Why are park crews trying so hard?

Toaster-Tony

Toaster-Tony

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Today I came back home from college and was pumped to hit my home park and see what they've done. When I got there, it seemed like the park crew try so hard on being "creative" with the set-up, that it made it impossible to try new tricks on the rails/boxes. Instead of having a flat rails or a simple down rails, the park was littered with improvised set-ups that made spinning in and out very difficult. Does anyone else have this problem with their home park?
 
i know what you mean. one mountain i go to does this, and they do a good job at being creative, but sometimes its weird for skiiers because the park crew consists of all snowboarders.. and maybe they're just tired of the same old setup and trying to switch it up this year
 
theyre trying way too hard at my hill, theres just a bunch of really stupid stuff. one thing that they did was sick, theres a quarter pip on the side of like everything, but everything else is pretty lame
 
I'm not saying that hitting a improvised box set-up isn't fun every once in a while, but I'm at the stage in where I'm trying to learn as many new tricks as possible and it's tough to do so when every time I hit a rail/box, I enter rollercoaster mode just trying to stay on for the full hit. ..Sorry about the rant
 
whats wrong with that is every feature becomes ride on 50-50 style. then like 500 snowboarders train up and hit it one after another and make a path in the snow that you have to follow and land in or you'll fall.
 
I kind of agree with this. First 2 features in the park I frequent are a touch too creative. The first is a rail, all nice and all. but then there's another rail perpendicular to it at its end. So if you come off the rail early to the right it's death.

The second they have a nice box, but boom!! yo dog, we heard you like boxes so we put a box in the landing of your box so you can slide a box when you land sliding a box. it's a butter box that's level with the snow in the landing, so it's pretty much like there's a permanent sheet of ice in the landing.

they can be fun and all, but it is a bit weird.
 
actually at this mountain its quite the opposite. Since they can pop so much they would take a feature and plop it in the snow without making any attempt at a legitimate lip
 
Haha idk why I even made this thread.. it's just pissing me off hearing about all these stupid set-ups. What ever happened to making a sick mellow rail line with lips 3/4 the way up to satisfy boarders as well as skiers?
 
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Just fix it/set-up new features yourself then, thats what we do round here these parts. *insert redneck voice here*
 
1. boxes are gay

2. sack up

if you think its too hard to trick a park feature, you're being a bitch. not trying to hate, but thats the truth
 
Yeah my park is like this, they went from having an awesome flat box to a stupid cannon box that is impossible to try stuff on because you have to bomb it just to get enough speed to make it
 
3/4s of the way up? You like rails to have no lip at all? You like shitty ride-ons? We had a rail that was maybe less than half way up the hand rail, and it was dope. Thanks to complaining it got pushed to 3/4's up and it was boring. Eheath has a valid point.
 
I know exactly what you mean. I think it's ok to have creative stuff but you have to have the essentials first.
 
I think there should be a few creative features. If you ride every day it gets boring hitting the same features over and over. My personal favorite was the S rail to dfd rail I set up.

This is also pretty fun
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I work park crew at a very small resort with a growing park. Working park crew is a very very tough job, because we all love riding and your average park crew member is a much better park rider so we can unintentionally set the hits up to our advantage over a beginning rider. Sometimes, its a matter of us setting everything up on a rebuild and standing at the top of the park to make minor corrections so they can be more accessible to our riders.As much as we love hitting features and getting paid for riding all day, the number one reason anyone takes a park crew job is for the fulfillment of seeing locals hit your shit and loving it. Every feature that I dig in is my little baby and when you like my baby everyone is happy lol.

At our park though we try setting up features that escalate through the park, we will usually try setting up kinked and barrel rails with urban lips up in the upper section, in the middle of the park usually something creative and at the bottom more beginner features like flat bars and flat boxes.
 
i have the same problem.im not gonna lie i am not a pro or anything so it makes it difficult. my mountain even has a park survey that they dont even care about. yester day i screwed my knee on a flat down that was realy so crooked the two didnt line up
 
omg hahahaha. so true though, i don't know what anyone is really supposed to do wit that one...
 
My park also has random tires set up which is stupid. Also all the top sheets suck, except for a few boxes
 
yeah ive actually come to love that rail once i figured out how to get on top of it. and since post people cant get on it there isnt a fucking crater in the landing like the other flat rails so thats the one ive been trying new stuff on mostly
 
Ya all the creative hits are really fun sometimes, but I know what you mean. Who wants to learn 270 onto an S rail? Or 4 out of a roller coaster that transitions to a down rail? The simple stuff should always be at the top for learning. Most of the mountains I ride are good at balancing the hits.
 
My only grip with my new home mountain is they just don't build lips for box at all, like even a flat box on flat ground is just a tiny mound of snow in front that's so rounded over to truly hit it urban you gotta like carve in from a foot away away from the box and either be really sick at presses or slide off one side or another.
 
Park crews are very likely to screw up on something they have never made before. Its not like they get to make a prototype on the backside to make sure it works and then build it again in the park.
 
Yeah, my home park is 7 springs, and I think they're trying way too hard to be creative... PSYCHE! Bitch we have the best park in the world.

shoutout to SCM from S29

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remember that traveling circus episode where Will hits the rails and lands on the frozen lake...... and even if youre not into it its gotta be funny to watch people eat shit on that kind of a feature all day.
 
Although that all urban style street park is very impressive, I wouldn't go as far as saying they have the best park in the world. Maybe one of the best but certainly not the best.
 
No, it doesn't get boring. What you see in the picture is 1/4 of the park, and the streets park is 1 of 8 terrain parks at 7 springs.

and its difficult terrain, but thats what makes it so much fun. I hate the generic down rail/box flat rail/box setups in most parks.
 
one of my home mountains only has down rails, which is sick because now i can get bling 270 and 450 out on pretty much everything. also, the park staff was really ripped today so they spent an hour settting up a barrel at the top of the park, it was funny. but they're chill i love it
 
I would say if there was a "park of the year" award, it would definitely go to the streets.

As for best park, I would stand by my statement. It is the best urban style park in the world.
 
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