We Always Dream of Fresh Features
The Camp of Champions leads the way in park design. Progression of park design gets us as stoked as you get on progressing your skills. "What can we do that’s new?" is what we ask ourselves every year. Last year we stepped up to the plate in a huge way in the "Fresh" department. The Global Cutter and the VertEVO bag was such a step forward it was crazy. Since we started the whole “Superpipe" thing in 94 or so, we thought we better keep pushing it.
Global Cutter Pipe and Spine to BagJump VertEVO Bag
We debuted the BagJump® VertEVO® Bag designed especially for The Camp of Champions Global Cutter Halfpipe and Spine. With an angled landing surface mimicking a huge hip, the BagJump® VertEVO® Bag provides a more realistic landing for pipe tricks, compared to a regular bag where if you are landing the trick correctly you are landing on your face. The shape and design of the VertEVO® Bag let you actually land and get the sensation of riding out on transition but with the safety that BagJump is famous for when you don’t land perfect. For 2012 COC will have the only BagJump® VertEVO® Bag on a Global Cutter pipe this summer. The VertEVO® bag will be set up on the halfpipe and the spine so that you can train frontside and backside into a bag all day.
What’s a Global Cutter?
The Global Cutter is the new gold standard for competition halfpipes, with a true 22 foot transition. Every pro that has ridden it call it "The Best Ever." Steve Petrie from Arena Snowparks who built the 2010 Olympic Pipe, Arctic Challenge and others, says the Global Cutter is simply “The Best Halfpipe Cutter Ever”
What does this mean to you?
It means that you can learn faster and more safely on a bigger radius transition. It means when you crash you have more transition to “catch” so the impact and chances of injury are less. It means the compression and G forces you get are a lot less and the forces are even throughout your entire takeoff and landing trajectory. It means you can go HUGE.
Handle Tow Serviced Pipe
We have two handle tows. One handle tow runs the length of the pipe so you can train all day with out hiking. The T-Bar also runs right beside the COC Park so when you want to do a full lap of the park, you never have to hike - unless you want to. Use your energy learning new tricks instead of hiking.
Global Cutter 1/4
Because Whistler gets so much snow every year, we build a gigantic 1/4 pipe as well as the pipe. The sessions that go on in the 1/4 are so fun. There always seems to be a "Learn Inverts" session going on.
Private Training Sessions
One of the best things about the COC Pipe is that it is private. It isn't shared with the public or any other camp. You don't have to worry about an over crowded pipe (or park) at COC.
Shaped Every Night.
What can you say about a park where the pipe gets better every week. We had campers almost crying on the last day of camp when we told them that the pipe was going to be dozed the day after camp ended. "It's better than the pipe we have at home" was the most heard line of the summer. Our pipe gets cut every single night and is the best pipe you will find anywhere in the summer. No other camp anywhere cuts their pipe every night.
Get Your Shred On Like Shaun White
Former camper Shaun White changed the “Learn Big Pipe Tricks” equation when he stepped it up to build his private training facility with an Air Bag at the end of the pipe. With the Global Cutter making such an amazing pipe we figured that we better get a bag at the end of it as well so you can learn even bigger, higher consequence tricks into the bag and then take it to transition, then take it to the contest circuit. The Camp of Champions had campers and coaches take six of the top seven places in the Men’s Pipe event at the 2010 Olympics. We just missed the silver. Honestly, it kind of pissed us off not to sweep, so The Global Cutter and the bag is coming to camp to make sure that we sweep in 2014.
Ride with National Teams
Having the Global Cutter at The Camp of Champions means that you will be rubbing elbows with members of the US, Russian, Japanese, French, Swiss, German, and of course the Canadian National Team. By the time camp starts, I’m sure there will be a few other teams as well. The word is out that there is a Global Cutter Pipe at COC and that you can train for the Olympics, The X Games and the Dew Tour in Whistler.
