I mainly skate bowls and ramps around Melbourne, but I have lived in Wollongong, Townsville and Cairns (and I am going to these places this week!!!)
Skate spots:
Cairns is probably the biggest park in Australia, there are a couple of other older parks in the area too. Try Kuranda if you ever go there. Five Dock in Sydney, or Bondi, Manly, Parramatta, Glenbrook, Lawson in the Blue Mountains are good too. Frankston near Melbourne is huge, so is Prahran if you skate vert, Ring of fire for a perfect indoor bowl and interesting street course. City park or West Beach or Seaford in Adelaide, Elizabeth in Port Adelaide, Leederville, Claremont or Subiaco or Vic Park in Perth are my recommendations. Also good spots in Darwin and Alice Springs. Don't forget your board when you come to Australia!!
Really looking forward to skating with some of you in Hatsukaichi someday soon. I have been skating for 20 years and we all raced BMX before that. I started skating a metal quarter pipe in the carpark at school, then took it to bowls and halfpipes around Melbourne, I have been searching Australia, Japan and the UK for good skate parks ever since. Can't wait to go back to Japan there is so much good stuff to ride that was never there before.
I think the Hatsukaichi park looks raw. So does Koga in Fukuoka and Ichigohata in Mie and NEC in Akita. Also wanna skate in Gumma, especially the ANNAKA death bowl.
I used to skate around Nagoya, well mostly at Holiday GR in Okkawa near Handa, there was a great halfpipe and mini opposite the shop. I think its gone now.
Also skated Mount Park in Tsukuba and Shirahata park, near Doho park and the nishi oodori. I worked the bar at Red River around the corner for a while.
Effort and Chiba Parco, Komazawa and Setagaya parks were kinda local for a while and so was Amazing Square near the Adachi ku postoffice (Sekiya/Ushida Station a few stops away from Kita Senju). Had some great times at Shonan spine ramp and with the street dogs in the area too.
Also used to ride a horse for about ten years, so high speed falls have always seemed normal. Never broken a bone skating, but I have huge lumps on my elbows and I dislocated my AC joint in a MTX accident. Did break my wrist in a bareback horseriding race when I was 12 and smashed some teeth out skiing, probably the same year!!