Futuristic Neveplast ski slope on the top of Copenhill
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2020
- Copenhill, the sports facility featuring a Neveplast ski slope located on the roof of the new waste-to-energy plant in the heart of Copenaghen, officially opened to the public on October 4th . Special guest and Italian star Kristian Ghedina, from Cortina d’Ampezzo, attended the inauguration to ‘test’ the ski slope. The ski facility consists of three slopes of different difficulty levels, two conveyor belts, and a ski lift which provide an opportunity to enjoy skiing and snowboarding 365 days a year.
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Want something that resembles snow as much as possible.
Colors it green.
But it's unique that way
I think that was deliberate to draw more attention to it by being green. Obviously these people testing it, are expert skiers, I seriously doubt someone who never skied before, can learn good enough on this artificial snow slope, to then be able to smoothly transition to skiing on real snow. There are many types of snow (powder, wet snow), ice and other factors when skiing on real snow slopes. It reminds me of learning how to hit a golf ball on a driving range. I thought I was pretty good because I could hit the golf ball well at the range. But then out of the golf course I was terrible, it was a differrent experience with uneven terrain, hitting out of the rough, etc.
@@d3v-x64 "Unique" ... It's the same material they use everywhere. I saw it 10 years ago at a practice ski jumping hill.
It's probably easier to see the contours on it in flat light through a set of goggles with it being green rather than white.
@@jansa940 it helps, you learn the movements of skiing. Snow is a lot more slippery, so a beginner ski slope is a lot less steep and will have a different feel, but it still helps. Learning on artificial snow will reduce hours or days of flailing around as a beginner.
2:01 Just casually dropping 2012ish dubstep out of nowhere
My thought exactly, but I'd call it brostep. Still have big respect for the dubstep OG's.
Europeans go hard for electronic music [rip Daft Punk]
Appreciate it tho
LOL it's very ski video sounding though
Bmpfff Bmpffff wubb wub wub wub Zew zew zew zew zew DO DO DO DO!! Caught me way off guard lol. Found it pretty hilarious.
Bundle up. That shit hurts like hell when you fall
I was wondering why people were bundling up because it's not snow, but now I'm enlightened
@@mashuu_ Probably cold as well
It's not like hard packed snow is easy on your behind or elbows when you crash. That said the problem with this surface is that the heat kind of damages your skis, or it used to be so. Many resorts, and they have them in America too (Buck Hill, Minnesota), have an irrigation system that cools off your equipment and have installed chairlifts instead of using rope tow.
When the snow slope is iced it also gonna hurt when you fall but still people ski on that, and let's not talk about skating on ice or concrete.
soccer players can relate
My brain malfunctions every time I see someone skiing down this thing.
Literally same
mine \just hurts
They need to get it manufactured as white and grey. This is brilliant!!!
Me as an Austrian where skiing is part of our culture, get nearly a mental breakdown from only looking at this green futuristic powerplant pist.
@@d3v-x64 i live in Switzerland, stfu it's amazing people in Africa could use this and learn to ski, just think, be part of the solution not the problem, it's your choice.
is it just me or does jesper tjader show up to everything skiing
Wouldn't you also if you had his abilities and passion for the sport? Who wouldn't want to travel the world all expenses paid, while getting paid, to do what they love the most in life.
Jesper Tjäder is just the go-to public persona for skiing especially since he is so big on youtube
@@MickiRae Stop drooling
@@Fara_Bale You must think I'm a Tjader fan boy... yet I dont even care much for skiing. I was just stating hes good, and gets paid as he deserves everywhere for it.
If you meant envious of someone having their dream job/profession... hell yeah I'm drooling for something similar in life.
Not just you, dude is everywhere lmao
Why does a powerplant have a better park setup than my local resort 😭😭😭
Because its in denmark
At least you have a public resort. Imagine living in a country without any mountains.
@@lightmind20
Yet, Finland gets snow.
@@alvintillebeck9384 This is such a dumb comment tbh. It was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), an architectural firm. As always, with big projects like this, a final product is a combination of involvements from city/town planners, urban designers, architects, urbanists, engineers, as well as building firms. There is a lot of contractors in place. Negotiations, often lead and facilitated by a planning firm, also involve local government and/or city planning department members. The final product is a fruit of work of all those parties and to act like architects don't play a role in it is at least ignorant.
Because it doesn't have to be built on a fucking mountain but one of the flattest countries on the planet with plenty of space because 12 people live there?
