How To DIY Skate Spot | 10 Tips under $30

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  • Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
  • Subscribe: bit.ly/2ISqPTj in this video I'm talking 10 Tips to make a DIY Skate Spot for under $30! Make it happen, with your friends or alone! Hopefully this video motivates you to get out here! 🤘
    Follow me on Instagram: / dowdy
    If you don't have a Home Depot near you, here are some helpful links:
    Concrete:
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    Floats:
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    Rub Brick:
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    Face Mask:
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    High-Vis Vest:
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    #Skateboarding #DIY

КОМЕНТАРІ • 154

  • @ZackDowdy
    @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +108

    What kind of DIY spot should I build next?

    • @jonglass6197
      @jonglass6197 4 роки тому +7

      It'd be fun at some point to see a video on installation of pool coping/tiling. I always thought it was cool to see the crazy variations out there

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      @@jonglass6197 Good call, I'm thinking once I build the backyard ramp I'll be able to do more stuff like that too

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      @@bwalnum Love this idea!

    • @r3mixfireworkz845
      @r3mixfireworkz845 4 роки тому +2

      Now this is primitive skateboarding 🛹 If yk yk

    • @distorted718
      @distorted718 4 роки тому

      Vert

  • @obedtorresdrums1380
    @obedtorresdrums1380 4 роки тому +216

    Seeing this in April and hearing that masks are a high demand, made me look back on the good life we all had a month back

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +8

      Obed Torres Drums Seriously, things escalated so quick.

    • @Rawdoggistt
      @Rawdoggistt 4 роки тому +1

      Obed Torres Drums 2 months back

    • @tinormous-road2gains13
      @tinormous-road2gains13 4 роки тому

      😂😂😂

    • @srat71
      @srat71 3 роки тому +2

      i'm seeing this in 2021 and oh b o y it's been a YEAR

  • @habfewufbq3ouwfwfcq3r
    @habfewufbq3ouwfwfcq3r 4 роки тому +56

    That little part with the mask means so much more looking back...

  • @stainlesssteele3824
    @stainlesssteele3824 4 роки тому +182

    Who else isn’t planning on making a skate park but still watches this

  • @hugo.bonillas2826
    @hugo.bonillas2826 4 роки тому +47

    I'm starting to build my own diy skatepark because of quarantine tomorrow my dad and I are gonna build a rail and then we will either make a quarter pipe or ledge

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +2

      Soul Z epic!! Sounds so fun, your dad sounds like a legend. I’m working on a mini ramp in my backyard.

    • @anthonyrobles.skates3938
      @anthonyrobles.skates3938 4 роки тому

      Zack Dowdy nice dude is it done by the time I’m here

  • @adamtaylor6873
    @adamtaylor6873 4 роки тому +22

    After you are done rub bricking the edge you can paint it, spray it with clear coat/lacquer, brush on concrete sealer or brush on latex bonding agent..any of those before wax will keep it super buttery..and if the edges of the mortar breaks away, you can skim coat it with vinyl concrete patch.it can be troweled very thin and still hold up.

  • @AdventuresInSkateboarding
    @AdventuresInSkateboarding 4 роки тому +57

    This is a solid video. Great tips and edited in away that was engaging. Appreciate your work on this. Now let's see the session.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +2

      Thanks dude, session going down this weekend!

  • @SeanEnuks
    @SeanEnuks 4 роки тому +7

    awesome vid, your DIY videos always get me in a mood to go out and build

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +2

      Thanks Sean! That DIY spot you skated awhile ago looked so fun

  • @Omar-fe8kv
    @Omar-fe8kv 2 роки тому

    Best channel to exist on UA-cam

  • @2namesmusic
    @2namesmusic Рік тому

    These DIY videos are super helpful homie

  • @Nando-lp8sp
    @Nando-lp8sp 3 роки тому

    I been making diy spots for a while cause of your channel. When. I look for spots I pretty look for nearest river bed. It's out of peoples way, you can tell your friends where it's at, they can help and city won't waste money to get rid of it. My favorite diy spot I use to skate is the 605/ firestone ditch in Downey Ca. A lot of pro skaters skate that spot when filming. It's been there for more than 20 years.

  • @holdemdang
    @holdemdang 3 роки тому

    Constantly looking for spots is/was something I never stopped even when I wasn't skating. (Wife/kids... ugh.) I think some of that programming was embedded growing up playing Tony Hawk and grinding everything in sight. Lolz.
    Sweet vid as usual. You're great for the community... make me wish we had UA-cam when I was young.

  • @tommyproductions891
    @tommyproductions891 4 роки тому +8

    Will definitely use some of these 💯💯

  • @VXBAKER
    @VXBAKER 4 роки тому +12

    How do you not have at least 100k? The youtube algorithm is screwing you!

