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Y i think snowboarding is only a fad

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wellpreparedrare
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snowboards were around before burton put them on the map. they were a powder tool and fun way to jib. instead of exploring the versatility of skiing, snowboarders used the 80s to combine surfing and skateboarding. the idea was more than novel, it was marketable. needless to say, when extreme sports is a good business, creating an entirely new market within action sports is profitable. look at burton, they're in HP commercials. but, it's just a fad. thanks to the peeps up north, m douglas, dorion, raps, hall, cr and all the first wave of pro freestyle skiers, skis now reflect all the park characteristics of snwbrds, butterability, switch riding and steeze. then shane and the homies from the powpow west coast decided that skinny skis had to be ditched. even back in the 70s, k2 released a ski i think called the cheeseburger or sumthin that resembled the spatula. then the arg, the pontoon, the ehp and the fattypus started a wave of wide skis that's given us a combination of heaven incarnated in skis like the hellbent, eppro, and all the other soft, fat and twinned powder tools. about the only thing cooler than skiing is four fingered grabs, so drop them poles, cuz pushin snow is not a means of  traversing flats silly!

Jul 14 2009 9:18AM
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breezepig
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nah son
Jul 14 2009 9:41AM
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thisandthatfilms
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ok...

that made little to no sense AT ALL

so, you sir...

are an idiot
Jul 14 2009 9:41AM
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wellpreparedrare
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i need to stop hatin on snwbrds, it just gets the boarders all pissed that they have to strap in

Jul 14 2009 9:44AM
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beezey
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Why hate snowboarderes, we made them and they made us. Skiing was first, then came snowboarding, then came arials then came snowboarders bringing style then we took over. Snowboarders and Skiers are equal i don't get why people hate on them, sure some of their packs are annoying but I can assure you, i've met really annoying skiers as well
Jul 14 2009 9:47AM
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mike91129
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I really despise these snowboard hate threads, event hough it isnt explicit hate, it is still uncalled for. Snowboarding is not a fad. Most of the people i ski with are snowboarders and i know they are not going to ever give it up. If anything snowboarding is slightly more versatile than skiing because a snowboard that is used in the park will float fine in pow given some experience of the rider. Park skis just dont work worth shit in pow unless you are hauling ass. anyways, im just rambling.
Jul 14 2009 10:06AM
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proZach
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why you started your thread with "y" instead of "why" is why i think you're a fag.

oh you meant fad?
Jul 14 2009 10:25AM
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messplay
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hahaha
Jul 14 2009 10:26AM
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Pesca
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Fads normally don't run ~30 years...
Jul 14 2009 10:41AM
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thisandthatfilms
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ok and you say that skiiers have steez and style....

how can you tell me that these guys dont have style










Jul 14 2009 11:05AM
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wellpreparedrare
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esier2typwoutusindawnh
Jul 14 2009 1:56PM
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SEABURN
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this is a terrible rant that doesn't explain your position at all. if you really think snowboarding is a fad ( I have never seen a 30 year fad) but come up with some real evidence and rewrite your rant.
Jul 14 2009 2:10PM
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Chris.S
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thank you for those videos. While i can't prove that snowboarding isn't a fad, you can't prove that it is, so think before you start a thread like this.

Jul 14 2009 2:44PM
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Six.0.Tree-ski
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I think the title should be "Y the fuck wont this kid stop making pointless threads"
Jul 14 2009 2:54PM
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-Tristan-
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I dont get why there is a division here at all. IMO its two different outlooks on the same sport.

Look at it this way, what defines why we all love these sports? Being in the mountains, outside, with friends, the feeling of flying, pushing your personal limits, travel, exploration, style.

