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  1. #101
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    You are the first Rax poet, dumpy !
    A Rax philosopher named Gandhi appeared on TGR in Jan 2008.
    Please send me PM proposing where/when should we come to VT between Mar14 and Mar23.

    Wow someone missed joke
    Completely over head
    not sure when/where
    maybe make special trip
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    It is like Days of Our Lives', but with retards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel View Post
    ...
    Would love to see someone in Dodges this spring doing the straight line thing at 1:20 in first video....


    Riding in the fall line is cool,
    see you in VT

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    We had fins on our snowboards in 1986. Thought they'd help us hold an edge on the piste since we didn't have any kind of real bindings / highbacks. Basically just created lots of drag and didn't help at all.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post

    But in the meantime we could ship a free pair to CO
    if there is a dense Maggot population there.
    If you are coming out west to demo, you absolutely must put Ski Brokeback on your list of stops. I can't believe I'm the first to mention that after more than 100 posts in this thread.

    I'm sure these would rule on Brokeback's slopes - especially trails like Glory Hole, Ramrod or anything off the Uranus lift.

    Good luck with that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LivinCO View Post
    ...

    Actually, cutting a snow board in half sounds like more fun.
    You are right,
    a kind of "split board a la Rax" with downhill bindings
    and streamlined fins.
    Wooden core with horizontal layers, extremely elastic.
    Endless 50 degrees slope covered with 10cm soft firn
    (corn snow).
    Surfing (or rather flying) down as fast as the air pressure on your goggles allows.
    That is FUN!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Jürgen View Post
    Pretty sure the best champaign powder is in central Illinois.
    No, in Washington, DC as we could see yesterday !
    Is Mr.President a skier ?

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    "we don't have arguements with these people"

    just posting in this amazing thread

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    I know I guy in cham who likes straight-lining narrow couloirs at Flegere on 196 cm skis. Skiers must dive for cover when he rockets out on the piste at mach 2!

    Tom has mentioned special ability of the RAX skis for straight-lining iced up 55º couloirs 1m wide over cliffs.

    Could you post us some video demonstrating this how this works?

  8. #108
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    I will be in the Magic Mountain area of VT from the 13th to the 15th with a bunch of mags. Any chance I could hop on some RAX? Super stoked to try out what some are saying is the next generation of skiing. YES WE CAN!

    TR is sure to follow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    What a hell is PROPER form??
    And judging from your videos the people willing to let themselves be filmed for you don't understand it either...

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    I wish I could face your 183 Gotamas in front of me
    in some steep and narrow chute.
    Heavily jump-turning....
    I wish I could face you at the top of a 35 degree slope covered in thigh deep blower with a flat runout at the bottom.
    ...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...

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  10. #110
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    These skis are

    short
    gimmicky
    resemble ski blades

    I can't think of a worse place for the thread starter to post this than TGR

  11. #111
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    Hey Tom, why don't you call them what they are. They aren't skis. They are snowblades with brakes. Yeah, no doubt... any one can straight line a narrow chute leaning back away from the fall line, digging the anchors...errr...I mean "fins" into the snow pack. Straight lining with the brakes on at a whopping 20 km's per hour must be a real rush.

    The Brits might like them though, the snow blades seem to be a real hit with them around here, not that there's anything "wrong" with that per say.

    Let's break it down a bit further. Snow blades are basically a shortened version of a childs beginner ski for adults that can't ski worth shit and want to save face (if possible), so they just renamed the childs ski to "snowblade" and since they can turn them they think they are the bomb. That's my version of the facts and I'm sticking to it.... Congrats on the "improvement".

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    Tom

    Your shit is wacked!
    Last edited by reganized; 03-26-2009 at 09:46 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reganized View Post
    Tom

    Your shit is fucked! Go back to Euroland you douche!


    THanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jumpturn View Post
    I know I guy in cham who likes straight-lining narrow couloirs at Flegere on 196 cm skis.
    ...
    Could you post us some video demonstrating ...straight-lining iced up 55º couloirs 1m wide...
    Is he still alive ?

    Straight-lining on Rax skis is much like riding down
    steep couloirs on Firngleiter
    but you are getting immense support from fins and the swallow tail. It's your business how you use them, they are here!
    Jumpturn, we failed to ski together last year
    as there was a storm at Mt.Cannon.
    I hope - no: I pray - to meet you at your home or somewhere in NH or VT from Mar 13 to Mar 23.
    That`s much better than any video.



