How To DIY Spot // $20 Kicker Ramp
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2020
- Subscribe: bit.ly/2ISqPTj I've been wanting to make a tutorial on how to build a DIY kicker ramp for awhile, so I'm super excited for this video! I'm showing you how to build a kicker/launch ramp from scratch. Starting with a wood form, and ending with a concrete kicker guaranteed to give you a good session!
Had a blast skating the spot with Shuriken Shannon!
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I hope this video inspires you to go make a skate spot! No matter what you skill level of skateboarding or DIY is, this video hopefully gets your sparked and also provides some insight on how to make your own skate spot, and then eventually skatepark!? - กีฬา
Hit that "LIKE" button under the video if we should install these all over the city!
for sure just let us know where they are 😂
You should try making the first bags a little wetter & beat on the side of the form. That'll get rid of those voids on the sides.
Bro I love what your doing!
This is the kind of stuff i would be down to collaborate on!!!
Hey dude bmx rider here but I also skate a lil. Take your rub bring use just the edges create random grooves in the old concrete for rhe new concrete to grip too.
Easiest way without power tools and not as sketchy looking as a chisel.
Btw. Painting your trucks can help them slide better. Aluminium doesn't slide well, steel is better plastic is best. Painting older aluminium pegs is a way to freshen them up for slides.
Beer can coping. Try pvc piping cause you can create a a longer section of coping that doesn't need as much filler work. Might also work for making ledges and concrete rails. Lots and lots of lacquer and wax plus polishing the concrete.
For bringing in tools and supplies. Try and stash some stuff there early. And break down your concrete plus multiple people. You can hide it that way.
Dude, you deserve wayyyy more subscribers. This is a million subs type of content you're putting out
Agreed. And he's handing out knowledge that can help die hard skaters build DIY spots all over the fuckin world. He really does deserve a lot more views/subs
Thanks y'all, you're to kind!
Man your diys are absolute beauty’s you seem like such a chill guy, enjoyed the video! 👍
Thank you! I have a lot of fun making them :)
Rad video. Just quick tip. You can also use melamine board for your forms. The concrete will release from the form easily. You can reuse over and again. It coat a lil more but pays of in the end. The liquid prep that help with new concrete to adhere to existing or old concrete is clutch. Sorry the book and nerding out. Enjoy see dude doing diy spot and just trying to share
Dude shout out you thanks for the tip.
Hey Zack I'm from San juan Puerto Eico, just coming through to say you've inspired me to build a skate spot at a closed-end elementary school in my community
The bankrupt state of our government means that more than 40% of public schools on the island have been closed down in the last 4 years.
So I'm gonna be bringing life to a now dying community with your videos, hope you're doing good and keep grinding brother!
Sick build Zack! Looks like so much fun! Thanks for showing the build process!
seem like a super chill guy with some good vibes. love the videos bro keep it up!
Such great quality, such great ramps. LOVE IT BRO
They just finished up the banks in Del Mar on 7th St perfect for a new DIY
YES!! Let's go!
Aussie Sean Enuks builds some rad diy too! I've made a little QTR and a wedge rail thing since being inspires by you guys! Thanks for teaching about the crete! 🛹
I love your content Zack, production quality, entertainment, and educational. Keep killing it!
Right back at you Kyle!
I mean.....how cool is that?!?!?! Subbed immediatly!
These videos are dope never stop making them. I casted my first concrete slappy curb and I wanna start making spots around my city. Your vids always make me wanna go build something.
That means a lot, love to hear this! Inspired to inspire.
Another sick vid keep posting man!
Another Killer Video Brother! Skate and Create! 👊🍻🤘
You've inspired me to start building a few more diy spots around Vancouver, BC (even though your "2ft transition over 1ft vs 5ft transition over 2ft" talk was waaaaay over my head) 😂 The way your brain works is amazing and you deserve way more subs. Thanks for motivating me to skate harder and put the work in!! 💯🛹🤟
Love your videos man👍👍
You should show us what your day looks like. Basically a vlog. Great videos man.
Dope! This helps me as I'm planning something similar. Two bits of advice- back when I used to work on a foundation crew, we would spray our forms down with diesel fuel before filling with concrete... not the most environment-conscious method probly, but it works well to get the forms off clean and easy. Also, if you screw a length of 2x4 to the outsides of the transition pieces, you can run the back boards longer and get a better connection by screwing them into the 2x4s rather than trying to get into that OSB. It'll hold up a lot better and last longer.
Destroy!
Zack you are killing it. Greetings from China! I design, build skateparks, and also film, take photos of skateboarding. Love your content, the color, the storytelling, the transitions, feel so gooooood. Keep posting man!
Thank you for tuning in!
Living it up
Nice dude. Those little things should be everywhere, it would make skating around town more fun! 😅
My homie is planning on turning his back yard into a little diy skate park this video will help a lot mostly since we love kickers man love the vid keep em up🔥🔥
I hope you and the homie have fun, that's the dream!
