Your set up and recomendations

[vince191]

alright i got all the wood to build my first box and im doing it sometime this week. but my dad has a shit load of wood left over from building stuff and i would like to ask people what they think i should make. i plan to devote my life to snowskating this season and want to be able to post some vids with out me being embarased so what ever suggestions you got ill take em!

Oh! and is there anything i should treat the wood with? or like anything that is relitivly cheap and will make it slide good?

[miatch1515]

mini mega ramp! and dont forget to include the rainbow rail!

[vince191]

whats a mini mega ramp? and i dont have any pipe or metal just extreamly exessive amounts of wood

[realclassactx]

make a giant breakaway wall, then for the beginning of your video, paint your name across it, then skate down a hill and pull the most epic kickflip while breaking through the wall!

YEAH

[imre]

make a giant breakaway wall, then for the beginning of your video, paint your name across it, then skate down a hill and pull the most epic kickflip while breaking through the wall!

YEAH

nice idea.

[steeeezey]

make a mellow kicker like 8 ft long but only like 3-4 ft high so u have plenty of set up then make a box like a foot higher so u ollie off the kicker and onto the box , and if u go to home depot they have pretty cheap wood its like one sided skate lite its really smooth that would be perfect to slide on a snowskate

[miatch1515]

whats a mini mega ramp? and i dont have any pipe or metal just extreamly exessive amounts of wood

IM sure you seen the mega ramp in like the x-games or in skate videos of danny way and bob burnquist and I think it was a couple years ago in the Vans downtown showdown they had a mini mega ramp its just very small mega ramp

[Snobordingurila]

alright i got all the wood to build my first box and im doing it sometime this week. but my dad has a shit load of wood left over from building stuff and i would like to ask people what they think i should make. i plan to devote my life to snowskating this season and want to be able to post some vids with out me being embarased so what ever suggestions you got ill take em!

Oh! and is there anything i should treat the wood with? or like anything that is relitivly cheap and will make it slide good?

as far as treating the wood, you're gunna want to make sure you use pressure treated, its a water process that keeps the wood from rotting, however for things that cost a lot more for being pressure treated(like plywood) i'd just paint it with exterior paint, but most plywood can last up to 2-3years without rotting as long as it isn't retaining the wood.

as far as building, build whatever you want, star with simple things so you have things to learn basics on so start by building a simple box and rail and maybe a drop in that is steep enough to use as a bank or wallride, and also a kicker, then after you have the basic setups you can step it up to fancier things like rainbow rails, thats just my oppinion

as for topping your box for REAL cheap go with a roll of aluminum sheet metal you'll find in a roofing section in home depot, 10' long x 1.5' wide is about $7, if it isnt wide enough buy 2 sheets and buy silicon caulk and caulk down the middle of the seem so they dont peel up and wipe the excess caulk off

MY SETUP: 2 boxes(1.5' high x 1' wide x 8' long) with sheet metal tops, 1 other box(1' high x 2' wide x 8' long) , 2 down/up rails( go from 1.5' high to 4' high each 10' long), 1 4' high flat rail(10' long), 1 flat rail(10' long x 1.5' high), a mini/bank ramp( its a mini ramp but with a quarter 4' high 6.5' radius quarter pipe on one side and a bank ramp on the other)(8' wide x 32' long, height varies), 1 drop in( 6' long, 4' high), a speed bump made from those half circle round metal things you put in front of a basement window to hold back dirt), a 10' long backcountry wood flat rail with 3' drop at the end made from a tree, a 3' high quarter pipe, a 5' long kicker(1.5' high), a 23' long rainbow rail

I think thats the majority of my setup, i also have retaining walls, a 5' high rock in a perfect kicker shape and tons of other jibs at my house like tires and cones and and sheds and all sorts of other things that i wont get into detail with

[Bram]

whats a mini mega ramp? and i dont have any pipe or metal just extreamly exessive amounts of wood

IM sure you seen the mega ramp in like the x-games or in skate videos of danny way and bob burnquist and I think it was a couple years ago in the Vans downtown showdown they had a mini mega ramp its just very small mega ramp

you crazy kid, course you want a mega ramp. dont worry, ill make one by the time you come down....

[vince191]

DUDE ALL OF THESE SEGESTIONS ARE KICK ASS! I realise im going to build what ever i want but the whole topic is about suggestions not tell me to make somthing and i will its just to give me ideas. so far deffs makings a break away wall with my name on it thats just fucking epic! the box is in the process of being made im going to see how it slides when we get some snow and if its not to great ill put some metal sheeting on it. its going to be a low box so after those to projects thinking a kicker and big box but i dont really have a good spot to put the kicker there arnt to many good snowskate places around me for that... keep the suggestions coming though they are great!!!!