Well since it’s currently winter in New Zealand I’m going to start a skiing discussion thread. Skiing is my other main hobbie/sport along with unicycling.
In the weekend I got new skis. Dynastar 06 trouble makers - 175cm. Got them pretty cheap second hand. They seem good so far. I skied virgin powder all of Saturday after a metre of new snow but probably nothing like powder in America.
Anyway who else here skis? Discuss whatever you want about skiing. Although I think there’s already a snowboarding discussion thread if you want to talk about that.
I’ve been skiing way longer than I’ve been unicycling. I started in the 6th grade, when I was about 12. I also learned how to snowboard, but gave that up after two seasons.
I now prefer “skiblades” or “skiboards,” those short little double-tipped skis. Mine are 99cm. They are lots of fun :)
I think I have a pair of 150cm skis, too. I haven’t used them in ages, though…
Daym… I was gonna get some team troubles a year or so ago. Ive got k2 fujitives right now. They work really nice.
I wish it was winter soon… but thats 5 months… I do mostly park skiing, at our hill. Our hill is really really small, but it works nice, and we have an extremely well maintained park. Ive started my OEC studying tonight, and have about 800 - 900 pages to go. I think i’ll enjoy the book after the second or so chapter, since the first chapter is the most boring thing you’ll ever read.
OEC = Outdoor Emergancy Care. Or, ski patrol. An OEC is also equal to an EMT basic.
bailing on rails is not fun at all for me, but i love doing rails. Its on edge for me, and i can (if i’m feeling ballsy that day) do a really good rail. EXTREMELY straight on. I have never nutted a rail, only came close to it though. I came off the rail around 2ft before it ended, and was turned 90 for going off it, and landed JUST so i didnt nut it. Ive slammed my thigh on the rail, and have had a HUGE dirt mark on my white sweat shirt from falling on the rail.
i also can stand nearly any weather. Ive skied in -45C with windchill, or -29C without wind. I was sweating that day.
ski blades are fun, but should never be used seriously. I can do rails, and huge jumps, grabs and lots of things on them, but they can kill knowing things on normal length skis.
I do LOVE snowdogs though, they rock. Our hill owns 3 pair of them, and i got to ride around with them with my friends for like 2 hours. Snow dogs are those ski boot things that you can just ride.
I don’t like rails. I’ve done them before, sketchily, but they’re bad for your skis and painful to fall on. I love doing drops and skiing powder. At New Zealand club fields there’s usually plenty of untracked powder to ski. I also hit jumps quite often but apart from 360s and grabs I can’t do many tricks.
I started skiing at the ripe old age of 4 and did so until 3 years ago when I picked up snowboarding. I love both to death. Just the thrill of flying down the mountain just a touch out of control is amazing.
Love to ski and snowboard. I’m very comfortable on skis. I think it’s the best way to enjoy a mountain.
In the last 10 years I went to
Telluride, Winterpark, colorado.
Park City, Alta, Snowbird, Ut (also went to Moab Muni Fest on same trip/s).
Alyeska, Alaska. (elevation is only 2000’ so it was easy to breathe).
Also Targee, Idaho. I would like to ski New Zealand!!
And here’s a pic of me from Jackson Hole a few years ago.
Who doesn’t love the pow! I like playing in the trees too:D . I’ll do moguls if the powder is gone. Also it’s fun to blast the groomers.
As you see in the picture, I don’t go for too much air these days and I never do a half pipe again.
we dont have powder here. If we do get powder, its destroyed from the groomer.
Whats the point of having twin tips if your not doing park skiing? i dont see much of a point, unless your doing half spins (like 180’s, 540’s, and 900’s). I have them, since i love to 90/180 off things. Yeah, rails do kill skis, but why would you buy twin tips if you werent going to kill them some how? plus, its just the edges, and ive saw guys kill the edges on their skis, and still ride fine. I mean, when mine were new (my grandma bought me new skis, and bindings) they sucked for everything, the edges were too edgy for rails, and it sucked to ski like i normally ski. I mean, it was nice a little, but it was a lot to handle.
and no, you dont necesarily kill your edges doing rails. If you know how to do rails right, without riding your edge (which make cause you to faill easily), you wont kill the base.
Oh YEAH!
I forgot!! Our park is getting speakers and a radio! But, all the music is either going to be sucky too popular stuff, or its going to be like death metal lol. Plus, we get a new engine for the rope tow. Our past ones sorta sucked. They would go really fast, but get overloaded fast, and we actually sheered a shaft off once, since it got too hot. woooooooo
Been skiing 18 years… did some racing in high school. I picked up tele maybe five years ago so I rarely alpine anymore.
Since I really enjoy photography I haven’t been able to get great shots of me teleing, but this one appeared on Sugarloaf’s website this winter and a switch tele shot:
I also like to take photography to skiing and these are a couple park shots:
These are of a good friend of mine:
And here are a couple from a pipe competition I shot:
I LOVE SKIING. Probably dangerous to say here…but I’d ski over uni any day. I’ve been skiing since 3, at 8 i started snowboarding, and at 13(when i brightened up a bit) I went back to skis. I just got my new skis in the mail. '08 Line Blends. I also got '08 Rossignol Scratch Bindings that I’m going to get mounted up once i get my bindings.
I put an application into the local ski shop and can’t wait to get the return phone call.
I don’t get any powder where I live, but powder is the bomb! I skied it for the first time last Feb, in Jackson Hole, WY. We are going to Colorado this Feb on another trip. Once I’m 18 I’m going to move out west and hopefully live there forever.
I’m going skiing over winter break at Northstar, near Lake Tahoe. I don’t have my own skis, but I like to ski casually, nothing very big or anything. It’s fun though.