There is actually people carving on that. That's insane
We didn't have eyes. We never did. This man is one of the only people to possess them.
Not carving bro, just pretty slides, it’s basically impossible to carve on this shit. Not to mention covering places in miles of this plastic is not gonna exactly help the climate crisis which is directly effecting the viability of snow sports and the snow professionalism.
@@matt014908 If it could be done with recycled plastic it would at least help out the ocean problem.
@@matt014908 I don't know what you're looking at but the telemark guy was on edge and carving. The guy before him looks like he was intentionally sliding on flats to stay in frame for the camera guy.
@@matt014908 'covering places in miles of this plastic is not gonna exactly help the climate crisis'
Funny considering that pretty much every ski resort uses snow cannons and that is far from being good for the environment. Skiing, no matter how it's done obviously isn't good for the environment. Waste of water, energy, polluting the areas, destroying eco systems, noise, etc.,..
So the Danish Olympic Ski team are gonna be really good at left turns.
Never heard of this. Why is this project so underrated?
Only my left ear heard about this
I'd say snow is cheaper to make. Imagine the wear and tear on this turf.
It only has one run.
I have been skiing on this since I was a little kid, 22 years ago. This is nothing new for me. Very cool concept though on that gigantic roof, very nice long slope.
@@Billy-wb2op how long does one whole ride take?
put one of these in every city
Man that would be insane
Man that would be expensive
Man that would be sick
Man that would be potato
Woman.
- "resembles snow as much as possible"
- *is green*
💀💀
Just like skiing in fresh mountain air too
-literally skiing through powerplant exhaust fume clouds.
Ian, just maybe you aren't a skier. Color is utterly insignificant.
M.Sorrenti that seems to be steam not smoke.
They meant feel not looks.
Talk about the "rug burn from hell".
Imagine when this comes the norm and slope skiing becomes a summer sport.
hopefully not
What? You clearly don’t ski.
man, here in Prague we had artificial skislope all year long 40 years ago but they scrapped it...
@@ryanwilliams560 I’m not so sure he’s that far off. Out here in CA, the ski season is getting shorter every year and the cost to make snow is driving up ticket cost. This material will only improve over time..... The installation cost would be crazy high
@@williammyers269 CA ski season? He´s troll for anyone who didn´t notice.. I mean he´s got 2 thumbs up so maybe appropriate to make a post.
Props to the Neveplast man for those sweet tele turns.
Like the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. This is amazing!
Ok, as a freeheeler myself, I have to give huge props to the editor for featuring a tele skier as the first action shot.
I skied Neveplast at Buck Hill in Minnesota. Amazingly fast way to ruin skis. Mine lasted 2.5 runs before they melted. Yes - it HURTS when you fall. You need to stay on edge to hope to have any semblance of control as well. It was interesting...once.
Exactly the possible issues I was wondering about - running skis and not great when you fall. Plus the super short and boring runs. Thanks for confirming the problems with your first hand experience.
Yep, you need to change the gears if you want to have some safety there - like street skate knee pads, elbow pads, gloves with wrist protection… this kind of stuff meant to fall over concrete.
Imagine the microplastic particles your edges are shaving off the fibers every time you turn.
@@archstanton_live that was my thought, too. microplastics that run off in the rain, end up in waterways, and harm wildlife already happens with car tires, but i've heard these kinds of "turf" products are even worse
That material is so cool, I learnt on bristles and I had to almost relearn skiing when i went to snow
Man I’ve always wanted to ski next to a factory
Next to? I’ve always dreamed of skiing on top of a factory.
thumbs up video, thumbs down this thread. well done mankind, looks awesome!
love and peace my friends
Enjoy that fresh pow. My mtn got 20' in the last two days. The real stuff. We don't need to make snow on my mtn.
@@garyquack19 Go hug an artificial tree
Worse, it says "termovalorizzatore" that's where trash gets burned to generate energy
Me: Mom, can we go skiing?
Mom: We have snow at home
Snow at home:
noone:
he he he he ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho that format of jokes is H I L A R I O U S
I mean u must’ve pretty good snow at home bc it was the most resending snow material they could find
This are things that make me proud of beeing Italian, thank you guys!
Absolutely awesome. More of this in cities around the world, please!
I have visit Denmark (Copenhagen and Aarhus) 10 years ago and you were 10 years ahead of us in everything (I'm from Croatia). Now... 10 years after you are 20 years ahead of us :D gratz!
