jp1 Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Twenty something lady on ski's, behind us today in lift line. Excuse me, "What is that Contraption" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Got a new one last weekend - "Are you guys skiers or snowboarders?" ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti_knee Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Kind of far from the lift line... but is that a monoski? Yes... crazy taper, almost looks like a dual sidecut 13M-50M or something crazy like that. Neat though. Really stiff in the middle to the back and floppy up front. Pretty girl is 5-month pregnant wife whose doctor couldn't quite visualize a ski lift nevermind skiing this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian M Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 ^ *confused* She... rides... that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti_knee Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Hardcore, knees together through neck high moguls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian M Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Hardcore, knees together through neck high moguls. *Sigh*... <3 <3 <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I was getting on the lift with two other high school coaches and one explains to the other, "That whole hardbooting scene...uh its more like a religious cult than anything else." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Adding to the normal confusion, my Tinkler "TNT" collects some comments such as these; "I have a split board too, but it doesn't look like yours" "I think splittys are the sh!t!, are you headed for the bc?" The Tinkler TNT snowboards are split at both the tip and tail , however it doesn't travel all the way down the board. Now add an asymmetrical Bomber Boiler plate heavily modified and four snow stix. YOU THINK you get questions? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 as I pull into the #3 chair on Aspen Mt. the Liftie says... "Yea, You Ride the Frozen Wave, just like the guy on the Cold Surf sticker" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinS Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Lifty last night "Cool! a good ol' Teleboard!" towards my coiler vsr .... <sigh> From a young kids snowboard instructor later that night "My kids and I were watching you, how do you turn like that and not fall on your face?!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) as I pull into the #3 chair on Aspen Mt. the Liftie says... "Yea, You Ride the Frozen Wave, just like the guy on the Cold Surf sticker" but of course, I use the Pseudomorph Style of Snowboarding I like that, next time someone asks "what do you cal that?" I'm gonna tell them psuedomorph! covers all my quirks nicely. Edited January 12, 2013 by b0ardski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lafcadio Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 tele skier: "Cool board. Do you also ride a snowboard?" me: "Thanks. But this is a snowboard." tele skier: "No it's not." me: "Yes, it is." tele skier: "I mean, a *real* snowboard." me: "This is a real snowboard. Do you also ski on real skis?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heroshmero Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) I had to laugh as I heard this one again... Me: These are snowboard boots. Skier: Are you sure? All humor aside, is anybody getting tired of the barrage of questions? I'm thinking I need to learn a few phrases in Russian so people will leave me alone. Edited January 14, 2013 by heroshmero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 I'm thinking I need to learn a few phrases in Russian so people will leave me alone. "Ya nye ponyeemayo Anglesky." ^:D Non-alpine related: "On Hutch (a short steep black) some snowboarder went sideways and it's now a strip of ice...", by a fatso, oldish female two-planker. Behinde me, in soft voice to another: "It's an alpine snowboard." - some people know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 All humor aside, is anybody getting tired of the barrage of questions? I'm thinking I need to learn a few phrases in Russian so people will leave me alone. I only get pleasant sensible questions, and quite a lot of people know precisely what I'm riding. Maybe I just naturally discourage the idiots, or maybe not. The other week at Hemlock in BC a chap on the chair told me politely how one of his mates had "one of those boards, only bigger". I laughed and said that most North Americans like big things. He said that he was trying to persuade his mate to give it up, as they're rubbish in powder, and that's what they mostly ride. I laughed, wished him a nice day, then ripped the **** out of the fresh on the hill. Well it's only resort powder - not the real thing - so a slalom board is as good as anything else ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heroshmero Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 I only get pleasant sensible questions, and quite a lot of people know precisely what I'm riding. Maybe I just naturally discourage the idiots, or maybe not. People are nice enough. I think it's that Americans are so damn clueless about hardbooting. I get lots of... What is that? Are those ski boots? Is that hard? Are those bindings easier than snowboard bindings? etc etc I'm sure it doesn't help that at Hoodoo, the local hill where I ride the most, I'm the only hardbooter besides my wife (and she only puts in a third of the days that I do). Most of the time I am a good ambassador for carving and chat with them but sometimes I just want to ride and not answer the same questions over and over. Time to start handing out the "this is hardbooting" cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjones Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I've only been hard booting now a short while, bout a year or so... but I managed to garner a few strange looks and comments on my board... however... for those wanting the questions to stop... For christmas this year I received 2 saw blade style rubber mohawks... stuck them to my helmet splitting center (cuz i have a switch for opening and closing vents on the helmet there). now people look at me and the board, smile, and say "nice helmet man!". Also has the side effect of making me VERY easy to find on the mountain. lol I kinda miss the questions already but the mohawks are just funny and fun. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breeseomatic Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 From a hardbooter at Mammoth who passed me, I tried to keep up and failed. We rode the chair up. I was riding my vintage 1999 Burton Supermodel in softies. Him: "You carve pretty decent in that setup." Me: "Thanks, I was trying to follow your lines after you flew by me, but you know, I'm at a disadvantage." Him: "Have you ever thought of getting into an Alpine setup?" Me: "Yep, every time I get off the lift I think if why I left it at home this weekend." Him: "Haha, next time bring it!" Then some small talk about gear. The best part was a little free advise on reducing my high back angle on the front to stop twisting the board longitudinally on my heel-side carves and squatting down a bit more to help absorb the chatter from a soft, old, cap construction, glass board. Thanks anonymous carver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dano Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Remark from my wife last sunday in the lift line... "What? Are you NORMAL now?!" ( She was looking down at the "tiny" new 165 cm BX I was on instead of the usual tanker 192 or other square tail ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Guy Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 In the mens room from a skier while at the urinal... "Dude what is wrong with your boots. Do those springs actually do anything or just for show" Answer- "They just make me look cool" "Right on" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 While carving under the chair at Schweitzer last week at N.I.C.E., I heard a girl on the lift say: "Look, everybody's doing that now!...What is it?" ("Everybody" wasn't strictly accurate, but 10 carvers loading the chair an hour before the general public can make a pretty big impression ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Liftie: "I love watching you ride. I want to carve like that, got any tips?" A guy on a local car forum, after linking to Johnasmo's 2012 Snowmass video: "You look like a g*d*mn skier. Lame." LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I was in the singles line at the local hill the other day when I heard, "Alpine guy, hey alpine guy!" I thought, "well, at least he got it right", and turned around to see a ski instructor with four very young students in tow. "Like herding cats, eh?", I said to him. With a harried look on his face he asked me if I would mind taking a couple of the kids up the lift with me. I said sure, and then he says, "Please don't tell them that what you're doing is way cooler, I don't want to lose my clientele". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crote123 Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 in chair: Jibber: "What's that?" pointing at my board Me: "It's an alpine snowboard" Jibber: "Huh?". Me: "Yes, alpine, or carve board, race board, ..." Jibber still confused. After *almost* convincing him it's a snowboard, Jibber: "What do you do with that?" Me: "I carve, I turn on my edges without skiding making nice single arcs" Jibber: "That's boring!" oh well, I guess I won't be able to convert that one. He even asked how I got my snowboard modified. Next chair up: Skier: "Wow, I saw you coming down, that was some nice carving. That's snowboarding!" Some know, others are just clueless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 Last week, while clipping into Coiler 177, at the top of the Eagle Chair, where park goes to the left, and JJA carving run to the right, I heard a smiling voice calling: "Boris, are you going to the park?". Looked up to see Andrew, our chief staff trainer and park setter. Sure I did - hit the biggest kicker thay had set at that time. Next lap I stopped to high-five him, for the super-smooth landing ramp he constructed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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