This was the first jump I built last season.
Tommy E found a plush landing over the crest of this canyon roll in the Timberline backcountry.
Just the jump, I mean.
Notice the clean cut on the side of the jumpthis is how you make your kicker look good.
Another lesson to be learned: Jumps adapt to their surroundings.
Every jump has its own aesthetic and perfect form, hidden within and revealed by its environment.
These guys taught me the importance of cutting clean lines.
Yeah, next level shit.
But with every skill, refinement is attainable, and jump-building is no exception.
The more perfectly smooth and calculated you carve a transition, the better that jump will ride.
This feature design maximized ride-able area with transitions every way you looked and some very skate-style bowls.
I managed to catch the Inventational before leaving Europe to come home from my Olympics/Slovenia/Nine Knights jaunt.
The focus of ski films and photos is usually on the skiing talent of the athlete.
Yet the jump-building skills of those involved will play a significant role in the shot that results.
Fewer dope tricks will be stomped on a poorly built jump.
If you’re trying to get published, clean cuts will go a long way.
Just wait till you see the 4bi9 footage of Krazy Karl finding mystery tranny.
But it’s not necessary or anything.
Flying through the air is still the main point.
But goddammit, it’s fun to make snow look good.
Wierd, wild stuff.
This is a more obscure jump-building approach: jump into a hole.
This was the setup I was trying to find when I stumbled on the 4bi9 jump.
This was a Traveling Circus build.
Your jump can take on any dimensions you want it to take.
you’ve got the option to build a towering castle like Nine Knights.
you’re able to build weird shit like the Traveling Circus.
It’s going to be wild.
Me and Nicky Keefer and his wife Maja built this jump in mid-June in the Mount Hood backcountry.
We put a lot of energy into the build and didn’t leave much for the session.
We could have used a bigger crew to help us build and then slay this beast.
There’s power in numbers.
If you’ve got a good park crew, appreciate them.
If you don’t, maybe you should show them this article.
This was a mid-July built at Illumination Rock on Mount Hood with Tommy E. The journey continues.
What jumps wait around the corner for you?
I’m sure you’ve got a spot or two already scoped out.
