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UK Skiers scene, XSCAPE

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dom_uk
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Hi i live near the Xscape in Castleford and am wanting to go up soon, wondering when the ramp nights are and how many of you lot will be hitting it up
Dec 20 2005 9:59AM
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iJib
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The freestlye nights dont come back til 6th jan as its christmas time, but the 3m rail and 10m are out which i am going to hit up tonight from 7.
Dec 20 2005 10:35AM
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fredsters_s
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yes i ski there sometimes the set up blows cock
Dec 20 2005 11:48AM
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whashisface
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Go up thursday and fridays between 7 and 11pm.
Dec 20 2005 12:15PM
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dom_uk
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cool will probs not be able to make it up till after christmas so will be up 2nd week in jan if thats the case bout freestyle night being calncelled because of christmas, whats the kicker like? iv heard bad things bout the lip always being knackered
Dec 20 2005 1:28PM
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fredsters_s
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well the last time i was there it was all pretty wacked out...made me want to be in the alps...which i am now!!!...no more indoor shit for me. But to be honest you can huck some stuff if you try off the "kicker" so yeah its ok.
Dec 20 2005 1:30PM
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dom_uk
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you bastard in the alps. im stuck here on dry slope where you get friction burns fallin ova, im so jealous n thx for the pointers
Dec 20 2005 1:33PM
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Da-Phunk
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castleford better than the milton keynes one? i was dissapointed, they had two rails and a small jump but they had roped them off.... flatter and shorter than the local dryslope too.
Dec 20 2005 1:40PM
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fredsters_s
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yeah sometimes they have a flat down, c-box and an s-box up at mk....not too bad for trying stuff
Dec 22 2005 7:30AM
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Jski
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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!
Dec 22 2005 7:48AM
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dom_uk
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ah there you go then, ill be up there after the 2nd/3rd of jan on a fri night probably and ill be sure to bring a few mates with me, ill see you then! thanks a lot, p.s the boxes and rails sound sick and im probably gonna be on them a lot of the night anyway so if the kickers messed up its not the end of the world, i have a dry slope kicker i can use all year round anyway (at rossendale)
Dec 22 2005 8:10AM
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fredsters_s
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word uk skiers! but seriously, quit your jobs and get to the alps guys....you wont look back.
Dec 22 2005 8:12AM
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dom_uk
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haha when im old enough! im only 15. i so would move to whistler or tignes or wateva if i could but unfortunately my ass is stuck in lancashire
Dec 22 2005 8:25AM
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Fulton333
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!!GUESS WHO DOM YOU BELL-END!?! it grant almighty! hahaha! and by the way you are taking me to X-scape! i will have been plenty practised by then....steamboat here i come!!
Dec 22 2005 12:49PM
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dom_uk
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shut the hell up u ginger twat i am going to be fine skiing mount rossendale instead of steamboat , (shaking with surpressed rage)lol btw evry1 we shud all shun mr mt rossendale cos he sno boards nd if u dnt hate sno boarders, hes ginger too!
Dec 22 2005 1:17PM
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marmite
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what's up, good work on the thread tomorrow night 7-11pm it is:

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Dec 22 2005 1:30PM
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marmite
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so go south!
Dec 22 2005 1:33PM
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jonsimpson
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Ah nice to see a UK thread in here. I live quite far from an Xscape, and the dryslope near me sucks ass. But hey, im moving to whistler in 3 weeks, yeah!
Dec 22 2005 1:35PM
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dom_uk
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ah nice plans luks sick marmite, if only i lived near milton keynes ah well
Dec 22 2005 1:38PM
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dom_uk
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any one who isn't already should check out the other UK thread on starting a UK cult,it would be great to get it off the ground
Dec 22 2005 1:42PM
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marmite
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yeah we got to keep the percentage of skiers up!
Dec 22 2005 2:00PM
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iJib
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Who i sthe cas regular, as i work and ride there everyweek, and tom the guy that does the parks is a top bloke, sick rails too but the rest of the park team have gone away meaning he has to do everything on his own.
Dec 22 2005 4:05PM
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