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Boot grabbing is for sissies!
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I don't know if many people have noticed it, but a large number of 'pros' boot grab. I won't name any names, but the best of the best are guilty. A boot grab, as far as I'm concerned, is uglier then a tindy. A grab should only be considered a grab if you are actually touching your ski. Any idiot can reach down, touch his boot and call it a safety. Actually grabbing the ski is kinda hard. Ultimately, it's a matter of style and boot grabbing has no style. I'm frequently guilty too so I'm not going to rag too hard, but my point is that we should all clean our style up and actually GRAB!
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stop making fun of chris muldoon, haha
nice photo in sbc skier by the way
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i NEVER grab my boots. its gay. and i too have noticed pros doing this, cough' the phils' cough
Lets go skiing
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in propaganda, jon olson grabbed the top of one of his boots, pulled it back and kicked his other foot forwards. he did it in a 180 and i thought it was pretty rad.
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Sometimes I pull a trick called 'the comfortable walker'. You bust like a 8 ft. air and reach down grab your boot and flick the switch from 'Ski' to 'walk' or 'Hard to soft'. Tweak it to the max too Homeys! And PRESTO! Good bye shin bang, hello ladies.......
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I got so battered last night that I had to send my clients around the corner so I could run behind a tree to be sick. Unfortunately I fell into a snow hole under a pine tree and the impact of falling into an eight foot deep trench made me vomit on myself-love Bawbsy....
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No Grab is going to be huge soon. I'm telling ya Steeze No Grab 360's and 180's in the backcountry. But for it to be No Grab it's got to have style, like you cant just huck a trick without a grab and call it No Grab, you know what I'm saying. It's going to be like gorilla steeze with your arms really wide, low centre of gravity, check out like Tadashi Fuse or Devun in Pulse, it's coming, No Grab.
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fuck that. tweak your grabs. jon mcmurray does some nice mute tweaking i've noticed. as do my other favorite pros, boyd, candide, tanner, jon, philou, douglas, .......................................................
*all hail to the mighty gods of snow*
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Sometimes tweaking a grab looks bad, like JF. I don't like the way he tweaks his stuff. Looks too forced. Sometimes mutes and tails look good if they arent fully crossed
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sometimes, yeah...
but the worst is when ppl try and have steez and there skis aren't quite parallel, that looks shitty.
i do like tail illeagals uncrossed. raps has style like that.
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I grab my ski safety alot. Most other grabs look like junk, in my opinion.
Commander of the Silent Army
Viva La Resistance!
I got so battered last night that I had to send my clients around the corner so I could run behind a tree to be sick. Unfortunately I fell into a snow hole under a pine tree and the impact of falling into an eight foot deep trench made me vomit on myself-love Bawbsy....
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I do no grab tricks with mad steeze and I think it looks the best. My idol is Devun Walsh so I try to look like him on my skis. But no grab 3's are hard if you try to have style. You have to keep your whole body spinning together. But it looks chill.
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