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Should bloodwagons be controlled by boarders?

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This question is posed in a totally unprejudiced fashion. I am completely neutral on this.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
They should be controlled by anyone who's fast enough and can stay in control, I don't think it makes any real difference weather it's a skier or a boarder
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Whatever is the fastest, safest way to get down the mountain.

My main concern would be on flatter bits of terrain.
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Good Grief! You numpties, that's not a blood wagon that's the emergency ganja relief team . . . Madeye-Smiley
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D G Orf, You're right of course. I must admit though that I can't see how a boarder has the fine precision of control that a skier in a snowplough does. I reckon it'll remain a rare sight.
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It's just a born-again boarder for Jesus parking his @rse on a convenient prop to avoid sitting in the snow.


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Was he just trying to grind on a ladder, and he fell through?
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It would seem that a boarder is at a disadvantage in that their direction of travel is perpindicular to the axis of their body, making it difficult to control the blood wagon behind them.

Masque if you run out of Ganja, they just take away your board.
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Kramer, running out is one of the greatest sins to commit, takes all the fun out of sitting (etc.) and suddenly realising that falling into the scenery at speed hurts.
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I'm surprised no one's made a couple of observations yet, though it's a hot day. Firstly, the patroller is riding goofy (which isn't that significant).

But what if he has to make a left turn? Huh?

And what if he wants to ride straight down the fall-line? Tricky, in view of the hand-grip.

Here's a little secret. As far as I can make out, this photo was shot only a few days ago at the Lindauer Queenstown Festival, New Zealand: www.winterfestival.co.nz
It's one photo on a large gallery on that site.
Maybe the boarder-patroller is pulling some kind of stunt (no, it's a bloodwagon - Ed.) for a competition. Could our NZ correspondent please clarify this?
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I don't think it would be that difficult for a boarder who knew what they were doing, I can remember very large sleds being used to deliver goods in villages in the winter, their drivers just had big boots and they would hold themselves off the ground using the front of sleds runners, they could control very large loads so a boarder should be able to have just as much control
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When I was bloody wagonned the rescue guys were skiers and it was so steep one of them took a ski off to stick in the snow to stop the wagon- and myself- from sliding off down to the mountain to an untimely death. Fair enough there were ropes and all, but the guy holding them looked like he'd been up all night solid and wasnt that worried about letting another "stupid english girl" just slide away!


To be fair- they did a great job and the pain was overtaken by the fear of one of my bunches getting stuck under the wagonwhich i thought would make me flip over and break my neck - yes i was probably delirious!
It was damn quick aswell, but at around £200 for a 20min job - they should be bloody fast! Shocked
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Kramer wrote:
It would seem that a boarder is at a disadvantage in that their direction of travel is perpindicular to the axis of their body, making it difficult to control the blood wagon behind them.


That was pretty much what i was thinking.....

Just to be ever the awkward sod, skiers are used to poles..... so why not have skiboarders (bladers to euros who prefer hoover to vacuum NehNeh) pulling them!? They are used to having no poles and have devilishly manoeverable sliding devices! Toofy Grin

Adam
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
the kind of skiers who manoevre blood wagons have no problem without poles, and they can do the most fantastic snowploughs in the world. The quads on those fellows.... but snowplough on blades? With a big weight behind? Wouldn't that be a lot less stable platform than either skis or a sideslipping snowboard?
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Masque, it wasn't so much falling into the scenery that used to get on my nerves, it was slamming into the ground with no warning whatsoever.
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Kramer, You've got to get your meds balance right. The proper combination and everything happens in s l o w m o t i o n . . . lots of warning . . . but why care, it ain't gonna hurt Madeye-Smiley
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In seriousness I guess we should take our hats off to these bloodwagon pilots. Imagine wiping out and having that mass of metal come down on top of you - it has to have happened from time to time.

As Nade says, there must be situations where controlling those sleds must be near-impossible.
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Masque, hello pretty trees, hello lovely snow, hello shiny ice... Very Happy
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Kramer, Laughing Laughing Laughing

In that position, do snowHead s who have tried both sliding and skiing reckon he can actually exert more braking force than a skier snowploughing?
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kuwait_ian, Certainly more braking, but it could be more tiring. Apart from very icy conditions, it might even be a little easier to control a sled with a board than skis . . . but only trying it would be the test.
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