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Cool down with the ride on features

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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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PURIST RANT INCOMING

I’m so sick of every fuckin feature in my park being a ride on/straddle-able lip. Like there’s a whole ass beginner park for that😭 I mean it’s nice to have like ride on for a big flat down tube or something like that I can respect. But holy shiiiit we need to start teaching the next generation how to urban on, we don’t need to be straddling a flat hand rail make em jump for that



This feature is one that really pisses me off with the lip. Like this is just a fat ass propane tank buried in the snow. Like there could be so much potential to just like, not build a lip for this so u could hop up on, use it as a stall, baby crusher on, possibilities are endless but instead nah we need to build a lip higher than the feature so you can only ride on

LET ME CRUSH BABIES PEAK PARKS

**This thread was edited on Feb 7th 2024 at 12:11:09pm

**This thread was edited on Feb 7th 2024 at 12:14:25pm
a year ago
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lil.Boye
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op just learned to jump onto a rail and is now too cool to ride on
a year ago
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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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lil.Boyeop just learned to jump onto a rail and is now too cool to ride on



a year ago
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weatherRyan
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One of my friends never Urbans on and ngl he looks dumb asf ngl
a year ago
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dwt802
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hi_vis360The problem isn’t that progression features exist. I skied park in the days where there were no progression features, parks were super sketchy, and it sucked. What we need is a mix. Not everything should be a huge down bar with a tiny lip, but not everything should be a fat tube with a ride on lip. There should be both


Exactly this and hopefully in the next couple of years we start to see more parks make this shift. We have never been in an equilibrium of park feature difficulty before but with this shift to almost entirely progressive features coming from almost all huge gnarly features we should hit an equilibrium in the relatively near future.
a year ago
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PussyFinder
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"Urban on" term kinda pisses me off
a year ago
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ski_salmon69
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Liberty mountain parks needs to read this thread
a year ago
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SteezeOnAJawnt
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ski_salmon69Liberty mountain parks needs to read this thread


Liberty will never listen. Shits going downhill and vail will keep dragging it
a year ago
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TOAST.
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out of 14 rails/boxes in our parks I think 2 are ride on and both of those are boxes.
We have a tendency to only have ride on boxes, most rails have a urban lip or sometimes a gap.
a year ago
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skierman
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If only there was a way to create your own urban-style features using features that already exist in an urban environment.... hmmm...............
a year ago
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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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skiermanIf only there was a way to create your own urban-style features using features that already exist in an urban environment.... hmmm...............


U are right skierman but it’s 50 degrees out and there’s no snow to build with
a year ago
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skierman
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CowboySkibopU are right skierman but it’s 50 degrees out and there’s no snow to build with


They're called ice rinks, you barely functioning jackass.
a year ago
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littleman34
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If rails are gonna be smaller I don’t mind too much I just want the lip to be set back at least a couple feet. Otherwise the second you get on the first half is already behind you
a year ago
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MaimHelp
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a_pla5tic_bagIt's not for you, it's for snowboarders and "safer" features. Ride on boxes that are wider than a snowboard is the perfect feature for people who started snowboarding because it LoOkS ExTr3Me. Granted, it's not the early 2000s anymore so this trend may be gone. It's also safer, you can't skewer yourself on a ride on feature but you can on one that is not.


Couple seasons ago the park crew at springs built all the lips urban on and all the 16 year old comp kids were bitching how they "didn't make the lips for skiers"

No young up and coming rail skiers are coming out of springs rn cause of ride on features with this mentality.
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