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Do you hate vert?

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#1 ·
Maybe it is just me, i like my vert in the pipe and thats about it.

We used to have tons of table tops and massive kickers that you could get a SERIOUS amount of air off of.

Now, its like they are pressed for space or something and build all of these jumps with knuckles and verts that launch your board over your waistline.


Why is this becoming the standard in snowboarding? I really don't understand it. sometimes you are going down a black slope directly into this nasty lip, personally i find it hard to spin off jumps like these.

I dont want to be off axis in the air, and the more extreme the vert the less likely i am to hop flat into the air.

to be honest I dont much enjoy , especially the small ones with huge verts, ive cleared a few landings recently and have had to nose dive to avoid breaking a leg.

im used to popping off lips and these feel more like absorbers to me.. hate absorbing...
 
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#2 ·
I fully agree. The hill I go to is very much a beginner's hill and every jump except one had the vert take-off. I think the only guys capable of spinning off axis were the park maintenance kid and his two buddies who built them. Every other kid who I saw attempt them just got bucked wildly into the air. Amusing as hell from the lift but annoying for the kids and to me the few times I did want to hit a few booters.
 
#4 ·
Personally, as long as they are shaped properly, I like jumps that throw you up in the air.

I understand why some people don't like being so high, or have trouble staying level in their spins though. A lot of the jumps at Northstar and Squaw are like that - it's like the park designer expects everyone to go inverted off of them.
 
#7 ·
Couldn't agree more. Back in the old day, jumps used to be built like this... Except you'd hit this coming from the bottom right in the picture, over the jump. If you didn't get enough speed you'd just roll over the jump. Too much speed and you could lift your legs on the face to absorb the jump and abort. Made for very easy progression.



Now most jumps I see look like this. And frankly, my balls aren't that big.



Which is probably why I prefer freeriding, so I get to hit stuff like this... Where you can go as big or as small as you want depending on your mood.

 
#12 ·
Flat jumps are just as bad. Nothing worse than not being able to speed check a jump and still not having enough speed to spin off it. The jumps here are built completely flat or massive kickers with no transition. I just wanna join the park crew to show them how to build jumps. They just don't know how to build lips and transitions right.
 
#13 ·
Flat jumps are just as bad.
I agree... to me spinning off a jump while you are only a few feet above the ground (even if you are covering like 30 feet) feels less than satisfying. Basically just hovercrafting over the snow... not that I demand going into lower orbit... just high enough to be able to fly "over" someone standing in the gap.

This is of course separate from the fact that poorly built jumps (lippy or flat) are just not fun to ride.
 
#15 ·
At the begining of this season I would have argued for the flat jump, because I was comfortable on them and I was really wary of the poppy lips. I've actually come to like the more poppy steeper transitions now that I'm used to them, I find it takes less effort to spin off them and as mentioned above, the height is more satisfying.

The first time I hit one of these my chin ate my knees off the lip, so I completely understand why some people don't like them, but the fact they are in every park might give some indication that they are favorable.

I also agree with Snowolf, multiple kickers on one platform can make the best of a space and provide variety but I dont see many around...
 
#17 ·
Like I said. There is no reason other than laziness that every jump can`t have two kickers to satisfy both types of riders....:dunno:
Agreed. Here there really isn't room for that, but they still are lazy and only build flat kickers. Almost never make the landings.
 
#21 ·
So were somewhere around 50/50 on the vert issue with everybody agreeing double ramp is best when possible.

My only comment about "flat" kickers is that all my boards bend like Bekham and I can get pop off just about anything so I have never felt like more rampy jumps didn't send me up high enough. 10 feet is about how high I want to go at most.

At the speed I like for landings I'm usually around 12-15 then whatever landing I clear in addition. Just slightly too big for me to want to try new things or even spin 3's as they aren't perfect and I can't stand crashing at this point in the game.

Thanks for comments and shares

Nice jumps guys :)
 
#22 ·
foam pit area near my house has only one ramp and it is nasty vert, as in, you better want to get upside down (or at least corked to hell)... maybe by the end of the summer I'll be singing a different tune but I say bring back the double ramp :)

double ramp is where it's at, but they haven't built those at my local hills in several years for some reason.

these steep jumps are particularly bad in the midwest where grooming leaves a lot to be desired. Often I will ride for a few hours at night or even on a Saturday afternoon and you don't ever see anyone hitting these jumps. The ski areas are wasting $$$ building features that nobody wants to or is capable of using, just so one kid on their park crew can huck doubles a few times.
 
#23 ·
These days its either too much or not enough. I mean I want air but like others have said I dont want to be forced to back flip or cork to land a jump. Also the higher you go the harder you fall and I dont want to bust anything up trying something Danny Kass or T.Rice would do.
 
#25 ·
I actually angrily made that comment to one of the park guys at my local mountain.

I was like dude, no one is in the park. NO one is hitting that shit. He kinda looked at me like Oh Really? (he had this wicked beard)

so i look back and i see him about 35 feet in the air just doing the dirtiest delayed 360' i have ever seen in my life.

i was basically shocked awed and all "im going home now with little balls i have left"

DAMN THAT GUY WAS GOOD. wtf he was doing working there I do not know lol.
 
#27 ·
They are pretty nice up here. The two small jump lines are flat, the two medium lines have a little lip and the large jump line sends it. There are tons of people p here that take the large line. I like a little lip but also like a little bit of a step up when it's lippy so you don't pound as hard on a wipe out.... I'm not really comfortable in the air and only do straight air and occasionally a 180 or 360. No flipping for me even though I really wanna learn back flips. After my leg break I'll probably chill on that shit....

My 12 y/o and his riding mates, some are instructors up to about 35, send it on all the jumps. My son wont do the 50'+ jumps but there is a 10 year old that is pretty good up here that will hit anything in front of him.... He is a damn good skateboarder too, we would always run in to him in the parks last summer.... A lot of riders don't care what they are hitting and just adapt to the jumps they have. I told my boy if he wants to be competitive he can't bitch about it, all he can do is hit it and send it.....

Every rider is different but if no one will hit your jumps out there you should talk to the management about it..... The park crew doesn't matter in their eyes.... Customers matter.

The park crews up here are very good though, some ex pros and some up and coming guys. The guy that runs the park cat crew up here makes jump lines for all levels and respects the newbs for sure. There is no excuse for a shitt park if they have a crew there on staff...
 
#30 ·
Well, I do "check" myself , thats why I have never "wrecked" myself.

some shit is just evil =)

Jawbreaker - The Art of FLIGHT Teaser - YouTube

if you have seen the video, you can easily tell that lago's successful hit was a fluke, as he had barely any control coming off the lip and fluked it. his second was death for him as he was dropping straight down and happened to land in a rut.

THAT is a situation that could have been avoided.
 
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