Little tip. Cinder blocks are fairly cheap. You can do some nutso things with them some concrete and wood for forms. Building a concrete fun box. And gonna try and use pvc tubing to make a concrete rail for that and an A frame bank to bank set up.
And if you make any wood stuff. Marine sealant on the wood. Expensive but it'll last forever. Edge seal and seal every inch of in. Good quality marine sealant for wood will last longer then other sealing set ups.
Enjoy the vids man
A plastic sheet to cover the crete will keep water that will evaporate from the surface at the surface and fully react with the crete surface and make the surface stronger. Sorta like a simplified version of water curing. Good work man 👊🏻
Also if you spray your forms with wd40 it works as a mold release
Huge tip, thank you!
You think this would also be the case if you say made concrete coping in a pvc pipe as the mold? If you heat it and are careful you can bend pvc tubing. Plus the fittings available. Would make it very useful for building stuff.
@@bmxriderforlife1234 I think the big issue would be getting a shape you want and also being able to remove the pvc. For easy coping check out dowdys video on beer can coping. FYI WD 40 is a great mold release for concrete
zing and scoop, the perfect formula
Hilarious! I drive by that DIY Zack was taking measurements on all the time. I feel justified to hear it actually was an actual DIY spot because it always looked like one but no one really skates it during the day!
Haha, it's a tough spot!! I've tried lol.
Soo sick💯
That’s awesome thank you for the tutorial
If you put hinges on the wood you not only can fold it but you can make it into a bowl or island.
Friggin rights bro! Love all the DIY stuff poppin up all over the country. One quick tip for a wood concrete form if you want to reuse it a bunch...give it a drink of oil, can be any type of oil really. To keep it somewhat “environmental” you can use canola oil or linseed or olive. Will keep that wood fresh and keeps concrete from sticking to it.
Great advice, thank. you!! Appreciate the kind words.
damn you and shuriken went ham!!
Thanks Blake, it was a fun session!
Sick video btw
I haven't skated a kicker in about 28 years now. That looks so much fun.
Right?!? Gotta bring back the classics.
Now I need to build one too, but its gonna be a long wait over winter. Also the right place is a problem here...
I skated the spot
Sick
really nice video, congrats!
just one question, about the transition: you say you are making the ray of the curve at about 8 feet. But that lumber you use there looks 6 feet max. am i wrong?
you're like the Bob Ross of diy spots
Please post more offten! things like this !!!
Hey you at that diy spot that you made that lancher can you make like a mine euro on the Manny pad that will be so sick hope you'll do it and see this
Good stuff man! 👍Looking to DIY some rails and ramps to skate with my 14yo homie son. 😎
Love that! I have some wood projects coming soon.
For good spot searching. Go for bike rides. Ride your bike around searching for spots and to and from spots except when a car is just smarter.
Always go new directions. Look for spots where nose from skating isn't gonna bother people and check out the area at different times.
If you search hard enough you can find secluded spots to build parks in alot of cases. Concrete plus a rain catcher set up. Some random metal for coping. Smooth out the concrete a bunch. Pretty easy to get a spot going.
The best spots I've always noticed require alot of people putting effort in. IMHO it's best for skaters and bikers to work together on shit like this cause you can get shit done so fast and get more done.
Might do this under a bridge in my city. Bare skaters and bike riders and just build a free skate park. Has rain coverage. Won't be perfect but huge area that's unused. Like could build a 20 foot wide vert ramp that's 15 feet tall and still have room for a bowl a street plaza and some random other shit.
Obviously won't go that wild but might be able to push the city to fund something built there via volunteers and some hired construction people. Cinderblocks and concrete plus some plywood for pouring like you did. Gonna make a 4 foot quarter a bank to bank with an a frame rail another quarter maybe a fun box and deffs a couple ledges.
See what else peeps wanna put in. Help with it.
Now you just need an artist
yes sir
I built a kicker ramp out of wood with the sickest transition to launch you up super high without being too steep
What is the Title of that last song? Stop and Obey?
Great music for this vid
😍😍
yo bro how long do you finish it before you just let it dry
ayyy is that the diy behind that 7-11 near the trolley station?
Ayy!! You know this.
hey Zack, I really enjoy your videos and the music in your videos as well. Do you have a open spotify playlist or something? Thanks man
Thank you! I do have a spotify playlist, always working on adding more: open.spotify.com/playlist/6l3D6Qb2N1eGyvifoc0yuV?si=VYbKSRQARZyzNO1l6YNCLw
@@ZackDowdy beautiful, thanks
bob ross of building skate obstacles
Been lovin your channel dude. Started a DIY here in the UK mainly wooden stuff but you have inspired me to start concrete. How many bags did you use for this kicker?
That's awesome!! I used about 3 bags for this one.
@@ZackDowdy thanks for the reply dude I will get on it. Here's our diy. th-cam.com/video/r8aTOQ9LmAs/w-d-xo.html
Drop that milk crate and invest in a saw horse my man! 😅
Either way amazing content!!!
Seriously though, I need one!
