“Professional skateboarder Frank Hirata takes a jump off a five-step flight of stairs at South Whidbey High School Wednesday night, demonstrating one of the moves local boarders will be able to practice when a planned skate park is completed at the South Whidbey Community Park.Matt Johnson / staff photoWith Magic Markers in hand and a promised $135,000 backing up their ideas, about 20 South Whidbey skateboarders and freestyle cyclists designed the skate parks of their dreams this week.Inspired after watching professional skateboard hero Frank Hirata make three seemingly-impossible leaps off a flight of outdoor stairs at South Whidbey High School Wednesday, the mostly teen-aged group joined adult skate park boosters in the school’s commons area to begin designing what they want in a promised South Whidbey skate park. Making that promise is the South Whidbey Rotary Club, which plans to raise $135,000 to build a skate park in the South Whidbey Community Park. Having already placed $15,000 of its own money in the kitty, the club brought skaters and representatives from the California skate park design firm Purkiss-Rose-RSI together for the Wednesday meeting to begin designing the park.Purkiss-Rose has designed skate parks all over the world, including parks in Everett and Auburn. Speaking to the skaters, South Whidbey parks officials, parents, and Rotary Club members, Purkiss-Rose landscape architect Dominic Oyzon said the South Whidbey park will be unique in that it will be the smallest park his firm has designed to accommodate both skaters and freestyle bicyclists.Measuring out at 10,000 square feet, the concrete park is expected to occupy a space currently filled by a sand volleyball play area. Oyzon asked the skaters and bicyclists at the meeting to help his firm get a start on the park design by drawing their own dream parks, including everything from poured concrete forms to steel, plastic and fiberglass forms.In spite of the size and use limitations, Hirata, who also works for Purkiss-Rose, told the group of young daredevils to draw with abandon.Have an open mind, he said. You don’t have to have a typical skate park.Gathered around huge sheets of paper with red, felt-tipped markers, the skaters and cyclists drew out their ideas in groups. William Riley, one of the youngest skaters at the meeting, had definite ideas for his park design.I want some jumps and a snake run, he said.Josh Thomas, another skater, said street elements like stairs, railings, benches, and fun boxes are almost mandatory for a skate park. Thomas and the other skaters received no argument from the freestyle cyclists at the meeting, who are accustomed to riding skate elements at multi-use skate parks. Dave Gardiner, a 25-year veteran cyclist, drew hips, bowls, and steeply-sloped jumping walls into his design, all of which drew approving nods from Hirata, who helped him with the design. Gardiner said cyclists and skaters have long known how to get along, whether during this design meeting or while making runs through skate parks.You just take turns, he said.The best-prepared skater at the meeting was 11-year-old Mike Paulik, who built a three-dimensional clay and cardboard model of his dream park. His mother, Kim Paulik, said both Mike and his younger brother can hardly wait for the park to be built.It’s nice that they’re considering doing something for the kids, she said.In all, the group produced six separate designs, which Oyzon and Hirata will take back their Fullerton, Calif. firm to use as a basis for producing two design drafts. They will bring those drafts back to South Whidbey sometime in the coming months to be displayed during another public meeting.Jack Hoover, the Rotarian in charge of fundraising for the skate park project, said his group will be starting a community-wide fundraiser for the park soon. In addition to the $15,000 the club has promised from its members, Rotary is also relying on an expected $50,000 state recreation grant the South Whidey Parks and Recreation District is trying to win. Jerry Cole, director of the district, said that outside of that grant the district does not expect to be contributing to the construction of the skate park. Rotary’s contribution is expected to pay for the park’s design costs. “