Hit that "LIKE" button under the video if we should install these all over the city!

Man your diys are absolute beauty’s you seem like such a chill guy, enjoyed the video! 👍

Dude, you deserve wayyyy more subscribers. This is a million subs type of content you're putting out

Rad video. Just quick tip. You can also use melamine board for your forms. The concrete will release from the form easily. You can reuse over and again. It coat a lil more but pays of in the end. The liquid prep that help with new concrete to adhere to existing or old concrete is clutch. Sorry the book and nerding out. Enjoy see dude doing diy spot and just trying to share

They just finished up the banks in Del Mar on 7th St perfect for a new DIY

Aussie Sean Enuks builds some rad diy too! I've made a little QTR and a wedge rail thing since being inspires by you guys! Thanks for teaching about the crete! 🛹

Sick build Zack! Looks like so much fun! Thanks for showing the build process!

Hey Zack I'm from San juan Puerto Eico, just coming through to say you've inspired me to build a skate spot at a closed-end elementary school in my community The bankrupt state of our government means that more than 40% of public schools on the island have been closed down in the last 4 years. So I'm gonna be bringing life to a now dying community with your videos, hope you're doing good and keep grinding brother!

seem like a super chill guy with some good vibes. love the videos bro keep it up!

These videos are dope never stop making them. I casted my first concrete slappy curb and I wanna start making spots around my city. Your vids always make me wanna go build something.

I love your content Zack, production quality, entertainment, and educational. Keep killing it!

Dope! This helps me as I'm planning something similar. Two bits of advice- back when I used to work on a foundation crew, we would spray our forms down with diesel fuel before filling with concrete... not the most environment-conscious method probly, but it works well to get the forms off clean and easy. Also, if you screw a length of 2x4 to the outsides of the transition pieces, you can run the back boards longer and get a better connection by screwing them into the 2x4s rather than trying to get into that OSB. It'll hold up a lot better and last longer. Destroy!

Such great quality, such great ramps. LOVE IT BRO

I mean.....how cool is that?!?!?! Subbed immediatly!

Another Killer Video Brother! Skate and Create! 👊🍻🤘

Zack you are killing it. Greetings from China! I design, build skateparks, and also film, take photos of skateboarding. Love your content, the color, the storytelling, the transitions, feel so gooooood. Keep posting man!

My homie is planning on turning his back yard into a little diy skate park this video will help a lot mostly since we love kickers man love the vid keep em up🔥🔥

You should show us what your day looks like. Basically a vlog. Great videos man.

Another sick vid keep posting man!

Hilarious! I drive by that DIY Zack was taking measurements on all the time. I feel justified to hear it actually was an actual DIY spot because it always looked like one but no one really skates it during the day!

Friggin rights bro! Love all the DIY stuff poppin up all over the country. One quick tip for a wood concrete form if you want to reuse it a bunch...give it a drink of oil, can be any type of oil really. To keep it somewhat “environmental” you can use canola oil or linseed or olive. Will keep that wood fresh and keeps concrete from sticking to it.

A plastic sheet to cover the crete will keep water that will evaporate from the surface at the surface and fully react with the crete surface and make the surface stronger. Sorta like a simplified version of water curing. Good work man 👊🏻

Love your videos man👍👍

You've inspired me to start building a few more diy spots around Vancouver, BC (even though your "2ft transition over 1ft vs 5ft transition over 2ft" talk was waaaaay over my head) 😂 The way your brain works is amazing and you deserve way more subs. Thanks for motivating me to skate harder and put the work in!! 💯🛹🤟

Nice dude. Those little things should be everywhere, it would make skating around town more fun! 😅

really nice video, congrats! just one question, about the transition: you say you are making the ray of the curve at about 8 feet. But that lumber you use there looks 6 feet max. am i wrong?

Living it up

I haven't skated a kicker in about 28 years now. That looks so much fun.

If you put hinges on the wood you not only can fold it but you can make it into a bowl or island.

damn you and shuriken went ham!!

Now I need to build one too, but its gonna be a long wait over winter. Also the right place is a problem here...

zing and scoop, the perfect formula

Enjoy the vids man

Been lovin your channel dude. Started a DIY here in the UK mainly wooden stuff but you have inspired me to start concrete. How many bags did you use for this kicker?

That’s awesome thank you for the tutorial

Hey you at that diy spot that you made that lancher can you make like a mine euro on the Manny pad that will be so sick hope you'll do it and see this

hey Zack, I really enjoy your videos and the music in your videos as well. Do you have a open spotify playlist or something? Thanks man

ifind for transition i can use my arm if it’s on a tiny kicker or a tape measurer so i can know how big of a transition i’m giving it and self correct any problems when cutting

Good stuff man! 👍Looking to DIY some rails and ramps to skate with my 14yo homie son. 😎

ayyy is that the diy behind that 7-11 near the trolley station?