  • @Creative7inc
    @Creative7inc 4 роки тому +6

    All about the DIY! Super cool to see you transform an area into a super useable and skateable area.

  • @nicholaslopez6384
    @nicholaslopez6384 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you for giving back to the skating community, you are doing God's work bro keep it up

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Sharing the stoke that lit the fire for me! Thanks man :)

  • @raymondmurphy3845
    @raymondmurphy3845 3 роки тому

    Thanks for encouraging us to make stuff ourselves and showing us the ropes

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  3 роки тому

      Thank you for tuning into the video and watching ❤️🤘

  • @swimpgaming3161
    @swimpgaming3161 4 роки тому +3

    This will prob work with a bmx to

  • @liamnanninga
    @liamnanninga 4 роки тому +5

    I loved the video, good stuff man..

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +2

      liam nanninga Thanks homie

  • @mathewharmer478
    @mathewharmer478 2 роки тому

    Well I would consider grabbing the off cuts a couple of pallets and skip's you can get get your hands on a bit of copping here and there a few tools and may be you can get a ramp

  • @finnthomas7900
    @finnthomas7900 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome video dude, its crazy that your are not getting more views and don't have more subscribers

  • @RyanSmith-zl4vh
    @RyanSmith-zl4vh 4 роки тому +2

    Hey dude! I found a small abandoned spillway out in the woods and I'm trying to fix her up. My problem is that the banks are a little too spaced to keep some good speed. Could you make a video on how to build a DIY hump? Thanks bud! Keep up the good content!

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Ryan Smith That’s awesome you found a spot to build at! I’ll think of a location I can make a bump tutorial at. I would imagine you’d start with dirt mound and try to shape it like the bump out be.

    • @RyanSmith-zl4vh
      @RyanSmith-zl4vh 4 роки тому

      @@ZackDowdy cool thank you!

  • @DeeRok35
    @DeeRok35 4 роки тому

    this is full send and i LOVE it

  • @MichaelaBrooke18
    @MichaelaBrooke18 4 роки тому +11

    Love these diy skatevideos!! You need the skateboard community influencers to embrace your channel!! Im goin to approach mine similar. Create content and see if they embrace my vision. I just dont know what i want to contribute to skating that hasnt been focused on!! What youre doin is original and super dope!! This channel about to go off!!!! Lesssgooo Big dog!!!

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      MOBBY Thanks homie!! Going to keep them coming, rub bricking the ledges and ground is a game changer! ♥️🤘

    • @MichaelaBrooke18
      @MichaelaBrooke18 4 роки тому +1

      @@ZackDowdy oh so you can rub brick the ground!! I have this spot at a car wash by the crib and it has a bank slant thats about 25 to 30 inches at a 45 degree slant and it has a double sided ledge. At the top! The kink from the bank to the ledge is hectic. Almost a second ledge. I haul at it and can get up there kinda but its so crusty. I wish i could show you a picture of it. It could be a pro/semi pro spot and there are two seperate ones within a steezy sidewalk line. How if at all can i make it skateable? Imagine a steep wedge with a tiny lip butted up to a ledge thats 5 inches tallerish. Lol and thanks for reading these books i send you!

  • @coreyduffel
    @coreyduffel 4 роки тому +1

    This is amazing!!! Great video Zack

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Thanks Corey, you're the best dude! ❤️

  • @Joshua-sp1kd
    @Joshua-sp1kd 4 роки тому

    Thanks for getting me hyped to go to Home Depot 😂

  • @lookingforikigai9005
    @lookingforikigai9005 3 роки тому

    there’s a skate park in the colorado mountains that started off as an illegal spot and now it’s fucking huge and it’s in like the gap in a parking garage, so it’s thin but long and sweet

  • @jerryhsu007
    @jerryhsu007 4 роки тому +1

    Video was so sick! Thank you.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Jerry Wilson Thanks for watching 🤘

  • @BasicBeachCommunity1
    @BasicBeachCommunity1 3 роки тому

    Love the creativity...

  • @SkateCrisis
    @SkateCrisis 4 роки тому +1

    Great work and good tips!

  • @wilmerrosenborg3581
    @wilmerrosenborg3581 4 роки тому

    Hey man me and my friends are working on our skatepark here in Southern Sweden. We just built a bank with some nice coping today and I will definitely take some of your advice with me next time when me and the boys are doing another project.

  • @Jpcs-
    @Jpcs- 4 роки тому

    governments should support this when he puts the concrete on the side hes lowkey fixing it at the same time

  • @LocalDallasMan
    @LocalDallasMan 4 роки тому +1

    Legit!! Thanks for the guide! Subbed!!

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks for watching dude!

