SNO!storm Park Pictures

Posted by on Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The SNO!storm park nights that Xscape put on produce a better park than the regular freestyle nights. Here are some pictures showing the Castleford park setup from the 4th May. My camera doesn't work brilliantly in there, but the pictures should give a good enough indication of the park features...

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SNO!storm Park Goes Big

Posted by on Monday, May 07, 2007

I went to the SNO!storm freestyle night last Friday at Castleford. Again, I was impressed with the effort that they put in the park setup - most noticably this time the kicker, which was easily the biggest I've seen there yet.

It's a shame that they don't put these special freestyle nights on more often as the quality of the park is high (the next one isn't until August). I understand that it no doubt takes a large amount of effort to set it all up; but when they build kickers like this one it can be really progressive. It certainly helped me to push my own limit...

I was pretty nervous the first time I hit it, and throughout the night I didn't try anything more adventurous than straight-air variations. I probably only hit the kicker a dozen times - but I was pleased that towards the end I was feeling more comfortable, more confident. I was ready to start trying some things.

These freestyle nights definitely attract some of the good riders from around the UK - there were some sick riding on display, putting the kicker to good use.

I learned some new stuff on the rails and boxes too, which felt pretty good: boardslide to 50-50, coming in regular and switch, and also a little frontside bone on a 5-0, which probably has a name that I don't know. I'm still nothing near to comfortable with frontside boardslides - something I definitely want to fix. Now I'm just looking forward to the next one in August...

We took a little bit of video over the last handful of runs - but unfortunately I've left my camera in Huddersfield! In the meantime I'll post some pictures of the park setup and then I'll sort the video out when I get the camera back.

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Events At Castleford

Posted by on Monday, April 16, 2007

Here's a list of the upcoming events at Cas':

SNO!storm Freestyle Nights:

  • 4th May
  • 3rd August
  • 2nd November

Airbag Freestyle Nights:

  • 12th May
  • 9th June
  • 14th July
  • 11th August
  • 15th September

I don't intend on visiting all of the airbag nights, in fact, I'm not sure how many I'll go to. It's good fun and you can try some nice stuff, but it's fairly pricey and I didn't like the kicker too much last time. Maybe it will be better in the future... Still, I'd like to go to at least one more, maybe two.

I do however, definitely want to make all of the SNO!storm nights. The two that I've been to so far have really impressed: good kickers and lots of good rails/boxes. There're the cool little snow-skates to play on too!

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Airbags and Snowflex: Video

Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2007

So here's the video that we took last Saturday at Halifax and Castleford. Whilst we were riding that day we met a fellow rider - Sam. It turned out that it was his first taste of snowflex too and he was heading over to Cas' to session the airbag afterwards! What are the chances of that? Nice guy, good shredder...

Just in case you like the track, it's Soul Meets Body, by Death Cab For Cutie. Here's an iTunes link: Death Cab for Cutie - Plans - Soul Meets Body

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