Penrith's New $44.5MILLION Upgrade
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Today we're at the BRAND NEW skatepark that just opened up in Claremont Meadows, 15mins from Penrith in Sydney's west
This park is part of the MASSIVE upgrade to the Gipps Street Recreation Precinct here, that cost a total of $44.5 Million dollars!
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Is this the best new skatepark in Sydney now?
is it? you tell us haha
this park is crazy
@@skateboardstrength9834 It’s looking that way at the moment and I’m loving it lol
It is for me 😮
I skated in Sydney in the early 90’s, in terms of skate parks, all there was Kerle Park at Manly, The Snake at Dulwich Hill, and Fairfield (which had an entry fee). How times have changed!
Damn, times have definitely changed!
I thoroughly enjoyed Fairfield ramps growing up ! Great memories
Bloody Hell , A 44 million dollar park ,Very helpful review 👍
Love these skatepark tour vids 🤝
Thanks dude, thanks for watching 🙏🏼
This gipps street recreation precinct in Claremont Meadows opens 7 days from 6am to 10:30pm.After sunset flood lights are on 7 days.Lot of families enjoy at night too. I like playing there cricket,table tennis,basketball,net ball, fitness machines.Plenty of parking on park.Thanks to penrith city council.
Man, why I have to be so old!? This park would have fit my skate style so well.
Love the new video bro! And that skatepark looks amazing perfect place to learn lots of new things
Thanks dude! Yeah the park is amazing 🙌🏻
Hell yeah! Appreciate you Leon thanks heapsss
All good my man! We'll do it again soon 🤝🏽
Hell yeah this place looks awesome, I grew up skating Five Dock and their massive bowls so I can appreciate a tiny little bowl like that. Keen to get back into skating more often, my lung collapsed recently and it made me realise what's important in life and its obviously SKATEBOARDING and doing MORE of it.. Alongside study at least haha. Much love man!
I haven't been to Five Dock yet but I already know I won't be able to skate anything there 😂
Ih damn, that's gnarly dude! Stay healthy and keep shredding 🙌🏼
Thanks for another top review Leon. We have a crew heading there tomorrow morning, early!!!
Thanks for watching man 🙏🏼 Yeah definitely recommend an early morning on a weekend, this place will get packed out quick!
Those noodle rails look like a blast and I think I'd spend a whole day just on the slappy pad / granite slider combo thingy. your boardslide to tail tapper was noice
Another great review!
Oh dude they are so fun!
Thanks man 🙏🏽
WOW! That place looks INCREDIBLE!!
It's so good!
Nice video, Leon. The wood chip dilemma continues lol
Thanks dude!
Yeah I don’t think it will ever stop 😂
I used to go there when I was like 8 or 7 and I’m finally going back
44 million dollerydoos. It's like 12 million freedom bucks.
lol just a good 12 mil' bald eagle bucks
Looks sick can't wait to skate it
It’s so good!
I’m just happy to watch u skate man
Thanks dude, you’re a legend!
Loving this ty kindly
Thanks for watching 🙏🏽
Cool I've always wanted to try a pump track
This park looks like a blast
It’s so good!
44 mil of concrete hahaha. Someone is pocketing extra coin.
This place is SICKKKKKKK!
It’s so good!
Come up to Lismore in Nth NSW in a couple of months - they are getting an EPIC 3.5 million park , should be done hopefully by March/April 2025
Dude, that park looks insane! I'll definitely be making my way up there when that one is open 👌🏼
@@LeonPaxton sweet, see you there
Leon Paxton and Jay Palm collab when??????? 😌😌😌
That looks sick
It's so good!
Looks awesome! Is it not open cause if 44 and a half peeps turn up in the next day or so they are getting a million dollarydoo ride each 🤜🤛
Great Review.
You Blokes Rip.
Thanks Ace.
Thanks again legend!
Good video 👍🏿
Thank you 🙏🏼
This beats the most expensive skatepark record. SMP skatepark in China cost 37 million and Penrith 44 million. SMP was the most expensive skatepark ever built until Penrith.
As someone who doesn't regularly do bowls, you looked good out there in the small bowl.
Thanks dude! It’s super small so that might be why lil
@@LeonPaxton I saw your old video about heroin not having longer wheelbase versions of their egg decks. Now that they have long eggs, have you managed to skate one?
None have came to AUS yet but I'm reeeeeally hoping I can get my hands on one 🤞🏽
Skatepark in this vid cost 2 mil - th-cam.com/video/NZUDr-E6flM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iajdreg_oOjHtVic
The parks in SoCal look like bike parks now compared to Australia. 🇦🇺 crazy part is Australia is huge.
How much Area are you covering to get to these parks? Hours? Days? lol 😂
What’s the radius of distance between some of these nice parks.
Lucky devil. 😈 Great parks.
Expensive prices for your gear. ⚙️ only draw back to skateboarding in Australia I see, you have to pay like almost double.
Dude this is all within the same state too! The furthest park was Umina and that was only 2hrs, the rest are all within a 1hr radius lol
Yeah we are way too spoilt out here at the moment 😅
I live 10 minutes from the city in Sydney. It would take me 50 minutes to drive to this park. 2 hours on a train + bus.
Though where I live you can hit 10+ skateparks within 15 minutes on public transport. Australia realised how good skateparks are to keep youth occupied.
