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Future park features

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[walter]
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What kinds of things are going to be apart of the future park secne, what are some ideas or cool features that shoud be apart of future park ?
Jan 24 2014 2:17AM
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Moosen
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Bigger jumps!
Jan 24 2014 2:23AM
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myllhouse
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concrete walls and rails… possibly
Jan 24 2014 2:31AM
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[walter]
Posts: 129 - Karma: 208
Shredsauce levels come to life
Jan 24 2014 2:44AM
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lewist
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inb4 better built jumps
Jan 24 2014 2:46AM
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theabortionator
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More creative features. Right now is sort of a testing ground for using some wild features. In the next few years more of those will become standard. At any point down the road things can start to change though as trends change.


I would say elbow kinks but at this point their pretty popular. The trend now is more skatepark style setups with creative lines packed with features. Closeouts, Stair landers, butter box take offs on rails, things like that will keep getting bigger.

It's not about just having the right rails and boxes anymore, it's how you set them up.(not that setup never mattered)


Already started to see the small features die. You don't see the 8' flat rails, 10' flat downs any more other than grom parks. 30' is an excepted length for a down rail now.

I def hope wood parks keep showing up places. If those die out I'd be sad. Def think they're good to go for at least a few years though.
Jan 24 2014 8:23AM
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GANKI
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trannying into a tranny in a tranny
Jan 24 2014 8:35AM
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BigScaryLarry
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tranvestites tranny finding
Jan 24 2014 10:48AM
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John18_6
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Z to DFD tooooob
Jan 24 2014 10:56AM
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speedin
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Closeout rails are stupid.....never understood why anyone would want to hit one.

Jan 24 2014 10:59AM
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JahLiam
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Dfd rails with curved kinks
Jan 24 2014 11:15AM
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John18_6
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Dragon s rails.
Jan 24 2014 11:18AM
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first_rodeo
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the return of the okemo TRUTH rail.
the return of junk car jibs
construction themed shit; backhoes excavators, bucketloaders
death pits, like the ones you make when building dirtjumps to keep people from trying them

pump tracks and rhythm sections
Jan 24 2014 11:49AM
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powerbong2000
Posts: 737 - Karma: 1,802
Never understood why people build them into parks.
Jan 24 2014 12:13PM
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Migo
Posts: 528 - Karma: 1,741
DFD s rail
Jan 24 2014 1:21PM
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McLS
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hahaha, I do that all the time after seshing a jump I made in the pow, so that gapers don't go on it and break the lip or something
Jan 24 2014 1:26PM
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@LANTASKI
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blending creative all mtn features with man mad features
Jan 24 2014 1:50PM
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tacotom
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elbow rails are hot right now
Jan 24 2014 3:10PM
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raymondcabral
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That would be fucking amazing
Jan 24 2014 5:09PM
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powerbong2000
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I call moguls rhythm sections.
Jan 24 2014 5:27PM
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mski
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people movers as rail features
Jan 24 2014 5:31PM
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wootang
Posts: 284 - Karma: 404
Ask Craig Coker
Jan 24 2014 5:36PM
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theabortionator
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Because some people like to hit them?

I mean why would you put log rails out? metal rails slide smoother.

Variety is the spice of life.
Jan 24 2014 7:32PM
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afterbang_me
Posts: 385 - Karma: 152
The Boreal Park has been really fun this year.  Definitely innovative.  We haven't had any snow in Tahoe almost all year, but they've constantly improved their features and kept it fun.  I dig the skatepark feel.

Jan 24 2014 7:37PM
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white.powder
Posts: 187 - Karma: 777
peace park everywere