Man this is so true :D It's sad but I have to laugh. I'm from Slovakia and if somebody would want to do this in our country everybody would be just complaining that it is impossible.
italian company though
Artificial ski slopes have been with us since the 60's...
This is so cool. On the bucket list for a Copenhagen trip. Grandi ragazzi!
Dont, its really bad, only 3 years and already worn out😢
I bet it feels good to breathe all that fresh mountain air :) Oh I mean powerplant air
The steam coming out of those stacks is actually cleaner than the air around it
I doubt many birds are killed by flying in the vicinity unlike next to windmills. I doubt big whales are brought to extinction unlike in the waters where you have those idiot-flappety-mills.
It's beautiful! What great ideas does the human being come up with!
I want to visit Copenhagen...this is just another reason to add to a list of reasons to visit...To give this a try ! Amazing ! With this stuff, you can convert any hill side to year round ski slope; shocked someone hasn’t done it yet!
There is a Monte Kaolino in Bavaria, where you can ski down a sand slope, but it has a different feeling (brakes much more than snow). In some alpine skiing locations in the summer you can also ride on grass with rollerbladed skis.
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Always skiing with fresh air...^^
@@Someone-ig7we it's a green power plant
I'd be afraid of falling off the building. Murphy's Luck. 🍀
That's so cool!
I saw this in a Ford advert and always thought that it will be really cool if this was real. And then I see this and I was so shocked and surprised. Unbelievable that they have produced something like this.
I did something like this in Lynchburg Virginia except it had to be very Lightly Misted. I’m sure it’s better than nothing but nothing compares to powder.....YeT!!!!
I'm near Lynchburg and have been thinking about going for a while now. How is it and would you recommend it?
It’s at liberty university, it’s cool to try but u get bored easy , there’s nothing like fresh powder
@@btbrant I would, it’s worth checking out. When I was there you rode a T bar to the top which was a little tough if not familiar. You also will get a little wet and possible carpet burn so wear your gear even if warm. Still like I said it’s worth a look especially if your close.
how about flour powder
Of course Nothing compares to Power....
Great stuff...but I wouldn’t be skiing it in shorts...imagine the rash from falling on this stuff...😲
Shorts no, jeans yes
Next level rug burn. And those types of injuries get infected very easily.
So I assume you don't skate either.
I used to train with similar material and it feels like skiing on ice. After a bad fall, I gave up summer skin training. Gosh, it was like falling on scratchy concrete.
"skin" training....perfect freudian slip.
Why did I hear of this just now?
That's amazing.
Had one of these in Sheffield 30 years ago. This will set fire if that's anything to go buy.
Finally something intresting on recommendations!
Italian technology (Neveplast) and Italian champion (Kristian Ghedina) for the Danish people! 👍
Borders are just lines on a map
@@Katt1n You are right ... Every teacher tell it to the students at school!
Excellent idea - espacially for countries which have little snow and few mountains !!
Australians will know that Roy and HG had this idea back in the early 2000s as a way to bring the winter Olympics to Australia
This is so cool but sad at the same time. Sad because a future without snow to me is really depressing. But cool to see such an innovative solution to a problem. Plus the architecture on the powerplant is so beautiful.
Why would there be a future without snow? You're not one of those environmental nuts who believe in that "global warming" BS, are you?
"Sad because a future without snow to me is really depressing"
Yeah we only have 10 years to save the planet...
-1989
@@gooble69they werent wrong... permanently frozen geound in Russia is becoming mud at the moment... And it's releasing millions of tony of CO2.
I Hope you livefor another 50-60 years. That should be enough to realise how fucked we really are
lol, you climate alarmists are hilarious. We’ve had record snow fall the past few seasons in the Rocky Mountains. Please stay home if you’re so scared of carbon footprint. More mountain for me to enjoy without you woke losers taking up space
@@gooble69 Saying that climate change is not happening when you look at things like the warming stripes just any global average temp curve or you know. Ask all the small ski resorts in the lower alps why they permanentlyx shot down or ask the bigger ones why they have to use snow cannons for the entire season is denying observeble reality at this point.
Talk about Olympians practicing there, once the word get out that place is gunu be jam packed.
It’s amazing. They even added a smoke from that chimney to go over the piste) They really think it’s a “feature” to remind you’re riding on the power plant)
Love that there are tele skiers everywhere!
