This Slalom was designed to emulate the Nikoli style while still keeping the theme. To be honest, I think the grid needs to be a bit larger for the theme to fully take effect, and one small consequence is that I'm not entirely sure if parts of this are actually Nikoli style. But I still had fun making this, and I think I gained some intuition about how to make these in the future. This is probably a bit overclued and on the easy side, but I'd argue that Slalom is one of Nikoli's easiest genres anyway.
Also, some of the implicit requirements for Nikoli puzzles -- e.g. the fact that both ends of a gate need labeling, so you can't label two gates if their endpoints share a cell -- are more annoying than I expected.
