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"Dear Snow Sport Enthusiasts,

By signing our online petition, YOU will make a big difference and impact in our dream of opening California's first Synthetic Snow Park! It only takes 30 seconds. Sign it! Like it! Share it!

At this time, we need to prove to City Officials that this park IS and will continue to be supported by the people of the Bay Area, California, and the Snow Nation. It doesn't matter where you live, you can help.

This is where you come in, please take a moment and sign the online petition linked below and share this letter, link, and our main photo with EVERYONE!

We need to have at least 100,000 signatures to prove the level of support we have in order to show demand and have a political leg to stand on at City Council meetings. We have almost 10,000 signed so far. Sign up if you support the sport of snowboarding and skiing.

Be Excited! The Storm Is Coming!

Best Regards,
Martin Benik & Team
CEO"
 

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#7 ·
Ya, that's super fuckin' cool. Hope it works out for everybody.

& that spine jump right in the middle is deadly.:thumbsup:
Those are my favorite kinda jumps.

No fuckin' table to clear or land on.
If you can go big enough, you can clear the spine & land @ the end.
If you don't go big enough, you don't explode. You just land on either side.

And anyone, from pro's to tikes, can hit it.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

None of my shitty mtn's has had on of those for a couple years.
I think it's a sign, if your mtn doesn't have one of these?
They don't know what the fuck is goin' on, cause mine sure didn't.


TT
 
#8 ·
Timmy my mountain doesn't have one and I'm pretty sure they're so far ahead of everyone else no one can comprehend it.

How is this eco friendly? You're going to be running water to keep the snowflex moist and lubricated, electric for the lift/tow/lights. You're leaving me with more questions than answers as to why this should be supported.
 
#11 ·
That park is in the UK. If you're going to promote a product or a company like this I suggest you get all your facts straight. Also just because you claim to be looping water over and over doesn't mean you won't be adding in. As I recall SF gets a little warm in the summer which will cause evaporation and ultimately lead to having the tanks refilled. You're leaving more questions than answers and making claims you don't seem to know the answers to which is sad. I get what you're doing but I as a person you're marketing to wants all the facts.
 
#12 ·
Ba:

Do we care how eco it is (I don't); I think in many threads we have established that our sport is pretty anti-eco on the whole. Or are you just asking because it says "eco-friendly"?

I appreciate the fact that you aren't flaming the guy, but how is this not a good thing for the sport?

I'm probably missing something where it is potentially no different from "skyhook" or "dual boards"?

More facts r good too.

:dunno:
 
#13 ·
I'm just sick of the bullshit Greenwashing marketing people are shoving down peoples throats. Call it how it is and I'd be more inclined to support it. Plus I have real questions about it and I want to see if they can be answered. I'm all for anything that truly benefits snowboarding and gets people into doing it, but I'm not going to support half cocked ideas.
 
#15 ·
The company that originally created this stuff is called Briton Engineering from England. They put one of these snowflex facilities in at Liberty University in VA. No idea how it actually rides as I've never been on it, but I'm close enough that I may take a trip up one day this summer.

Here's a shot of the place on google maps

https://maps.google.com/maps?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Liberty+Mountain+Snowflex+Centre,&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.829089,96.240234&ie=UTF8&hq=Liberty+Mountain+Snowflex+Centre,&hnear=4000+Candlers+Mountain+Rd,+Lynchburg,+Virginia+24502&filter=0&update=1&oi=lwp_thresh&ll=37.353179,-79.168757&spn=0.006456,0.011748&t=h&z=17&iwloc=D

Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre - What is Snowflex?
 
#18 ·
Why do I need to have a private conversation when you're posting this publicly? Are you upset someone is questioning you?

Right now you're not proving anything to anyone other than you can't answer the questions.

So it'll be in San Jose which if my geography is right is more south making it slightly warmer. I want to know besides water use what makes it so eco friendly? I want to know about how it's powered, are you building from recycled material, what are you doing to help the environment.

On top of those questions I want to know how this is going to benefit people in that area? What will it do for the local snowboard scene? How are you going to help the community? ETC.Etc.

Like I said questions that need to be answered I know I'm not the only one that wants to know I'm just the only one asking right now.
 
#26 ·
I have one of these parks not far from me and I’ve ridden it a handful of times. It’s not anywhere near as epic as the OPs poster mind!

It was defiantly good fun to ride and relatively forgiving when you fell off!

On hot days, with the sprinklers off, it did ride a bit slow as the carpet became dry.
 
#27 ·
The surface is a high performance synthetic turf that is made out of recycled plastic and there is a water element that sprays a mist of water across the surface. The water is then reclaimed and filtered and pumped back to the top of the mountain. Only about ~15% of the water is lost to evaporation.

The rest of the information is being saved for a video launching in about 3-4 weeks.
 
#29 ·
We had one. It was at Woodward at Copper.

Also I know what it's built of I'm just more curious about what else is going on. We live in an age when information is answered immediately. You presented yourself as someone of importance to this, should have known it wasn't the case. Either way not getting my signature or endorsement at this point. You handled it all wrong.
 
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