That looks like if would hurt to fall on
Im scared about those edges. Just looks like a solid fence to stop you. Though to be fair on a ski slope a tree isnt much better
"it"
"ib"
the guy on telemark was sick
Nobody cares that you tele (jk I care. I tele too)
🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it! I tele too....badly
Yes pinkies up. We are just more cultured and refined. What can I say.
Telemark is real skiing.
@@TheZaratustra1989 yes, but actually no
Nothing is better than virgin powder snow! I can not image having fun here longer than a half hour when you have curved the Alps once.
2:00 EVERY BODY GET YOUR HANDS UP! BASS DROP
lol
The air is great up there near the smoke stacks, breathe it in!
It's probably just water vapor
Used to ski on these dry ski slopes as a kid in Telford, UK. Great way to break your thumbs or at least heavily bruise them when you fell because they got lodged in the gap in the bristle pattern.
Incredible
Damn it looks so futuristic
i know a guy that works at the powerplant, and i got a tour with my dad and brother of the power plant while that skislop was under construction. During our tour the emergency alarm went off
shut up, meg
The way that building is setup and looking like you could fall off is like fuel for my anxiety
A slope like this in Andorra for example, would be great, the ski season would extend all year round!!! 😀
Willingly just watched a advert and I loved it!
that’s so sick
Why is everyone skiing in a ski suit when everyone else is in normal outfit and it’s clearly not cold ?
my guess is, that some of the pros there may have sponsors like burton that back them up and so they are obligated to ski with their clothes. or maybe it because of protection, cuz this stuff is going to hurt quite a lot if u should fall
Was probably cold enough. But then again if you were to fall on it with exposed skin, it might burn you pretty bad...
@@yannickfillon3851 i think even if you fell on ur normal, casual clothes it would burn pretty hard
Exactly. When i was in Sierra Nevada in Spain, we all skied in Beachwear
I love his feeling about the olympics
I don't imagine falling on it is pleasent.
There is a place with similar snow in america and I skied without gloves and the bristle like material really hurts when you scrape yr hand on it😂
I love the fresh smell of incinerated waste when I'm skiing.
LMAO
Good thing that Amager Bakke is billed as one of the cleanest waste-to-energy plants in the world, thanks to technology that filters its emissions. xD
The steam coming out of those stacks is actually cleaner than the air around it
I wonder how you look after a face plant on that surface😜
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It hurts, wear your helmet .....
that's why it's colored green. So you don't see the blood.
@@rchn1315 Ahh yes, green. I, too, have green blood.
Like gratded cheese.
Amazing guys!!!
Very cool idea and sweet design... that said I feel like the imitation snow would leave scars lol
Super fucking cool! Want them all over the US
As the Beach boys sung, "if everybody had an Ocean, across the USA"... You might not have an Ocean, however you can have a Ski Slope....
Vi prego costruite una pista tra Como e Milano di modo che si possa sciare anche d'estate!!!! Sarebbe fantastico!!!!
This is called marketing, ottimo lavoro!
this is beautiful
in the future when all the snow is gone these are gonna be really popular.
I wonder how durable that stuff is, and how often it has to be replaced. Seems like a great idea for use in cities all over the world. I would love to see this in Houston.
My back yard be great
it ruins the skis
Wow looks awsome
Awesome idea !
I’ve been curious about this ever since I saw it on abstract. Kinda sad though to see the chimney isn’t puffing rings of steam as initially planned..
I'm so goddamn intrigued, I have big doubts it feels that close to snow but nevertheless I absolutely want to try that out.
Idk what there is to doubt, but I mean it's not gonna be exactly like snow for obvious reasons. You're not gonna have those small bumps and grooves that form from snow being pushed around as skiers and snowboarders turn, so chances are it's gonna feel smoother. There might be a slight difference in friction between a board's base and the material they use, but overall, it looks really great and potentially promising
@@brazilianambassadordale8223 for sure, I just had big doubts about how they presented it in video (saying it was really close to snow which I don't really believe it is), but hey, looks very cool regardless.
Excited that Neveplast's director ski's Tele. Represent!
I know right! You don’t see to many of us
Awesome!!!!! Let's hit the slopes!
It’s futuristic, but guys this would be insane if it is „normal“ to have it in the future 🥺
With all the snow gone due to global warming, this green ice would be the next big sport. Or it's skiing on Mars.
@@vipahman this was like the snowiest year in sweden since 2010 or something
"Is it available in white?"
"Don't be silly...who skiis on something white?"
