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Most Ridiculous Thing You've Convinced A Gaper

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bedin
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Ever told that gaper on the lift with you about the time you threw a triple, the 100 footer your local hill is planning to build, or about how your uncle is Tom Wallisch?

I want to hear the most ridiculous thing you have ever convinced a gaper.

Mine would have to be probably a fairly classic one of convincing the gaper someone is way better than they are. We were able to convince a gaper on the lift with us that a friend in our crew,that can't even hit a rail, doesn't do anything because he blew his knee nearly doing a quad. The backstory was that we took him out into the backcountry, built a giant jump, where he would learn triples. Since he wanted a challenge he deiced to do it unnatural, only to over rotate and nearly quad.
Jan 26 2016 8:29PM
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TheKasTeam
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I was 17 (in 2010) and needed chew pouches for when I was going to Keystone. I was a foreign exchange student in Colorado for Highschool. I told the guy at a gass station near Key, that I was PK Hunder and the guy fell for it big time. I even gave him an autograph.
For the record I don't look anything like PK, lol
Jan 28 2016 3:53AM
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Rice
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radsauceEnded up convincing him my friend and I were really close to stomping a new trick called the Hula Hoop. It's where he does a straight air and I do a 360 around him in the air so it looks like a Hula Hoop.


... the kid kept following us around to try to watch us do it...




hahahaha, that's probably the funniest thing i've read today
Jan 28 2016 4:05AM
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RicDeLorenzi
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We were on the single line and while waiting a single spot a dude asked us why we always took that line... A friend of mine told him it was a private line and we were a sort of VIP
Jan 28 2016 9:27AM
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steeze_louise
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told some kid after 70 years, deers go through puberty and turn into moose
Jan 28 2016 10:36AM
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JohnBolea
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A few weeks ago I convinced a kid on the lift that once I went so fast that I broke the sonic boom
Jan 28 2016 1:36PM
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Aparker
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I convinced a group of gapers that I went to the x games but I broke my ski doing a triple cork in practice so i couldnt compete
Jan 28 2016 4:53PM
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FarginBastage
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Keeping powder straps on and letting them flag behind you at all times is a great way to increase air drag and check your speed if you're feeling a little ballsy
Jan 28 2016 8:27PM
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Thegratefulskier
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I told a couple of kids at my mountain that I'm sponsored by saga and that I could triple and they wanted to see it so I told them I hurt my knee while I was training for dew tour
Jan 29 2016 7:36AM
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Z4C-B
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Convinced every other lift ride at Brighton that Brad Pitt lived in the cabin under crest.
Jan 30 2016 11:02AM
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Jbresch
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radsauceFirst question from the kid on the lift, "Do you ski park???"
Second question, "What tricks can you do???"

Gave progressively ridiculous answers -- by the end I was legitimately trying to come up with something so ridiculous he wouldn't buy it. Never worked.

Ended up convincing him my friend and I were really close to stomping a new trick called the Hula Hoop. It's where he does a straight air and I do a 360 around him in the air so it looks like a Hula Hoop.


... the kid kept following us around to try to watch us do it...


Now we need to see someone stomp this...
Jan 30 2016 2:27PM
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winniecash
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radsauceEnded up convincing him my friend and I were really close to stomping a new trick called the Hula Hoop. It's where he does a straight air and I do a 360 around him in the air so it looks like a Hula Hoop.

I think we should get the travling circus to try the hula hoop
Jan 30 2016 9:21PM
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Connor_Sullivan
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pops.I think we should get the travling circus to try the hula hoop


I mean TC definitely innovative, but not breaking physics innovative
Jan 30 2016 9:39PM
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THEE_wizard
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Connor_SullivanI mean TC definitely innovative, but not breaking physics innovative


It may not be possible...
Jan 30 2016 9:49PM
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Daph
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So Big Sky is right next to the yellowstone club which is the super private ski hill for multi millionaires, you can see quite a few of the giant houses from our terrain and it's super fun to just point at the houses and rattle off random famous people that live there. "Oh that big one on the ridge right there? Oprah's. The one next to it? Leo's."

I do know which ones belong to Bill Gates and Justin Timberlake though so it gives me some credibility in case I'm talking to someone who knows their shit more than I initially expected.
Jan 30 2016 10:41PM
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Willows
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THEE_wizardIt may not be possible...


But it is definitely rossible!
Jan 31 2016 2:34AM
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S.J.W
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My friend and I always do this thing where either of us rolls up to the park and wait there for a lil while then like 5 minutes my friend will roll through then scream my name so the gapers in the park will here and then ask for a photo. Then we see how many other gapers ask for a photo. Current record is standing at 4 and one autograph :)
Jan 31 2016 6:20AM
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User1
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Connor_SullivanI mean TC definitely innovative, but not breaking physics innovative


real skifi will do it
Feb 12 2016 11:35AM
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