The Worl'd First Pogo Park
A few weeks ago I visited the location of what might potentially be the world's first pogo park. The McDermont Field House in Lindsay California is looking to be the first ones with a park designed specifically for the sport of xpogo.
Driving into Lindsay you pass a whole lot of nothing for a few hours. Then you get to the town of 10,000 and think there's no way there could be anything more exciting than a few orange trees. Then as you cruise towards the center of town and come face to face with the McDermont Field House your brain starts to melt a little bit. Upon walking in and seeing the skate park, flow rider, soccer fields, basketball courts, laser tag, rock climbing, arcade, zipline, gym, boxing ring, and massive HD projectors scattered around the entire facility, your brain can't take it anymore and you collapse to the floor with a braingasm that could be measured on the Richter scale.
I'm just now coming to the complete realization of how ridiculously epic this potential is. If they are going to build this pogo park - they're given us as the xpogo community all the control over what features could be there. I've been stewing it around in my head for a few weeks and with the ideas already being thrown around on the forum came up with a few key things I think we need that would separate this as a park made for pogoing, not just a skatepark that has been designated as "pogo-able"
Progress on this has been moving steadily, and now we need to start getting in some actual designs. I recommend downloading Google SketchUp It's a really easy (and free) 3D modeling program to learn. Ryan and I downloaded it last night and threw together several designs.
Downhill Styled Pogo Run:
Pogo Boat:
SketchUp File: Download the SketchUp file here
Go download SketchUp - and then download the design we were working on, modify it, make your own, do awesome things, then post a picture of it.
Driving into Lindsay you pass a whole lot of nothing for a few hours. Then you get to the town of 10,000 and think there's no way there could be anything more exciting than a few orange trees. Then as you cruise towards the center of town and come face to face with the McDermont Field House your brain starts to melt a little bit. Upon walking in and seeing the skate park, flow rider, soccer fields, basketball courts, laser tag, rock climbing, arcade, zipline, gym, boxing ring, and massive HD projectors scattered around the entire facility, your brain can't take it anymore and you collapse to the floor with a braingasm that could be measured on the Richter scale.
I'm just now coming to the complete realization of how ridiculously epic this potential is. If they are going to build this pogo park - they're given us as the xpogo community all the control over what features could be there. I've been stewing it around in my head for a few weeks and with the ideas already being thrown around on the forum came up with a few key things I think we need that would separate this as a park made for pogoing, not just a skatepark that has been designated as "pogo-able"
Progress on this has been moving steadily, and now we need to start getting in some actual designs. I recommend downloading Google SketchUp It's a really easy (and free) 3D modeling program to learn. Ryan and I downloaded it last night and threw together several designs.
Downhill Styled Pogo Run:
Pogo Boat:
SketchUp File: Download the SketchUp file here
Go download SketchUp - and then download the design we were working on, modify it, make your own, do awesome things, then post a picture of it.