  • @yung___lx
    @yung___lx 4 роки тому +1

    awesome!!! glad ive found ur channel- ur awesome.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Thanks man! ♥️🤘

  • @hamellsk8
    @hamellsk8 4 роки тому +1

    Very cool 👍

  • @jonasghaley3231
    @jonasghaley3231 4 роки тому +1

    Great video you Deserve more subs!

  • @offdazoink7923
    @offdazoink7923 3 роки тому +3

    who watched in december 2020 and was weirded out cause he didn’t have a mask on

  • @judeluff
    @judeluff 4 роки тому +1

    This fire bruh

  • @BrennenBASTARD
    @BrennenBASTARD 3 роки тому +1

    Don't have anyone to build or skate with. Make a spot and watch everyone all of a sudden wanna know where you're skating, but never when... 🤣🤣

  • @dan.9
    @dan.9 4 роки тому +2

    1500th like😄

  • @Epark1801
    @Epark1801 3 роки тому

    Honestly I'm just gonna build one in my backyard

  • @jamiecunningham8620
    @jamiecunningham8620 4 роки тому

    Yes

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Miss you cant wait to skate!

  • @oilspaghetti
    @oilspaghetti 4 роки тому

    Great vid, love it

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Oliver Pongetti Thanks Oliver!! ♥️🤘

  • @newvocabulary
    @newvocabulary 3 роки тому

    Angle iron + locktite on a ledge makes any ledge skatable.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  3 роки тому +1

      Such a solid and easy DIY!

    • @newvocabulary
      @newvocabulary 3 роки тому

      @@ZackDowdy you can literally slap them on anywhere. Dust off the ledge, apply lock tite, slap on iron, disappear for 48 hours and you have an iron ledge that will last for years. Takes less than a minute to do. If the iron is short enough you can even apply the locktite in a car/van, then just hop out, slap on the iron, and leave in 30 seconds. I have no idea why people aren't doing this to every shitty crumblestone concrete ledge in their town.

  • @tylercox7520
    @tylercox7520 4 роки тому +1

    It cracked because you mixed mortar with concrete. Mortar cures quicker and is easier to blend but is not as durable as concrete.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Tyler Cox This is true! Mixing in some higher PSI will make the spot much stronger.

  • @Lou-if1th
    @Lou-if1th 4 роки тому

    Sick man!!

  • @MichaelaBrooke18
    @MichaelaBrooke18 4 роки тому

    I skate in colorado springs and it sucks ass to skate street! I feel like i need to be rub brickin the ground and ledge hahah. I loved the video!!

  • @susgoblin1376
    @susgoblin1376 4 роки тому

    Great video, what's the name of the song at the end?

  • @Wisper_SB_Shorts
    @Wisper_SB_Shorts 4 роки тому +1

    Keep it up

  • @Stew403
    @Stew403 4 роки тому

    i have found a diy spot its an empty cement lot not to big used to be a building then fully knocked down into a parking lot thing nobody uses it is pretty out the way and small its about six parking spaces big me and my friends are going to build a diy skatepark there for our bmx bikes i found a filing cabinet next to a dumpster close to the spot im going to turn it into a box jump there is also wood around the area of the spot for the trash same with some cinder blocks so if i get liquid nails and some other things its going to be a great fun spot to hang out at with my friends its also got some cover from trees for when its sunny.
    Sorry for my big comment i will make a video on it around june 1st also my towns mayor is a bmx rider (hosts loads of skatepark events) so i should be good

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Dude that's so awesome!! Sounds like you have a great opportunity to build something there! Can't wait to see what you make.

    • @Stew403
      @Stew403 4 роки тому

      @@ZackDowdy im starting tomorrow it just rained aswell so the spot should be clean

    • @Mainroad.Manjis101
      @Mainroad.Manjis101 3 роки тому

      Another good tip for you. I skate, ride bmx and scooters (good variety) and I found a good way to make a ledge is with a wooden pallet or 2 or more. At the sides screw them together, maybe 2 pallets high and 2 pallets long and put a piece of plywood and screw it onto the top and it’s a nice flat surface to ride on. For bmx you can just lay smaller pieces of wood in the cracks. Hope this might help you!

  • @ganjasmoke21
    @ganjasmoke21 3 роки тому

    Isn’t that a drain or some kind of canal waterway though?

    • @alexs7670
      @alexs7670 3 роки тому

      Looks like overflow drainage

  • @mikepittman4579
    @mikepittman4579 4 роки тому +1

    Get it!!!

  • @Joeballs187
    @Joeballs187 2 роки тому

    Cool my city just tor up blocks of the sidewalks and the old paths need to be done I've done stuff like this this collectives before but I forgot for years that I'm an autonomous unit and I'm just as much deserving of this world as anyone else my desires I different but don't mean I'm less I just don't feel the same needs they do and I really don't Wana be like anyone besides me and I don't even like that guy most the time thanks love you can wait till next time

  • @najtrows
    @najtrows 4 роки тому

    Hey!
    I live in the woods and have no skateable surfaces near me at all.
    Working from home now and thinking about what I could do in order to get a flat surface for practicing some kickflips and stuff like that.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Now would be the time for sure! You could always form up a flat surface with 2x4's, fill with rock, and then cover with cement just using a level to make sure it's simi flat. Easier said then done for sure, sounds like a fun project!

