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OFEDYour downvotes just proves the point here, congrats on being the only one able to post an unpopular opinion besides OP.
M.cIve been hidding this one cause selfprotection but whatever..
Cant fucking undertand why the obsession with rails (like all of them). Id rather see a full jumps clips that fucking garbage full rail one doing 2 ins ,switchups and shit. Im getting banned from NS for this....
Jesse_I don't like daffy butters or @Tophaloaf simply because the trick is ridiculously easy (learnt it in about 10 mins) and I find the hype surounding it as a godly trick kinda annoying.
Might just be me but I don't get how he has such a big following for spamming easy as shit tricks like daffy butters or jumping over box and people will call it insane or "revolutionary"
Chubz.This website has turned into complete dildos in the last 2 years
Andbrerkinda agree, I can watch the rail sections and be like, yeah that's pretty hard and appreciate the skill. But it never appeals to me in the same way as seeing someone throw a jump. Even if it's just a tweaked zero spin, still way better than someone sliding rails
john18061806@skicompanies stop claiming your skis are tougher or more durable or god forbid "bombproof" because they're not.
I thought my ON3P Magnuses would be durable because they're built pretty beefy. I've been on them for maybe 15 days, got 9 edge cracks and the sidewall is opening up. straight up the least durable ski I've owned so far. Kind of pissed that I blew $550 on a pair of skis that might get me to January if I'm lucky.
Or maybe I should just quit skiing rails and stick to groomers.
Chubz.I put probably 90 days on my kartels when I had them and pretty much learned how to slide rails on them and didn’t get a single edge crack.
BASEDJAHsome people are harder on skis than others and that matters a lot more than durability
Chubz.I put probably 90 days on my kartels when I had them and pretty much learned how to slide rails on them and didn’t get a single edge crack.
john18061806Either you're extremely lucky or you don't hit rails the same way most people do. I think a lot of my cracks were from mount hood. The rails get hot there from the sun beating down and their challenge rails are long as hell. Edge cracks happen from the edges heating up from friction on the rail and then hitting the cold snow immediately.
I really wish all ski companies weren't lazy chumps that think steel is good enough for edges (because it's not). Ski ompanies need to get off their lazy ass and hire a materials science guy on their R&D team to figure out a something for edges that isn't so sensitive to rapid changes in temperature.
Adam_Loebskis less than 100mm underfoot don't count as skis
cool_nameI'm sure they could make them, just not for a price any skier would be willing to pay
john18061806Skis that break make more money anyways
cool_nameNot really, will you buy on3p's again? Will you tell your friends to buy them?
john18061806It doesn't matter what I think because most of newschoolers jizzes over anything ON3P
cool_nameIt does when you claim they make more money because of people breaking their skis
D.B.-The term "Big Mountain." Just because you ski a 16'000ft Mountain in Colorado doesn't mean you're a "Big Mountain Skier."
-Free Touring and Ski Touring are the exact same.
-Ian McIntosh.
D.B.-The term "Big Mountain." Just because you ski a 16'000ft Mountain in Colorado doesn't mean you're a "Big Mountain Skier."
D.B.-Ian McIntosh.
SofaKingSick""Big mountain"" gate keeping is consistently the most pretentious shit in a sport filled with pretentious nonsense. to hear some people tell it, no big mtn skiing truly exists anywhere by anyone...maybe it's just a myth!
also there are no 16ers in colorado ya goofball
john18061806Skis that break make more money anyways
cool_nameNot really, will you buy on3p's again? Will you tell your friends to buy them?
TheBagOTricksWhen people throw a 4 out (or similar) and purposefully land at 3 and then revert the rest, it looks like shit and not stylish. Get all the way around.
TheBagOTricksWhen people throw a 4 out (or similar) and purposefully land at 3 and then revert the rest,
a_burgernot gonna change if everyones making skis with essentially the same construction still
after all armada has been sitting on that patent for replaceable edges for what, more then a decade now?
.lenconI think you're missing the point.
Most people who buy a ski for $600 and break it within a year will not buy it again. However, if they pay $300 for a ski and break it within a year, they will buy that ski again.
If you take care of your gear and ski hard you can make it last long. Just wax those bases, detune those edges, and fix shit as soon as it pops up.
But as stupid as this sounds, I like it when my gear falls apart. I loved my Kartels and were stoked how great of shape they stayed in. But its kinda nice when a ski falls apart in a few years then you have a real good justification to get new skis:)
cool_nameThat is exactly my point, he is saying ON3P makes more money from their skis breaking, which is stupid, as people who break their $600 skis won't buy from them again.
.lenconYes, but he's talking about companies that sell skis for cheaper.
if you break a ski in 75 days that costs $300 you are more likely to buy that ski again as opposed to a different ski breaking in 75 days that costs $600
