Skiing without poles?

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Originally Posted by Lone Star

a chinese downhill is a skintrack. since china's on the other side of the world, and most skintracks go up, they have been half-jokingly referred to as the chinese downhill. from a chinaman's perspective in china, dontchaknow?

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You're giving the hillbillies of the Fraser valley a really bad name.

Skiing with out poles is for chimps, neadrathals, snowbladers, snowboarders and pre-schooler.

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Originally Posted by icanseeformiles(andmiles)

You're giving the hillbillies of the Fraser valley a really bad name.

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unfortunately this valley is going to get less and less hillbilly. :cussing:

A chinese downhill is what we now refer to as skiercross. Before there was ever such a thing we would say "lets have a chinese downhill" and everyone would start at the same time, bmx style, to race down a trail. First one to the bottom won.

doubly fun on a bump run...more falling bodies to dodge!

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Originally Posted by AsheanMT

WTF is chinese downhill? Do I even want to know?!?

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Rent the movie "Hot Dog". Lots of good stuff for all to learn there....

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Originally Posted by samuelf

I heard Kye Peterson is doing this. He is so hot right now! Any anyone else doing this? I don't understand why you need poles. I can't believe i never thought of skiing without them before.

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/45...db7ff9dc_o.jpg


Oops I ment "Detected SOYness"

I like doing that, makes you look better when you have some.
Carazy usefull when you wanna get a park trick realy dialed.
if you can do something and look decent with no poles, you can do it with poles better then you could before doing no poles style.

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Originally Posted by Lone Star

a chinese downhill is a skintrack. since china's on the other side of the world, and most skintracks go up, they have been half-jokingly referred to as the chinese downhill. from a chinaman's perspective in china, dontchaknow?

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nonsense! a chinese downhill is a racist term given to people from iowa who have neither chinese people nor hills, yet seem to always run as if they are being chased by the po-lice. check the wikipedia.

also see http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=72577 by samuelf for more clarification

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Originally Posted by hutash

To smack snowboarders

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Pointing your pole at a too-fast incoming snowboarder when you're waiting for the lift helps him slow down better.

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Originally Posted by jrbd

Pointing your pole at a too-fast incoming snowboarder when you're waiting for the lift helps him slow down better.

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yes! and the look on the border's face when you beat him to the "...sorry dude"....PRICELESS:biggrin:


and now a mantra i repeated to myself (and often out loud) as i buzzed the borders at k-mart a few weeks back - all sitting on their asses in blindspots, under bumps, at intersections, in the little margins of good snow:

i sit on my ass cuz i'm bored,
i sit on my ass cuz i'm ass-bored
so bored off my ass so i sit
to sit on my ass on my ass-board

...words that kept me from slamming into one by accident:rolleyes2

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Originally Posted by T-Boz

Skiing with out poles is for chimps, neadrathals, snowbladers, snowboarders and pre-schooler.

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OK, but which pre-schooler?

as in 2 year old infant.

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Originally Posted by T-Boz

as in 2 year old infant.

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Hold on, now. 2-year-olds aren't infants.

Clarify your terms.

the way i see it is if you don't have poles in your hands, you best have some beers in dem paws.

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Originally Posted by iceman

Hold on, now. 2-year-olds aren't infants.

Clarify your terms.

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arent you a lawyer ice? :tongue:

infant...

1. A child in the earliest period of life, especially before he or she can walk.
2. Law. A person under the legal age of majority; a minor.

with that said everyone i see skiing with out poles is making some pretty damn ugly turns. Ugly in a "PSIA" sense and ugly in a way that they dont work. all they are doing is tail pushing their way down the hill.

I still want to see a andie marhe video....

i've seen a certain dude absolutely shredding Alta a few times in jeans, a flanel shirt and some old school Rossi's (i think) and no poles. But i see a lot of sweet things at Alta, so it's par for course i suppose. like that one time i saw a guy on tele's land switch off a little natural booter and ride it out.

I thought i had a great idea. To mount mirrors on my poles to see behind me. But maybe that idea sucks, especially since they make little mirrors that clip on your helmet.