 Poster: A snowHead
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...in snowsports.
Telemarkers, obviously, sit at the top. Everyone admires telemarkers and you don't need to be that good for people to point at go "that's cool".
Speed fliers are next. They'd be the coolest, if it weren't for the fact that probably half of skiers and snowboarders feel them, somehow, irresponsible.
Alpine skiers and snowboarders sit below that. There's debate about which is more cool, but the debate probably evens out.
Nordic skiers are next. They should be cooler, but few people understand what they do; where they do it; or what it involves. If they understood then the Nordic guys (and gals) would sit above the alpine skiers and snowboarders. But as it is, lack of public understanding dooms them.
Rando people are even less understood than nordic skiers. As little as people understand nordic, they're completely bemused by why anyone would skin up a perfectly good piste when there's a chairlift available. Unfortunately, noone sees, or understands, the "proper" rando bit of the sport. All they see is the loosers who are too tight to fork out for a lift pass. (If there were any justice then the rando-folk would be second. But there isn't any justice.)
Snowbladers next. Generally, they're inconsiderate ladies' front bottoms. But they're nowhere near as bad as...
...snowbikers. Who are universally hated. Even by snowbladers.
Discuss.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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If they understood then the Nordic guys (and gals) would sit above the alpine skiers and snowboarders. But as it is, lack of public understanding dooms them.
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and the faded multi-coloured lycra really doesn't help. Especially when wrinkled.
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Where are you going to put Monoskis ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good challenge Patch.
Between Nordic and snowblades.
Like the rando guys, they deserve better. It's just that noone understands them.
The hierarchy should be:
- speedflyers
- telemark
- nordic
- monoski
- alpine / snowboard
But the public would never understand.
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should be
1. Speed flyers
2. The rest of them
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sorry but nordic goes at the bottom! actually second bottom to snowbladers.
1. alpine skiers
2. monoski/old blokes on 210s
3. tele/ speed flying
4. boarding
5. tourers. off piste only (why bother if you don't ski down in powder?!?)
6. nordic
7. blades/bikes/scooters
to be fair, 1-6 are all acceptable. 7 is not.
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Speedflying doesn't qualify as a snow based sport or else you'd have to say Ski-BASErs are cooler.
Switch Monoskiers are coolest
Telemarking isn't really cool per se but the "I'm not even trying and I've just spanked that mogul line" type of scandi yoghurt knitter is.
You can score GNAR points on snowlerblades so actually in the right context they are cool.
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bumps skiers are at #1. No argument.
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snowblades have never and will never be cool. they make e shudder!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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under a new name, tele-bump-skiers.
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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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| heidiky wrote: |
| snowblades have never and will never be cool. they make e shudder!!! |
Above or below snowbikes though?
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smagsmith, I'll take that.
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You know it makes sense.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| Speedflying doesn't qualify as a snow based sport or else you'd have to say Ski-BASErs are cooler. |
And you're saying they're not??????
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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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| heidiky wrote: |
| to be fair, 1-6 are all acceptable. 7 is not. |
I'm feeling almost religious with that statement 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| heidiky wrote: |
| 1. alpine skiers |
But I'm sorry, most alpine skiers are far from cool.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ski biker are epic ladies' front bottoms
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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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By speed flyers do you mean those jerks in latex suits with the strange aerodynamic helmets? If so I can see no way anyone wearing that can be considered cool.
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Monoski beats telemark, but only if wearing a flourescent onesie. Quite simply the ultimate in cool is looking like you have literally strapped your board to the roof of a Delorean, rocked up to 88mph and travelled forward in time in your most outrageous ski gear.
The combination of skill required and sheer retro brilliance makes it top of the tree. It is also the ultimate in lift queue kudos. You stand out. You look cool. You wear a headband in flourescent colours. You wear sunglasses made of plastic. You have rear entry boots. You are cool. Even better if you don't know you are cool, but it's no barrier even if you do, the arrogance of it is so 80s even that is cool. Triple points if it is C&A Rodeo.
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Park rats (whether ki or board) = bottom of the pile.
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Bootfitters sit at the top. End of.
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1. Racers (only grown-up ones)
2. People with fat rocker skis who can ski
3. Instructors (but only if they have a Euro pro card)
4. Boarders who carve or slash but not skid
5. Off piste tourers looking worse for wear with large backpacks and leathery skin
6. monoski/old blokes on 210s/tele/ speed flying (googled that - another I'm different from you activity)
7. nordic
8. TV antenna schussers
9. blades/bikes/scooters
modified after and apologies to heidiky
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| SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote: |
| Bootfitters sit at the top. End of. |
My bootfitter was sitting at my feet. You must have very long arms.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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By far coolest ones are telemarkers on monoski 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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At Cairngorm yesterday were a couple of youngish guys in leather lace up boots, long thin skies and cable bindings skiing on the West Wall. I thought them pretty cool.
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You know it makes sense.
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Whitters, So long in fact I can perform tweaks across the Lake without leaving my boot lab.
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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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8. TV antenna schussers
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ha, 99% of Brits
Top fo the pile has to be bi-athletes. Why? They have guns, who's gonna argue with a very acurate rifle.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Feel I need to invoke the "top gear" cool wall rule, if I do it/own it then by definition it can't be cool.
So sorry to everyone but that's alpine skiing and boarding near the bottom of the list, obviously still above snow blades which should always be at the very bottom.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote: |
| Bootfitters sit at the top. End of. |
Only if I'm doing a handstand otherwise my feet were below my bottom (last time I looked)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I would subcategorise a little further.
Anything involving fat skis with waists of over 100cm is COOL.
Racers - COOL
Boarder/Ski x - COOL
Upper Middle class park skiers called Oliver from Surrey, wearing giant baby-gro's and illfitting helment, listening to rap about drive by's - sung by gangsters from the projects - are NOT COOL (but think they are....also find these to be the most inconsiderate people on the mountain....cutting up kids, families etc.
General Snowboarders - Contraversial one here...NOT Cool. Too long spent messing around with bindings, sitting on ones back bottom etc and using words like "sick", "phatt" and "gnarly"
Snowbladers - HOM
Telemarkers - Looks very graceful to me...but why would you do that to yourself? Weirdo's.
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knowing the difference between a cm and a mm is also COOL
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Would like to add - and to add to Slikedge's comment above...anyone who does anything well...is cool.
People that have an overinflated opinion of their ability, and as a result ski/board like a TOOL are UNCOOL
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We saw a guy on a mono-snowblade at Kiroro yesterday.
It was the coolest thing I have ever seen...
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| Arno wrote: |
| knowing the difference between a cm and a mm is also COOL |
haha, just off to put my gangsta rap on.
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Racing = lycra suits and obsessions over milliseconds... how is that cool?
Frankly anything concerning geeking out over kit = uncool, so we're all uncool. Apart from old-skool telemarkers in their wooly jumpers.
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Racers are in no way cool. Ok they they're ballsy and technically very good but no, they are not cool. The only instance where they might be cool is when they're actually not as good as they should be but still manage to do well using a ridiculous do or die attitude.
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clarky999, it's the skiing, not the duds
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