Why do british pros suck so much

hahaha i def agree with the fat part

im not british, nor have i ever been to england but i can say that i have respect for anyone going out under whatever circumstances and skiing. one day this year it was probably the worst day i have ever seen, it was INTENSE fog, snowing, windy, yet it had been like dgrees celsius out the previous day so there was a MAD layer of ice underneath, and i still went and ripped a couple runs just for fun. if you can make the best out of your situation, good on you.

Us British are extremely good at losing, we take pride in not being the best at everything, we dont take it seriously, and we go down the pub to get wasted on our excedingly good ale.

Then you should probably try and ski somewhere else sometime, because you sure as hell can't learn 'everything' in the park!!

Fine for you, but I live on the south coast and Aviemore was 14hr coach journey ealier in the season!! That's why I'm not a pro (nothing to do with my total lack of air awareness!)

Please don't mispell dumbass, it just doesn't work as an insult if you do! ;)

hahaha so true and nothing beats an english pub, nothing, iv been to american bars, canadian, austrian , french, spanish greek, and nothing beats the Boars Head on a friday night

i'm so glad that guy posted the link to coefficient drag. apart from the fact that seeing people trying to define steeze, it demonstrated that the top brits like paddy mike and andy are fucking safe.

Umm, not to offend or anything, but I'm pretty sure that plenty of Americans actually ski.


Last time I checked, cork 9's in park is actually skiing, and is just as technical as big mountain or whatever you are talking about(which I haven't quite figured out yet).

Yeah whoever it was beat me to it.


Paddy G and Andy B fucking kill it, and have their heads on straight. I'm a fan for sure.

hahahahaha dude go to germany

Woah! Where did this thread come from!?!?

Ok number 1: The best beer in the world in brewed in Burton-on-Trent in the Midlands in England and all ale over the world is brewed to their standard. (Not lager mind you) So yah boo sucks to you!

Number 2: British people grow up skiing on death traps! Here's my local slope:

So therefore are better and harder!

Number 3: Cheers paddy for coming to check on me after caining myself at BUSC, even though I'd never met you before. I felt warmth in my heart and pain in my ligaments!

If I recall correctly, there is a pretty freakin' awesome ski sequence in "In Her Majasty's Secret Service".

last i heard landing in pow was harder than landing on any other surface if you arent fimiliar with it

Also number 4: Everyone in Britain used to grow up race training. Very very few people went into moguls in the 90s so there are very few established British freestylers. Only in the last 5 years has it really kicked off being what direction british riders take with their skiing so just watch out in the next 5 years! There'll be some ace British pros around!

And number 5: Americans are fat and have the biggest economy in the world yet always moan about how stretched it is cos the governments squander your money on un-ethical policies! So stop wasting the earths resources and stop wasting money on changing the world to your image!

P.S. No offence!

Writing decent music.

having messed up teeth

um... they don't have mountains to ski at. it's really not that hard to understand.
learn how to ski on the slightly inclined glorified driveways they have, and see if you get much better...

No.

You Still have Coors to fall back on.
Another quality american beer.

No offense ahahaha.


Yeah , maybe one day America will get SO fat we won't be able to ski so much better.


Just kidding. But seriously.

Ouch man, just ouch... Haha.

well yep this thread is pretty pathetic! Why do you guys care who's better! After all its not like its you thats worse or better, its those people out there actually skiing and making something of there time they have on there skis no matter if its dryslope or back country soft stuff, there out there having fun! To be ohnest i couldn't careless about what country there from in regards to how good they're and just have respect for the fact that they're killing it, after all anyone who can throw a switch 9 or air 10ft plus in the pipe is a boss fullstop. It's just good to see people pushing themselves and there abilities so forinstance i'd be just a stoked for someone if they pulled ther first switch 7 as if they'd just learnt to slide there first rail. but everyones entitled to there own views. but they're mine. have fun skiing ya'll (yes I'm a Brit)

hahaha that is the truth america is morbidly obese

ya mang

i beg to differ. there was some brits at our hill and they where pro.

What are we good at?


Ale




Football (soccer) violence

http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=6i2HTG7KxxQ&search=hooligans



Not being as fat as you





Pubs



Oh and making do with what we've got











And even if we did 'suck' at skiing, there is a pretty obvious reason you cunt.

Compared to the top US pros, our's are behind a bit. However, there are a few things you have to take into consideration: us English are lucky if we spend more than 10 days a year on snow. Personally, skiing is one of my passions, but the most days of skiing I have ever had in one season is 12! It's just too expensive to fly to the mountains in Europe and if you do go, you have to go for a full week to make it worthwhile, instead of just popping over for the weekend every now and then. Now, I know that our "pros" probably spend as much days on snow now as you or any other American lucky enough to live near mountains but that is a possibility that has really only come about in the last couple of years since companies like Line UK have started providing riders with the possibility to do so. Most US/Canadian pros have probably spent hundreds more days on snow than UK pros.

