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Shretiquette

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MadTrix4Me
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Because we were tired of little punks running around like they owned the damn hill, my buddies and I came up with what we call 'shretiquette' (we stole the word from some magazine) so that nobody thinks you're an asshole. Some of these may apply to you, some not.

1. Ask, don't tell. When waiting in line for the pipe or a jump, you should not go before someone who was already there without expressed permission from those you are cutting. Ask who is next, do not tell everyone you are going now. If they tell you that you can go, then fine. There's nothing worse than the little kid who comes bombing the hill and yells 'Dropping! as he speeds by, forcing me to miss the damn jump. This is a cardinal rule.
2. Don't be a claimer. Let your friends hype up your jibs, but nobody likes the guy that's always asking how he looks, and if you saw him clean that rail, and 'Wasn't my 720 huge?'
3. Don't hate, appreciate. Unless you are joking and everyone knows it, it definately ain't cool to be a jerk to the kid who just ate it on the booter. Especially if he is huckin stuff or is new to the game (because it's gnarly to fall if you're actually doing stuff). Yelling 'Yard Sale!' in a friendly manner is fine. Yelling 'Get off the jump you stupid fuck!' is definately not cool.
4. Never call the last run of the day. Do not tempt the snow gods. If you do, bad things always happen on that called last run and somebody always ends up eating shit. This is just superstition, but for some reason has always seemed to hold true for us.

I don't mean to be a sally or anything, we were just tired of all the stupid kids. If this doesn't concern you, you don't have to tell me how stupid it is, just ignore it. Hopefully the shretiquette movement will spread, so that the asshole at your local hill will be no more. Feel free to add your own if you have any.
a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Feb 26 2004 5:27AM
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westcoaststyle
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you stole it, but spelled it wrong. shred is spelt with a d not a t.
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sometimes when im running water to wash dishes or something, i think about how lucky i am to have such simple access to running water and how some people will never know such a simple pleasure.

then i let it run for awhile, just because i can.
Feb 26 2004 5:48AM
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Justo8484
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the last run thing has held true for me this season. only time i called it, i ate c rail real hard and blacked out from the pain of landing on nothing but shin bone on steel
Feb 26 2004 9:48AM
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MadTrix4Me
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Ok, sorry, shrediquette (and if you'd read I said I stole it, we just added our own stuff to it)...and sorry about your shin bone dude. I've accidentally called it a couple of times and every time I've gone down. It's weird how that happens...

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Feb 26 2004 2:56PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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we ALWAYS pick a last run. It's usually one of my best. weird how it's different.

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Feb 26 2004 3:36PM
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Pipe_Munky
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what's wrong with askin your riding group how something looks? if it looked like shit they can help you make it look better



SKIER'S IRRESPONSIBILITY CODE
1.ski FAST at ALL TIMES
2.take MAX air at EVERY opportunity
3.POACH everyone's favourite lines
4.IGNORE all posted signs
5.EVADE patrol at all costs
6.SMOKE big fat stinky ones
7.DRINK to excess

**VIVA LA RESISTANCE**
Feb 26 2004 3:38PM
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west
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Its from Transworld Snowboarding, and the full article was pretty good.




better to burn out...
...then fade away
Feb 26 2004 3:39PM
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strode
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^i think he's talking about just asking some random person at the top of the jump - i've never really thought it wrong to ask your friends if your shit had style or not.....but if it really did, they'd probably tell you anyway



-Strode



Abba Zabba, you my only friend
Feb 26 2004 3:41PM
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MadTrix4Me
Posts: 209 - Karma: 10
That's the magazine! I wanted to give credit but couldn't remember where I found it...anyways, we just kind of adopted it and tried to fit it to our hill...but yeah, this isn't totally all my idea.

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Feb 26 2004 7:28PM
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hexum
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asking your crew is fine, but asking a rando is definately wack

O yes, you can ski backcountry is syracuse ny

'me and my girlfriend were going at it the other night and she was on top and we were bonin hard, and my dick slipped out between thrusts and went up her ass. she screamed and cried for 45 minutes, it sucked.' -skiflake
Feb 26 2004 7:47PM
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Natedawg
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Rule #1 only applies to people at the TOP of the park.

