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Trouble for doing flips

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pussy_puncher
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the other day a ski patrol saw me do a backflip and threatened to pull my season pass if it happened again. I find it weird that theyre not allowed because i could do a flip much more easily than a 540. Anyone else get in trouble for doing this?
Jan 7 2013 1:11PM
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Amadeus.
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I know some parks, especially at small resorts, that say no inverts, but i have never actually seen patrol follow through on that. That is pretty intense that they didnt even just give you a warning but instead threatened to pull your pass.
Jan 7 2013 1:13PM
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BoilingMidnight
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That is a warning.
Jan 7 2013 1:20PM
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Amadeus.
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Yeah it is, but they could have been a little more polite about it, if they did in fact just threaten to take his pass away for doing something as simple as a backflip.
Jan 7 2013 1:24PM
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YUNG_milksteAk
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Flips at my hill aren't "recommended" but the big jump sees plenty of dubs!
Jan 7 2013 1:33PM
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nine50seven
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at my local hill im trying to let us flip.
Jan 7 2013 1:41PM
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FroesenSkeeze
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My friend got disqualified in a comp because he front flipped. Stupid if you ask me because they had to sign a waiver to begin with.
Jan 7 2013 2:45PM
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Winterski
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At my mountain it says on all the park signs "No Inverted Tricks"... Then you enter the park and see all the ski instructors doing flips and trying to get the kids in their group to do flips.
Jan 7 2013 3:08PM
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SPUTnik.
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the mountain i ski at doesnt really care. it used to be majorly frowned upon unless you know you could do them. but as more guys started doing them they've stepped back on the rule. they dont really care at this point
Jan 7 2013 3:51PM
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theabortionator
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That's the argument I always made. I remember back when it was supposedly "illegal" to throw inverts or something.

Idk at 2 mountains I worked at I did them all the time, got hassled for a while but eventually they became cool with it and people throw them there all the times.


Also think it's dumb that some places you can cork but not flip. IT's much easier for me to float a backy than do any cork or spin. I'm not saying spins are crazy hard, but a backflip is like a straight air.
Jan 7 2013 3:53PM
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coldcuts69
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Thats not completely true, I was at sadbags a week or so ago, got yelled at for frontflips. It has gotten a lot better there though.
Jan 7 2013 3:56PM
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theabortionator
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Some mountains were always down with them. I remember the first ski flip I saw in person. I was in the pipe at labrador around 99. There were ski patrolers filming in the pipe and one of them through an alley oop backflip 180? of sorts. Not sure what it was and it was a long time ago but I was like damn that's pretty sick. Before then had only seen snowboarders.
Jan 7 2013 4:07PM
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monkatizer
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bristol mountain NY....


they will pull your pass, no warning for inverts, if you have a season pass, they will take it for 2 weeks


funny part is, they usually have a pretty sick park with some really good sized jumps
Jan 7 2013 5:14PM
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theabortionator
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That shit saddens me. Places living in the past. Like the mountains that don't allow snowboard still.


I've actually gotten yelled at for not having a leash on my snowboard in the last 5 years and a couple mountains. PLaces inability to change can be fucking ridiculous.
Jan 7 2013 5:35PM
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Juicy-J
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eh, last year i never heard anything. as long as we keep landing tricks itll be fine...
Jan 7 2013 5:44PM
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coldcuts69
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true
Jan 7 2013 6:16PM
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Jewschoolers
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seriously i was snowboarding at silver mountain in ID and some guy told me to get a leash. i was like its not fucking 2001 anymore dude, that shit useless
Jan 7 2013 6:20PM
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JWD*
Posts: 466 - Karma: 225
lots of signs at my mountian but no one cares

Jan 7 2013 10:30PM
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PapDaddy
Posts: 532 - Karma: 661
my home mountain is ass, The.Owl got his season pass pulled for doing a frontflip (but got it back after a week or 2 by talking to the manager) and i got mine pulled for attempting a frontflip and just never went back the rest of the season. 
that being said, there are kids landing fronts and backies when the 1 jump is decent enough to do it, so it seems like they only really get mad if you dont stomp it
Jan 7 2013 10:55PM
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DizzyG
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Eldora, this small ish resort near Boulder, just started requiring leashes. Its the stupidest shit ever but the lifties will let you on because a lot of them snowboard and they're pissed about it.

Haven't seen anybody get yelled at or anything yet, but they started putting up signs and stuff. It's kinda sad that they're going backwards.
Jan 7 2013 11:05PM
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Holte
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Crystal Mountain has a damn AIRBAG but cracks down on inverts to the point of kicking one of their team riders out for 2 weeks last season for tossing a micro rodeo on snow. Their management is a very confused group of individuals.
Jan 7 2013 11:56PM
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