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Suggest your set up for the new years rail jam

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Literature
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So there will be a rail jam this year at New Years. Suggest what you think it will be, and I will put it into the hands of the park crew. Maybe we can create some cool stuff.
Dec 18 2006 11:03PM
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My setup:

At the top, all on the same takeoff:
Rainbow (normal, with the height maximized)
Down-Flat-Down (urban)
Flat box to down Bazooka ( normal takeoff)

Next:
S-rail

At the bottom:
Wallride set out of a quarter created with the Zaugg, perpendicular to everything else.

This would kick ass.

Dec 18 2006 11:07PM
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eheath
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If you do it after new years iI may come...
Dec 18 2006 11:14PM
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dowalibeast
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as long as the jump is tall enough for the jibs i will be proud of the park crew.
Dec 19 2006 12:34AM
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AwR
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wow, i just made another thread about this sorry everyone, in mine it says all the times for the events.
Dec 19 2006 10:49AM
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Rez4frederick
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fuck the s-rail in a rail jam cause alot of peeps cant do them, including me.  I've never tried, but I know it would take me a little while to be able to grease it consistently.  Just a long slighly down rail is what I would like and the flat down box would be sick  in a line.
Dec 19 2006 12:29PM
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ajax
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on the same takeoff you could choose dfd rail (urban) or flat down box, then on the next take off the rainbow with either a box next to it or the bazooka rail, and then the quarter pipe setup/wallride at the end
Dec 20 2006 12:19AM
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The idea is to make everyone have to step up. I want to be scared. None of this pansy ass box jam crap.

Dec 20 2006 1:28AM
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ajax
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I think there need to be boxes for the lesser skilled, and as long as there was an option to hit something besides the s rail (like a box for instance) that would be ill. The DFD would be super sick set up urban.
Dec 20 2006 4:23PM
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drewishish
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8 year olds will not be able to hit anything you said. you need a box. and then some more difficult stuff, thats how it should be. youll get more people into it that way.
Dec 21 2006 12:00AM
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I am sick of the 8 yr olds holding back park design at Big Mtn. Make the 8 yr olds step up. Make everyone step up. At the Fernie rail jam I went to last weekend, there was not one box in the entire course. Everyone stepped it up, and some sick stuff was thrown. This same concept could occur at Big Mtn.

Dec 21 2006 3:04AM
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I don't know about at Fernie, but I think that the rail jam at Big Mountain is a big spectator event, it's more of a show. The crowd will, in my opinion, wants to see little kids (and girls) ripping it up, and the only way to do that is to have an easy line with boxes. If there weren't any boxes last year, there most likely wouldn't of even been a women's category and there probably would have been very few entries in the beginner. I don't know the numbers, but it seems like this would leave out too many kids. I'm all for having a super sick gnarly line, but there needs to be something for everyone, even if it's only one box.
Dec 21 2006 8:07PM
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Mitch Gilman is 10, and he destroys rails. I have not idea to Haydens age, but he as well as Carmel Johnston both ripped it up at Fernie. There are young kids and girls who rip around, and I honestly would rather ski for fun than for the crowd and whatever they come up for.
Dec 21 2006 8:17PM
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ajax
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Cool man, yeah, I don't know how many other younger kids there were, but maybe not many. Maybe no boxes is the way to go, I don't know, but regardless of whether there are boxes or not, hopefully Big Mountain puts together a sick setup. If they put in a couple of their new rails I don't think they can really go wrong.
Dec 22 2006 12:37AM
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dowalibeast
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big mtn is all for the publicity right now. that's really all they care about. they don't care much about the contestants having fun, they want them to put on a show in order to show spectators that they can build a park. no matter how shitty the set up is, if people are hitting it ignorant old rich people are going to see that as a positive. big mtn has become to resortish nowadays. whatever. it will be cool.
Dec 22 2006 12:52AM
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Fuck publicity. If you can't or won't do what it takes to make your park, pipe, and events worth it, they deserve no credit whatsoever. Where did they blow snow while they had the water? Toni Matt. Now Toni Matt has a 6 foot base, and we have dirt walls on the pipe. Park maintence is as shoddy as years past, and the setups have gone to crap already. I am grateful there is a park at all, but Big Mtn seems uncapable of going all the way.
Dec 22 2006 2:22AM
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drewishish
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or you could just put a box up to the side, problem solved. you can do you gnarlysicktasic shit while giving hte younger kids a chance to try somehting and not get scared shit less.
Dec 22 2006 3:24AM
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Or we could put up box gap to flat box gap down box like the rails at the Candide Invitational two years ago. That would be sick.
Dec 23 2006 12:16AM
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Stan_Darsh
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not having an easy line in the park really isnt much of an option i think. there has to be at least an easy box set up. kids can't just start on s-rails and raibows. they need to start it out easy, its how everyone learns
Dec 24 2006 8:04PM
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I guess I have trouble with the concept of starting people learing on rails at a rail jam.
Dec 25 2006 11:19PM
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Stan_Darsh
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imm sure people have done it. some kids probly just want to have a little fun and try to hit a few rails, without losing their balls. but i guess i will rephrase it "there needs to be beginner rails at a rail jam for beginners"
Dec 25 2006 11:22PM
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After looking at what they will have for the set up, they have the DFD, s-rail, and flat box.
Dec 29 2006 11:15PM
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Rez4frederick
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sounds sorta painful lol.

