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JayDope
Posts: 6842 - Karma: 408
Does evreyone else see ALOT more freestyle skiers at their mountain now a days? My mountian had its opening day yesterday, and i was surprised to see all the skiers on twin tips.
Dec 17 2006 7:38PM
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thrasher*TB
Posts: 443 - Karma: 10
6 of my friends switched to skiing from boarding
Dec 17 2006 7:39PM
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spere
Posts: 6105 - Karma: 248
yea there are definately a lot more, its sick
Dec 17 2006 7:39PM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
9 friends were converted or introduced.
Dec 17 2006 7:40PM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
yeh, if we get any more mainstream, im totally taking up monoskiing.
I gots to be different.
Dec 17 2006 7:40PM
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philipc
Posts: 6651 - Karma: 1,286
that is horrible
Dec 17 2006 7:41PM
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eheath
Posts: 61780 - Karma: 124,904
More snowboarders here, but more skiers too. Damn MSU freshman.
Dec 17 2006 7:44PM
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skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
yes i was wondering the same thing.... there was like 2 including me and last year there was like 10
Dec 17 2006 7:44PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 428
Fucking high school kids.

Anyways, I use twin tips as my rock skis, so I guess I add to the abundance of crazy new schooling twin tippers you see.
Dec 17 2006 7:45PM
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DaysToCome
Posts: 1601 - Karma: 86
ya and then 90% are sick as shit in the park and ski like 80 days but never go outside the park, and then they try to act all legit and like they own the hill.
Dec 17 2006 7:55PM
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Skipig25
Posts: 10729 - Karma: 256
I think twin-tips are gonna go mainstream like we saw snowboarding 4 years ago, then we're gonna have a lot of twin-tip posers- People who can't do shit, but want to ski cause it's the "cool thing" and think they're tough, but suck major ass. And then were gonna get shitty commercials on tv, and become played, get more wannabe sellout core companies, but there will still be those who are true to the sport
Dec 17 2006 7:59PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
Posts: 3128 - Karma: 179
fuck no. my mountain has its skiers, who for the most part are all good, but boarders outnumber us by like 10 to 1.



oh yeah, well it is northstar...
Dec 17 2006 8:05PM
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K_C
Posts: 191 - Karma: 22
yeah deffinatly at mt hood there are more twins so no its not just you
Dec 17 2006 8:06PM
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thejackal1177
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or it could just pump money into the industry which will end up going to those that arent poser's anyway
Dec 17 2006 8:09PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,540
u just noticed? ur a dumb ass
Dec 17 2006 8:13PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
its all the rich racers who buy twin tips cause they want to be cool. like i saw 10 guys on twins who just carved the whole day. didnt hit the park, didnt even see them ski switch.
Dec 17 2006 8:14PM
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CBROOKS
Posts: 4979 - Karma: 10,708
We have a massive amount of people who buy twintips and then rip it up in th tight black spyder pants. Epic.
Dec 17 2006 8:16PM
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Goonther
Posts: 469 - Karma: 9
true
Dec 17 2006 8:39PM
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Jorgen.
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thats wht it's like for the most part at my mouintain
Dec 17 2006 8:55PM
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NickSteezy
Posts: 396 - Karma: 181
^ yea iv seen alot more of that then legit twin tippers. I'v seen a bit more but not too noticable where i ski. Also for opening day it was there were alot more than usual but only cause it was the first place to open and everyone was gettin ready to explode if they weren't on a hill.
Dec 17 2006 9:01PM
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JayDope
Posts: 6842 - Karma: 408
well my mountain stil has like a 7-1 snowboarder to skier ratio, but the numer of skier's on twins has increased alot, i ski with about 8 kids on twins at the mountain, and now there were alottttt more
Dec 17 2006 9:03PM
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Tolz
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 27
yeah there is. while its good for our sport, all these young guns are coming out and getting better then me faster...it sucks! haha, guess i've gotta up my game a bit
Dec 17 2006 9:05PM
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kenevil
Posts: 1309 - Karma: 31
I see so many older people on twins, its pretty crazy
Dec 17 2006 10:36PM
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steevner
Posts: 4502 - Karma: 47
bunch of noobs that i know got some twins, just so they could straight air all the jumps in the park, but with  style...
Dec 17 2006 10:38PM
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tha_CF
Posts: 1696 - Karma: 328
like 7 of my friends that snowboarded now ski... and it kinda pisses me off... cuz so many ppl r doing it now... but its also cool in other ways...
Dec 17 2006 10:46PM
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bobs
Posts: 4801 - Karma: 868
im not sure if anyonelse is noticing this but more freeskiers are "die hard" (for a lack of a better word) than snowborders. At sketch rail jams theyve lately been more skiers. And in the early days with like two trails open and a small handful of jibs theres a bunch of skiers out but only a few boarders. Then as the season really starts up and everythings up its bout 50 50 again.
Dec 17 2006 10:56PM
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ECfreeski3
Posts: 12019 - Karma: 126
yeah but ive also seen a rise in the abundance of complete douche bags. oh well.
Dec 17 2006 10:57PM
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JaphyRyder
Posts: 1766 - Karma: 113
defnitely. im not sure if i like it or not. there's a lot more ppl like me and mtns are starting to cater more to freeskiing. at the same time, i think if freeskiing became as mainstream as say snowboarding it would lose part of its coolness
Dec 17 2006 11:00PM
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prophet
Posts: 4737 - Karma: 1,096
i try not to see people on the hill
Dec 17 2006 11:45PM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
me too, I'm one of those head-up-your-ass-look-only-directly-in-front-of-you-if-you-hit-someone-it's-their-fault-for-going-too-slow
Dec 17 2006 11:49PM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
-kinda-guys.
Dec 17 2006 11:49PM
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ogou0287
Posts: 603 - Karma: 47
its because we love skiing more than anyone else. thats why a lot of freeskiers are there on the opening day. the racers dont want to scratch their skis and the old people dont want to ski the same run for ever
Dec 17 2006 11:56PM
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