The 2nd thing you have to consider is the number of people skiing in the US/Canada compared to the number in the UK. If skiing is a sport for privileged people in the US it's even more so in the UK because we have to pay for flights and accomodation etc, so only a small proportion can actually afford to ski. Add to that the fact that there are 240 million more people in the US than the UK and you start to get some idea of the amount of people companies in the US can choose from for their sponsorship deals compared to the number UK companies can choose from.

The fact is that these guys put as much into skiing as a lot of "your" pros. We're behind at the moment but this shit has only recently started to kick off in Europe...you just need to look at most European parks to see that a lot of mountains are still way behind what you guys have in the US.

Kicking the shit out of nob head americans!

How can you guys talk....your mates in the army just spend all day shouting each other!!!!

wankers!!

Yes i have drank piss thank you very much, i was on a night out, and mistakingly drank some piss, my friends did find it very amusing. And yes, i found it to take quite like the beer i was drinking when i was in whistler for 3 months (i know its not america, but your beer is the same). Now i didnt taste every beer that your country has to offer, but what i tasted just didn't compare to a good pint of british ale, or even euopean lager. Im no fool, and you dont know me, but now ill shut my mouth.

i think the beer discussion is over. we just can beat it, microbrews or elsewhere, they have us beat, as does germany, and many other european countries.

i went skiing at cairngorm in scotland which is 45 min drive from my house and it had 60 miles per hour wind gusting to 80mph and i still skied with peices of ice the sise of bricks being thrown at my face. the wind chill factor was -26C (arctic cold)
us brits are hard core!!

Word and Word. The microbrews are tasty as hell. And pro isn't what is used to be. Period.

lolzzz

woah i cuddnt wait to finnish reading that thread, im really excited about jumping on the bandwagon on the whole hating fat american people who think brits cant ski. this is the biggest load of bollocks i have ever herd. id love to get an army together form england, come over and kick your big fat arses at skiing

Whats a "Microbrew"! A tiny tiny beer?

you guys are totally missing the point here

british "pros" aren't like your tanners or your dumonts infact they don't even have the chance at coming close non of us british skiers do. they don't make newere near the money or have the movies or the industry backing... yep british skiing is further behind and well it's not really suprising considering there's so few of us! we started late but now there's those guys at the top representing and doing a mighty fine job aswell but don't worry they aren't living a glamorous life style for it.

we all ski cos' we love it. period. why do you give a shit?!

ps. clarkey made the best point so far i think (manwiththemetalleg)

Canada's pretty much the best if nobody noticed

I have sampled Blue Moon and Fat Tire.. And they rock!

Very respectable beers actually!
And they get you nicely fucked too.

Whilst i was visiting the states to see my young lady friend she took me to one of these so called microbrew places (In Colorado).

And my best memory (of what i can recal) was a dude with an Enormous beard and hadel bar moustache with tatoos all over him. Stirring this huge barell of beer with a paddel.
And randomly passing out samples of the beer.

Sweet night!

because they have no mountains and have to ski on dry slopes or drive to other countries. i don't know why the bother

I have a great deal of empathy for the British pros. a lot of you in north America just don't understand how good you have it. I come from Australia and we have a season that last for 6 weeks and get an annual snow fall of around 3 to 5 feet, an average day is around 2 degrees Celsius, windy, going from white out to bright sun every 10 minutes, and pouring rain. My nearest mountain is 5 hours away and I live in the city closest to the slopes. I went to Canada this year and was ecstatic about a 3 foot base and 2 inch fresh. So of course you can complain about how the British pros don’t deserve to be pros, but before you do take a second to think about just how good your life is.

making it to tea time

who is this lunatic woodland kid?? what the fuck does he think newschool is about if he's going on about who is the best country... fuck a duck- he should take note from the mens sb in the olympics:

a tv guy was talkin to white about if he thouight he could win- he said he wanted the italian guy jacqimo to win coz the party would be off the hook!

right then he captured what newschool and sb should be about- HAVING FUN!!

well clearly canadians are the coolest( tj, bibby.....)

their accent, plus being soccer fans, ive seen vids of two different fan clubs fighting hardcore=Manchester United

ahh, you werent to know but man utd don't really have hardcore fans. teams like millwall west ham and chelsea have hard core fans- watch the film Football Factory and you'll see. Ignore Green Street, its bollocks.

oh and these fights are between firms, not fan clubs.

overall, you are correct however.

