Freestyle
You can pretty much use anything for freestyle tricks, but we use Tech Deck ramps and pieces in our freestyle tricks because they have interchangeable parts, are versitle, and are high quality. Because demand for the Tech Deck ramps is low right now, you can usually get some sets for under $10 at some KB toy stores where the prices were originally $25 a set. We don't use half pipes because a Tech Deck half pipe of suitable size would be needlessly expensive and the Mini-Zs aren't powerful enough to make it up the steep incline anyway. We primarily use the Tech Deck Trick Street as our foundation. There are two versions of the trick street. The first had a blue box in the center while the newer one has a gray box. The Trick Street is composed of one flat ramp, one quarter pipe, one flat ramp with rail, one set of stairs with rails, and the center box.
Click on any picture to see a larger 640x480 view.The Making of our Freestyle Setup:
This is the Contents of the Trick Street set: ramp, quarter pipe, stairs, rail, and box.
This is a side by side comparison of the two boxes. The old one on the left has permanent connector tabs that cannot be removed while the newer one has separate pegs and can accept the tabs from the original box.
The newer box is also split into four triangular sections.
The triangular sections can be arranged in many ways to add variety to the Mini-Z course. This picture depicts the triangular sections creating a two jump wide acceptor at one end. We primarily use the newer gray Tech Deck box to connect the older blue boxes to create a wider jump that is easier to hit at high speed.
Good Luck on your freestyling!