OLD SKATEPARK gets an "UPDATE"

In todays video I go skate the "newly renovated" Bensalem Skatepark in Bensalem, PA just to find out that it wasnt the "upgrade" I would have hoped for...
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[@RollingRodent]

this park looks like early 3d games without graphic. lol

[@tomasta]

haha so true! THANKS for watching !

[@w3lcom39]

Exactly what I thought too lol

[@williamgass9242]

How can you have a 3d game without graphics?

[@JuanPerez49389]

This is actual footage of the new EA Skate game, it’s still in developing. Tom’s gonna be in it 😂

[@FakieGhettoBird]

@@williamgass9242he meant it looks like when textures aren’t rendering.

[@duncanhenderson7094]

You are right, it is important for skateboarders to engage with the local councils. Not to come across as ungrateful for money being used on skateparks, but help them make the most of their money by building skateparks the right way.

[@normanl.6891]

Yep. Currently in the progress of rennovating my local right now and allocating grant money towards skate park features. We had to start a skater committee and are currently trying to postpone development because American Ramp Company's proposal was trash and the city was taking ideas from ppl who don't even skate.

[@jessereau]

That's exactly what we're working on in Toledo

[@ericraedel1181]

AGREED

[@johnmeehan7884]

You ever been to Ben Salem? They don't give a fuck at all about skateboarding.

[@ericraedel1181]

@@johnmeehan7884 Salem mass.? Nah but I'm originally from New bedford mass so I know what you mean. The only thing keeping that scene going is the local shops and crews all working in cohesion go keep it going.

[@brandondiettert1084]

That is inline street hockey flooring. It is very slick.

[@tomasta]

terrifying honestly lol THANKS for watching !

[@TheGoutMan1000]

We need more reviews like this all across the nation…

[@AlexNiedt]

Man, that looks abysmal and incredibly dangerous. Can't imagine how slick it'd be if even slightly wet (a bit of morning dew?)

[@FakieGhettoBird]

Fr crazy that they thought it would be a good idea, I’m glad you went in on em like this 😂 10:46

[@tomasta]

it had to be done lol

[@beobe99]

I live in Bensalem, where this park is. EVERYTHING about it was (is) terrible. The ground prior was so pitted you could barely roll, which was the main downfall. The pyramids/ledges looked like Matt Groening designed them for Bart Simpson... To make matters worse, the first time I went to check it out as an adult to "regain my youth" - I had to walk around the main park looking for the groundskeeper to unlock the gate (mid-day!). I quickly gave up skating it and went to the mini ramp. The mini was "okay" and could do most of my old lip tricks, but when I fell it was like falling into a frying pan (hot). When I left (around 4pm) the groundskeeper asked if I was done and locked the gate....... Petitions to have it rebuilt properly fell flat. My guess is a local company lobbied hard enough (donations) to "reground" the park with the sh** in this video to get a sale.

[@BB-rt9nc]

Replace, repave . Maybe that’s where the pension fell flat because nobody knew what you were talking about

[@michaellevin5937]

Ive been to this park and “Matt groening designed for bart simpson” is a perfect description 😂

[@supercooldude824]

This park is ass

[@bs180s]

this was my local growing up, so stoked to see you skate here. insane you skated the pyramid at all, sucks to see the park in this state.

[@mattjones5328]

respect to you for skating this hell hole for our entertainment

[@tomasta]

haha had to get a few tricks in lol THANKS for watching !

[@MickyThunderV]

Toms channel low key becoming my favorite skate channel! Also do some collabs with Maurio and co.^^!

[@hazimzainal3695]

With all the camera's placement and the park's design, this is probably one of the most aesthetic videos from you. 😆keep inspiring Tom! 🤟

[@skatermanbuns]

Two concerns i got about that ground, one being dangerous falling because its like a cheese grater and two i can imagine pebble’s getting stuck in the holes and just flying forward. Like pebbles on regular ground already do that but theres a chance for it to get pushed away but on this ground i can imagine it jus being logged in there and just guarantee getting stuck on that pebble and flying

[@erikg666]

Crazy that they did that, the fact it generates electricity is hilarious

[@sdj7fajo]

I remember they made you buy a membership to skate there back in the day. They would redo the asphalt all the time and your wheels would be black after a session. The ground might be soft and slippery, but it looks clean lol

[@resupercomix]

Imagine learning to skate on ground like that

[@tomasta]

wouldnt be easy lol THANKS for watching !

[@tylerpersichini]

If you did eventually learn and get good at this park your knees and joints would be absolutely fried unfortunately. This lowkey is setting people up for permanent knee and joint problems if you skated here longterm.

