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Who created twintips?

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N.L.
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i think it was around 1995 i saw a home video of mike nick and friends doing 540s and switch takeoffs. this was before he made the skiblades, so where did they get twins from?

does anyone know the history?

Sep 25 2005 5:22PM
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Lineskier-101
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Check the Freeskier buyers guide, it has a timeline.

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Sep 25 2005 5:24PM
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STAUSS
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yep




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Sep 25 2005 5:34PM
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Tinga
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didnt kastle make them in like the 1950s

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Sep 25 2005 5:41PM
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skiierman
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I remember a thread like this where they tried to find the oldest pair of twin-tips... I think it was like back in the 1800's with ski patrol men.

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Sep 25 2005 5:43PM
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dweezileast
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olin mark IV

jack.

has anyone seen my shoes, i kicked them off in a fit of joy
Sep 25 2005 6:19PM
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assassin167
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eric pollard

french is wierd too. the movie "mouse hunt" in french was called " nous reveillons pas un souris qui dors" meaning we wont wake up a mouse thats sleeping.
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Sep 25 2005 6:23PM
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CollinWright
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yes pollard and some guys from hood made thier own and were rockin em before companies made them

Sep 25 2005 6:26PM
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dweezileast
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didnt they use ceramic tips?

jack.

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Sep 25 2005 6:34PM
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EC-Tom
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i heard they would heat up the ends of existing straight skis and curve em.....could be bs tho no idea


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Sep 25 2005 6:36PM
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$westside$
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i thought Leventhal(sp?) took that claim to fame

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Sep 25 2005 6:38PM
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assassin167
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pollard is the man

french is wierd too. the movie "mouse hunt" in french was called " nous reveillons pas un souris qui dors" meaning we wont wake up a mouse thats sleeping.
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Sep 25 2005 6:49PM
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bermbuster49
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yah i was just going to say that

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Sep 25 2005 6:50PM
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eheath
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yeah hes got it

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Sep 25 2005 7:14PM
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yetigonecrazy
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levinthal was one of the first to create a twin tip company, but he was far from being the 1st one to make them

Sep 25 2005 7:38PM
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President
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right

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Sep 25 2005 7:48PM
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*Fujative*
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i have no idea.. but i want to know the history

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Sep 25 2005 7:51PM
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R.Fahey
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^ yeah man. if anyway you get get the newest Freeskier, there is a two page timeline about it. sorta interesting.


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Sep 25 2005 8:11PM
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Tinga
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my dad has a pair of olin mark IV theyre huge like 210 and theyre heavy as fuck but the bindings dont even have brakes on um

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Sep 25 2005 8:13PM
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casimiro
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the olinn mark IV, but I think that way back in the wooden ski day there were some cats rocking the 8 foot long twins......



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Sep 25 2005 8:15PM
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lawless
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yes olin made an unintentional twin tip. They had no idea and neither did anyone else.

My friends Josh Frazier and Grif Cummings of mt. hood made one of if not The First twin tip ski. It was a peice of bent metal that was screwed to the top sheet and then the ski was heated up and bent to fit the metal. Then the "tip" was screwed to the metal to keep it from delaming. They made this because they were sick of digging the tails in upon landing switch at summer camps. They called it "Solution". Pollards skis from back in the day (9th grade) are now on the wall at the Rat Skeller in Govt camp.
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Sep 25 2005 9:19PM
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Lineskier-101
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Freeskier says, Olin Mark IV's, then some other one I forgot, then 1080's came along, then Lines.

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Sep 25 2005 9:39PM
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VKarma185
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yea dude it was like a last years freeskier issue and they were called like hooligan skis. they didn't catch on because people thought they were goofy

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Sep 25 2005 9:44PM
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TWoods
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^^lines, salomon and rossi all put out twins the same year.
K2 made a twin called the poacher the year before, but it was never made available to the public.
The Olin Mark whatever was the first ski that had a semi twin and was center mounted. some old guy that taught me how to tune skis and fill ptex and sometimes I ski with was one of the poeple who worked on developing that ski.

Sep 25 2005 11:08PM
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waynewong
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^the poachers werebfor sale in VT ski shops in 1997...that year i had a pair of elan scx "parabolics" we skied them with no poles and would do small 180s and step down tables at sugerbush

Sep 26 2005 12:51AM
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mattster
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^ now thats progressive

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Sep 26 2005 1:00AM
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*Christie*
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Not only is this guy right, but Freeze wrote an article where this was talked about including the mention of Josh and Griffin.



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Sep 26 2005 1:05AM
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waynewong
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^it was funny cause my brother went from learning the basics on those skis and was then put on the salomon bloade team in 1998...he got to go to the first three x-games, funny shit we made fun of him for it..but the dude is one of the best bigmountain killers out there...just the teenage blading career was funny

Sep 26 2005 1:08AM
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ATLskier
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The first twins were some old wooden ones made in the 1920's/30's or something like that. It doens't matter what year, they are just old. FREEZE wrote the article. It also said theat you could still see people using them in winter park in the 60's/70's. They just didn't catch on.



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Sep 26 2005 9:21AM
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bizzel414
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dlock sux

Sep 26 2005 12:26PM
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jsg
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yeah line was the 1st core twin tip company but yeah man some people wher rocking in waay back

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Sep 26 2005 12:29PM
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heavywinter
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Olin twins weren't "unintentional". People did ski fakie in the old days. They also did funny little tricks and spins and it was called "ballet" skiing. A couple of other companies made "unitentional" twins, too, like Kastle. Not really like the twins we have now, but just as intentional as anything from Line or Armada.

It's called skiing, stupid.
Sep 26 2005 12:37PM
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masterb
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griffin cummings and the hole hood crew reped twins first

Sep 26 2005 1:36PM
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lawless
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^amen brother.

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Sep 26 2005 1:49PM
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