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About the Park

This is the worlds largest skate park in down town Shanghai, China. The skatepark has set a new standard as a contemporary skate facility leading the field in design and construction. The design team took a collaborative approach with some of Australia's best professional skaters, to create a park that successfully manages to combine world class, unique and challenging elements for professionals and international level competition while still providing the space and variety of options necessary to ensure that beginners can adequately develop their new skills.

The skatepark runs over 150m in length and in places up to 85m wide, totalling over 13700 sq/m (over 147,000 square feet) of permanent rideable terrain. Key features of the park include the massive Mondo Bowl that has a 20m long full pipe and a 50m wide vert ramp. Within the main central skate park space there is over 7400 sq/m of bowl and park terrain with an additional 2000 sq/m competition area. To the sides of the skatepark proper, over 4000 sq/m of skateable Chinese granite pavement provides seating terraces, access ways, shaded viewing zones and a multitude of street skating opportunities.

The construction management team members flew over from Australia during the building of the massive park and worked with the locals to ensure the park met the highest quality standards required for a skate park of this kind and size. This integrated landscape design approach by the team has ensured the skatepark compliments the adjacent sports centre and surrounding lakeside environment both as a significant active facility and visually dynamic designed space.

The park opened in October 2005 and we are now at the annual Shanghai Showdown competition for 2007 which is held each year and attracts some of the best professional skaters, inline and BMXers from around the world.

About the Park

So what's it like?

How to get there

	About the Park This is the worlds largest skate park in down town Shanghai, China. The skatepark has set a new standard as a contemporary skate facility leading the field in design and construction. The design team took a collaborative approach with some of Australia's best professional skaters, to create a park that successfully manages to combine world class, unique and challenging elements for professionals and international level competition while still providing the space and variety of options necessary to ensure that beginners can adequately develop their new skills. The skatepark runs over 150m in length and in places up to 85m wide, totalling over 13700 sq/m (over 147,000 square feet) of permanent rideable terrain. Key features of the park include the massive Mondo Bowl that has a 20m long full pipe and a 50m wide vert ramp. Within the main central skate park space there is over 7400 sq/m of bowl and park terrain with an additional 2000 sq/m competition area. To the sides of the skatepark proper, over 4000 sq/m of skateable Chinese granite pavement provides seating terraces, access ways, shaded viewing zones and a multitude of street skating opportunities. The construction management team members flew over from Australia during the building of the massive park and worked with the locals to ensure the park met the highest quality standards required for a skate park of this kind and size. This integrated landscape design approach by the team has ensured the skatepark compliments the adjacent sports centre and surrounding lakeside environment both as a significant active facility and visually dynamic designed space. The park opened in October 2005 and we are now at the annual Shanghai Showdown competition for 2007 which is held each year and attracts some of the best professional skaters, inline and BMXers from around the world.
	So what's it like? There's a big chunk of the park that is dedicated to those riders with balls at the larger end of the scale, or brains on the smaller end of the scale. Riders will find an exceptionally long vert ramp with a couple of extended roll ins, bowls that spine into other bowls that spine into other bowls that transfer into other bowls, pipes that lead from one section of the park to another, flat banks, quarter pipes of all sizes. There's a mini ramp, fun boxes, hips, grind poles, hand rails, wall rides and more and the bowl sections are so deep, that you could be gone for a few days down there without being found. No matter what level of skater you are at present this park offers you something worth riding and if you do get to overwhelmed you can always kick back and watch those with less brain matter take on some of the most intense pipes and ramps on the planet. Obviously, the better you are, the more options you have and the options don't really end.
		How to get there Leaving from Shaanxi Rd Station you head up to Shanghai Railway Station, here you have to switch to Line 3 (the yellow one) and head out in the direction of Fudan University to Jiang Wan City Station. Once you arrive at Jiang Wan Station you will need to get a taxi the rest of the way which costs you about 20rmb (if you're by yourself, there a plenty of motor bike taxi dudes on the corner who can do it for cheaper). It is located in an extremely new part of town and it seems that most of the cab drivers don't know the cross streets, so just stick on Songhu Rd for a while and you should eventually stumble across it (provided you are headed in the right direction on Songhu Rd) Be on the look out for a fairly modern looking silver building. The skate park is not that visible from the road.