OLD SKATEPARK gets an "UPDATE" 

You are right, it is important for skateboarders to engage with the local councils. Not to come across as ungrateful for money being used on skateparks, but help them make the most of their money by building skateparks the right way.

this park looks like early 3d games without graphic. lol

That is inline street hockey flooring. It is very slick.

We need more reviews like this all across the nation…

this was my local growing up, so stoked to see you skate here. insane you skated the pyramid at all, sucks to see the park in this state.

Man, that looks abysmal and incredibly dangerous. Can't imagine how slick it'd be if even slightly wet (a bit of morning dew?)

With all the camera's placement and the park's design, this is probably one of the most aesthetic videos from you. 😆keep inspiring Tom! 🤟

Toms channel low key becoming my favorite skate channel! Also do some collabs with Maurio and co.^^!

respect to you for skating this hell hole for our entertainment

Fr crazy that they thought it would be a good idea, I’m glad you went in on em like this 😂 10:46

I live in Bensalem, where this park is. EVERYTHING about it was (is) terrible. The ground prior was so pitted you could barely roll, which was the main downfall. The pyramids/ledges looked like Matt Groening designed them for Bart Simpson... To make matters worse, the first time I went to check it out as an adult to "regain my youth" - I had to walk around the main park looking for the groundskeeper to unlock the gate (mid-day!). I quickly gave up skating it and went to the mini ramp. The mini was "okay" and could do most of my old lip tricks, but when I fell it was like falling into a frying pan (hot). When I left (around 4pm) the groundskeeper asked if I was done and locked the gate....... Petitions to have it rebuilt properly fell flat. My guess is a local company lobbied hard enough (donations) to "reground" the park with the sh** in this video to get a sale.

Two concerns i got about that ground, one being dangerous falling because its like a cheese grater and two i can imagine pebble’s getting stuck in the holes and just flying forward. Like pebbles on regular ground already do that but theres a chance for it to get pushed away but on this ground i can imagine it jus being logged in there and just guarantee getting stuck on that pebble and flying

Crazy that they did that, the fact it generates electricity is hilarious

Imagine learning to skate on ground like that

I remember they made you buy a membership to skate there back in the day. They would redo the asphalt all the time and your wheels would be black after a session. The ground might be soft and slippery, but it looks clean lol

Thanks for making this so i don't have to waste my time finding out for myself! The old ground was the worst ever anyway though but sucks to see money wasted

Nice to know about the conditions. When I want to head up over the Maryland/Pennsylvania line, I’ll go back to Reid Menzer. I love that park!

I grew up skating in PA and I’ve run into some crazy design flaws to cut corners and save money longterm on the city’s behalf. Weather is a factor back home so everyone is trying to find something cheaper that doesn’t wear and tear like concrete and isn’t quite as expensive but… this is really the craziest thing I’ve come across. Not only is it slippery, painful to fall on, not smooth, and impossible to pop or land on but trying to compensate for the surfaces “give” while dealing with impact will completely deteriorate your knees and joints longterm more than skating already does.

this is nuts.... my jaw dropped when you zoomed in on the ground... poor local skaters

They should get a nice concrete ground :)

good ol' blue park. The first time I went there I saw a very young Chris Cole. he pushed mongo back then and was already super good

Always stoke when I see new content from you bro! Let’s see what you cooked up this time lol

The ground is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

Dude, I just moved up to Perkasie and I’m in the middle of starting to get really involved with the borough to try and make an update happen to the super run down skatepark in Lenape park. My impression so far from the township points directly to some of the advice you went over in this video. They want the local skateboarding community to get involved with stuff like this so that nightmares like this new floor in Bensalem don’t happen. It’s a waste of money and it’s a wasted opportunity to bring life back into the community. It’s so important that skateboarders make their voice heard when decisions like this are being made so that the park reflects what skateboarders actually want. Great video, man!

This is hilarious lol. Saw the talk about it on Nine Club

New asta drop = good Sunday 😊

doing gods work broski

I've never seen that kind of ground anywhere before. I'd much rather skate old crusty asphault or concrete ground. At least you know what you're in for

Hands down best skate channel today!

the park pisses me off, but the fact you still skated it is fire 🔥

thats legit the stuff people use in the garage for flooring..🤯

Hey Tom. Good to see you popping off on RU-vid. I worked with your folks back in the day. The tiles look like Versacourt tiles. My company uses something similar for garages. Doesn't seem like it'd be good for skating.

Grew up in Holland/newtown/richburo area, this was also one of the first parks I skated as a kid, that and the indoor Woodward in Franklin mills, I use to see young you, Ishod, and Chris cole there killin it!

This is the first skatepark i ever skated too! Thats fricken wild, the nickname we used to call it was blue park, but now its painted orange 😂

Had a friend in high school with that ground on their back yard tennis court they build a mini ramp and a bunch of boxes and rails. Wasn’t too bad.

There’s an indoor park near me that’s all wood and the ground (not the ramps) is kinda soggy, it maybe takes 20% of your pop, which means for me that if I’m not totally feeling it it takes a lot of my confidence away when skating certain obstacles in there. This park here would be horrible for me. Plus I hate static shocks! Love the Static videos tho. Shout out Josh Stewart 🫡

off topic lol but you should do a kickflip trick tip video or even make it a series would be sick. keep up the good work tom!

Pretty sure this ground is in the catalog of products availble to public works (like those butter bench ledges you see all over). The city is just using what was available to them at the lowest cost possible

Usually see that at outdoor hockey rinks to help with drainage.

That ground seems deadly if it were slightly wet

There’s an inline hockey rink next to my local. This is the same surface as that.

