Interview with Shaper Lorenz `Lolo´Seiwald from Nitro Skyline NORDPARK INNSBRUCK

Short designer history and which features do you still ride: Natural terrain, kickers up to 15m but no rails
Short snow park history: I started working for Nordpark 4 years ago. Because we started the Superpipe in 2004, work got more and more. We try to develop every year but it´s always a a matter of budget.
Park sponsors: Nitro Snowboards, Atomic, Blue Tomato, X-Double, RLB Tirol, Special Blend
Shaper Crew: Head Shaper: Lorenz `Lolo`Seiwald, co-Shaper: Mike Green from USA
Cat shaping hours per season: Many! Depending on season and snowfall between 400 - 600
Position of the park and earth forms: 3 earth forms for kicker, quarter and superpipe, park faces in a southward direction
Park philosophy: Skate the snow
Percentage of park areas: The whole park is devided into Medium and Pro area, as wall is the pipe
The importance of a Pro area: We set huge effort on the pro area to have good media coverage, to advance ourselves and to optimise the interaction with the pro riders
Local Pro rider: A lot! Like Martin Misof, Sani Alibabic or Phil Handle
Visiting Pro riders and teams: Whenthe pipe is in a good shape you can meet Christoph Weber, Sani Alibabic, David Benedek, some Ästhetiker, Martin Misof, Flo Örley,...
General park- news for 07/08: There are about 4 new rails and a beginner line. Since this year you can get up to the park in about 20 minutes from downtown Innsbruck! The Nordpark company upgraded the railroad ferry from the city center (Congress) to the Hafelekar
Events 07/08: December 29th - 31st: Back on Snow Tour, February 8th - 9th: Nordpark Freestyle Festival, February 21st - 24th: Snickers Nordpark Sessions, February 28th - March 1st: Austrian Masters 08
Shape and style of the obstacles: Vertical
Beginner rails and boxes: no
New rails and boxes: Curved box, butter box, kinked box
Shape and style of the rails and boxes: 2 Rails 9m, C-Rail: 6m, Box: 4x1x0,5m
New obstacles: new rails and a beginner line with 3-4 features
Planned park modification or changes later in the season: Depends on Mother Holle ;)
Top nationalities: Mostly Austrians, Germans and Americans
Safety precautions and inventions: Signs at the park entrance
How about a (super)pipe: We have a sperpipe with floodlight and nightsessions on exclusive dates. The superpipe is important but only if it´s maintained in good condition. In innsbruck the best period to ride the pipe is January and February. We have a Zaugg Pipe Monster 22
Your freestyle park vision: My vision is a ??????
Freeride possibilities in the backcountry: Yeahh!!!!
Epic or crazy happenings in the park: REd Bull Skidoo Session was probably epic. All the events and after-parties in Innsbruck