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Over rated: RAILS

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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
I think rails are getting old. Its just not skiing! An its not worth risking an injury, I would rather hit a huge cliff and get hurt then riding a piece of metal! What you guys think?
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Jan 30 2004 12:14AM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
actually I didn't nut myself on a rail! I'm not bitter at all! I just skied in a foot and a half of powder and hit some cliffs and realized rails are worthless, like you guys who think they are the shit!

Rails aren't a part of progression, they belong in the same category of shit as snowblades!

The only problem with skiing is the lack of girls, atleast hot and horny ones! Want to go bowling?
Jan 30 2004 4:45PM
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DENALI44
Posts: 973 - Karma: 19
rails very over rated. especially in movies, who the fuck cares about watching a bunch of jib monkeys grind rails, id rather see them do big mtn lines, huck cliffs, and backcountry booters. you need more balls to ski big mtn lines and huck cliffs then stupid jib monkeys and their newschool shit on rails


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Jan 30 2004 4:49PM
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ScratchCobra66
Posts: 3688 - Karma: 11
Yeah im kinda getting sick of Rails, they were cool when i first saw them, but i would rather watch park skiing or back country








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Jan 30 2004 4:52PM
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GeneralButtNaked
Posts: 7854 - Karma: 89
rails are the balls
Jan 30 2004 4:52PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
^^^^could call my friend! give it up people, rails are fading! Start snowblading or something!

The only problem with skiing is the lack of girls, atleast hot and horny ones! Want to go bowling?
Jan 30 2004 4:54PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
^^^^could call my friend! give it up people, rails are fading! Start snowblading or something!

The only problem with skiing is the lack of girls, atleast hot and horny ones! Want to go bowling?
Jan 30 2004 4:54PM
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gambino500014
Posts: 6882 - Karma: 12
uhhh last time i checked i was on a newschool skiing site where we focus on newschool skiing, so in a newschool skiing comp there isnt usually cliffs, sorry children
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Jan 30 2004 6:25PM
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BallinBU
Posts: 882 - Karma: 6
i can't believe so many of you dudes are hating on rails. maybe you're on the wrong site. newschool skiing is all about rails.. the only reason i can think of why everyone would be hating is because you can't do them. greasing rails is one of the best feelings in skiing.
Jan 30 2004 6:35PM
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five0
Posts: 11466 - Karma: 36
i havent been able to do them for very long...im just starting em now so i cant get enough
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Jan 30 2004 6:44PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
Come ski with me at alta and all give you a feeling that surpasses the buttering of a rail!

Newschoolskiing is about rails! Its about big-mountain, haven't you watched any movies latley? All the pros are going into the mountain, and talking about learning tricks in the park and taking them out there! Again, all of you should shut the fuck up!

The only problem with skiing is the lack of girls, atleast hot and horny ones! Want to go bowling?
Jan 30 2004 6:53PM
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BallinBU
Posts: 882 - Karma: 6
you don't see any hot girls skiing because you're in utah... and i'm from aspen, so i know what steep pow backcountry shit is all about, and polishing rails is still the hotness
Jan 30 2004 7:03PM
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Phat_Jigga
Posts: 223 - Karma: 31
This is rediculous. Rails are a major part of skiing just as cliffs are. No newschool is not all about big moutain, or jibbing, or park. It's about mixing all of them. To say that you don't enjoy watching or doing rails is just your opinions, which is fine. But now your telling people to shut up who you asked for their opinion.
Jan 30 2004 8:36PM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
I just can't believe what I'm hearing rails are such a small and insignificant part of skiing. How can people be saying that they are the biggest part of newschool skiing. Go watch Sage's seg in highlife and you'll see wher newschool skiing is going. Back into the big mountains armed with a bag of tricks. Why do you think Fat twins are the hottest thing since sliced bread.
Jan 30 2004 9:46PM
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spyder1
Posts: 1529 - Karma: 11
i would rather see people doing rails in a movie than backcountry. yah cliffs are fun but it the east where their isnt many it sucks. rails kick ass but they are hard and that is why i think alot of people dont like them. they dont have the paitence to work at it. when they see some crazy skier on a rail it looks easy and it is kinda hard
Jan 30 2004 10:29PM
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LineBoarder
Posts: 3762 - Karma: 84
rails are sick period.. and if u say rails suck its because U SUCK AT THEM.. period.... im sick of this thread.... whoever says rails suck go fuck yourself cause your not true 2 the movement





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Jan 30 2004 10:37PM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
So what if I suck at rails. Big fuckin deal I'm If It took you to the top of Pucci's chute at Schweitzer you'd suck at skiing it. Personally I'd rather be good at actually skiing thatn doing some gay s-rail. And Lineboarder from all the big mountain skiers on this site fuck off.
Jan 30 2004 10:45PM
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gambino500014
Posts: 6882 - Karma: 12
too bad the newschool skiiers kinda outnumber the big mountain skiiers here, its kinda of obvious if you look at the site adress......
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Jan 30 2004 10:48PM
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Caden
Posts: 3213 - Karma: 10
cliffs is going back to 1990 warren miller flicks where it was all backcountry. almost every time a backcountry part comes on i hit the good old skip button. backcountry is not newschool skiing. just because they are wearing camo and shit instead of tight pink doesn't make it newschool. rails kill it and it's all we have over in ontario.
Jan 30 2004 11:54PM
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JBeas
Posts: 1296 - Karma: 237
yea really how could u say rails r boaring. if u think that then try to do more stuff one them.

