Member of the Month

KilaTsunami
October, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Park vs. Big mountain

profile picture
no_knees
Posts: 33 - Karma: 10
This is about park riders and how some of Park Rats cant even link a descent line together in powder. Skiing isnt about the rock hard ice and groomed runs its about the Fucking POWDER! Anyone that rides the park on a powder day is an idiot and should be casterated and yet many park riders do. So this is just to say that park riding is fun but dont ride park on Powder days So learn how to link some turns, so that you dont look like an idiot when you get sponsored and go heli skiiing.
Mar 10 2007 2:47AM
0 0
profile picture
andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
"so that you dont look like an idiot when you get sponsored and go heli skiiing."
This is true.
Mar 10 2007 2:53AM
0 0
profile picture
eheath
Posts: 61475 - Karma: 122,089
And the award for one of the most talked about subjects goes to.... THIS ONE whooo way to be the eleventy millionth person the bring this up!
Mar 10 2007 2:55AM
0 0
profile picture
dave_euler
Posts: 1699 - Karma: 391
or you could just do whatever you have fun doing
Mar 10 2007 2:55AM
0 0
profile picture
andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
That may be so... but this forum wouldn't function like it does if no one created repeat topics...
Mar 10 2007 2:56AM
0 0
profile picture
eheath
Posts: 61475 - Karma: 122,089
4bi9=park rats? is that what you're stating?
Mar 10 2007 2:56AM
0 0
profile picture
andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
Noooo... couldn't be!
Mar 10 2007 2:58AM
0 0
profile picture
dave_euler
Posts: 1699 - Karma: 391
your right...i cant ski....my bad
Mar 10 2007 3:00AM
0 0
profile picture
Greenish
Posts: 2047 - Karma: 367
neither can i. we're fucked
Mar 10 2007 3:15AM
0 0
profile picture
KZA
Posts: 3304 - Karma: 301
when do you see park rats ever bitching about people not riding park. you could do niether and rip groomers. its called doing whats fun and skiing. your idea may be different btu isnt the whole point of skiing to go otu and have fun doing what your doing.stop trrying to influence people.
Mar 10 2007 4:25AM
0 0
profile picture
ArmadaAR4
Posts: 493 - Karma: 72
i think your right but why do you give a fuck?...besides a signle thread wont change it
Mar 10 2007 8:37AM
0 0
profile picture
DUBIE
Posts: 576 - Karma: 135
powder is where it's at
Mar 10 2007 9:18AM
0 0
profile picture
outerlimitz
Posts: 639 - Karma: 14
Powder is awesome, but that doesn't mean you can't take a run through the park during a powder or storm day. I love riding park when it's snowing...every thing is soft, and there is something cool about being airborne in the snow.
Mar 10 2007 9:52AM
0 0
profile picture
Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
thats why you learn to ski first then go into park and stuff
Mar 10 2007 10:08AM
0 0
profile picture
MarkieR
Posts: 5337 - Karma: 98
i used to be the biggest hater of people skiing park on a pow day but i've begun to accept it. as much as people like pep and eric pollard are blending park and pow riding, the vast majority of skiers are very niche oriented. some kids ski park all day, some kids hike billy goat lines and drop cliffs all day. sooooo in the end you need to ride whatever makes you happy, be it park, big mountain, or anything inbetween. after all, doesn't one less person outside the park on a pow day leave more fresh for you to slash?
Mar 10 2007 10:13AM
0 0
profile picture
Bigwoods
Posts: 3116 - Karma: 76
why are you telling people to ski powder? Let the park skiers stay in the park so there's more powder for you!?
Mar 10 2007 10:17AM
0 0
profile picture
Travapple.
Posts: 6787 - Karma: 88
some people CANT ski pow.
Mar 10 2007 10:58AM
0 0
profile picture
Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
I think everybody should ski park all day, every day.  I would be very happy if this happened.
Mar 10 2007 11:02AM
0 0
profile picture
ikellen
Posts: 247 - Karma: 10
That is a sorry thing to hear.

