Know Your Park Features!
Pay attention to: Rails, Boxes, Pipes, Tubes, Hitching Posts, Logs, Tree Grinds | Jumps: Tables, Step Ups, Hips, Gaps, Transfers… Steep / Flat Take Offs, Steep Landing / Flat Landing | Small, Medium and Large Terrain Park Features | Before Hitting Features Scope the Terrain | Speed for Each Feature | Watch Others Hit Features and the Line they Choose!
The #KnowYourPark Instagram Photo and Video Contest is LIVE!
This social media contest is designed to encourage winter action sports enthusiasts to promote and share their personal photos and videos on Instagram demonstrating safety in ski and snowboard resort terrain parks. The goal of the contest is to engage snow sports lovers and generate excitement for and interest in the Foundation’s B.A.S.I.C.S. Program Service.
#KnowYourPark is the fourth educational documentary High Fives has produced through its B.A.S.I.C.S. Program Service that will be released worldwide on Thursday, October 16 in Truckee, CA!
The High Fives Foundation has teamed up with POC for the #KnowYourPark contest. In order to enter, photos and videos must be uploaded to the social media platform Instagram, include a tag: @hi5sfoundation and @pocsports use the hashtag #KnowYourPark, and illustrate one of the five core points to be highlighted in the educational film (these points are listed below). Participants doing so will be entered to win a prize package from POC valued at $480. Each prize package will include a POC Fornix Helmet (MRSP: $160), a POC Lid Goggle (MSRP: $200) and a POC Spine VPD 2.0 Back Protector (MSRP: $120).
The High Five Foundation’s B.A.S.I.C.S. (Be. Aware. Safe. In. Critical. Situations), program service is designed to promote safety and awareness through world-class fundamentals coaching, education and video presentations to winter action sports enthusiasts of all ages. By working with POC, the High Five Foundation’s B.A.S.I.C.S. program aims to raise awareness about inherent risks and rewards of skiing and riding within the terrain park. The goal of this campaign is simple; promote terrain park skiing and riding with an emphasis on smart decision-making.
It will highlight the following five core values:
• Know Your Terrain Park Conditions
• Know Your Terrain Park Features
• Know Your Terrain Park Progression
• Know Your Terrain Park Protection
• Know Your Terrain Park Etiquette
Thank you to the following companies and ski resorts for supporting the #KnowYourPark documentary: Volkl Skis, Marker Bindings, Smith Optics,SNOCRU, Rome Snowboards, GoPro, Sugarbush Resort, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows.
High Fives to the Integra Foundation for supporting #KnowYourPark documentary!
About the Integra Community Foundation:
The Integra Foundation is dedicated to advancing innovative medical and healthcare research and education, primarily in the areas of neurosurgery, reconstructive and general surgery, that lead to improved outcome and quality of life for patients and their communities.
The mission of the Integra Foundation is clearly defined by our commitment to the members of the clinical, scientific and lay communities who dedicate their lives to the prevention and treatment of injuries, diseases and conditions that require the medical intervention of physicians practicing in the fields of: neurosurgery, reconstructive surgery and general surgery.
The results of the programs supported by the Integra Foundation reiterate our commitment to those who need medical care, and further our goals of improving healthcare and building healthier communities.
Learn more at: integra-foundation.org
