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After working hundreds of hours It's all about motion "Shapes,both concave and convex,
<br /> without pay,Noble and Mohler were Plenty of people can work with can pump the rider through or over.
<br /> red on as part of a permanent crew. concrete and make functional and Steep and tall things will drop them
<br /> Alongside the concrete crews(all of aesthetically pleasing interior and down."All the"speed lines"need to be
<br /> whom skated),they jumped into each exterior structures.A skatepark, lined up,he says.Some designers shoot
<br /> project,helping develop thrilling new however,is a different animal.In these lines out of the park or into a
<br /> challenges.Noble,37,and Mohler,30, addition to having a sound structural straight wall,which breaks the
<br /> have collectively worked on about a plan and fresh features,a great park momentum of the rider.Noble's goal is
<br /> dozen skateparks.A couple of years needs a crew that understands motion. to design lines that propel the skater
<br /> ago,they decided to form Airspeed. Stephanie and Noble are adamant that gracefully through the park,giving
<br /> "What we do is a passion;we love it to build a great park,the designer must them a ride that doesn't require a push
<br /> because we love skating,"says Mohler. be a skater and therefore,a potential to stay in motion. This can be done,
<br /> "To me it's the ultimate because it user of the park."You just have an says Noble,if all lines"connect in a
<br /> brings together physical labor,art, intimate knowledge of how things logical fashion."
<br /> skateboarding,and community." should be,or could be.You have
<br /> Depending on the project,Airspeed's inspiration that an architect or Motion manipulation
<br /> crew ranges from six to eight workers, someone outside of skateboarding Because they have skated for so many
<br /> all of whom are avid skaters. could never have,"says Mohler. years and continue to skate"most
<br /> Parks usually range from 8,000 to "I wouldn't be able to design if I every day,"both Noble and Mohler
<br /> 20,000 square feet.At nearly 30,000 didn't skate.It's all about speed and find inspiration for new designs on a
<br /> square feet,the Chehalem Skate Park, air,"says Noble,who last year received regular basis.To bring their inspiration
<br /> in Newberg,Ore.,is one of the most a design award sponsored by two to concrete reality,they use a 3-D
<br /> revered and visited parks in the Pacific skateboard organizations,the Concrete modeling software program called
<br /> Northwest.Thrasher Magazine rated Disciples and the Skatepark Rhino.The program creates,edits,and
<br /> the park—which Noble and Mohler Association of the United States of analyzes a broad array of complex
<br /> helped build—an 11 out of a possible America.How do you incorporate objects through its mathematical
<br /> r')QAccording to the magazine,"Ten is speed in a design?"There are all sorts of representation of 3-D geometry.This
<br /> '7just not loud enough." ways to generate speed,"Noble says. flexibility,when combined with
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<br /> Photograph (left page) is designer and contractor Above is co-owner
<br /> Geth Noble ofAirspeed Skateparks. Stephanie Mohler.
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