kyle092

ok so i always go to the park and NO where else and i always happen to find small groups of young children, between the ages of 5-11 (approx.), that have no common courtesy for other fellow park members. they will 1. cut u off 2. budge everyone instead of taking their turn 3. not call their drop 4. dont even go off a table or jump, they just roll right over it, and 5. hang out near landings. i think every park in every ski mtn. should have a course that boarders or skiiers should have to pass in order to go in the terrain park, and there should be an attendant at the entrance of the park to check your "park pass". does anyone agree with me??

Mysticfalcon

I think that the park should have a seperate lift and everything. But thats because I think it would help keep the park rats out of the lift lines us powder junkies are waiting in.

Snowolf

I tend to agree as well. These kids are pretty much wild animals and have no sense of sharing the park with other people. I don`t know what passes for parenting these days, but they are getting no guidence at home on social skills.

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TNT

I dislike the courtesy issue as much as anyone, but the biggest problem I see right now is the safety issue. Both my friend and I have come darn close to maiming/killing kids that ride into the landing zone as we are going off a jump. It's a serious heart attack moment when the kid on the other side of the park bolts straight for the LZ right as you hit the upslope and then you have to figure out how to sacrifice your body to get your board away from his head, which by the way is not adorned with a helmet. The thought of board edge + speed + child's head or neck....scares the crap out of me.
I really need to get good at going big because the 8 footers that I can do are frequented by these ambulance magnets but the big jump park right next door never has anyone on it.

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iregicide

i agree totally, but another thing that gets me really pissed is the people that fall then sit there for like 5 minutes...if you fall either get outta the way or get ur ass up and go.

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duckie

so true. i know that people tend to want to take a break when they had some kind of wipe out, but if you are going to take a break, at least pick a place where you are not in anyones way. don't they know they are endangering themselves and other riders.

and also ... those people (young and old) who sit in blind spots or right around sharp turns. we can't see you until our board comes in contact with your body! common sense ... people just need to be reminded of that from time to time ...

Dcp584

I think the whole park pass thing would be a great idea for a local mountain or have a park staff member take it up with the parent of the child, say look if you come isn here again i'm gunna have to cut your kids pass he is being a nusance and causeing problems. See that is one other thing I noticed about those little kids is that they are never alone there parents are always with them.

mitchamus

Well i have son that snowboard. he is 11.
He loves to ride in the park. I try and teach him not to snake people. He can actually ride
better then most of the people in the park he mostly sticks to rail and boxes
he stays away from most big kickers just because he is so small and light he cant get enough speed to clear them.
I've only had 1 real issue where some guy got pissed cause he slipped out on a box and thought he should of moved away a little quicker who cares if he was hurt he just wanted to do his 50/50.
It seems to me that the really good people are cool with him but the teenagers who think there awesome
have attitudes cause they think they own the park. I know this is the first year where the resort we go started a progression park for beginners.

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kri$han

Our local mountain's park is regulated... you gotta buy a pass ($10 for the season), helmets mandatory and you gotta watch some safety video (or atleast some of the video.

It does help to keep the 5yr olds out, but there are still a lot of people w/o common courtesy in there.

The problem I have with that park tho, is that there's not really much room for progression of jumps... 90% of the guys in there can get 5' verticals off the lip in the half pipe... the only other people that are n00bs like me are little kids!!!...haha. All the jumps have at least 15' landings too, which is fine cuz I can do that, but only straight airs ... no where to learn... they have smaller rails/boxes, but i suck at rails, and dont have a desire to learn any more...

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Dcp584

I think that this is another good idea. Is that resorts should make a park that has smaller features for little kids.