Right. And since you guys have been doing it for so long, you can work off the format of what’s worked in the past.
Correct. And we work really closely with the athletes too. So as trends change, we’re following the athletes and what those trends are. They tend to expect to see something that they’re used to seeing. At an event, we’re typically not trying to bring a feature that nobody has seen before because then it becomes a challenge just to use the feature versus something they can showcase their skills on.
In addition to working with the athletes, how else does Snow Park Technologies find inspiration for park designs?
The best inspiration for all of us is boredom. None of us want to build the same thing over and over again, then it becomes a real job. So we find inspiration through following these guys on Instagram, watching them shred, and going to all the parks we can.
The SketchUp is powerful for creativity. We know what the cat can do, we know what the transition cutters can do, and we can play with both in the model.
When we take it to an event, like Danny Davis’s Peace Park, we’re able to let these guys have fun on features before we take them to the masses. And then guys will be like, “Oh I saw this there, check it out, I know how to hit this thing.”
We find inspiration everywhere, and we’re all snowboarders and skiers, we all love the sport, and we also want to keep it progressing because we don’t want to stay stagnant and we don’t want to be bored.