[@andresruchelli7394]

Thanks for making this so i don't have to waste my time finding out for myself! The old ground was the worst ever anyway though but sucks to see money wasted

[@tomasta]

absolutely...THANKS for watching !

[@greenwrek5447]

The ground is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

[@tylerpersichini]

I grew up skating in PA and I’ve run into some crazy design flaws to cut corners and save money longterm on the city’s behalf. Weather is a factor back home so everyone is trying to find something cheaper that doesn’t wear and tear like concrete and isn’t quite as expensive but… this is really the craziest thing I’ve come across. Not only is it slippery, painful to fall on, not smooth, and impossible to pop or land on but trying to compensate for the surfaces “give” while dealing with impact will completely deteriorate your knees and joints longterm more than skating already does.

[@_barnac]

this is nuts.... my jaw dropped when you zoomed in on the ground... poor local skaters

[@the_keystone_kid]

good ol' blue park. The first time I went there I saw a very young Chris Cole. he pushed mongo back then and was already super good

[@78consecratedcardsofart78]

Nice to know about the conditions. When I want to head up over the Maryland/Pennsylvania line, I’ll go back to Reid Menzer. I love that park!

[@JayChuckOnFire]

Could you imagine what a good face plant would look like on this? Burnt cranberry waffles

[@bombsquid6436]

They should get a nice concrete ground :)

[@DazedCutty]

Always stoke when I see new content from you bro! Let’s see what you cooked up this time lol

[@StephenIcyy]

New asta drop = good Sunday 😊

[@tomasta]

lets gooo! THANKS for watching !

[@jnieto0103]

Dude, I just moved up to Perkasie and I’m in the middle of starting to get really involved with the borough to try and make an update happen to the super run down skatepark in Lenape park. My impression so far from the township points directly to some of the advice you went over in this video. They want the local skateboarding community to get involved with stuff like this so that nightmares like this new floor in Bensalem don’t happen. It’s a waste of money and it’s a wasted opportunity to bring life back into the community. It’s so important that skateboarders make their voice heard when decisions like this are being made so that the park reflects what skateboarders actually want. Great video, man!

[@JorgeMartinez-cw2nl]

Usually see that at outdoor hockey rinks to help with drainage.

[@paullucci]

There’s an inline hockey rink next to my local. This is the same surface as that.

[@LowEndMarauder]

I've never seen that kind of ground anywhere before. I'd much rather skate old crusty asphault or concrete ground. At least you know what you're in for

[@hollabackgod]

Hands down best skate channel today!

[@tomasta]

I appreciate that THANK YOU !

[@timtom_dc2]

thats legit the stuff people use in the garage for flooring..🤯

[@flavalav6757]

Grew up in Holland/newtown/richburo area, this was also one of the first parks I skated as a kid, that and the indoor Woodward in Franklin mills, I use to see young you, Ishod, and Chris cole there killin it!

[@tomasta]

yo! damn man, yea i miss xpark so much haha that was my second home! THANKS for watching the vids !

[@skatetheorist]

This is hilarious lol. Saw the talk about it on Nine Club

[@Corinthians-kjv]

Its probly that stuff for outside basketball court. This one park back in the day the concrete actually slows you down.

[@Treversoncorey]

I remember back when I had a step dad who had money we had an area in our backyard with that weird ass plastic cube ground and I built some ramps back there to skate and it was so bad, I got so many boards thrown into the pool just from sliding out on that shit. The worst is when it’s wet in any kind of way

[@robbiehamilton447]

doing gods work broski

[@edwardwieland7749]

Hey Tom. Good to see you popping off on KZbin. I worked with your folks back in the day. The tiles look like Versacourt tiles. My company uses something similar for garages. Doesn't seem like it'd be good for skating.

[@tomasta]

Yo Ed! thats awesome! dude yea its not very good at all haha. THANKS for watching !

[@SadMach1n3]

The ground is like some weird thing you’d see at a skatepark in a dream lol

[@crikey1mate]

Reis park in somers New York used to have this

[@ryanrowe1975]

Nice concrete ground

[@Jgriffy]

At least you came prepared with the Flyers hat cause that looks like some low cost inline hockey flooring.

[@tomasta]

haha right ! THANKS for watching !