The dfd rail or box?
Dec 29 2006 11:41PM
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dowalibeast
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rail i believe.
Dec 30 2006 1:02AM
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Yes sir. The box and DFD rail are set up side by side up top, with easy takeoffs onto both. The S is below, lurking.

Dec 30 2006 9:13PM
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dowalibeast
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so better or worse than last year?
Dec 31 2006 3:03AM
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I liked the setup better than last years. You could go from the top to bottom and not hit a box, which I did not hit even once. The S rail was a fun challenge, and throwing switchups and other assorted things like cossaks off the kink on the DFD was enjoyable.

I had a lot of fun, but the judging and comp in general turned into a huckfest. Shit was being flung all over the place, and as usual, the people throwing the biggest and most unstylish stuff won. Doug Nangle cleaned house as usual, and should have won. Props to Joel and Shannon for coming down from Fernie, and an apology to Shannon, who cleaned the DFD several times and lost to a girl who slid the box sideways because the judges thought she (Shannon) was a boy.

I want to make a comp where style is the most important thing. I don't care about difficulty, I want style to win for just once.

Oh, and big ups to the members of the Big Mountain Freestyle and Snowboard teams, both were throwing down hard all night long. Also to Luke Habberkern (sorry if the spelling is wrong) for rightfully winning snowboard mens and shredding all night in a t-shirt and on his powder board.
Jan 1 2007 12:33AM
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bigmtn4ever
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yeah LUKE!!!
Jan 1 2007 12:41AM
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dowalibeast
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yeah dude it was pretty dope. we were filming some shit so maybe i'll post what we got.
Jan 1 2007 4:26AM
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That would be pretty cool.
Jan 1 2007 12:03PM
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Rez4frederick
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Yea, that was an ill comp.  That Luke guy on the snowboard was so freaking steezy.    Doug kills it, dave killed it.  Im glad I did the comp, I wasnt trying to win, just have fun really.  The judging was a bit wack as well as the announcer calling grinds on skis "wolverines" which was funny a couple years ago but now it is gay.  Yea props to those guys coming from Canada, they were sick. 

The downflat down was kind of rough on my skis edges :\

And Dave, I thought you were going to win amateurs....


Which one was the girl they thought was a dude?

Jan 1 2007 11:41PM
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dowalibeast
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what were you wearing?
Jan 1 2007 11:54PM
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Rez4frederick
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I have the 4frnt stls 183
Dark blue Siver Coat and Black siver pants
I had a racer steeze bluish helmet lol
Im pretty tall
No goggles

And you?
Jan 2 2007 12:11AM
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I was registered in Am, but about 1/3 of the way through one of the events crew came up and told me that I was tying or beating the pro level people, and he asked me if I wanted to switch categories. I said fuck it and did it anyway. Shortly thereafter people started hucking, and so I was relagated to just having fun with my dinkly switchups.
Jan 2 2007 8:39PM
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