Keystone park crew is not killing it

Yes unbelievably ungrateful. Its a public mountain, they could have chosen to stay at Laxx like some of them said until today. They are lucky that keystone had these jumps in the first place.
 
Considering that about 80% of the European/overseas pros have to pay their own way to get to CO, I would be pretty pissed too.
 
Except everyone is not on equal footing. What about those who live in summit county and got to session those XL jumps for the last week? What about the euro kids who are training at LAAX? It only fucks over people who came down a week early to train for the FIS World Cup / Gran Prix actually.

In my mind, Keystone should realize that they have top level athletes and olympians that have come to train before a major event and they should keep the jumps open until the Copper mt. training begins . Of course they don't HAVE to open those jumps, it would just be the cool thing to do...
 
I have heard that the recent extremely cold weather caused the water sources for snowmaking to freeze, making building/maintaining the larger jumps hard to do.
 
so many people were saying the other day that freeskiing is all about not giving a fuck and doing what you want and disregarding being disrespectful, and now we we want freeskiers to be respectful? seems like people here will back Tanner being a douche but if a comp skier speaks his mind, he is called a whiny bitch. If something got in the way of Tanner's goals, he would kick and scream like a little girl
 
different strokes for different folks. Some people like to go out with friends casually cruising groomers and others like to hit big jumps and learn the hardest tricks possible for competitions. Who's to say any one is better than another.
 
People have never heard of a park rebuild? Some people seriously expect that 110% of the time the park will be there and open for them to ski? Do some people legitimately not understand how much work goes into building a park, and especially how hard the guys at keystone work to keep that park as one of the smoothest in the US?

smh
 
You guys are unbelievable. Its not a matter of entitlement or arrogance its a matter of getting ready for the fucking Olympics. If you had flown thousands of miles and spent an equal amount of money to hit 2 of the only decent sized jumps in the WORLD you'd be upset too. These guys are preparing for quite possibly the biggest event of their lives and to just undercut all of the hard work and effort they've done over the last few years and call them whiney bitches is so asinine.

The level of stupidity in this thread just hurts. Just take 2 seconds and try to imagine what it must be like attempting to qualify for the Olympics to represent your country. There is not a single person on this site who can relate to that kind of hard work and effort. If you'd flown half way across the world to specifically hit 2 features and then to have them taken away last minute, you'd be upset too.
 
This, they probably have a reason for fixing the jumps. Unfortunately it's bad timing, but it's not like Keystones doing it purposely to deny people the right to ski big jumps. Be thankful that these guys are actually putting in work to maintain these jumps.

On the other hand, I really dislike how people choose to refer to skiing as training. I guess that's what it basically is, however it makes it sound really boring. Even though I understand that you need to practice a lot for comp skiing this whole "training" attitude kind of disgusts me, I wish people would focus more on portraying their training as having fun. Look at Henrik for example, you never see him talking about training. Hes always having fun, while pretty much maintaining a permanent spot on the podium. More skiiers need to get on this attitude!

/rant
 
yeah shit doesnt happen overnight. this isn't a "fuck competition skiers" thing. im just amused that they cant seem to figure out that jump lines take a few days to build.
 
wow its almost as if skiing is a weather-dependent sport or something!

damn pros these days
 
im sure everyone understands their frustration, thats not where the apparent sense of entitlement is stemming from. pro skiers, out of everyone, should understand the concepts of intangible weather and park maintenance. Im not trying to detract from the fact that its a very shitty situation for these skiers and they are obviously under a huge amount of pressure, but i still think they should all be able to understand the idea that weather is unpredictable and that jumps especially need to be maintained so that theyre safe.

now, i dont know 100% what is going on with the situation here and I havent read every post in this thread. so if the jumps are closed unnecessarily or something lik that, that I missed, that changes things and I can see why theyd be pissed. but mostly I think theyve been plagued by bad luck and not an incompetent park staff. its early in the season, so everyone knows that parks are not completely perfect yet
 
The pro line jumps usually aren't even open yet at this time this year. People are lucky they even built those first before the mid line...
 
