I used my drone to make an overview of the current set up, it was used for social media and is a great new perspective on the park. Building this set up was so fun, and we constantly had new snow to make changes and keep the park fresh and innovative! I designed a multi... Continue Reading →
I was lucky to be interviewed and featured in a recruitment and publicity video to talk about grooming park and driving snowcats. https://www.wintersportjobs.com/job/snowcat-operator/
This season I was back at the Golden Roofpark at Axamer Lizum, just above Innsbruck. The project began its second season and already hype was high from locals to see what would come. We had more snow than ever before which was great as we had plenty of material to work and rebuild with and... Continue Reading →
Towards the end of the season QParks launched a competition to design new features for the Funslope. I submitted a few ideas including 'The Piano Box'- a large flat box that has keys on the top like the surface of a piano and as you ride over it it plays a piano tune. There were... Continue Reading →
https://www.facebook.com/qparks.shapeacademy/videos/1104210506369145/?pnref=story I was featured in a small video as part of the 'This Is Why We Shape' series where myself and some colleagues were asked about their job roles & how they got started. This is aimed at encouraging more people to apply and become part of the QParks Shape Academy- the Academy is... Continue Reading →
I was incredibly excited to be offered the chance to work at the newest park in the company- The Golden Roofpark at Axamer Lizum, named for the famous Golden Roof in nearby Innsbruck and the resorts tagline- Axamer Lizum, the white roof of Innsbruck. Axamer Lizum is really well known for free riding and after... Continue Reading →
Another season done already! I started the season at SUPERPARK Planai, one of the mountains that makes up the Schladming-Dachstein region. This was a big, well established park with earthworks which made all of the building much easier. I was here for 1 month to help build & maintain the park and give some tips... Continue Reading →
Over the summer of 2016 I was back in my hometown and I was offered a really cool opportunity, to return to the indoor ski centre where it all started for me. Going back as a 'Groomer Trainer' I was responsible for grooming the two main slopes as well as the lesson slope and the... Continue Reading →
Working for the season at Turrucher Höhe as the snowcat operator I was responsible for nightly grooming the 1.5km long 50+ feature park as well as the 1.2km Funslope. We had a Pistenbully 600 Park and a variety of features from XL line jumps, to medium/large jumpline, medium jib obstacles and an easy line of... Continue Reading →
So in a few weeks I am heading from the UK back to Austria, to work at a resort called Turracher Hohe, it looks like a super cool project to be involved in and watching their edits and build videos (one, two & three) from last season has got me pretty stoked! Stay tuned!
"Follow Mark McMorris through the adventures of a season spent traveling the world, riding the highs and lows of a life at snowboarding's absolute highest level in his new movie, In Motion." Mark Mcmorris and associates dropped the teaser for their new movie, as you can see from the trailer, the X feature should feature... Continue Reading →
Every year Sölden and QParks come together and build a one off spring feature, for crews and riders to come and shoot videos and photos on. This year was 'The X' two opposing hips and a huge step up kicker. This was one of the coolest aspects of the project for me, having almost 'grown... Continue Reading →
PistenBully at Work: Funslope Sölden - Webisode 3 from QParks on Vimeo I was lucky to be filmed for a small web series made by QParks in association with Pistenbully & the resort, Bergnahnen Sölden. It shows people a behind the scenes look at what we do with the snowcat, before the mountain opens and... Continue Reading →
This past winter was my second season with QParks, I was based in Solden, in the Ötztal valley in Tyrol. I operated a Pistenbully 400 ParkPro. I was blown away by this park thoroughbred, it was incredibly well designed and thought out. It was new to me, replacing the steering wheel with sticks but after... Continue Reading →
Howdy, I was in Austria this winter, working for QParks at Steinplatte, Waidring.Bigger update on the way!
Ive been very busy with summer projects- all will be updated soon!
https://vimeo.com/65036247 A few shots of basic grooming tasks, such as pushing, back blading and tiller operations.
Here are heaps of features from the last few months, we have Donkey Dick down rails, pipe stalls, gap to boxes, down pipes, table combo hits, a rough shape and final shape jump and yellow pole jam feature, flat bars and down pipes
This is a few weeks worth of rookie features, the rookies often have their own side of the hill with specific progression orientated features.. We have a variety of super wide flat boxes, rainbows and smaller versions of the pipes we use in our main park. There is also some shots of our rookie jump,... Continue Reading →
Here are a few shots of the park from the Westbeach In N Out skiing and snowboarding competition from October 2011, I think. It was two events, one at a dry slope and one indoors at MK. We had a tabletop to downbar and a down flat down along with a low closeout double down... Continue Reading →
This summer I had the opportunity to go to New Zealand for their winter season, I also managed to get a few days shaping work at Snow Park NZ. I worked mainly on event days for events like the Burton High Fives, the TNF Freeski Open & The Red Bull Performance Camp. In the morning... Continue Reading →
I just got sent this from one of the boys in Japan when we were building the park at Niseko Village this spring..
