The most unseen signs

partyandBS

partyandBS

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yesterday i was taking a meeting call at the top of the park and then i was gonna drop in and some lil shit sprayed the fuck out of me, looked at this sign and then proceeded to do exactly what it says not to do. i’ve never wanted to fight a 10 year old so bad in my life
 
you cant call it freestyle... and then tell me what to do...

If a resort doesnt provide a basic jump / beginner park, for kiddos to learn... it just seems sociopathic to place that sign up... how do these clowns justify a beginner park / features with rails is beyond me?!?! a baby park should provide rollers, texas kickers, ride on boxes... then there are the adults standing around, not skiing? that are pissed off about their own ignance? pissed off that a 10 year old can rip a texas kicker, not sure if he just missed therapy... [tag=167225]@partyandBS[/tag] #mindblowing

The best sign ever was the one at the arapahoe basin water spring, it read,

"fitzsimmons is a lil bitch"

**This post was edited on Feb 7th 2024 at 7:06:05pm
 
14588740:quintcork said:
To be honest every park should be required to have that sign
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there HAS TO BE Rules to Freestyle!!!!!

the sign should include must use poles, and no nose butters allowed.

Thanks

-TOM WALLISCH
 
the first few 180s i ever did were actually off of the rail jumps. it was my first season skiing and i didn't know any better. also, in 2002, no one was even in the park, so i doubt anyone noticed.

while i agree that people should NOT ski through the park and hit the rail jumps, they're always going to (unless the mountain is going to be very militant about it). whether or not people want to hit park features, they are drawn to it like moths to a lamp. we just gonna take the high road and only push em over once we leave the park
 
I don’t even understand why one would want to put themselves through the pain of taking off a crappy rail lip straight to flat (also incredibly backseat cause the people that do that cannot ski)
 
14588743:Forrest.Gump said:
you cant call it freestyle... and then tell me what to do...

If a resort doesnt provide a basic jump / beginner park, for kiddos to learn... it just seems sociopathic to place that sign up... how do these clowns justify a beginner park / features with rails is beyond me?!?! a baby park should provide rollers, texas kickers, ride on boxes... then there are the adults standing around, not skiing? that are pissed off about their own ignance? pissed off that a 10 year old can rip a texas kicker, not sure if he just missed therapy... [tag=167225]@partyandBS[/tag] #mindblowing

The best sign ever was the one at the arapahoe basin water spring, it read,

"fitzsimmons is a lil bitch"

**This post was edited on Feb 7th 2024 at 7:06:05pm
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there is a park exactly like what you are describing at the resort as well. its indicated as such on the trail map as a s park. when i go in there i feel like a god damn super star. this park i believe is labeled as a m park.

his grandma was very embarrassed and apologized and quickly skied away in shame. shoulda offered her the therapy lol
 
as much as im being sarcastic, the sign should say "expert rail park/ garden"... and i agree its dangerous for lil punk kids to go ripping thru with no understanding , did you get grandmas #?

abasin doesnt have much park to offer, i instruct people to hit the kicker and gap to the landing way before attempting to slide a tube... learning to flex and pop a jump, 180, 360, has to happen somewhere.

i have been begging abay for years to build a "terrain park" that would include natural terrain features that are built and ready for pow days... maybe the change of hands could be a good thing.
 
i’m kind of with forest on this one. Only problem i have with it is kids who roll over the lip and dull it out. Other than that snaking would still be a problem because the kids are next to the features if they hit the lip or not. what other reasons are people getting pressed about? it kind of just feels like a way to hate kids and jerry’s without saying it. they are people who are just trying to have fun like us. we don’t have any entitlement to the park or the features and if a jerry wants to use the freestyle feature in a free way, they can. what forest is saying seems like fine logic to me.
 
14588772:Voyage86 said:
i’m kind of with forest on this one. Only problem i have with it is kids who roll over the lip and dull it out. Other than that snaking would still be a problem because the kids are next to the features if they hit the lip or not. what other reasons are people getting pressed about? it kind of just feels like a way to hate kids and jerry’s without saying it. they are people who are just trying to have fun like us. we don’t have any entitlement to the park or the features and if a jerry wants to use the freestyle feature in a free way, they can. what forest is saying seems like fine logic to me.
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Fire hot take and I kinda agree because I'm ngl there is no difference between a beast skier snaking between features to create a cool + interesting line and some kook snaking between features because they don't know what they're doing.

Going on a tangent here cuz its related but im guilty of not hitting features the way ur supposed to, me and my friends used to do "up and downs" like they did in totally Trevor where you would try to go slow enough to slide to the top of an up rail and back down to the lip. Yeah to other park riders that's prob annoying and looks like gaper shit but it's fun and I don't think it's haram to have fun while skiing, that's the whole point anyways
 
14588772:Voyage86 said:
i’m kind of with forest on this one. Only problem i have with it is kids who roll over the lip and dull it out. Other than that snaking would still be a problem because the kids are next to the features if they hit the lip or not. what other reasons are people getting pressed about? it kind of just feels like a way to hate kids and jerry’s without saying it. they are people who are just trying to have fun like us. we don’t have any entitlement to the park or the features and if a jerry wants to use the freestyle feature in a free way, they can. what forest is saying seems like fine logic to me.
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well i think it would help with having people of the appropriate skill level in the right park. what happens when billy goes over a lip onto a stair set becomes a paraplegic and then winning a multimillion dollar lawsuit? probably the death of the parks at that mountain. there’s a park for billy to learn at and he should go there and progress with out being a risk or a nuisance to himself, others, or the facility.
 
