Jack Pearson carves in the big bowl at the Ken Worhoudt Skate Park (formerly the Mike Fox Skate Park) on San Lorenzo Boulevard in Santa Cruz. The park, which opened in 2007, features a full pipe, two bowls, a street course with steps, hubba ledges, and metal rails, was designed by Santa Cruz local Zach Wormhoudt, who took over the business when his dad Ken passed away in 1997. The park was engineered by Charlie Prograce, built by contractor A.J. Vasconi, and sign illustrations by Israel Forbes and graphic design by Judy Oyama. Before his passing, Ken Wormhoudt was the world’s premier skate park architect and continues to be well recognized as the pioneer of skate park planning. His approach, which his son, Zach follows to this day, was to involve local skaters in designing their own park, with the architect providing a realistic sense of options and helping the skaters to select and arrange the features which meet their needs. Ken would provide the skaters with modeling clay and have them work together to design their own ideal park. Ken Wormhoudt designed and oversaw the construction of what is generally considered to be one of the first public skate parks in the world at Derby Park in Santa Cruz. He went on to design and construct more than 80 municipal skate parks and provided skate park facility planning and design consulting for more than 460 skate parks in municipalities around the world. (Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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