Text Box: Aren’t Skate Parks Noisy? Studies show that a Skate Park has no more noise than the ambient surrounding noises that exist in other parks and is not nearly as noisy as a baseball park. Sound barriers, like shrubs, help limit noise levels. Source: The Skate Park Association of the United States (SPAUSA), KaBoom ESKAL 8: Your Movement for Community Built Skate Parks

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Tosa Skateboarders United, Inc.

Building a public skate & BMX park in Wauwatosa , WI
TSU skater logoText Box: Do the kids in Wauwatosa really want a skatepark? Of the 940 Wauwatosa students, grades 4-12, surveyed by TSU in 2007… 80% wanted to see a skatepark built in our City. Text Box: What is the average skateboarder/BMX biker like? Most skateboarders are between 7-16 years old. The average age of a skateboarder is 14. Art & Music are the favorite subjects in school for the average skateboarder. Source: The Skate Park Association of the United States (SPAUSA) Text Box: According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, skateboarders are less likely to require emergency medical care than participant of more traditional sports such as… Basketball Baseball Football Soccer Volleyball Source: BMX on line

Did you know...?

 

Skateboarding is a 3 Billion dollar a year industry. Skate parks are the #1 choice of teenagers when polled by Parks & Recreation departments.

            

Source: The Skate Park Association of the United States (SPAUSA)

 

 

Each month 500,000 Skate Board Decks and 100,000 wheels are manufactured.

 

One in 10 teenagers owns a skateboard 

 

 

Source: BMX online

   Action Sports

Foundation Reports:

 

· Skate Boarding is the 3rd Largest Sport between the ages of 6-18.

 

· In 2001nearly 21 million people participated in action sports other than baseball, soccer, softball, volleyball, tennis, football.

 

· During the last 10 years, no sport had a larger increase in participation among users age 7 and older-106%.

 

· Skateboarding is the sixth largest participant sport in the United States

 

· More than 9.3 million skateboarders will take to the streets in the U.S. this year.

 

 

Isn't skateboarding dangerous?

Aren't the kids going to get hurt at a Skateboard Park?

 

· Almost all skateboarding accidents happen on the streets, not in parks, with a high percentage involving motor vehicles.

 

· Irregular riding surfaces account for over 50% of all injuries to skateboarders.

 

· Skate parks with smooth surfaces and protective gear requirements have a very low injury rate.

 

· The most common skateboarding injury is from a flying board.

 

· 1/3 of all injured skateboarders have been skating less than one week.

 

· Two out of every five injuries were to a person using a borrowed skateboard.

 

 
Text Box: The largest Skate park in the world in Calgary (91,500 square feet) reports an injury rate of .03% Text Box: In 1968, the United States Consumer Safety Commission ranked sports & recreation equipment on a Mean Severity Index which ranged from 10 to 2516 (10 being least severe). Swimming Pools 335 Bicycles 70 Skateboarding 34 Text Box:  According to the 1996 Rand Youth Poll, kids 5-14 spent $24.4 billion and directly influenced another $117 billion spent on their behalf.

    Sport Percentage of Injury Comparison Report

 

                                 Ice Hockey 3.60%                                Football 2.78%                           Basketball 2.57%

                                 Soccer 1.42%                                        Baseball 1.26%                       Volleyball .54%                         

Skateboarding .49%

 

             Sources: BMX Online, Action Sports Foundation, The Skate Park Association of the United States (SPAUSA), International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) , Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association, Superstudy of Sports Participation, Sports Participation in America , 2001

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What about drugs? Isn't a Skate Park going to be a magnet for drug dealers?

 

· Drug dealers will target and market to youth with more money and less to do.

 

· Kids with $25 or more a week in spending money are nearly twice as likely as those with less money

             to smoke, drink, and use illegal drugs, and more than twice as likely to get drunk.

 

· Youth ages 12-17 who are frequently bored are 50% more likely to smoke, drink, get drunk and use illegal drugs than those not often bored.

 

· Ages 14 and under polled state that less than 1% would use drugs while skateboarding, inline skating or freestyle biking and all

             prefer their sport to drugs.

 

 

Source: American Sports Data, RAND Youth Poll, The Skate Park Association of the United States (SPAUSA), Columbia University National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse