Dallas, TX: Public skateparks rely on community support to grow [Video]

The Lakeland Hills Skatepark may not look like much to most Dallasites. But to Brooks Harrison, 13, and his brother Breck, 16, it’s the place where their love of skateboarding began.

The metal surface-mount equipment that makes up the 2007-established park is rusted and hot to the touch from its constant exposure to triple-degree summer heat. The brothers take time to make sure the equipment is usable for skating before they even test their boards on it. Their years of skating experience means they know how to take a fall on concrete or metal with ease, but it’s still better to be safe than sorry.

“The experience you get from landing a trick after you try it like a thousand times and fall and hurt yourself — being able to get back up and do it again and land it — there’s nothing …