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Finally...
If you want to be with the 'in crowd', then snow blading is the latest trend to hit the slopes. This involves very short skis that are great for doing jumps, tricks and carving at high speed down well-groomed slopes. However, they're not suitable for going off-piste.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think I can live with being "last season" 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Blades are for losers, in any season.
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Ok admit that blades have been around for a few years, but what is the latest trend?
Blades are certainly the latest trend to have taken off in any noticeable way. Before that Snowboarding.
This is of course ignoring the various trends of short skis, long skis, carving skis etc but just looking at a very generic activity.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whitegold, Personally think they are fun for an afternoon, great for skiing with the kids as easy to walk up to them etc.
Invaluable at Xscape with kids as can get behind them to get them safely on lift
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but what is the latest trend?
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Ski's 
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Arno, I was going to say to wait for Whitegold's view, but I see he's already commented!
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True story:
Young lad on slopes to father as large group of blokes on blades goes past (the group are playing tig): "What are those short skis?"
Father: "They are blades. They are not like real skis, they are for fun."
Last edited by After all it is free  on Fri 5-01-07 12:46; edited 1 time in total
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" Carving at high speeds "  Surely not?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Boris wrote: |
Whitegold, Personally think they are fun for an afternoon, great for skiing with the kids as easy to walk up to them etc.
Invaluable at Xscape with kids as can get behind them to get them safely on lift |
Agreed. Blades are great, if not perfect, for kids. Adults just look sad.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Blades are for losers, in any season. |
another happy quote from you
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You know it makes sense.
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Some people seem to have a problem with fun by the looks of it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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For the past 5 years I have owned a pair of blades and use them for at least a couple of half days each trip. They are good fun and I find them particularly useful when skiing with people of lesser ability. I enjoy skiing with other but some times they may not want to venture beyond the blues or easy blacks, doing these runs on skis would not be terribly challenging for me, but putting a pair of blades on and trying to keep up on steep slopes or moguls is certainly a challenge. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who enjoys themselves on the white stuff without upsetting others is fine by me, regardless of what they have strapped to their feet!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bladers are the new boarders, I really dont like them why?
Because on my frist trip out on my brand new ski's standing at the back of a lift que a blader comes down and cuts across the top of my ski's cutting my top sheet.
I did give him a mouth full and if had not carried on I would have gave him more.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nick_C, same happened to me in the Castleford indoor slope, but out on the slope.
The thing that annoys me is that bladers can change direction in an unpredictable way. Not particularly their problem, but even beginner skiiers doing random things I can usually avoid. Bladers just seem to move in a brownian sort of way.
I realy must try it sometime so I can comment objectively.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I see the fun police are out in this thread!! I suspect most of those who knock snowblades have never tried them, let alone used them to their potential, and fun aside they can be a useful tool in improving ski technique.
Also they are short, they are light, and that makes them easy to carry about. Get these little planks on their edges, carving sweetly on steep granular spring snow, then come back and tell me they're crap, no fun, no good. Get onto something like the West Wall or Cas Headwall at the 'Gorm, The Wall or All the Way at Kirkwood, crank it up and delight in being able to lean out and touch the snow as you carve freely. 
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I don't care what people strap to their feet in the name of fun, but to assert that blading puts you in the "in-crowd" and was the latest trend to hit the slopes did seem a bit odd to me
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Absolutely - if you like your ski boards, go slide on them, although who told that journo that they are the latest thing to hit the slopes must be crazy.
Personally, having tried them a couple of years ago, I found they were just not as fun as skis - less responsive, no good off piste and frankly, if you can do jumps and tricks on something 90cm long, you may as well try the same things on somehthing 170 long and be done with it. I can't do tricks with a pack of cards, let alone a pair of skis!
As for what's really 'in', I think ALL the people on the glacier at Les Diablerets last week between then ages of 10 and 25 were on twins, quite a lot of them centre-mounted. If the snow had arrived and there had been powder to seek out I guess this might have been different, but all the younger generation were hanging out in the park or finding little drops or kickers.
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| Winterhighland wrote: |
I see the fun police are out in this thread!! I suspect most of those who knock snowblades have never tried them, let alone used them to their potential, and fun aside they can be a useful tool in improving ski technique.
Also they are short, they are light, and that makes them easy to carry about. Get these little planks on their edges, carving sweetly on steep granular spring snow, then come back and tell me they're crap, no fun, no good. Get onto something like the West Wall or Cas Headwall at the 'Gorm, The Wall or All the Way at Kirkwood, crank it up and delight in being able to lean out and touch the snow as you carve freely. |
OK I'll take up your challenge  
I used to own a pair of Line skiboards, gave them away after many years of non-use.
Why in Kirkwood, a place blessed with so much snow and great off-piste, would you choose snowblades/skiboards?
For carving a pair of decent GS skis or even better slalom skis are better for me. For powder/crud/trees/drops/etc a pair of fat twin-tips I think are the way forward (and more "in" as zammo eluded to).
Just on a I'm-a-boring-no-fun-person technical point, if you can lean out and touch the ground does that suggest that you might not be angulating, hence not weighting the outside ski properly and losing that whole carving sensation?
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Why in Kirkwood - well hell I even got on a snowboard in Kirkwood! 
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