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Wednesday morning warm-up roll at Norwood Park in Paeroa.
Big ups to @yarnfunk @haurakiskate for all the work that's gone into sprucing it up, mad respect!
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We’re on a roll here at Hauraki Skate. Check out the Article from June! 

The Norwood Rd skatepark in Paeroa
may not look like much at first glance,
but it is far from forgotten.
Every week, the energy at the park
intensifies, with the site quickly becom-
ing the centre of a local skateboarding
revival.
It’s thanks to Janik Levien and the crew
behind Hauraki Skate, who want to grow
the sport within the community - start-
ing with free sessions and a mission to
breathe life back into the slab they grew
up skating on.
“Me and my two brothers both grew up
skating this park with many of my other
mates that we still skate with today. It’s a
special place for all of us,” Janik told The
Profile.
“We were all young rugby kids, but
skateboarding was awesome in the way
we could do it when the sun was shining,
any day of the week.”
One key upgrade for the park sits at the
top of the priority list: a professional con-
crete grind at a cost of $9000.
The benefits of a concrete grind were
“massive”, Janik said, from safety to us-
ability, presentation and preservation.
It was crucial to making the park a
safe and inviting space for young skat-
ers finding their feet. “Paeroa has two
skateparks, the main one at Railway
Reserve that was built late-2010 and the
original one on Norwood Rd that was
built about 25 years ago.”
“Both are still usable, but are now
weathered and the concrete is rough and
usability is not ideal.”
Janik said the Railway Skatepark was a
lot bigger, had more obstacles, and was a
more-advanced park to teach kids.
However, throughout winter, it got
“hammered” by the nearby oak trees
which dropped leaves and debris that
filled the park, creating hazards and an
unpleasant environment for users.
“Norwood Rd on the other hand - yes
it’s the older park and smaller, but with-
out the problem trees and the sunken-in
design, it hasn’t been as hammered from
debris and failed drainage,” he explained.

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