GAPERS SUCK, second season out

damn +++++++ vibes bro

+++++++++Vibes man that sucks, i dont like gapers that much but they keep my season pass cheep, and i would have ran him over and not given a fuck.

mountains need to crack down on the gaper problem not so much in the mini parks, but the higher end parks with 30 - 45 foot booters.  Having fucking ignorant parents and their snowplowing children zig-zagging all through the landings and everywhere is unacceptable.

It pisses me off to no end. I just want to go up to parents and be like "Go read the FUCKING rules and if you can't get your kid to listen then GTFO."  I've had so many incidents to the point where I'm afraid to huck off shit because on the inrun I'm looking all over for kamikazee kids.

First vibes dude I'm hoping for the best!

Second, yea man they can espesh in jump lines. In alot of parks there are always gapers riding though. Most of the time it's little kids that want to ride over the jumps. So their rents just take them through completely oblivious and think its awesome that the little Jrs. are riding up the take offs and over the knuckles enjoying themselves. For some reason I've found they spesh like chilling on the down side of a knuckle which is the single worst place to have a tea party. Funny enough even in an accident or a near miss the parents quickly blame you when they and their children are directly at fault.

A good example of this is at this one place in MN (I ride there a bunch of times a season), the half pipe comes out just infront of the second jump in the big line. It is fairly common on a weekend (atleast when I'm there) to have little kids ride down the middle of the pipe and then over to the knuckle of the second big jump, where they get scared of the steepness of the landing and pizza slice down the middle of the landing at a super slow speed. The problem is even from the drop in you can't see if they have done this because the first jump hides them till they are on the second's deck. Funny thing is this place has small jumps for these kids to learn on and they still do it, and they have to cross over the small line to get to the big.

That is why Park Passes are the only way to go it is extremely effective in keeping gapers out. No one that thinks they might take a lap in the park with their kids is going to pay 10-15 bucks for themselves and then 10-15 for every kid. 

He was probably just taking it easy on his knee.

That being said I weigh almost 210 and I ride 178cm to 185's I keep my dins at 9.5 and drop them to 8.5 for my pow skis, and don't prerealease. It's all about how you adjust your forward pressure and making sure that when you buy a binding that your din setting is in the middle 50% of the bindings because your bindings work best in that range. Aka I have Fks 140XXL the range is from 5-14 I ride 9.5 so I am in the middle. I didn't get the 180XXL because I would need to ride around an 11 for them to work at their potential and since I'm more of a park rider and not slaying ultra fast big mountain lines, I keep my dins lower because the forward pressure alone can prevent pre release. The reason I'm adressing your point is because they're are way to many knee injuries (and I have seen several in person all low speed twisting falls) because some kid that weighs 165 pounds or less has their px18s cranked.  

word thanks again for the vibes guys, lets hope it does something haha.  Fair warning im all fucked up on vicoden and couldnt sleep last night so there is probably gunna be alot of errors in here.  Im about 180 or so, so about 20 pounds less then i was saying, i just rounded up. i just kept them exactly how the shop set it

 Yeah i dont even get how i hurt it doing what i was doing, all that happened was there was ice then stickey snow gun snow i tried to stop on the ice and my leg buckeled when i hit the bad snow, i was putting a little more weight on that leg because the other one is the one i blew out last season and had been hurting a little. 

As for the gaper, there is a connector trail that drops into the park directly between the 2nd and 3rd jump in our line with trees that screen it from where you drop in, park staff didnt put any kinda fence or anything up yesterday and the kid came down the other trail with speed and right infront of me.  Its deffanatly a sketchy situation, i could probably get a lot of money out of the mtn if i really wanted to but im not like that, and i couldnt ever make a park shut down just because i wanted a lot of money.

Im calling the dr today to set up an mri and everything ill let you know how it goes