If you stop anywhere on the hill, it is your responsibility to look uphill before you start moving again. This is according to Alpine Responsibility Code #4, which applies to the park as well as the rest of the resort. So in fact, if you've stopped to wait and hit a feature in the middle of the park (other than the half pipe), and you head towards a jump while somebody bombs past you and hits the jump ahead of you, chances are you were the snake... Not the person who was maintaining flow in the park. This is the most commonly misunderstood shrediquette in the park.

To add:

Rule #safe: When you bail on a landing, clear the landing as soon as possible. DO NOT attempt to click into your bindings or adjust your pole straps etc while you are on the landing or outrun of a feature. Wait until you have a spotter before you attempt to retrieve any gear on the landing.

Rule #smart: Do not take pictures from anywhere that you could get landed on. If you are in a dangerous area while taking photos, at least make sure you take your skis off and put them in a safe place so that you can jump out of the way if you are in danger of someone hitting you.
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Feb 27 2004 5:54AM
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Balmdogg
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top notch rulings



Lets make like a hydrolic car and bounce - ian kibble
ULTA-MATUM.
Feb 27 2004 8:25AM
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MadTrix4Me
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Good point Natedawg...couldn't agree more...what I was talking about was the kids who come straight off of the lift and feel they don't need to stop for the rest of everyone waiting for the jump. But yeah definately look uphill to make sure no one is already going for what I want to hit

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Feb 27 2004 2:01PM
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born_to_explode
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if everyone followed those rules...the park would be a better place
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break it down...hard
Feb 27 2004 2:45PM
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aoe
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wow I must be really tired. I though it said sarengetti. I was expecting a thread about lions in africa...




You Don't Realize What You Have Untill It's Taken Away.
Feb 27 2004 2:54PM
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skiierman
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anyway, yeah the whole last run calling is bad luck. everyone knows it. very weird.


Why don't you take a long walk on a short peir.
Feb 27 2004 3:03PM
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MadTrix4Me
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Oh yeah, I forgot one...NO CELL PHONES ON THE HILL! You can have them inside, just not actually out while you go down the hill or even on the lift. As quoted in Freeze, you are only allowed a phone on the hill if you're expecting your first child...if it's your second child, you've already seen it before...

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Mar 1 2004 5:04AM
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strode
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i use my phone on the hill, but only to call other people on the hill to see where they are (i go with a bunch of people sometimes).....also i keep it in my right pocket and it gives me incentive to lean forward so i don't fall back on the rail



-Strode



Abba Zabba, you my only friend
Mar 1 2004 1:30PM
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MadTrix4Me
Posts: 209 - Karma: 10
Get some radios...no phones allowed

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Mar 2 2004 7:08PM
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LC.
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Smart Style says it all - don't complicate it.

Good call with 'last runs'. More fatal accidents happen on the last run of the day than at any other time.
Mar 2 2004 7:22PM
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fdsa
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Here's one to add. If you've already hit or by-passed a particular hit and some dumbass gaper is standing right in the landing zone, ask them to move so's that anybody above can hit it safely, and if that dumbass motherfucking snowboarder who poached my line last weekend at Ober is here, do it again and I'll make sure you never piss, shit, or reproduce again.
Mar 2 2004 7:59PM
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sessionarlo
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Bad luck on last run is very true, i was in vail a couple of weeks ago and my friend and i were sessioning a rail so we decided to head down for the day and my friend goes ok last run, totally by mistake cuase he knows the last run rule. He hits a booter lands backseat and breaks his femer. Then his roomate in the hospital called last run on the last day of his trip, he hit a rock and went flying into the air and landed on his side and pierced his stomach lining. If you have to go down, please say two more runs and wink.
Mar 2 2004 8:07PM
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MadTrix4Me
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Haha that's so funny (not everyone getting hurt) because we always do that...'Two more runs! *Wink*

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Mar 4 2004 5:33AM
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MadTrix4Me
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And another thing...if you're ever sessioning a rail, like I was the other day (I FINALLY GOT THAT DAMN THING TOO!) don't be like this kid--he would ski up the inramp, jump and like slide the first 6 inches, fall off, climb back up on to the ramp and proceed to like just stand on the rail while the rest of us yelled at him to move and let someone else go. It was incredibly retarded. I'm sure that goes without saying for just about everybody, but if one kid does it, I'm sure there's more out there. Which brings us to our next item of shretiquette...

DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU OWN THE DAMN HILL! Unless it is actually your hill, understand that you can't just do whatever you want and make other people wait on you or whatever...definately not cool. Again, this should go without saying, so if you catch someone like this, you have license to yell at them.

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Mar 4 2004 5:38AM
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fredsters_s
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add this to the shrediquette: if any FARP skiers take your line, remove basket from pole and STAB THEM IN THE FUCKING EYES



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think what you will, but english skiers will takeover one day...

m1 garand is a FUCKING FAG an should stick to playing CS Online
Mar 4 2004 7:37AM
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MadTrix4Me
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What's FARP? And wouldn't that violate some shrediquette? I guess I didn't write about stabbing in the eye...ok, so stabbing in the eye goes; I like it.

-a.k.a. The Flyin' Hawaiian
-Go Huck Yourself
-Friends don't let friends jib and jive.
Mar 5 2004 5:29AM
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fredsters_s
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sweet as: Farp is single-handedly ruining the rep of new-school



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think what you will, but english skiers will takeover one day...

m1 garand is a FUCKING FAG an should stick to playing CS Online
Mar 5 2004 6:55AM
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Big_Air_Smite
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At least you guys have decent parks. You should see what our hills in Scotland call parks, a couple of easy easy rails, like a 8ft double barrel rail and an 8ft flat funbox, then it steps up to single-barrel kinks and sketch trapezierails. But hey, that's all we've got to work with so I work with it.

I'm usually the only one in the 'park' so I don't tend to have a problem. Unless a group of snowboarders apear, they think they own the park and laugh at me for being a skier. Then I go and hit something and they shut up after trying the fun box and decking it.
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Mar 5 2004 8:33AM
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Sinister
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Hey Big Air,do u know Belle and Sebastian,from Glasgow?I really like them,i've seen them a couple of times.
What's the snow like over there?
I heard it's a rainy country...
BMW
Beer,Mushrooms,and Weed
Mar 5 2004 11:32AM
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Big_Air_Smite
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sinister- ha, yea, great mates with both of them :) do you know george bush or micheal jordan? :P

Snow sucks, hardly had any, about 2-3ft per season at the moment, global warming is REAL and it's destroying the whole ski industry here. All the snow's gone in 20 years, there used to be over 2000 all-year snow patches in scotland, there are now less than 30! It's pretty rainy, Fort William (Closest town to Nevis Range ski 'resort') is the cloudiest place ON EARTH (officially) and the wettest in Britain, so I guess you could say it's wet. But over in the east (where I worked until a few days back) it's so dry in summer! Rivers dropped over 2m in places! Hardly any rain from June through till September!
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I Like To Ski
Mar 5 2004 12:42PM
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Sinister
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yeah man,i met bush the other night while having an orgy and Jordan was there.By the way,i'm not an american,and b&s is music band.They are really good.(i'm from Spain)
BMW
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Mar 5 2004 12:57PM
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Big_Air_Smite
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i know who b&s are lol :)

Man, this forum needs a location above the icons. Jordan is British too. Do you know Raul? :P

Do you ski in andora or make the trip to the alps? Is there a ski resort in spain?
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I Like To Ski
Mar 5 2004 1:01PM
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Sinister
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yeah man,there's like 27 resorts,most of them lick balls,but the one i ski at kicks ass.30 chairs, a 250 cm base,powder...but no park whatsoever.Not even a funbox.We do handrails.
Andorra is okay,but way overrated.They have nice parks thou,and it's a sweet country.But overall,in Spain and Andorra,old school is still the way to go.
I've NEVER been to the alps,but i might go sometime next winter,because this winter i'm living in Canada.
BMW
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Mar 5 2004 1:06PM
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Sinister
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sucks about the global warming shit,you can feel it all over Europe.This summer was soooo hot.I don't know how the fuck i survived.And it also sucks for your 2-3ft of snow...
BMW
Beer,Mushrooms,and Weed
Mar 5 2004 1:08PM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
I hate when you bail pretty hard tehn some guys jump over as your collecting stuff (my friend had his poles crossed) Then the guy yells at you to hurry up. Sorry But If I just Yard Saled I can't run in ski boots
Mar 5 2004 2:14PM
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offtrail
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yeah never call last run. you never know when it really will be your last run for good. there will always be one more run.


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Mar 5 2004 2:31PM
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