...or at least send you sprawling toward the twenty year old concrete that covers Beasley Skateboard Park in downtown Hamilton. Laid sometime around 1991 (and used by skaters long before that, when the bowl was a kids' wading pool), Beasley is believed to be the oldest municipal skate parks still in use on the east side of the continent. Every year, a city crew arrives with grinders and crack filler, but every year the much- loved 'crete of Beaze develops new holes, fissures and deadly crevices, just waiting to suck a skateboard wheel into the gap and send its hapless rider flying. I know my wrists, knees and elbows have taken their fair share of hits from unexpected dislogements due to failures at crack evasion--and I'm a seasoned veteran!
The park surface is not due for an overhaul until 2016, but with the dilapidated state of the park, and with the 20th annual Beasley Skateboard Jam approaching next August, the skaters of Beaz, in association with the Hamilton Skateboarders Assembley, are pushing to have the park smoothed out before this date.
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