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I sliced a ski pole with my edge

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zylstra
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Totally claiming, i sliced a ski pole in half doing a 180. I spun really quick off the ground and i didn't see the pair of poles sitting there and i feel it and one got knocked down, the other one sliced in half and the top half of the pole stuck straight into the ground when it fell. It was ddefinitely some freaky karate kid shit. coolest thing i've ever done on skis, and totally by accident.

Dec 20 2007 12:43PM
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delo22
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sounds pretty crazy, but i think its a sign that no skier should ever ski with poles again...

Dec 20 2007 12:58PM
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anxju
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no poles is stupid
Dec 20 2007 2:57PM
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Billek
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Anyone that wants to ski without poles can, and they should get no shit for it.  Anyone that wants to ski with poles can, and they should get no shit about it. 
Dec 20 2007 3:48PM
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b-kul
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you went THROUGH a pole? like cut it clean in half?
Dec 20 2007 3:54PM
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delo22
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Ya i was kidding, i dont care how people ski at all. But it is pretty amazing that your ski no matter how sharp sliced a pair of aluminum ski poles
Dec 20 2007 5:28PM
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KRAMPUSNTROLLZ
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okay sounds cool... your prize is on the way
Dec 20 2007 5:43PM
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stompdat
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i heard chuck norris can slice a thousand poles just looking at them.
Dec 20 2007 5:58PM
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zylstra
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yes. straight through it was so amazing 
Dec 20 2007 6:00PM
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*monsterskier*
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how can u slice a ski pole..??
Dec 20 2007 6:01PM
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Alex_G
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My brother sliced his hand with his edge. Not pretty. Ski edges are fuckin sharp.

Dec 20 2007 6:05PM
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meltonsnow
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o, easily man. i wouldnt b surprised if he could do it blind folded. 
Dec 20 2007 6:09PM
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*JLove*
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you cut a ski pole stuck in the ground, so that the top half stuck in also?

how is that possible.

either you'd have to hold the top and bottom and hit it really hard, or the ski would knock it over.

I can see denting it, maybe bending it.

you could bend it or break it if you landed on it on the ground, but not while it was standing, and slice it in half. you couldn't do that even with a box cutter, let alone your edges.

I call BS on this one
Dec 20 2007 6:09PM
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pjbauer
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maybe your poles were cheap, or you have mad sharp edges
Dec 20 2007 6:14PM
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brenker
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you must have special karate powers or something
Dec 20 2007 6:30PM
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jason...
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pics or it didnt happen?
Dec 20 2007 6:42PM
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bbtkd1
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dude thats cool but i want to see a picture
Dec 20 2007 6:44PM
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grams.
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Haha I did the exact same thing during the last day of summer when I was doing butters in my backyard. My poles were getting weak at the bottom from rubbing up against my edges over and over and I was coming down from a butter and my edge came down perfectly on my pole and just sliced it. It sucked though, 'cause they were nice swix poles :(
Dec 20 2007 6:51PM
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Yosh
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gnarly
Dec 20 2007 7:26PM
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stompdat
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boys, we've found chuck norris' secret identity. I always knew he freeskied.

and no. you don't need pictures to prove of chuck norris' miracles. Just believe. We all know he can pee write the declaration of independance.
Dec 20 2007 8:41PM
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theres_ghosts
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just stop hatin man let the kid be a queer............

Dec 20 2007 8:43PM
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[]Soul_Steeze[]
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cool story hansel


















actually not cuz its total BS
Dec 20 2007 8:45PM
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emopoppins
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haha thats crazy. i definately wan tto seeeee some pics, or a badly resimulated video of the incident.
Dec 20 2007 8:49PM
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ScrappyJoeYoung
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damn son ur edges must be sharp!
Dec 20 2007 8:59PM
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zackblain
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Do you sharpen your edges at the same place I get my hockey skates sharpened?
Dec 20 2007 9:41PM
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slaydave
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agreed...

Dec 20 2007 9:47PM
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Peter.
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yeah bs man, your edges have to be prime to do shit like that
Dec 20 2007 10:03PM
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Krush
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as someone who was actually there, i can personaly back up this claim. it was fucking ninja shit or somthing. and there was a snowblader guy who was all like "wtf?"
Dec 20 2007 10:10PM
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-dAvE-
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WTFF that sounds like some serious nindja shit that would only happen in a movie made by hollywood and then computerized and edited!!
wish i was there...
Dec 20 2007 10:31PM
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doublexl
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yes i think so...
Dec 20 2007 10:58PM
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DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX
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I almost sliced a kids wenis (skin on your elbow) off.edges are really really sharp.
Dec 20 2007 11:01PM
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grahamhowe
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you must be like a super ninja
Dec 21 2007 12:15AM
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rgriego
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ski edges are really really sharp
i heard a story once of this guy who slit his troat.amazingly he needed oly 20 stiches and he was fine.
Dec 21 2007 12:19AM
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Meh42
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I landed with my hip on my edge like a week ago.  My ski pre-released on this little table and decided to lie there in the landing waiting for me to fall on it.  Sliced my pants and left a nasty gash on my leg.  Those fuckers are sharp.
Dec 21 2007 1:15AM
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CraigAK
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Mark Abam's face (i think it was him) is evidence that edges can do some serious cutting, from Push
Dec 21 2007 3:15AM
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zesty_buddy
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i sliced my finger open with my edge
Dec 21 2007 10:40PM
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*rkp*
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Pics or it didn't happen!
Dec 21 2007 11:44PM
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ride-rider
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hes not shittin us guys, ive seen it done!
Dec 22 2007 12:34AM
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DerekAreI
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skis-1  poles-0
Dec 22 2007 1:47PM
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UNREAL
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yeah
Dec 22 2007 2:30PM
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b-kul
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dude my cousin races, she had perfectly sharp edges that had never touched a rail, rock, stump, whatever, and one time she landed on her pole and only put a gash in it. no way you actually sliced a pole unless you were skiing on samuari swords. bs all the way.
Dec 22 2007 6:48PM
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zylstra
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Dude i'd swear on anything it was legit. they weren't MY poles, they were just chilling there at the bottom of the hill and i didn't see them till i hit them spinning, and when i looked back there was one ski pole laying on the ground, and the other one was in half with the top half sticking straight down into the snow. no joke, i'm not creative enough to make this up. And no, my skis are the dullest boards you have ever seen....FIXTHEDAMNPARK was there! believe!
Dec 23 2007 10:28AM
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tommihq
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was thinking about the same thing about the samurai swords. i heard its hard to get bindings thou...

Dec 23 2007 11:03AM
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Holte
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I'll believe it. When I was learning 5s, I got really mad after crashing several times and while lying on the ground swung my ski pole onto the side of my ski, and almost cleanly cleaved the pole in half. I'll admit, your story is a little more impressive.
Dec 23 2007 11:10AM
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Treestman
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i snapped my pole in half  to faceplant on a flat landing off a cliff
Dec 23 2007 12:35PM
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skierkid_92
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poles are the best thing ever invented!!!
Dec 23 2007 1:09PM
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zylstra
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THANK YOU THANK Y(OU THANK YOU DUDE YES
i mean rewallty, it was reeal .
i don't lie really
i don'td
Dec 23 2007 4:24PM
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