Park Etiquette gone?

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SKRockies

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Recently i had the chance to do a lot of skiing as i had reading week (springbreak kinda), and i spent 4 days in whistler along with a few days in banff skiing sunshine/lake louise. For 3 of the days in whistler it was raining so i mainly stuck to the park, and i noticed countless times people cutting others off, dropping in on each other and sitting in landing zones. Further, i heard an older woman in the park (35+ yo) call drop in front of a group of 5-6 14-17 year olds, only to have 3 cut her off to hit the jump first. Am i the only one noticing this?
 
I've noticed this a lot lately too. Maybe there's an app or something the youngsters have through which they all call their drop ins to each other?
 
Whistler is always a shit show, the park is such a mixed bag of skier type. I've had days where everyone was calling drop and being respectful, and days where half the people are Jerry's and the other half people who think they're better then they are. There's not much to do but roll with the punches.
 
13637425:Guesstimate said:
Whistler is always a shit show, the park is such a mixed bag of skier type. I've had days where everyone was calling drop and being respectful, and days where half the people are Jerry's and the other half people who think they're better then they are. There's not much to do but roll with the punches.
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Honestly by the time I've waited in whistler's long lift lines the last thing I want to do is wait in lines when I'm skiing.

I'm with evan, snake or be snaked. If you don't like it ski faster
 
If people are just standing around on the staging area like retards, I'll snake them. But if they are actually skiing and dropping one by one, that's when I wait.

Some kids sit around at the top of the jumpline and just chat for ten minutes, but when some other kid drops in before them, they lose their shit.
 
13637430:will_powder said:
Honestly by the time I've waited in whistler's long lift lines the last thing I want to do is wait in lines when I'm skiing.

I'm with evan, snake or be snaked. If you don't like it ski faster
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Totally, flowing through the park is chill but being a dick about it and flying past someone 10 feet before the take off isn't. This goes both ways though, if your waiting to hit a feature looking up the hill before you drop can solve a lot of issues.

Sidenote: whistler needs a jerrytrap so badly.
 
13637440:Pringle said:
If people are just standing around on the staging area like retards, I'll snake them. But if they are actually skiing and dropping one by one, that's when I wait.

Some kids sit around at the top of the jumpline and just chat for ten minutes, but when some other kid drops in before them, they lose their shit.
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13637443:Guesstimate said:
Totally, flowing through the park is chill but being a dick about it and flying past someone 10 feet before the take off isn't. This goes both ways though, if your waiting to hit a feature looking up the hill before you drop can solve a lot of issues.

Sidenote: whistler needs a jerrytrap so badly.
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Totally agree with this, and i do it pretty often, ill slide past kids sitting at the top, and if some jerry comes down and i know he/she wont hit the feature ill go for it. but sometimes i wanna smack a gorby so bad
 
I mean yes and no. Things got better but the sport got bigger and every dumb cunt gaper wants to hit the trick park.

It would probably be better these days with the standardization of things and general knowledge but people let their kids do whatever they want. Nobody can tell them or their child they're wrong.

Also parents that push their kids to hit the stuff because they think k climbing over the takeoff and ruining all efforts of the park crew will lead to their kid one day going pro.

I wish we could have signs to tell them off. Even mellow stuff like. " Jerry this isnt Nam this is skiing, there are rules"
 
drops are for gapers, hot lap through the drop and that gurantees you the right of way, if everyone did this and nobody stopped, itd be a party
 
If I'm hot lappin and people are sitting above a feature I don't care, as long as it's clear in gonna hit it. I'm not gonna wait for you to get your balls outta your purse and drop.
 
I commonly have chats at the top of the jump line but people just kinda call drop and nobody disrespects those who sit at the top. Everybody still gets along in my park and we all fight jerries together and peer pressure them out of the park.
 
I'm also with just mobbin through the staging area unless people aren't being retards. It's been too many times where I've waited behind someone who looked like they were about to drop but then they spend another 10 minutes working up the courage to hit the damn feature.
 
I was heading into the jump the other day and I was getting my self hyped to try a new trick. I dropped in and I was in the zone. about 25 yards before the jump 2 kids who were like 12 years old ski past me and launch straight airs of the jump. They cut me off and I had to stop cause I would've hit one if I kept going. I lost my hype for the trick and I couldn't get it back...

Fuck gapers
 
Ive never called drop in my life. Ive asked the kid in front/below me if he/she was going to drop, but honestly, someone should be dropping as soon as the first feature is cleared. Ill give a second or two for someone to drop but then ask, or drop in immediately.

