My project 2025 is that not every single rail needs to be a straddle feature

eheathJust jump from the side of the lip and do massive disasters on every feature, problem solved.

lil.Boyewe make lips even for the most friendly features. Even the boxes ecourage jumping onto. Kids can take a slam, let them. Probably 80% of the local 8year olds that ski where i work know how to hit an actual rail.

X_MEMESWERVE_XXDamn this is legit.


like idk if my hill is doing it for me ”safety” but park skiing is inherently a dangerous activity. So might as well have kids learn it the right way early on. rather than having to relearn to hit a rail from the side.

Kids heal fast as hell

X_MEMESWERVE_XXhonestly my biggest beef is watching a kid do a kfed but still pizza in and straddle the rail

I also frequently watch people try to straddle urban on features and it just makes me sad

KilaTsunamiIsn’t it a suicide when u straddle onto a high rail like that tho?

Christian_Bale100% agree. it's like some people forgot that rails in terrain parks are actually supposed to resemble actual rails.

X_MEMESWERVE_XXYes

BallClapperThe handful of times I actually slid a whole rail was lip on. Straddling looks horrible and is scary.

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

SofaKingSicki kinda miss the ghetto stuff from yesteryear sometimes but this picture is funny. does that jump landing in the background keep going down or is it really that short after that long table??

cork_kingthis has to be a joke on the park crew's side, otherwise, wtf is this shitty ass rail

KilaTsunamiRight, just checking bcs I don’t hear that term often and thought it was made up lol

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

X_MEMESWERVE_XXthis is so fuckin funny holy shit
I wouldn't put this past granite peak lol

**This post was edited on Dec 11th 2024 at 11:34:03am

theabortionatorAt least the rails are still purple. I painted all of them then end of season this year they painted them black.

I get "purple isn't cool or gay or something" but it's branding. There are a fuck ton of mtns in the northeast. There are many with black rails. There are none or almost none eith purple. Fuck I work at mammoth now and we have pink rails. Pink doesn't have to be your favorite color but you know it's mammoth.

At oak I painted everything red, same thing. Branding.

Idk, these guys were pretty clues on anything related to terrain parks. Wild they tried to make consulting and training a business. Literally any park crew had more experience than them. Fuck I've been in the game for way too fucking long and i wouldn't even try and do that.

But yeah RIP big purp. You looked good

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

X_MEMESWERVE_XXI think we need more pink and purple rails. that shit is so cool

ours are navy blue but they used to be BRAT colored

BallClapperBig air jump to rail.

theabortionator

This was at my old local in NY the year after I worked there last.

SendyMcSendyfaceDid they just copy the booter in the background for the takeoff?

X_MEMESWERVE_XXI keep talking to my local park crew homies to get more urban on features in our park. cuz currently every single feature is straddle'able with a gigantic overbuilt lip. like I fully support a few features being straddle'able for people to progress and learn. but its also important to build urban on features for those same folks to progress f u r t h e r and become even better skiers once they get the baselines down and can hop on a rail from the side. I mean thankfully they are built really wide so you can still hop on from the side and you aren't forced to straddle.
Still there's no reason a 15 foot down rail shouldn't have an urban on lip. like the top of the rail is mayyybe 5 inches from the top of the lip. same goes for the 4 foot long LP tank, even as a learners feature it shouldn't have a lip that's built higher than the feature itself. unless you're hitting with negative speed, which you have to do, half the feature is past before you can even lock on to the rail. like at least put the lip level with the feature?? It's just way more fun for everyone when the park is built with variety.

my ass likes to JUMP onto shit
its important to learn how to jump onto shit

rant over. I'm pretty sure that my hill's management just wants every feature to just be hittable by the GM's 10 year old kid and it is out of park crew's hands lol

X_MEMESWERVE_XXhonestly my biggest beef is watching a kid do a kfed but still pizza in and straddle the rail

tall.skierLemmi guess, granite peak?

theabortionatorIt's just marketing sometimes. Like use what other mtns don't. I remember when Killington got dumped by powdr and posted a video painting a rail green and people went nuts.

That's the shit. That killington green. It's all branding. It doesn't have to be your favorite color if it's different. A lot of people forget or never realize that.

A unique color in the region people see the color in a clip and know what hill it is even if branding isn't visible. That's what it's about.

I'm glad mammoth brought back the pink and we stay hard on it.

You see a pink rail you think mammoth. That's how branding works. Fuck saying pink is dumb, pink is an underutilized color. And we rep the fuck out of it. Pink is our brand. Yolo. Haters can go paint there rails black and get lost in the sea

SteezyYeeterlol bro aint NO ONE getting mad abt using "girl" colors

theabortionatorI mean they though purple was whack and paimted everything black to be "cool"

SteezyYeeterpurple and black is a W combination, there's a compromise