Who the fuck actually likes boxes?

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270on420out

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Aside from beginners that is. Im talking boxes wider than half a foot. Who the fuck slides a box and thinks to themselves afterwards "Gee what a quality feature". You know what's better than the best box? Any rail. Boxes suck and mountains that overuse them (cough cough Bristol) should feel bad.

OK I'm done ranting. Carry on
 
Rainbow, DFD, and other non-flat boxes are fun in my opinion. But I can agree, a regular 14 inch wide flat box is pretty gay
 
13690037:freestyler540 said:
I love box slides with a passion. They are great to learn new tricks and remove quite a bit of fear.
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That's what lift towers and propane tanks are for. They are by far easier to trick than boxes.
 
dude.. you need to relax. its a great place to start learning tricks and take them to narrower boxes and eventually rails.

while i agree rails are better, there is a reason for boxes.
 
It's hard for me to set my edge for swaps on boxes, but either way it's always fun to spin 3s on dancefloor boxes.
 
Used to like them a lot more but now since im way better I prefer the ease of edge grip much better they are also way more fun
 
I always find it funny when a good skier has a trick on a box in an edit.

Boxes shouldn't exist now that there's fat tubes. Learning to switch up on a box doesn't even help for when you're on a rail for instance.
 
Boxes are fun when they are skinny (3-4 inches wide) and have metal edges. You can grip the edges for swaps, and it is skinny enough to practice rail tricks on. I enjoy when boxes this size are flat down, dfd, battleship, etc.

The 2 foot wide flat box is necessary in every park for the beginner riders. I remember when I first got into park I learned a few tricks and got my confidence way up on flat boxes.
 
at first i thought boxes sucked, but if you are creative/good they are soooo much fun.. you can do some crazy shit on boxes... you just have to get out of the mindset of kfeds and superfeds
 
topic:THEDIRTYBUBBLE said:
Aside from beginners that is.
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I mean that is a pretty important part of terrain parks, no? When there's nothing for beginners nobody can learn to enjoy the park.

I realized the importance of boxes when my 5 year old was wanting to go through the park this winter. Without those super shitty boxes, he wouldn't have even been able to come close to trying out a park feature.
 
topic:THEDIRTYBUBBLE said:
Any rail. Boxes suck and mountains that overuse them (cough cough Bristol) should feel bad.

OK I'm done ranting. Carry on
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Duuuuude I go to Bristol and it is stupid the preference they have towards boxes. I hate the T boxes. No sidewalls for wizard tricks, hard to grip, and THE ONLY FEATURE THEY EVER PUT IN.
 
I definitely despise just flat wide boxes except to gap over and tap the end. I do enjoy rainbow boxes you can disaster to the back side, or you can hit the first part like a cannon it plenty of fun. but dance floors are the worst by far.
 
lol all these people hating on boxes and saying tubes are better. tubes are like the most pussified feature in a park. if someone learns a new trick on a tube then i give them about as much credit as if they did it on a flat box. no doubt they're fun and great for learning shit on but it's just so easy it's like cheating.
 
13690156:VinnieF said:
You must be pretty close with your friends if you guys dick the same box with each other.
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hooked up with the same girl one night as one of my good friends. He hooked up with her earlier in the night than later in the night I hooked up with her and than banged her lol solid night. We both still laugh about that night
 
boxes are terrible. I like really wide, dancefloor boxes incorporated into transition, or like if they're on an angle....those are fun, and I like c boxes because it's fun to feel that centrifugal force feeling. Otherwise, I hate boxes. Boxes are for gaper snowboarders to 50/50 and think they're killing it.

I think like huge gaps onto df boxes and like the superpark style feature boxes are kind of cool, though I don't hit them.

Basically, in my mind, fat tube rails have replaced/improved upon boxes in pretty much every conceivable way. The feeling of actually gripping and sliding a metal feature, or a corrugated tube trumps the feeling of sliding a box in every way.

I don't mind skinny boxes that aren't that different than flat bars, or doublebarrels or whatever, but 12"-16" boxes are lame.
 
13690143:DACO-TOG said:
lol all these people hating on boxes and saying tubes are better. tubes are like the most pussified feature in a park. if someone learns a new trick on a tube then i give them about as much credit as if they did it on a flat box. no doubt they're fun and great for learning shit on but it's just so easy it's like cheating.
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No.....boxes are. That's why I said fat tubes pretty much improve on boxes in every conceivable way. Tubes are similar, good for learning, good for confidence building, relatively low consequence, but they mimic rails much better, you can actually grip them, and the skills you gain on them transfer to other rails.

Tubes are like boxes, you're right, but better.
 
Boxes are meh as fuck. I don't think I've ever rode away from something on a box thinking "fuck yeee that was my trick of the day".
 
But really im glad theres another thread where NS decides what features and tricks skiers can/cant do. Not sure what we would do without everyones approval.
 
I have fun sliding on boxes. I see other people having fun sliding on boxes. I like to have fun. I like it when I see other people having fun. I like boxes.
 
13690209:casual said:
No.....boxes are. That's why I said fat tubes pretty much improve on boxes in every conceivable way. Tubes are similar, good for learning, good for confidence building, relatively low consequence, but they mimic rails much better, you can actually grip them, and the skills you gain on them transfer to other rails.

Tubes are like boxes, you're right, but better.
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13690215:SDrvper said:
Na.

4 into a gap to down tube is way more difficult than a 4 into a gap to down box any time of the week.

I appreciate good skiers who don't puts boxes in their edits. I find even when i'm working on an edit I steer clear of boxes, my season edit is box-less.

Boxes should be in very basic terrain parks for people who can't even slide tubes and thats about it imo!
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whatever. i like doing shit on boxes because it feels like a skate hubba and you can do 50-50's without splitting and dying.
 
Lol op, I agree rails are generally better than boxes, but we all have to realize that none of us would be where we are today without them, no one goes right up to a rail on their first run ever in the park and hits and 270s off, instead they would go to a box, go on it straight, and it would light a flame for a love of park riding forever, and after that, they will go on to doing it again, until they want to do it side ways then eventually they'll get sick of it and talk them selves into trying a rail and bam now you have made your average park rat op just remember everyone has to start somewhere so we just have to deal with them
 
13690230:DACO-TOG said:
whatever. i like doing shit on boxes because it feels like a skate hubba and you can do 50-50's without splitting and dying.
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its literally so much more fun to 5050 fat tubes/rails. i have a feeling youre a gaper that hates rails cuz he cant hit em
 
13690292:Jon_Taffer said:
its literally so much more fun to 5050 fat tubes/rails. i have a feeling youre a gaper that hates rails cuz he cant hit em
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i mean spinning into a 50-50.

but yeah in my 15 years of racing, backcountry and riding park i've never learned to hit a rail. you caught me! i'm a gaper.

ps. i never said i hate rails, i just like to hit everything in the park. unlike some people in here who are too boring to come up with anything to do on a flat box.
 
i'm mostly a little salty here because people in this thread make it sound like flat boxes are ruining their day of skiing. which i think is kinda whack. but whatever, haters gonna hate.
 
Turned into a let me talk about how good at skiing I am because I do k feds on rails and am so much better than the rest of you who hit boxes thread
 
13690109:Mr.Bishop said:
I mean that is a pretty important part of terrain parks, no? When there's nothing for beginners nobody can learn to enjoy the park.

I realized the importance of boxes when my 5 year old was wanting to go through the park this winter. Without those super shitty boxes, he wouldn't have even been able to come close to trying out a park feature.
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When you remember Doug has a kid and that there is no way in Hell your future child will grow up to be anything as gnarly.
 
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