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No poles in slopestyle

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lydiaiskwllol
Posts: 514 - Karma: 11
ok so i have a slopestyle comp this weekend and i cant descide what to do. I've been skiing pretty much all season with out pole but havn't competed yet... all my friends are asying i have to use poles and ill get the shit riped out of me if i dont...... what do you guys think?
Aug 28 2008 5:51AM
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ChadThundercock
Posts: 3071 - Karma: 830
bring em, because you can use them if you want once you get there or you could set em down and not use em at all.  just more options if you bring them with you.
Aug 28 2008 8:05AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
it dont matter. as long as you hyphski and go dumb, everyone will have a good time at the slideshow.
Aug 28 2008 8:27AM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
What's important to you? Skiing for yourself and doing what you want and having fun or doing what others think?
Aug 28 2008 9:25AM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
this is the correct answer
Aug 28 2008 10:24AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
yadidi'msayin' yo?
Aug 28 2008 10:26AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
SHENANIGANS!
Aug 28 2008 10:29AM
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WhoWantIt
Posts: 395 - Karma: 26
SIDESHOW
Aug 28 2008 10:30AM
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WinterStick
Posts: 234 - Karma: 100
Ugh, why can't there be one thread where someone doesn't bust out this cliche. He's in a competiton, and usually in competitions you have to care what other people think, mainly the judges.
Aug 28 2008 10:32AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
no, i know its sideshow. but in case you didnt catch the "hyphsk"i i was making a joke on slopestyle by calling it a "SLIDEshow". i still win.



Aug 28 2008 10:33AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
congratulations! you got your first karam point for that one. good noob.
Aug 28 2008 10:37AM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Unless it's the X-Games (or some other event that actually matters), go and have fun.
Aug 28 2008 10:38AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
and i just McFail Quailed pretty hard.
Aug 28 2008 10:38AM
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K2skipunk
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 111
yeah brah, do watcha want. i was in a lil comp last year, and i just wanted to have fun. and my fun park setup is no poles, and hellbents. then i told everyone i hated idea and thought that no poles and rockered skis were gay. its all about having fun.
Aug 28 2008 11:54AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
just for the NS record, i would like to coin my signature beneath:
Aug 28 2008 1:05PM
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holyDINOSAURS
Posts: 7038 - Karma: 639
dude theres only one way to getting to the x-games, and thats doing other comps. im all for hating on comps, but the kid asked a good question, and youre trying to be philisophical about it.
Aug 28 2008 1:24PM
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ben802
Posts: 565 - Karma: 16
act chill, dont get phazed, stay stupid fly
Aug 28 2008 1:30PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
It's hardly getting philosophical about it. It's pretty obvious that if you need to ask if you need poles for a slopestyle competition, than you shouldn't care and just go and have fun. That is what skiing is about.

And to end it all it's a slopestyle comp, not a mogul comp where they are judging your actual skiing technique.

I'm sure people lose points all the time in slopestyle runs for not pole-planting.
Aug 28 2008 1:51PM
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JArens
Posts: 1332 - Karma: 6,854
i acctually did a comp about 2 years ago, were at the end of the comp the judges approched me and said had i used poles i would have got 2nd, but cuz i disn't, they gave me 5th
that was the day i started using poles again for good...
Aug 28 2008 1:56PM
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mike_d
Posts: 503 - Karma: 79
Shralp the whole thing w/ poles, and at the end for the last jump (if the last hit is a jump), just toss your poles, and do the sickest most tweaked out grab/spin ever. They'll like it.
Aug 28 2008 2:00PM
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JonathonChandler
Posts: 905 - Karma: 423
yeah some judges mark you down for not using them
Aug 28 2008 2:03PM
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XtRemE11
Posts: 5680 - Karma: 246
thats why comps are so gay, they hate on anything new and progressive, or in this case, more steezy than with poles.
Aug 28 2008 2:50PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
yeeyee
Aug 28 2008 2:54PM
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DDrem.
Posts: 3552 - Karma: 24
use one pole
its the median between your two options and youll be totally original
Aug 28 2008 2:58PM
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jibbajabba2
Posts: 290 - Karma: 10
How about making up your own god damn mind and skiing for yourself. 
Aug 28 2008 4:22PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
and hold it with both hands out in front of you, like how they teach people to ski
Aug 28 2008 4:33PM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
haha yeah i remember that, and then that competition turned into a rail jam
Aug 28 2008 5:33PM
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