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The skier slide needs a name
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seriously, the skier slide needs a name. we have noseslide, tail slide, and skier slide. When im doing first hits on rails and my snowboarder friends ask me what im gonna warm it up with, what am i supposed to say here? So, I think we should put some serious thought in naming the skier slide.
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Well it depends if you're coming onto the rail frontside or backside, unless it's a ride on/not urban set up rail.
Frontside is the name of the basic grind in rollerblading, so that's why I said frontside.
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wtf? call its i am grindings the rial, natural, or frontside, if you are doing it unatural backside or "unatural" the you can add you 270 on and off, switchs and whathave you. we don't need a name for the basical railslide, grind....its fucking simple it not somehitng special, just sya i am gonan grind the rail and if they keep bithcing at you say i am gonan do it frontside, or natural....and then if your coming up and throiwing your tails oevr the rail firts call it lipside.
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railslide, why has this gone on for so long? what other names could it be? like stick slide?
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i say that or double board slide they sound the best i think
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haha yeah, i vote double boardslide
thats funny.
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i never thought of that^ pretty sick
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Double boardslide? Why dont we copy snowboarders a little more?
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^^ yeah no shit,ty hats why it is good and funny, they will just eb liek what the fuck? thats stright up our style and well be liek yeah so what we jacked it...and eventually we will come up wiht a dope name...thats originally...but lets face it...doublebaordslide is pretty funny...and i am gonna sya thta shit juts to fuck with poeple now.
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Sounds like a dumbass idea, have fun sounding like a douche bag.
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don't worry, i will..and i didn't even come up with the name
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If you guys are seriously going to insist on naming a trick that doesn't need a name I'm going to vote for
"Perpy".
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yeah perpy is pretty sweet, but y does it matter, its insainly hard to tailpress and nosepress rails, so if ur doing a rail, its 99% likly ur just gonna grind it like u always do, i dont think it needs a name
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i thought this question was a no brainer.
snowboarders have 50-50, so do skateboarders
snowboarders have boardslide, so do skateboarders.
why dont skiers have royals? rollerbladers do.
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Fuck copying rollerbladers, that would just hurt our sport.
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haha that was such a stupid senseless coment. how the hell could that hurt our sport?
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Because the general public shuns rollerblading, we are trying to make skiing cool, notice, they didnt show rollerblading in the xgames this year? because its gay.
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the super fun corky crazy grind... or just don't be a douche about it and say frontside and backside.. rollerblading, snowboarding, & skateboarding all have it and they all make sense... you come on from the front or the back not so complicated
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I totally agree. I think boarders need names because they often do different slides/grinds. Nose, tail, and 50-50 are pretty much a rarity in the skiing world so they definitely need specific names. I'll bet that 95% of Newschoolers has never even done any of the special skiing slides. I mean the boarders i ski with know what i mean when i say "I'm gonna do 270 on - 270 off" I think a lot of boarders don't even know skiers can even do nose or tail slides and 50-50s.
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they didnt show rollerblading in the x-games because people who were suppose to compete in it, didnt want to. chris haffey qualified, but didnt want to because the x-games are such bullshit. a bunch of others were giving them a hard time about competition schedules. so the x-games dropped rollerblading entirely.
as of know, being a rollerblader myself, it is underground. and people dont "shun" it. they just dont know about it, mainly because the x-games (when they did show it) only showed park skating and vert. now a street seen is seriously blowing up. tons of street contests are going on around cities all over the world. right now, when someone sees a skateboarder skatin on the street, or a rollerblader, or even a biker. they will all have the same reactions. theres people who are like, what! thats crazy, how did you do that. then there are people who say, you cant do that here! its illegal and you might get hurt and sue our company.
no matter what it is, skateboards, bikes, rollerblades, ski, snowboards, ski blades.
each sport has its own following of people that will never die.
i ski and rollerblade. and i am pretty good at both. i win competions and have made rollerblading a huge part of my life, and income. as well as skiing.
dont say shit about how rollerblading brings down skiing. Dstructure supports BOTH skiing and rollerblading. tell that to them.
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tailslides and noseslides arent insanley hard, you just have to put some time into them and figure out where to put your wieght ect. The reason naming the basic slide is unimportant to alot of you is that most kids dont even consider anything but the skier slide.
