I guess I'll be that prick

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WesleySnipes

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Learn Park flow and etiquette!!!!!!
I know its been addressed in other threads but its getting out of hand. And it blew my mind to see kids (10 ish) with Park city Freeride DNA jackets (axis or PC FREE kids?) doing it to boot, I don't know if your coaches were there or not but it completely blows my mind that many serious riders have no idea about park etiquette, having coached kids before myself it really isn't that hard to teach them park etiquette. I saw a kid plow into a group of ten kids because you were standing in the landing of the flat down box at PC. I'm not trying to be a prick 23 year old picking on a bunch of 15 year olds. but here are a few rules to remember so you don't get hurt, and I don't get hurt landing on yo. Jebus knows I can hurt myself well enough just riding without colliding with 20 grommets.
1. Don't hike flow parks (parks with back to back features, particularly when there isn't room to stand in between them), and unless your buddy is hurt and in the landing don't stop unless you are completely to the side of the run. particularly if there is a jump right behind you even if you aren't on the "landing of the jump" physics dictates a rider will be hauling ass even into the flats. Mr. Cooper at PC has been rad enough to build a whole rail park just for you kids to hike. added in bonus if you don't have to hockey stop to avoid hitting a million kids in a landing it doesn't get icey nearly as fast.
2. when you are hiking a feature remember uphill traffic always has the right of way, don't believe me read any ski area map in the country. they didn't put chairlifts in just to get you up where you could hike. if you want to hike great, rad, more power to you. just don't stand in the flow of the park and get pissed at people who decided to get their money's worth out of their passes. Look up the hill before you drop.
3. standing 4 feet to the side of a take off or landing of a rail is not far enough, I would honestly feel horrible if I spun onto a rail and my pole went into your eye socket and killed you. or even just maimed your face. If you're close enough to touch someone's extended pole with your pole you are too close too the rail and your ass is grass if they fall off. its really not that hard to stay next to the ropes in a single file line when you're hiking up and watching your buddies. everyone is hoarding together like a pack of colorful rats.
3. Last but not least call your drop and if you don't know the person in front of you give them enough room ahead of you that if they fall on the jump or rail, you aren't already in the air, I honestly saw 10 people train right after each other all doing rodeos landing basically blind. All while two people were in the landing after colliding because one kid was dumb enough to just stand on landing halfway down on jump one. everyone was damn lucky no one got seriously hurt.

Really all it comes down to use your brain, I'm stoked to see so many people stoked enough on park skiing to truly session it, but getting hurt because you are too lazy to move out of the way is idiocy. and someone getting hurt because they hit you for being somewhere you shouldn't even be is just being a prick on your part. Everyone have fun, and most of all ride safe and smart!
 
This. Im on Axis and the coaches keep track of us alot, its just the little shits that think they are badass that get in everyones way.
 
I agree. Kids will stand so close to that first down rail after the 3rd jump that you cant really hit it without hitting them. Kind of frustrating. However, in todays case with the wind, snow, and light bad by the end of the day. I can understand why kids decided to hike some of those rails instead of lapping the park. It was a weekend though, and with only one main park open this kind of stuff your talking about is bound to happen.

Another frustrating thing is people packing onto the knuckles of the jumps, especially the third. Usually this isn't that big of a deal, but with so many of them standing on the knuckle, it makes the jump a little sketchy. Even more so when they choose to go down the knuckle about midway through your trick.
 
It's not ass to post this. It's not even ass to tell people to move when they are doing dumb shit in the park. It's for everybody's good, not just yours or theirs. +1
 
i couldnt of said it any better! im not a great park skier but it always sucks when there is a inconsiderate fuck on the back side of landings
 
Today i was standing on the top of the park before the jumps. There were a decent amount of people standing there, and a snowboard joey sitting halfway down the inrun. Some girl boarder hauled ass and jumped the mound and nailed the dude with her board in his back. If it would of hit him in the head he probably would have died. She tomahalked and walked away but i think she was concussed. The other dude seemed to be ok, but still. People have no respect in the park.
 
well said. the worst is when you are imagining yourself stomping a new trick, wait your turn, let all the snakes drop before you, and right at the lip of your take off you see the same fool that you politely let go before you, sitting on the back side of the knuckle.
 
I'm blown away by where kids stand in Pick. That shelf with the down rail before the jumps is OK to stand on... not the actual lip. There were legitimately 4 kids within a ski length of the rail on either side of the rail.
 
Agreed, that was so annoying today. I also got the wonderful surprise of landing on snowboarder today. The prick noob went down to try the jumps at seriously 3mph. Five minutes later I drop in. I pop off the last jump and look who's just chillin there in the landing, the stupid kid of course.
 
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