Skiing: The Terrain Park

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:

Half-pipe

           - Tabletop

           - Step-down

           - Step- up

           - Gap

           - Hip

           - Spins
          - Channel gap

3. Verticals
           - Half- pipe 

A type of Jig

           - Quarter- pipe

"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