When I heard that the skate park was being built, I was like, oh my gosh.

Like, it's right in the heart of Tallahassee.

and I want to skate again.

Seeing all of the new developments, the bowl, the half pipe, I was just like, I want to ride all of it.

And I felt like this one here, being in the heart of Tallahassee, at Railroad Square which is a beautiful, beautiful place to be and just walk around.

It's just a really chill place.

Great vibes, great people.

So, yeah, the skate park is what inspired me to come back.

The goals were to come up with a design that was skateable for all users, like people that, you know, are new to skateboarding, People that are advanced, you know, bicycles, roller blades, scooters, all wheels.

Um, so Team Pain did a fantastic job with that.

19 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,032 Definitely this park is actually in one of the best spots to have a park.

It's right in front of various different locations where there's just so many different categories of people coming here.

I've seen different ages in people coming here.

Different people start picking up skating because of this park.

So it's at a great place, there's a skate shop down there.

Phaze One is down there.

People can really just go walk over there, grab a board and pick up anything right here.

So I like the park.

It's a great location.

So then that really was the idea that first came up with how do we create a space like that along Cascades Trail that people can skate on?

And so what you see in this park are a lot of the same skate features that people were not supposed to skate on in Cascades.

Like specifically the piece of the broken circle of life from the Korean War Memorial.

It really brings everybody out, like at the old park You really I mean, you saw a lot of people out there, but this park really brings a lot of people out.

A lot of people are walking by.

There's not even skaters, just a community.

Especially with First Fridays.

It just brings everybody out even more.

I just think that helps the community.

get to know, like just know each other more.

You always see there's a lot of people from all ranging all ages.

There's somedays You get the older people, the older crew comes out.

They have like a little group going during the week.

You get young kids, you get college kids, you get people who work who graduated recently.

So you get to see a bunch of people every day, meet new people.

It's been great so far.

So Team Pain skate park hired a artist to actually do the painting.

The sculpture underneath was done by a company out of Orlando that actually builds animatronics for theme parks.

And then locally, a local guy.

Peter Koenig.

Peter Koenig.

Did the So Peter Koenig did the painting of the snake, as well as a mural that's in the middle of the skate park on the pyramid.

This whole skate park is a community it continues to build.

You see people of all ages, children all the way into like the elderly ages, old folks.

You know, you've got young folks and old folks all skating because they love skating and encouraging one another.

And I think that's the that's a really big thing about skating is making sure that you're encouraging one another and not putting someone down because of their ability.

We're all here to learn.

So that's really what skating should be learning from other people.

So skate more, bike, scooter, just get on a board.

It's the best feeling that you can ever experience.

And if you fall, just get back up again and know that you can always do it.

You can do it.

You may not be able to do it yet, but you will be able to.

So go skate.

Go skate.

Yeah.