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05-02-2021, 12:46 PM #26Registered User
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I just chose the screen name Flounder. It’s what you’ll see if you drag me into the woods or moguls. I can rip the shit out of a blue square though, well as long as it’s groomed.
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05-02-2021, 01:30 PM #27
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05-02-2021, 02:43 PM #28
This is simple. If a person describes their skiing by greens, blues, and blacks that tells me all I need to know.
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05-02-2021, 02:59 PM #29
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05-02-2021, 07:06 PM #30
What's the best way to tell others you suck?
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05-02-2021, 08:47 PM #31
Tell 'em you put your boots on when they're already clicked in to your bindings.
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05-03-2021, 06:53 AM #32
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05-03-2021, 07:30 AM #33
Jeans.
Go skiing in them.
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05-03-2021, 07:36 AM #34
My mom says that I'm a Level 7...
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05-03-2021, 09:38 AM #35Registered User
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"I rent my boots, but have my own skis".
"I dont have powder skis, my all-mountain skis are plenty wide"
"My car has RWD"
"i can ski blacks"
"You ever skied Killington?"
And, my personal favorite is attaching your day lift ticket to your main jacket zipper so it sits just below your chin and macerates your face flapping in the wind on the way down. No words need be spoken.
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05-03-2021, 09:52 AM #36
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05-03-2021, 10:32 AM #37
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05-03-2021, 10:48 AM #38
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05-03-2021, 11:01 AM #39
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05-03-2021, 11:08 AM #40
"Hi, my name is Benny, I'm a local."
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"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
Ottime
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05-03-2021, 11:16 AM #41
Telemark?
“I need a reason to suck”
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05-03-2021, 12:30 PM #42Registered User
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I suppose I should have anticipated that the clickbait, self-deprecating title would distract from the question I asked in the post body.
As some of you have highlighted, there's a ton of room for differences in ski ability above "I can ski double blacks." Is there a good way to communicate this?
TGapp, the idea of communicating past lines and future objective lines is a good one for finding partners. But I'm more struggling with how to ask if I would be up to using a particular ski or binding based on my ski ability, for example (if responding to one of the ski threads in tech talk) "Your post says that 'the BC Corvus tails also hook up at times when I don't want them to.' Personally, I'd say that I'm a [BLANK] skier. I saw a cheap pair locally. Do you think I could make them behave?"
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05-03-2021, 12:35 PM #43Registered User
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05-03-2021, 12:43 PM #44
I just tell people my skis seem to be edge high and probably need a grind, otherwise I'd rip the shit out of that line.
If shopping for skis just ask how they ride out of the box without a grind. If you get a concerned look take a pass.
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05-03-2021, 12:50 PM #45
"I can handle most blue runs."
Actually I think it's a valid question. Some people think they're really killing it by skiing a "black run," while plenty of others would laugh their asses off that this is some kind of indicator of skiing ability.
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05-03-2021, 12:57 PM #46Registered User
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Its not always about how good a skier you are, a lot of times its about how well a skis characteristics fit your preferred skiing style. Just describe the terrain and snow you have the most fun on currently.
"i like making big fast carves on blue groomers"
"I like steep black groomers, but cut up snow or moguls give me trouble"
"i can ski pretty much everything everywhere fast and fluid and gets cheers from the chairlift daily"
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05-03-2021, 01:14 PM #47
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05-03-2021, 01:15 PM #48
Even if you were able to perfectly communicate your ability level, you're asking someone with unknown experience/skill/knowledge and a bias to sell to assess your ability and tell you if a particular ski works for you, your ability, body type, skiing style, conditions, terrain choices, etc. Not an extremely useful data point imo.
I say just buy the skis and give them a shot, if they don't work for you play around with tune and mount, and if they still don't work sell and move on. It's all part of the fun.
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05-03-2021, 01:19 PM #49
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05-03-2021, 02:53 PM #50
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