You said your friend Shuriken, but is that Shuriken Shannon?!? 🤯 If so that's super sick I can't recall what I first saw him in but I always thought he was sick when I was younger and heavier into skating! Also great video. Would love to see you build a ledge spot if that's possible! 🙂
you probably saw him in the Osiris video "Feed The Need", they gave those videos for free all the time at skate shops and shit haha
@@zJerryyyyy naw man I'm pretty sure it was a board company video or something but I'm just old, disconnected, and tripping haha 🤣
That is Shuriken Shannon, San Diego destroyer! His slaughterhouse part is one of my favorites ever.
I have a super cool diy that’s in the woods on a abandoned concrete pad and it’s super secret because a trail it goes under a bridge that’s on a road and there is a river next to it and it’s just super cool
Sounds epic!
I want to build a diy so bad Im definitely going to use this.
If I can do it, you got it! It's all fun in the process.
Isn't that where Shuriken built that up ledge with Rhino? Did that get dozed?
hmm could make something of that size at home, then haul it to a spot somehow? lol or would it be way too heavy...? I want to put something like that in a semi-high foot traffic spot that people skate. pretty urban so I don't think ill be setting up all the buckets and what not too easily lol
Yeah! I made another video where I create a mobile friendly version.
You should put some sort of coping on it
Someone's gonna fall backwards and split their head on that edge
Isn't customary to make all edges 45 degrees instead of 90 degrees when building with concrete? Typically by installing a 45 degree "wooden board" - sorry don't know the correct English word for it - inside the form?
ifind for transition i can use my arm if it’s on a tiny kicker or a tape measurer so i can know how big of a transition i’m giving it and self correct any problems when cutting
Now that's DIY!
Little tip. Before u finish the concrete with the trowel, hit the forms lightly with a hammer to let the concrete fall into place. It’ll last longer without cracking
Great tip, appreciate that!
You have profession after you finish having fun with skate
In germany are well payed construction workers
Zack Dowdy: "Get the 90lb bags, it'll save you money."
Also Dowdy: "Don't get the 90lb bags."
Haha! Well 90lb will save you $, but if you’re working alone the 60lbs are less taxing on the body.
@@ZackDowdy Love your Videos by the Way wish we didnt live on opposite coasts Id love to skate with you and build spots.
Sounds like someone is typing Morse code in the background lmao
I’ve been wanting to make one in Scripps Ranch but there’s not many places and there’s always the fear of it getting torn down the next day. Thank you Karens! There is Cara Way off Mercy Rd, great location for a DIY if you’re looking!
Thank you Karens, HAHA!
What's the white stuff?
Should DIY more skate stuff at your house. Make a mini Pandemic skate park.
Love this! I wish I had more space, I'm working on a little something.
@@ZackDowdy Nice dude look forward to seeing it in one of your videos
Get Ready for the Launch...........
that red & black shirt is sick, who makes it?
Thanks homie, that was a H&M score haha
@@ZackDowdy no way! I'd never have guessed. I got a similar one only black & white from Wish, fabric is so so though
Stuff a pvc pipe in the top and you got a pretty cheap coping
I’m thinking of building a diy. Just need to find a spot.
Once you find something, that'll spark the flame!
Where do you live? I want a low key little house like that
I wanna build one.
You got this!
@@ZackDowdy thanks man!
I live like 10 mins for my there
Did anybody else grow up on Charlie Brown?😂😂😂😂
Really cool. Maybe get yourself a mask for the concrete. I'm only 42 but my lungs & ears are fucked from years of construction work without proper protection.
Love your videos. Not only is the content cool but they look great too.
Thanks Keith! Appreciate that, need to mask up when mixing for sure.
Hey Zach, I got a dope spot here in Lakeside. It in a gutter or canal or whatever you want to call it. It is behind a bunch of houses, and skate mafia skates every once in a while. If you want the address or something, let me know and I will happily give it. Maybe we can skate it.
I'm down!
The street is called Rio Camino. You go straight down the street, and there is a gate to the right, it says no trespassing, but I go back there all the time, and nobody cares. Bring a broom! Let me know when you are going there, i'll be stoked to meet you!
btw, some of my videos show what the canal looks like, so if you want to check them out for an idea?
From about 6:05 there's about 20 seconds of your voice audio missing.
I think its fixed
@@sk8basix190 great!
YES CONCRETE DONT STICK TO WOOD
Zing 1:04
Pretty sure this was filmed a while back and that Zack knows better but I gotta say it for the kiddos.... you gotta mask up for mixin and breaking up crete, ya don’t wanna make ready mix in you lungs!! Concrete dust is super super bad for you.
You’re 1000% right, always wear a mask when mixing!!! I know better (filmed last weekend) did the ol drop & run to avoid the dust because I couldn’t find a mask but it’s true, anyone reading this don’t do what I did, be responsible, mask up!
10:19 better not lift heavy stuff this way
That's not an 8 foot transition, think about it, it would be an 8 foot board from screw to pen.🤔
You should really add coping and smooth edges , injuries can be prevented lol
Entertaining, but you ramble on into way too much uneccesary detail.