Half-pipe

A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, and skating.

The structure is wood, concrete, metal, earth, or snow. It resembles a cross section of a swimming pool, essentially two concave ramps (or quarter-pipes), topped by copings and decks, facing each other across a flat transition, also known as a tranny. Originally half-pipes were half sections of a large diameter pipe. Since the 1980s, half-pipes contain an extended flat bottom between the quarter-pipes; the original style half-pipes are no longer built. Flat ground provides time to regain balance after landing and more time to prepare for the next trick.

Half-pipe applications include leisure recreation, skills development, competitive training, amateur and professional competition, demonstrations, and as an adjunct to other types of skills training. A skilled athlete can perform in a half-pipe for an extended period of time by pumping to attain extreme speeds with relatively little effort. Large (high amplitude) half-pipes make possible many of the aerial tricks in BMX, skating and skateboarding.

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Steamboat’s Maddy Schaffrick gets first career nod for halfpipe World Championship

Steamboat Pilot 20 Mar 2025
The 30-year-old halfpipe snowboarder made the decision to come out of retirement and compete on the World Cup stage again this season after an eight year hiatus ... The World Championship halfpipe events ...
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Snowboarding siblings take home halfpipe medals at Mammoth NorAm

Steamboat Pilot 20 Mar 2025
Aimee Wild a snowboarder from Steamboat Springs stands below the halfpipe at Copper Mountain ... Now, as teenagers, the halfpipe phenoms have since moved to Frisco to train at Copper Mountain and are making noise across the NorAm circuit.
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Pro skiers hope to bring community together with halfpipe rodeo at Buttermilk

Aspen Times 14 Mar 2025
The halfpipe at Buttermilk Ski Area is sacred ground and is sometimes seen as out of reach for the average skier or snowboarder. But Aspen pro Tristan Feinberg, who competes in halfpipe for the U.S.
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Shaun White kicks off new league with visions of snowboarding riches on the halfpipe

Goshen News 08 Mar 2025
... can alter the trajectory of halfpipe snowboarding.
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Shaun White kicks off new league with visions of snowboarding riches on halfpipe

CBC 07 Mar 2025
... decades inside all those halfpipes he used to dominate.
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