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Before you start reading, I just want you to know that I have no idea what this article is meant to be, it just is. As a child I had always been interested in skateboarding, from my earliest memories pushing boards as I was learning to walk, to being about the age of 12 when the monumental Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 came out. I was part of new wave of kids who got into skating in a big way, a wave the sport is still well and truly riding today. Suddenly my interest in skateboarding was no longer carving down hills and scraping knees to bits at the bottom, skating was all about doing switch 720 judo airs into a 2 meter long darkslide off a miniscule kicker... The possibilities (if the game was to be believed) it seemed were endless.

The only skatepark on my island home of Guernsey was made during an entire different era of skating, and has closed when my age was still in single figures, so after essentially forfeiting a Christmas and birthday, and having begged for the months leading up to the following birthday I convinced my parents a miniramp was in order.