International Inline Complex
In the 1980s, Brad Brandner started the Laser Skate Company in Couderay, housed in the former Elementary School building. Laser Skate designed and manufactured inline skates in response to the increasingly popular sport.
Brad also dreamed of creating an outdoor parabolic track where skaters could train, and began to do so from 1986 to 1990. After Brad passed away in 1995, the track and its facilities fell into disrepair.
In 2009, activity at the skate track was renewed, as Stacy Akana, a speedskating coach and father to a team of award-winning skaters, purchased and reopened the track, with plans to offer training to skaters from across the U.S. and around the world.
The complex features a 200-meter parabolic banked track, and a 500-meter road course with a 100 meter infield right-hand turn. RV hookups and camp grounds are also being added. Akana says that he would like to make Couderay and the International Inline Complex "household words," and I hope he succeeds.
I'll try to update this site with more information, as progress continues at the track!
Skaters race by as training begins again at the International Inline Complex in July 2010.
The track and its facilities have been repaired and now host groups of skaters for training and qualifying events.
Brad Brandner, photographed during construction of the original track.
The Laser Skate Company operated for years out of the former Couderay Elementary School building.