There’s a lot happening at Cardrona ski area in New Zealand ahead of the 2025 ski season. First up, the resort is set to become the country’s largest, with a new lift opening up fresh terrain. But the resort is also investing in a year-round freestyle skiing facility, also set to open this month, June 2025 Located in the Cardrona
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Alongside its core business creating artificial ski slopes, Neveplast has long seen the the potential of bringing all the traditional snow-based activities—beyond skiing—onto Neveplast surfaces too. That vision led to the creation of their Tubby snow tubing experience, making it accessible all year round, even without snow, offering new opportunities for ski resorts and amusement parks around the world. Neveplast
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South Wilts Ski Club has become the first facility in the UK to house both an Infinity Slope and a SkyTech Ski Simulator under one roof, bringing world-class ski training and innovation to Wiltshire. Following the launch of its Infinity dry ski slope in October last year, the Club has now installed the SkyTech Simulator, creating a unique indoor ski
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Shenyang Sport University in China’s Liaoning Province has created a summer ski training facility specifically designed for professional athletes, including those on the country’s national team. Occupying a large 18,724 square metres area, with a building height of 20.4 metres, the complex features two professional-standard dry ski slopes: the Freestyle Ski Aerials Summer Training slope and the Snowboard Halfpipe Summer
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A skier with autism who learned to ski on a Norfolk dry slope has taken bronze and gold medals at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025 this month. Annabelle Lamb (26) took gold first in her division in the advanced giant slalom at the Games finishing three seconds ahead of the silver and bronze medallists from Belgium and
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During the Junior and U23 Cross-Country Skiing World Championships in Schilpario, Italy, locally-based dry ski slope manufacturer Neveplast was present, crerating a demonstration track set up in the Ski Room Area. The facility was available to athletes, coaches, and technical staff from all teams, offering them the opportunity to personally test the brand-new Neveplast X-Country material, which featured the revolutionary
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Qatar has unveiled its first indoor ski machine as the centrepiece of a shopping mall there. IndoorSki Qatar, which runs a medium-sized SkiMachine, has opened in One Mall where it’s the new eyecatcher of the mall. The slope is open from 2pm to 109pm daily and offers lessons, including ski school courses. One Mall was established in 2014 with the
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A 50,000-square-foot (4,645sqm), 600 foot (nearly 200m) long dry ski slope installed at Sleepy Hollow ski area in Iowa, USA, is out of action just months after it opened due to technical and construction flaws. The slope itself, supplied by British company Snowflex, was initially used for tubing with skiing and snowboarding introduced more recently, appears to be fine, however
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Piste Tribe, which describes itself as, “a tight-knit tribe of skiers who find passion and joy in life on the slopes and sharing a lifestyle and values,” has opened an indoor ski machines facility in SouthKorea. Piste Tribe, located near the university of Cheongju, have two large size Treadmill SkiMachines from Alpine Engineering BV. Piste Machine work together with conventional
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A dry ski slope at Folkestone in Kent on England’s south coast appears to have been saved from closure, although full details of its rescue have not yet been disclosed. The dry slope is part of the wider Folkestone Sports Centre, a popular leisure centre that shut unexpectedly last July after former operators Folkestone Sports Centre Trust ran into financial
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