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> And sorry - until you post a link to a video of somebody on Blades/ski-boards who does not suck (a standing challenge which none of the experts in that area have met yet)

I don't have a video, but I'm sure it would have looked good, especially if someone lent me the Top Gear production team but these tracks were laid down on skiboardthingies and look perfectly acceptable to my untrained eye (they start on the shoulder on the top right).

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Spyderman,
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May I recommend the Dom Perignon 1969, very nice with the Bacon Rolls for breakfast.


The '69, how vulgar. Wouldn't have the staff wash the Sunseeker with it. I thought this was the thread where the posh people hung out Toofy Grin
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davidof, really nice tracks - but I would still want to see them do it. There has to be a bit of style and grace to skiing/boarding/sliding - don't you think? Still a mystery why so little video apparently exists.
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ski snobbery is rife on this website.
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graeme, apart from people taking the mick out of the average blade/ski-board user - have you got any evidence for that?
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Spyderman wrote:
daehwons, Big mistake selling the heli. I like to have one in the UK, Gulfstream at LHR and one in GVA, doubles up for a bit of heli-skiing, one must get value out of one's assets.


Selling, I made no mention of selling, almost couldn't give the damn thing away, The gardener ended up having it, still moans to this day about it not fitting in his front garden.


Might have to get another one soon as the investment into the flying car concept hasn't taken off yet

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Spyderman,
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May I recommend the Dom Perignon 1969, very nice with the Bacon Rolls for breakfast.


The '69, how vulgar. Wouldn't have the staff wash the Sunseeker with it. I thought this was the thread where the posh people hung out Toofy Grin


I hope you have the 130'

I find the lines on the Pershing 115' more appealing but could use and extra 15'
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snowpatrol wrote:
i don't like the word snob, but i am extremely unsympathetic to learners (thats learners outside of greens blues and reds where they should be)/ gapers/ retards etc etc and have no problem letting people know it either...i am just back from morzine, and after skiing only cham (many times) and vail over the past 4 years, i was astonished at the retardedness on show...its just that i had forgotten how bad places like this were...i wasn't able to get my dukes mounted anywhere in morzine either (which says it all really) so it was very difficult to get myself away from the lift lines, where high gaperness was abundant...but after day 2, i had had enough and treked anywhere safe and accessable for me, my neice/ neph and oh could go...anywhere away from the beaten track, and just closed my eyes and turned the ipod up in the lift lines....


Dude, you went to Morzine so expect what you got.
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stoatsbrother wrote:
most of the trashing of Bulgaria and Andorra seems to come from people who have been there. Yes, there are a fair number of apparently expert freeride types (definitely not me) some hardened tourers (not me) and some BASI-you-have-to-angullate-perfectly types (most definitely not me). But I see lots of us recommending gear from Lidl, Aldi and Takky Maxx, cheering when there is a new convert to sliding etc etc. And sorry - until you post a link to a video of somebody on Blades/ski-boards who does not suck (a standing challenge which none of the experts in that area have met yet) I think it is fair for people to say they suck. For everyone willy-waving about their ability, there are others being obviously too modest.


Spoken like a true Gnarly Boy wink
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colincrist,... i didn't have time to expect anything... my apartment in cham fell through with a coupe of weeks to go....its all i could get over half term...



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rayscoops, I am not modest - and I am pretty crap. I am just one of the bitches that Admin needs to get enough people together for a guide - and he is grooming fresh meat Toofy Grin

Anyway - off to La Grave tomorrow snowHead
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snowpatrol, you must really suck then - even my brother Stoat is in Cham at the moment. I think actually you have spent the last week dropping your kids off at the ESF, and skiing blue runs on blades.
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stoatsbrother wrote:
rayscoops, I am not modest - and I am pretty crap. I am just one of the bitches that Admin needs to get enough people together for a guide - and he is grooming fresh meat Toofy Grin

Anyway - off to La Grave tomorrow snowHead


I have seen the videos wink
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snowpatrol, oooooooooooo -one big sack of potatoes on your shoulder Toofy Grin

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The tracks posted above by davidof were apparently made on Wedze skis (the Decathlon ones, in the photo, very cheap 'cos boring black and white graphics, I know 'cos I bought some). Absolutely NOT the same thing as blades - and unlike most people in this thread I've skied on both. Twisted Evil Most of us wouldn't be able to tell the difference (on a video) between a good skier on the Wedzes and a good skier on skis. Blades are a different animal.
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stoatsbrother, snowbandit,..ouch... you two are hardcore nasty...



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stoatsbrother wrote:
davidof, really nice tracks - but I would still want to see them do it. There has to be a bit of style and grace to skiing/boarding/sliding - don't you think? Still a mystery why so little video apparently exists.


Actually do you remember that guy who posted here with those weird snowblades with fins on the back... what were they Raxx or something. Didn't he post some video? Might be worth a look.
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He certainly showed he had balls but no points for style
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rayscoops wrote:
Not the 'I only go to 3V or Zermatt' type ...........but ..........

