Future park features

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[walter]

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What kinds of things are going to be apart of the future park secne, what are some ideas or cool features that shoud be apart of future park ?
 
More creative features. Right now is sort of a testing ground for using some wild features. In the next few years more of those will become standard. At any point down the road things can start to change though as trends change.

I would say elbow kinks but at this point their pretty popular. The trend now is more skatepark style setups with creative lines packed with features. Closeouts, Stair landers, butter box take offs on rails, things like that will keep getting bigger.

It's not about just having the right rails and boxes anymore, it's how you set them up.(not that setup never mattered)

Already started to see the small features die. You don't see the 8' flat rails, 10' flat downs any more other than grom parks. 30' is an excepted length for a down rail now.

I def hope wood parks keep showing up places. If those die out I'd be sad. Def think they're good to go for at least a few years though.
 
the return of the okemo TRUTH rail.

the return of junk car jibs

construction themed shit; backhoes excavators, bucketloaders

death pits, like the ones you make when building dirtjumps to keep people from trying them

pump tracks and rhythm sections
 
hahaha, I do that all the time after seshing a jump I made in the pow, so that gapers don't go on it and break the lip or something
 
Because some people like to hit them?

I mean why would you put log rails out? metal rails slide smoother.

Variety is the spice of life.
 
The Boreal Park has been really fun this year. Definitely innovative. We haven't had any snow in Tahoe almost all year, but they've constantly improved their features and kept it fun. I dig the skatepark feel.

 
A lot more features that imitate urban set-ups. Jumps will stay more or less the same, but get a bit bigger for the next few years. The gaps to rails will get bigger, and look for a lot of butterbox features for the next few seasons. They seem to be the trend right now, especially in combination with wallrides. This brings me to the next point: wallrides. They can be set up in so many creative ways and they allow athletes to truly impress by getting height. That's what Todd Walnuts did when he took X gold and I'm pretty sure that's what Schlopy was trying to do during qualifiers. If you don't quit make it to the top you can still safely slide down the actual wall, instead of knocking yourself senseless as you would when missing a rail of that size. More transfers and creative lines in the rail sections.
 
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Parks built with more of a vertical dimension. Features that build on one another, stepping up, lots of options for transitions, ultimately capped by step downs and/or down, kink rails over stair sets.

Parks that used to push sketchy mini pipes or even 22ft. superpipes will build concrete skatepark style parks. Lots of tube rail "coping", spines, rhythm sections with butter pads and options to gap tranny to tranny.

Public parks seem to follow comp course trends, like the cannon rail/box explosion. We've seen a lot of banked (all different angles from nearly flat, butterbox to vertical wallrides) wallride/boxes. We'll start seeing a lot more of those kind of step on, step off, tappy jibberones.

more ollie on features and rails, lips getting smaller.

 
battleship rails and rainbow rails

just kidding. I was actually thinking yesterday how battleships are pretty much obsolete
 
Oh god, having maintained pump tracks would be so tight. It sucks to be going through a smooth side pump track only to have your flow killed by an extremely kicky triangle sticking out of the ground. Or to hit someone going really slow because the track is so narrow
 
More permanent/semi permanent street style features. Things like the streets.

More shipping containers not getting used for shipping.
 
Maintaining them would be so hard, especially on the ice coast. They would be solid sheets of ice because you can't groom them.
 
Exactly. There's a reason they pop up late season when the snow is soft/ Especially closing weekends when it doesn't matter.

Can you imagine trying to maintain one on the east all winter with a season like this? Warm, stupidly cold, warm and rain stupidly cold, cold and rain, stupidly cold.

Who's got them hockey skates
 
on the last rail/ box in the park you actually slide into a teleporter that brings you to the top of the park, no more lifts, totally possible.
 
I think it'd be cool to see a park covering a whole mountain. Still have a park area with a bunch of features but just throw some rails to the side of groomed runs and throw in little booters in the trees and set up tree jibs and stuff. Just an idea
 
In America at least that sounds like a huge liability. I guess it depends on the spot and how cool the insurance is.

Even mount snow with carinthia has it contained in one area with the smartstyle signs at the base of the lifts and top of the runs.
 
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