Hey Dom,
Im a regular at Xscape castleford mate, and dont listen to fredster!!!
A friend of mine has been doing the shaping since the summer, and the set up is always sick! nice wide kickers getting on to the rails, always a line of three or four rails.
Yes the booters get worn, but theres always someone re shaping the kickers onto the rails.....so they dont get to hammered.
They have a box setup (its four seperate boxes) and this is always setup different, i.e. flat - up - flat - down  or down - flat - down - flat.
Fredster is right about the kicker getting rutted......but this would happen anywhere in any resort..... when theres someone hitting it every 10 seconds for four hours its gonna happen!
I;m away for a couple of weeks now, but from 2nd/3rd week in January i'll be up there coaching on thurs and fri.
hope to see you there buddy.
Oh yeah...it kicks the s**t out of milton keynes!