Terrain park trends

Peter.

Peter.

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seems like every park these days has a close out and a bunch of the fat metal tube rails

anyone else noticing any trends?
 
this is the 3rd season I've been skiing in a park that has close-out rails, but I never hit them. on thursday I hit one 4 or 5 times.....and then got super closed-out....it was chill
 
My park tried to build something kind of like an island the has a rail going into it then an up slope then you can hit one of the two down rails at the end. I feel like I've seen things like them in lots of videos
 
true tube rails are sick but also maybe not this year but last year there was the rail to stair landing, windells has inpired many parks
 
snowmaking tubes and elbows. and more kinks. more and more dfd's and a bunch of parks have 4 kinks
 
i see alot less halfpipes. and bonk jibs are a must have for every park now.

id like to see more s/c rails / elbow rails

i feel like alot of parks these days are lacking in their unique jumps. befor every park had hip jumps and spine jumps. sometimes quarter pipes. or stepup jumps with big knuckles. even table top jumps which i never see anymore.

i want more jumps. and less rails!
 
I barely see boxes anymore, if I do they are made out of metal and dont have the box feel. Most of the time I see are T rails which are similar.
 
Rails to bonks (usually propane tanks), connected propane tanks, stair landings, true tables/step-overs vs step-downs for jumps.
 
If I were to just see that jump I would assume the whole park would be legit as hell. Kind of shitty that they aren't willing to make the dopest park they possibly can
 
word they have the area to set up 5 rails/small jumps by 3 and 3 tiny supergaper jumps but they only do 3x3 and two are 1ft jumps...
 
Same here, at least for jumps. Some dumbass gaper broke their neck on a jump because the bombed the entire run and hit a jump preceding to clear most of the landing and land on their head. Now there are no more jumps.

It seems like there are a lot more features that are more "trickable" and set up for more creativity and style, instead of huge features that are difficult to complete let alone do a lot of creative things on them.
 
A rail that has another rail/fence set up perpendicular to it at the end of the rail, for example:

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I deffinatly would not be sad saying goodbye to flatbars and those really wide flatbar kinks. I like tubes and any thing shot gun
 
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