So I'm in barnes n' noble this afternoon and I pick up Ski magazine and start leafing through it first off Bogner has nothing to do with why I ski but whatever..........
In the Letters to the editor section I read the following
To which I e-mailed ski magazine(not that it will ever get published)some like 'em short Are you ever going to do a story on skiboards? My wife and I bought some several years ago. We only get to ski about a week per year, and they've made it easier then ever to enjoy a day on the slopes and be confident in our abilities. They turn on a dime, stop fast, don't weight much on a slow lift and you can't cross your tips. It makes skiing fun again for us, rather then feeling like work. I've EVEN heard instructors talk about how easy it is to learn on them. I would think the ski industry would embrace something that would make you want to return year after year and spend a week(and some serious money) skiing.
Tom Terry
St. Louis, MO
Mr Terry,
Please stop, you are killing skiings soul, you and the rest of your snowlerblading friends don't seem to realize that there are some of us that value a long slow chair, and the work(if you can call skiing work) that it took to get to the level of skier that we are at, this coupled with the incessent grooming of terrain to make up for the fact that snowlerblades can't hack it in moguls, powder, and crud is giving us a generation of limited skiers. Sure they can ski when its sunny and courderoy, but the truest test of a skier is to be versitile enought to ski whatever the mountain serves up that day.
Signed
Me
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10-19-2003, 06:24 PM #1
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Please tell me this was a Powder/TGR troll
For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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10-19-2003, 06:36 PM #2
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Yes just what we need. An easier way for the unskilled to get down the blacks easier. We all really like the snow pushed down to the bottom. Makes for better snowball fights at the base lodge.
"Steve McQueen's got nothing on me" - Clutch
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10-19-2003, 06:40 PM #3
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Re: Please tell me this was a Powder/TGR troll
Originally posted by laseranimal
but the truest test of a skier is to be versitile enought to ski whatever the mountain serves up that day.
no shit man. our schools team goes up to the mtn 3 days a week regardless of the facking conditions. if its nice and sunny, well than thats great, and if its raining and slushy, well than thats great too. i think you learn the most when your challenged the most, so these people really shouldnt bail out just cuz the conditions suck. the only day i bailed out was an early season day and it had rained heavily the night before and everything had forzen up during the day, and then they tried to groom it so it was just little balls of loose ice on top of more ice. after about an hour i just said fuck it because it was no fun to ski on.
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10-19-2003, 07:16 PM #4
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I've only seen a handful of people on snowlerblades ever, so I don't think we need to start worrying about them 'ruining it' for the rest of us.
Everyone's out there trying to have fun on the mountain. Can't we all just get along?
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10-19-2003, 09:34 PM #5
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Pretty sure no snowlerbladers are tracking up my lines, so no stress, right?
vapor lock - bitch.
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10-19-2003, 09:39 PM #6
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yeah, i was kinda thinking the same thing while reading that. i think we should all do what we can to promote it.Originally posted by phUnk
Pretty sure no snowlerbladers are tracking up my lines, so no stress, right?
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10-19-2003, 11:19 PM #7
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http://ihatesnowlerbladers.com/
someone needs to buy that domain
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10-20-2003, 06:44 AM #8
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Anyone that wants to learn to ski/ride should have to learn on 210 straights just like I did. FAWK!
yepper
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10-20-2003, 07:12 AM #9
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Because they are tracking up my lines out east(well the ones that aren't hidden) they sideslip all the powder out of the trees its unreal. I don't mind tracks in the powder because hey its the east and powder is sometimes in short supply I'll just set up to the right or left of the tracks and make my own line. Its the stupid skier/snowlerblader/snowboarder that sideslips the whole thing pushing all the powder that I can't standOriginally posted by phUnk
Pretty sure no snowlerbladers are tracking up my lines, so no stress, right?For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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10-20-2003, 07:13 AM #10
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^200th post^
For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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10-20-2003, 08:09 AM #11
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PPPPOriginally posted by laseranimal
^200th post^
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10-20-2003, 08:14 AM #12
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Originally posted by Aldo
PPPP
(peter pad post preservation)
say that 5 times fast
For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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10-20-2003, 11:16 AM #13
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Agreed. It is definately an east coast phenom.Originally posted by laseranimal
Because they are tracking up my lines out east(well the ones that aren't hidden) they sideslip all the powder out of the trees its unreal. I don't mind tracks in the powder because hey its the east and powder is sometimes in short supply I'll just set up to the right or left of the tracks and make my own line. Its the stupid skier/snowlerblader/snowboarder that sideslips the whole thing pushing all the powder that I can't stand
If one is honestly trying regular turns and pushes snow, then that is fine. But side slipping down the whole slope is BS."Steve McQueen's got nothing on me" - Clutch
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10-20-2003, 11:31 AM #14
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exactly 200 posts, 195 pads "see the padded room".......Originally posted by Aldo
PPPP
(peter pad post preservation)"the fattest of the fat." R.Veltri 1999.
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10-20-2003, 11:39 AM #15
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Damn straight. Long straight skis...old school style.Originally posted by interloper
Anyone that wants to learn to ski/ride should have to learn on 210 straights just like I did. FAWK!Martha's just polishing the brass on the Titanic....
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10-20-2003, 03:26 PM #16
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But Samwich told me that this was now "cool" because of the Spatulas. Help?!?!Originally posted by Mcwop
But side slipping down the whole slope is BS.OOOOOOOHHHH, I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!
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10-20-2003, 07:02 PM #17
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wait you're not supposed to pad in the padded room?? I'm soo confusedOriginally posted by IBISguru
exactly 200 posts, 195 pads "see the padded room".......
For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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10-20-2003, 07:24 PM #18
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Can't wait to sideslip on my new spatula's. finally i will have a reason to sideslip and look cool, just like shane, when i do it.Originally posted by BakerBoy
But Samwich told me that this was now "cool" because of the Spatulas. Help?!?!
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