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Do you choose jumps or jibbs?

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SKIU4EA
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Your standing at the top of the chairlift.  You only have 2 choices.  Which 1 do you have more fun on?

1.  A trail with a huge variety of different size jumps, quarter pipes, step-ups, step-downs, etc.

2.  A trail with a huge variety of different size rails, boxes, jibbs, etc

The freestyle skiing venue has been slowly gearing more and more towards jibbs.  Every mountain you go to people want more things to slide on.

I enjoy both, but I got to say, there's nothing like the rush of being booted up into the air, floating a perfect rotation and sticking the landing, IMO.  Although, 1 without the other would quickly grow boring.  So what do u think NS?

Oct 21 2009 12:12AM
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alaskakid
Posts: 5540 - Karma: 430
powder/natural hits

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Oct 21 2009 12:14AM
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zagfan5
Posts: 2608 - Karma: 144
pow tree runs.
Oct 21 2009 12:16AM
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Ben.
Posts: 21463 - Karma: 683
neither, i make a beeline for the untouched pow.
Oct 21 2009 12:17AM
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GayWolf420
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I'm more of a jump guy..... rails are fun. but not as fun as going big on some kickers.

also pow pow stashes in the trees are always fun
Oct 21 2009 12:18AM
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Ski4frnt4445
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depends on my mood and day. but most of the time the jib run
Oct 21 2009 12:18AM
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SKIU4EA
Posts: 2387 - Karma: 2,072
The good shit aint so easy to come by on the EC
Oct 21 2009 12:19AM
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DR.SHRED
Posts: 2134 - Karma: 503
1 and pow pow with some cilffs
Oct 21 2009 12:20AM
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Malcolm
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probably rails because my bag of tricks on jumps is pretty empty.
Oct 21 2009 12:27AM
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Ben.
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true. grew up in the midwest, i feel ya
Oct 21 2009 12:28AM
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ChelseaSkis
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I like jumps!
Oct 21 2009 12:36AM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161

Sunny soft spring day: Jumps

Cold hardpack day: jibs

Oct 21 2009 12:38AM
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freesteez
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its all about the pow!!  but for those two i would have to choose jumps, but with pow landings.
Oct 21 2009 12:40AM
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anti_bunk
Posts: 2629 - Karma: 329
trick question.  if im at the top of a run and on skis i have fun everywhere.  duhr.
Oct 21 2009 12:41AM
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snowfreak14
Posts: 370 - Karma: 209
i feel like even the most hardcore park rat still loves pow more than anything...but yeah ^ sunny= jumps cold= jibs
Oct 21 2009 12:42AM
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SKIU4EA
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day after a storm, freshly groomed corduroy, and temps 34-44 are prime jump conditions.  Seems like any condition is ideal for rails.
Oct 21 2009 7:41AM
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Big5hifty
Posts: 3243 - Karma: 1,253
im with most of these people with the pow
but if i had to choose one of those 2 id say jumps
Oct 21 2009 8:34AM
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max69
Posts: 34 - Karma: 10
POWDER, THEN Jumps , and the jibs
Oct 21 2009 12:29PM
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jibbnsteezy
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Anything basically,but I like jibs.
Oct 21 2009 4:48PM
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Snobnny
Posts: 26 - Karma: 5
Im still learning, but I'd say "JUMPS!"
Oct 21 2009 5:06PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578

jumps then pow then rails

i like nothing more than floating cork 3s and 5s on nice 50 foot booters

Oct 21 2009 5:57PM
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short_and_steezy
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1. But I would choose powder over it. People on the ec don't get much of that :(
Oct 21 2009 6:01PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
Rails, bag of tricks is way bigger.  Unless I am at a hill with some legit jumps, then I will take jumps, but still got to keep it about even with rails. 
Oct 21 2009 6:04PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
real pow lines
Oct 21 2009 6:06PM
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tbayjibber
Posts: 326 - Karma: 62
Usually alternate/hike then again three rails and 2 jumps for a park makes that easy
Oct 21 2009 6:35PM
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BlizzardMan
Posts: 56 - Karma: 10
Jibbs!!!

Oct 21 2009 6:36PM
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GreenHorn
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its truly the best
Oct 21 2009 6:38PM
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Logey.
Posts: 2996 - Karma: 457
I would say jumps looks cooler and i love the feeling when you stomp a trick!
Oct 21 2009 6:41PM
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jamodeo
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Jibbs all the way i think its because my local hill is just a small  one on the east coast and there isnt really enough space to buld good jumps and i didnt have my lisence so i couldnt really go travel to other mountains and hit nice jumps
Oct 21 2009 6:45PM
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Che~
Posts: 2108 - Karma: 296
pow>jumps>rails
Oct 21 2009 7:00PM
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Candy
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I would obviously alternate which run I ski, so I would get a good balance of both.
Oct 21 2009 7:06PM
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Sewardo
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Pow>Jibs>Jumps for me
Oct 21 2009 7:14PM
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