Skater Park

n the new part of the city, amongst the high rise apartment complexes and corporate towers lies the civic center park. It’s basically a big park that includes a play area for children and there are pathways that run through it for people to run/walk. (their dogs) On the other side is the area where the big boys play, you have the chess tables for the slightly older gentlemen. Just adjacent to that is the playground for the slightly younger chaps, this includes a basketball court, a concrete football ground and the part that I like the most, the skater park! You can find in-line skaters, skateboarders and BMX bikers riding up and down their creatively designed {read as graffiti} RAMP!

One of the places we eat at is situated just a few minutes from the park, so at times we go there and watch in awe!

Now I am not the biggest X games fan there has ever been, but I have watched my fair share of Tony Hawk, Cesar Mora, the Yasutoko brothers and crew burn the ramp with their tricks.

The X games did not always receive the same kind of ‘publicity’ that some of the other sports did; in fact it was only recently that the X Games had its own category in the ESPY Awards. But I don’t think that bothered these athletes too much, they really love what they do, and that is all that matters! The reason I like watching the X games is because of the camaraderie that these guys share. On the one hand they are fierce competitors but they will always be the first to encourage and support each other. Whenever one of them attempts a new trick and manages to land it you will always find the others knocking their skateboards and helmets on the ramp in acknowledgment.

In the skateboarder park in Brasov, you find the same kind of comradeship. The only point of worry is that these guys don’t wear any kind of protection gear, no helmets, knee/elbow pads nothing! I wonder if their mothers know! : P

I wish I could try that one day!