For real, the jumps Breck had up before the Dew Tour course were meh. Those two were money, and they were lucky to train on them at all this early into the season.
 
"its a matter of getting ready for the fucking Olympics"

well theres your problem... not everyone gives a fuck about how important olympics are.

football field is closed for pesticide spray.
 
Actually a public display is the best way on getting a companies attention. Could the athletes been a bit more 'professional' in their criticism? Sure. But generally professional skiers, actually professional athletes in general, aren't the brightest bunch...

But on another note, Keystone really fucked this one up. Just horrible time management by them, this is equivalent to a theme park closing their most popular roller coaster for scheduled maintenance (aka nothing wrong with it) during a very popular time. They should of planned accordingly and realized this is a horrible time to reshape their jumps.

Also to the kids saying "its a public park you should be grateful..." wtf public park? LOL? Last time I checked it costs close to a hundred fucking dollars for a lift ticket at keystone, there is nothing public about that. They are known to have the best parks in the world, that is why people pay that much money to ski there, by not having jumps they are fucking up their job.
 
so this means that the Dew Tour is going to be more about which skier is most versatile vs. which has their dub muscle memory on lock? I'm fine with that.

also means that Keystone will have the jumps open on Saturday when I ski there? I'm fine with that too.

is my point of view selfish? yes. are those bitching about the jumps being closed acting selfish? yes. such is life.
 
shut the fuck up skiierman. Whats the problem with PROFESSIONAL athletes taking their sport seriously. Sure the root of this sport is going and having fun with your friends, but without a little seriousness here and there, nothing would ever get done and this sport would be a complete joke.

anyways I'm pretty sure if you were in a pros shoes, you would take the exact opposite side you are taking, just because you like to disagree.

fuck off skiierman.
 
I'm pretty sure they were building stuff for another mountains in the off season in addition to getting all their own shit ready. Could be wrong but I think it was keystone.
 
Yea. Jumps or not, being able to build during the day would be so much nicer. Also, being able to close the park for a week so we could blow enough snow to make jumps would be nice.
 
you sound like a whiney bitch and an all around miserable person if this the shit you waste your time complaining about.
 
Some pretty pathetic comments actually. The only thing funny is how entitled all those euros sound. The kids saying they need to "train huge rotations before world cup" obviously won't win if they don't have the tricks on lock. Much respect loss for Kai and others bitching cause park crew wants to rebuild and add a 3rd jump. It's the athletes own problem if they were counting on keystone for big jumps that would be open the whole time they wanted to "train".
 
Yeah it's not like people spent a lot of money to come to keystone and train in hopes to get a better rep and lots of money... That would be crazy
 
For an event that big I would want to be as ready as I could be and I understand why they are mad because although on a much smaller scale it is exactly something my home mtn would do.
 
Thats because many of the athletes go over to Keystone to practice for the Dew Tour slopestyle, and qualifiers start today! By the weekend it's too late for the Dew competitors.
 
I understand where all the Europeans are coming from, but this is stupid. These guys are sitting on facebook bitching, while Henrik doesn't give a fuck and is just having fun on some mellow jumps. Yet Henrik will beat all of these people in comps later this season...

Tanner Hall is on the right schedule. Just chilled in Summit for a month lapping rails, filiming, and having a good time. Now he is up in BC shredding Pow. Fuck all of this "training big rotations" for comps...
 
I think it's dope when people can kick it mellow for a bit and just chill then bust out big shit at a contest and do well. That's not everyone though.

When you're talking about hitting 65 and throwing the biggest rotations you can, it's nice to have some time to practice them/ learn some new shit and make sure you're ready. People want to do well and nobody wants to get hurt.

Thanks to social media everyone's frustrations instantly end up jammed into a status on facebook. I'm not saying that it's helpful to tear up that page, just saying that you're attitude of "fuck training that shit is stupid" is kind of ridiculous.
 
i dont understand, wouldn't the same people be negatively affected if they had to ride shitty usafe jumps that needed to be rebuilt.
 
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