Welcome to: Benny's Brisbane Skateboard Directory The site for skaters in Brisbane, Australia Compiled by Mark Brimson     Underwood Skate Bowl   Logan Shire, 10 mins south of Brisbane   Built: 1983   Address: Underwood Rd (end with park and playing fields)   Underwood Bowl to many has been probably the most famous bowl in the Logan if not whole Brisbane area from the eighties up until the present day. Situated at the end of Underwood Road (with main park, bmx racing track and playing fields). When it was first built, it was the best of its kind and has lasted quite well, still seeing many locals and others skate its transitions and grind down the concrete lips. The big parks that have been built in the Logan area in the last year or so have drawn some attention away, but it is still a good place to go for a quiet ramp skate when there are too many people at the other places.   The two different heights (big 6-7ft and small 4-5ft) and fairly smooth, gentle transitions worked really well to cater for many good and not so good skaters, giving one and all the chance to learn on small and take it to the big, where the older skaters used to really put on a good show for the rest of the kids. The whole "U" shape works well, being a half pipe or a bowl, or starting from the bottom end, using it as a quarter/launch or whatever.   Quite a few competitions have been held here over the years, and even a few demos and quiet pro skate days, eg the Lake and Walker team in the eighties did things on this place that no one had ever though possible before, leaving all the kids with new lines and tricks for many months afterwards. A review of the most recent comp can be seen here.   This was one of a few parks that was looked at to have a bowl upgrade and street area put in (like the old Woodridge bowl), but now the emphasis is on building where there has not been anything before, or leaving the old bowls and concentrating on the street areas, like Shailer Park and the soon to be completed Browns Plains super skate park where the old bowls are.   (Pics coming soon)     email me at:   mbrimson@yahoo.com ***** (click here to send me mail) *****   Click the "BACK" button to return to the previous menu.