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Creativity in parks

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fluff
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with winter fast approaching my mind starts wandering about the first park build and all the features we'd like to have this winter. 

what would you want? haven't seen? think there needs to be more of? in todays parks. 

rails - curvey kinky launchy swoopy

jumps - poppy floaty tiny ginormous aimed left or right or

bonks - junk wood metal plastic cars other

other--- kind of the point of this thread.

i've been thinking that an urban setting style park would be sick.  actually have functioning store fronts over looking stair cases, wall rides, gap-to-features.  think tony hawk.  if there was a less lame version of the stratton village on the hill that you could ski through and session. 

Oct 22 2010 2:34PM
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adamlukowski
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it'd be sick if we could make Toms a medium park with flat/kindof difficul rails and boxes, and stinger a big feature park. A Staircase with handrails would be rediculous. That working store thing is a crazy idea and you could do a lot of things with it, wall ride, low roof - gap on/off... and stepdown jumps? or less ofa stepup design and just a little curve on the flat
Oct 23 2010 11:59AM
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fluff
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tom's is going to be dinky to start... and then working up to small.... 

actually, i was thnking parks in general, not sundown specifically.... just wondering where peoples heads are at when they think of fun skiing

Oct 23 2010 1:27PM
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EmperorKuzco
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ive always wanted to hit a car with a cannon rail on top of it
Oct 23 2010 2:49PM
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EmperorKuzco
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oh and burton stash parks like at killington are pretty creative
Oct 23 2010 2:50PM
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BWalmer
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rails - flatbars to learn tricks, kinks for kinks, and creative ways of putting them together (butter boxes on/off rails, transfer rails, urban setups, stuff like that)

jumps - a good mix of jumps is key, you need to have the big floaty ones and the small poppy ones so you can learn new tricks and not die.

bonks - wood, metal, plastic, it's all fun - crazy random things are always cool to see and make you thing creatively - NO TIRES...those=death.

other--- it really comes down to setting everything up in different and creative ways. For the most park, every mountain has the same basic features, granted mountains do have some not some common features too, but it mostly comes down to flow and approaches...making multiple ways to hit the same feature increases creativity, and adds to the flow of the park.
Oct 23 2010 2:58PM
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adamlukowski
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We should have more jams this year like they used to be. A boxzilla would be sick. Like the Flat boxes, Aframe, rainbow,c, FDF

heres an example

Canyons Dec 20th ... BOXZILLA ! from Hennie vJ on Vimeo.

Oct 23 2010 7:02PM
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BWalmer
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I want to put together the super long rail (all the flat bars put together as one down rail). I miss the jams, but I'd imagine it's hard to get prizes together for those every weekend.
Oct 23 2010 7:38PM
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JStrathern
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I want to hit a flat box over a limo like they have at Windells.. soooo sick
Oct 23 2010 8:34PM
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Mr.DarthVader
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 i think mountains should use more jersy  barriers
Oct 23 2010 9:53PM
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Mr.DarthVader
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Some of the stuff like the bonks are good
Oct 24 2010 12:07AM
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JStrathern
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They should put a sheet of metal like the metal for regular rails on top of the wood features in those for skiers, it would still be creative but we could actually ride them without catching an edge and dying
Oct 24 2010 12:13AM
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BWalmer
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That kinda defeats the purpose...

I like the stash spots in the spring when my skis are beat to shit and they have no edges underfoot, haha.
Oct 24 2010 12:56AM
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EmperorKuzco
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yes i like it except not burton. I bet Line could do something creative like that
Oct 24 2010 7:02PM
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adamlukowski
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a company doesn't need to sponsor it, any mountian can do it
Oct 24 2010 11:00PM
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L.U.P.E.
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rails- gota keep it creative,i think adding rails together to make unique features. also having them set up difficult but still trickable.

jumps- wide lips to carve, nice transitions for the "floating" feeling.

overall just a park with flow and a good amount options is wat im looking for.

Oct 25 2010 2:07PM
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danbrown
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Sundown postseason, circa '04, as seen in Wicked

longest flat-down rail I've ever seen
Oct 25 2010 2:48PM
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wesley.
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rail variety is the most important thing in all parks for me. i'm tired of seeing flat rail jump jump down rail. maybe a few double kinks.
My ideal rails/boxes
1. really big flat rail
2. alot of small boxes to learn on
3. up down up(super fun) it's just a flat down flat at an angle
4. FLAT DOWN RAILS
5. flat down boxes with a gap
6. all sorts of weird shaped boxes

Jumps:
some small, some huge, some "middle"
variety in types of jumps. step downs scare me though

Bonks:
small easy ones so i dont have to worry about catching my tips because i freak out about that
Oct 25 2010 3:20PM
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BWalmer
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this sounds like fun, and difficult...and possible death...haha.
Oct 25 2010 5:32PM
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wesley.
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its really not that bad and yeah they're really fun. i dont consider myself great and i can do front 4s off of them. stowe had one set up this year il try to find pics/footy of it
Oct 25 2010 5:33PM
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adamlukowski
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Donkey dicks and Flat Down flat down rail
Oct 25 2010 7:49PM
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BWalmer
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yeah, I could see them being super fun, I'd just be afraid of getting caught up in the bottom of the V at the Down-Up, but, once you get through that it'd be super fun.
Oct 25 2010 8:08PM
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wesley.
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first shot, its pretty smooth if you hit it with alot of speed it gets funky and deadly though haha
Oct 25 2010 8:12PM
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BWalmer
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oh, nice, that does look fun, that's way more mellow that I imagined, haha.
Oct 25 2010 8:18PM
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Baskin.
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I really enjoyed that mini pipe with the little jibs that sundown had at one point
Nov 16 2010 8:10PM
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troyk4241
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fun all day in the stash son. the wood is non-issue good times.
Nov 17 2010 2:06AM
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Lemuel
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battleship to flat down (up flat down flat down) would be sick. This one may be a little crazy, but if you found a way for it to work it could be the sickest thing ever: and S rail with a down between the curves. Like a c rail, down, opposite c, all connected into one rail. It would probably be difficult to find a good location to put it, but I want to see someone make this happen.
Nov 17 2010 9:57AM
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Krongos
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At stowe, we were talking about setting up a bamboo and rope bonk to keep kids from doing it on the real fences.  i think it would be legit.  I would also like to see more mini step downs (5-15 ft) with bonks in the middle.  Overall, I think creativity and pushing the boundries of park mini jibs is an area where the east coast can compete with the west coast.  Unfortunately with the possible exception of mount snow or loon, we haven't yet.
Nov 17 2010 8:25PM
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