My entire life I have always skied the glades and moguls. But when I moved and met more friends that ski, I realized that they do a lot of park skiing. I don't ski a ton and I don't really know how to do any tricks, but I know that if I can ski more I can learn more. I want to make a backyard ski park for next winter, but have no idea what to do. I don't have a ton of space, but I can cut trees and make drop ins. How do I make good jumps and boxes and rails? I've heard things about salt, but I don't know what it means. I know what not to do, as another kid in my school ruptured his kidney falling on a stump in his backyard. Could I please have some help on design ideas and how to build the park?
How do I make a backyard (winter) terrain park
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AveragePete
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How to make a rail -
Considering your just getting into tricks you could make the rail bases thicker and lower to the ground. You also might want to build multiple pvc pieces side by side so you would have to balance less or use some other flat surface as a box. once you build a ramp or drop in (out of snow) you pour hot water or salt on it to keep it from falling apart. Hope this helped a bit
Considering your just getting into tricks you could make the rail bases thicker and lower to the ground. You also might want to build multiple pvc pieces side by side so you would have to balance less or use some other flat surface as a box. once you build a ramp or drop in (out of snow) you pour hot water or salt on it to keep it from falling apart. Hope this helped a bit
willjohnson25
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Here is the rail i made a couple years ago, super easy to build and good to learn on. I would recommend making a rail that is a bit longer than mine.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/1453/Build-A-Jib-101
A whole forum dedicated to these things. Not so active anymore but you can find a bunch of information. You can also learn from what people did that worked, and what failed. Could save you some hassle.
As far as your post there are a lot of factors. Space, do you have a hill, budget, etc.
If you don't have a hill youre going to need to build a drop in. Lots of pictures and plans in that cult i linked.
If its strictly for winter use the drop in can be smaller and you dont need to buikd an inrun and jump.
Pvc rails are super easy to build. There are several tutorial threads in build a jib.
As far as a jump, if you dont have a hill its just not going to work. Unless you buikd a drop in ramp off your roof or something.
Salt is only helpful with wet snow. When its warm and the snow is wet you throw salt on it and it will freeze fairly solid. Great if you're setting up a street spot or backyard rail in the off season. Instead of having to keep throwing snow on tbe in run and rebuilding the takeoff, the salt will keep it solid. Also very helpful for keeping speed which is the main issue in backyard park action.
A whole forum dedicated to these things. Not so active anymore but you can find a bunch of information. You can also learn from what people did that worked, and what failed. Could save you some hassle.
As far as your post there are a lot of factors. Space, do you have a hill, budget, etc.
If you don't have a hill youre going to need to build a drop in. Lots of pictures and plans in that cult i linked.
If its strictly for winter use the drop in can be smaller and you dont need to buikd an inrun and jump.
Pvc rails are super easy to build. There are several tutorial threads in build a jib.
As far as a jump, if you dont have a hill its just not going to work. Unless you buikd a drop in ramp off your roof or something.
Salt is only helpful with wet snow. When its warm and the snow is wet you throw salt on it and it will freeze fairly solid. Great if you're setting up a street spot or backyard rail in the off season. Instead of having to keep throwing snow on tbe in run and rebuilding the takeoff, the salt will keep it solid. Also very helpful for keeping speed which is the main issue in backyard park action.
cinnabonconn
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just make a drop in with enough speed (it will probably feel like too much speed since you dont ski a ton). Mine is 7 ft with like 9-10 ft drop in so pretty steep. rails- just get some would drill some pvc into it and make it stable. it can be sketch and it probably will be, so dont worry about that. make it how you want, every yard is completely different.