The Terrain Park is a place for freestyle skiing while doing
tricks and jumping 5-100 feet in the air. The Terrain Park is more advanced
skiers and not everyone wants to do it. The Terrain park takes years and a lot
of practice to make a successful jump. The Terrain Park has many different
obstacles to perform many tricks. There are mainly 3 types of obstacles to do
tricks and each is divided into other types of obstacles.
This video shows the many different types of tricks done in the Terrain Park
1. Jigs- Jigs are types of fixtures which can be ridden with the board or skies parallel or perpendicular to the snow surface, ridden while spinning around on or ridden and jumped or tricked from. There are many types of jigs, some being:
- Rails
- Box
- Table top
- Trees
- Park Bench or picnic table
- Walls
2. Jumps- Jumps can range from 5 feet to 100 feet and above. Jumps are most often entirely of snow or snow with a base of dirt. Jumps are used to do tricks such as grabs, twists, spins and flips. some type of jumps are:
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| Half-pipe |
- Step-down
- Step- up
- Gap
- Hip
- Spins
- Channel gap
- Channel gap
3. Verticals
- Half- pipe
- Half- pipe
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| A type of Jig |
"Doing tricks in the Terrain Park takes years of
training and if you are interested in do it, you have to start with small jumps
and move your way up to bigger jumps"(148) says Martin Heckelman.
| Jumps |
All of these cool techniques sound very intriguing and fascinating! I have never been skiing before, but i have always wanted too. What beginner "tricks" or "techniques" would you recommend to someone like me?
ReplyDeleteHi Kaitlyn, most techniques require some more experience with skiing. Almost all tricks that are easy still require you to have intermediate slope experience because you have to be confortable with your skies and skiing in general. So if you want to do some tricks you have to get some experience first. Once you've got some experience, there are some ski resorts that have terrain parks for beginners. That way you can start practicing but for our inconvenience Snoqualmie Pass and Crystal Mountain only have terrain parks for advanced skier.
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