14588785:partyandBS said:
well i think it would help with having people of the appropriate skill level in the right park. what happens when billy goes over a lip onto a stair set becomes a paraplegic and then winning a multimillion dollar lawsuit? probably the death of the parks at that mountain. there’s a park for billy to learn at and he should go there and progress with out being a risk or a nuisance to himself, others, or the facility.
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in an ideal world yes, but that statement is paradoxical. you want someone with no experience to understand that they should be in a smaller park, but they don’t have the experience to understand why or that there is even a difference between parks. billy has no fucking clue what he’s doing. he sees a park and skis through it. you are just going to need to live with that tbh because nothing is changing.
 
I’m cool with side jumpers as long as they aren’t snaking people. Everyone is just trying to have fun in the park and they don’t fuck up the lips any worse than people who hike the same rail all day trying the same trick over and over
 
Boy I know you ain't dissing Tom Wallisch on this website

14588745:Forrest.Gump said:
there HAS TO BE Rules to Freestyle!!!!!

the sign should include must use poles, and no nose butters allowed.

Thanks

-TOM WALLISCH
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Its obv not gonna stop people from doing this. Out East I don't care because the lips are always so firm that hitting it doesnt do anything to it. But, when it is slushy and soft it completely destroys the lip.
 
14588933:gvski13 said:
Its obv not gonna stop people from doing this. Out East I don't care because the lips are always so firm that hitting it doesnt do anything to it. But, when it is slushy and soft it completely destroys the lip.
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what destroys the lip? using it???? pretty funny tbh
 
14588772:Voyage86 said:
i’m kind of with forest on this one. Only problem i have with it is kids who roll over the lip and dull it out. Other than that snaking would still be a problem because the kids are next to the features if they hit the lip or not. what other reasons are people getting pressed about? it kind of just feels like a way to hate kids and jerry’s without saying it. they are people who are just trying to have fun like us. we don’t have any entitlement to the park or the features and if a jerry wants to use the freestyle feature in a free way, they can. what forest is saying seems like fine logic to me.
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It can get to the point sometimes when there are so many jerries and little kids in the park that it's unusable by people trying to hit the features.

Another point is that a lot of kids might not have the reading level to comprehend a sign like that even if they notice it. Most of these kids have the absolute minimal awareness of what's happening around them.
 
At my hill they require a $5 park pass, which then requires being 18 or having someone 18 sign your waiver to purchase it.

This allows for only the most serious of side jumpers into the park
 
14588977:skiP.E.I. said:
It can get to the point sometimes when there are so many jerries and little kids in the park that it's unusable by people trying to hit the features.

Another point is that a lot of kids might not have the reading level to comprehend a sign like that even if they notice it. Most of these kids have the absolute minimal awareness of what's happening around them.
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not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me or how any of that has anything to do with not doing a rail off a jump meant for a rail
 
Resorts need to bring back small park jumps with actual kickers. When the baby park is just rollers and disco pads, there's nowhere for a beginner to learn how to jump.

We can't expect beginners to learn to jump/shifty/180 on the 10 ft kickers in the mid/large park, so doing it next to a rail is really the only option. When i was a kid, small jumps with lips 2-3 ft off the ground were really common but now i hardly ever see jumps with an actual lip below head height.

And it's not just about kids. I have a few friends that are girls in their mid 20s that want to learn to hit jumps and do some basic tricks. They're decent skiers, but they're easily scared and need some small park jumps to even learn to pop properly
 
14589017:Voyage86 said:
not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me or how any of that has anything to do with not doing a rail off a jump meant for a rail
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I'm saying the park gets crowded with children and jerries because those demographics want to hit the jumps next to the rails, with no intention of learning how to hit rails or ride the park. So many of them do it that the park gets very crowded, to the point where it gets difficult for folks trying to use the park. That's why it makes sense to discourage side jumping if possible.
 
14589079:skiP.E.I. said:
I'm saying the park gets crowded with children and jerries because those demographics want to hit the jumps next to the rails, with no intention of learning how to hit rails or ride the park. So many of them do it that the park gets very crowded, to the point where it gets difficult for folks trying to use the park. That's why it makes sense to discourage side jumping if possible.
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ah i understand that. the rail lips are an attraction for those who don’t intend to use the rails. i can get behind that reasoning but than i’d advocate for more smaller lips to learn on like that.
 
So long as they wait their turn and don't snake people it's no different than if they hit the rail so I see nothing wrong with it. Especially in parks with no beginner jumps.
 
Few years back Stowe in VT did this thing where you took a quick safety test in the lodge about etiquette and safe riding, the usual bs look uphill don’t stand in landings don’t side lip etc etc, and once you passed the questionnaire they gave you a scannable rfid to get into the park. Kept minions at bay, would love to see this come back. It added such a peace of mind to hot laps.
 
14588977:skiP.E.I. said:
It can get to the point sometimes when there are so many jerries and little kids in the park that it's unusable by people trying to hit the features.

Another point is that a lot of kids might not have the reading level to comprehend a sign like that even if they notice it. Most of these kids have the absolute minimal awareness of what's happening around them.
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Keystone
 
Glad my hot take of "side jumping isn't a big deal" is becoming less of a hot take. When it comes down to it, park etiquette of who has right of way and where not to be is way more important.
 
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