Hey guys, how's it going? Hope everyone's having a rad summer. What a weird time to be thinking about skiboarding, right? Well, that's exactly what I wanted to discuss with everyone. As most of you probably already know, myself along with most of the Revel8 pro and flow team went down to do some riding in Lynchburg, Virginia at the Liberty Snow Flex Center. It turned out to be better than we had expected. Some really great things came out of that weekend, which you will get a chance to see this fall when the video is released. Among other things one of my intentions of going down there was to look at the possibility of a future summer event. At the end of the weekend I spent some time discussing things of that nature with them and they seemed interested. They have no problem getting sponsors because of the rare nature of a facility like theirs.
My purpose for creating this post is to get some ideas and suggestions from you guys as well as see who would be possible participants. The sessions run from 6pm-12am so the temperatures are not a problem at all. At no point were we complaining of the heat. You are however required to wear long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and a helmet. While it took no time at all to get used to riding and landing on the surface, if you fall and you bare skin slides on it, you will get scraped up good. It's the equivalent of sliding down a hill made up of the rough side of Velcro. Falling with the clothes they tell you to wear is totally fine, and is even softer landings due to a shock absorption material beneath the surface. Translation, wear the clothes and it doesn't hurt all that much to fall. Their setup is as follows: 30' jump, 15' jump, knuckle/lip takeoff, 15' quarter-pipe, 20' wall-ride, C-Box, Urban Down-rail/box, Down-Flat-Down, Flat Box, Up Box, and a Battleship. While the jumps seem small the landing is really long so you can take it as deep as you want without worrying about going to flat. There is no problem taking it 50-70 feet, trust me. There is a big drop in for the jumps so speed is never an issue. The kicker for the 15' jump is about 3' high and the kicker for the 30' jump is about 6' high.
They have held five competitions there already and a sixth coming up soon. All of their competitions have been mixed, snowboarders and skiers. Our trip there was the first time that they had skiboarders on the mountain and they absolutely loved us. So, at the end of the weekend the ideas were thrown around about a possible future event. This could mean a meet-up, a competition, or a combination of the two. I would like your input on the matter to see if this thing could and would really happen. It wouldn't be until 2011 in either June, July, or August. The possibilities are almost unlimited. Big Air, Rail Jam, Quarter-Pipe High Jump, Split Pro and Am Divisions, Mixed Divisions, Split Men and Women Divisions, making it just a meet/training weekend, etc...
This is a brand new idea, a summer event, and since our sport is small this would be a great chance to not only get it noticed more, but make it look good. The end result would be an official, organized event. So please, make some constructive comments based upon this and your own ideas. Thanks for taking your time to get involved.
My purpose for creating this post is to get some ideas and suggestions from you guys as well as see who would be possible participants. The sessions run from 6pm-12am so the temperatures are not a problem at all. At no point were we complaining of the heat. You are however required to wear long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and a helmet. While it took no time at all to get used to riding and landing on the surface, if you fall and you bare skin slides on it, you will get scraped up good. It's the equivalent of sliding down a hill made up of the rough side of Velcro. Falling with the clothes they tell you to wear is totally fine, and is even softer landings due to a shock absorption material beneath the surface. Translation, wear the clothes and it doesn't hurt all that much to fall. Their setup is as follows: 30' jump, 15' jump, knuckle/lip takeoff, 15' quarter-pipe, 20' wall-ride, C-Box, Urban Down-rail/box, Down-Flat-Down, Flat Box, Up Box, and a Battleship. While the jumps seem small the landing is really long so you can take it as deep as you want without worrying about going to flat. There is no problem taking it 50-70 feet, trust me. There is a big drop in for the jumps so speed is never an issue. The kicker for the 15' jump is about 3' high and the kicker for the 30' jump is about 6' high.
They have held five competitions there already and a sixth coming up soon. All of their competitions have been mixed, snowboarders and skiers. Our trip there was the first time that they had skiboarders on the mountain and they absolutely loved us. So, at the end of the weekend the ideas were thrown around about a possible future event. This could mean a meet-up, a competition, or a combination of the two. I would like your input on the matter to see if this thing could and would really happen. It wouldn't be until 2011 in either June, July, or August. The possibilities are almost unlimited. Big Air, Rail Jam, Quarter-Pipe High Jump, Split Pro and Am Divisions, Mixed Divisions, Split Men and Women Divisions, making it just a meet/training weekend, etc...
This is a brand new idea, a summer event, and since our sport is small this would be a great chance to not only get it noticed more, but make it look good. The end result would be an official, organized event. So please, make some constructive comments based upon this and your own ideas. Thanks for taking your time to get involved.
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