What makes YOU an Expert?

**schindlerpiste** · 12-02-2005, 01:36 PM

It seems that everyone is an "expert" skier. Why? Is iy your ability? Is it your balls? Is it your form? Is it the length of time that you've been skiing? Do you have to huck off of 10' cliffs? Bomb double blacks? Why is everyone a "legend" in his/her own mind, yet we see so many on the mountain who appear just average?

I bet the answers here would differ from the PSIA guys over at Gapic!

**adam** · 12-02-2005, 01:40 PM

I'm so rad because . . .

Oh, wait, I'm not rad.

**freshies** · 12-02-2005, 01:41 PM

hell, i consider myself "average" (even though i have been skiing for many yrs), based on those around me @Alpine/Squaw and in AK I have skied with....who cares. i just ski, damnit!

**Buster Highmen** · 12-02-2005, 01:41 PM

It's my olfactory supremacy, my glandular nougats, my savoir fair, arched eyebrows and disheveled aplomb. I reign from on high with my Certificate of DuctTapology from the RedGreen Instit00t. I awe the masses with smoothings of fractal creamcheese. It's my bromodrosis, my mange and my dental decay.

**bcrider** · 12-02-2005, 01:41 PM

why as why, just except the truth...everyone is an expert on the internet.

**lemon boy** · 12-02-2005, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by bcrider

why as why, just except the truth

a question wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a malapropism

If you can go ski your resort's expert (double BLACK DIAMOND) confidently then you are an expert.

**Particle** · 12-02-2005, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by bcrider

why as why, just except the truth...everyone is an expert on the internet.

Until it comes to spelling the English language...

edit: DOH LB beat me to it, with a better retort

**bad_roo** · 12-02-2005, 01:45 PM

I have a certificate to prove it.

**Art Shirk** · 12-02-2005, 01:45 PM

As far as I am concerned, it may be a little bit of all of that BUT, I think the most telling thing is technique and form. Cruising around the mountain, I am sure that I see a fair amount of people who are willing to huck to a certain extent but rarely am I impressed by the way someone fluidly moves down the mountain. The skiers who make skiing look as easy as walking down the street are the true skiers. My buddy grew up in Maine and went to a notable ski academy, raced for years and skied everyday on all conditions, and his style and form is nearly unparalled (as far as I have noticed). I may have bigger balls, but he can handle all conditions with GRACE. Just my .02 cents.

**DJSapp** · 12-02-2005, 01:46 PM

I'm an expert because I bought a sweatshirt proclaiming that I skiied a double black diamond run.

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**Tap** · 12-02-2005, 01:46 PM

i have "expert" stamped on the underside of my ballsack and if you'd like, you can have a fucking close-up

**Tri-Ungulate** · 12-02-2005, 01:47 PM

I pose... errr post my X-7R3M3 R@DN355 over the Internets.

**Steven S. Dallas** · 12-02-2005, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by schindlerpiste

Is it your balls? Is it your form?

It's the form of my balls, actually.

**smolakian** · 12-02-2005, 01:47 PM

You have to huck of 11' cliffs. Sorry...

**seatosky** · 12-02-2005, 01:49 PM

I'm not an expert, but I AM rad.

**bcrider** · 12-02-2005, 01:51 PM

That’s what I get with a GED education and for trying to type without the bossman seeing.

Ps. Thanks for the vocabulary lesson lemon boy. I had to bust out dictionary.com to look up malapropism. I think its safe to say I meant “accept”.

**lemon boy** · 12-02-2005, 01:54 PM

no problem, I think that malapropism actually earned me 2 points for no prior usage.

**PNWbrit** · 12-02-2005, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by commonlaw

and his style and form is nearly unparalled .

Wow! If he ever learns to completely unparall (whatever that is?) he'll be awesome.

**vinzclortho** · 12-02-2005, 02:01 PM

I grew up skiing Mad River Glen. I have also skied at several other areas. I own a helmet, have landed a 360 and shoved my friend over the sibera ridge at squaw. I have hit paradise, al's run, eagle's nest, cornice 2 and corbett's switch and dropped in parallel off tram shoot. I am currently listening to Barry White. Due to these factors, killer grilled cheese I make, and since mine-a dispatcher sent me to fix ein-a cable, I am an expert.

**splat** · 12-02-2005, 02:03 PM

When I was in the mining exploration biz we used to call 'anyone carrying a briefcase who's more than 25 miles from home' an expert.
I'm sure there's an apt analogy for the intraweb.

**Buster Highmen** · 12-02-2005, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by commonlaw

My buddy grew up in Maine and went to a notable ski academy, raced for years and skied everyday on all conditions, and his style and form is nearly unparalled (as far as I have noticed).

Does he drop in unparalleled?

**El Chupacabra** · 12-02-2005, 02:07 PM

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

**PNWbrit** · 12-02-2005, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Does he drop in unparalleled?

Buster perhaps you're missing the point.

It's the particular combination of growing up in Maine and being a friend of commonlaw that makes him such an expertiste skierer