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Safety Programs
Smart Style
Freestyle Terrain Safety Initiative
 
NSAA & Burton Snowboards
The National Ski Areas Association and Burton Snowboards would like to welcome you to the
"Smart Style" Terrain Park Safety initiative.
This venture has been a cooperative effort to continue the proper use and progression
of terrain parks at mountain resorts, while also delivering a unified message that is clear,
concise, and effective.
NSAA has once again teamed with Burton Snowboards, as well as the Professional Ski Instructors
of America (PSIA) and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI) in the safety education effort.
The video is aimed at educating guests on how to use freestyle terrain properly, and integrates
the new Get Smart consumer information including the four points of Smart Style: Make a Plan,
Look Before You Leap, Easy Style It and Respect Gets Respect. The video also illustrates the ATML
method: Approach, Take-Off, Maneuver, and Landing. The video highlights an instrumental message
in freestyle terrain use: avoid the backseat and land on your feet.
This year’s Smart Style 2008 DVD is now available for purchase online through the NSAA Resource
Guide. The item # is 3548 and the price is $5 for NSAA members and $15 for non-members.
Click below to preview this year's video.
We believe the "Smart Style" message along with existing safety messages; will help to heighten the sense of education and awareness about the proper use of terrain parks in a way that is not hard to deliver, or for that matter to digest.
The more people we can educate and get involved to help to spread the
knowledge, the better!
The Smart Style Program:
There are four main messages that are associated with Smart Style:
- MAKE A PLAN
Every time you use freestyle terrain, make a plan for each feature you want to use. Your speed,
approach and take off will directly affect your maneuver and landing.
- LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
Scope around the jumps first, not over them. Know your landings are clear and clear yourself out of the landing area.
- EASY STYLE IT
Start small and work your way up. (Inverted aerials not recommended).
- RESPECT GETS RESPECT
From the lift line through the park.
Education
- Make yourself aware of this information so you can help educate others
- Internal department education
- Taking time in lessons and programs to explain the info or at least let them know where they can find the info
- "Your Responsibility Code," know the code and respect what it represents
Distribution
- Resort employees
- Key opinion leaders
- Shops, key resort and non-resort locations
- Website, collateral materials and snow reports
- Stickers and cards for handouts
- Chairlift tower signs
- Big trail map signs and slope signage
Materials
We have compiled some useful artwork, tools, signage and suggestions that we hope mountain resorts will be able to implement into terrain park operations.
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