Terrain parks progressing towards BMX-park course style?

zylstra

zylstra

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Does anybody think that more of the tightly packed, closely connected lines of bmx park courses are going to be the future of skiing comps and terrain parks. I'm talking about the jumps in skiing that are laid out across the whole hill coming together and being formed into one big multiple-take off hit, sort of like at the candide invitational,
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or making the hits closer together so that more of a line is needed, instead of only having one or two lines of jumps and rails making up a course. I realize skiing requires a downhill approach so it wouldn't be all that close to a bmx course(flat land), but i think it'd be an interesting change to see some of that coming out in the comp scene this year.
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first example i could find, bmx park.

Thoughts?
 
mmmmmmmmmm interesting concept, you'd have to land super smooth to be able to carry enough speed into the next feature so it might put more of an emphasis on style and less on spin-to-win... which is a good thing
 
that seems like the way forward. i like the step-up to step-down park jumps like the one at the mt. bachelor super park a few years ago. right now a lot of the room between jumps is wasted. although if you tighten up the jumps, it seems to create speed issues (like at this years x-games).
 
exactly, it'd take the emphasis off the size of the trick a little bit, and put style and tech first and foremost.
 
I wasn't going for them being similar, the first was there to reference and the second ws just the first example i found for bmx park.
 
i woulnd't mind that because 5 jumps with 3 take offs between 20 and 30 feet would be nice for consistency versus 3 50 foot tables.

idk about tightly packing rails. that could be sketch, unless its like SRJP, but that with a full size park could be fucked.

who knows.
 
I dont see why you would want to, unlike a skate/ bike park skiing isnt limited to a small concreate, you can re-shape future everyday if you wanted to spice things up. Myself I'd rather have 3 quality hits instead of a bunch of tiny ones.
 
personally, I really love big jumps. I'd much rather have three 50-80 footers than ten 15-20 footers. That said, it's always fun to mess around on little kickers.
 
they need to make a rhythm section style jump set like bmx dirt jumping. just like really lofty 15-20 footers with really steep landings so you can just float. that would be sweet
 
i have always wanted something like that. Only problem is that parks are so crowded that you cant make things that are meant to be hit in a line. Plus if you have to stop cuz a retard is in the way u miss ur whole line not just 1 jump.
 
I would love to see more rhythm sections in comps, also, would like to see more table to table transfers (side by side tables). So sicky.
 
if the park is more crowded you wont be able to hit all the features because you wont have enough speed
 
i'm from minnesota so the parks here are more tightly packed with more lines than a spread out park out west. but the parks out west are still way nicer than the ones here.
 
i enjoyed the "speed issues". meant that the runs had to be uber smooth. if you put a had down or anything, that was basically the end of you. it played into the hands of the guys who were solid at airs and rails. i thought it worked. skate park style snowparks would be sweet. if you watch the street event in the globe world tour etc. you see some of the really creative lines that people come up with, which is impossible with a standard jump. it'll be interestin to see which way parks develop.
 
that would be off the hook.... ive seen it in this one snowboard movie and one skier hit the line it was sick
 
loon had a bmx jump line type setup at battle my crew this year. the jumps were small but it was really fun
 
no, because then if you wanted to hit just like 1 thing it would be much harder. i think the reason why skateparks are closely packed is because they're indoors. after all, there aren't really any advantages of having it closely packed.
 
the idea of having lots of options like a bmx park is sick. i hate having a jump and saying okay you have to hit this jump going a certain speed and direction, i wish more choices.
 
no, i think bmx is going to become more like ski terrain parks. just check out whistlers new dirt bmx trail.
 
word.. nips said they were so much fun, once he got the speed dialed in. We took tape back to our hill and are pushing hard for something like that next season.
 
i don't think the candide step up is what you're talking about, those are all just different sizes, and there's not really any flow with that, just a huge ass inrun for the one hit.
 
yeah this kinda gives you and idea of what it was like. it had a couple of these and then ended with a sideways wallride which could be slid on top like a rail or on the slide like a wallride, and then also a barrel jib

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WRONG

I dont know which parks in MN you ski, and I dont know where you've been out west, but I distinctly remember standing at the top of freeway, and A51, looking for a place that wasn't either on some sort of feature or in the way of one. At welch the park is so open we have racers carving through the thing. If somebody tried that at breck they couldnt do it without launching off something. The smaller parks out there are a bit more open but with more lines then anything I've seen here. Even if the rails at the big parks out west are spread out, they are also on massive pads so you really dont have any free space. I love it.
 
Here is our misty bmx section we built through the woods at Boreal. Sorry, the only picture I had is of a snowboarder but you can see it in action if you navigate your interweb machine over to plehouse..it's in their new teaser!

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