I remember back when I had a step dad who had money we had an area in our backyard with that weird ass plastic cube ground and I built some ramps back there to skate and it was so bad, I got so many boards thrown into the pool just from sliding out on that shit. The worst is when it’s wet in any kind of way

You have such a good style I enjoy seeing you make a ollie

Reis park in somers New York used to have this

Old blue park !! looks like a ice skating rink now lol. Dare I say the ground was better before? Sick skating Tom. Take care bro

See I have the opposite, they made the ground so perfect at my local park that when I went street skating today the ground felt really rough lol. Always a give and take I guess

Falling on the ground sounds like cheese grater

Its probly that stuff for outside basketball court. This one park back in the day the concrete actually slows you down.

That ground is supposed to be used on roller hockey rinks 😂

Could you imagine what a good face plant would look like on this? Burnt cranberry waffles

You got some dope tricks, I’m surprised you persisted with that whacky ground

Nice concrete ground

Pretty sure that stuff is for roller hockey rinks. There's one by me that you can power slide like 20 feet on that stuff

We need 5th Pocket over there now!

Go Bolts!

hey Tom been watching for a while I’m local from the reading area I was wondering if you could make a video on manuals on tall ledges recently been struggling with getting nose manuals on big obstacles

I'm with on that weird ass ground dude, that park's one big WTF, lol

What the?!😆 At least you looked good skating it. Low impact’s probably the best thing about it. Static?😬

We have an indoor rec centre that doubles as a skate park. The ground is similar, plastic and slippery but not mesh like that. Pretty damn hard to learn on! Skate park designed by a lawyer.

That's nuts! I really hope they redo that ground.. yeah dude who signed off on that crap!?!

10:32 that wax is moving on its own

they re did the hockey rink next to vets in hamilton with these tiles this summer too. was fun to mess around an do power slides on but i can’t believe they redid a whole skatepark with it. super dangerous if you have hard wheels.

Bro that’s literally in-line hockey tile, we have it here under our ice rinks so in the summer when the ice is taken out guys can play inline hockey.

When Tom talks, i just wanna listen Bro

The ground is like some weird thing you’d see at a skatepark in a dream lol

Nice channel dude

They just redid a basketball court next to where I live and the ground was that grippy court ground that wasn’t bad but now it’s this and the little squares slip so it messes things up…

I can’t believe this happened to blue park. I grew up at this park as well… 😢

i’ve only seen that ground in a basketball courts next to the mccreesh skatepark in philly. maybe their goal with that was to keep the noise down or sth ? what an awful idea for a skatepark though. they couldn’t have done a worse job with that

I've seen this ground used for basketball courts and futsal courts. Terrible in those applications too.

Come to the new Sk8Park in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Insane!!😂 I'd rather have ghetto small town 20 yr old blacktop, least you can use soft wheels.

They put those in a tennis court near me. It power slides so good, not fun for tricks though.

They might as well put grass at the skatepark, this is shocking!

Doesn't make sense but if you follow the money it will make sense. I support your honesty, always keeping it real. Btw. you say there is no pop but then you do a nollie crook and that huge ledge. lol

Thanks!Looks crazy to fall on that shit

« Soggy pop » 😂😂

I’ve always wondered where do you get your pants?

This is my local skatepark😮

I grew up skating this place mainly for the mini ramp and the butterstick ledge. I took my daughter here the other day because I heard they gave the ground a face-lift and it's absolutely trash

Dog ground aside thats better than 90 percent of English skateparks getting built today chap

I live right there so I would usually skate there after work instead of driving to mids, but not anymore lol. I talked to one of the “park rangers” there and asked what the deal was, he said the new ground was expensive and a new thing. He clearly wasn’t involved. There were also screws sticking out on the sheet metal. They replaced some of the screws with ones that could be flush, but they’re still not even put in right. I submitted a form on the Bensalem parks and Rec website to complain, mainly about the ground. Hopefully if more people submitted complaints to them, they would rip it up. The old asphalt was way better to skate. I highly doubt that if the basketball court or the roller rink started getting old that they would put this ground down over it.

This sounds like a situation where some sales rep from some vendor came in to the city when they were taking bids on resurfacing and said all the right things, not to mention price was probably less than a legit resurface. I wonder if there is a compromise that could be made where the install company could at least pull out what they put in. Sounds like a case could be made against that company/city that it is actually endangering kids even more because of sharp debris that gets stuck in the grid and could slice up some legs/arms. What a bummer, it just needs to go back to what it was at this point imho, unless the city can get the money back and do it right which is doubtful.

I drive by this park maybe 3 times a week. I just don’t understand what the goal was with the new ground 😭😭

I’ve only seen this at shuffleboard courts 😂

Audi life 🧬🤙🤙

I’ve never seen anything like that surface before. 😳 Respect for the review. It looks like the worst skate surface ever tbh. 😂 Fun vid man. 😊

The hockey ball is a dead giveaway. Street hockey surface called Dek.

Shout out to the Flyers!

are you still working on that vx part with your hommie? would be cool to get some behind the scenes on that!

this is the craziest shit ive ever seen wtf!!

I think it's called sport court. You can find it in tennis courts.

Yo Tom, I know you know the bushing struggle and you're a Thunder guy. The clear orange 90duro bushings from Thunder are incredible. They feel a little harder than 90 but they also feel stronger and better quality than the red or blue ones. Give em a try.

Maybe they wanted people to be safe when falling 😂. I’ve seen this at a ball park recently

Looks like a real life tech deck park 😂

It is now a power slide park!

The ground is faster when your board is upside down

Bro yikesss!!! 🤦‍♂️ That seems... unpleasant. Tom Asta out here doing the lord's work telling people not to renovate their local parks this way. 😂 I love the background music fitting the exact moment you are like, "What the hell???" That ollie looked brutal, too.

You right that ground sounds dangerous to skate in

I can feel the cheese grater situation when you fall. That looks horrible