the good ol days

[nomad]

Visited recently and it seems the skate park has taken over, and the juveniles have made hole 9 into an alpine slide...a shame since I used to stop there for a quick round after work, a quiet walk along the bayou...now its just mayhem

:-(

[Suemac]

I would expect that a few broken arms and injuries will squash that, we played out there yesterday afternoon. It was my first time since the skate park opened, and we arrived as they were opening the gates.

On beautiful days, especially on the weekend bring out all the critters. I always wonder where their supervision is while they tobogan down the hill you speak of. What was really bad was seeing that go on with kids without any headgear, or the dad who was letting is four-five year old girl skate on the sidewalk without any protection. I sure wish someone would drop those folks on their heads.............maybe they might wake up. Even in little things like this, you can see how we've raised a generation of adults who lack the understanding of consequenses.

[srm_520]

Isn't it amazing that someone would think a skatepark is a better idea than a disc golf course. Let's see - something that flows with nature, or something that simply brings out the wild animals. Curse you X Games.

Also, will someone please let us newbies know about Jackson Hill - so like it used to be a good course. Why did it go away?

[Jake Walsdorf]

It was a temp course played on Wednesday evenings in the summer.

[derek]

The skatepark is the attempt of the aristocratic theater crowd to displace the skaters from downtown and force them into a controlled environment away from theater events. But it has really backfired on them, bringing more wacko skaters to the downtown area than ever, often roaming away from the skatepark into parking garages and onto sidewalks in front of downtown buildings. The project is an eyesore and a disgrace to the city. It is also unsustainable and will have its budget cut or be shut down due to lawsuits resulting from child injury. I will never understand why those who knew of the project in the very beginning stages did not step up and demand another site be chosen, but the rest of us didnt find out until it was too late. It would have been so easy to put them in an empty part of midtown nearby.

[srm_520]

Originally Posted by leafylinks

The skatepark is the attempt of the aristocratic theater crowd to displace the skaters from downtown and force them into a controlled environment away from theater events. But it has really backfired on them, bringing more wacko skaters to the downtown area than ever, often roaming away from the skatepark into parking garages and onto sidewalks in front of downtown buildings. The project is an eyesore and a disgrace to the city. It is also unsustainable and will have its budget cut or be shut down due to lawsuits resulting from child injury. I will never understand why those who knew of the project in the very beginning stages did not step up and demand another site be chosen, but the rest of us didnt find out until it was too late. It would have been so easy to put them in an empty part of midtown nearby.

Agreed. The bigger problem will be when it closes and remains vacant and derelict bringing in more undesired, and inversely affecting Mozola.

[derek]

You have it backwards, the skatepark being open is whats causing the problem. When it closes the mayhem will finally stop and we can reclaim old hole #1

[ChrisMacG]

Originally Posted by leafylinks

You have it backwards, the skatepark being open is whats causing the problem. When it closes the mayhem will finally stop and we can reclaim old hole #1

When I grew up I skated. We used to drive to the only 'unofficial' city skate park EZ-7, a drainage ditch just north of the TC Jester course, and risk our necks having all kinds of fun. I saw my first heroin junkie shooting up at EZ-7, got hit on my an old man the first time there too. We never told our parents about the bad shit though, because where else was there to skate?

The Houston skate park by Mozola is a good thing. Yeah, it sucks for disc golf, but every time I go there and see parents taking their kids to a proper skate park I get a twinge of jealousy. I think about my son and I'm glad that he's not going to sit there catching his breath and watching someone cook up their fix or have some old man ask if he wants to come into the woods and get a... nevermind.

Mozola is still a fun course that challenges players. I threw there yesterday and enjoyed myself immensely, although I lost my Monarch into the bayou. The skate park infringed only on a small portion of the course and the changes made aren't all that bad. It is a shame that most of the comments on this thread make disc golfers look bad, not the skaters.

[ChrisMacG]

Originally Posted by leafylinks

The skatepark is the attempt of the aristocratic theater crowd to displace the skaters from downtown and force them into a controlled environment away from theater events.

No it isn't. The skate park came from a grass roots effort to bring public use skate parks to our city. Here's there web site:

http://www.pushhouston.com/

[derek]

Originally Posted by ChrisMacG

No it isn't. The skate park came from a grass roots effort to bring public use skate parks to our city. Here's there web site:

http://www.pushhouston.com/

You read one line on their website and think you've figured it out. Dont be gullible.

PUSH claims that they are a 'grassroots movement', but this particular skatepark was nothing to do with grass roots.

The skatepark idea and money was from one source, Joe Jamail. PUSH was just the middleman who he used to get it installed. Joe Jamail's role is of a front man for this group of anonymous theater crowd donors that don't endorse skating at all but simply want the problem moved away from the downtown opera house. And if this is at the expensve of disc golf, nobody cared.

It is really offensive to all the people in HFDS and the disc golf community who fight to get what little land we have for disc golf and people like you come out of nowhere and try to say that we should just let these groups walk all over us.

If everyone had your attitude, there wouldn't be any courses left because trust me, they are ready to come in and remove disc golf at any chance they get. Why dont you go ahead and throw the rest of your discs in the bayou and just go hang out at the skatepark and do us all a favor.