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Have you ever experienced "twin-tip prejudice?"

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flexpattern
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Yo fellow ns peeps

Just wondering if you've ever experienced "twin-tipprejudice?"

For example have you ever beenhated on for "spraying up too much snow" behind you (because of theskis design)? or have you had lift attendants complain when you separate yourskis cos they're too fat to fit in normal ski racks on gondola lifts?

Both these happened to me in a bigway over the 08/09 season ( the latter example resulted me in having a fullblown argument in French in February this year!) is it just me or is there sucha thing as "twin-tip" prejudice going on in our modern skiingsociety?

Much love,

FluffMuff

Jun 5 2009 9:59AM
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jamodeo
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i love it when that happens especially if there is just a little kid and then the parent and the kid tries to get on with you then the mom/dad like pulls them away
Oct 18 2009 11:19AM
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tride
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"Twin-tip prejudice" hey? So by that mean when people judge you by what you are sporting on the hill?

I think the "twin-tip prejudice" days are nearing an end, it sounds like they are soon to be replaced by "Ed Hardy prejudice" except this time the NS crowd will be the ones judging as opposed to being judged.
Oct 18 2009 3:09PM
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SEABURN
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That's not funny or clever, you're dumb.
Oct 18 2009 6:29PM
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Aaaron.
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same thing happened to me, but instead of the "icelantic patrol" it was the "camelback rangers" at Camelback in PA.  The suckers wear yellow, instead of red, so i was just popping in and off the cat track, thinking that no patrollers were around.   i came up switch and next thing i know this lady wearing a yellow patrol jacket is blowing a whistle and she proceeds to "pull me over" and try to explain how i was being unsafe.  i told her that i was completely aware of my surroundings and in complete control of myself, but she WROTE ME A FREAKING TICKET.  and marked my lift pass. 
 wtf? 
Oct 18 2009 6:40PM
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SEABURN
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cuntpunt that bitch.
Oct 18 2009 7:23PM
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Logey.
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yeahh one time some uptight racer guy was like i bet he cuts people off just because he can behind my back to his uptight bitch wife.
Oct 18 2009 7:29PM
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erikK
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I had to take my goggles off once when I was getting on the gondola so they could see if i was the person in my pass. that would happen to anyone though
Oct 19 2009 12:24AM
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ScubaSteveFather
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I love this thread so bump
Sep 5 2011 7:55PM
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Panda_with_Guns
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i was skiid up to the park one day which is sorta small and the race coach had his twenty or so ten year olds race tucking through the park and he was making everyone wait behind all twenty of them until they got to the end. shit pissed me off. he wouldnt even let me hit a box off to the side
Sep 5 2011 9:46PM
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soulskier
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my jo pros got me sooooo many dirty looks and lots of "MAN THOSE ARE SO DAMN COOOOOL"
Sep 6 2011 12:37AM
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easy.steezy
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"son, now why do you have monsters on those god awful skis?!"  old dude talking about my afterbangs.  sold those, wonder what people are gonna say about my revivals next year hahaha.
Sep 6 2011 1:02AM
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razors-chaz
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I get this alot. People making "smart" comments about my gear like "are those two different boots (spks)" etc. Also i fucking hate people who stand on your tails in lift lines. My skis are colouful enough you should fucking see them. I only really noticed it when on my new blends and i gave a shit about them and every time they stand on my tails, i turn round glare at them and move my skis from under them and despite it being busy i end up on the chair by myself. Why rush me from behind when their not going to use the space on the chair?
Sep 6 2011 7:40AM
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Crocodile
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Have you tried packing some serious heat to stop these problems?
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Here's some inspiration
Sep 6 2011 7:49AM
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HolySchimmel
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I really hate those race guys. I mean where I ski (mostly Austria and small parts in Germany), race team would always close special segments of the slope just for them and noone else is allowed to ride there. But then instead of skiing there practicing slalom or whatever they do there, they would all go through the park one by one waiting for each other after each jump/box. And not only do they block one at a time, no they have to spread out soooo wide that there is no chance of you getting passed them.

Sep 6 2011 9:09AM
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Deluge
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hahaha
Sep 6 2011 10:09AM
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Karma_Police
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Hahahahahaha, I'm sorry but that is pretty funny.  Really I think the only place it happens is at smaller midwest and east coast resorts.  Any big resort out west if someone local or someone that skis there often isn't going to be ignorant.  Although I have seen quite a few texans at vail so maybe my comment is invalid.
Sep 6 2011 11:31AM
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Toilet-Ott3r
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Had a 12 yr old kid step all over the tails of my Kennedy's while in queue for the Button lift.