I somewhat agree, you do whatever's fun for you, but what I hate is park rats complaining that the jumps suck because they are covered with a foot or two of powder. If you complain about that, I consider you truly pathetic.
Mar 10 2007 11:28AM
0 0
profile picture
skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
i guess i could agree. but i ski like 50% park
Mar 10 2007 11:33AM
0 0
profile picture
unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
I dont know one person who hates powder and i doubt anybody really does cept maybe some gapers
Mar 10 2007 12:08PM
0 0
profile picture
Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
my mom doesn't like powder. she likes the ease of making turns on grommers. and she could probably even beat half of you guys down the hill.
Mar 10 2007 3:13PM
0 0
profile picture
Black-Bandanna
Posts: 6680 - Karma: 1,603
Do what you have fun doing. To each his own...
Mar 10 2007 3:15PM
0 0
profile picture
tSki
Posts: 956 - Karma: 171
im so sick of these threads, just do whatever you like to do
Mar 10 2007 3:24PM
0 0
profile picture
Troop801
Posts: 345 - Karma: 17
Who cares? They wont be sideslipping my fucking line.
Mar 10 2007 6:09PM
0 0
profile picture
poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,538
thats the worst first post ive ever seen...ur like 7 years behind with these threads
Mar 10 2007 7:20PM
0 0
profile picture
Dustin.
Posts: 13839 - Karma: 7,704
Using the Search Bar vs. Not Using the Search Bar
Mar 10 2007 7:45PM
0 0
profile picture
VTPE
Posts: 83 - Karma: 10
its fine with me if you stay in the park all day......more fresh pow for me
Mar 10 2007 9:10PM
0 0
profile picture
andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
Wow! You're so witty!
Mar 10 2007 9:12PM
0 0
profile picture
jKutcher
Posts: 3936 - Karma: 4,260
umm maybe you should check out their new edit.


fag
Mar 10 2007 9:13PM
0 0
profile picture
jKutcher
Posts: 3936 - Karma: 4,260
umm does this look like a park rat to you?

Click for larger image
Mar 10 2007 9:15PM
0 0
profile picture
jKutcher
Posts: 3936 - Karma: 4,260
Click for larger image
Mar 10 2007 9:16PM
0 0
profile picture
skimanskimanskim
Posts: 1515 - Karma: 1,715
get off the dick if u can manage to lift your on body weight...
Mar 10 2007 9:19PM
0 0
profile picture
tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
hard not to be a park rat with a 400 ft mountain. we had 1 powder day this year which was awesome because we usually get none
Mar 10 2007 10:57PM
0 0
profile picture
ajax
Posts: 2852 - Karma: 1,245
Park rats can stay in the park on powder days, and leave more powder for me.
Mar 10 2007 11:15PM
0 0
profile picture
charmander
Posts: 10636 - Karma: 370
i only venture out of the park on pow days and then when its skied out i go home to my wonderful little parky even though it hurts me so much more with shitty ass huge kickers with short gaps and even shorter landings :'(
Mar 10 2007 11:32PM
0 0
profile picture
Silverton
Posts: 218 - Karma: 10
i love gnar pow. a lot.
Mar 11 2007 5:04AM
0 0
profile picture
Travapple.
Posts: 6787 - Karma: 88
i would love to ski pow, but here in the midwest, its  not really logical.
Mar 11 2007 11:45AM
0 0
profile picture
skithesprings
Posts: 9086 - Karma: 1,349
i love pow on the jumps
nothing better than landing off of a huge booter into 6 inches of managable pow

sking 2 feet of fresh beats that any day though
Mar 11 2007 11:57AM
0 0
profile picture
Dustin.
Posts: 13839 - Karma: 7,704
no pow in the midwest......?


