Welcome to the Windy City Slam in Chicago, where your first skating competition takes place. It's a pretty cramped area with a half pipe, a pool and some ramps and rails, but true pro skaters can make even the smallest places work in their favor.
Strategy
The half pipe is the best asset in this level, regardless of your skater's stats. Skate forward into a ramp that's adjacent to the half pipe and transfer from one into the other. Remember to nollie or fastplant when you launch off the pipe to add another trick to your multiplier. By now, you should have your special moves memorized, so perform at least one for a good amount of points. If you sustain a special grind for a long time or add a nollie to a signature grab or flip, then you'll reassuringly win.
As for street staking, there's not a lot to grind, but the pool's edge is long enough to gain a lot of points for grinding as long as you sustain your balance. Be careful when using the pool to do air combos though as it's easy to forget which way you're supposed to land thanks to its U-shape. The two high rails between two ramps are also a good spot for grinds and flip tricks.
Gaps
- Acid Drop: At the far side of the room, there's a walkway that rests behind the pool and half pipe. Get on the walkway and ollie over the half pipe to the quarter pipe behind it.
- HP Transfer: There is a small ramp right by the half pipe. Launch from that to the half pipe for this gap.
- Light Grind: Below the rafters are lights that you can grind. Be careful when landing on the half pipe at the wrong angle.
- Over the Box: Jump over the entire funbox that's to the left of your starting point. Use the ramps to give you enough speed for this transfer.
- Over the Pipe: Jump over the entire half pipe. You can do this by launching off the quarter pipe in front of it, but it takes a well-timed ollie and full stats.
- Over the Rafters: Above the half pipe, near the ceiling, there are some metal rafters. When you launch forward from the quarter pipe that's against the half pipe, make sure to have lots of air to fly over the rafter.
- Pipe 2 Box Grind: Ollie from the half pipe to the rail that sits on the large funbox. This takes an incredible amount of precision.
- Pool 2 Rails: Fly from the pool to the double rails, landing in a grind.
- Pool 2 Walkway: While in the pool, ollie forward to that walkway.
Launching over the Pool Hip. - Pool Hip: Inside the pool, launch over from one end of the U-shape to the other. Be careful not to hit the pillar.
- Rafter Grind: When you launch to the rafters above, perform a grind on them.
- Transfer: Ollie from the ramp against the half pipe into the half pipe itself or vice versa.
- Walkway Rail Transfer: Behind your starting position is a high walkway. Go past the double rails toward a quarter pipe and launch to the right, angling yourself to land. While on the walkway, leap from it to a grind on the double rails.
- Wall Gap At the starting position, you should see a small funbox with a wall that has two heights. Jump over the high part of the wall.
- Whoop Gap: At the area with two rails with two platforms at each end, jump from one platform to the other.
- Map of Skate Park
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