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Speed on skis vs snowboards

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freeskibum82
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example 1: Chads Gap
http://www.snowboardermag.com/videos/chads/index.html

just watch it and youll know where im going with this
Dec 5 2005 4:13PM
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Cam
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ha i liked the Top Gun Music...but i think that skis are faster than boards, i mean a boarder would need to have a much bigger and smoother inrun...
Dec 5 2005 4:16PM
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Rossignol47046
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yah ski's deffinately faster but snowboards can get up there
Dec 5 2005 4:17PM
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ItsPhil
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haha the top gun music was great. that must have been so much fun landing in that powder everytime
Dec 5 2005 4:22PM
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JoakimHayland
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yea, skis are deff faster
Dec 5 2005 4:24PM
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SkiingLlama
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the first one wasnt even close
Dec 5 2005 4:25PM
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radskier
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skis are the way to go...haha, swedes;)
Dec 5 2005 4:26PM
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freeskibum82
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thought youd appreciate that

and landing in that pow.. although its pow. its still gotta hurt being up that high to instantly stopped

look at tanner.. broke both his legs when he came up short going switch over it
Dec 5 2005 4:32PM
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Public_Maverick
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did that count at the end?
Dec 5 2005 4:34PM
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thejackal1177
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wow haha some of those trys were horrrrible
Dec 5 2005 4:41PM
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freeskibum82
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and now for the punchline...

http://snowboarding.about.com/od/events/a/World_Record.htm
Dec 5 2005 4:43PM
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spere
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wasn't exactly pow that tanner landed on, more of a packet out spring snow landing right on the top of it
Dec 5 2005 4:48PM
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bermbuster49
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on like a cab 9 dude, theres a huge diff. and tanner was hitting it in like the spring, there was minimal snow, you could tell when he hit, like slush flew up, these guys bodies were buried in pow. not knocking them in anyway tho, thats rad as shit.
Dec 5 2005 4:50PM
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Wafflez
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there was alot of pow so it was probly pretty hard to get speed
Dec 5 2005 6:08PM
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sexy_skier_babii
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woulda been cool if it was a skier.
Dec 5 2005 6:10PM
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eZrider330
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I ski and snowboard... im guna say ski's win the quickness comp. most def
Dec 5 2005 7:24PM
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LDowney
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Ever seen POP? Just because a couple of snowboarders hit Chads with a mogul for a kicker in the middle of a snowstorm you assume it means that skis are faster?
Dec 5 2005 7:34PM
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ECfreeski3
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i always thought snowboards are faster... dont they have more surface area?
Dec 5 2005 8:03PM
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mattster
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they cant really use the terrain as easily, my guess would be that they dont have use of both legs independantly.
Dec 5 2005 8:04PM
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skiierman
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Skis have always been known to be faster. This video of Chad's doesn't prove shit man. The inrun is never the same for that and just maybe the snowstorm could have had an affect on them... Just a tad.
Dec 5 2005 8:06PM
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