Skate Style Parks

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mski

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I have to say, I really wish this was a permanent feature on the mtn.I got to ride it closing day and it was one of the raddest features I've ever had the chance to ride. I'm really digging the influence of skateparks thats been getting introduced to skiing/boarding terrain parks lately. This and the B & E Invite are exactly where I think skiing needs to go.

Whaddya think? Are we going to see a shift in how parks are constructed/planned out? Or will the classic jump and rail line still rule the park skiing world?
 
I think we're gonna see both because both have their place. I love being able to blast a big jump line, hit some creative rail features and trannyfind all in the same run. That setup in your pic looks soooo ill though. Damn...
 
12962253:B-Wald said:
Would be awesome to see more stuff like this. Holy bowly looked like the funnest shit ever. Gotta imagine building/maintenance would be tougher than a standard park though
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For sure, but I feel like mtn's that get a low amount of base coverage could just move dirt around to make a semi permanent blueprint to groom over. Could be an advantage for east coast resorts.
 
End of the season boreal was pretty much skate style, although it was nothing like holy bowly it still had tons of flow. I love when parks separate from the traditional slope format of having multiple rails in a row. I see bachy doing this type of park in the near future.
 
holy bowly was the most fun thing i skied all year, start adding these to parks instead of halfpipes that are icy and barely get used
 
Is speed an issue with this though? I feel like you would scrub a speed repeatedly going into features.
 
there are definitely some skate oriented parks in wisconsin and in skate oriented i mean smaller handrail features that don't require much skill, everything is built smaller and tighter so you can get real crazy with fisheye on an hvx for an edit. But I think parks getting creative with transitions is going to happen alot more
 
Wachusett had a double bowl that was really fun at the bottom, they threw lots of rails all over it and stuff, and it was all hand shaped too. Ski patrol got kinda pissed though when they realized they couldn't get a sled out of the bottom though so they had to take down one side
 
I'm definitely tired of riding parks that are really linear, which is pretty much every park here in Quebec. I really like the way Sugarbush is thinking, with a park packed with features were you can really get creative with your lines.
 
12962461:Wskier said:
Wachusett had a double bowl that was really fun at the bottom, they threw lots of rails all over it and stuff, and it was all hand shaped too. Ski patrol got kinda pissed though when they realized they couldn't get a sled out of the bottom though so they had to take down one side
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That was kind of a poor strategy if they couldn't even get through with a sled.

As far as the thread holy bowly looked sick as fuck. I think we'll see an increase of features like this but not to this extreme outside of comps.

The old park lines of jumps and rails are far from dead and will always be around. More creative lines in park design is what's more significant in my opinion. Parks are created with much more flow and creativity these days. Will keep seeing longer rails lower to the ground, more complicated rails and complex rail setups.

To people complaining that pipes are too icy, it would be a pain in the balls to keep a setup like that in good shape and free from ice. Especially the ones that have rail features mixed in all over

I guess if you made it less technical so there was little hand shaping requires and repushed this and that with the cat in the tight spots and just groomer the rest it's doable.
 
Seems like it's almost shifting from creativity of skiers to creativity of park builders... now don't get me wrong, skiers are defiantly innovating creativity... It's just that it looks like there has been a suden push for a variety of features.

ps on Mobil so idk how my grammar is.
 
I want to see something like the snake run at woodward east, i think people could get really creative on something like that
 
12962317:jackborland said:
holy bowly was the most fun thing i skied all year, start adding these to parks instead of halfpipes that are icy and barely get used
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Although i agree here, that would mean the death of halfpipe skiing i am sure. Its a receding aspect of the sport as its so expensive
 
12962267:mski said:
For sure, but I feel like mtn's that get a low amount of base coverage could just move dirt around to make a semi permanent blueprint to groom over. Could be an advantage for east coast resorts.
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having dirt beneath it isnt gonna make it any easier to groom,

still needs a lot of manual labor while normal parks are mostly cat work

sure its gonna help to get the big lines done, then again, that can also be done by a cat
 
ya i agree. i love them, that holy bowly setup was too much fun. endless ways to attack the feature for sure. skate-style rail setups are fun, too. honestly, it annoys me whenever I hear a skier in the park piss and moan about some skate-style feature. "wahhh theres like no lip". you're a skier, find a creative way to hit it. thats what makes this shit awesome.
 
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