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Freestyle without twin tips?
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I like hitting the parks and I would even like to start sliding rails and boxes etc. but I dont have twin tips, I just have some all-mountain Blizzards. I mostly ski moguls and glades and the like but I would like to get into freeskiing. My skis arent that old and I cant justify getting new ones just to ski the parks. Is it acceptable or even possible to slide rails or boxes or do spins off jumps without skis specially designed to do that, i.e. twin tips, atleast simply to learn the ropes before committing to freeskiing?
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i guess you can still do that kind of stuff
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yea its fine i had blizzards also and started grinding boxes and i can do pretty good with non twins. its def easier if u have twins but even landin switch i didnt have any problem landed without tips on the backside. i skied park for half my first season then mid season this year i got twins
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go ahead. dont complain when you fall riding out of 5's tho.
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i have such respect for kids like u. just for getting out there and helping progress our sport with the right gear its just awsome.
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just get a old pair of twins, or a pair of used twin tips.
you can get a pair of twins NEW for under $200
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yeea theres one kid at my hill and has the new ar5 with sick boots i forget the name but they were new and all. he had all this sick clothes and all this shit. and the best thing he could do was 5050 on boxes. it pissed me off so much that i have shitty clothing and not even freestyle boots just some rental boots and he has all this shit. so basically im tellin u not to be like this kid and dont get nice stuff intill ur half decent
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you dfont need twins, I learnt on rossignol 9x. Its tricky but tis better then nothing.
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all skis work... i kno a kid who races with ar5s..... so liek u could cept 5s and 1s and 9s woulnd't work cuz landing switch wiout twins would suck..... and if their wide enough theyd work on rails
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one thing you should know is that non twin tips arent designed to handle the friction put on the edges when you slide rails. you could tear out the edges on yourreally nice blizzards, really quick. you can get some good park skis, [invaders are best for price range] between $275-$300 and i dont know that much about bindings but if i were you id get some reasonably priced park skis.
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yeah just borrow or rent a pair but go in the park and hit the jumps and watch the kids in their
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What kind of twin tips could you get for under $200? I understand that it must be much easier to ski switch with twin tips but would it make sliding boxes easier? I tried it with my Blizzards and was suprised at how hard it was to slide even the easiest looking box. Are the bottoms of twin tips constructed differently to make sliding easier?
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Right now I'm using K2 skis, that are from some rental place. So they are rental skis. You can slide rails, hit jumps, hit boxes, and mostly all the same things you can with regular skis except go off a 50 footer and try to do a 180. Just don't land backwards off jumps and you'll be A-okay. Cause when you think about it, thats the only thing a twin does for you.
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its all good yo, whatever does the trick
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It doesn't make rails and jumps easier until you get down to the nitty-gritty (edges being dulled a LOT because of grinding and center mount for swing wait) but when your just learning, you don't need to worry about that stuff. I believe you can probably get last years Line 1260s for under $200 or a little bit over (like $220 or something) Ill find a link.
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Just use your blizzards until you learn how to do 3's and if you like it pick up a pair of older lines or fujatives for 250$ and keep on from there.
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look at it this way, the better you get on the blizzards, the easier it'll be on twins.
if you are looking for twins, check ebay, i was in sort of the same position as you and found brand new fujatives for $150.
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Theres tons of skis on
www.getboards.com within the 200 - 300 range. But warning, they've been known to be bad with shipping.
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if you interested im looking to get rid of my rossi scratchs (04)ill let them go for like 2and a quarter, theyre mounted with s810 ti light binding, i love the flex pattern in these skis.
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i skied park for a year and a half before i got twins, it'd be stupid to invest money in specified equipment that you coudl end up hating when you give it a try.
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of course it's acceptable. if anybody tells you isn't tell them that they need to get their park rat ass out of the park.
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if he has the money who cares. dont hate on him cuz he has way nicer stuff than you and cant do shit. if he is having fun leave him be
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All having twin tips for is for doing stuff switch, so id wait til u wanna do soem stuff switch(mainly taking of switch, landing switch without twins is easy).
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i had shit volkl race/all mt skis in the park at a time. boxes, rails, they're pretty much the same.
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actually alot heavier, but still you can still slide shit the same
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i learned 1's, 3's and boxes on non-twins, until i started to flip onto my ass landing switch, i didn't need twins. but overall they're great to have
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it's not like twins are much completely horrible in trees and moguls, get twins and you're good for both! plus you look like more of a gangster
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Alot of people start skiing the park without twins then get them once they become addicted
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i learned 1's and 3's before i got twins, i also tried a switch 1, but that didnt work out too well, it actually hurt alot.
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i won my first pair of twins in a rail jam. I didn't care very much at all about having twins at all (although i quickly realized that they make freeskiing considerably easier). You're fine without them until you want to takeoff switch. Then it gets a little sketchy.
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Jumps are fine, just don't land switch.
I wouldn't ruin your skis on rails though. Get a cheap pair of park skis for that.
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thats fuckin rad, I remember when I used to not rock twins, it ws pimp shit. of course that was pretty much just barely when 1080s and enemys came out.
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yeah, i used to have some 195 salomon xscreams. when i jumped on a pair of teneighties, my life got alot easier.
so to answer your question... are twins necessary? no. are they nice to have? fuck yeah.
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where could i find such a deal?? bindings and all? im interested
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I have been skiing freestyle on big mountain/carve skis-not twin tips (buying some later though). It works, you can slide boxes, jump, do tricks, etc. It's just harder that's all. If you want get some used twin tips to try out...and buy some later if you like them better.
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try
www.evogear.com they have good prices. wait until you can do 3's before you get twins.
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is that the kid with the full face helmet and his friend rides mad trix
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You can do just about everything except for landing switch into deep powder and taking off switch without twin tips.
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just dont get discouraged when you fall on a rail or box the first few times
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Just make sure if you land switch to lean wayyyy forward. Otherwise you will JACK yourself
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im a ski instructor and use some gangster salomon shitty skis for teaching so my kids dont own my fujies. after work someone was like lets go ride park. non the less i was trying 7's in single tips.
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Dude, I know plenty of people that try and do 720s on single tips... There's no difference at all if you're used to the ski.
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yo, bro I did half of last season. you can certainly do it, landing switch is at times not cool, but if your just starting park then dont worry about it. then if you really get into park, try and trade your skisin at a ski-swap or something like taht for a pair of twins
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its doable. if you never ever take off or land switch
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yeah for the begginign of this year i started skiing park and didnt have twin tips .. its obviously a lot worse but not impossible to start learning rails and boxes
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I learned 3s and 7s before i had twins. Unfortunately, i couldn't take off or land switch, so I never learned 5s. I later learned 9s with twins but I still still can't 540. You'd think it would be simple, BUT IT ISN'T. Sigh...
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