Intro

Skate parks around the globe have been created to give people a place to enjoy their hobby rather than people always thinking it's a crime. Now most people don't put too much thought in how skate parks are made and constructed, however, they are quit complex with all the math that goes into the design of one. Skate boarding keeps skaters fit, and off their couch and out of their house, so it's good to give them a place to skate so that they are out of trouble and skating where they shouldn't.

Math

Designing a skate park can be very challenging because of the things that you must take into consideration. Designers must create a park that is both challenging for those skaters that are more advanced, while still being able to make it simple enough to be fun for the rookies that barely know how to skate. So that differs the size of some ramps and the slope at which some of the downhills are.

Another trouble that goes along with designing them is that when they make different size ramps and slopes and half pipes, they still have to design it in a way that has drainage for when rain and storms come. The last thing you want is a skate park flooded a few days after a rainfall. They must make each obstacle with a purpose but yet still in a way that will have a steady flow of water to the drains.

Skaters don't want the same course every time. So what designers do is they make the parks that have more than one way to go or ride. Almost like a golf course, you don't want to hit the ball into the same hole every time, it would get boring. So they make different paths that you can take. As we see with the picture above, it shows that there are more options than just one way. With those different paths comes even more math because now you have to find more than one way to create these dynamic courses that will be safe and fun.