The main goals of the Urbansportszone are to to stimulate young people & young adults to move in as many different ways as possible and to offer them a public place where they can practice urbansports, be socially interactive and develop themselves creatively. More and more young people are choosing individual sports instead of joining a club. ‘Urbansports’ such as skating, BMX & climbing have been growing continuously for the last fifteen years. The term ‘urbansports’ covers all active recreation making use of the built environment. In these cultures there are no teams, trainers, unions or fixed dimensions that the infrastructure must meet. It is precisely this permissiveness of the ‘lifestyle sports’ that appeals to so many people. Skating is always open, anyone can try it and everyone can skate together, regardless of their skill level or age. There are even examples of people with physical disabilities who use the skatepark to get radical! Whether you are in a wheelchair, have only one leg or even no legs at all the possibilities that a good skatepark offers you are limitless!

A professional skate park isn’t suitable only for professionals, it means that the skatepark is interesting and challenging for both beginners, advanced and professionals! A good skatepark therefore offers a varied landscape with easy and difficult parts, with low and high obstacles, all brought together in a nice overall design. The Urban Sports Zone in Amsterdam should enable everyone to learn their first tricks, to keep developing so that they can still have fun at the skate landscape even on a (semi) professional level. Check this impression of what the Urbansportszone can look like …

Impression of a 3500m2 big skatelandscape designed within a citypark, source Skateparks.com