About Us
We make it simple for you to Build and Skate Your Happy Place!
Established in 2013, WA Skate Ramps is a skater-owned and operated business committed to producing high-quality, super fun skate ramps and obstacles across Australia. Whether you need an easy-to-assemble flat pack kicker, skate ledge, quarter pipe for your driveway, a mini ramp for the garage or man cave, your dream backyard half pipe, a complete custom-built skate bowl, private skate & BMX park, or skate training facility, we've got what you need to get rolling!
WA Skate Ramps owner and founder, Jono Koch, grew up in the southern suburbs of Perth, developing a love for surfing and skating at a young age.
“Growing up in the '90s, skateboarders were generally seen as a nuisance. There definitely weren't public skateparks around every corner like there are these days. Instead, we’d skate anything and everything, from local schools or shopping center car parks, to bombing hills and sessioning just about any random gap or waxed-up curb we could find, along with a heap of sketchy homemade ramps and rails we’d build from whatever we could get our grubby little hands on. Now, as a ‘big kid with a business,’we pretty much make what we only ever dreamed of skating as kids.”
After completing his cabinet maker / furniture maker apprenticeship, Jono started his first business at age 20, specializing in the design, manufacturing, and installation of custom cabinetry, including high-end kitchens and bespoke solid timber furniture, while pursuing his other passion - writing music and playing as a guitarist in bands, performing shows in and around Perth and WA.
Skip forward eight years to 2013, after a few cold ones with a longtime friend, ‘one silly conversation’ led him to start building and installing several one-off skate ramps for local clients throughout Perth. Quickly noticing a demand for quality ramps from skaters outside of Western Australia, Jono decided to go all in and began focusing all his efforts and expertise on developing a range of mini ramps and quarter pipes in the form of flat-packed ramp kits, which could be shipped and easily assembled by his customers throughout Australia.
Jono strongly believes in doing whatever is possible to support skateboarding, from supplying ramps to local youth groups, community organizations, and local councils, as well as various rural and remote communities, & supporting events promoting skateboarding. WA Skate Ramps has also been a committed sponsor, long-term partner, and supporter of Skateboarding WA and involvement with Surfing Western Australia events.
"Skateboarding can teach us all so many valuable life lessons: effort, patience, persistence, determination, accepting failure, hard work, consistency, individuality... Geez, I could go on and on, but basically, it's simple—skateboarding is fun, and having fun makes people happy. In my opinion, happy people are better people, and more better people make a better world for us all."