[@corndog_kennedy]

Pretty sure that stuff is for roller hockey rinks. There's one by me that you can power slide like 20 feet on that stuff

[@zchshrts]

the park pisses me off, but the fact you still skated it is fire 🔥

[@mercjohnson9125]

There’s an indoor park near me that’s all wood and the ground (not the ramps) is kinda soggy, it maybe takes 20% of your pop, which means for me that if I’m not totally feeling it it takes a lot of my confidence away when skating certain obstacles in there. This park here would be horrible for me. Plus I hate static shocks! Love the Static videos tho. Shout out Josh Stewart 🫡

[@skaterunner16735]

This is the first skatepark i ever skated too! Thats fricken wild, the nickname we used to call it was blue park, but now its painted orange 😂

[@StarburstExpress]

That ground seems deadly if it were slightly wet

[@user-qq4xs4zg8j]

This sounds like a situation where some sales rep from some vendor came in to the city when they were taking bids on resurfacing and said all the right things, not to mention price was probably less than a legit resurface. I wonder if there is a compromise that could be made where the install company could at least pull out what they put in. Sounds like a case could be made against that company/city that it is actually endangering kids even more because of sharp debris that gets stuck in the grid and could slice up some legs/arms. What a bummer, it just needs to go back to what it was at this point imho, unless the city can get the money back and do it right which is doubtful.

[@Tehkneekz]

Had a friend in high school with that ground on their back yard tennis court they build a mini ramp and a bunch of boxes and rails. Wasn’t too bad.

[@illmuskyhunter3313]

That ground is supposed to be used on roller hockey rinks 😂

[@_lenryhopez]

off topic lol but you should do a kickflip trick tip video or even make it a series would be sick. keep up the good work tom!

[@begoodforsomething]

hey Tom been watching for a while I’m local from the reading area I was wondering if you could make a video on manuals on tall ledges recently been struggling with getting nose manuals on big obstacles

[@ybblue2732]

I can’t believe this happened to blue park. I grew up at this park as well… 😢

[@jayskate6631]

Bro that’s literally in-line hockey tile, we have it here under our ice rinks so in the summer when the ice is taken out guys can play inline hockey.

[@TheAdaptiveMaritimer]

I'm with on that weird ass ground dude, that park's one big WTF, lol

[@jamesmoore4935]

You got some dope tricks, I’m surprised you persisted with that whacky ground

[@tomasta]

figured i was already there, might as well get a few things haha THANKS for watchibg !

[@artisan3D]

You have such a good style I enjoy seeing you make a ollie

[@tomasta]

THANK YOU!

[@nobodyskating]

We have an indoor rec centre that doubles as a skate park. The ground is similar, plastic and slippery but not mesh like that. Pretty damn hard to learn on! Skate park designed by a lawyer.

[@airtondsoares5238]

I've seen this ground used for basketball courts and futsal courts. Terrible in those applications too.

[@devinbickel-lp4os]

Old blue park !! looks like a ice skating rink now lol. Dare I say the ground was better before? Sick skating Tom. Take care bro

[@tomasta]

dude i think it was better before lol rough but you know what your getting..not some un predictable slick weird ground haha THANKS man

[@TTEREVE]

Falling on the ground sounds like cheese grater

[@tomasta]

exactly! sketch lol THANKS for watching !

[@liamoconnell]

10:32 that wax is moving on its own

[@tomasta]

haha its not wax but im not sure what it is..i noticed that as well ! THANKS for watching !

[@mblaze18]

We need 5th Pocket over there now!

[@tomasta]

for real !

[@jansteiger9787]

When Tom talks, i just wanna listen Bro

[@tomasta]

yesssss haha THANK YOU!

[@thinglizzy2718]

See I have the opposite, they made the ground so perfect at my local park that when I went street skating today the ground felt really rough lol. Always a give and take I guess

[@evanthomas92]

I’ve only seen this at shuffleboard courts 😂

[@brandonbarna5299]

Come to the new Sk8Park in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

[@johnnybanes1389]

That's nuts! I really hope they redo that ground.. yeah dude who signed off on that crap!?!

[@tomasta]

right! who thought this was ok haha THANKS for watching !

[@woodyroberts4601]

« Soggy pop » 😂😂

[@toddybueno4076]

they re did the hockey rink next to vets in hamilton with these tiles this summer too. was fun to mess around an do power slides on but i can’t believe they redid a whole skatepark with it. super dangerous if you have hard wheels.

[@tomasta]

toddy! yes exactly...if you go and powerslide around a few times its hilarious...then you actually try and skate and its awful lol THANKS for watching dude !

[@rscicchitano02]

I live right there so I would usually skate there after work instead of driving to mids, but not anymore lol. I talked to one of the “park rangers” there and asked what the deal was, he said the new ground was expensive and a new thing. He clearly wasn’t involved. There were also screws sticking out on the sheet metal. They replaced some of the screws with ones that could be flush, but they’re still not even put in right. I submitted a form on the Bensalem parks and Rec website to complain, mainly about the ground. Hopefully if more people submitted complaints to them, they would rip it up. The old asphalt was way better to skate. I highly doubt that if the basketball court or the roller rink started getting old that they would put this ground down over it.

