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What Happens to old skis?

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sam.gillin
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Every year pros get new skis. What happens to the old ones? do they just keepem?
Aug 15 2009 8:16PM
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_CC_
Posts: 3890 - Karma: 747
they probably get sold or just sit around
Aug 15 2009 8:20PM
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skiminnesota
Posts: 9093 - Karma: 429
im sure a ton are broken when they get rid of them..
Aug 15 2009 8:24PM
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iFail
Posts: 2066 - Karma: 65
sell them(Windells pro coaches are always selling a ton of gear cheaply), use them for urban, use them early season, etc.  But mostly sell them, they just don't need to post on NS to do so.
Aug 15 2009 8:25PM
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Willard
Posts: 5117 - Karma: 429
and make furniture
Aug 15 2009 8:33PM
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LOONmtn_skier
Posts: 88 - Karma: 68
I asked that exact question to Mike Clarke at Jib academy and he told me - Urban, Sell, and eventually break. A lot of pros only get new skis when their other ones break or become 'unskiable'.
Aug 15 2009 9:05PM
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rj.
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make weapons to kill people
Aug 15 2009 9:11PM
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musick13
Posts: 913 - Karma: 44
they move to Florida and linger awhile, then go to ski heaven
Aug 15 2009 9:14PM
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RileySnyderPhoto
Posts: 688 - Karma: 1,451
they eat them for breakfast
Aug 15 2009 9:26PM
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PeterWojnar
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 678
Well, you see, when two skis love each other very mu- oh wait, that's to young skis.

Old skis get turned into chairs, coffee tables, some get sold, but all eventually end up in someone's garage. There they wait, until centuries later, somebody discovers them, long after all the snow is gone, and gazes in wonder at what they might be. Then they throw 'em out.
Aug 15 2009 9:34PM
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Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,896
They don't die; they just fade away.
Aug 15 2009 9:51PM
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[~_~]
Posts: 20239 - Karma: 1,273
Burn them in the pre-season ski bonfire to please the snow gods!!
Aug 15 2009 10:58PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Pros add them to the fence around their private chalet's. When they finally get enough to completely encircle the property, pros know they can retire in complete impenetrable mountainside security.
Aug 15 2009 11:02PM
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charmander
Posts: 10636 - Karma: 370
basements, urbans, sales, furniture, fences, bonfires etc.
Aug 15 2009 11:20PM
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Shark.
Posts: 3158 - Karma: 270
this
Aug 15 2009 11:34PM
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abc8tr8we98g
Posts: 498 - Karma: 25
they are made into benches...i hope they file down the edges when they make those
Aug 16 2009 12:15AM
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BC.
Posts: 1551 - Karma: 86
this
Aug 16 2009 12:18AM
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Che~
Posts: 2108 - Karma: 296
sums it up
Aug 16 2009 12:20AM
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teleTay
Posts: 2320 - Karma: 186
the man is right
Aug 16 2009 12:21AM
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Dustin.
Posts: 13839 - Karma: 7,704
Well that just isn't true at all.  How dare you fill minds with this garbage.
Aug 16 2009 12:42AM
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TheNamesHolland
Posts: 433 - Karma: 21

they make those cool as chair that look a bit uncomfy but are awsome looking!

imagine cutting your ass on an edge!! :O

Aug 16 2009 1:38AM
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Greenish
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Aug 16 2009 1:43AM
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double_D
Posts: 778 - Karma: 25
andy parry sold his on NS
Aug 16 2009 1:51AM
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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 53
they are garbage, i know of a couple companies who take skis back to inspect then, they throw them out
Aug 16 2009 3:08AM
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Steeze-On-Toast
Posts: 679 - Karma: 92
you expect pros skis to have any edges left once theyre finished with them, i know mine don't
Aug 16 2009 6:17AM
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Silence
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Aug 16 2009 6:20AM
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rlee
Posts: 593 - Karma: 1,144
ski shots.
Aug 16 2009 6:32AM
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Lemuel
Posts: 14489 - Karma: 10,641
you mean shot skis.  Definitely going to make one when I brake a ski and use the good one for a shot ski haha.
Aug 16 2009 8:23AM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
they actually glue a couple together and make snowboards. this is the real way snowboards are made
Aug 16 2009 9:10AM
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Mogul-Jibber
Posts: 137 - Karma: -90
tanner hall donated his x games gold medal skis to tmc freeriderz in whistler.... i saw them there this summer. Im sure many pros donate their skis, some probably put them up on their wall in a collection... i bet others sell them on ebay. all that stuff
Aug 16 2009 10:45AM
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CreamSteez.
Posts: 299 - Karma: 81
nice.
Aug 16 2009 11:13AM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
so sick! I want to do that when i get a house and find a supply of 100 old pairs of skis.
Aug 16 2009 4:18PM
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