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Blind skier

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Tinga
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anyone else ever seen one before
Oct 9 2005 10:45PM
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eheath
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Are you kidding me?
Oct 9 2005 10:45PM
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mattyb.
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yea i have, it not impossible they have a guide that yells to them
Oct 9 2005 10:47PM
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eastAR5
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yeah i have. there was this one blind kid who was throwing cork 9s off the 40 footer at this mountain, he said he just feels when hes at the top of the lip and throws it hard. But he says its scary as fuck cause he cant spot landings
Oct 9 2005 10:47PM
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Tinga
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haha moguls are just gods brail
Oct 9 2005 10:48PM
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grubix2
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As a matter of fact, i saw one on tv. The guy didn't do much more than the bunny hill, but he had a guy that skiied behind him and gave him commands on when to turn and stop. It was a show about how people learn to overcome disabilities. Wish i could remember the name and what channel though.
Oct 9 2005 10:48PM
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1440ski
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Ya i have seen one the have this neon vest that says blind skier and a guide.
Oct 9 2005 10:49PM
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grubix2
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Mike Wilson, lookout you no longer have the biggest balls in skiing.
Oct 9 2005 10:50PM
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Riley.
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I hope your joking....if not....holy shit
Oct 9 2005 10:52PM
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1-pippin
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yeah when i was at aspen one day i seriously saw more than like 10 or 15 in one day, it was crazy.
Oct 9 2005 10:52PM
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[~_~]
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yah I saw one at jackson hole one time. she was like 6.
Oct 9 2005 10:54PM
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mammothpunks
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ive seen a bunch at mammoth. they always have all kinds of disabled people skiing here. i see people charging litte 10 foot jumps in the park on sitskis every year.
Oct 9 2005 10:56PM
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Alkyy
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they have like clinics of blind and aputie people at my mountian all the time and they are all have thoes neon vests
Oct 9 2005 11:33PM
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Genome
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adrain you serious wiht that story
Oct 9 2005 11:40PM
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Calb3rt
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i want a neon vest
Oct 9 2005 11:48PM
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casimiro
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blind skiers are all over the place. i would like to go out with a guide and give it a shot with a blindfold or i guess i could just close my eyes.
Oct 10 2005 2:07AM
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mattster
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ok, funnest thing ever ! start riding switch down a hill, go really fast, and start screaming HELP HELP IM BLIND IM BLIND ! And people like ! throw themseves infront of you to make you stop ! and then they start bleeding ! its great !
Oct 10 2005 2:46AM
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Jenna1106
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there are a lot of blind skiers at my mountain because they have a pretty good handicapped skiing program.
Oct 10 2005 7:59AM
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D-40
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yeah there are a couple of handicap skiing days every year at my hill, so there will be like 20 going down the same run at the same time
Oct 10 2005 8:03AM
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japanada
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ive seen many. THey are at my mountian all the time.
Oct 10 2005 8:21AM
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chillonhill
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I've seen them a lot, with guide,
but once I saw a blind guy with his guide dog in the supermarket shopping for food. Who decides what to eat the dog or him?
Oct 10 2005 8:25AM
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hippie_cat
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i saw blind skiing at the paralympics on tv-basically they snowplow & theres a guy in front yelling & they follow him.
being the guide would be the easiest way to get into the olympics (getting a good partner would be hard though)
Oct 10 2005 9:49AM
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gretch6364
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I think it is great personally. If I went blind I would still ski...it would suck being stuck above tree line or on groomers all day...there is no way you could ski the mogs or trees...going off of a jump would be fun...but you would have to start really small and just straight air.
Oct 10 2005 10:57AM
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Freezeskier
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i saw a blind skier hit a tree once at sugarbush a couple of seasons ago. it fun and wrong at the same time. then later that day i was on the bus. Someone was crying on the bus and turn out to be the dude wife.
Oct 10 2005 11:58AM
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eastAR5
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hahaha im defiantly gona do that this year... I just gotta get one of those BLIND SKIER vests and start bombing switch under the chairlift and start screaming
Oct 10 2005 12:18PM
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MarkieR
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^hahaha
Oct 10 2005 12:27PM
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d-loc
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ya i have seen a blind skiier at my hill. pretty cool to watch, they arent taht bad
Oct 10 2005 12:28PM
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Matty.
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At Kimberley in BC I've seen quite a few, they are pretty crazy too because they have to rely on their guide on where to turn and stuff like that. I don't know if skiing would be as enjoyable without being able to see where you are going.
Oct 10 2005 12:46PM
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ag.
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ya haha that was cool...it was liek the disabled skiing championships that weekend we were there.
Oct 10 2005 1:20PM
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wgjibber
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I teach adaptive skiing at my mountain, and sometimes i will throw on a blind skiier bib and pretend like a "guide" is lining me up for a rail and then after sliding it i will run it to some gaper or into a fence or somthing, its pretty fun.
Oct 11 2005 3:00AM
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skimeehan
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that comment made my brain hurt.
Oct 11 2005 3:02AM
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Download-My-Apps
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oh man if you could only se how had im laughing. Im soo gunna try that, even better get my friend to so i dont get tackled.
Oct 11 2005 5:10AM
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suG
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yeah it look hepps better than last years it was such a disappointment
Oct 11 2005 6:15AM
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pesja
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Lol, a friend of mine, lille used to close his eyes in the air his first years of skiing. i threwed misty 9's or shit with his eyes closed.
Oct 11 2005 7:16AM
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roussillon
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The funniest thong about blind skiers is when they're are getting on the chair lift. They look so dumb with their hands ''looking'' for the chair and they get hit everytime by it. So cool
Oct 11 2005 7:35AM
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wskibum176
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of course ive seen them, they wear bright orange vests
Oct 11 2005 9:32AM
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Schoening
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yea man how can you miss them ^
Oct 11 2005 9:36AM
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cork5_thovex
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i have seen races on tv with them, not the special olympics either. they have a guide that has a radio in his helmet that is forwarded to the skier and then they turn. they have to have real good communication skills. they are at my hill almost every other week, they wear bright vests that say blind skier.
Oct 11 2005 10:37AM
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mk2
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yeah i saw a semi-blind person skiing, he was following a guy with a checkerboard pattern on the back of his vest.
Oct 11 2005 11:42AM
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chapz
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i see a lot and also a lot of people with non legs
Oct 11 2005 12:27PM
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.John.
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I'm a legally blind skiier
Oct 11 2005 12:34PM
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