Eh stumpy, got a spare £600 and a week off from new years day. On me todd at the mo as all so called mates are messers. UPCA all in. Can bring cow girl outfit!
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Snowboarders ?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Quick question, are mitts uncool and a bit girly and ghey or ok. Answers from boarders only please as skiers would have no idea what I was talking about.
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" its difficult to learn to snowboard (first 3 days are tough)"
Yes but after 3 painful days you can more-or-less do it. I could basically carve a blue slope after 3 days of snowboarding lessons. It took me three weeks of lessons and two more weeks to achieve that on skis. I never managed powder on skis, but it's fairly straightforward on a snowboard.
Some caveats though -
1) I skied first, which probably made learning snowboarding easier
2) I had rubbish ski lessons
3) I learned on long skinnies, not modern skisPosted 1 year ago # -
Heh Swede.... Would have loved to come but thats the only week Mrs Stumps(skier)gets off until we go again in Feb. I have had a recent change of life plan and I intend to do a month or two on the slopes shacked up with buddies I could let you know details and you would be most welcome to come over for a week. Looks like I would be based at Vallandry below les Arcs.
Mitts....? You wear what you want sunshine you are already on the cool wall in my book just for having a go at snowboarding
Buzz..ditto me to...I came from a ski background but I wouldn't go back to skiing...But heh its all snow sport..each to their own.
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learned to ski.
learned to snowboard.
went skiing.
went snowboarding.
want to improve my snowboard trickability.
want to try ski-touring.
anyone got some scarpa avants for sale? - size 44.
(swede - mitts are fine. they're the only choice for me when it gets properly cold)
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Worldwide snowboard equipment sales are decreasing, whilst skiing increasing...
Is that true?
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TheSwede - Member
Quick question, are mitts uncool and a bit girly and ghey or ok. Answers from boarders only please as skiers would have no idea what I was talking about.Mitts rock, but these rock even more!
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wow
i have done both and both are great fun.
i have met both skiers and snowboarders and both groups contain a roughly equal proportion of great people.
i have played a couple of rounds of golf as well and they were a bit of a laugh.
netball is pretty crap tho.
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Most skiiers though will at least admit that a snowboard is a far superior vehicle for sliding down a powder covered hill.
Disagree. It's easier on a nice safe steady gradient. I'll never forget my mate Rob (most of my slope buddies are boarders btw) telling me how my new carvers were crap and how a board could go anywhere. As we hit the first virgin slope after a 2m dump in Arc1800 he hit a snow drift that I had just got air off. He stopped dead and spent the next hour trying to get out. At least on skis if you can get them on you can get moving, knackering though it may be. I use Pocket Rockets almost exclusively these days and float down the pow as well as any board. They are a nightmare on ice though but still better than a tea tray.
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Cheers stumpy. Let me know but funds / time may prove interesting though as going again in feb hopefully and spain biking in march
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WOW! I'm amazed at how some people are so sensitive/concerned as to whether they are thought of by others as being cool! Who really cares what other people think? I say be your own man, stuff the trends! FFS! Let the sheep follow you if they want to, but equally, if they don't who cares!
If you love the snow, who cares how you get down the mountain?
Can only be a bunch of kids who're getting steamed up about this.
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[quote]Worldwide snowboard equipment sales are decreasing, whilst skiing increasing...
Is that true?
[/quote]Yeah I think snowboard equipment has been in decline the last few years. I can't remember where the article was that I saw. A quick google shows that it certainly is the case for the US.
"Snowboard equipment sales were down -9%" and "Alpine ski equipment sales increased 2.5%"
"Snowboard equipment finished the 2009-10 season in decline at specialty retailers with unit sales down 7%" and "Alpine ski equipment sales increased 5%"
It does not surprise me really. Fashion victims are just as likely to ski as they are snowboard now, when before they'd only snowboard.
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It does not surprise me really
Me neither, although not quite for the same reason! Skiing has been on the slide (badoom-tish!) and snowboarding growing for so long that there had to come a switch-over point.
Here in the French Alps, from what I see around me, snowboarding has never been higher than maybe 25% of everyone on the hill. That's probably true for our guests as well - and that's despite us being very openly snowboard-friendly.
Probably adding to the statistics myself - planning to buy some skis this year (touring setup) but no/minimal board gear. I do have 8 boards already though - some of them are even rideable...
Posted 1 year ago # -
Now that's exhausted...
Lets talk about crash helmets for winter sports.
Are you in favour?
Should it be compulsory?
[runs away]
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Research has shown there's a rise of head and spinal cord injuries among skiers and snowboarders on the slopes. One way to avoid such potentially traumatic injuries is to make helmets compulsory.
There you go Buzz the blue touch paper has been lit (and also runs away)
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I wear a helmet...usually.
I knocked myself out for a few seconds in a halfpipe once...my own fault really...it was the first time I'd been in one.
A doctor who was in the lessons the next morning said that even if you're knocked out for a few seconds you should get yourself checked out.
I had a headache for a while but I had that before I banged my head anyway...free wine with meals in the chalet!
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We get up early and go to sleep late
Oooohhh very rock n roll? Insomniac maybe? Perhaps a warm milky drink before bedtime..
Posted 1 year ago # -
Shandy » The chat on here reminds me of the Crystal Holidays transfer bus, not in a good way.
Love it.
It's the people, not their equipment that define who they are and what they are like. Except Snowblades - I have an irrational dislike of Snowblades.
And I always wear a helmet. Much like many other activities (driving cars, riding bikes) the technology and the lifestyle being sold, both allows and encourages people to ski or board way above their abilities too soon. So the likelihood of a collision is high, and in the coming together of heads at a converging speed that could well be over 60kmh, I'd like to think that a helmet gives that slight advantage over a jesters hat.
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