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Jan 31 2004 12:01AM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
Yeah exactly that's all you have in Ontario. So that's what you think is cool. On the otherhand us lucky ones out west have 'backcountry' as you easterners call it even though its all in bounds. Rails are so weak just drop it.
Jan 31 2004 6:28PM
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midwest_720s
Posts: 648 - Karma: 10
waht the fuck are you^ sayin. rails are fun and for some of us its the best we got, u better be able to do em' if u plan on winnin any comps too. whats w/ all u assholes talkin shit about the MW just ccuz we dont get any snow and our vertical doesnt pass 500. we ski cuz its fun

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Jan 31 2004 6:59PM
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pag
Posts: 3412 - Karma: 69
the guy with like 80 post that said that rails sucks is a gay ass mother fucker skiing isn't about big mtn only and it's not about doing rails only it's all about a mixt and newschool is about rails and cliffs and jumps this is why newschool have been created it's to make fun with everything newschool is about doing tricks on cliffs,jumps and rails and everyone have more fun with one particular category. and rails are just a different feeling than powder or jumps
and by the way seth morrisson does rails...

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Jan 31 2004 8:02PM
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free_x_skier720
Posts: 21 - Karma: 10
dude just because you suck at rails doesnt mean you have to cry about it

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Jan 31 2004 9:49PM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
Haha everyone keeps argueing wuth me I love it. I'm not going to change my opinion so just be quiet. I just don't see rials as skiing. They aren't even that important in the whole newschool thing either. The new newschool is taking tricks to the big mountain. Whadaya think of that.
Jan 31 2004 9:51PM
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free_x_skier720
Posts: 21 - Karma: 10
when you can do a switch 10 off a cliff ill give up rails
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Jan 31 2004 9:54PM
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lanks
Posts: 12544 - Karma: 73
i like rails.

on the other hand, i just wrecked my skis on a rail, and i dont think volkl will give me a new pair, because they were ruined on a rail.

now, when newschool skiing first started, it was all jumps, no rails. then, little by little, skiers started doing rails for fun. just a small, but growing fad, to follow up on snowboarders doing rails all over the place. but the problem is, companies can make major profits if they somehow make their products more versatile, and once skiers realized that they could do just what the pro skiers started doing in the videos and ads, they wanted to buy twintip skis that much more. skis could now go off jumps like before, but all of a sudden rails entered the equation as well.

where did railslides on skis get noticed? in advertisments, and movies, of course. which are all just total attempt to sell products, by the sponsors involved.

it was all just a marketing ploy, a really cool one none the less, by ski companies. they totally jumped on the bandwagon, im afraid.

so in conclusion, yea rails are fun, and a part of skiing, but only in moderation. dont kid yourselves, skis are truly meant to be sliding on snow, not to be grinded down ALL THE TIME on rails. dont be fooled by this huge marketing ploy and think that rails are as much a part of skiing as carving, cuz their not.

if you dont agree with me, ask your ski company, who puts out many ads and videos containing countless railslides, after you wreck your skis beyond repair.

Joel

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Jan 31 2004 9:59PM
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BallinBU
Posts: 882 - Karma: 6
you guys are close-minded idiots
Jan 31 2004 10:05PM
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KickerTheCanMan
Posts: 207 - Karma: 10
Rails are cool, but they aren't everything. There's a little bit of this trend I see where all people care about is what kind of rail you can slide, which is bullshit. However, being well rounded and able to slide a rail in addition to skiing the whole mountain and hucking anything is fine by me.
Feb 1 2004 12:11AM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
I've noticed a funny trend going on here. Almost all of the people defendin rails are from the east coast places like CT which I didn't even know had aski resort. And those against rails are pretty much form this fine area we can the west. I feel sorry for all you east coasters. but not that sorry.
Feb 1 2004 1:51AM
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mikee
Posts: 7813 - Karma: 5
rails...not a park ot fksiing...overrated, what the fuck. thats all I have to say, this is at that point of rediculousness where I cant even begin to make up a response.

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Feb 1 2004 1:55AM
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DizasterPE153
Posts: 281 - Karma: 10
INSANE. how sum kids think rails are over rated.
the dumbest shit i have ever heard.







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Feb 1 2004 3:05PM
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270oUt
Posts: 166 - Karma: 10
Well if you like rails then do em and if you dont theres nothing wrong with them but personally i think there gunna be around for a while just cause lots of peoplke like to do them and there something you can always do hell people ever do em in summer
Feb 1 2004 3:27PM
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Dfresh
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 17
to the person who made this thread, go sit in your bathtub and shoot yourself in the head.

