Call me jack Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 at the top of a chair life a skier asked me "is that any thing like telemark skiing?" i guess thats what it looks like i'm doing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Him> Can you only go in one direction.Me> yeah. I hope that was a joke. I loved carving, but held out on race equipment because I like riding switch, riding bumps, and doing park and pipe. One weekend I had the pleasure of riding with several hardbooters who were doing everything in the park regular and switch and doing bumps regular and switch. I was sold. The next time I was out on the slopes was on all new race gear. That was all I needed to see in order to be sold. Sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled programming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Some new hire instructors were gawking at my twin tip with the Catek Freeride bindings on it at around 51/46 after I railed a few turns past them and we all met at the rondevous point. "how do you ride like that? those angles are not even marked on the center disk! wait... there is no centerdisk... there is like three inches of clearance on that thing!" my reply: "Antilevitational Gee-force centrofuge bindings with cantilever balance points...." I got ~20 people researching this "technology" hahahah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carve234 Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Granted, this happened at Paoli Peaks in Indiana, but still... An instructor came up to me at the top of the hill and hit me with this - "Man, that thing is awesome! I've been watching you ride that for like the past TWO WEEKS!" (This happened today, 15 Dec 2009. Paoli opened on 12 Dec 2009. That's FOUR DAYS, not TWO WEEKS.) He then immediately followed up with - "So my buddy tells me that that thing is actually a snowboard. Is it?" Simply amazing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carvedog Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Some new hire instructors were gawking at my twin tip with the Catek Freeride bindings on it at around 51/46 after I railed a few turns past them and we all met at the rondevous point."how do you ride like that? those angles are not even marked on the center disk! wait... there is no centerdisk... there is like three inches of clearance on that thing!" my reply: "Antilevitational Gee-force centrofuge bindings with cantilever balance points...." I got ~20 people researching this "technology" hahahah. Instructors can be such geeks sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrutton Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 I hope that was a joke. I loved carving, but held out on race equipment because I like riding switch, riding bumps, and doing park and pipe. One weekend I had the pleasure of riding with several hardbooters who were doing everything in the park regular and switch and doing bumps regular and switch. I was sold. The next time I was out on the slopes was on all new race gear. That was all I needed to see in order to be sold. Sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled programming... Not so much a joke, a choice. I'm not riding 55 degrees backwards anywhere, except the odd traverse.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Gotcha. Very understandable. I would encourage you to let them know that, while it is not your preference, an accomplished rider who rides a lot of switch will still be able to do so on hardboots. Like it did for me, that may make them more interested in trying it. One thing that I always say is that they are still high performance setups - even when going switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinS Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 On the lift last night from a young snowboarder. "Is that a single ski?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Guy Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 When checking out my Prior 174 4WD he said "Is that a racing board?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 A skier behind me in the lift line today gave me a poke and said, "nice carving." The wife got a "nice turns" earlier in the day. Lots of posivibes from other snowboarders and skiers here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Guy Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 A little boy said "Are those blue things on the back rockets?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Oh, I hope you made his day and said, "Yes!...nuclear powered..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loc Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 The bottom of June Mountain is very wide with two lifts on both sides. Naturally, I always use it as a vanity run to show how an edge is suppose to be used. I was mixing up cross unders and overs and by the time I got to the chair the lifty said "oh so you're the hot carving guy on ski boots." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronG Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 It wasn't in the lift line but coming down Chair 7 at Summit today I got a big two thumbs up from a guy with a "that was awesome". Must've been that CODA board making me look good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateW Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 When checking out my Prior 174 4WD he said "Is that a racing board?" When people ask what I'm riding, I usually tell them it's a race board. It's the most understandable term I can think of. People say, "oh," whereas when I say it's an alpine snowboard they usually say, "huh?" I think the Olympics will give us all some help. When people ask, I'm going to tell them to watch the snowboarding GS event, or ask if they watched it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pebu Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 My board got a real long stare from a kid while in the lift line. The line moved and the kid didn't. Dad tells the kid to move. He grabs dad and says "look!" Dad looked unimpressed. The kid asked me what kind of board it was and I said it was an alpine board. He just said "Oh." So I gave him a BOL business card and told him to look it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Not quite the lift line: I was changing boards at my car just before lunch when an SUV pulled behind me and stopped quickly. I assumed they were hoping I was leaving so they could get my parking spot. Then the driver gets out and runs around the front of the SUV and towards me, saying: "Is that an alpine board?!?" We had a nice discussion, turns out they had a shorter Burton for his daughter but they were struggling with setting it up and the learning process. Gave them a Bomber card and exchanged emails with pointers to Jack's articles. Hopefully we can connect to get them off on the right foot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdyno Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 "It's been a while since I snowboarded, but why are you wearing ski boots?" I told her a bit about Alpine and to watch the olympics for it. She seemed interested and then went to look for her friends who ditched her. If only I were single..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 When people ask what I'm riding, I usually tell them it's a race board. I do that too. Also works to answer the boot / binding questions in one hit. They're for racing.... I get asked about my gear a fair bit whilst waiting cats & helis. Mostly people are old enough to be polite, so you don't hear any sneering. You definitely don't hear any once they have seen what race gear can do to powder through the trees ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Not really in the lift line today, but I was sitting on the side of a trail catching my breath when a skier stopped next to me and I looked up. All he said was "Thankyou". I blinked, and said "uhm.... for?" He replied with that response again, and I asked if I did anything wrong or if there was a problem. He then smiled and said "thankyou for riding a snowboard as God Intended it to be done"..... and then skies off. the funny part...... I was in softboots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewart Hodgins Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I was on the top of the hill with my Dad waiting for the hill to clear. I asked the older gentleman on skis if he would like to go. He said no I love watching you guys carve the hill go ahead! The same day a skier asked me if my snowboard was broken. I replied no I bought it this way. Perhaps it was the stubby nose. The day before we were riding with Bruce V. My Dad has a new VSR with a snake skin topsheet. Bruce loudly complemented my Dad on his huge snake!! Lots of funny looks in the lift line!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateW Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 "What the hell do you call that thing?" "It's a race board." "Oh. Are those ski boots?" "Nope, race boots." I explained the difference between carving and skidding as we rode the chair up. He was self-taught, fairly new, and I don't think carving had even occurred to him yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colintkemp Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 On the lift last night from a young snowboarder."Is that a single ski?" KevinS, I'm with ya. This past Saturday morning, I got a similar comment. I also heard [from two skiers behind us] "look, it's like a ski." *** I really do not go a day riding without at least one person asking "does that thing go fast?" Again from this past Saturday, it was two lifties who asked the question (Kessler 180 with Hangl). Nevertheless, I find that lifties are generally fired up to see alpine boards. Indeed, often lifties load ski patrol and one-man-out ski racers with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_ravens Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 This morning one of the lifties at Snow King said, "You ride that thing like it's a carving board! That's so cool!" He expressed amazement when I said, "Well, it IS a carving board!" I'm on a brand new Coiler Schtubbette, TD2s, and Raichles with a BTS kit..... :confused: Still, I guess I'll take it as a compliment, since the only other carvers he has seen are the likes of caspercarver and dredman - I'm kind of new to this carve thing so it's nice that I'm doing something that is recognizable as carving! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_roboteye Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 Him> Have you ever tried snowboarding? A good answer for this one is: "I was about to ask you the same thing" :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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