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The Origins Of No Poles

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BLADESTRAP
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You all know it started with Snowblading.
Feb 28 2007 9:43PM
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timofysmif
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wrong!, garret alexanderalphee!
Feb 28 2007 9:45PM
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snowXrider540
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it started when people said no.
Feb 28 2007 9:46PM
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Schoening
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definatly
Feb 28 2007 9:49PM
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Ifeinforsnow
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TOM WAllISCH duh
Feb 28 2007 9:50PM
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~Joe~
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theres no way you can know who started no poles
Feb 28 2007 9:51PM
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bryceCTS
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i worship the bcrew
Feb 28 2007 9:52PM
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BLADESTRAP
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man that nigga started after that andy n pep guys edit son
Feb 28 2007 9:53PM
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snowXrider540
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probably the first to do it in a large group anyways
Feb 28 2007 9:53PM
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Cam_Bell
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Ive seen snowborders with poles, thats just not cool. as for the origin Im not so sure what about ski jumping in the olympics
Feb 28 2007 9:53PM
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BLADESTRAP
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those are the bladers that are trying to be inovative...kinda like skiers dropping poles well snowbladers are picking them up.
Feb 28 2007 9:54PM
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BCkilla
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good point!!

bcrew owns!
Feb 28 2007 9:57PM
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steezy-joe
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pollard rode no poles back before ski blading, read the article in the like 4 year old freeze about him. and hes not even the origionater. it started waaaaaaaay long ago, and should be more wide spread. fuck poles
Feb 28 2007 9:59PM
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Lil_G.
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you fools needa all shut tha fuck up. no poles started wid tha bitch ass 5 year old kids doin pizza down tha mountain.
Feb 28 2007 10:05PM
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eheath
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OMG i just had an enlightenment, skiing is going to become aerials!!! OH NOES!!!
Feb 28 2007 10:05PM
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tjski
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no.. noone can truley track down the time where no poles started, but i can guess quite accurately that someone broke a pole and didnt want to ski one pole so used no poles and liked it. the end.
Feb 28 2007 10:08PM
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BLADESTRAP
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YOU ASKED WHY SOME BLADERS HAVE POLES.

So i said

its because bladers are trying to be innovative for snowblading by picking UP poles since they already started no poles
Feb 28 2007 10:23PM
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BLADESTRAP
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yo mods you needa STICKY this thread
Feb 28 2007 10:26PM
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quebecfreestyler
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some dudes at hood were riding no poels way back in the dayz when pollard started skiing.
they were killing it according to pollard.
Feb 28 2007 10:27PM
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BLADESTRAP
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some dudes AKA BCREW!
Feb 28 2007 10:29PM
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schlopy
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richard simmons started it
Feb 28 2007 10:30PM
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Rez4frederick
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when is your new edit coming out?
Feb 28 2007 10:31PM
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BLADESTRAP
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i was wondrin the sameeee thing
Feb 28 2007 10:56PM
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BLADESTRAP
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your gunna have to ask our editor KIP O' aka B-Crew on ns
Feb 28 2007 10:57PM
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Sholte
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NO! mods you need to DELETE this thread.
Feb 28 2007 11:06PM
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freezed
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haha, so true.
Feb 28 2007 11:08PM
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nitsua
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i did wit my boi at windells cause i broke my thumb. haha. everyone started it
Feb 28 2007 11:10PM
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BLADESTRAP
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doesn't mean your legit though
Feb 28 2007 11:13PM
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nitsua
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you have snowblades. you will never be legit. period. end of story
Feb 28 2007 11:23PM
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*DrewT*
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Pollard did it way back. Got shit from everyone so converted back but now likes poles. He may drop them again though at least when he's in the park
Feb 28 2007 11:24PM
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Tmeels
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I saw something on this in Freeskier, obviously there is no ONE source but this is what it said.

TJ Shiller was in a comp. The airport lost his poles while he was on his way to the comp. He said screw it and did his runs with no poles and won it. And the next day the park was full of kids rockin no poles cause they just saw the man throw down and win like that so it must be cool. But TJ made it clear he thinks its gay and doesn't want to be associated with it.
Feb 28 2007 11:48PM
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R.Fahey
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Pete Mithoefer was rockin no poles in Stereotype. Not that long ago, but one of the first no poles seggys. Wonder what happened to that dude.
Feb 28 2007 11:58PM
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nitsua
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cool story hansel
Feb 28 2007 11:58PM
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nitsua
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cool story hansel
Feb 28 2007 11:59PM
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ThaLetterM.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO READY STRAP BLADE!!! I HAD MY MONEY READY SON!
Mar 1 2007 12:07AM
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BLADESTRAP
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ahh yeaaa about that... Kip O' was almost done with the vid and his computer straight up just crashed. lost everything. we then sorta decided meh i guess its not worth it we don't have THAT much footage soo maybe we'll come out with something this year I don't know. Sorry for getting your hopes up.
Mar 1 2007 12:13AM
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ry.will
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no poles is sooooooooooooooooooooo sick, when i saw pep and andy doing it, then i saw tom wallisch doin it, and everyone thought it was cool, i knew i had to do it, i used to think it was as gay as aids, but now its the coolest thing EVER.
Mar 1 2007 10:46PM
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Schoening
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nice sarcasm ry hahaha
Mar 1 2007 10:52PM
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NGA
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gay
Mar 1 2007 11:03PM
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Casey
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i think most of the influence of no poles is from snowboarding, and trying to simplify your style.
Mar 1 2007 11:03PM
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steezy-joe
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i agree about the snowboarding part, but disagree with the simplicity of style part, it seems harder to look good withought poles. maybe not, but it is kinda akward without them sometimes so to look good without is a real talent
Mar 1 2007 11:16PM
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ponyboy
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The origin or date is never going to be decided, but I know we started skiing without poles back in the day because we had to. We were working and had to carry shit to maintain the park. After a while we found that especially on Hood we didn't need them pesky things at all. And also it's way more doper to hit jumps with a rake and shovel in your hand than two pokey things that serve no purpose in the park. It's a little harder with a full park monkey on you back though.
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Mar 2 2007 12:35AM
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Sholte
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yeah, no poles is getiing annoying
Mar 2 2007 1:05AM
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ajax
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Andy Mahre is the first person that comes to my mind when i think about who first started making it known that they were skiing with no poles.
Mar 2 2007 1:26AM
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slaydave
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i remember back in the vid clay pigions... twas a board and ski film some one was rockin no poles it mave have been pollard or ostness thats who i think dont quote me on that tho... that was a while ago.. but id guess that ski jumping and aerials were the first serious groups to do it...
Mar 2 2007 1:33AM
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Sir.Pete
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fuck poles.
Mar 2 2007 3:35AM
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KB420
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japan freestylers are not the first ?
Mar 2 2007 7:57AM
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theconcept1212
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poles were used to get around, and are still used to get around, as well as balance and other things, but it seems nowadays lots of people are going down the hill and going back up not needing pole assistance for anything in between.. seems efficient; and as we are humans, we are allllways efficient
Mar 2 2007 8:24AM
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Twaddler
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ya man thats it
Mar 2 2007 8:42AM
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noodle
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eric pollard
Mar 26 2007 12:49AM
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k-k-kyle
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it started with gaper little kids who couldn't handle poles then evolved into something much bigger
Mar 26 2007 1:09AM
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