so are colorado and utah......nevermind...
Mar 11 2007 2:39PM
0 0
profile picture
ijibgoremtn
Posts: 4221 - Karma: 13
id love to ski pow but alas i ski in upstate NY so im quite contemp being a park rat. yes i have skiid powder past my waist and it was fun but but so was doing a rail or a jump its all fun. leave it at that
Mar 11 2007 9:31PM
0 0
profile picture
shoenice22
Posts: 646 - Karma: 11
so this kid is just a park rat that skis park on powder days that you were talking about
Mar 11 2007 11:02PM
0 0
profile picture
cottonwoodarmada1651
Posts: 1734 - Karma: 40
i'm not a huge 4bi9 fan by any means (i.e., unlike most of this website, i'm not desperate to take it in the butt from them, etc.) but you're hate is misguided. first of all, he's not saying that, he's saying who cares if kids want to ski park on powder days? i'd much rather be skiing pow myself, but if a kid has more fun hitting tables and park jibs then he shouldn't go ski powder to make the haters on newschoolers.com happy. secondly, if you're gonna hate on 4bi9 for being park rats, leave at least euler out of it...the kid's sick and not a park rat by any means. if there's powder to be found, he's out there finding it - i've seen it frequently. moral of the story: skiing should be about having FUN. stop the hate.
Mar 12 2007 1:12AM
0 0
profile picture
cottonwoodarmada1651
Posts: 1734 - Karma: 40
and if you're implying co and ut are in the midwest...you should wait until your 4th grade social studies class covers US geography. the term "midwest" refers to places like iowa, indiana, illinois...yeah, now powder there.
Mar 12 2007 1:14AM
0 0
profile picture
snowbird4life
Posts: 2265 - Karma: 26
watching 4bi9 edits is everything i want to see while watching skiing.

and fuck you if you have a problem with me thinking that.

seems to me that they're all a bunch of really cool dudes (cant say for sure, never met them) who really are stoked on skiing and like skiing just the way i like skiing.

they are def. not park rats. and fuck what anyone else says what they portray in there edits makes me happy.
Mar 12 2007 1:18AM
0 0
profile picture
sdtruckdriver
Posts: 63 - Karma: 14
Hey, its their bad, but its whatever. I like it more when its puking and only the powder hounds are out. More tracks for me!
Mar 12 2007 2:01AM
0 0
profile picture
mrb
Posts: 575 - Karma: 16
hmmmm i see, but new edit looks fun, look it up
Mar 12 2007 9:55AM
0 0
profile picture
~Joe~
Posts: 2631 - Karma: 57
i dont have any mountains to ski powder, so there. Although I can ski powder when I ski in the west.
Mar 12 2007 10:01AM
0 0
profile picture
railslayer
Posts: 259 - Karma: 41
Skiing the untracked, away from the lifts is where the soul of skiing lies. Natural terrain is where it's at. But learning a cork7 off a huge hit takes more skill than skiing a big mountain line. Big mountain is scary because all the variables. Almost every cliff i've dropped had something sketchy about it. Like an uneven take off with jagged rocks barely poking out of the snow. I can almost always have more fun out of the park, but park is fun and if i'm in there for a day it kind of hooks me and i just want to ski park for awhile. And if you learn to go big in the park you can pick up big mountain. If you learn to ski the bumps, you can pick it up fast. You could also point out that a lot of big mountain guys don't ski powder very well either. As long as everyone's having fun though, who cares.
Mar 12 2007 7:16PM
0 0
profile picture
Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
you should do whats fun and what you like, i love pow, so thats what i ski, and 4bi9 are not parkrats
Mar 12 2007 7:19PM
0 0
profile picture
railslayer
Posts: 259 - Karma: 41
And just a question? Not to knock anybody, but why is the by in 4bi9 spelled bi. I'm assuming it's not a sexual preferance thing, but it looks like it when you see it. I'm not trying to knock them, they probably kick ass. I'll have to check out some of their edits.
Mar 12 2007 7:21PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)