...are canadian.

Haha yeah and i've now got the great job for being a steward at Sheffield United. Hull City were throwing coins at me the other day. Beats a desk job!

well there is some pretty good talent over there, but they are at a pretty big dissadvantage riding on that fake stuff........speed is different......jumps are......landings too.

No, it is not. I am going to go into why I don't believe one country necessarily makes the "best" beer but some are certainly stronger than others.

I'd like to interject here and proclaim myself as very knowledgeable in beer. Here's why:
-Have tried over 350 types of beer
-Have brewed my own beer (and distilled spirits as well)
-Have covered the beer industry extensively with my last employer, a money management (think stock market) firm. I was the in house beverage and brew expert.
-Have worked with a beer company in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
-I absolutely love beer


Here's how beer works. There are several ways to classify beer. You can classify beer by its Region, you can classify beer by its type and you can classify beer by the size of the brewer it comes from.

In respects to region, its common to classify beer by the country which originally brewed that beer. For example, Budweiser is an American Beer because it was originally brewed in the United States. Within a country, it is also common to classify by region. There are beers from different areas in Germany which can vary greatly. Beers from the Bavaria area are typically quite different from those in the Holstein area. Regions typically have distinct styles and tastes but like anything, you can only generalize so far. Although the United States typically has relatively weak, tasteless beer brewed with cheap ingredients, they also have some wonderful brews. There are even some beers brewed in other countries and exported exclusively to the USA. St. Pauli Girl is a German beer made by the Beck's brewery and only sold in the US, its a great beer similar to Beck's in taste and I've found it all along the eastern seaboard.

Types of beer are not as complex as they might first appear. Types of beer are classified by the brewing process and what ingredients go into the beer. There are two primary types of beer: those which are fermented using top fermenting yeast and those which are fermented using bottom fermenting yeast. Ales are top fermented, Lagers are bottom fermented. Ales were discovered first and much later, bottom fermenting yeast was discovered and used in the now Czech Republic for the first time and a new type of beer was born. Everything you hear about other types of beer (Stout, Pilsiner, etc) are just variations on either an Ale or Lager.

Lagers. Due to the bottom fermentation process in brewing a lager, the bubbles in Lagers are in the bottom and sides of this type of beer causing it to look like its constantly bubbling from the bottom. The beers where the carbonation is coming from the bottom of the beer are Lagers. A typical lager is fairly crisp and golden yellow in colour but like many things in beer, this can vary from beer to beer. Lagers generally keep longer than Ales and in my opinion, translate better when they are bottled or canned. Common Lagers:
-Lager
-Red Lager
-Brown Lager
-Pilsiner
-Dortmunder
-Oktoberfest
-Bock
-Pale
-Some India Pale Ales are actually Lagers (I don't understand that either)

Ales are those smooth beers with the frothy head that tends to stick around a long time. Ales don't really bubble like a Lager. This is due to the fermentation process. I find these are great when you can get them in draught. It's hard beat a pint of John Smith's English Ale. Common Ales:
-Ale
-Stout
-Bitter
-Most India Pale Ales
-Belgian fruit beers like Framboise or Kriek
-Wheat Beer
-Red Ale (Amber Ale)
-Brown Ale
-Blonde Ale
-Porter

There are two size brewers. Macro and micro. I am not sure if these terms are prevalent outside of North America. Macro are widely distributed while micro are brewed on a smaller scale. Macro breweries would consist of InBev, SABMiller, etc. Micro can be as small as an Bar that makes all its own beer or something you may only be able to get in your state/province/region. Micro brews generally are not shipped far. Sometimes micro brews are also referred to as Kraft brewers.


Some countries have great ales. Some countries have great macrobrews. Some countries have great lagers. There is no real "best" beer country but its obvious that some countries make much better beers overall than others. The fact is, the USA has probably the worst macrobreweries in the world. They're more or less tasteless and weak. However, they have some great micro-brews. Try Fat-tire, magic-hat and anchor steam if you can. These are great American beers.

I don't think many would argue in saying that England produces the best Ales and Bitters. Germany makes the best dortmunder and some great pilsiners. Czech Republic makes great pilsiners. Ireland makes the best stouts. Japan makes some great dry, hoppy lagers similar to a pilsiner. Belgium makes the best crazy fruity beer if you're into that shit. There's a ton of places to look depending on what you want in a beer. Denmark makes the best beer for getting you fucking drunk.

Well, if you have any questions on beer, feel free to ask me.

That was some interesting reading, i had to stop the sopranos episode to read threw it.
Nice.