Member of the Month

KilaTsunami
October, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

after all these articles on the tanner interview...

profile picture
Dfresh
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 17
we need to completely get rid of every racing company... support line,4frnt, armada, liberty, ninthward, whoever else


fuck salomon, volkl, and all those other companies, we need to completely isolate ourselves from them, it still seems their biggest athletes aren't supporting us and as long as we keep buying salomon skis and volkl and all those other racing companies we will never get anywhere...

line will never be the burton of skiing because salomon is still trying to advertise themselves as the big player...

sure some of the big companies make good skis... but the little companies are better,

support orage, and siver, not the big time clothing companies, only core companies, they make the sickest stuff

look at snowboarding outerwear... look how fucking sick those companies are now... analog, ronin, mission 6, holden, special blend, grenade,

they have the absolute sicket things , skiing companies have nothing on them, because salomon and rossi and all thsoe companies rather support racing culture...

orage is pushing it with some of their new stuff... but just wait we can get there we just need to push for it...

i have rossi scratch right now, my next ski will be 4 front probaly and I will never ride a non independent company again.


peace.



'Keep on rocking in the free world'
Dec 2 2004 7:58PM
0 0
profile picture
holyDINOSAURS
Posts: 7038 - Karma: 639
i love atomic...i dunno if its a dif manager for their freeride stuff or something but everything about the tweaks and stuff seem really core to me...

----------------------------------------
I NAMED JIBBERISH BITCHES. (thanks to MikeE)

real stuff is better than stuff on a screen, porn to sex, skiing to ns
-C-Man

JC, TMC, S3p, WCJF

i nailed a chick on saterday night, well sunday morning. then at 815 her friend ran into the room say we are late for church. we need to go. haha i love catholic high school girls
-skiingpimp
Dec 3 2004 5:29PM
0 0
profile picture
221
Posts: 3488 - Karma: 11
lots of skis are made in that factory, not just telemark skis. and snowboards also. sorry fag.

----------------------
'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'221 is fucking hilarious'
~221
Dec 3 2004 6:37PM
0 0
profile picture
JayPeak420
Posts: 108 - Karma: 10
I have to say K2 is not guilty like the other bigger companies. While the Fujatives may not last that long they were not desingend to either. They were desiegned to be a cheap comp ski or rail ski built with cheap materials. Also its only $250 while companys like salomon would charge $500 for it. The Fuj also has a veryinovative flex patern created by the k2 team. The public enamey is only $360 in most stores and is a high quality well thought out ski that k2 worked very hard to perduce and listned to what the riders input. Skis from salomon havnt changed over the last 3 years, have foam cores and are $500.
Dec 3 2004 7:02PM
0 0
profile picture
duhamelski
Posts: 3842 - Karma: 192
if you like his idea u def shouldnt get atomics. atomic is like the biggest racing company out there. im not saying i agree with him, but it would be nice to be without racing companies always being more popular then us
Dec 3 2004 7:13PM
0 0
profile picture
SnowCoast
Posts: 1991 - Karma: 14
Atomic also makes one of the most quality twin tips out there.

Anyways, I agree with most of the things you've said , UTmeathead, but the fact that the THALL is a completely new idea is, well, not. We've already seen a ski with softer tips and tails, dulled edges, okay, thats new I'll give you that. Please, I'd love to buy 4FRNT's, but they are expensive, which is understandable because they are a small company. If I had the money I'd be more interested in their stuff, but for now, I'll go with quality products and lower prices, 4FRNT doesn't have a grasp on the latter just yet. ALthough from what I've heard, they are quality boards, so drop the prices and I'm sold.
_______________________



'And the winner of this years Orage Masters is...me bitch!'

- Snoopkael Deschdog WSKI106
Dec 3 2004 7:19PM
0 0
profile picture
UTmeathead
Posts: 265 - Karma: 15
This is straight from Freeskier's buyers guide:
4FRNT MSP - $625.00
Armada ARV - $595.00
The rest.....
Atomic Sugar Daddy - $799.00
Head Monster - $800.00
Head Mojo - $710.00
Line Mothership Ti - $800.00
Nordica Beast -$865.00
Rossi Scratch BC - $729.00
Salo Pocket Rocket - $795.00
Volkl Karma - $650.00

I could list the STL and AR5 comparison but I'm too lazy to type. After looking at those prices, how can you say 4FRNT or Armada are over-priced? These companies are RAPING you, and you don't even see it.
A $600 all-mountain twin that is the most durable ski on the market is a steal. But don't take my word for it, go buy a SugarDaddy or PocketRocket and feel good that you're supporting a company who's laughing at you...
Dec 5 2004 1:13PM
0 0
profile picture
SnowCoast
Posts: 1991 - Karma: 14
Yes, you are right, MSRP prices of those skis are relatively close. I haven't payed retail for skis for a while, most shops sell the other skis listed for $200 less than advertised. I haven't seen 4FRNT's or Armada's for much less, nor have I seen many people selling them cheap.
_______________________



'And the winner of this years Orage Masters is...me bitch!'