    • @najtrows
      @najtrows 4 роки тому +2

      @@ZackDowdy I actually have some bricks kind of.. where I could just put cement on top. I might aswell because I'm stuck here at home anyway!

    • @Mainroad.Manjis101
      @Mainroad.Manjis101 3 роки тому

      @@najtrows did you end up getting to it? :)

  • @ilikechippies2551
    @ilikechippies2551 2 роки тому

    this should've been on thrasher

  • @skkumramos
    @skkumramos 2 роки тому

    Music in background?

  • @oscarmcmillan5557
    @oscarmcmillan5557 4 роки тому

    where is that

  • @paulrevere2928
    @paulrevere2928 2 роки тому

    Please support small local independently owned hardware/ building supply businesses who genuinely want, need & appreciate the business. Thanks 🇺🇸

  • @samuelsowerbutts8489
    @samuelsowerbutts8489 3 роки тому

    I'm building a DIY skateparkther is a half pipe I big bank a quarter pipe a ledge a rail and a small rainbow rail tomorrow is the last build

  • @GSTACK57
    @GSTACK57 4 роки тому

    What are those glasses? I like them.

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      Some cheap liquor store score haha!

    • @GSTACK57
      @GSTACK57 4 роки тому

      Zack Dowdy I’d say! I’m a new fan, thanks for the content. Hope you’re staying safe out there.

  • @skatebloomington
    @skatebloomington 4 роки тому

    This rules!

  • @ryftedmage1404
    @ryftedmage1404 3 роки тому

    Idk if the tip #s are a joke, but they left me so confused, he had like 3, #10s lmao

  • @skatescene.3744
    @skatescene.3744 4 роки тому +1

    100

  • @jerryhsu007
    @jerryhsu007 4 роки тому

    Can you link me to the video How To find skatespots you talk about @3:20

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      For sure, it's here: ua-cam.com/video/-NFjSXWDkZE/v-deo.html

  • @theseizuresalad
    @theseizuresalad 3 роки тому

    Why do you always shop and endorse Home Depot? Just curious? There are probably tons of smaller locally owned stores that sell all the same stuff in your area. Just a thought, considering your views on Nike and stuff.
    Food for thought buddy:)

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  3 роки тому

      Firstly I endorse using your local hardware store, or lowes ideally. This one is a little old, I'm still learning :)

  • @skateguroo7600
    @skateguroo7600 4 роки тому

    Not me

  • @emotrash6957
    @emotrash6957 4 роки тому

    finally good music on a youtube video #fuck rap music

  • @chis332
    @chis332 4 роки тому

    your thumb tho!!!!

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      Got that hitch hiker ya feel?

  • @robinfelesan8817
    @robinfelesan8817 3 роки тому

    watching this now, and see you not wearing a face mask in the shop is confusing

  • @carloynmullaney8430
    @carloynmullaney8430 4 роки тому +1

    That intro gave me an ADHD attack

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому

      That's embedded within me, guess I'm not surprised lol.

  • @closingyak17894
    @closingyak17894 3 роки тому

    1:41
    Date: 8/12/2020 (d/m/y)
    Log #263: we're running out of them last time k was them at such a low price seems like a dream away. We're nothing but a failing society. Capitalism has began to break and the global economy is falling into a low it's gonna be the worst yet Boris Johnson still hasn't finished Brexit I have lost it all I fear this may be my last message as food and safe drinking water is running. Thank you to who ever reads this stay strong and see in 2021 survive it and carry on this wretched race.
    -Closing T Yak.

  • @nikku1166
    @nikku1166 4 роки тому

    don't play with the manhole or the spot will get blown out... got it :)

  • @eatyourcereal2155
    @eatyourcereal2155 4 роки тому

    Sound vid

  • @paulrevere2928
    @paulrevere2928 2 роки тому

    Better to ask for permission than beg for forgiveness...

  • @TheBenderover69
    @TheBenderover69 4 роки тому

    City that spend $$$$$ on skate park "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @jasefoster1272
    @jasefoster1272 4 роки тому +1

    I wouldn’t call that making a spot he just layer down concrete where he could already skated 😂😂

  • @jimjam6787
    @jimjam6787 4 роки тому +3

    Love your passion, just do less talking more and skating bro

    • @ZackDowdy
      @ZackDowdy  4 роки тому +1

      I can't be mad at that, I gotta find a way to give the message while still skating and less of my ugly face.