headinahole

I know how it feels taking out a little kid... quite frankly it's terrifying.. A local mx track I use to frequent had a fmx course... I came off a 65ft kicker and there was a little boy on a
pw50 riding up the landing. I bailed and pushed my quad into the face of the landing and I hit head-on with his kid. His pops had the nerve to try to chew my ass while the ambulance was on the way to get me.... Not too mention the fact I trashed a grand worth of suspension components trying to miss him...


Mike

scoobysnax

One time I was snowboarding down a cat track, and there was a ski school ahead of me taking up the whole track. So I came around a corner, and I didn't want to hit the little kids, so I tried to brake. But the long side of my board caught a little skier in the back of the legs, and we ended up in a heap. I don't think the instructor noticed until he saw me pick her up and set her back on the snow. I felt horrible, but I just glided away as fast as I knew how.

Josh

Damn. If I would have seen that I would have dropped the dad. When I first started riding MX I was about 8 or so. I went backwards up this tabletop and my dad kicked my ass. Not only is it a danger to yourself, but a danger to everyone else(as your story proves).

Crazy Max

That's only happened with me on rails thankfully. I've had one enocounter not as close though and I just popped over the kids ski's. Can't say I'd take a hit like that and risk ending my season. I'm just really sick of that crap.

Blue Mountain is bullshit. But yeah, that's the problem with parks around here. You have to start on 15-25ft jumps, or build your own on a hill to work your way up. They weren't so bad once I realized I was clearing 20-25ft out on jumps I built on a small hill. But with our weather, you'd get 2 days tops on the small hills in to practice anyway..It's definitely hard to progress on jumps, and is the main reason why there's a lot of really, really good rail riders, and guys with stylish tweaks, taps, and slaps-I swear some of the guys at Mount St. Louis have the pro's beat in the department-but rarely do you see someone do a grabbed 720+ and what not.

It's mostly familes that just ride through the park and get in the way. "Hey, lets all ride through the terrain park"-family of beginner skiiers, riding through with their ski's in a big v.

euugghhhh. The only way these kids will smarten up is if they get hurt. They need a couple of broken bones-as cruel as it sounds-to teach them the level of riding they need to obtain to ride safely in the park. If you're not capable of bombing diamonds, then you probably should focus on getting more board control before even considering the park.

Serrate

These kids don't need broken bones to learn. If you explain to them how likely they are to get their skull bashed open they'll probably go away. I used to act the same way when I was a little kid until one day my dad took a video of me. When I saw how fast everyone was compared to me I avoided the terrain parks.

megladan

saw a kid undershoot a decent 20 ft kicker, torpedoed the nose, straight ot his face... he was down for about 4-5 minutes than he was gone.. i really thought he was knocked the fizzuck out.

buttchunx

c that video proves it skier kids r so snobby (most of the time)that they think that they can do watever they want like drop in while someone is not even up the takeoff its just sad

priks of a parent,

priks

BC-Rider

Well over at Blackcomb our expert black park has got the park patrol guy allowing certain people in with park passes. Cost of ours are $18 for the season.

rgrwilco

you guys think they helmet tap was bad, watch this one.

you sit on my landing, i sit on your face!

http://media.newschoolers.com/upload...aper_crash.wmv

i know its a skiing clip, but it still applies

thelowerclass

Dead link


My local small mountain has the same problem, parents even praise their kid for misusing features. Ski patrol will give warnings however and actually cut passes for that. Whether the kids mom and dad want to admit it, even though its not the typiclly thought of fast out of control "Reckless Skiing" it is reckless, and even more of a danger. I have no probelem with kids who actually try to hit stuff, even if they barley get any air or none at all even, if they acknowledge they have to try faster I'm okay with it, its the kids who ride up a jump and back down it every run thinking they're good that piss me off.


I suppose I'll tell an almost killed a little boy story too. My resort's one tabletop has a landing then a cut right that you need to make or you're in the woods. Well I came down the landing and some little kid is just skiing right toward the landing and blocking my cut to the right. I try to yell move and keep straight as long as I can hoping the kid will make room for me but he doesn't, so rather then wreck myself I just shove the kid over out of the way, the kids not crying or anything so it seems like no big deal, until of course mommy dearest who was filming her little snookums almost kill me throws a ski pole at me. I stop and explain to her I was saving my own life at the risk of maybe giving her son a bruise and teaching him a lesson. Naturally once I get to the top of the lift theres ski patrol, they say it was reported to them "I had punched a child with no justification and threatened his mother" so I explained the mom video taped everything, she comes up, they look at the play back, restate to her I saved my own life and did next to nothing to her son, both of them had their passes cut.