davidar Wrote:
We dont have mountains suitable for developing a professional career....
You hit the nail on the head.
Murray Buchan is competing in the Sochi halfpipe on Tuesday. He started young at Hillend, then moved his training to Bearsden when they got their Snowflex slope. However for the last few seasons, he has spent his winters training in Colorado and his Summers training in New Zealand.
The mountains in Scotland are never going to provide an adequate platform for any future stars to train for slopestyle or halfpipe. They're more than likely to start at slopes like Bearsden/Garthdee and possibly event Braehead, before going onto the GB junior development team, who do most of their training weeks in the Alps.
In Europe and America, the resorts do ground work to help the construction of a park early in the season. They shape table tops for landings, so when the snow arrives, it takes considerably less to build a decent park. The resorts here have their hands tied, as they can't move a single rock without the National Park or environmentalists going nuts.