No poles on a powder day?!?
I don't need no stinkin' poles!
Yeah, so I pulled the gaper move today and forgot my poles on a 10" day @ Loveland ... D'oh!
I had a blast!
And I noticed I was often skiing in SNAKE STYLE!
"Harms up!! Harms up!!"
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No poles on a powder day?!?
I don't need no stinkin' poles!
Yeah, so I pulled the gaper move today and forgot my poles on a 10" day @ Loveland ... D'oh!
I had a blast!
And I noticed I was often skiing in SNAKE STYLE!
"Harms up!! Harms up!!"
Not to piss on your parade, but there's no lost and found or rental shop there where you can just waltz in and grab a pair for free?
^^^ yeah, in retrospect that would have been the way to go.
i went into the rental shop and the line was waaaay too long to fuck around with; but i almost think that i had more fun than with poles.
charged hard; tomahawked well; got the ego-rubbing comment from a woman in the liftline: "wow, no poles on a day like today? you must be badass!".
to which i just blushed and said i was just forgetful.
although i did ski like a badass (albeit a fotgetful badass).
and ... YOU CANNOT DEFEAT MY SNAKE STYLE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJ59QAnbMo
if you looked anything like this then kudos
did you make airplane sounds?
^^^ bbbbbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaawwwwwwwrrrrrrrrra aaarrraarrrrrr ...
No, maybe next time though; that sounds like fun.
@ satch: I looked basically like that, but that guy clearly doesn't know how to tomahawk.
WwwweaaaaaaaAwwwwwwwwooooooohjhjhhjaaaaaaawwwewwww ww!
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Dropped a pole from a lift in Snowmass today.
Did 1.5 laps in semi manky chop with one pole / quarterstaff before becoming reunited with my lost pole. (somehow missed it on the first lap)
Some guy said you must have been charging so hard you missed it.
True.
YOU CANNOT DEFEAT MY SNAKE STYLE!!!
Every 7 years!
Be like water...
Never done it on a pow day, but once or twice a year I run no poles just for the hell of it. It feels very freeing.
Maybe like riding my single speed where I’m more aware of uphills and flow.
Axl is what my mind had imagined when I saw 'Snake Style', too.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
I was think more Thulsa Doom
Ski no poles a few times a month. Mainly on carving skis and sometimes on terrain skis on mellow bump runs.
Not sure what the PSIA nerds say, but I feel like it’s a great practice to stay low and stay forward.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by 54-46
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by the_flying_v
My skiing was better after psuedo snake style segment.
"Take him, and crucify him, on the Tree of Woe.".Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
yeah, so he's in a medically induced coma right now - so real funny there bruh, pure class.
As for snake style - too funny, made me giggle a whole lot and I am happy to report that forgetting my poles is at least a yearly occurrence. No poles on a deep pole day is commitment to shredding the gnar, tomahawk included ;)
IME Its about triggering the turn by lightly tapping the snow, try ripping a couple piece of bamboo out of the snow fence and plant those
Did some Snake Style at Winter Park after the big storm.
Lost a pole in the powder while milking deep snow turns between tight trees (lost my commitment and went airborne auger way tip deep into the snow).
Passerby lent me they're pole so I could declamp.
Skied down in combo Snake Style / GGS (Gorilla Giant Slalom).
While maching hudge turns down the apron Patrol is all: "Ease up!".
To which, I replied:
YOU CANNOT DEFEAT MY SNAKE STYLE!!!
:D
Today at Mt Bachelor I see a father and his 4-5yo kid clicking in near the lift.
I pointed to them and said “Father of the year right there, pulling his kid out of school to go skiing!”
Dad: “Well, dad of the year forgot to load the kid’s poles in the truck this morning”
Me: “Mejo, you do not need poles”
Kid: “But I want them”
Me: “You ski Snake Style! [Demonstrated hand position]. It cannot be defeated!”
Dad is laughing, kid’s gotta be thinking ‘who is this weird guy?’
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Originally Posted by TBS
That is great!!!
:D
Well played. I woulda just said “Go grab some from the rental shop/lost & found. I can be really boring sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
last time i forgot poles was the Hankin Evelyn so I grab 2 pieces of boo from the snow fence, we are touring so it was shitty with no baskettes but i managed to get to the top and drop Cardiac coulior, at the end that bamboo was completley splintered/ fuckered
Skiing with the salomon free ski tv guy at the Hankin, he gets a pole stuck in a root ball at low tide, I think I would have tried harder but he doesn't seem to care and just leaves it
driving back to town he gets on the I-phone and just orders himself a new set of poles and a complete salomon ski/ pole/ outerwear package for the Hankin guy, pretty fucking corporate eh
'tis baller indeed!
fact.
The holiday crowd of SPOREs (Stupid people on rental equipment) have descended on us so going to rental counter/lost&found would not have been efficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
And hopefully Dad picked up on the reference and will spend some time watching Bruce Lee videos with the kid.
So don't ever pick up the wrong poles,
I was skiing with a guy who did and it was not pretty , the guy who's poles he grabbed was pissed at him loudly outs buddy at the apres ski,
that weeks band was pretty good they had a good singer/ good lead player, it was the 80's so the band breaks into a pretty good version of Man-Eater by Hall n Oates except the lead singer changes the words to " pole stealer " funny
My wife's poles got took by accident a few years ago. A similar looking pair was sitting right there so she grabbed them and went skiing. She still has them and ever since then she proudly refers to them as the poles she "stole."