    Greetings from my home Raxalpe Oct 2008
    Last edited by Tom from Austria; 03-04-2009 at 03:52 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    Is he still alive ?

    Straight-lining on Rax skis is much like riding down
    steep couloirs on Firngleiter
    but you are getting immense support from fins and the swallow tail. It's your business how you use them, they are here!
    Jumpturn, we failed to ski together last year
    as there was a storm at Mt.Cannon.
    I hope - no: I pray - to meet you at your home or somewhere in NH or VT from Mar 13 to Mar 23.
    That`s much better than any video.



    Greetings from my home Raxalpe Oct 2008
    Where's the skier?
    Oh I forgot, he's probably a bloody pulp 200 feet below after double ejecting trying to shred the gnar.....screaming "the fins, they do nothing!" in Rainier Wolfcastle voice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    I wish I could face your 183 Gotamas in front of me
    in some steep and narrow chute.
    Heavily jump-turning....
    ummm....okay. turning this one into a lil....lil cybersex thing are ya? gonna...gonna type one-handed for a while? yeah? setting the.....the scene? just....gettin sexy in a steep and narrow chute with his Gotamas there? (nod to Stewie)

    honestly though, this thread is fantastic. Tom has some real gems in here! The ski it's self is embarrassing if it's real. The turns looks so swishy it looks like you have to be gay to use them effectively.

    gems:

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    This is the physics pure speaking to us.

    Is a boat rim not enough?

    All possible horror scenarios were foreseen
    I broke my leg last week so someone has to demo these things in NH for the good of the world.

    Thank you Tom from Austria. You are a hero.
    thats new hampshire as fuck


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    Hey Tom,
    nice to see you are still around!

    Viel Spaß in Übersee!
    Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    Is he still alive ?
    Sure, no problem. They're short couloirs and he's a specialist. I don't think he has mowed down many tourists on the piste so far!

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    Straight-lining on Rax skis is much like riding down
    steep couloirs on Firngleiter
    but you are getting immense support from fins and the swallow tail.
    Maybe you can talk VT team huckalot into a media frenzy on Mont Washington's Diagonal Gully, which would perfectly match the requirements for insane straight lining if it weren't so wide! It's a nice 5 km skin up there and there are some 40m double tap hucking options at the exit, where the LAX ski will surely excel.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    I pray - to meet you at your home or somewhere in NH or VT from Mar 13 to Mar 23.
    Not quite to ski god status ... perhaps on a deep pow day!

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    I have a question Tom. How do the rax perform skinning? Say mounted with Freeride+.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel View Post
    How do the rax perform skinning? Say mounted with Freeride+.
    Free the heel! Go tele on the LAX!!

    And, I bet they'll self-arrest with style....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jumpturn View Post

    Maybe you can talk VT team huckalot into a media frenzy on Mont (mont? euro nerd) Washington's Diagonal Gully, which would perfectly match the requirements for insane straight lining if it weren't so wide!

    I'll do it as long as Sam goes first! We probably want to wait for some icy conditions so we can see just what the tail fins can do.

    Tom do you plan on having any blem sales? I need a ski for a certain day in mid april, yours would be just perfect. Something in a neon color to match my outfit would be great!

    I'm also interested in just the metal fins. I have been having some tail grip issues with my 200cm Igneous FFF's and I think adding the fin to the back could really help.

    Thanks!
    Last edited by allenataylor; 03-04-2009 at 08:07 AM.
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    hehe - i believe i saw you last saturday, tom. no-one was ploughing the slush faster and with more grace than you did

    have to admit that i chickend out giving your doomsday-device a try. but one day i will, promise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scotia902 View Post
    Where's the skier?
    ... he's probably a bloody pulp 200 feet below ...

    No, he is just taking this photo. See the shadow in the left lower corner.

    Like such skiing ? Melting snow in all depths. 50 to 60 degrees on the left side of the pic. No skidding on edge possible. Jump turns hit the rock bottom.
    Exit to hell at the lower rim.
    That's fat Rax ski paradise.
    Last edited by Tom from Austria; 03-04-2009 at 10:50 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom from Austria View Post
    That's fat Rax ski paradise.
    "Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is" -Charles DeMar
    Never argue with an idiot..They always drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

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    Are those fins sharp enuff to cut BACON?
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