As we get more experienced at skiing do we start getting a bit above ourselves because we know more about the kit, the places, the snow, the altitude, the bars, only ski resorts with reds and blacks, how to adjust your bindings, din settings, the best route from 'a to b' etc etc,.

Do we go from nice fluffy snowheads who want to learn more about our sport ..... into grumpy old skiers with a bias against anything except for skinning for three hours to hit some nice powder and turning our noses up against those with short skis, high street brands, resorts without gnarly off piste, Andorra/Bulgaria, cheap goggles, and dare I say it .... snowblades/skiboards wink


sounds like any typical skier to me , self overrated and arrogant wink Laughing
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stoatsbrother, so stoat is you brother's name?

As for ski snobbery, i reckon i've got less snobby as i've got a little better than i was (which was fairly terrible), given that I'd now consider myself an intermediate intermediate rather than an intermediate, and the aim of the next few years is to get better rather than keep pottering around. Snowheads must have worked well with this given my next holiday will be comprised of 6 full days lessons (must get away from intermediate intermediate to being able to ski not like a complete.....)
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snowpatrol, ooh, 'Cham', gosh you're so in-crowd. You are the only example so far of the kind of thing rayscoops is on about as far as I can see. Laughing
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Lizzard, Laughing ...you are pulling me up for abbreviating chamonix? Laughing how about VT LDA LT BC LP VERB and the many other abbreviations used on this forum? will you be pulling everyone else up everytime this happens? .....however, on the subject of the thread, you are correct...i am exactly what rayscoops is taking about... and as i said in my opening post on the subject, i have no problem letting people know about it either....i would rather be what i am than some retarded brit gaper who is completely at ease with their assholeness....



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snowpatrol, what an arrogant tosser you are. Amazing.
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Lizzard, Laughing well thats hardly news to anyone but i thank you kindly anyhow....




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Whats a gaper?
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MattMattMatt, a word generally used by American teenagers to denote someone not approved of by this week's cool kids. Not something an adult would bother with.
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MattMattMatt, it is a word used by many people of many cultures and of all ages from a cross section of the community to denote retards on the slopes who do not take an extreme sport such as skiing seriously or give it the respect it deserves....



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Lizzard, snowpatrol, cut the foreplay - get a room - you know it is going to happen.

51st state, probably fair. We have a lot to learn from the modesty and quiet reserve of Boarders wink
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stoatsbrother, Laughing unfortunately for Lizzard, i dont do charity work...




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MattMattMatt, something, which if the yanks could spell, would spell "gapper". Laughing A horrible deregatory term used to describe anyone on holiday having fun with their friends & family. You can read more about it here: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=31772

Of course there's a lot snobbery about skiing... nature of the beast and I'm as guilty as any but trying to be less so - although once a snob, always a snob. wink One of the things which really peed me off was the slagging which Hemsedal got (on another forum too) - and I was told there was "nothing" there and it was "all flat". I had a superb two weeks there and if people really think that given resort is flat then I think they missed out. A lot.

Btw, my carved turns are absolutely awesome! Laughing
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Alexandra, why would you be upset about people slagging hemsedal off?....the less people that are there the better for you surely?....at least thats the way i would see it....



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One of my jackets is bright orange, does that make me a gaper?

I can't believe i'm being educated on how the youth of today talk here, i'm only 23!
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stoatsbrother wrote:
Lizzard, snowpatrol, cut the foreplay - get a room - you know it is going to happen.

Getting a room is the foreplay isn't it? Laughing
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MattMattMatt wrote:
One of my jackets is bright orange, does that make me a gaper?

No, that makes you a Railway Worker. wink
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I think some of the snobby types would probably class me as a 'gaper'. Laughing
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Alexandra wrote:
MattMattMatt, something, which if the yanks could spell, would spell "gapper". Laughing


It's prounounced like it's spelt. Gay per.

[Inserts tongue in cheek] You're such a gaper for prounouncing it wrong [removes tongue from cheek]
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Spyderman wrote:
MattMattMatt wrote:
One of my jackets is bright orange, does that make me a gaper?

No, that makes you a Railway Worker. wink


Better than being the RAC man the ex accused me of being when i bought it!
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Just to help those that do not recognise their own ski snobbery

Definitions of snobbery on the Web:

The trait of condescending to those of lower social (skiing) status

A snob is someone who adopts the worldview of snobbery — that some people are inherently inferior to him or her for any one of a variety of (ski related)reasons. Often, the form of snobbery reflects the snob's personal attributes. ...
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Alexandra wrote:
MattMattMatt, something, which if the yanks could spell, would spell "gapper". Laughing A horrible deregatory term used to describe anyone on holiday having fun with their friends & family. You can read more about it here: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=31772


> gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helment/hat

What is that total crock of nonsense. I guess the American can't pick on blacks anymore so they come up with some other crap to discriminate. Honestly it is just so infantile.

And just to display my own ski snobbery there is nothing more ridiculous than fat middle class white blokes from Engerlund using terms like Gnarly, Rad, Blower, Homie, Gaper, Dude, Maggot, Jong etc. They sound more retarded than those Armstrong and Miller pilots. Talk about Gaperific. Laughing
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