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Would today's tricks be possible 60-70 years ago?

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mozzy
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Given the state of the equipment in the 1940's / 1950's, would it be possible to do today's tricks with the skis / boots / bindings of that era?


Jan 12 2010 6:17AM
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*TURBONERD*
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i might be mistaken, but i believe most people still skied on freeheel bindings then. so in general, no, but telemarkers can do some decent park tricks
Jan 12 2010 6:27AM
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.oz.
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only one way to find out. lets get mr wallisch a pair of 1940's skis and boots.
Jan 12 2010 7:03AM
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wh@t
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actually you cant really land backseat and lean back in ankle high leather boots. if im getting the tricks skiers do today correctly.

fuck all of you.
Jan 12 2010 7:56AM
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shithawks
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not a chance . my grandfather skied in the 1950 and turning was a bitch. u have to remeber their skis were 210 cm they had these terrible bear trap bindings, and boots were just high leather bootss with some terrible rubber sole. my dad also has a ski musuem so yeah there is no way
Jan 12 2010 8:00AM
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blong131
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I'm gonna go ahead and say today's tricks couldn't have been done 10 years ago. Center mount alone makes such a difference, let alone other tech
Jan 12 2010 9:09AM
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Newschool_Pope
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t wall could even do dub corks on cross country skis.
Jan 12 2010 10:41AM
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drumbumocdp
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making a good jump to do those tricks on would take a long ass time back then too
Jan 12 2010 11:20AM
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Mr.Huck
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Somethings could have been done,  but others would have been impossible.  You could land switch on straight skis, but as soon as you started to turn or carve switch it would be ugly.  Carving was a lot tougher on older straight skis.  If you really want an education go find a pair of old straights and try them out.  Carving switch would be pretty much impossible on Straight 205's .  The weight was totally different too.  Because the skis were mounted traditionally, the tip weighed more than the tail.  That made it much tougher to stop your rotation.  Corked stuff not landing switch would have been doable.  I'm sure some old freestylers did them by mistake when they were trying to learn full twisting backs. 
Jan 12 2010 2:21PM
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ParkAndPowFun
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no not a chance, the whole freestyle skiing is a REALY new style.
Jan 12 2010 2:34PM
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lucasmagooner
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you faggot skiers are sofucking gay get a life. no they couldnt do that shit
Jan 12 2010 2:51PM
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wintersway
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is this really a question?
Jan 12 2010 3:22PM
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Smuffy
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actually i think many of them would. however, people have only been progressing this way because of the knowledge we now have. example, in order to pretzel, you have to drop your ski. thats something we have learned very recently. the people had the knowledge we do, they could and would have done many of the stuff done now.

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Jan 12 2010 3:33PM
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Newschool_Pope
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if henrik can do it on snowblades...
Jan 12 2010 3:48PM
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.Max.
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theres that vid of a guy in like the 80's doing a quadruple back 10...
Jan 12 2010 4:24PM
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.Roockley.
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gaper snowboarder alert
Jan 12 2010 4:46PM
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**TMAC**
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i wouldnt say so but who nos maby but who would think of all those tricks sixty or seventy years ago haha it has gotten so much better compared to then its unreal!
Jan 12 2010 4:56PM
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ParkAndPowFun
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get off this site then bitch. ignorant boarder arent welmcome here.
Jan 13 2010 7:56PM
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jfletcher
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Tom wallisch pretzling that SLC rail in Turbo unlocked pandoras box...but for ski tricks
Jan 13 2010 7:57PM
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