If someone not in the lineup comes in from the side to snake me, ill still go for the hit, but just straight air or straightslide and try and stomp my landing super loud and super close to the snaker. Makes me happy to put a little scare into em. But if its a little kid, Ill just stop for em- cant hate a little kid. they dont know any better.
 
topic:SKRockies said:
Recently i had the chance to do a lot of skiing as i had reading week (springbreak kinda), and i spent 4 days in whistler along with a few days in banff skiing sunshine/lake louise. For 3 of the days in whistler it was raining so i mainly stuck to the park, and i noticed countless times people cutting others off, dropping in on each other and sitting in landing zones. Further, i heard an older woman in the park (35+ yo) call drop in front of a group of 5-6 14-17 year olds, only to have 3 cut her off to hit the jump first. Am i the only one noticing this?
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Or you could sack up, buy some moment garbones and just point it.
 
Flow It Don't Bro It! In this old crappy video I speak a bit about park ed. It's long so you need to be patient and with stand the low quality.

 
13637665:DominatorJacques said:
Flow It Don't Bro It! In this old crappy video I speak a bit about park ed. It's long so you need to be patient and withstand the low quality.

Ouch I hate that we cannot edit out post here. Anyway if you see shit in your park, talk to whoever and be chill. Most times they are just in need of some good advice.

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13637430:will_powder said:
Honestly by the time I've waited in whistler's long lift lines the last thing I want to do is wait in lines when I'm skiing.

I'm with evan, snake or be snaked. If you don't like it ski faster
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this. at my home mountain the park lift is ridiculously slow, so i like to ski the park fast so i can get back up. then i come to a feature and there's 10 kids standing above it, and no one is hitting it... fuck that, i'm going. i'm not trying to wait 10 minutes to hit a basic down rail. hate me if you want, but i'm out here tryna do hot laps. if you have a problem with it, just hit the fucking rail.
 
13637688:HenriksDreads said:
this. at my home mountain the park lift is ridiculously slow, so i like to ski the park fast so i can get back up. then i come to a feature and there's 10 kids standing above it, and no one is hitting it... fuck that, i'm going. i'm not trying to wait 10 minutes to hit a basic down rail. hate me if you want, but i'm out here tryna do hot laps. if you have a problem with it, just hit the fucking rail.
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The issue I see with this is flow of features. If features are designed to be one after another and there's a bunch of kids standing in the way fuck those kids. But if there's two sections to the part where section A does not flow with section B then wait your turn.
 
If I waited for everyone in front of me to go first I would never get down the hill. There are literally kids who sit at the top of a feature for like 10 minutes at my hill. Like what the fuck are you doing?
 
13637690:S.J.W said:
The issue I see with this is flow of features. If features are designed to be one after another and there's a bunch of kids standing in the way fuck those kids. But if there's two sections to the part where section A does not flow with section B then wait your turn.
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yeah i agree with that.. i mean if there's a bunch of rails, then a bunch of open slope and then you come to the top of a drop in and there's just a jump... that's different. if its a decent jump i want to hit, i'll wait my turn. if its a shit jump or i just don't feel like hitting it or they're fixing the lip i'll just ski around it.
 
Maybe because people would rather flow the whole park instead of waiting in a line like a jackass that's too pussy to ski into a feature without "resting" for five minutes.
 
13637443:Guesstimate said:
This goes both ways though, if your waiting to hit a feature looking up the hill before you drop can solve a lot of issues.
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When they look up, see you coming in hot, then still drop...arggg.
 
What I really hate is when there's a giant mob of kids waiting to hit a rail that's half way down the hill. Sure, I get congregating at the top of the park or at the top of a jump line, but I am not going to stop mid run and wait for that line of kids who are too scared and have to stare at the rail for a solid 2 minutes before they hit it.
 
Whistler park is a very special case, simply due to the amount of traffic it sees. We're talking over 1000 people an hour coming through the top gates. If you're on Blackcomb where the features are bigger and the level of riding is generally higher, etiquette is very much alive and well. People give the necessary space and are respectful of one another. The issue of lack of etiquette really arises in Whistler park because it is just so busy with so many new people. The snake or be snaked mentality more or less becomes a way of survival in that park on some days.
 
13637892:jason... said:
Whistler park is a very special case, simply due to the amount of traffic it sees. We're talking over 1000 people an hour coming through the top gates. If you're on Blackcomb where the features are bigger and the level of riding is generally higher, etiquette is very much alive and well. People give the necessary space and are respectful of one another. The issue of lack of etiquette really arises in Whistler park because it is just so busy with so many new people. The snake or be snaked mentality more or less becomes a way of survival in that park on some days.
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True. The size of the park def plays in most places.

I haven't ridden mount snow really in 4 or 5 years but I remember nitro (smaller park) being a total shit show, and inferno the xl park being a super mellow place mostly to yourself. I would make a plan based off that. Would try and do a few laps in nitro in the morning before it got bombed out to where it was tough t even ride and then switch things up. Inferno never got tracked out.
 
whats more upsetting is when people stop before feature and then get upset when i cruise past tossing gang signs out and chattin up your mom on bluetooth. lift tickets are expensive as fuck though why drop that dough and then stand around and get snaked like that you gotta be aggressive.
 
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