Yeah, we tried sneaking into pools, but really all the pools I know of had squared off angular corners...no smooth transitions. Sucked for bikes and boards. We built a few ramps, but mostly just rode street and dirt jumps. I spent most of my youth in a very rural part of the midwest...in order to get anywhere worth riding, you had to go by bike. I used to ride 7-10 miles to get places to ride and even then the riding places were spread out over miles, separated often by gravel roads. No way was I going to skate that distance. After we turned 16 and could drive a lot of my friends started skating, but I just stuck with bikes.