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10-17-2017, 08:39 AM #26
Nerd Alert
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10-17-2017, 08:48 AM #27
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10-17-2017, 08:55 AM #28
Those who can't ski, obsess over technique.
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10-17-2017, 08:55 AM #29
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10-17-2017, 09:03 AM #30
The trailer sucked, IMO. Hope the film is fun and not preachy.
Though sometimes I feel like preeechin to the skidders.
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10-17-2017, 09:03 AM #31
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10-17-2017, 09:13 AM #32
^^^Ha!
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10-17-2017, 09:55 AM #33
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10-17-2017, 10:16 AM #34
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10-17-2017, 10:16 AM #35
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10-17-2017, 10:31 AM #36
I'm over 40 and skied 'straight' (they weren't truly straight but, I get your drift) skis for....25 years(?). I learned to carve on straight skis. What the shaped skis did was make skiing/carving a whole lot easier. They extended a skier's active ski life by many years. They also opened up the trees and other non-designated/un-groomed runs/areas to a whole bunch more people, which I hated. We used to have storm snow last for two or three days. After snowboards, then shaped/fat skis hit the market, the un-tracked was gone in two or three runs. In many ways, fat skis kind of ruined skiing but in many ways, they allowed the industry to evolve and grow whereas before, it was dying.
But yeah, anyone who learned to ski after the new shape came along really has no excuse for not using their edges but I don't necessarily give us over 40 a pass, either, since it's so much easier to tip the ski to the edges.
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10-17-2017, 03:37 PM #37
Episode 1:
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formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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10-17-2017, 06:37 PM #38Rod9301
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I have to say that I wasn't too impressed with his Mogul skiing assuming he was the guy with a mustache ( I watched the video with the sound off).
Most of the other skiing were skiing much more centered in bumps.
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10-17-2017, 06:58 PM #39
it's true, nobody ever wants to ski moguls.
The struggle is real.
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10-17-2017, 07:43 PM #40Registered User
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In my experience, my crowd, over 40 old fucks, skiing straight skis helped a ton. We actually had to learn how to bend a ski and make them carve, the carve wasn't built in like a crutch. I loved mobbing around in 210+skis making hudge arcs down the entire mountain. Along came skis with side cut, "shaped skis" and I thought they were for pussys who couldn't ski as did the crew I rolled with. Hopped on some and was, pfft, to fucking easy, chick skis. Then they were all you could buy, so I hopped on the bandwagon. Then came the "fat ski". That's when shit changed. As Goldmember pointed out, for better and worse. I fucking LOVED it. Sure the pow got chewed a little faster, not much though as only the core dudes were riding them. I freaking love to set an edge and get some G's. The smear kids today make me laugh. Can't Karve to save their life. Now everyone can "ski" pow. Which is cool and shitty at the same time.
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10-17-2017, 07:48 PM #41
^^One thing that strikes me about the schmear turners versus someone who can ski a ski the way it's designed is what the schmear turners are missing by not loading up a ski. I have always loved loading a ski then experiencing the rebound into the next turn. That level of action isn't possible unless you can really carve the ski and reverse camber it. When you get that acceleration when transitioning a turn, there's not much else that compares for fun on snow.
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10-17-2017, 08:00 PM #42
It's all part of le glisse.
Even snowboards.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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10-17-2017, 08:16 PM #43Registered User
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^^Agreed GM!
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10-17-2017, 08:37 PM #44
I'm a schmear turner and a gear burner
I started in bumps and ruts.
I'm a long boarder and a gear horder
I just go plain old skiing nuts
I'm a daffy thrower and a deep pow knower
And I spent some time in huts
I'm a turn carver and a snow starver
End up asking more whys than whats.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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10-17-2017, 08:39 PM #45
^^ I imagine that to Steve Miller's I'm a Joker... Good call!
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10-18-2017, 02:15 AM #46
“I can’t give anyone a good reason to ski bumps.”
Truer words have never been spoke. I’m actually surprised that Mosley still has the knees for it after all these years.
In all honesty, trying to make things like skiing bumped out chutes the cool thing to do will be much better for the sport long term than selling ever more unattainable epic ski porn movies.
There was that video a couple years back of Pep and Sage shredding Alta that had that same vibe. Just going to the Hill with friends and making the best of it.
https://youtu.be/_Kd8U5r_F7c
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10-18-2017, 06:30 AM #47yepper
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10-18-2017, 09:00 AM #48Registered User
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Consider me shocked that members of the US mogul team and a former gold medalist mogul skier are better bump skiers than Marcus Caston, a dude with a racing background. It also appears that most are on bump skis and I don't think Caston is. I was stoked that he gave a nod to mogul skiing and I think it foreshadows how the series will play out with Marcus skiing with other shredders in their ski turning niche.
I agree. Showing how much fun can be had just riding lifts and ripping around the resort is a nice change of pace from heli ski porn all the time, especially without making a jib segment. I actually like that it wasn't centered too much around spoofin' the 80s and partyin', seem actually more in line with current ski culture.
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10-18-2017, 09:17 AM #49Registered User
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Caston is on some longish Blizzard Bonafide (not sure how tall he is to be able to judge length) -- compared to full-on bump skis on the US Mogul Team fellows. They are also taking entirely different tactical approaches to the bumps -- bumpers have classic bump technique, Marcus has rage-and-play with impressive technical background technique. Personally I find the former quite dull to watch, the latter quite exciting.
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10-18-2017, 09:31 AM #50Banned
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