This is from the same night as the Cannon Pipe build I posted earlier. Here is a video of me pushing the snow into place for our hitching post. Hitching Post Park Build from TA on Vimeo. And here is a video of some Local Boys who came and hit the park up that Thursday... Continue Reading →
Last year we had the Nike Stairset Battle up at SNO!zone Castleford which pulled riders from all over the country to compete to win tickets to ride in the final at the Stairset battle in Germany. There were several stair set battles all across Europe and all the winners won entry to the final in... Continue Reading →
Before I came away I tried to film as much as I could of my Grooming & Shaping work. Its is very well to say you have the skills but nicer to be able to back it up and show people how I work and what I work with. This is the first of a... Continue Reading →
So here like I mentioned in a previous post we had a local grom kid come and shoot on these features for Nickleodeon. Up top we have a down pipe and trickle down flat fat pipes, into a hitching post and cannon setup. Then we had a quarter pipe with black pipe on top and... Continue Reading →
Trailing something new here as park of my updates, putting pictures in takes up too much time and space so there will be a lot more video and photo slideshows instead which should improve things! So here we have a shotgun down rail and pipe into the big flat down box and donkey dick street... Continue Reading →
This winter I applied for a Park Shaping position in Japan, but due to the amount of snow they get they don't build a park until the spring (champagne problems eh!) otherwise they would forever be closing it for storms and digging out rails! I worked at Niseko Village Resort which is one of the 4 resorts... Continue Reading →
Here is the video from the big night! Burton High 5 Milton Keynes, enjoy.. I definatly did!
So its that time of year again, the Burton High 5 tour rolls into town. After winning the Golden Shovel Award last year, we set the bar up high! Again it started on a Monday night, right up until 7pm Friday building and pushing with the PB all night then hand shaping, digging and final... Continue Reading →
So here we are at the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show at Earls Court Exhibition Center, after doing the promo for it (Read here) and setting up our stand including putting up the shell scheme and organising our area. Our job role here was to promote and give information about the company, who & where we are... Continue Reading →
This was cool, a few weeks back we took 30 tonnes of snow to London and dropped it outside of Earls Court Exhibition Center. We built a landing out of it and created an acid drop from the roof of the foyer for a media shoot to publicise the Ski & Snowboard Show at EC... Continue Reading →
A few months back we took some snow to Cambridge University, to help them promote their snowsports club, this is a good type of event as we offer free sledging down our run to the students and it also helps promote who we are and what we do. I was up at 4am to push... Continue Reading →
Just a quick one, this is the first bigger jump we have built in a while, it is about 5 metres from lip to landing! Here is a link to a video of local riders Ollie Dutton & Andy Nudds riding this weeks park - http://www.vimeo.com/27744994
This was the park for FBBB Trickbusters, a new style of comp where tricks are called from playing cards pick out of a hat. At the top there was a Monster can tap to a snow ledge leading to The triple line, monster branded shotgun down rail, down pipe and donkey kick. Then a gap over... Continue Reading →
This is the park we built last week, I pushed it with the Pistenbully on Wednesday night then it was shaped by the boys on Thursday. Here is a few pictures.. This is the Donkey Down rail Here we have the Barrel tap down the bottom of the slope. This is a flat down we made from a... Continue Reading →
Last weekend, Sat 4th June, was the MK stop of the "Who's Afraid Of The Park Tour" This was the biggest rookie event of the year; we had sponsored riders and instructors and DJ's, chill out zones, freebies and more! I got asked to coach and it was super fun, one kid I coached went on to win most... Continue Reading →
This is the Park Plan from May's Parkstrife event, these get made every week and posted to Facebook, twitter and various blogs so that customers know what features will be out. The bottom Relentless can stall, rough shaped with the Kat This is the butter pad with pole jam & gas pipe creeper, super fun.... Continue Reading →
These are two shots of the bottom feature from Friday 27th May, this was Neils brainchild inspired by the feature from the Head Jib Factory
These are just a few random shots that dont really have a folder of thier own.. Fresh shaped, arty shot of the Donkey Dick down rail. This was the last park I pushed before I went to California, the rails are brand new never been hit in this shot, we set them up for a photoshoot to... Continue Reading →
SNO!storm is an event we put on that happens 2 or 3 times a year, its basically park taking over the whole hill and DJ's playing with spot prizes from local shops and occasionaly a brand demo. This was the park we built a few days before I went back to America so I only helped start it... Continue Reading →
This post has pictures from the Maverix Jam, the first company I shaped for, this event was an end of season way of saying thank you to the customers, sponsors and everyone who got involved. It was the first park I designed and the first time we had a team of people working under us. This is me... Continue Reading →
These are a few shots from the Indoor Big Air, we started building about a week before the comp only working with the cat at night and hand shaping during the day.. lots of late nights and early mornings, digging moving and shaping! Pushing! Landing & Take offs Nearly there! Side view of the triple... Continue Reading →
"The park shapers pulled out all the stops to create an epic ‘urban-inspired’ setup – even installing lamp-posts on the side of the obstacles!" "Milton Keynes aced it. The park was smooth with sweet trannies, spray paint stencils and plenty of detailed touches that made it stand out from the crowd. They had... Continue Reading →
Hello!, Welcome to my page, this is where I will be exhibiting my shaping and grooming work. Im currently gathering content from reviews and videos for things Ive worked on over the last few years and will have some up very soon! Thanks for your patience. Tom
TA Park Shaper 