I agree, I don't like the humps in bowls we find now! Im not a bowl or vert guy so maybe Im missing something!
Apparently it’s to pump over to keep your speed so you don’t loose speed on a long flat bottom
Dang Leon, you live in basically California South with all those amazing parks in your area. Which durometer wheels work best for smooth slippery parks like this one?
Oh dude, we are getting way too spoilt out here thats for sure!
I just use standard 99a man but something with a little wider riding surface for more grip 👌🏽
Sick park! Quick q; What wheels & trucks do you skate nowadays?
Here I’m running 9” Ace AF1 hollows and 55mm Spitfire Lock ins but I’ve got new videos coming out soon of the new trucks and wheels I’m riding lol
Big bowl look weird with whole not needed hump, small bowl looks normal, that middle area with snake rails looks like some sort of pro zone, and actual skatepark is nice for ledge and plaza. The wide areas and hubas look cool, but kinda high. I guess it's 44 mil, right xD
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44million sounds like a lot but looking at all the facilities thats going on in that precinct, looks like good money spent. When you tack on a skatepark into a community focused project like how they did here, its hard to get on the wrong side of the NIMBYs (who pretty much oppose all community projects). Good way to build a cohesive community beyond just skateboarders
That’s true, there really is so much here!
I cut all the turf for this joint lol so I can confirm the price hahaha
Damn dude, that would have been such a big job!
What so is the 2 skateparks in Penrith now cos I only ever Kew of one only there?
This one is about 15mins away from ‘Jamison’ skatepark in Penrith
@@LeonPaxton ok mad that’s good to know thanks .
W's only
Hey Leon! I’m trying to get back into skateboarding after over a decade, and deck size was always an issue back in the day because of my large feet. I was wondering what size shoes you wear? I’m a size 13 trying to decide between an 8.75 or a 9 (skated once on an 8.5 and it was more comfortable than the smaller sizes, so hoping to find the perfect size soon),so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Sick man, welcome back 🥳
I’m a US 11 and feel most comfortable and anything between 9.25” to 9.75” man so as a 13 I would recommend starting on a 9” for sure
@@LeonPaxton Thank you for the kind words, man, greatly appreciate it!
I didn't even know there were normal shaped boards in the region of 9.75 (I'm assuming they're the same shape as the 8.25 but larger). Any specific brands you'd recommend for larger decks? I've watched your Heroin skateboard vids, you think a 9.5 isn't going to sacrifice accessibility (finding the right trucks and the like)?
Keep up the great content, Leon, always inspirational, much love, bro!
Of course man, no problem 🙏🏼
I should have clarified that, I ride egg shaped boards but popsicle board sizes usually stop at a 9" lol
Nah dude, the egg boards taper a lot towards the trucks so 9" trucks fit the 9.5" eggs perfectly 👌🏼
Thanks dude, appreciate that a lot 🤝🏽
Sydney parks are straight shitting on California parks🤦
Yeah we’re getting super spoilt over here!
Which park is better: meadowbank or claremont
This one for sure dude!
man I want to move to Australia
I've met the lads at ConVics way back when.
Legends they are.
Im old skool big airl BMX so that park aint for me.
But if that means getting fat kids off the Xbox I'm all for it
Yeah dude, they're doing suck good work!
Hahaha dude, so true
Wth how many skate parks does Australia have at this point California is looking like a joke.
Australia is apparently the skatepark capital of the world at this point judging from watching Leon’s channel 😂
I have 20 within a 30 minute drive it's crazy these days. I wish we had this many growing up
The thing is, Leon only covers Sydney! (He’s also covered a few a couple of hours out).
Yeah dude, all of this is only in one state too 😂
Yeah, all of these Australia parks make the parks here in Oregon look pathetic
What’s your homies channel? Didn’t see a link
Damn, I did my man dirty 😂
Just added his link in the description 👌🏽
thank you to both of you
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I know this is totally unrelated to your skate videos but are you and sean unuks related? i thought for a long time i've been watching only one peron cause you guys look so familliar
Haha no we're not but we went to high school together and everyone thought we were brothers way back then too 😂
Idk why street skater never gets it, humps are for pumping you don't want to push in a bowl just pump the hump to accelerate.
I am a street skater, and thats the first thing I thought of. Its a long flat in the middle, so just put down a hump to pump. Like you said, you don't want to take your foot off the board for a push. Especially since "transition" relies a lot on skating ambidextrous. That said, some of those humps ruined a couple of street parks by adding the feature. I had a local where they put one down before the manny/ledge box. So when you lined up to hit the box, you couldn't see it over the hump.
That makes sense! You can tell I don’t skate transition so I don’t know 😂
American government will get $5 million for a new skatepark, build a $250k pile of garbage, then just refuse to ever answer where the other $4.75m went. 😂
Haha, same with Russia
It's my pet peeve to why oh why have woodchips it ruins a great park anywho rant ova, top shite Cobba keep on ripping....
Oh dude, it never ends 😂
Second time I went back the big bowl was full of wood chips 🙄
@@LeonPaxton 🤐yup...😉🙂
All that money and no vert??
first nice vid
Thanks dude!
You absolutely destroyed that place!
Thanks dude, I’ve skated it twice now and still can’t wait to go back again lol
looks like a D.I.Y.
Jay shreds!
Collab dropping when?
Monobrow 😂