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No poles in pow

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Pigletpen
Posts: 1137 - Karma: 18
So I was at castle this weekend, and it was problee knee to waist deep everywhere that wasnt groomed and still calf high where they groomed... anyways, I ate some shit on a drop over a creek, and broke both my poles... Ive skied without them before in the park and didnt mind it, but i figureed real skiing would be better with them... man was I wrong. TIMES TEN!!!
It was amazing, dragging my hands through the slough, flailing all over the place, problee looking bad. haha.
I gotta say though, Im gonna go buy some joysticks so I can fit in, then when it snows leave em at home. deep snow is waaaay better without them, trees are better without them, and switch is better without them.

ever been there? tell me a story about no poles. and make it sexy!
Jan 8 2007 2:57PM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
if ur ripping pow hard enough, your hands ar on the hill whether uve got poles or not.
i agree its nice getting ur hands in there but i hate the compromise to balance when u dont have them. i dont believe most people can mainain a good stylistic aesthetic without.
but whatever floats ur boat bro.

yay, 500th post.
Jan 8 2007 3:01PM
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Pigletpen
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congrats on 500. but what does it mean?

style? style is for people who are serious.
i was jumping around, grabbing tree branches and swinging on them. Diving headfirst into drifts and shit. Im sure poles would allow me to do those things, but i never thought of them before yesterday. I didnt have a balance problem at all. Poles are nice for piece of mind, but they dont do much for me... skating is a bitch without them, but its a small sacrifice i spose. Ill get hate for this, but i was with a snowboarder and he was like... you look like a snowboarder.
Whats worse is, when i broke them, i just left them on the mountain as litter.

TAKE THAT YOU FILTHY HIPPIES
Jan 8 2007 3:08PM
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unchyll
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personaly it makes skiing look like snowblading.
Jan 8 2007 3:11PM
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Albino
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like i said bro, whatever floats ur boat. def no hate intended.

but i think it makes us look totally sketchy and un balanced.
when someone can rock no poles and look as good as or better than pollard in pow, ill dropem like a bad habit trying to emulate. in the mean time, i wouldnt be caught dead without em.
Jan 8 2007 3:15PM
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niels.
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word you i shredded without poles the other day. it is pretty dope. brings about a new way to view what you are doing.
although i did feel a bi of a negative vibe for skiing without them but whatever.
i think its alot abotu people judging you for trying to be trendy when its really just a matter of openmindedness. trying new things can be rad sometimes and skiing without poles brings a new way to ski that is rad
Jan 8 2007 3:34PM
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Pigletpen
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haha funny you should say that.
There was a freeski team program at the hill and there was like maybe 35 kids, looked like aged 10 to 20 and they all were pointing and laughing. ALL of them. After a few runs I saw a few without poles, by the end of the day, at least half had left them at the lodge. Once you get used to not using your poles for leverage, and changing your body position to suit... its soooo fun. and problee funny looking, but i was smiling so i loved the shit.
Jan 8 2007 3:39PM
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MHW
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poles serve no purpose while skiing switch. i used to be the biggest hater on poleless skiing, coming from a skateboard background until I filmed with mahre in hood last winter and saw him mash switch lines behind t-line. when you see his shots this season he has a style that just looks like skiing should look like. it changed my views, normally i don't comment on these, obviously due what you want. dragging your inside hands while slashing switch turns in powder is my favorite thing to do in skiing. period.
max
Jan 8 2007 3:45PM
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hoodratz47
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the only time ive ever skied pow was at copper last year when i was working and it was late season and it had just dumped a shitton on the back bowls.. i was on mtn cheif at the top waiting for a snowcat to help move the snow and so i wait till my supervisor gets up and then i take a run down before patrol i make about 4 turns and i hear a Horable... SCCHHHLUIUUUUMPPPPPPP and just enough time to look back at a wave of white and instantly im sucked down and i start trying to swim up and get up then get sucked down againg tossesd to shit rightmyself swim up again ang the avy stuck my from my nepels down.... so yeah... no poles in the powder saved my life
Jan 8 2007 4:05PM
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Drail
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i took one run this year (in the pow) without poles. one of my poles droped at like the first tower going up the lift so i just threw the other one down with it (i hate skiing with one pole). it was alright, i found that i was leaning back more then i should have been, but i was dragging my hand in the snow all snowboarder like and it was actually really fun. but i mean - when i get to a gnarly spot on the mountain where actual technique is required i really wouldn't want to be poleless.

i mean - we have poles for a reason, you know?
Jan 8 2007 4:26PM
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hoodratz47
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may i add that, that above was about an inbounds avilanch that i was in last year at copper mtn.. but i was working and the fact i had no poles saved my ass becuse i was able to swim in some sort of fashon... and i tell you what as soon as i dug my self out i went took a shitpiss in a tree well and smoked a bowl
Jan 8 2007 4:27PM
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Pigletpen
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no, I dont know.
when my lines get tech, I dont use my poles. But thats just me...
It just takes some adjustment... tight steep trees just at the tree line are hard to ski, and yesterday i had no problem not having them.

Jan 8 2007 4:36PM
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NGA
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arse u drnkgding?>
Jan 8 2007 4:51PM
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Pigletpen
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thats not much of a story... nor is it sexy.
booooooooooooooooo
Jan 8 2007 5:06PM
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