I know these are things that most snowboarders and newschool skiers can agree on, so really how much different are our two sports? I ski with snowboarders a lot, when they do something sick, there is no denying that its sick, so you give them props. Most of the time I forget there is even a difference between us.
Jul 14 2009 3:01PM
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anxju
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Y i think you are retarded

"snowboards were around before burton put them on the map. they were a powder tool and fun way to jib. instead of exploring the versatility of skiing, snowboarders used the 80s to combine surfing and skateboarding. the idea was more than novel, it was marketable. needless to say, when extreme sports is a good business, creating an entirely new market within action sports is profitable. look at burton, they're in HP commercials. but, it's just a fad. thanks to the peeps up north, m douglas, dorion, raps, hall, cr and all the first wave of pro freestyle skiers, skis now reflect all the park characteristics of snwbrds, butterability, switch riding and steeze. then shane and the homies from the powpow west coast decided that skinny skis had to be ditched. even back in the 70s, k2 released a ski i think called the cheeseburger or sumthin that resembled the spatula. then the arg, the pontoon, the ehp and the fattypus started a wave of wide skis that's given us a combination of heaven incarnated in skis like the hellbent, eppro, and all the other soft, fat and twinned powder tools. about the only thing cooler than skiing is four fingered grabs, so drop them poles, cuz pushin snow is not a means of traversing flats silly!"
Jul 14 2009 4:40PM
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Chronic_
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whats makes snowboarding different from other fads is the fact that poeple do it for a living and build their lifestyles around it. I dont think that one day marc frank is going to decide snowboarding is lame and not worth the time
Jul 14 2009 5:00PM
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pmw
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Jul 14 2009 5:33PM
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*steeze_is_good
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Im sorry to break it to you, but your a retarded fucker.
Jul 14 2009 5:38PM
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strongmark
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its funny to me that to you, apparently 'style' and 'foolishly large clothing' are synonymous.  that, and lucas mcgoon is a clown.  bradshaw gets a hall pass.

joe sexton.  get with it.
Jul 14 2009 5:40PM
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Freeheel4real
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that was just awful.
Jul 14 2009 5:42PM
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tomalom
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stupid
Jul 14 2009 6:07PM
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purplejumpsuit
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ding ding ding

snowboarders are people too... they just have one big hunk of stuff attacked to their feet instead of two.. stop hating, this past winter 90% of the people I was riding with were snowboarders because honestly 80% of the skiers on my mountain i would love to punch out. I used to hate on snowboarding back in the day, but im over it, you should get over it too.
Jul 14 2009 6:23PM
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wellpreparedrare
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its not the snowboarders that suck silly, they brought the fun to the slopes, its the snowboards
Jul 14 2009 6:45PM
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LO_GO
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theres no way its a fad there is a huge market for it and its in the olympics you dumb ass plus snowboarders invented afterbang son!
Jul 14 2009 7:10PM
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wellpreparedrare
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well if u actually read al the fucking posts ive been typin on this godam thread along w all the other shitty ones ive made ud kno that i already admitted that snowboarders r cool and that its the fucking snowboards that suc u rugmunchingfag
Jul 14 2009 7:17PM
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DouglasFRESH
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WOW, honestly i cant really call you dumb because i refuse to believe you are that stupid.

saying snowboarding is a fad is like saying freestyle skiing is a fad. actually it would be like saying skiing is a fad.


Jul 14 2009 7:19PM
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doublexl
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im not even gonna read that because snowboarding is most definitely not a fad.
Jul 14 2009 7:26PM
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jblaski
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"snowboards were around before burton put them on the map. they were a powder tool and fun way to jib. instead of exploring the versatility of skiing, snowboarders used the 80s to combine surfing and skateboarding. the idea was more than novel, it was marketable. needless to say, when extreme sports is a good business, creating an entirely new market within action sports is profitable. look at burton, they're in HP commercials. but, it's just a fad. thanks to the peeps up north, m douglas, dorion, raps, hall, cr and all the first wave of pro freestyle skiers, skis now reflect all the park characteristics of snwbrds, butterability, switch riding and steeze. then shane and the homies from the powpow west coast decided that skinny skis had to be ditched. even back in the 70s, k2 released a ski i think called the cheeseburger or sumthin that resembled the spatula. then the arg, the pontoon, the ehp and the fattypus started a wave of wide skis that's given us a combination of heaven incarnated in skis like the hellbent, eppro, and all the other soft, fat and twinned powder tools. about the only thing cooler than skiing is four fingered grabs, so drop them poles, cuz pushin snow is not a means of  traversing flats silly!"