Im glad some of you are catching on though. I guess i kind of like the perpy or perp or whatever. its a start, because most slides are named based on the poistion of the rider(one footer), the location of the rail on the skis (nose slide, tail slide), or where weight is being distributed (50 50, nosepress).
In our basic slide we stand sideways (not frontside or backside) with our weight basically centered (5050), and the rail directly beneath our feet.
With regards to skateboarding/snowboarding this would be a closest to a 50 50.
And for all those kids asking why i wish to name a slide that they claim needs no name: Im basically anticipating (hoping) skiers start mixing up thier slides more often. If we start doing noseslides, tailslides, and whatever else you feel like doing down rails more often, it will make sense to have a name for the skier slide.
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frontside and backside have nothing to do how you stand on the rail... it's how you approach it
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i didnt read much of peoples answers, because a lot of you are really dumb.
Tom I have thought about this too. For those of you who say it doesn't need a name because everyone can do it, what about boardslides or 50-50s. Everyone can do those.
I guess the gay equivalent to snowboarding would be to call it a skislide , from "board"slide, but that sounds too stupid. The big problem is most names are derived from how you grind. ex. tail press, nose press. Snowboarding got lucky and boardslide sounds good (most liekly just because we grew up hearing it). Since skislide sounds dumb, you cant really make up a name to call it ex. back slide, cause that makes no sense.
That lead me to think you would name it after the foot that is forward. So it would be a naturalslide or an unnatural slide. But we run in to the problem that that sounds AS dumb as shit.
if we rename natty and unatty it could work, but thats too much effort.
I almost think we should jsut call it a "slide", but as a noun, not a verb.
But then again saying " I did a slide on that kink" soudns dumbER than shit
fuck if i know i guess
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We should name it. I like right-side or left-side. Boardslide isnt quite right, but it's pretty much the same. but then you have to get into front side and backside, and skiers dont have one of those sides, so RS or LS is what I call it.
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thats what i was getting at, but then you totally lose credit for doing it unnatty. i dont think we're quite at the point where right/left is equal. maybe in a couple years there should be no distinction for difficulty, but then why even differentiate between right and left if they are eqaully difficult
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really? i thought it was moldy sandwich slide or goat brain or something stupid like that. lets keep away from blader shit shaunson.
i got nothing for names. leftslide and rightslide are the only things i can think of and im not too keen on them
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i wouldnt say frontside is the name for the basic rollerblade grind. I would say soul or royale
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UFO, frontside, and royal are all the same trick. just different levels of torque. with royals, you torque your feet more in the same direction. with fronstside, both feet are just kind of straight up and down. with UFO's one foot is bent to the right, one to the left.
and it depends on what the person learns how to do first, royal, UFO, frontside, soul, back royal, mizou, pornstar...those are all "basic" tricks.
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ok so then its settled, were naming it x-up
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like in biking? no thats stupid, maybe not for jumping though
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shadows, they are definitely different grinds
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i know... they are called different things, but the basis behind them is the same, you use the same two feet, in the same to positions.
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Don't forget the cab driver.
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All you people saying that we should just say "grind," "slide," or "grease," don't understand or are just morons. Everybody can grind/slide/grease a rail. Snowboarders slide rails, skateboarders slide rails, rollerbladers slide rails. Saying we slide a rail is not a solution because everyone does it. The term describes something but not technically. There are a lot of technical issues involved in this and you guys should actually read some of the good posts in this thread because they're worth it. You might even learn something or gain a better understanding about the discussion. A novel concept, I know, I ask too much.
I think the problem is this: The only real solution is to make up a name, get people to not think it's gay, and then get everyone, including the skiing media using that term. Which is pretty much impossible.
Basically, short of Tanner Hall deciding on a name, or the entire ski media deciding on a name, this is going to degenerate into stupid name calling.
BUT it's still an issue worth considering and debating. It's not going anywhere, and we'd be good to work towards a solution.
Just think before you post, don't dismiss this.
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he probably put it the best. word. ^
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well because there is no official name right now, and obviously there is noone who will be able to officially name it, i dont think that its even worth bothering, why not just let someone say im gonna slide or grind that rail, is there a written law anywhere that says every trick must be named, its not like were having any trouble describing the act of a skier doing a rail anyways, so why not just spare all of the arguments that are eventually going to end up happening about this, and leave it the way it is, its not like anyones going to be able to agree on a name anyways
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who the fuck cares about a name. just do the damn rail and say you hit the damn rail.
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slide as a opposed to lipslide
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