Our philosophy: 

Quality equipment—maintained regularly.

Unusual service—questions answered, problems addressed and solved.

Cleanliness—clean and kept clean.

Continuous improvement—something new and/or improved each year: extending the street course, repaving a trail, adding an attraction, etc.

Animation—competitions, demonstrations, music, theme months, prize drawings, courses, etc.

Intentionally inexpensive—five Euros for a daily pass (a little less than five dollars). Less for club members, monthly/annual passes and five/ten visit cards. 

A competition vert ramp (half-pipe).  Twelve meters wide (39.3 ft) and 3.8 meters high (12.46 ft.) with an additional 80 cm. elevator (2.62 ft.).  Excellent wood surface.  We want to go with a Swiss company, Vertical.  They are the most important manufacturer of competition ramps in Europe.  The ramp in this photo is in Lyon, 530 kilometers northeast of Toulouse.  I've skated on it.  Superb. 

We will hold local, regional and hopefully national and international inline, skateboard and BMX competitions.  This ramp will be under a pavilion and fully lighted for night skating.  A sound system will play the skaters’ own music.

A street course under the cover of a pavilion, protecting skaters and equipment from the sun and rain.  40 x 35 meters (131.2 x 114.8 ft) of covered space with asphalt floor surface and high quality wood-surfaced modules. That's 1,400 square meters (15,069 square feet) of street course.  This includes a 1.9 meter high (6.2 ft.), 10 meter wide (32.8 ft) mini-ramp with spine, as well as a corner, a wave and plenty of coping. 

Fabien Koudoyor, a member of Tolosa Street Skating (TSS) in Toulouse, and Christophe Canitrot, a semi-professional BMX rider and founding co-member of Twentyvelocross, a BMX manufacturer based in Toulouse, have designed a great course layout, with good run angles, distances and “flow.” Enough to challenge the serious enthusiast and accessible to skaters, riders and boarders of all skill levels.  We’ll improve and add to this course each year.

Trivia question: Can you find the "big mistake" in the images of this course? Email us your answer.  A correct answer will get you a free day-pass!

These images were produced by Fabien.

The “Aquarium.”  A concrete subterranean bathtub including bowl, coping surfaces and transfer opportunities.  Approximately 2000 square meters (21,484 square feet) of groove. With severe sections and smooth sailing areas.  For BMX, inline, skateboard and longboard, to surf or fly as they please.

This one is at a Skate Park in Modesto, California.  Intermediate, beginners and advanced enthusiasts can have a blast and not be too afraid of dying of boredom or broken bones.  No plans to put a cover over this.  We’ll have good drainage and squeegees.

Just for skateboarders, a covered 500 square meter (5,382 square foot) sanctuary designed by skateboarders for skateboarders.  It's where skateboarders do what they do.

In the forth 3-D image above, you see our "village de skate," the heart of our park.  Skateboarders get the pavilion on the left. 

A SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST "aire de skateboard."  Planned evolution.  Anti-boredom zone. 

Skateboarders submit their plans and the best plan is chosen by popular vote (just boarders) for the next generation of this unique area.  Plenty of movable, portable modules, too.  It's the perfect contrast to our killer street course--a change of pace and a place to focus on the finer points.

Planned 2 kilometers (about 1.2 miles) of skating trails, with benches and water points, trees and grass.  Each year we project the trails further, make more connecting trails, plant more trees, etc..  Five meters wide (16.4 ft.), just for skaters and rollers.  No need to worry about cars, dogs or broken glass.  Smooth gliding.  A place for families and soloists alike.  The family that skates together stays together.

A favorite of mine is the trampoline.  Seems harmless, seems fun.  And it is, really… 

We’ve got a six-bed trampoline set lined up from HMG.  Safety net on the sides and padding all the way around.  You can fall, but no further than the surface of the trampoline.  This is for kids and adults.  I think it takes more balance to stay on a trampoline, but people seem to prefer bouncing around to a first time inline skating. 

This unit will be covered by a sun screen.  It gets warm and quite sunny here, and we’d like to keep the bouncers comfortable while they’re having fun.

Ultimately, the ideal situation is to have bungee trampolines, large pads and foam pits for action sports training of new tricks.

Roller hockey is a real spectator sport, which is a big reason why we’re building two regulation roller hockey rinks.  Ever since we arrived in the area, we’ve been hearing roller hockey. There are several leagues and regular tournaments.  Teams are always looking for a place to play.

 We have met with players and coaches from the clubs in Haute Garonne, and are establishing contact for the purpose of announcing our addition to their playing areas.  The One and Only skate park will offer two playing surfaces: one 30 x 50 meter rink and a smaller, 25 x 45 meter playing surface.  We'll have an excellent coated playing surface, side boards, benches for the players, illumination for night games, with a portable sound system for commentators.  We’ll wait a year or so to cover these places.

BMX dirt trails and freestyle areas. 1,675 square meters (18,030 square feet) of riding trails designed and built by members of Hopeless, a BMX group in Castanet, with consultation from riders and a club in Paris.

BMX is huge here. So many riders and nowhere to go.  There are dirt trails everywhere, actually, but we're going to build and maintain the best, for experts and beginners.

We'll allow riders in our park to use the street course, bowl, riding trails and freestyle areas.  Sessions for the street course, of course.

Slalom and high jump area. 600 square meters (6,459 square feet) of slalom and jump.  That's 85 meters long (278.87 feet), seven meters wide (22.97 feet), with a receiving area for the high jump.  Slalom skaters compete for speed and style.  Individuals and teams.  High jump for height and style.  Inline and quad skaters.  The slalom area is pictured in the 3-D park images above.  Looks like a runway.

Handrails and stairs, oh my.  Four to six different runs, with a looong "runrail" up to the prep area at the top of the steps.

We'll have the best of the best from runs in the area--two-tier runs, short and fast, long and slow.  Designed by street skaters and riders.  Wide treads, flat inclines.  Beginners and advanced.  Grinding and stair riding and jumping.  Decent reception areas and approaches.  We're talking Handrail Graduate School and Handrail & Stairs 101 in the same place.

The third 3-D park image above gives you a good idea of what we're talking about.

That’s about it. 

Pads and helmets will be required for anyone skating on the dangerous equipment.  Release forms signed to keep the park open.  Park employees trained in basic first-aid for the kinds of injuries skaters, skateboarders and riders often incur (cuts, scrapes, broken bones, concussions).  Good relations with the local emergency services.

We’ll have inline, skateboard and BMX vert ramp and street competitions.  Skate dance, skate slalom and high-jump competitions.  Graffiti contests.  Demonstrations of new and strange forms of wheeled fun, for example, skate sailing (normal-size skateboard with sail).  Courses for every roll sport imaginable.  DJ’s and local bands.  Monthly themes (Christmas, Halloween, etc).  Country themes, cultural themes, seasonal themes (spring, summer, fall..).  Specials, decorations, drawings, etc., etc., etc.  Visit our site in one year’s time—and you’ll see…Something! Better yet, visit us in person.

The One and Only will be everything we’ve ever liked about the parks we’ve visited and nothing that we’ve disliked.  It will be a kind of haven and homing ground for roller and skateboard enthusiasts and their families.

Thank you for visiting.

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