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Something that pisses me off

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televback1
Posts: 386 - Karma: 11
NOT TO HATE ON THE NEWSCHOOLERS COMMUNITY

but....

I cant stand kids who think they are the shit in the BC with hellbents and can even traverse on them while skinning same thing with EP pros or any other ridiculously big ski that is ment for one single purpose skiing a wide open bowl. the reason is because i went for a tour this weekend with my dad near a basin and we passed 5 kids that all had the sickest heliskiing setups i have seen in the BC. one kid had hellbents the other ep pros the other Solomon the rocker and the last on had volkl sumos all of these skis are amazing heli ski powder skis not BC skis and the last kid teled (like me) and had G3 Baron a ski that is 81 at the waist. so my point is that these huge fat skis do nothing good when skiing a chute or coulior and alot of the newschoolers community is skiing these and pretty much making them selves worse skiers.

think about it some guys at alta back in the 80's skied 220's that have a 60 mm waist and they ski powder better than any kids do today

sorry for the rant
Mar 9 2008 11:23PM
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tjski
Posts: 5859 - Karma: 44
agreed....it doesnt really piss me off but if someone thinks they "need" a wide ski for pow they are retarded..sure it makes it less effortless but you dont need them nesisarily..
Mar 9 2008 11:30PM
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AALT
Posts: 1775 - Karma: 60
what are you skiing on!?! hehe i do backcountry pow with my brother exactly like u a giant traverse and we skied knee deep and i have my juvy's with 70cm underfoot...
Mar 9 2008 11:34PM
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DrippinWithSteez
Posts: 144 - Karma: 10
I think a big thing with the skies those kids were riding is that have more of a freestyle geometry, so to get them to float in pow they have a wider underfoot dimension. Having 100mm+ also helps for stomping huge BC booters or the landing is ghetto.

I ski Anthems that are "meant" to be more of a park ski but they have 93mm underboot, and they preform fine in pow and ice, they just don't engage as quick because they are softer.
Mar 9 2008 11:43PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Wide skis arent needed, no shit. But they do make skiing powder a fuckload more fun.
Mar 9 2008 11:48PM
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AALT
Posts: 1775 - Karma: 60
ya i was about to say that, thats why im gettin pow skis next year...
Mar 9 2008 11:59PM
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esuskee
Posts: 314 - Karma: 10
thread title should be "something that makes me jealous"
Mar 10 2008 12:03AM
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AALT
Posts: 1775 - Karma: 60
haha ya..... inside all of us is a little Eric  that wants us to buy pow skis.......
Mar 10 2008 12:06AM
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Eric_D
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fat skis make pow skiing waaaaaayyyy more fun. yes its possible to ski waist deep with 70mm under foot. but y would u want to do that if u have access to a fat ski. if u dont and ski pow 90% of the time. i would suggest investing into a pair.
Mar 10 2008 12:09AM
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Clifford996
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hha i know what you mean... it makes me quite jealous of those kids too... but you dont need to be mad about it... im sure any skier who knows anything would just laugh at kids skiing on those when they dont need to... so dont even worry

you should try fat ones if you get a chance tho....
its awesome...
cuz when your in like waist deep powder on a pair of hellbents... its not skiing, its something totally different, they just havnt figured out a name for how much fun you have haa
Mar 10 2008 12:11AM
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AALT
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ya im investing into a pow ski next year cause their fun, great skis and why not get one is ur skiing some pow!

Mar 10 2008 12:12AM
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R-Bertsch
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yeah fuck those kids for having fun. THEY ARENT CORE ENOUGH
Mar 10 2008 12:13AM
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Eric_D
Posts: 1562 - Karma: 79
who the fuck do those kids think they are, skiing pow with fat skis. ridiculous.
Mar 10 2008 12:15AM
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yeahitsdave
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nice contribution on a first of second post. symmetric sidecut, super soft flex, just makes things much more fun
Mar 10 2008 12:15AM
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skinnylove
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um...so I ski my hellbents in the park. what the fuck now?

seriously, who cares. they have the money to buy them, let them buy them. it's their money and their choice. plus it's definitely worth it, makes pow skiing that much more enjoyable.
Mar 10 2008 12:16AM
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hollygrove
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ewwwwwwww, quivers are for fags!
Mar 10 2008 1:01AM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
have you ever ridden ep pros? sooooooooooooooo fun.
Mar 10 2008 1:56AM
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televback1
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dude i fuckin tele so its differnt and i have ridden fat skis such as the hell bents mounted with tele and i just wasnt feeling it and i dont have a one ski quiver i have a big mountain ski and a park ski as well as a bc ski but i am not hatin on kids for skiing fat skis i am saying that some kids laughed at me for skiing on my G3 skis that are like 93 underfoot in deep shit and it was fine
Mar 10 2008 9:13AM
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49566738265
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In all honesty, this thread is stupid.  You just wrote about why other people's skis make you angry.  Get over it.  And use punctuation.
Mar 10 2008 10:09AM
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