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Thread: Skiing without poles?
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01-04-2007, 01:15 AM #1
Skiing without poles?
I heard Kye Peterson is doing this. He is so hot right now! Any anyone else doing this? I don't understand why you need poles. I can't believe i never thought of skiing without them before.
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01-04-2007, 01:19 AM #2
What is funny to me about your post is that I snowboarded with them all last weekend...and enjoyed using them for a few things. (BC) But yeah, If you are getting wicked sick and twisted, they are just dangerous...I mean, look at nordic jumpers or serious park rats. Same shit, different tools, I reckon'.
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01-04-2007, 01:35 AM #3Originally Posted by samuelf
Only reasons to ski without poles are because you are race training and working on balance sketchily or because you lost or broke one or both.
Edit: LoneStar, is this dude for real or what?"I said flotation is groovy"
-Jimi Hendrix
"Just... ski down there and jump offa somethin' for cryin' out loud!!!"
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01-04-2007, 01:49 AM #4
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01-04-2007, 01:51 AM #5
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01-04-2007, 02:06 AM #6Squatch Guest
gotta love ceiling cat.
i like to double pole-plant while skiing. poles are pretty much a necessity.
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01-04-2007, 02:09 AM #7
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01-04-2007, 02:12 AM #8
they are not using poles
Last edited by samuelf; 01-04-2007 at 02:15 AM.
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01-04-2007, 02:14 AM #9
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01-04-2007, 02:24 AM #10
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01-04-2007, 02:58 AM #11
Andy Mahre can ski switch without poles faster than 95% of this message board can ski forward. Math? But then again, he's Andy Mahre, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
OOOOOOOHHHH, I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!
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01-04-2007, 03:01 AM #12Squatch Guest
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01-04-2007, 08:43 AM #13self proclaimed JONG!
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Skiing without poles is like getting a blow job from a guy. It feels great till you look down and realize you're gay.
Do what you like, Like what you do.
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01-04-2007, 08:48 AM #14rain
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01-04-2007, 09:17 AM #15
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01-04-2007, 09:35 AM #16
It's really tough to do ski ballet without poles
Last edited by tex1230; 01-04-2007 at 01:24 PM.
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01-04-2007, 09:40 AM #17
If you can't make extra-fancy pole plants whilst skiing under a chairlift, how will the people on said lift know how rad you are?
BTW taking away poles for a while is the most reliable way I've found to get intermediate skiers to stand up straight, relax and pull their feet underneath them[/techtalk]Last edited by Monique; 01-04-2007 at 09:45 AM.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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01-04-2007, 09:45 AM #18
Without poles nobody would fix plumbing around here for less than £100 an hour.
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01-04-2007, 09:48 AM #19"I said flotation is groovy"
-Jimi Hendrix
"I hope the Jamaican Halfpipe team competes, and then Disney can make an inspirational movie about it..."
-skimoore
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01-04-2007, 10:35 AM #20
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01-04-2007, 10:38 AM #21
Similar, except the food isn't as good.
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01-04-2007, 10:54 AM #22
Poles are useful but I think the pole plant has lost some of its importance since the death of straight skis. Shape skis are so easy to turn that I rarely to never do pole plants anymore. I mostly use them on the flats when I'm skating and to switch my naxo's into tour/downhill. They are also good to hit people with. imo
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01-04-2007, 11:01 AM #23The Shred Pirate Roberts
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They are a useful tool for chinese downhill.
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01-04-2007, 11:02 AM #24
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01-04-2007, 12:36 PM #25
a chinese downhill is a skintrack. since china's on the other side of the world, and most skintracks go up, they have been half-jokingly referred to as the chinese downhill. from a chinaman's perspective in china, dontchaknow?
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