He's done the reality TV thing, and now Rob Dyrdek wants to help other people get into what made him famous in the first place: skateboarding.

Rob Dyrdek knows what it's like to suffer for your sport. Dyrdek, 29, a professional street skateboarder, has been cuffed and ticketed, arrested more times than he can remember, stripped down and put in jail. "I make six figures a year and I have to run from the cops when I'm trying to do my job," he says. We're talking about skateboarding, right?

Pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek has spent most of his life at war with city architects. They'd design public parks perfect for skating, he'd get arrested for skating there. They'd install steel knobs to keep skaters away; he'd show up in the middle of the night with a generator and cut the knobs off with a grinder. "It's the most misunderstood sport there is," says Dyrdek.

Kettering, Ohio was the center of the skateboarding universe Saturday afternoon as skaters, country-wide, flocked to the opening of "The World's First Skate Plaza," the creation of Kettering native and DC Shoe sponsored star, Rob Dyrdek. The new landmark immediately finds itself in the company of famous skate spots such as, San Francisco's Embarcadero and Philadelphia's Love Park.

The first ever skate plaza opened today with the Hammers vs. Bangers Contest. Pros came from all over to check out the perfectly built Rob Dyrdek/DC Shoes Skate Plaza located in Kettering, Ohio. Robby D. himself did a great job with the design and layout of his Skate Plaza. Plenty of coverage of this place will be out very soon. The Contest was basically a Best Trick contest on three separate obstacles. The first obstacle was a seven-stair square rail, the second was a ledge, and the third was the big 12- rail/stairs. The pros and top ams that came out to compete were Eric Koston, Ryan Sheckler, Stefan Janoski, Darrell Stanton, Caine Gayle, Terell Robinson, Greg Lutzka, Paul Rodriguez, Alex Klein, Evan Hernandez, Josh Kalis, Joey Brezinski, Chris Cole, and Tommy Sandoval.

Anticipation has been building for the first Skate Plaza ever since Rob Dyrdek conceived it. And I gotta say, he delivered on all levels. It's incredible. It's one of the best skate spots ever built, hands down. It's grounds is smooth, the legends and rails are perfect height, and the flow and trees have been planted that will provide much needed shade in years to come.