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Newest park set up fads

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snowedout
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What are you guys seeing in parks these days that you think are the new fads

ie: stair set take off's/ landings, close out rails, side hit wall rides

Just was thinking about how alot of new ideas came around this year and wonder what you guys think where good ideas/ bad ideas that you saw around the country

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Jul 12 2012 10:38PM
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Ski_ThEast
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these

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had it at sugarbush too and a bunch of other places
Jul 12 2012 10:46PM
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Dr.Dickless
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closeouts are terrifying
Jul 12 2012 10:55PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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i see stair sets at almost every mountain i go to. and if they don't have wood or plastic stairs they make them out of snow.
Jul 12 2012 11:05PM
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buddychaps
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they're trying to make it more "urban."
Jul 12 2012 11:09PM
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snowedout
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Ya i think im gunna make 2 sets out of wood this year with HDPE plastic over the 90 degree sections of the stairs
Jul 12 2012 11:15PM
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Toaster-Tony
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agree.

I'm not a big fan, I think they are wasting too much rail for a setup you can really only stall on. I would much rather it be set up as a down or flat bar.
Jul 12 2012 11:43PM
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OCM
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yep, i went to a postseason rail jam this year and they had one of these setup, and it just made me mad because it was a perfectly good rail they could have used elsewhere.

stair set landings are all the rage nowadays anyways.
Jul 12 2012 11:46PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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wallrides seem to be pretty "in"
Jul 12 2012 11:55PM
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snowedout
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What do you think about something like this

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Jul 12 2012 11:59PM
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CrotchKiller
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dont be a pussy
Jul 13 2012 12:02AM
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WillStart
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nah I've seen people come in from the side, slide the flat rail, then hop onto the down. not that i'm a fan of that type of feature, just pointing out that there are other ways to hit it.

Jul 13 2012 12:11AM
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james6345789
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i had the privilege of hitting this. my hill had one, except the top one was a wooden log...

another hill near me had one too.
Jul 13 2012 12:12AM
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EricaMN.
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this + banana rail instead of a flat bar = 10/10, would hit again
Jul 13 2012 12:19AM
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-RDG-
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preach the good word man
Jul 13 2012 12:23AM
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OCM
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yessir big bear
Jul 13 2012 12:25AM
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FuckAllOfYou
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what's a closeout? i've probably seen one but I wouldn't know the name
Jul 13 2012 12:38AM
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snowedout
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its a rail running down fall line and ending with a rail running across fall line kind of in the shape of a L
Jul 13 2012 12:41AM
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jerm
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the flat rail/closeout, closed in/down rail are every where. theyre fun to try and do the whole thing. forward over and down. or forward transfer gap to down.
Jul 13 2012 12:45AM
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Aiden-P
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Jul 13 2012 1:04AM
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LIL_WAT
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"Step-overs"/tables as opposed to step-downs. Safer apparently, but nowhere near as fun
Jul 13 2012 1:08AM
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Amadeus.
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Jul 13 2012 1:08AM
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Holte
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That's crazy talk. Step overs generally give you more airtime, and more airtime=more fun.
Jul 13 2012 1:26AM
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Big.Bird
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whered you see many step overs or tables?
Jul 13 2012 1:45AM
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Pmoore
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lol. You sir are confused
Jul 13 2012 2:27AM
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Parks.
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I think you are confused......any hoot, I think stairs as landing are really "in" right now
Jul 13 2012 2:44AM
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blatt
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Top 5 stupidest rail features of summer at tline so far IMO



Tubes ftw. my favorite features have alway been tubes/life towers
Jul 13 2012 2:49AM
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.Roockley.
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Jul 13 2012 4:10AM
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Dr.Dickless
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step overs are dope, but a park needs variety, what i would really like to see is more step ups in public parks
Jul 13 2012 5:03AM
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JAHrig
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saw will wesson getting nasty on this last week! he was about the only person hitting it along the full elbow.
Jul 13 2012 6:24AM
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.Hugo.
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stair landings
Jul 13 2012 8:44AM
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NotGhood
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Ever since that video of the guy destroying his knee on a close out I've vowed never to hit one.
Jul 13 2012 9:49AM
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Newschool_Pope
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Jul 13 2012 9:54AM
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Maximili420
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metal stairs for a landing after rails seems to be popular, i hit one at boulder. did it once didnt fall scared the shit out of me. dont know if i plan on trying that again haha
Jul 13 2012 1:14PM
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TheButterHashira
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Close out rails are for real men!
Slush seemed to be really popular in my area this year. All the parks were constructed entirely from slush.
Jul 13 2012 1:31PM
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Slowbro
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they had one at my hill that they built for some big snowboard comp, a little less angled but with a slight gap between rails and a little quarter on the side for a while. So many kids got wrecked.
Jul 13 2012 1:38PM
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Ian.Ham
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Fuck that rail. I wrecked myself so hard on it. You had to use the upper rail as the jump to get on and one of my skis stuck and i ended up landing on the donkey dick on my side. Fucked my hip up and cracked a rib or two. So over that bullshit setup.
Jul 13 2012 1:44PM
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Randy_Quench
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I put my ski through the ply of a closeout at stowe last season.. Pretty much turned a kfed into a fs swap front flip out. If anyone saw the hole in the plywood and thought "damn someone fucked up real hard there." yeah that was me. sorry for breaking your toys stowe.
Jul 13 2012 1:50PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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holy god that would be terrifying
Jul 13 2012 4:02PM
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SamMcChesney
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Hahahahahahahaha the truth comes out. I always wondered how that got there.
Jul 13 2012 4:06PM
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Jibberino
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Can't make out the angles in this pic? Also that kicker looks really high?

I've got some good ideas for this winter, i'll post up once the snow rolls around. Also closeout rails work really well when you make sure the close out bit is hittable as well, makes for some creative shit. Reversed closeouts work quite well too.
Jul 13 2012 4:07PM
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Lick
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Link to said video?
Jul 13 2012 5:13PM
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Capurnicus
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yup
Jul 13 2012 5:20PM
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Ribss.
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Start of this.
Jul 13 2012 5:36PM
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snowedout
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i built one of these this year I was surprised on how little it was hit

Jul 13 2012 5:41PM
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Alex.B
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I am terrified of hitting my tip on the first stairs, but I like the stair landings
Jul 13 2012 6:39PM
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Forcillo
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Donkey Dicks are getting pretty big
Jul 13 2012 6:45PM
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mophead
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word nate that looks dope, what about makin the stairs longer on the landing, and the rail a 30-40 ft shotgun
Jul 13 2012 7:26PM
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jerm
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sounds like you need to improve your skills.
Jul 13 2012 8:47PM
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Willard
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Its been done...Personally i love the fact that people are doing stairs/closeouts/side ways walls. Sorry you kids want to hit a boring flat rail and try to spin as much as possible. I wish my park crew would stop building 2001 style parks.
Jul 13 2012 11:30PM
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HamFaceGirl
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I saw this on some park city edit. I'm not sure if it ended in stairs as well though
Jul 14 2012 11:57AM
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