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I would rather ski switch

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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
if youre just mobbing or just skiing ona groomer, who doesnt just pop around and ski switch? i do and i would rather ski switch than forwards.
Feb 3 2008 1:36PM
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grifter
Posts: 933 - Karma: 102
it depends on the run, if its a gnarly black mogul field then I'll ski it forward, if its a pretty average run then I'll go switch as much as possible...
Feb 3 2008 1:42PM
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4frnt222
Posts: 46 - Karma: 11
its just funner goin backwards
Feb 3 2008 1:49PM
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skierkid_92
Posts: 228 - Karma: 11
im usually going back and forth alot, i love to do 180's mid run...but lately the ski patrol have been really sticky about us skiers going switch outside the park...its gay i know but o well
Feb 3 2008 1:49PM
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KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
def my favorite part about twin tips... i love skiing switch!!!  so fun.. and doing huge carves switch down the groomers.. its great!
Feb 3 2008 1:50PM
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lunchmeat
Posts: 922 - Karma: 227
i like playing as i go down the mountain, looking for places to butter jump, gap , tap , grab, and stall on. backwards or forwards
Feb 3 2008 1:57PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
switch is harder than going forwards cuase you cant get the same control so its way more fun for me than going forwards which is literaly easier than walking
Feb 3 2008 2:02PM
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zackblain
Posts: 2322 - Karma: 22
carving switch is fun
Feb 3 2008 2:12PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
I try to ski switch as much as possible, popping off rollers in the middle of a run is baller and just flying down switch.  Plus the ski patrol, mtn. safety, and other people that usually bitch have been pretty chill lately. 
Feb 3 2008 2:12PM
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First.Aid
Posts: 556 - Karma: 10
Haha  yeah man thats the best.
Feb 3 2008 2:43PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
very much agreed
Feb 3 2008 2:58PM
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JuliusJ
Posts: 3778 - Karma: 2,106
seriously? ski patrol at your mt are that much of douches?
Feb 3 2008 3:53PM
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Parkboy
Posts: 2303 - Karma: 32
definitely one of my favorite things to do, i just love riding switch down the whole mountain, especially on weekday's when there's no one around, no worries about other people, just making huge carving turns across the whole mountain
Feb 3 2008 4:13PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
I ski switch all the time on groomed or otherwise uninteresting trails. I'll ski both ways, just spinning around and having fun. It's even better now that I'm getting better at carving switch.
Feb 3 2008 4:23PM
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carbon.pulse
Posts: 3348 - Karma: 22
skiing switch down groomers is the shit.
Feb 3 2008 4:28PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
yeah man i hear ya. i find myself always finding shit to spin off of and always end up switch down the groomers. it's just so much more fun.
Feb 3 2008 4:36PM
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TheButterHashira
Posts: 9691 - Karma: 1,702
I think that the biggest air I ever got was switch. It was today and I tryed a 0 and didn't scrub speed into the jump like I would going forward. It was the first tiem I hit any considerable sized jump switch.
Feb 3 2008 6:14PM
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KellyK
Posts: 1782 - Karma: 715
i hear ya, i've been skiing switch as much as i can for the past 2 weeks, it just feels so nice
Feb 3 2008 6:15PM
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GreenStezz
Posts: 3570 - Karma: 717
switch......  walking switch is where its at..
Feb 3 2008 6:21PM
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puhiS
Posts: 218 - Karma: 10
^agreed

i sometimes drive my car switch and thats for real G's only cos cops lurk in every shadow...
Feb 3 2008 7:20PM
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EL_FINRE
Posts: 2486 - Karma: 52
not only skiing switch but buttering off little bumps is really fun as well
Feb 3 2008 7:22PM
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396222687862
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so much fun
Feb 3 2008 7:22PM
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Freezeskier
Posts: 525 - Karma: 13

if you ski a groomer switch....it gonna be done right. you throw your edges down and get the switch carve going. don't do the straight line v bomb, because that gayper to me.

