JF DrySki have completed a new ski slope for the Colorsnow Ski Club in Nanshan District, Shenzhen in Southeastern China. The new facility, located in heart of the city’s Pengrunda Commercial Plaza, has two slopes served by a 33m-long magic carpet. One of these is a 4 metre wide and 33 metre long slope with an airbag, the other a
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Briton Engineering Developments has announce the first major Snowflex® slope to be built in Sichuan Province, China in Wufengxi Park, Chengdu. Wufengxi Park is a new mixed outdoor sports and tourism project being developed by Shanghai Xueyu Sports Management on behalf of Chengdu Culture Tourism Wufengxi Investment Management. The new snowsports area will consist of a main and nursery Snowflex®
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Work on a new year-round ski jump facility for freestyle skiing and boarding is reported to be due to start imminently in Australia. The $6.5m project is being funded by the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, state and federal governments and the Australian Olympic Committee. The project was first mooted about a decade ago and nearly went ahead in 2017
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A Danish dryland slope running off a power plant has finally been completed, after several delays An artificial surface ski slope, which runs down the sloping side of a power plant, has been completed, at least in terms of top to bottom coverage, in the past few days. The ski-slope-on-a-power-plant project, near Copenhagen, has attracted global coverage since it was first
Read moreA new ski school catering for skiers and boarders with disabilities, is to open in southern England The new adaptive snowsports school is being set up by Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) at Sandown Sports dry slope in Esher, Surrey. The move follows a £131,000 donation from the UK’s largest ski holiday tour operator, Crystal Ski Holidays, which is the largest
Read moreA new freestyle sports academy is opening in Manchester, England A new indoor sports centre is due to open near Manchester next month, and although it does not appear to have any artificial slopes, it’s being welcomed by Britain’s elite freestyle athletes as the venue they’ve been waiting for, so that they can train properly on home soil. Graystone Action
Read moreThe first phase of the restyling of the Tallington Lakes Ski & Snowboard Centre in Lincolnshire, England, has been completed with a new nursery slope installed. The 800 square metres of the ski slope has been re-shaped and resurfaced with Neveplast matting. Phases two and three, which will see the main slope reshaped and resurfaced, will be completed in 2019, followed
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