People being way too intense!

PattyC

PattyC

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so this weekend was my first time at brecks park. in the parks im use to skiing nobody stops before each box/rail, so im just hitting my first run and i dont see this guy and he is about to drop in so i accidentally snake him, before hitting the box i yell back im sorry broo but he goes fll speed and trys to push me off of it, luckly he eats shit but comes down to me and my friends and starts saying he is gonna beat my ass, despite me apologizing. and he is like fuckin 20 lol

so any waymy question is do yo stop before features and sit there?

oh and he was wearing a armada range in delrium with green pants so if that you than chill your shit.
 
If it's a legit mistake and nobody got hurt I don't understand why people get so intense. It's ridiculous. There is no point in a park that flows if you have to stop before each feature.
 
^ i know i usually ski by myself and dont ever stop except before jump drop ins, im just happy that he didnt push me to hard it was funny looking back and seeing him on his ass, people need to chill in the park
 
Guys like that are so annoying, they think to highly of their skiing abilities and are probably just large douchebags, but usually I take a quick glance uphill to check just incase
 
People stop and wait forever before boxes and rails at my hill too. I like to do fast laps by myself so I never pay attention to them, at my hill the fast lapper gets the right of way lol
 
i agree if your park has flow there is no need to stop before each feature. i usually stop before each feature just to decide the trick i want to do but if my mountain had flow i probably wouldnt.
 
I snake so badly all the time because people always just sit and wait in front of features.
 
yeah i feel like in most cases, people who have stopped will look uphill and make sure a hotlapper isnt coming through before dropping. if youre stopped already you don't have any speed to worry about losing, let the person who may be carrying more speed for something keep going.

plus you said sorry as it happened, dude needs to relax
 
exactly.

stopping before every feature is dumb. If people are trying to do that, they need to give right of way to people hotlapping / flowing through the park like you're supposed to.
 
i lived right by keystone for the first part of the season and I skied breck and key almost every day. This is the exact reason I didnt like colorado, everyone took everything way too seriously.
 
1. always look uphill
2. i hate when people follow you really close on boxes. i get pretty pissed when people crush up behind me when i'm on a feature. it's like being snaked from behind. i always find the guy and tell him what's good like wiiggga please
 
I've heard that Surfing is really aggressive too about dropping in on other people's waves....

How about skateboarding? Is this a skiing thing, or action sports thing?

 
well surfing is different. your not relying on a quality park, however you're relying on mother nature to provide you with a quality wave. and many times you can only get a handful in a day. so when your dropping in, and your at the peak ready for your ride of the day and some goomba snakes you, its defiantly gona cause some problems.

 
surfing makes sense cause there are good and bad waves and theyre completely time sensitive. in skiing if i drop 5 seconds after you the jump isn't gonna be different size and form haha
 
seems like an action sports kinda thing. we dont really have designated boundries or a certain number of players allowed on the field like other sports. so naturally when the terrain park or skatpark get crouded people will get in each others way. and usually there is some tough guy that thinks he is hot shit that gets all bothered when somene snakes him then fights happen.
 
ha dang i thought was gonna get a bunch of cool story bro's, any way i would have talked shit except im 5,5 and he was like 5 inches taller than me, ha and it was the up flat up box at breck that isnt even cool
 
That's my biggest pet peeve about locals in CO, mostly at breck, not so much at key. its like you got this sick as fuck park in front of you with flow, and 80% of you sit at the top of each feature like your fucking riding in a rail jam. i understand if you wanna get a trick on a certain feature, that's fair.

but when you watch guys who are really good, what do they do, they usually hot lap, linking tricks from feature to feature. meanwhile you got this guy in his fresh tall t pizza pieing like a joey up to the rail to try and nail his 3x sw up, lands in a switch wedge boner and side slips down to the next feature and spends 3 min getting his tunes right and t laying flat and does it all over again. he's also the same guy, like the OP mentioned that will threaten to beat your ass if you snake him.

sry for the rant, shit just bugs me
 
You didn't snake anyone. Person flowing a full park run ALWAYS has the right of way and should not have to interrupt their run.
 
I usually stop before most features especially jumps. I guess it's just to collect myself. But also, flowing through a nice rythm section progresses you more than stopping at each hit for like 2 minutes imo.

In my experience i've found there's more of a chance i will eat shit the longer i sit at the top of an in-run thinking about the trick.

back to the thread... if that had been me cut off, i would have been totally chill because at least you apologized. most people don't care or say anything. And even if you hadn't of said anything i usually give the right of way to some1 hot-lapping, unless it's some gaper in a death wedge.
 
Some people get really intense over surfing, luckily where I surf there's not too many people, and even less angry people. That's part of whats cool about surfing. If you're out with a bunch of nice people it's fun, and if theres some idiot out there who's doing something very wrong people speak up.
And skateboarding is kinda like that. If you show up to a park to skate a nice mini ramp, as I often do, and there like 3 little kids who constantly go and do no tricks it's not cool. Usually a well versed group of skaters will give everybody a turn, and you you mess up on your first or second trick you'll probably get another run. At least where I skate that's how it is. And I don't even know most of the others there. I usually give people that second chance. And usually everybody is cool if you just loose your board but just jump back on and start skating again.
And at my local hill (mountain creek) it's more like 300 snowboarders stop before everything, but nobody intends to hit it, so you just stop, get through them and then go. Or it's a never ending snowboard train where you'll never get a turn, and following them is a bad idea cause you're guaranteed a several person pile up. So if you stop and try to be nice, about 80 people go at the same time. Which is what I don't get. I'll slide up, look around, ask if anybody is going, and if not go. If there's boaders starting to stand up to go I let them go cause they were there first. But nobody will ever let you go if you're nice and let others go.
 