Jan 24 2014 9:10PM
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caderobinson
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Channels, hips,pumptrack, street lamp anything creative
Jan 24 2014 9:40PM
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phyz
Posts: 573 - Karma: 937
Rainbow S-rails.
Jan 24 2014 9:46PM
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Turd.Ferguson
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a bowl like they have in a skatepark
Jan 24 2014 10:00PM
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Frediboy94
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A lot more features that imitate urban set-ups. Jumps will stay more or less the same, but get a bit bigger for the next few years. The gaps to rails will get bigger, and look for a lot of butterbox features for the next few seasons. They seem to be the trend right now, especially in combination with wallrides. This brings me to the next point: wallrides. They can be set up in so many creative ways and they allow athletes to truly impress by getting height. That's what Todd Walnuts did when he took X gold and I'm pretty sure that's what Schlopy was trying to do during qualifiers. If you don't quit make it to the top you can still safely slide down the actual wall, instead of knocking yourself senseless as you would when missing a rail of that size. More transfers and creative lines in the rail sections.
Jan 24 2014 10:03PM
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.squirrely.
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rails with chunder landings
Jan 24 2014 10:03PM
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TOAST.
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JIB PIPES. small half pipes with different jibs. They are so fun to flow through.
Jan 24 2014 11:02PM
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theabortionator
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I see that every time I scroll down and figured I should quote for emphasis.


Jan 24 2014 11:08PM
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cyberginger
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Jan 24 2014 11:14PM
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casual
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Parks built with more of a vertical dimension. Features that build on one another, stepping up, lots of options for transitions, ultimately capped by step downs and/or down, kink rails over stair sets.

Parks that used to push sketchy mini pipes or even 22ft. superpipes will build concrete skatepark style parks. Lots of tube rail "coping", spines, rhythm sections with butter pads and options to gap tranny to tranny.

Public parks seem to follow comp course trends, like the cannon rail/box explosion. We've seen a lot of banked (all different angles from nearly flat, butterbox to vertical wallrides) wallride/boxes. We'll start seeing a lot more of those kind of step on, step off, tappy jibberones.

more ollie on features and rails, lips getting smaller.


Jan 24 2014 11:20PM
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himay5
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Jumps with shark tanks in the gap.
Jan 24 2014 11:29PM
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louie.mirags
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you just blew my mind, sir.
Jan 25 2014 12:54AM
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b-kul
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basically a snow covered wipe-out course.
Jan 25 2014 12:40PM
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Wolfgang.
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Flying rails.
Jan 25 2014 2:37PM
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KingTaco
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battleship rails and rainbow rails

just kidding. I was actually thinking yesterday how battleships are pretty much obsolete
Jan 25 2014 6:37PM
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No.Quarter
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Oh god, having maintained pump tracks would be so tight. It sucks to be going through a smooth side pump track only to have your flow killed by an extremely kicky triangle sticking out of the ground. Or to hit someone going really slow because the track is so narrow
Jan 25 2014 6:45PM
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CrotchKiller
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i wanna see some concrete ledges for sure
Jan 25 2014 7:14PM
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louie.mirags
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The trail from top to bottom will mimic famous city streets full of jibs
Jan 25 2014 7:31PM
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theabortionator
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More permanent/semi permanent street style features. Things like the streets.

More shipping containers not getting used for shipping.
Jan 25 2014 7:35PM
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TOAST.
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Maintaining them would be so hard, especially on the ice coast. They would be solid sheets of ice because you can't groom them.
Jan 26 2014 10:03PM
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theabortionator
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Exactly. There's a reason they pop up late season when the snow is soft/ Especially closing weekends when it doesn't matter.


Can you imagine trying to maintain one on the east all winter with a season like this? Warm, stupidly cold, warm and rain stupidly cold, cold and rain, stupidly cold.

Who's got them hockey skates
Jan 26 2014 10:54PM
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Cthulhu
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on the last rail/ box in the park you actually slide into a teleporter that brings you to the top of the park, no more lifts, totally possible.
Jan 26 2014 11:02PM
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broto
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we just resurrected the old 32ft battleship at my mountain. that thing is so fun.
Jan 26 2014 11:15PM
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Maruchan
Posts: 206 - Karma: 1,582
I think it'd be cool to see a park covering a whole mountain. Still have a park area with a bunch of features but just throw some rails to the side of groomed runs and throw in little booters in the trees and set up tree jibs and stuff. Just an idea
Jan 26 2014 11:36PM
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skiRay
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agreed.

Whiteface has the dragon rail in now... aka, the olddd roller coaster rail
Jan 26 2014 11:39PM
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[walter]
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Also I think some natural and wood features to blend in with the flow of the mountain
Jan 27 2014 1:15PM
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