OK, so I guess I can see the attraction (in theory) in jumping from snowy ridges, natural or I guess man made, or riding these snow covered 'pipes' - a bit like a skate boarding park. But why do some skiers/boarders have this prediliction with these 'rails' - as far as I can see all it would appear to do is knacker the base of your skis. What's the attraction folks?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Adrenaline.
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?
Megamum, I cannot see it either - which I guess means you and I are too old.
I cannot see how bringing an "urban" element into skiing fits. Seems one big marketing pose. And doing rails on proper stairs maybe, but to build artificial ones. Kickers and half pipes I can get.
stoatsbrother, Exactly - I just checked out someones photos of the PSB on Fickr and there were these huge artificial rails - I just can't see it.
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it's fo teh Steez
And not only does it knacker your base but proper rail guys take a grinder to the edges and completely de tune them, making them useless for the piste.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Just another set of skills to work on if the snow isn't there. Some folk just can't keep off snowboards and skis. It can get a bit obsessive, mind.
After all it is free
After all it is free
Because watching your mate really, really hurt himself is very, very funny.
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fallliner, I agree. In the summer, skiing the same piste (extremely short Xscape piste) gets boring, so I go when there are rails and kickers out. adds an element of fun, something new to work on, and a whole new aspect to skiing.
Though my background is in skateboard and BMX, so rails, ramps, jumps and tricks are kind of what I do most of the time......
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george_1, that's cheating. The point of rails in snowsports is for the skilled to lure the terminally unbalanced into a new and brutal form of self mutilation. As a victim, I now understand.
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fallliner wrote:
Just another set of skills to work on if the snow isn't there.
I took advantage of the icy patches at the PSB last week to work on my 360s, I reckon 'make use of what there is' is the best way to go.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
george_1 wrote:
fallliner, I agree. In the summer, skiing the same piste (extremely short Xscape piste) gets boring, so I go when there are rails and kickers out.
At Castleford they ALWAYS seem to have the slope littered with obstacles - which annoys novice grumpy old women like me!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
NewSkier wrote:
At Castleford they ALWAYS seem to have the slope littered with obstacles - which annoys novice grumpy old women like me!
Yeah, I hate those beginner classes too
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Mosha Marc wrote:
NewSkier wrote:
At Castleford they ALWAYS seem to have the slope littered with obstacles - which annoys novice grumpy old women like me!
Yeah, I hate those beginner classes too
I thought they were speed bumps.
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Kramer wrote:
Mosha Marc wrote:
NewSkier wrote:
At Castleford they ALWAYS seem to have the slope littered with obstacles - which annoys novice grumpy old women like me!
Yeah, I hate those beginner classes too
I thought they were speed bumps.
So THAT'S what I felt going over my back it was Kramer!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Kramer wrote:
Because watching your mate really, really hurt himself is very, very funny.
Agreed, but sometimes it can go a bit beyond a joke:
Martin Bell, about a month after I started skiing I saw someone obtain a similar injury by falling over on the dry slope, effectively they scalped their knee cap and it was left hanging by a flap of skin. Didn't put me off though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Very rarely do i get sickened by stuff but aaaah come on!
Just to "top" that: Someone I skied with who skis in Japan told me about a time a skier there fell over, and someone skied over his neck. He bled to death.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
I'm glad I am hearing these stories after being to the snow park rather than before! I haven't done rails but I like obstacles, I see skiing as like horse riding (which I used do a lot of), without obstacles it's not the same and the more difficult and technical the obstacles the better, like in eventing.
After all it is free
After all it is free
Rails are installed by the dental profession to generate lucrative dental reconstruction work from lads with bigger balls than brains.
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Kickers and half pipes I can get.
it was Kramer!