You should just calmly say, "You weren't aware that hot-lappers have the right of way? You don't know much about park skiing do you? Please learn some etiquette so stupid shit like this doesn't happen again."

The only time you should ever stop or go around a feature is if someone is down on it. And still, it's up to them to get out of the way, but just for the sake of not being a douche let them take their time, you never know how bad they could be hurt.
 
skating at least at my park huge groups of people chill at the ledges and take turns doing lines. claps go out whenever someone lands a trick and its really fun.

I think its because skateboarding has been around for a while and its pretty well established, if you go to a skatepark where actual skateboarders ride (especially street plazas) you will find that people have their etiquette down. obviously this isnt true for everywhere and bowl parks are notoriously awful, but half the dudes at bowl parks arent even skateboarders and just go there to buy weed or something.

5 or 6 years ago skiing was a lot like that, and it was especially cool because anyone else who had twintips was immediately your friend. times really changed though

 
yeah, i could see how this is true.
and i bmx, but it is super chill. everyone has got their shit together. if someone is trying a hard trick, they will give them alot of tries, usually it stays fair.
at my hill, so many people stop before the jumps. it pisses me off.the more i stop and think of the trick, the less likely i will land it. if im just lapping and quickly think of it, i will def be more likely to land it
 
Most of the people at my home mountain (7 Springs Pa) are nice and laid back. The only time a person gets yelled at for doing something like that is if there in the gaper tuck and they legitimately snake you. However, a problem this year has been people who don't belong in the park yelling at you. One day we were taking turns filming a rail and it was my turn. I was moving around getting different angles and stuff, always looking to see who was coming and stayed out of the way. This random guy, probably early 30's, comes flying between the 2 rail lines and does a big ass side jump and almost hits me. He walks up the hill and started yelling at me, it was ridiculous but we were in a group so he backed down and skied away. Ridiculous
 
kids at my hill alwayse stop in one spot so i get it there but if it was like into the next feature or flowy they are dumb.
 
for starters its sprng break so more than likly not a local. next thats why i dont ski breck park if any thing i ski A-51 first its such a big park s you can go where you are comfortable. also go to bever creek and cut some one off they will follow you to the bottom to yell at you. just becareful and loo both ways on a crowded park
 
i was tucking into a jump in the alley, and some gaper snaked right across the inrun without looking, and i clipped the very edge of his skis. he procedes to call me out and then got in my face in the lift line, i told him to look up hill and stay out of the park, not to cut across the inrun of the jump. he didn't back down. i was rolling 10 deep with SCM so we stomped him out and left him at the bottom of north face lift. that's how we do it from baltimore
 
Seven Springs was gaper heaven last time I was there. This guy kept taking his 6 kids through the alley. They were rolling over the lip of every jump there. I was teaching a beginner how to pop and he wrecked then got ran over by a few of them.

The best part, though, is that they were sliding down the rail on their asses.

Not to mention the other gapers who kept wrecking over the 10 footers and such a huge line formed that we had like 12 drops called in advance for when they gtfo the landing.
 
Dude people need to learn not to stop after each feature, it is really FUCKING ANNOYING. That is stupid, because just going through at one time is way more fun
 
my park only has 3-4 features in a line, so there is pretty much no "flow" i stop whenever i want
 
the ONLY reason u should stop before a feature is if ur hiking or need some precise speed for it and need to start from a drop in point
 
Happened to me last weekend at Big BoulderI was screwing around in freedom park and I had never tried an S rail or box before. The last feature was an S box that I had been wanting to try for a while. But there were a bunch of snowboarders just above it. They were just standing there, so I yelled, "Dropping!" and went for it but slipped off and ate shit halfway through. It turns out that the boarder dropped in ass I was coming up to the lip. Then he came up to me and started screaming at me saying, "That was fucking worth it you fucking asshole!" I said sorry and skiied away
 
Its all about where you are. If people are stopping, just stop, theres no such thing as 'the person flowing a run has the right of way' unless you're filming, even then thats questionable but if the people aren't dicks they will have no problem. If people are stopping before a rail, just stop, and drop soon after. Its really not a big deal if people are conglommed, long as they've got good reason aka the rail is dope and they are hiking. Don't snake some fools, take your turn and if nobody's ready, jump on it quick.
 
some Do NOT stop in landing or out-run zone of any feature, ever.

Do NOT stop on middles of knuckles or jump in-runs.

Do NOT stop in the middle of the run.

Do NOT stop on top of a rail or box

Do NOT stop in an area where you can not be seen from above (knolls or landings)

DO stop on the far side of a trail, far side of a knuckle, to the side of a in-run of a feature. Always look uphill before dropping into a in-run or jump landing.

Doubt anyone would yell at you for doing the above. Too bad some people never learned to look both ways on the street before turning into traffic.

 
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