I can't decide if this deserves a Face Palm or just a huge Fail...
Jul 14 2009 7:27PM
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wellpreparedrare
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u'r a sensitive one, fads r cool too
Jul 14 2009 7:30PM
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epoxiedtip
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wait but snowboarding has never been cool...
Jul 14 2009 7:33PM
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wellpreparedrare
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hopefully this is when the htread gets funny again
Jul 14 2009 7:44PM
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sammiedee
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fail palm!
Jul 14 2009 7:46PM
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wellpreparedrare
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aw, it's u again
Jul 14 2009 7:49PM
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D-ROC
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snowboarders need to get it right. jeez
Jul 14 2009 8:03PM
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proZach
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you gotta be fucking kidding me. yeah its easier to type, but no one will ever take you serious.
Jul 14 2009 8:05PM
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i.ski.troll.
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Jul 14 2009 8:17PM
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AMG.
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Haha you guys ripped this kid apart. He's not retarded for coming up with this concept, his concept is fucking wrong, but the fact he concieved it doesnt make him a retard. He's just thinking outside the box a bit. however, he is retarded for posting his half baked concept on NS before he thought about it for a while.

To the OP: some concepts are deep and will most likely never have a conclusion, like the existence of god and certain details of space/ the universe, but yours does. snowboarding is not a fad, it would have died out early in the 30 years its actually been around if it was. snowboarding is an alternative to skiing, like riding a motor cycle is an alternative to driving a car. sure cars have been around longer than motor cycles, and cars were most likely the inspiration behind motor cycles (like skiing was to snowboards) but i wouldnt call motorcycles a fad, would you? everything starts off as an idea, only time determines whether that idea becomes a fad or not, and if 30 years passes, its safe to say its not a fad.

Jul 14 2009 8:33PM
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wellpreparedrare
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oh no! not even you?
Jul 14 2009 8:37PM
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wellpreparedrare
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ftw
Jul 14 2009 8:39PM
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BlackieChan
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yesss! magoon and bradshaw are dope.


haters = people with nothing better to do with their time, they should probably look into at least communicating with the opposite sex, and maybe a little bit of getting somewhere in life. holllaa.
Jul 15 2009 5:35AM
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BC.
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funny is both those guys ride my home mountain, along with a lot of the technine crew/midget mafia......



that being said different styles, different riding. no right no wrong all preference skiing is making a comeback at the moment but soon it will even out to somewhere around 50/50
Jul 15 2009 6:48AM
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chames
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I knew this thread was going to be retarded when i clicked on it. Then, when i looked at the no capitalization and few puncuations i was a little more sure of myself. But what really did it for me was when you went on for a whole paragraph about absolutely nothing that had to do with "Y you think snowboarding is only a fad." Come on man, hating on snowboarding is like a ping pong player hating on tennis. Awful analogy i know, but you get what i'm trying to say. Its the same thing.

Jul 15 2009 8:40AM
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Chris.S
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it's funny to me that you think 'foolishly small clothing' and 'style' are synonymous and, nick visconti is a clown. sexton gets a hall pass.

matty mo. get with it.
Jul 15 2009 10:41AM
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PSiekierski
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true that brothaa
Jul 15 2009 11:54AM
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r0dubs
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i dont think tha fads can evolve into what snowboarding has become over the past thirty something years
Jul 15 2009 11:58AM
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slickohio
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Jul 15 2009 12:25PM
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