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If there were no freestyle skiing.....

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CousinEddie
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If there wasn't a park or backcountry....just groomers, would you ski or snowboard?

Mar 28 2011 5:43PM
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Crispy.
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Jack my friend, I would ski.
Mar 28 2011 5:44PM
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PJS.
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snowboard. so much more flatground options there.
Mar 28 2011 5:47PM
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drumbumocdp
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id invent park skiing and make bank.
Mar 28 2011 5:48PM
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CousinEddie
Posts: 633 - Karma: 215
I think i would snowboard actuallly....as said above, there is so much more to do on flat ground
Mar 28 2011 5:48PM
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A.Eberhard
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There are jumps on the sides of groomers. :D
Mar 28 2011 5:51PM
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EmperorKuzco
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Ski obviously and how is there more stuff to do on a flatground?
Mar 28 2011 5:52PM
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[evan]
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I'd still ski and I'd fuck shit up. Nollie-shifty-tailpress-butter 180s all day.
Mar 28 2011 5:55PM
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EmperorKuzco
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Knowle (sp?) rodeos!!
Mar 28 2011 6:01PM
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Will.T
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yeah, because when i ski, i'm thinking nothing.. no problem. just ski!
Mar 28 2011 6:15PM
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Elmo.
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but if a park was never made then u would never think of hitting urban.

i would probably do both. just to mix it up lol... groomers r so boring though.
Mar 28 2011 6:40PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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well, back in the day before freestyle skiing really existed, i rode a snowboard. it's hard to say what I'd do now....ski technology has changed sooo much because of freestyle skiing. if fs skiing never existed, then skis wouldn't be what they are today, which would probably heavily influence my decision. i sure as hell wouldn't be rocking race skis around all day, so I'd probably hop back on a board.

however, if skis tech remained as it is present day, and the only thing that changed was removing "freestyle skiing", then I'd definitely stay on my skis.
Mar 28 2011 6:47PM
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Doug.
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Haha Nollie?
Mar 28 2011 6:48PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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id get racing skis and just carve hard and go fast.
Mar 28 2011 6:49PM
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Schlop
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this was me before i discovered park, i would just have stayed the same
Mar 28 2011 7:04PM
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Schlop
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this was me before i discovered park, i would just have stayed the same
Mar 28 2011 7:04PM
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DADDYlongLEGS
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^
Mar 28 2011 7:06PM
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soulskier
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i would be a skier, no doubt in my mind
Mar 28 2011 7:12PM
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Mr.Gaga
Posts: 2021 - Karma: 542

swich slalom is great, I'd ski

There should be some swich race competition

Mar 28 2011 7:29PM
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Mr.Turtle
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you just described my mountain, so yes
Mar 28 2011 7:37PM
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I.B
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I'm tanner hall.
Mar 28 2011 7:40PM
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CousinEddie
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I'm Todd Walnuts!
Mar 28 2011 7:44PM
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DGski
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Bit of both
Mar 28 2011 7:47PM
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K_Ruhde
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this, but i already have the skis

Mar 28 2011 7:52PM
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Will.T
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seriously?
Mar 28 2011 7:54PM
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SCB_
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i would invent freestyle skiing.. duh
Mar 28 2011 8:08PM
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HIT
Posts: 3524 - Karma: 4,996
in all honesty, if there wasnt park i wouldnt have the passion that i do, and i probably wouldnt ski more than 5 times a season if that
Mar 28 2011 8:09PM
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freestyler540
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id still ski. I love moguls
Mar 28 2011 8:11PM
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lukewalnuts
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what he said
Mar 28 2011 8:12PM
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monkatizer
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how could there just NOT be back country??? does it just go away??? and i would still ski and find back country and trees and park!

stupid question is stupid
Mar 28 2011 8:28PM
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CousinEddie
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lolumad?

typical response is typical from you


Mar 28 2011 8:34PM
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Inline.
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yes
Mar 28 2011 8:34PM
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SkiThe603
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S K I SKI SKI SKI

Mar 28 2011 8:35PM
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broto
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park originated from people hitting urban rails.
Mar 28 2011 8:44PM
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CousinEddie
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Yeah bro.
Mar 28 2011 8:47PM
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willyg0808
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i'd do flatspins on t-bars
Mar 28 2011 8:47PM
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CousinEddie
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I would most likely get a carver board
Mar 28 2011 9:09PM
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loganimlach
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awesome.
Mar 28 2011 9:14PM
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Shredability
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Ski racing, back when I did it, I loved it. I like what I ski now (BC w/ a little park here and there) far more but I still had a lot of fun racing
Mar 28 2011 9:30PM
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Shredability
Posts: 2756 - Karma: 501
Ski racing, back when I did it, I loved it. I like what I ski now (BC w/ a little park here and there) far more but I still had a lot of fun racing
Mar 28 2011 9:30PM
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chicken
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Ski. The question is actually harder for me if it were only those two. Skiing is definitely more fun on groomers and no one can argue that it's more fun on bumps. Snowboarding is probably just as fun in the park though and pow is just fun .
Mar 28 2011 9:36PM
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TheRealEvan.
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SKI BALLET

try doin that on a snowboard
Mar 28 2011 10:26PM
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[evan]
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^Can I politely ask you to change your username? You are honestly confusing the fuck out of me and it's getting really annoying.
Mar 28 2011 10:28PM
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TheRealEvan.
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just for you i will consider changing my username, but just so everyone knows i am the real Evan with a period
Mar 28 2011 10:32PM
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Meases_Pieces
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and then your pole breaks in half while you are upsidedown and get impaled..
Mar 28 2011 10:32PM
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Bi-ShredinalGuy
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i would ski on 200+ straights in a bright one piece and be a complete gaper
Mar 28 2011 11:23PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Ski race motherfucker.

Hah - you guys live in a time where there always was this newschool shit. When I was 15 at my home resort, we didn't even have a classic freestyle program... and you weren't allowed to jump even in the bumps.

Only thing I could do on skis was race. Snowboarding came about, and I tried it and hated it.

Hell they even built parks for snowboarders, but since I hated it so much I just skied and prayed for the day when I could hit jumps in the park. All my racer buddies and I used to just hit jumps like at the side of the run and pop rollers and shit like that.

Can you even imagine?

I was I think 19 when they finally let skiers in the park. Did my first 360 that year, then went to High North ski camp the following summer.

That changed everything for me.

Mar 28 2011 11:23PM
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Maximumsushi
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When we were your age....

Honestly though, twin tip skis didn't come out until I was 16 or 17. I used just bomb around and ski. I bought the orange 1080s when they came out. It took me two seasons to learn a 360. I still can't spin a seven.
Mar 28 2011 11:49PM
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Park_Ranger
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Seeing as all my time would be spent going down boring runs in michigan... i would most likely know how to do both, just out of sheer boredom. and yeah prolly get into racing, or moguls. anything to get the adrenalin pumping
Mar 29 2011 12:10AM
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freestyler540
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I got my first pair at 13, the first dynastar concept twinboard the red and white ones. I was looking up to guys like Jean-Luc Brassard and Edgar Grupiron in the moguls. The first park at our local center was in 1998 with the first plans from the 3 phils. The first half pipe was built from shovels.

I am keeping up with the kids, but being 23 and trying to beat 14 year old kids without a car in the world, is overwhelming. But you know, without the guys like us, skiing would have never gone forward.
Mar 29 2011 5:38PM
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.jesus.
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nollie?
Mar 29 2011 5:39PM
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