Rob Dyrdek/DC Shoes Skate Plaza - Kettering, Ohio | Skatepark Tour 

What an amazing skate park for the street skater. I appreciate the ledge corners being made from concrete and not steel (other than the repaired ones). I've never adjusted to steel edges and prefer the raw tactility of a concrete edge - the bite it gives you provides so much more feedback. The only criticism I have of the original design is rail sizes. This would be a difficult place to learn rails if you're not super talented. The smallest rail I can see is still quite high. Having some flat-bars or even some low 1ft high rails would help people go from zero to skating the rails here. We can find rails of those sizes in the wild, so they don't break the authenticity strived for here. Which comes back to the comments RE quarter pipes. This place is designed to mimic urban architecture that many of us skated exclusively in the 90's. We didn't see quarter pipes or curved transitions in the cities we skated, so adapted to skating ledges, curbs, benches, gaps, stairs, rails, banks. This place is a true reflection of that environment.

I live near this park, it's so fun and always a great time, and some seriously pros have thrown down gnarly tricks at the plaza

Amazing. Gosh the skaters there are so blessed when I was growing up parks were a rarity.

Me and a few friends drove 7 hours from Toronto Ontario area back in 2005 and 2006 for the opening of this skate plaza. We were 17 - 18 at the time. It was a literal dream. It was incredible. It looks like from this video a lot of the ledges have been repaired with a steel siding. Anyway, I kickflipped the 9. Crooked the 7 stair rail, 360 flipped the grass gap thing. 50 - 50 the double stair rail. It was a memory and a trip I will never ever forget. I turn 37 years old this year. I might need to make one last harahh back to this place before its too late.

We drove down from Detroit in like 05-06 just to skate the plaza this park was mind blowing when it opened up

Never got to skate this. Thanks for bringing it to us all these years later!

Love how each obstacle has a ramp to bypass it.

This place was a groundbreaking park for the time definitely. Now you never hear about it. Never even a big contest gets held there ever. I think they should do an sls or xgames here. That would be interesting.

😍fell inlove with this park ever since I saw it...can't believe it's empty😮 and it's not damaged ❤ definitely 1 of my dream parks to skate I would literally be there all day skating alone probably Great video ❤

I first went and skate this when it first opened and several times over the years since. The one thing I wish they would have incorporated and what I think makes a park, is including beginner and intermediate level obstacles. This park is not meant for someone who is just starting out or really even an intermediate level skater. Every single rail in the park is just huge. Glad the park started a trend towards building more plazas throughout the US.

Thank you thank you for posting this

I was thinking and wondering about this place recently, nice work Rob!

I was skating in 2005-ish so I remember this! The music makes it sound like somebody died here though, or a cemetery tour hahaha.

My favorite park growing up. This and Ollie’s skatepark , RIP.

I remember when they made the trip here in Street Dreams 😂 sick video though. I'm 35 from CT and remember when this place opened. I was either junior or senior in high school in the peak of my skateboarding career. I wanted to make a trip after i graduated, but honestly completely forgot about the place. I just recently picked up a board again after getting off dope. My legs are completely shakey still and I can barely ollie, but i gotta make a trip here one summer, it's only like 8-10 hours from me.

Wow this park is crazy!

Seems like a perfect park to skate

This park was legendary when it opened

Very nice plaza Rob did good

Cool when one man gives back more than some corporations

Idk how far you’re touring but Lauridsen in Des Moines, IA is pretty cool. It’s got something for everybody. Street, bowls, quarter pipes, flat ground and even spots for slappies. You’d enjoy I think! Love your stuff!

Hey bro you know about the two big Dayton DIY’s? Home Ave and Claridge 👍 also The Pit in Cinci is growing quickly

Wish I knew of it. I'd drive from Chicago to visit

So sad no one skate this park . If this park was build in my country this would be amazing and so many people will come to skate it. Shout from indonesia dude✌

I went there in 2018 and left my black Vans eras hanging on the wire along with other shoes that were already there 🤘🏻😎💜

Might have to make a roadtrip from Chicago :]

everyones talking about how much influence this park had on the culture and future park design, but what about Street Dreams; that one goofy but somewhat nostalgic skateboarding movie from 2009?

I moved from rural michigan to ohio right as this was happening and lived at the plaza for a couple years seeing chris cole in action was pretty wild for a kid that had never even had a skatepark growing up I was also there when they were filming that paul rodriguez movie

I threw down on that 12 rail back in the day.. check out my ccs am project and Red Bull phenom video, loved that park👌🏼

A real life relic. Went there once way back and it felt like all the flat ledge were designed to high and all the banks and dimensions of the banks and obstacles weren’t mellow or fun. Most the rails were good but it could have been a bit more chill if the outer stuff was more built for docking around. To sum it up I felt right away it was a terrible park unfun park and I couldn’t imagine growing up with a park like this one. It was boring and only the stairs, handrails and a few hubbas were decent. We all literally went there for about 30-45 mins and said screw this place and drove to Cleveland and skated the city.

20 years later those ledges look pretty rough and would wear out trucks and decks so fast. The quality of the flat ground cement has worn out a lot and the height of a lot of obstacles are a few inches too high for comfortable regular use.

Where are the bathrooms

Have you made it to louisville park?

The ledges are all too high. The ledges being to high is an unspoken about construction error made by the company who built it. Apparently some ledges were even removed and replaced delaying it's opening, but the rest of the park was left as is cause they didn't have the budget to rebuild the whole thing. Every ledge and rail on average is 2 -8 inches to tall. 😢

I can't believe they didnt steel cap all ledges. Aside from being located in crazyville ohio, this probably why we never see this place

My stomping grounds

If Rob Dyrdek cared about skating anymore he'd come back and fix this place up. I skated here 10 years ago and it was already falling apart. It looks really, really bad now.

Looks like all the ledges they tried to fix. The angle iorn is upsidedown.

you should check out 9th street DIY in canton ohio if you havent

Great video, for future videos maybe lower the music or no music

Great videos but turn the background song down some more in the edit! ❤👊

Yes bikes😂

Most street skatepark I’ve ever seen.

street dreams skatepark

Nobody skates this anymore?!

Sick park but when I went the landscaping honestly threw me off, could be sooooo much nicer

Sloan Kettering

Your background music is kind of obnoxious but awesome video I didn't even know this was in Kettering and I've lived in Ohio my whole life😂😂😂

Music too loud

just sweep it up. all of that didnt happen in one day either. sweep it off and use your blower. then just your blower after that as needed. most of our parks here are diy. i took my blower to each one time in the spring . thats all it needed. ledges and curbs can be rub bricked and painted. your an adult do it up man.

You couldn't hire a local to ace a couple down the six just for video sakes?

Dyrdek must have hated round flat bars and progression. Every rail should have been atleast a foot lower. What is this a skatepark for giants. 😂

Music not needed imo

Park doesn’t look so good 😂maybe back in 2010

Looks terrible 😕 I live in a small city with nicer skateparks

I think building a skate-park that is street only is ridiculous. What does it take to include one bowl and a few qtrs? A well designed park should provide for and enable the execution and progression for all types of skateboarding.

This park doesnt look fun at all

That park is wack AF