait a couple of days. So that day instead of going to columbia we just went to a skatepark in jefferson city. It was fun but i really wish we could’ve went to the skatepark in columbia. So the next day me,lukas,and thomas, two of my best friends, went to a little camping spot that i know

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    board uses electromagnetic levitation, similar to the technology found on Maglev trains. But while the trains have rails to guide them, the hoverboard needs a throughly magnetized surface to operate on. That’s why the cement of Lexus’s beautiful skatepark is lined with hundreds of magnets. And the board isn’t exactly ready for Marty McFly to put it in his backpack either; it levitates thanks to 32 superconductor bulks packed inside the board, which need to be topped of with liquid nitrogen every 10

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