Poll: How good are you?

[tex1230]

Rate your skills...this is about carving, not internet posting

[crazyTKDsquirrel]

I suck.

[Mike T]

Utterly average... I should be a better than I am given the lifetime mileage :o

[Erik J]

Does being the best on the hill count if there are no other carvers 99.99% of the time?

[KingCrimson]

****.

[Dan]

Does being the best on the hill count if there are no other carvers 99.99% of the time?

I had the same thought. I'm average or towards the bottom among the carvers at Meadows, but there's only about 10 of us. I ride better than 99% of the soft booters though*.

*Outside the park, that is. :)

[Neil Gendzwill]

Does being the best on the hill count if there are no other carvers 99.99% of the time?

Exactly. Against what standard are we measuring here?

[Gecko]

Utterly average... I should be a better than I am given the lifetime mileage :o

Does being the best on the hill count if there are no other carvers 99.99% of the time?

Exactly. Against what standard are we measuring here?

Sadly I spend most of my ride time at a small hill. I am probably the best there but stacked against carvers at real mountains I am horribly average....not that I care I'm still having fun and that's all that matters

[tex1230]

Exactly. Against what standard are we measuring here?

Each can interpret for themselves. The beauty of internet vagaries.

[Mike T]

I had the same thought. I'm average or towards the bottom among the carvers at Meadows, but there's only about 10 of us. I ride better than 99% of the soft booters though*.

*Outside the park, that is. :)

Yeah, my utterly average self-assessment was pretty much measuring myself against all other carvers I have ever ridden with - Bachelor locals, Hood locals, visitors, OES, SES.

As far as just freeriding around, comparing myself to the others on the hill that day, I'm top 20% on a weekday and top 2% on a weekend... as I suspect most of us are!

[Jack M]

I took Master Carver out of the WC/Olympic category.

[SnowSpeedster]

At 53, anyday I can ride fast and make pretty turns is a good day on the mountain no matter WHAT I'm riding.

Amittedly, I HAVE backed off to warp 3 nowadays as the prospect of going over the bars at 40 mph isn't as appealing as it used to be.

[Allee]

Utterly average... I should be a better than I am given the lifetime mileage :o

Yep, this is me.

[tex1230]

I took Master Carver out of the WC/Olympic category.

Why bother? your equipment sucks.

[boarderboy]

between "Down the Middle Average," and "I Suck."

But given those alternatives, I'd have to say in the last several years, I've descended from DMA to I draw a great big, huge vacuum.

But vacuum bagging... is a blast!

BB

[Dave Winters]

The older I get, the better I was....

[Petrol]

Does being the best on the hill count if there are no other carvers 99.99% of the time?

:lol::lol::lol:

works for me, especially considering that over my entire time on hardboots, since winter '94-'95, I've only seen (on the snow, in action, live & in person) a total of Five (5) other hardbooters

[Gecko]

The older I get, the better I was....

Sadly this is also true....while I am a better carver now than when I was when I wasyounger there are a lot of things I used to be able to do on a snowboard (and a skateboard for that matter) that I will never be able to do again (like Corbetts)

[Jack M]

Why bother? your equipment sucks.

I know, like fer sure, it's 12 months old!

[Dave ESPI]

I wanted to say Im one of the best on my hill..... but it all depends on who is there .... LOL.

Im "Middle of the road" average in comparison to other carvers.

Racing and technical prowess....however...... I take the cake at my mountian and consume it with a Shet eatin grin as I blow the doors off my co-workers

EDIT: and I agree with GECKO.... I'm not a park rider much anymore after I realise I cant do what I used to without serious risk with big consequences if I F-up and scrub a landing or bone myself hard. I get props and respect in otherways.

Youth has privlages, but age has Wyle ;)

[GeoffV]

ok who are the Master Freecarver's?

This is so subjective, I don't know where I'd rank myself in the carving community.

Does looks count:lol:

[crazyTKDsquirrel]

I don't wanna get old

[ohiomoto]

Too bad...you will get old! :p

[crazyTKDsquirrel]

Noooooo!

[bumpyride]

Personally I don't know another boarder, aside from my son, that stays in the bumps 90% of the time (though I know there's a few others), I had to put in Olympic/World Cup because I'd be in my own "Special" Olympics. (Special not as mentally/ physically handicapped-if being 60 is not considered a handicap-way)