 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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milnerhome, do you have a dry slope near you? Can you turn u at the Snowflex factory and ask for off cuts or stuff that didn't come out quite right?
Newschoolers has a load of info on making your own setup.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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arv,
I've got sheffield but thats all and its still the drive, the idea is to have a little setup you can mess around on every day if you feel like it.
I asked about off cuts and he said its expensive stuff so were pretty precise in manufacture.. although I doubt they never have defects  I'll have a look at newschoolers
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milnerhome, phone up the dry slope and ask to see if they have any spare matting (I mean, not go there to ski).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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milnerhome, given th eburns you can get from astroturf, I'd be surprised if it was at all suitable. Go on. surprise me...
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arv, thats an plan, will ring up tomorrow but I would've thought they wouldn't want to give away anything which promoted skiing off their site and meant they weren't getting any income from it.
under a new name, yeah but its all there is 
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(this is years ago) but sheffield had some old matting stacked up, probably worn for skiing on but could make a good inrun track
also ring round sport centers with 5-a-side - you will need to be lucky to find one just replacing the turf though.
astro turf installer companies? offcuts
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Isn't one of the important properties of astroturf that it has a reasonable maount of 'grip' for palying football/tennis/etc. Definitely it's not designed to be sliding anyway, so I wouldn't have thought it would be the best choice...
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daehwons,
Thanks, I'll make a few calls tomorrow.
clarky999, Its the nearest thing to snowflex which I can think of unless anyone else can think of any alternatives?
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milnerhome, one of those cases where there is a quantum jump between "nearest thing" and "it".
Now, Astroturf with a deeper pile than used for running-type athletics, with some sort of slidey-cushiony-infill like coral sand might be able to do the job, but by that point your cost is in snowflex range.
<shrug> play around with different infills. You might come up with something.
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I think the bargain end of the turf market (more plastic and not for sports) may do the job.
Infills probably not needed..... just a load of washing up liquid. Used to use it to slip feet into waterski binding. WD40 maybe?
your not going to "SKI" on it are you? just slide in and jib / land?
how long is inrun?
maybe carpet for landing, wet down could be slippy enough and would stop you
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I'll put up a little sketch later on but its not going to be used for "skiing" on and simply a base which you can just get enough speed up to jib on, likedaehwons, has said, the cheaper "tackier" astroturf is much more sutible for sliding and with a bit of soap or something it might just work ok.
not thought about carpet but I'd have thought it would be pretty grippy, even more so than astro?
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I think the bargain end of the turf market (more plastic and not for sports) may do the job.
Infills probably not needed..... just a load of washing up liquid. Used to use it to slip feet into waterski binding. WD40 maybe?
your not going to "SKI" on it are you? just slide in and jib / land?
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At that point, a teflon or polyethylene sheet might be just as good, if not better.
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FAQ
not for me it doesn't 
which will hopefully have a rail and a kicker to do small tricks.. the advantage of it all is.. the location of the setup is higher up and in the winter gets really good snow retention, so all I need to do in the winter is build some fences (Scotland style 