Feb 3 2008 7:24PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
huge fast carving gs turns switch is sooooo fun, just the feeling of turning feels better to me when im going switch.
Feb 3 2008 7:43PM
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Freezeskier
Posts: 525 - Karma: 13
^^so true and its best when you past beater, who is just trying to normal gs turns. Its even better if its a racer.....
Feb 3 2008 7:49PM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
i said "skiing". i meant actual skiing. no v-bombing here.
Feb 3 2008 8:56PM
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colin13
Posts: 2201 - Karma: 216
i love getting to the hill when the lift opens and bombing an empty groomer switch to warm up for the park.
Feb 3 2008 9:02PM
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~auddie~
Posts: 757 - Karma: 24
word, usually skiing down the mountain to the park, switch is the way to go. Butter to switch butter to forward mmmm... buttery
Feb 3 2008 9:04PM
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stingfire
Posts: 315 - Karma: 13
word.  i love to rip it switch whenever I can. 

another thought:  is it only in the US where you aren't allowed to do it and patrol get on your ass?  Everywhere I've skied in Canada it's a non issue.
Feb 3 2008 9:06PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
switch is the best, im usually %50-%0 though because like most people i like going down and looking for places to air or tap or stall and that shit. I love popping one's mid way and i also just love doing butters down the run, skiing is fun :)
Feb 3 2008 9:14PM
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Parkboy
Posts: 2303 - Karma: 32
that is so freaking dumb i've never heard of or had that happen, with that logic they might as well get mad at every snowboarder on the hill because they have a blind side all the time. what idiots.
Feb 3 2008 9:44PM
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tele_tom
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
I love cruising down a run switch like everybody on twins, but I'm just wondering, how many people can are actually really fricken good at it? I mean like slalom or moguls or that kinda shit.
Feb 3 2008 9:46PM
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lechef
Posts: 1111 - Karma: 36
skiing switch is fun , but losing youre pass because of it isnt.
Feb 3 2008 9:53PM
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Jorgen.
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 35
I've gotten good at carving big gs turns switch I don't think I've ridden a groomer forwards all year. I love passing racers switch.   I've even had a lady try and tell me that I was going the wrong way. She was trying to ski beside me while screaming some gibberish about how I'm going to crash. The look on her face made it all worth it.
Feb 3 2008 9:57PM
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SnoquamptonShred
Posts: 41 - Karma: 12
I would love to ski switch all the time.. but my mountain is full of douches who think i'm just trying to show off and not actually just trying to get more comfortable carving backwards.
Feb 3 2008 10:26PM
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-Nick-
Posts: 1479 - Karma: 24
ya i ski switch on anything groomed its so much more fun than just regular
Feb 3 2008 10:29PM
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Freezeskier
Posts: 525 - Karma: 13

The best is when, a beater is in full gayper tuck and then you surpise them by passing them in their beater tuck steez.

Feb 3 2008 10:30PM
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~auddie~
Posts: 757 - Karma: 24
Interesting story actually, instructor clinics, we were doing some filmed training on the racecourse, I'm not a racer, in fact I have my twins on, another instructor was like "dude those things go both ways right, I know! You should ski the course backwards!" of course I'm all for it, first part of the course went well, come around one of the last gates and me thinking I'm hot shit is going way to fast and too close to the gate, I end up somehow clotheslining myself on the gate and sliding down headfirst the rest of the course. Yay :)
Feb 3 2008 10:30PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
and you care about what they think because....
Feb 3 2008 10:31PM
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joly.sp
Posts: 2305 - Karma: 585
I much rather ski switch on groomers than forwards.
Feb 3 2008 10:34PM
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skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
basicaly, i ski switch everything.. but anything less than 25 degrees is always switch
Feb 3 2008 10:51PM
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schism
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 389
i suck at skiing switch. but i still try, but just skiing a normal groomed run super fast with nice big turns. nothing beats that, other then powder of course.
Feb 3 2008 10:55PM
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jedi.Jim
Posts: 1133 - Karma: 13
Word. Our mountain was just having a ski patrol clinic and I was ripping through them switch the entire day and they just stood there and stared at me.
Feb 3 2008 10:59PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
anyone else love hitting a little bump doing a 180 and carving off switch? even better when there's a ton of people staring at you either confused or amazed at such a simple thing. even when there aren't people there it's so fun.
Feb 3 2008 11:04PM
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