Every country should have this
Skiing and breathing the pure air of industry
lovely
This stuff must either need frequent repairs or do a total number on your gear.
It needs resurfacing every year depending on how much it gets used obviously. But they lubricate the slope with silicon so it doesn't have that much friction. The ski's get very warm and the wax will melt away, but with wax you have to much friction anyways. Though they don't wear much from it, you only need to apply wax if you want to ski on snow again.
Both of course thousands of ski and snowboards run over it wears it out... Artificial slopes, have to be relayed regularly
if you use it a lot, DON'T use your best snow skis....
They should use special skis or special wax or something to not wear down skis.
"We wanted it to resemble snow as much as possible"
(Makes it green)🤣
The feel, and how you ski. Not the color.
this is amazing.
This is awesome! I’m waiting for someone to start glowing who knows what’s inside that power plant
that plant would have to burn a damn lot of bananas for that to happen :P
The fact that they all still wear goggles lol.
The air/wind can make it uncomfortable and hard to see at high speeds.
Nothing odd in that
they're on a tall building in the middle of the city, you need goggles to prevent sunburn if nothing else
Ahh, the fresh fumes from a factory 😂😂😂
the air coming out of that is cleaner than what comes out of a car xD
Truly amazing innovation
That is so coooool.
The most shocking thing out about the video is to find out that Denmark won 0 medals at the Sochi Olympics. I always thought of the winter Olympics as the revenge of the Scandinavians. Heck it shares a border with Norway.
A completely flat country with entirely coastal climate to the south of Norway? The Danes are notoriously bad skiers in Scandinavia, except some that spend every vacation in the alps:)
Denmark doesn't share a border with Norway. Its only land border is with Germany, and the southern tip of Sweden is just over a quite long bridge.
@@erringman
The border between the Danish and Norwegian EEZ runs along the Skagerrak, between Faroer and Norway in the North Sea and between Greenland and Norwegian Svalbard in the Arctic.
@@mgh62000 You are knowledgable about Scandinavia so that's all good. For those who don't know, the Skagerrak is a body of water, so DK and Norway share a maritime boundary and not a land border. It's a common misconception that Denmark is 'up there' with the other Nordic countries, while it is actually not geographically adjacent, it is down south next to Germany, and flat and muddy rather than mountainous or forested or fjorded or snowy, so it's that common misconception that I sought to correct. Saying they share a border is like saying China shares a border with Japan, France with the UK, or Australia with NZ - if you are comfortable with those ideas, then more power to you.
I like how everyone wears ski clothes even tho it’s a normal temperature
How do you know the temperature?
@@Liphzzy it’s not winter at least
@@ottorosenbaum2218 Not saying you're wrong, but again, did you do your research or just assume it? They have 2 snow days, just because there isn't snow doesn't mean that it's not winter.
I did the research, the opening was on the 2nd of October, which again, isn't technically winter, but it's usually cold at this time of the year in Copenhagen, so it makes perfect sense for them to wear thick clothes.
It’s because if you fall it hurts extremely bad.
Mega cool idea!
As a snowboarder i can confirm this feels more like ice that grips on to you instead of nice groomed snow. Much harder to turn, im surprised they dont have water canons constantly wetting the trail because using it dry is extremely hard if youre not use to it
The world is officially too evolved now.
i feel like my ass would get burned if i fell, just like playing football on artificial grass.
Probably soon we need that everywhere
This is awesome 😎😎😎
Here's the difference when you fall on snow vs this stuff; after falling on the snow you get up and laugh, after falling on that shit you wait 'till emergency services comes to get you.
I would build a cover with solar panels over this and then use real snow.
Someone did try it? Does it feel close to ski sensations?
I've already tried it (not in Copenhagen, I don't know if it was the exact same surface or quality, but visually it was very similar) and the sensations are completely different compared to real snow.
@@WhiteSharkcsgo so its a scam? like can you enjoy it and be free of your movement, use the ski edges to turn etc...? like we see more or less on the video
@@damien8267 Its not a scam, it’s just harder/different. if you can ski with good technique on the bristles your snow skiing will be so flawless. Give it a shot!
Feels like wet snow of late season
@@damien8267 he was probably skiing on a different type of surface. They all look similar, but there can be big differences. I imagine if jesper tjader is skiing on it, it is pretty good.
Congratulation!!! this is great!!! maybe is not like snow but you can do it in other seasons like spring or summer, why not? Super great idea!!!!
Yeah imagine skiing in summer to cool off
amazing.