Never wanted to smack someone so badly
Sep 6 2011 12:11PM
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caliskigirl
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Haven't really had this yet, most people are just curious about them. But I ride at Squaw....if someone hates on my skis I'll just say, "I can't believe you ride here, I'm SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU!"
Thanks Gnar.
Sep 6 2011 12:45PM
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ShredAZ
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I've got a few stories. Nothing super fancy.
I feel like this thread would be a greater success if it was titled "ski po prejudice."

Anyways. Rocking my Invaders last season (with the pink bases), I had a father come up to me and ask if I had lights on my skis because of the way the sun reflected against the bases back on to the snow. *face palm*

I've also had countless numbers of older folk on the chair lift surprised to see I skied and didn't "destroy the mountain" by boarding, as they put it.

I've had a few gnarly run ins with ski po too. A few of which I probably deserved - but this one not so much.
I was coming down the final run back to the chairlift. It was a very overcast day and consequentially, I was partially terrain blind.
I am ALWAYS conscious of my surroundings and try to slow myself to reasonable pace when entering merging trails.
Anyways, on the way down this final run, some shitty grooming towards the end caught my ski just right which caused me to look somewhat retarded. Went into my hockey stop. Costed to the lift line. No big deal right?
I hear a fucking ski po whistle behind me with this old fuck yelling as loud as he could at me. I didn't know he was talking to me until he stammered over to me and proceeded to tell me how out of control and a dangerous skier I was.
I told him to chill out and I'm being respectful so there's no reason to be otherwise towards me.
He continued to tell me I'm going "way to fast" and "highly dangerous" to the rest of the people at the resort.
I finally straight up told him I'm a terrible ass skier. Is that what you want to hear?? Here's my pass. Here's my name. Are we through here? He gave me a warning and off I went.

I tried to cut the guy some slack because people here in Az don't know how to ski for shit and he has to deal with that on the daily. Still sucks when you're judged by your appearance off the bat.
Sep 6 2011 5:36PM
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MLB
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Its not nearly as bad as it used to be. The lift lines to the park used to suck back in the day. Boarders used to ram my tips, or stand on them.
Sep 6 2011 6:12PM
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Enstrut
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It feels like everyone else thinks that since twin tip skiing isnt the norm and its newer, we are treated like the pit of our skiing society. Although rapidly gaining popularity in every country that has a ski hill, will we always be treated differently?
Sep 6 2011 10:22PM
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monkatizer
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threads for when i feel like reading this
Sep 6 2011 10:29PM
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jamodeo
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you let him do that? cut him off and do it anyway is the usual solution to racers in the park
Sep 6 2011 10:48PM
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NoBigDeal
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i personally could give a fuck if someone complains about the way my skis are
Sep 6 2011 11:08PM
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EastCoastPowBird
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Not so much twin tip prejudice but one day i was skiing some pow at Cascade and a older ski patrol rocking racing skis saw me and said I wasn't aloud to go off the trails as it was marked off(bullshit) and that my consequence was a 15 minute time out
Sep 17 2011 11:37PM
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Guard_Puma
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I don't really ever get prejudice as much as sometimes people just don't know what to say. I'm from Minnesota though so maybe everyone is just too nice to say anything.

Also I just want to point out the loads and loads of prejudice being dished out toward all non-twin skiers. I get that this stuff happens to us, but remember it's a two way street people. Somewhere there's a group of racers or gapers bitching about how "those guys with the twin tips and baggy clothes were giving me dirty looks all day and spraying me and shit when I'm just out trying to get better."
Sep 18 2011 2:32AM
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stupendous-man
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threads lol
Sep 18 2011 2:30PM
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Supergyro
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Too true... but the coach shutting down the park so his "pupils" can half - ass it isn't right.
Sep 18 2011 2:35PM
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Stose
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lol no its not
Sep 18 2011 6:49PM
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KravtZ
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good thing those kids will be 100000000000x better skiers than you will ever be....i LOL at park rats and there ignorance
Sep 18 2011 9:45PM
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Algebra
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Happens
Sep 18 2011 9:53PM
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Stose
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1. I can go fast and turn too. Racing isn't that special

2. Lets see a racer drop chutes or hit up features in a park.

3. Just cause i don't race doesn't make me a park rat. If i were to steriotype like you i would assume you are a fag because you defend men in full body speedos.

