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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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.
What is funny to me about your post is that I snowboarded with them all last weekend...and enjoyed using them for a few things. (BC) But yeah, If you are getting wicked sick and twisted, they are just dangerous...I mean, look at nordic jumpers or serious park rats. Same shit, different tools, I reckon'.
Because you squirm around like a three-legged dog on traverses without poles. Because poles set rhythm in the bumps. Because poles afford balance when you really need it. Because poles keep you capable of getting up when you beater in deep snow. And finally, because you can joust across the hill if you're really bored with skiing (not likely or common).Quote:
Originally Posted by samuelf
Only reasons to ski without poles are because you are race training and working on balance sketchily or because you lost or broke one or both.
Edit: LoneStar, is this dude for real or what?
I like to carve corduroy with no poles, sunglasses, a bogner one-piece, and a fur headband. Am I on the wrong board?
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Originally Posted by rideit
gotta love ceiling cat.
i like to double pole-plant while skiing. poles are pretty much a necessity.
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Originally Posted by samuelf
they are not using poles
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Originally Posted by samuelf
hahahaha....
Andy Mahre can ski switch without poles faster than 95% of this message board can ski forward. Math? But then again, he's Andy Mahre, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
yeah, but what's his post count?Quote:
Originally Posted by BakerBoy
Skiing without poles is like getting a blow job from a guy. It feels great till you look down and realize you're gay.
bwa.............Quote:
Originally Posted by Squatch
he has to enjoy this short, short window of time before he's completely bald.Quote:
Originally Posted by BakerBoy
It's really tough to do ski ballet without poles
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If you can't make extra-fancy pole plants whilst skiing under a chairlift, how will the people on said lift know how rad you are?
BTW taking away poles for a while is the most reliable way I've found to get intermediate skiers to stand up straight, relax and pull their feet underneath them[/techtalk]
Without poles nobody would fix plumbing around here for less than £100 an hour.
I love poles too! The bigger and meatier, the better. I love setting a rhythm on a pole as it bumps into me :tongue: I also love to beater off poles, getting them really deep!Quote:
Originally Posted by Deep Days
British Mexicans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo
Similar, except the food isn't as good. ;)
Poles are useful but I think the pole plant has lost some of its importance since the death of straight skis. Shape skis are so easy to turn that I rarely to never do pole plants anymore. I mostly use them on the flats when I'm skating and to switch my naxo's into tour/downhill. They are also good to hit people with. imo
They are a useful tool for chinese downhill.
WTF is chinese downhill? Do I even want to know?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
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?
I always thought chinese downhill was when a huge group of people race down a bowl at the same time bumping shoulders, smacking poles, and much carnage ensues
Really? I think your membership card is in jeopardy. Look it up- Not on Zis side, not on Zat side, but right down Zee Meedle!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AsheanMT
That's rough.Quote:
Originally Posted by AsheanMT
Poles are great for leaning on when standing around.
If i didn't ski with poles what the hell would I bang together to let people know I was about to pass them on narrow runs?
Calling out only seems to confuse them. Clapping my hands with gloves doesn't seem like it would be loud enough.
Skiers thumb is an injury to the collateral ligaments of the thumb and is one of the most common ski injuries and is caused by the pole straining the thumb during a fall. If pole use is discontinued; the percentage of skiers thumb injuries will be greatly reduced if not done away with all together.
Well, here's a somewhat serious response to this thread...
I never learned to ski with poles, it was probably 3 or 4 years until I actually started using them, maybe even longer. Since then, I have not used poles only when looking to improve some balance and change it up a bit for a day or so a season, but when I was growing up and didn't have any, I didn't know the difference....
However, last year I met and skied with a dude who rips incredibly hard. He skis fast, goes big, is undaunted by any terrain, skins into the backcountry, and does this all without any poles... and he's tele. As far as he is concerned, this is a sport of motion, and poles are nothing but a crutch. I agree with him, that poles are a crutch, though I never think I will/can give mine up. But after watching him ski as fast and hard as he did, especially in the type of Adirondack backcountry terrain we were in, and never miss a beat, it made me reconsider, or at least dream. His skiing was fluid, powerful, it complimented the natural contours of the mountain, and it was beautiful to watch.
I would be interested to see if this grew a bit more. I don't know if it would look as good or be as practical on fixed-heel skiing, but this dude made it look like it was cake on his free-heels. It was awesome.
I remember training for bumb skiing without poles, but it's faster with.
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Originally Posted by BakerBoy
I bet he won't be able to have most of his own hair past age 25.
Bwa-ha-ha :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gwat
No, not the poles fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by samuelf
Just don't do the old strap over your thumb/index joint, to get the swing going, thing. That'll tear at your thumb if the pole gets stuck.
Wear the strap loosely over your wrist and hold the pole grip.
And SERIOUSLY skiing without poles does feel fine.
Trying to manuver through the lift corral, and get up to the lift sucks big-time.
So, maybe BC no poles makes sense :fm:
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These dudes don't need poles
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How else could they do this?
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teaching pole plants is one of the best ways i've found to teach advanced/intermediates to get out of the backseat, get their stance forward, and their body into position for a turn on very steep terrain... but then i'm no psia</epic>
I"m sure you don't need them inbounds... but they are damned useful. And anyone who says they aren't needed for touring... have you never been on a sketchy skin or traverse where the poles gave you the extra stability or balance you needed to keep on the traverse... or on the slope? Or fel the niceness of being able to quickly adjust your bindings with pole instead of having to bend down with a heavy pack on your back?
You don't need poles for backpacking either but they make things so much better.
I bet Kye brings poles when he is earning his turns instead of being towed/flown to a BC jib session.
^^^^^What, pretend they are snowboarders?
Ski with poles because I say so.....
End of story.
I'm thinking that poles only get in your way when you don't know what you are doing, help with balance, feel of the slope, etc.
That being said, I know I trained a lot with out them at times (but there is a reason why we raced with them ;) )
You all have missed the most important use of poles.................................
To smack snowboarders
might be a technique problem but when i am skiing crud at higher speeds having poles does wonders for keeping me centered over the skis