We want what Canada has: an official downhill skateboarding park. The first official U.S. one could be built in Golden if it gets approval.
Downhill skateboarding is growing in popularity, and a proposed park devoted to the sport would be the first of its kind in the U.S.Search YouTube for videos of downhill skateboarding, and you’ll see a sport that’s akin to skiing, but on a longboard and minus the snow. Skaters drift through turns and accelerate to speeds over 50 mph while traveling down winding mountain roads.
Euresti and his friend Gavin Johns discovered downhilling about three years ago after being board athletes for years. Euresti accidentally slid his board — which means to spin it to the side and skid to a stop — a common action in downhilling. When the duo realized people purposely do that down mountain hills and that Colorado has a large scene for the activity, they were hooked.
“My eyes just lit up, because I saw the possibilities of new riders being able to enter into the sport safely and even experienced riders having a safe place to throw beginner races and to do little events like that,” he says. “It’s great that people have a special interest here in Golden, and they can go through our Parks and Recreation board and...once they do that, we can pursue looking into things,” Turner says.after the sale of the Denver Broncos in August. Those funds must go to projects for children, and Turner says that, though there hasn’t been an official decision, the Ulysses development, including the addition of a downhill park, was discussed as one potential use of those funds.
“Street skaters, they're just gonna go until they can't anymore, which we will too, but I'm not going to argue,” Johns says. “You may see a lot of videos with street skaters getting in arguments with folks and getting loud and possibly physical, but I've never seen any verbal arguments, definitely no voice-raising, and definitely no violence or anything like that. We do a good job of that, and we hold each other to it.
Pillars of the community are well-known; one, Roy Wolf, died this past summer in a skydiving accident. Euresti describes him as “this unicorn that everybody looked forward to seeing.” Euresti says Wolf famously always had an encouraging word to share, and he would like to see Wolf memorialized at the park if it comes to fruition.“Once you do it enough, it kind of becomes second nature, and it's a very thrilling and calming experience at the same time,” Dickerson says.
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