 Poster: A snowHead
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Getting outnumbered and abused in some thread? Post that thread URL here and your snowboard brethren can be all over it, restoring the balance in the greatest debate since chickens and eggs, board or ski?
Providing that thread isn't in apres zone, I'm scared of there.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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stab, try dawn Chorus, that's really scary 
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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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i've noticed that the younger skiiers tend to get along fine with snowboarders... I don't really get why there seem to be cross-faction hatred from some people 
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DaveC, twin tip skis, helping to increase the love 
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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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DaveC, stick-in-the-mud old farts who don't dare try it for fear of pain and looking like a twerp, but secretly wish they could.
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stab, to be honest mate, you seem to be actively encouraging anti-board activities.
Are you a closet skier and just scared to admit to aspiriring to a sport that requires a little effort to be good at?
methinks the lady protesteth too much
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Old fart alert!!!!!
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Lizzard, who are you calling an "old Fart"? Why would I want to spend precious time learning to do something when I can get all over the mountain quite happily already? Even the flat & uphill bits where you snowboarders see to get rather, err, stuck.
You don't see many snowboarders touring do you? Ah, you can't get uphill. Oh. Never mind, you can admire my tracks.
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David Murdoch, YOU. And since you evidently can't snowboard, you aren't very well qualified to slate it are you?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lizzard, How do you know?
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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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Does snowboarding make you young and cool, even if you are old and fart-like?
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David Murdoch, you said:
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Why would I want to spend precious time learning to do something when I can get all over the mountain quite happily already?
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... from which I felt entitled to infer that you had indeed not bothered to learn.
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You know it makes sense.
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rob@rar, probably not. However, if we could convince people that boarding will make them young, there is a fortune to be made.
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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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| David Murdoch wrote: |
Lizzard, who are you calling an "old Fart"? Why would I want to spend precious time learning to do something when I can get all over the mountain quite happily already? Even the flat & uphill bits where you snowboarders see to get rather, err, stuck.
You don't see many snowboarders touring do you? Ah, you can't get uphill. Oh. Never mind, you can admire my tracks. |
i can with my custom s series split board http://www.seisports.com/?,browse,13,52,121,042394 long live snowboarding and live for the day and enjoy the moment (that special one when your waist deep in pow) and skiers cant cos they get stuck in the deep stuff
Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Sun 4-11-07 11:02; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| rob@rar, probably not. |
Oh well...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar, asked
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Does snowboarding make you young and cool, even if you are old and fart-like?
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My answer is "not yet is hasn't". I'm still waiting. But learning something new is definitely good for keeping your brain younger and flexible, even if it makes your bum sore. And it's good for expert skiers to be reminded just how different even the easiest slopes look when you're a beginner. Plus, it's fun.
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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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| Lizzard wrote: |
| DaveC, stick-in-the-mud old farts who don't dare try it for fear of pain and looking like a twerp, but secretly wish they could. |
Oh dear. Absolutely spot-on, I fear.
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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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powhound, I never, ever tire of watching that. It's got to be the greatest snow vid of all time.
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powhound, that's just one long fall. I'd want a parachute. 
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i think that shut the 2 plankers up
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im 38 now and ill be riding till im at least dead
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powhound, no, we just know we're right and have better things to do.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lizzard, Hilarious! Some of it looks seriously painful, though. Anyone hospitalised?
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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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Hurtle, no, amazingly enough! One of them did smack his hand on a rail and had to have it x-rayed, but the only resulting damage was that I had to do his lunchtime plonge shift while he went to the doctor.
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Lizzard, Rubber people!
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You know it makes sense.
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Lizzard, who are you calling an "old Fart"? Why would I want to spend precious time learning to do something when I can get all over the mountain quite happily already? Even the flat & uphill bits where you snowboarders see to get rather, err, stuck.
You don't see many snowboarders touring do you? Ah, you can't get uphill. Oh. Never mind, you can admire my tracks. |
i can with my custom s series split board http://www.seisports.com/?,browse,13,52,121,042394 long live snowboarding and live for the day and enjoy the moment (that special one when your waist deep in pow) and skiers cant cos they get stuck in the deep stuff |
I guess these two posts explain why there's a rivalry 
David - the question isn't "why would you bother", it's "why is it bad just because you don't want to do it?". That kind of attitude is quite possibly why skiiers get called "old farts"  - fwiw, I don't snowboard at all, and don't intend to try because personally I'm happy with skiing.
powhound - pretty sure you'll find skiiers are fine in the deep stuff.
I guess I'm lucky enough to be able to not care less what the people I'm riding with strap to their feet (excluding blades ).
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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| DaveC wrote: |
| powhound wrote: |
| David Murdoch wrote: |
Lizzard, who are you calling an "old Fart"? Why would I want to spend precious time learning to do something when I can get all over the mountain quite happily already? Even the flat & uphill bits where you snowboarders see to get rather, err, stuck.
You don't see many snowboarders touring do you? Ah, you can't get uphill. Oh. Never mind, you can admire my tracks. |
i can with my custom s series split board http://www.seisports.com/?,browse,13,52,121,042394 long live snowboarding and live for the day and enjoy the moment (that special one when your waist deep in pow) and skiers cant cos they get stuck in the deep stuff |
I guess these two posts explain why there's a rivalry
David - the question isn't "why would you bother", it's "why is it bad just because you don't want to do it?". That kind of attitude is quite possibly why skiiers get called "old farts" - fwiw, I don't snowboard at all, and don't intend to try because personally I'm happy with skiing.
powhound - pretty sure you'll find skiiers are fine in the deep stuff.
I guess I'm lucky enough to be able to not care less what the people I'm riding with strap to their feet (excluding blades ). |
i was only making a statement i know skiers like the deep stuff but why all this rivalry
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| powhound wrote: |
i was only making a statement i know skiers like the deep stuff but why all this rivalry |
Seems like it's just a throwback from back in the day when skiing was reserved for rich people and skiiers had "their" slopes "invaded" by snowboards. I guess it'll die out in a generation or so... It does cut both ways though - I was watching a snowboard movie with my housemate a couple of nights ago and there was a section with a "gangsta" boarder going around spraying skiiers and shooting off and a section of skiiers crashing.
I guess whatever you choose to slide on though, there'll always be arseh*les in the world
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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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DaveC, Oi. I never said it was bad. What attitude?
It's that Lizzard causing trouble again.
Why would I want to do it though. Never seen (and I've done quite a lot of seeing) anyone do anything on a board that I can do on skis (except ride sideways and why would I want to be able to do that...)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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So how come there are a number of boarders, that even me in my limited circle of experience have met who also own two planks and ski?
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peer pressure
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Damn, do some DIY for a day and I miss all the action
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Why would I want to do it though.
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You'll never discover the answer to that question until you try it for yourself.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Why are the skiers in the snowboarding section anyway ???? Is it the yearning to be with the 'in' crowd, mixing with the cool people?
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Lizzard, Doh. I have done it a few times. You'll have to do better than that.
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Having said that I get on well with boarders, and have even met a few from here eg 
