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Urban Sport
Urban Culture is the umbrella term for various unique, musical, visual, physical and creative ways of expression of (young) people, who live in an urban environment. This makes Urban Sports Park more than just exercise facilities.
The most well-known urban sports are: skateboarding, freerun/parkour, BMX-biking, 3x3 basketball. But also inline skating and pumptracks can be identified, as well as climbing, running, swimming, stunt scooters, bootcamp, calisthenics, and street football can be categorised in urban sports.
Urban sports are booming, and long past the phase of just being a hype.
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EVERYTHING ON WHEELS
Skatepark
A skate park these days is normally made up of a concrete floor with customised objects integrated in it. Roughly three categories can be identified: a local park (<500m2), a medium-sized regional park, and a large park with national influence (>1500m2).
A well designed skate park will attract a broad audience of beginners, advanced and professional urban sports athletes, as well as visitors that want to watch.
Next to outdoor 'street' parks, as described above, we also differentiate forms like bowls (swimming pool-shaped), half- and quarterpipes, and of course parks that can contain a mix of these.
BMX & Pumptrack
BMX is one of the oldest and most attractive of the urban sports. The sport has been developed over the last 50 years, with various disciplines inside BMX: indoor park, tracks, halfpipes and nowadays also pumptracks. We work together with experts and BMX-bikers to make tailor-made parks for them. These can be made of wood, steel or sand. Its size, angles, height and lengths are essential to take into consideration to design the optimal experience.
Subculture
Urban Sports is more than just sports. Urban Sports also encompass the subcultural movements within music, dance and art in cities.
Urban Culture is the umbrella term for various unique, musical, visual, physical and creative ways of expression of (young) people, who live in an urban environment. This makes Urban Sports Park more than just exercise facilities.
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URBAN ATHLETICS
Parkour
Parkour is about creatively traversing a chain of obstacles by jumping, climbing and maneuvering. The sport arose in the city, where parkourists used existing objects and buildings. Nowadays, objects for practicing parkour are available in various sizes and materials, but the actual added value of parkour to a city only comes to fruition when tailor-made design for a specific location is applied.
Bootcamp & Calisthenics
Being able to exercise in the public space is become more important each day; the COVID-19 pandemic showed us that clearly.
As an alternative to gym memberships, outdoor sport facilities have become more widespread and professional. Exercise frames, benches, rubber tiles, shipping containers for storage are found in almost every park these days.
The interest of the users is however often overshadowed when a municipality decides to place some catalogue-objects in their park. Just as the relation between the park and its surrounding area. Like no other we see the importance of various interests and we guarantee an integrated, functional, well-designed and affordable solution for the sports facilities.
Professionalisation
Urban Sports has become indispensable to our cityscape. Municipalities are recognising the importance and popularity of it more and more. Various municipalities are implementing urban sports in their long term policies, and their aims for sports and play in their cities. This also results in more finances being allocated towards urban sports.
Some urban sports, like skating, have become Olympic Sports. It has resulted in official recognition of the sports, and clearer regulations on what those sport facilities should look like, what is allowed and what is not, and how to exercise in those sports.
In the early days of urban sports, youngsters would learn by trial-and-error on precarious self-built ramps. Nowadays the urban sports have professionalised and expanded in the direction of other large organised sports, with their own clubs and lesson programmes.
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URBAN CROSSOVER
3x3 Basketball
It is similar to basketball, but played on a field half the size. The parks are often numerous, creative and colourful. Its integration in the surroundings requires customisation, and adding seats and other alternative programming can work wonders. The community is close knit, and filled with artists, fashion designers and athletes.
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