China the new Vail of ski resorts

[Toadman]

800 new ski resorts being built. No wonder K2 moved production to China. They are true visionairies!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20..._135801257.htm

[tetzen]

What do they mean by a ski resort actually? Is this something lost in translation? They're only looking at 600 skating rinks, but 800 resorts??

[Benny Profane]

Trump is right, sometimes. Fucking China. In fifty years there's going to be all of this shit they built just rusting and being grown over.

[m2711c]

seems like they're still building in the "buliding lots 'o shit" stage, benny...



fact.

[Core Shot]

^^^^ everyone thinks the Chinese are smart
I don’t get that. On some level indoor skiing is cool to get people into the sport. Or just get midsommar fix.

But a gondola indoors?
Although The train seems cool.

But then the talking head said it offers unlimited economic development? wtf china

Indoor skiing causes global warming. Then again we may all be skiing indoors someday.
They are drowned
Or maybe we all are drowned.

[waxman]

Looks to me like snowboarding is still cool in China.

[Shredhead]

China only cares about winning medals. Most of their resorts are little Buck Hill type of training facilities. Being able to train recruits,
24/7/365 will be a big advantage.

[Jumper Bones]

^^^^ everyone thinks the Chinese are smart
I don’t get that. On some level indoor skiing is cool to get people into the sport. Or just get midsommar fix.

But a gondola indoors?
Although The train seems cool.

But then the talking head said it offers unlimited economic development? wtf china

Indoor skiing causes global warming. Then again we may all be skiing indoors someday.
They are drowned
Or maybe we all are drowned.

Bukkake is drown.

Shinjuku, motherfucker

[old goat]

seems like they're still building in the "buliding lots 'o shit" stage, benny...



fact.

Why the fuck can't we have something like that. China is kicking our ass but maybe you know who will do for skiing in the US what he did for golf.

[XXX-er]

i talked to a guy who ski resort development ( he was a crook actualy) over there and he said they would do it different and his example was a swimming pool with no change rooms

[waxman]

China only cares about winning medals. Most of their resorts are little Buck Hill type of training facilities. Being able to train recruits,
24/7/365 will be a big advantage.

I'm trying to remember if it was Salt Lake Olympics when China started to pay attention to skiing, their original plan was to take older/retiring gymnasts and have them huck their meat in aerials. They hired an acquaintance from the Canuck national team for way too much money to train them. IIRC he lasted a month because at the time he said there was no way he could accomplish what they wanted in the time allotted without killing most of the athletes.

[mcski]

China only cares about winning medals. Most of their resorts are little Buck Hill type of training facilities. Being able to train recruits,
24/7/365 will be a big advantage.

Well too be fair, Ingemar Stenmark grew up skiing a little 300M bump