Skiing without poles?

[buckethead]

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

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


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

[The Suit]

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

OK, but which pre-schooler?

[T-Boz]

as in 2 year old infant.

[iceman]

as in 2 year old infant.

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

Clarify your terms.

[brutah]

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

[BushwackerinPA]

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

Clarify your terms.

arent you a lawyer ice?

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....

[duh]

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.

[samuelf]

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.