I skated the spot

yo bro how long do you finish it before you just let it dry

hmm could make something of that size at home, then haul it to a spot somehow? lol or would it be way too heavy...? I want to put something like that in a semi-high foot traffic spot that people skate. pretty urban so I don't think ill be setting up all the buckets and what not too easily lol

What is the Title of that last song? Stop and Obey? Great music for this vid

Soo sick💯

You said your friend Shuriken, but is that Shuriken Shannon?!? 🤯 If so that's super sick I can't recall what I first saw him in but I always thought he was sick when I was younger and heavier into skating! Also great video. Would love to see you build a ledge spot if that's possible! 🙂

Sick video btw

Sick

you're like the Bob Ross of diy spots

For good spot searching. Go for bike rides. Ride your bike around searching for spots and to and from spots except when a car is just smarter. Always go new directions. Look for spots where nose from skating isn't gonna bother people and check out the area at different times. If you search hard enough you can find secluded spots to build parks in alot of cases. Concrete plus a rain catcher set up. Some random metal for coping. Smooth out the concrete a bunch. Pretty easy to get a spot going. The best spots I've always noticed require alot of people putting effort in. IMHO it's best for skaters and bikers to work together on shit like this cause you can get shit done so fast and get more done. Might do this under a bridge in my city. Bare skaters and bike riders and just build a free skate park. Has rain coverage. Won't be perfect but huge area that's unused. Like could build a 20 foot wide vert ramp that's 15 feet tall and still have room for a bowl a street plaza and some random other shit. Obviously won't go that wild but might be able to push the city to fund something built there via volunteers and some hired construction people. Cinderblocks and concrete plus some plywood for pouring like you did. Gonna make a 4 foot quarter a bank to bank with an a frame rail another quarter maybe a fun box and deffs a couple ledges. See what else peeps wanna put in. Help with it.

Please post more offten! things like this !!!

I built a kicker ramp out of wood with the sickest transition to launch you up super high without being too steep

What's the white stuff?

Isn't that where Shuriken built that up ledge with Rhino? Did that get dozed?

Now you just need an artist

Little tip. Before u finish the concrete with the trowel, hit the forms lightly with a hammer to let the concrete fall into place. It’ll last longer without cracking

I have a super cool diy that’s in the woods on a abandoned concrete pad and it’s super secret because a trail it goes under a bridge that’s on a road and there is a river next to it and it’s just super cool

You should put some sort of coping on it Someone's gonna fall backwards and split their head on that edge

I want to build a diy so bad Im definitely going to use this.

Drop that milk crate and invest in a saw horse my man! 😅 Either way amazing content!!!

yes sir

I’ve been wanting to make one in Scripps Ranch but there’s not many places and there’s always the fear of it getting torn down the next day. Thank you Karens! There is Cara Way off Mercy Rd, great location for a DIY if you’re looking!

that red & black shirt is sick, who makes it?

bob ross of building skate obstacles

You have profession after you finish having fun with skate In germany are well payed construction workers

Sounds like someone is typing Morse code in the background lmao

Where do you live? I want a low key little house like that

😍😍

Should DIY more skate stuff at your house. Make a mini Pandemic skate park.

I’m thinking of building a diy. Just need to find a spot.

Get Ready for the Launch...........

Stuff a pvc pipe in the top and you got a pretty cheap coping

Zack Dowdy: "Get the 90lb bags, it'll save you money." Also Dowdy: "Don't get the 90lb bags."

I wanna build one.

From about 6:05 there's about 20 seconds of your voice audio missing.

I live like 10 mins for my there

Really cool. Maybe get yourself a mask for the concrete. I'm only 42 but my lungs & ears are fucked from years of construction work without proper protection. Love your videos. Not only is the content cool but they look great too.

Hey Zach, I got a dope spot here in Lakeside. It in a gutter or canal or whatever you want to call it. It is behind a bunch of houses, and skate mafia skates every once in a while. If you want the address or something, let me know and I will happily give it. Maybe we can skate it.

Zing 1:04

Did anybody else grow up on Charlie Brown?😂😂😂😂

YES CONCRETE DONT STICK TO WOOD

Pretty sure this was filmed a while back and that Zack knows better but I gotta say it for the kiddos.... you gotta mask up for mixin and breaking up crete, ya don’t wanna make ready mix in you lungs!! Concrete dust is super super bad for you.

10:19 better not lift heavy stuff this way

That's not an 8 foot transition, think about it, it would be an 8 foot board from screw to pen.🤔

You should really add coping and smooth edges , injuries can be prevented lol

Entertaining, but you ramble on into way too much uneccesary detail.