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How do you build you kickers
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Ive found theres almost a billion ways to make a kicker... and in all the ski films they build theres by packing snow first in to balls then shaping the jump from a pile of that. Any other sugestions
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make it into blocks. Use lots of salt to pack. use something heavy, a snowboard, skis, or get your fat friend to roll around on it, but make sure that shits packed down.
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blocks for sure, def the fastest and most effective way to build booters.
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then once you think its packed down hard enough, pack it down again or else the first kid to hit it is going to plow right through it
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haha. reminds me of a day way back when... i saw a bunch of gapers rallyin this kicker. It was sugar snow so it was a more of a huge pile. Guinea pig exploded straight through it..
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so you just carry salt on you all the time??
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No, but if im going to build a jump, ill bring it. This is complete necessity for jump building.
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you shouldn't ever need salt. just chill for a wile and those big blocks you cut will bond together and be solid. the term i use for this is marinate.
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putting salt on them would be marinating. The reason they bond is that they are melting together. Thats what the salt does, but 9x faster.
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MARINATE DAT SHIT NUUUUGGA
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I think asian_allen would be the best person to ask if you're looking to make shoes
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It sorta depends on where you ski, if youre in Utah with all that nice dry champagne powder you're going to have to devote more time to making it stick together than you would over here where we have really wet sticky snow. I just make a mold out of 2 pairs of skis and pile snow in, packing it down every inch layer or so. Then i take the skis out and make it bigger and taller. When i like the way it looks, I pack it down more, then take a run just to let it freeze. Never busted through a kicker.
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im a big fan of dragging a couple of wooden pallets (like what the bring everything in on at Walmart) and putting snow on top of those. saves a shitload of shoveling...... that only works if its a reasonable walk from the truck.
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Haha this is going to sound retarded, but I use a snow saw to make blocks, I stack them in to the general shape. Next all of us take a leak on the jump. After that we do another layer, than just fluff to make it even. The piss works well because it naturally has salt in it, it also freezes all the blocks together. Plus you don't have to carry anything. Its nasty, but it gets covered anyway so you can't even see it.
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got yeah. but yeah just make sure you pack it every layer of blocks you build. should be prime after a run when your finished
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salt is a serious friend - listen to embracedbyleaves
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get a box of that kosher shit and prep to throw down
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what about using water? like JP Walker in the Forum video "we at Forum only use water to build up jumps"
or building it the day before, to let it froze through the night...
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good it you have the time or the patience. when I build something i wanna hit it that day.
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I guess i'm a noob at tha i put a pile of snow down then pack it down and put more on until i like the size then i shape it.
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Its all in the shape, but how you get there it up to you, salt works real well. Having the nice packy snow to begin with is the best. Almost like you have to wait for the warmer day to build it then let it get solid so you can hit it for a while.
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You should be more specific in your questioning....for example: where do you want to build, how big do you want it to be, and how many people do you plan on having to help you? Those are pretty important factors.
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