Thread: If it hadn't been for snowboards, skis would still look like THIS:

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And if it hadn't been for snowboarders, skiers would still look like THIS:







Oh, I forgot....here is another reason why snowboarders are cool: I like their snowboards.







None of this applies, of course, to those who skin the BC. They always bin cool.


Although THIS, I'm pretty surprised at....as she appears to be RIPPIN'....back in wide-ring basket days when everyone else was still doing stem-christies. Good on her!!! Coolness exists in all decades.




Who IS she?? I've become enamored. Famous ski racer from the sixties, no doubt....on her off time. Ski form like that BACK THEN??? She ain't no house-wife.

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Originally Posted by Alaskan Rover

And if it hadn't been for snowboarders, skiers would still look like THIS:

Nice try.













And Mcconkey says "you're welcome"

Sooo... If snowboarding had never been invented 30 some odd yrs ago, skiing would've been frozen in time?
Mmkay...

if it hadn't been for snowboarding there wouldn't be as many jongs on the slopes to fuck with.

so therefore, because of snowboarders, skiers look like this:

Originally Posted by kidwoo

Nice try.

Is that gary busey? I didn't know he could shred like that?

yeah, but we would also still be doing daffy's and spread eagles...so basically we would be so much radder than we are now

Originally Posted by toast2266

so therefore, because of snowboarders, skiers look like this:

EXACTLY !! Ain't that better?

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Originally Posted by kidwoo

Nice try.

And Mcconkey says "you're welcome"

^^^ Yup...What he said ^^^

Sheeeshhhh.....No one's even re-pasted those nude hot chicks on the chairlift, yet???? Are you guys ASLEEP???

Anybody figure out who that hot female skier/racer from the sixties is yet?


EDIT: I'm more talking about twin-tips and wide twin tips nearly like twin snowboards, rather than the development of reverse sidecut and rockered skis, anyway.

But one thing for sure, the graphics on skis nowadays is almost a DIRECT transfer from the snowboard industry.....although I'm not really sure that's a good thing.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, and if it hadn't been for



skis AND snowboards would look like they did 10 years ago.

Thank you snow boarders for making skis like this:



WE OWE YOU BIG TIME!!!

Andrea Mead Lawrence (April 19, 1932 – March 30, 2009).

I prefer this one.

Originally Posted by Alaskan Rover

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Who IS she?? I've become enamored. Famous ski racer from the sixties, no doubt....on her off time. Ski form like that BACK THEN??? She ain't no house-wife.

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Try 50's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Mead_Lawrence

Originally Posted by toast2266

so therefore, because of snowboarders, skiers look like this:

jesus christ

Originally Posted by Alaskan Rover

Who IS she?? I've become enamored. Famous ski racer from the sixties, no doubt....on her off time. Ski form like that BACK THEN??? She ain't no house-wife.
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Pretty sure it's Julia Mancuso's Grandmother.

Oddly enough, one of my favorite and still one of my 'go to' boards (a big black K2 Fatbob 162) has lost so muchof its camber that it's strting to feel like a reverse camber board. The older and flatter it gets, the more it seems to RIP !!!! Most unusual. Last season actually seemed its BEST. I'll be sad when it ever gives out for good. It's being prepped for another season as we speak.


So maybe there is something to McConkey's reverse camber idea. Too bad he's not around to fine-tune it even more. RIP McConkey! The guy DID know how to rip.

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if it hadn't been for snoboards, mt. baker wouldn't be so crowded and alpy wouldn't get so pissed off
when they walk in the skintrack.
let em stomp their own trail.
bobby

If it wasn't for snowboards we wouldn't have to deal with shitty snowboarders.

ya.. um...wait....what did you say...................

Thank you Duke of Hurl and Shredhead for the information
on Andrea Mead Lawrence.

Made the US Ski Team at age 14 and competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics at age 15.

I knew she was no house-wife.....not with form like THAT !!

And as Duke of Hurl's photo point's out...an early shredder to be sure !!!



OF COURSE I started this thread in jest !! Both skiers and snowboarders share a crazy passion for freezing their nads off on a chair for the sake of being able to slide back down the mountain at speed....meaning BOTH are equally nuts, and being nuts myself, I'm totally down with that!

I was a skier long before I was a snowboarder, and still ski now, albeit with scarpas and skins.

I told myself, I'd never go back to skiing with regular downhill equipment....but one is allowed to change one's mind, as I'd love to try out those new "ultra" shaped skis like the pair that girl has above.....and try some twin tips as well. Boots haven't changed for shit....and I'd just dust off my old Lange X9's.

Snow is too sweet to be a bitchin' n a moanin' 'bout one's choice of onhill slidin'.

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Originally Posted by miahw2828

yeah, but we would also still be doing daffy's and spread eagles...so basically we would be so much radder than we are now

Um, no.. not even close...

McConkey took reverse camber directly from some of the 25yr old fully rockered snowboards.
It wasn't his idea.

I'm just surprised I haven't seen any concave skis yet.

Originally Posted by Maximus Farcisimus

I'm just surprised I haven't seen any concave skis yet.

http://www.garywayneskis.com/garyway....com/HOME.html

Let's keep focused on what's important here. ladies and gentlemen of the jury....

Originally Posted by Alaskan Rover

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