- Snoopkael Deschdog WSKI106
Dec 5 2004 2:20PM
0 0
profile picture
JayPeak420
Posts: 108 - Karma: 10
And the PE retails fore only $475 but at most shops its only $350. Not bad fore one off the best skis on the market.
Dec 5 2004 2:24PM
0 0
profile picture
UTmeathead
Posts: 265 - Karma: 15
Alot of those skis retail for around $800, if they're selling for $200 cheaper, that puts them at $600. That's the same price as the QUALITY skis that retail at $600. Why would you choose anything different?
Dec 5 2004 2:26PM
0 0
profile picture
Jordan_P
Posts: 621 - Karma: 33
yo man, i got some Line Skogen Pro's from like '01 man... 90 bucks bitchaz!

`-_-~FIRST CHAIR~-_-`





ya'll bitches
Dec 5 2004 2:27PM
0 0
profile picture
skimack
Posts: 2458 - Karma: 33
I totally agree with this post. I met Matt Sterbenz earilier this year and he told me that really makes sense. These athletes are out busting their asses to make a product and it is as good product. There is no reason to buy Salomons or Rossignol skis over 4frnt Armada Line Liberty etc. These companies are putting out incredible stuff right now and we should support them with our money because that money will go directly back to our part of skiing instead of paying for Bode Miller's paycheck.


------------------------------------------------------------------
'Today I washed my shirt with my washboard abs. I didn't even have to take it off, I just poured water on the stain and scrubbed it on my abs.' (My little brother)

'I'm in his nigger crew' (my little brother in response to my statement that he was in my 'digger crew')

'My knee hurts' (Jeff Merat after grinding a lunch table for an hour instead of sitting in the ski patrol shack for his torm mcl and acl which he got earlier that day.)

'I'm not asking for any help, just maybe for you to get off your ass.'(my dad)
Dec 5 2004 2:28PM
0 0
profile picture
SnowCoast
Posts: 1991 - Karma: 14
Ok UTmeathead, you win, I'll go buy some 4FRNTS.
_______________________



'And the winner of this years Orage Masters is...me bitch!'

- Snoopkael Deschdog WSKI106
Dec 5 2004 5:20PM
0 0
profile picture
jflo453
Posts: 1383 - Karma: 26
I think waht hes trying 2 say is that we should support indy companies cuz they are in it for the benefit of our sport. They take alot of work and really dont make much money. This contrasts supporting a company like salomon or volkl which makes a few twin tips, and sure theyre probably good skis. But they only started making em when freeskiing got big, theyre in it moslty for the money. And since theres such a huge difference between freeskiing and ski racing. It doenst really make sense that a company that has been a race company forever make twin tips. Thats like saying ur a redsox fan, but u sell yankees shirts for a living
Dec 5 2004 5:53PM
0 0
profile picture
Blunttip360
Posts: 994 - Karma: 105
THall rocks Grenade Mits
Jan 24 2005 8:28PM
0 0
profile picture
*ELLA*
Posts: 1628 - Karma: 11
You ever stop to think that all of us aren't rich enough to buy all this independent shit. Props if you can but i rock out my dyna trubs that i got on sale. My cheap burton pants that i got at the sale. thinkin about buyin some nice down grandoe gloves. For real if the independent companies would lower their prices and make them easier to buy i probably would buy them but around there there isnt a single shop that carries 4FRNT and hardly any carry DNA or hellyhansen or shit like that. maybe if there were more shops, i'd buy. for now i go cheap and easy
~Ella





Question authority and live for yourself



Ella and Lauren: changing teenaged boys lives since 2001.
Jan 24 2005 8:34PM
0 0
profile picture
jizack
Posts: 2486 - Karma: 16
what do you mean you cannot afford it? did you not see the msrp price list at the top of the page? you are paying almost exactly the same amount for armada 4frnt etc as you are from head salomon etc.






“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing...'Maynard James Keenan
Jan 24 2005 8:53PM
0 0
profile picture
40calGlockSkier
Posts: 176 - Karma: 9
UTmeathead, your ID is a perfect description of your actual industry facts knowledge.

K2 does have alot of companies under is umbrella, but all that finacial success equals better equipment for all of us. Have you seen the K2 graphite skipoles? They took the technology from another company K2 aquired, Shakespeare fishing rods, and have built THE best pole on the market.
Your Fugitive comment is probably as unfounded as any, that ski is incredible at what its designed to do for the price, untouchable.

Go buy a snowboard and sell out like most everyone else.

Hesitation = Devastation

'You know there are a buttload of gangs at this school. This one gang kept asking me to join 'cause I'm pretty good with a bowstaff.'
Jan 24 2005 8:56PM
0 0
profile picture
t-roy
Posts: 4041 - Karma: 52
dfresh, you are immature and uninformed...or soemthing

i do agree that those brands make sweet stuff. but you can't just compeltely dis the major companies. that is a classic newschooler-esque opinion
-------
Make money while sitting on newschoolers!!
http://www.surveysavvy.com/?id=1645797

Jan 24 2005 10:29PM
0 0
profile picture
ski-line900
Posts: 338 - Karma: 11
^^^YA i agree with the guy above me









Dont be like everyone else...be origional
Jan 24 2005 10:39PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)