Yea I was there today and a kid fell and hit his head pretty bad. I didnt see it but heard it. His face started bleeding and he kept shaking his arm like a minor seizure. Someone else on here had to have seen it also. I left before any officials came but i think someone called an ambulance and police. So i think this may be the end of no helmets. If anyone else has the rest of the story im curious.

I was there too and left shortly after the clean up.. when I came back later the park was packed and very few people were wearing helmets..

Aside from the helmet rule, and threat of tickets, even if you're just going to skate the street course you don't want to be caught without a helmet in case some guy or his board comes shooting out of the tranny section at mach 10.

A kid got wrecked there already? The hype is crazy for this park i need a helmet....

James Buchmann (Hunterstreetfilms.com) uploaded a montage from the grand opening.


Courtesy of: James Buchmann

yeah, it is a free public park. take the c/e to 23rd and skate west to the river. i think it is open from sun up to sun down.

and as for the helmet rule. i have been there every day it has been open and other than the incident with the kid busting his head open, they haven't been enforcing helmets. hopefully it will stay this way as long as people don't screw things up. i heard that a fight broke out between a skater and a blader yesterday...bad news. things like this will only make the park more regulated. as annoying as it is to dodge the rollerbladers posting up in the worst spots, don't fight them. it isn't worth it. talk to them, that is all it takes. things are crowded, it is new, it will be that way until the hype dies down...or maloof is open. deal with it.

elastic_back wrote on 05.22.2010 at 13:23:31:


This all makes sense, and I don't want to tell anyone what to do either. It's ultimately everyone's call in an unsupervised park. The problem is, the HRPT has already talked about closing the park due to no one wearing helmets. I guess we're going to have to learn the hard way on this one.

if they close a skatepark because people are not wearing helmets, i will laugh. they did not spend so much money on  park to just close it. worst case scenario, they will put in a pad nanny. when the parks people come around, i chill until they leave or put on one while they are there. but if nobody is around, i am not wearing one. also, at the end of the day, we all paid for the park, so we can make our own rules. are you saying that since the government "pays" for the streets and sidewalks, they can make rules about you wearing a helmet to cross the street and you would be cool with it?

also, you have to be kidding about helmets not getting in the way of skating. the skatepark is in direct sunlight and a helmet is a head warmer. i might not mind wearing one if they made it indoors with AC...maybe.

don't try to get all high and mighty. we all make our decisions. you decide to wear one, that is fine, i don't care. i decide not to wear one...most people don't wear them when there is nobody enforcing them. you want to convince us otherwise, you are swimming up stream, dude. loosen up your kneepads and relax. it is only skateboarding.