[@tomasta]

yea i noticed the screws are still weird in the pyramid def not put in right, whole thing looks jenky...its insane and such a waste of money. i hope they see this and get more complaints as well. its ridiculous. THANKS for your input and for watchign !

[@bewatermyfriend7355]

Doesn't make sense but if you follow the money it will make sense. I support your honesty, always keeping it real. Btw. you say there is no pop but then you do a nollie crook and that huge ledge. lol

[@lostnoob517]

I’ve always wondered where do you get your pants?

[@Bruised_heels]

I drive by this park maybe 3 times a week. I just don’t understand what the goal was with the new ground 😭😭

[@JoshP81]

Go Bolts!

[@tylerriggs95]

The hockey ball is a dead giveaway. Street hockey surface called Dek.

[@justinollis34]

Insane!!😂 I'd rather have ghetto small town 20 yr old blacktop, least you can use soft wheels.

[@Therealav]

They just redid a basketball court next to where I live and the ground was that grippy court ground that wasn’t bad but now it’s this and the little squares slip so it messes things up…

[@robertchase8504]

What the?!😆 At least you looked good skating it. Low impact’s probably the best thing about it. Static?😬

[@miniramptricks1986]

Dog ground aside thats better than 90 percent of English skateparks getting built today chap

[@user-vu2gc3lw2r]

I grew up skating this place mainly for the mini ramp and the butterstick ledge. I took my daughter here the other day because I heard they gave the ground a face-lift and it's absolutely trash

[@fauxwelts]

i’ve only seen that ground in a basketball courts next to the mccreesh skatepark in philly. maybe their goal with that was to keep the noise down or sth ? what an awful idea for a skatepark though. they couldn’t have done a worse job with that

[@robertbaker3620]

Yo Tom, I know you know the bushing struggle and you're a Thunder guy. The clear orange 90duro bushings from Thunder are incredible. They feel a little harder than 90 but they also feel stronger and better quality than the red or blue ones. Give em a try.

[@tomasta]

damn thanks for the insight. anytime i ever skated stock thunder bushings they were always the white ones. never tried anthing else...gonna need new bushings soon, ill look into those ! THANKS

[@monatomic]

​@@tomastaThe stock clear bushings are better than the solid ones. The blueish clear ones seem to be a little harder then the rest of the clear ones. I like the orange and red clear bushings as well. The clears ones are 90du.

[@dauktavikta]

Thanks!Looks crazy to fall on that shit

[@tomasta]

THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT...everything about it is crazy honestly haha

[@vasilnaumov]

They might as well put grass at the skatepark, this is shocking!

[@tomasta]

crazy ! THANKS forw atching !

[@powpow50cal24]

Nice channel dude

[@tomasta]

THANK YOU !

[@WilliamC1978]

It is now a power slide park!

[@monatomic]

They put those in a tennis court near me. It power slides so good, not fun for tricks though.

[@atypical_blk_guy]

I think it's called sport court. You can find it in tennis courts.

[@blanesowen]

I can feel the cheese grater situation when you fall. That looks horrible

[@Donny_filmz]

are you still working on that vx part with your hommie? would be cool to get some behind the scenes on that!

[@tomasta]

yep still at it ! that would be great. THANKS for watching !

[@enjoibaker10]

It’s called sport court. I wonder why they put it in for a skatepark. I play on this tile for roller hockey

[@potassium4538]

This is my local skatepark😮

[@ManuelAparicio-br1iw]

You right that ground sounds dangerous to skate in

[@a7xSkateboarding]

Shout out to the Flyers!

[@cte]

I’ve never seen anything like that surface before. 😳 Respect for the review. It looks like the worst skate surface ever tbh. 😂 Fun vid man. 😊

[@user-yy5qt6wr8r]

and this ground is so much expensive than any ! i think marble is cheaper!

[@red_rose_redemption]

this is the craziest shit ive ever seen wtf!!

[@theRCLlama]

Audi life 🧬🤙🤙

[@tomasta]

yessir !

[@youngchang3550]

I’ve seen that ground at basketball courts but it doesn’t feel very nice

[@johnrich4953]

What's with the red thing in the background moving while your talking at the end ?

[@tomasta]

i think it was just like a bottle cap or some sort of trash that was blowing around lol not really sure exactly...THANKS for watching !

[@johnrich4953]

@tomasta that really proves even more how slick the ground was , that cap was gliding around so smooth back there with just the wind blowing it lol . Yes sir ! Love the videos ! Keep it up man .