Welcome to: Benny's Brisbane Skateboard Directory The site for skaters in Brisbane, Australia Compiled by Mark Brimson     Toombul Skate Park   North East Brisbane   Built: 1995   Address: Sandgate Rd (Ross Park op. Westfield Shoppingtown)   Not far from the airport, even closer to the Westfield Shoppingtown, just across Sandgate Road in Ross Park is the Toombul Skate Park. This was one of the major skate facilities built in the mid ninties to accomodate for the growing trend in skateboarding that once again came on in a big rush. Being a composite park, made up of bitumen surface, concrete banks and metal quarters, this place seems to have had all the problems that can occur with those materials, but it is still there and still popular for all the locals in the area.   It is pretty much square in layout, the whole side on the road having a long quarter, 4ft high, with a bank set into it in the middle of it, the right having another metal quarter, consisting of two heights, in the shape of a gentle "A", starting at 2ft, flat with coping, rising to 4ft, flat again and then back down to the same as the other side, so you can hit the quarter at the low end, 50-50 along, up, along, down and along before getting off, or any combination of those. On the left is a bank/hip/bank/hip arrangement built in concrete, easy enough angle to flip, yet steep enough to get a fair bit of height off the hip part. (Rodney Mullen was clearing a shopping trolley on its end when he was skating there for a demo a couple of years ago.) There was nothing at the end of the park, hoping for an extension, but when one was not going to happen, some wooden blocks were put on the edge to use as grind blocks. In the middle are a series of banked, hip bump type of things, that don't really have a purpose, are generally too steep to hit fast and don't lend themselves well to anything other than manuals across them or doing tricks off them, as if they were a set of four stairs. There are a few other wood grinders and sometimes a couple of brought in obstacles to make things more fun, but on the whole, this park is good for a break away from your usual skate spots but I would not be travelling out here every week for my skateboarding needs. Many of the joins between bitumen and ramps are rough or high enough to jolt you when you roll over them and the metal ramps are quite slippery when the paint has come off.   Pic 1 of street park   Pic 2 of street park   My first kick flip to fakie on bank recorded on film at Toombul in 1997. I was a happy lad after that!     email me at:   mbrimson@yahoo.com ***** (click here to send me mail) *****   Click the "BACK" button to return to the previous menu.