Sherwood Park (Millennium Place) Top 5's

Sherwood Park is a rather affluent suburb east of Edmonton and is home to the Millennium Place skateboard park. A park that was built right when skate park construction was starting to boom, yet before construction and design of such parks had really been perfected. Now, over a dozen Canadian winters later, the slightly odd construction and obstacle choices (ie. the pyramid in the middle of a half pipe), combined with the fading rough cement, have left the park with an almost DIY feel.
Despite it's upper middle class roots, some of the heshest people I have ever known have come out of Sherwood Park. The new Millennium Place locals seem to have maintained that early hesh heritage, but have blended it with a modern high-water pant aesthetic.
While visiting these parks, I'm always fascinated by the little micro scenes they all cultivate. Inside jokes, nicknames, lurkers, each has it's own crazy little identity that one can never really even become fully aware of until you are a local. In an effort to gain a brief insight into Millennium Place, I asked locals Nick Hale and Cam Burrows to come up with some Top 5's for the park. Enjoy.

Above: Dylan Fulford 5-0 to switch crooks to fakie.

Nick Hale's Top 5's:

Locals:

1. Shorts

2. Beach Dad

3. Don the Glove

4. Limpy

5. Baby GUWAP

Reasons not to go:

1. It's never dry
2. Cheese grater concrete
3. Filled with disrespectful preteens
4. Always windier than you think it will be
5. Scooters

Above: Dustin Therrien back 360 out of the spine. (click to enlarge and for better color)

Reasons to go:

1. Launch out of big quarter and do grabs
2. Spine
3. McDonald's and 711 nearby
4. Mini quarter
5. Ten rail

Best quotes:
1. "Yeah, I've been high on salvia."
2. "Bolts" 
3. "This one's for you."
4. "Thanks for the crack change bitch."
5. "Perfect back heel." 

Above: Nick Hale boneless.

Legends:

1. Mike Svoboda

2. Ben Stewart

3. Chad Anderson

4. The Cobras

5. D Ross

Things yelled out from people driving by:

1. Sk8er faggots

2. Sk8 or Die

3. Pussies

4. Gibberish

5. I heart Dylan Fulford

Above: Dustin Therrien nollie heel 5-0.

Kask yay or nay:

Yay

Best graffiti guy:

1. Zack Dayman for his dick art

Weirdest use of the park:

1. RC cars

Above: Dylan Fulford lien 270 over the hip.

Cameron Burrows' Top 5's

Top 5 hottest moms:

1. Dylan Fulford’s mom

2. Jordan Marowitch’s mom

3. Steve Schniders’s mom

4. Cole Huffman’s mom

5. Dylan Fulford’s mom again

Above: Dylan Fulford stickers.

Funniest things:

1. Lighting a couch on fire and watching the dude run all the way from Millennium Place (MP) with an extinguisher to put it out.

2. When Reid lit a fire in the halfpipe and it blew a chunk out. It’s still not very skateable over there.

3. All of the little kids constantly talking so much shit.

Fights:

1. That one kid who would hang out and just challenge people to fights in the halfpipe.
2. Any fight involving Steve Schnider

Above: Nick Hale smith grind.

Bails:

1. Monkey smoking the biker and destroying his knee

2. Nile snapping his leg on the ten rail when he was like 13 years old

3. Me (Cam) popping my ankle out of place on the 10 drop

4. Reid falling about 100 times trying back 180.

5. Talking Kurt into finally coming with me (Cam) to Millennium and then watching him fall rolling in towards the mini quarter and then never coming back.

Check out Nick and Dylan's last video here.

Check out Mill Woods' Top 5's here.