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Feb 1 2004 4:32PM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
Even Seht Morrison does rails. Please tell me he is
not a real skier.
Feb 1 2004 5:21PM
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778skier
Posts: 108 - Karma: 11
rails are for the summer and night time when you just have to do something with your skis on but there's nowhere to do actual skiing.
Feb 1 2004 5:22PM
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ECfreeski3
Posts: 12019 - Karma: 126
i LOVE rails, i don't know how you couldn't like the, unless you suck at them, in which case rails probably give you a lot of punishment, unlike the soft powder you like so much.
there's so much to do on rails, the progression will never stop.
PS-explain to me what is so much better about BC booters than park booters, besides that it hurts less when you fall?
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Feb 1 2004 6:18PM
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winterparksuks
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rails are fun








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Feb 1 2004 6:38PM
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pmills
Posts: 7162 - Karma: 59
isnt it really hard to compair rails to cliffs, i mean its totaly different skills, and different aspects of skiing, theres nothing wrong with doing something different, if every thing was rails it would get played out, and same thing with cliffs, you gotta live with some variation
Feb 1 2004 6:39PM
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cams
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 26
everyone needs to mellow out man, skiing is whatever you want it to be so ski however the fuck you want on whatever the hell you want, have a great fucking time, and stop devoting your lives to critisizing others.. just ski


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Feb 1 2004 6:45PM
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oman42089
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Rails are awesome, especially if you live in minnesota. But now that we just got aver a foot of snow, its all good. I'll for sure to rails still, cause they are crazy. especcialy the long ones




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Feb 1 2004 7:03PM
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Bob_Loblaw
Posts: 8384 - Karma: 38
i like hitting powder and cliffs way more than rails. but i live in ohio. so i can only do that once maybe twice a year when i go out west. rails and shitty jumps are all i have. yea what you ski is better. whoop-de-fucking-doo. I want to ski. if i didnt do rails, i wouldnt be skiing right now. its all i got, basically. and i can ski powder and do cliffs. i know how to ski. i just can do rails, too. and maybe people like doing rails more. who the hell are you to tell us what's skiing and what isn't? let people do what they want and leave them the fuck alone. god damn people suck.
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Feb 1 2004 7:28PM
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Wild_Style
Posts: 155 - Karma: 10
i think it is pretty silly to compare these two aspects of skiing. it is obviously a personal preference. as far as railskiing in movies; that is also personal and there are plenty of different flicks for everyones liking. but the way i see it as, this is an obvious progrssion of skiing that can't be denied.
but the whole 'ski company sales conspiracy' is hilarious. if that was the case, than i think you could date that back to when skaters started moving out of the smooth bowls and onto the street scene in the 80's. was that a conspiracy by skate manufacturers to sell more decks?
i think railskiing allows skiers to get creative in ways never before possible, in places never skied before.

skiing is being taken in different directions by different athletes, no one is all going to agree on what they like to ride more, or what is cooler. let it be.
Feb 1 2004 7:54PM
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Wild_Style
Posts: 155 - Karma: 10
this whole debate is part of the reason why the major 'newschool' ski mags will rairly, if ever, publish jib photos on a cover.
that doesn't mean its not still skiing though,
or that its has less 'soul'
Feb 1 2004 8:00PM
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CCskiBum00
Posts: 242 - Karma: 10
rails are still sick shit... but they will not ever beat a long run with first trax in knee deep pow... rails won't beat that or jumps nothing!


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Feb 1 2004 9:54PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
Regardless of what you people say rails are still over rated! Some kid said becuase the amount of my posts I can't say that, well my friend, I own a season pass to alta, not an unlimited time of bullshit to sit around at my computer all day like you! I'm not saying rails aren't cool, or they should be banned or anything! Just that people consider them to be the greatest thing to skiing now! And you know that is horeshit! Skiing isn't riding metal! Its a better sport than that!

The only problem with skiing is the lack of girls, atleast hot and horny ones! Want to go bowling?
Feb 1 2004 10:12PM
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jakes
Posts: 173 - Karma: 10
switchin skiings everything we all do, its groomers, bc, and park, i've skied alta, and solitude (better than alta now), but i also love rails, just cause you suck balls at rails doesn't mean you should say they're not part of our sport, your saying a 630 onto a rail isn't progressive, but Jamie Pierre hip checking another 100 footer is, every part of skiing is good and if your hating its cause you suck at it
Feb 1 2004 10:42PM
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DizasterPE153
Posts: 281 - Karma: 10
cams, quit bein a peaceful lil biaaatch.




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Feb 1 2004 10:49PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
who says I suck at rails? and yah hip checking a 100 footer is better than a rail! I would like to see you hit a 20 footer and stomp it you little pussy! bring it beeeeatch!

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Feb 1 2004 11:57PM
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BallinBU
Posts: 882 - Karma: 6
i'll stomp a twenty footer onto your face. BOO-YA!
Feb 1 2004 11:58PM
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jakes
Posts: 173 - Karma: 10
ha ha switchin your right, i don't stomp 20 footers, i stomp 30 footers at your nearby resort of solitude, but then again i'm just a rail sliding pussy, if you say sliding on metal isn't skiing but landing on your side is your a dumbass
Feb 2 2004 12:08AM
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