4. You ignorant for assuming that all people who spend time in a park are ignorant

Sep 18 2011 11:50PM
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monkatizer
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you're a fucking idiot!

i can go just as fast as a racer and make good turns and shit.

racers could never hit trees, pow, backcountry, park, and all that stuff like most of us can. just cause they may better at flying down icy slopes then us, doesn't mean there better skiers then us "park rats".

and just cause we ski mostly park doesn't mean we can ski all mountain or other stuff. the only people i hate on are ones that cant ski fro shit and start with park right away.
Sep 19 2011 5:11PM
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Rosbif
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Whilst this argument has been done to death on here before, your level of ignorance is pretty special.

Racers (let's say someone who has raced at a decent FIS level, not raceclub brats) will almost certainly be better at skiing the whole mountain than the vast majority of people. I see so many wannabes hacking around powder with no idea how to ski. Also proper racers are in insane shape, and are generally incredible athletes, this helps them if they want to go ski somewhere out of the gates.

It's also quite well known how many current top level pros in all disciplines have race backgrounds.
Sep 19 2011 5:26PM
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GrabsForFun
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Great thread!

Once I was skiing at this supersmall skihill. There were basicly 20 people there that day. And every damn run I had to show my skipass... Sucks

Another time I was doing a 180 out on the slope from some trees and this old guy with his kid falls 100 feet uphill. I stoped att the side, to wait for a friend, and the old guy comes down to me and starts yelling at me that "you can´t ski like that". I told him it wasn´t my fault he fell, and that I didn´t care. Then he hits me in the face with his pole and rides away. I was really fucking pissed at him, I mean he scratched my goggles haha. I saw him later and he was really scared of me. He awoided me for the whole day haha
Sep 20 2011 8:56AM
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Guard_Puma
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Oh I completely agree, it's super frustrating. I'm totally on the side of twin tips obviously, but just sayin' it goes both ways.
Sep 20 2011 1:00PM
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H-Slice
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one time a lady in a lift line told me that i broke both my skis and they were bending up. I looked back to see that she was using her pole to try and push down my twin tips....
Sep 22 2011 4:31PM
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Peach.
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Meh nothing worth noting other then boarder friends pissed about my rooster tails when we're in the trees.
Sep 22 2011 4:40PM
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toominator
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About a month ago I was waiting to collect my skis off the back of a shuttle bus from the lower car park..

A guy barges on in and takes my 1 day old kung fujas off the rack and dumps them on the ground so he can get his skis off. The shuttle driver was like wtf are you doing, he replies in a loud voice "it doesn't matter they're only twin tips"

Shuttle driver and I look at each other, lost for words.

Aside from that never experienced any 'prejudice' aside from people bumping tails in the lift queue.
Sep 22 2011 10:03PM
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openmindportrait
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My mountain for the most part is full of people who are exposed to freeskiing a lot so they dont complain and the respect is mutual but this one time last year this camp came and its full of wannabe shaun white kids who think their better than just about everyone. They took over a jump and sessioned it and when we tried to drop in they told us to stop and sent us away while bitching us out. That same morning while shredding pow a coach for the camp who was probably in his mid 30's in front of 20 plus 11 year old kids started screaming completely unwarranted that I was Fucking with his camp and his riders by skiing and that i needed to get the fuck off the hill and shut the fuck up when i had never met this person or even seen him for that matter. Luckily they are not allowed back here because of that.
Sep 24 2011 2:03PM
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Bumblesteeze
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I would've been so angry, not going to lie..
Sep 24 2011 2:35PM
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steezeknees
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Doesnt every thread make you want to ski?
Sep 24 2011 5:30PM
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NinetyFour
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Finally joined this forum... Friggen twin tip prejudice extends all over guys. Its not so much twin tips here in gap-land however, its skier prejudice. All the snowboarders are like "Man skiers just go in the park and hop off the jumps and do gay little things" The one kid that was saying this is never in the park, has mommy and daddy buy all of his gear for him (likely wipe his ass too) and to boot he's wearing orage gear like crazy (which I'd say has been tailored for skiers)

The "Jaded Local" article from powder magazine 40.1 should be of great use to tell the "Doppelmeyer Douchebags" as powder calls them to screw off.
Sep 24 2011 10:02PM
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