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No ramps or rails in sight for Fredericksburg city skateboarders

There are signs of skateboarding’s earlier days. [Mike Salmon]
The skateboarders of Fredericksburg live a nomadic existence with no real skateparks in the city, leaving them to practice their tricks on the streets and sidewalks around town when no one is looking.

When they put the motion for a city skatepark in front of the city council, there was a little progress with officials pointing at skating facilities in Brooks Park and then Curtis Park in Stafford County where the skateboarders were allowed to modify a section to skate in, but it still isn’t a real skate park.

“Whatever the rest of the world is doing, we’re doing the opposite,” said Mark Eyestone, owner of Magic Bullet Skateboards in Downtown Fredericksburg. He’s had a skate shop in Fredericksburg since 2002, and the discussion of a skatepark within the city has come up but went nowhere.

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