Rebirth of the Summer Setup?

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kbrando

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When I first discovered NS in 2006, as soon as mountains closed this site lit up with threads, videos and pictures of everyone's backyard setup. You had today's best rail skiers (Wesson, Harlaut, Wallisch, Ahmet) all posting their setups and filming on their setups all off season. Sure, some people went to Hood in the summer, but it felt like everyone that skied and wanted to get better at rails just built a setup and skied everyday all summer long. I know for me, this was the single greatest reason for my progression. I grew up skiing and working at Whaleback and they used to hold summer rail jams once a month all summer long.

I feel like as time went on, the summer setups slowly faded away and I saw less and less people building and hitting them. The allure of going to NZ, Hood or Whistler seemed to replace the sketchy backyard PVC rails. With everything going on in the world and people stuck at home, are summer setups about to make a rebirth? I know some of my best memories are from late night backyard rails all summer long. Stay safe NS, hoping to see some dope edits from your yards this summer.
 
I think you're right, the summer setup is back. There's something about a sketchy backyard setup that really builds character and helps you progress like no other. Maybe it's the fact that you're not on snow and all you can do is hit the rails so you do that all day and get nasty.
 
Summer setups make better rail skiers. It makes me wonder if people are going to be going extra ham next season, because more people are using them.
 
Ive been hitting my ramp most days since quarantine started and that is way more than I usually would. Heaps of fun but makes you miss the snow.[video]962233[/video]
 
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Here are some classic backyard edits for those of you not around during the glory days

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wow I think thats the only edit with andy in it where he doesnt do weird tricks
 
2001 summer setup.. this was our entry to that contest for some free turf years ago..

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tbh i hadn't thought of it but i think you're right, since everyone's stuck at home the backyard setup is blowing up again
 
This makes me miss mine. Barely spent enough days on it because I was always so scared in high school, but that thing was fun.

There was a whole cult for materials and construction and showing off and it was really busy. Led by PapaSteeze? Hard to think that was almost 15 years ago.

Stoked to see a new generation of it, especially with low consequence new wavey creativity being a thing now. Maybe it wont just be variations of spin-on-swap-spin-out that we see.
 
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Making mine rn. Just hard to find wood without buying it
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Bunch of places have free pallets laying around if you check out cl or cruise though your local industrial park. Pretty sure ltc's summer setup was only made out of pallets and free shit.
 
Yes we need an official backyard summer setup contest!

Found some of our old summer edits, brings back so many good memories

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The past sounds so dope, I know that I built a summer setup because of the pandemic. I wouldn't have gone to whistler anyways but lockdowns gave me time to build a dope summer setup. I hope that they make a bigger comeback.
 
I think everybody from that era is now like almost 30 and probably either doesn't live somewhere that they can do such a thing, like an apartment, or just doesn't get around to it due to other things.

But yes, I remember around that time there was a lot of threads about it, perhaps even a cult?
 
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