Skiers vs snowboarders

[Neil Gendzwill]

According to this column (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/13861456.htm), this is the difference between us and them:


Skiers hate snowboarders. It's a generational thing. Skiers are (and here I am generalizing) middle-aged Republicans wearing designer space suits; snowboarders are defiant young rebels wearing deliberately drab clothing that is baggy enough to cover the snowboarder plus a major appliance. Skiers like to glide down the slopes in a series of graceful arcs; snowboarders like to attack the mountain, slashing, spinning, tumbling, going backward, blasting through snowdrifts, leaping off cliffs, getting their noses pierced in midair, etc. Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

[skatha]

I knew I was forgetting something-that nose piercing....

I'll be sure to let my skiier husband know he's supposed to be hating me prior to our nightly "therapy" lesson-he broke his leg, you know, in Nov. and I'm directing his rehab :eplus2:

[Marty]

I wonder, how that particular author sees freeskiers...

[Dave Pushee]

Taking a trip in the way-back machine, I recall having read a Dave Barry column about learning to snowboard. I think this must have been close to 15 years ago.

I was sure Barry must have watched me try to take my first run on a board. He pretty aptly described the impact of body slamming into New England hardpack after catching the heel edge. That's a move I like to cal the Power Snow Angel.

[Neil Gendzwill]

The link is actually to that column. Dave's description of a snowboard: "shaped like a giant tongue depressor and manufactured by the Institute of Extremely Slippery Things".

[FTA2R]

yes, he's a well known funnyman, but he's still the press, exagerrates things. I'm sure he's very knowledgeable about snowboarding :biggthump. just another not so funny guy IMO.

[ak_rider]

i must have hit the nose-pierce jump wrong cause i have a hole in my tongue :D

[ncermak]

now thats a funny article...

my only question is was the instructor an actual instructor, or just a buddy who snowboards?

[skatha]

"This is the voice of Satan".....

I always wondered where moguls really came from....I never bought that ski patrol in November argument....

[Dr D]

the last time this guy was on a hill was 1985.:lol:

[Allee]

Actually, from my recollections of learning to snowboard, that's pretty accurate. After my first three days, my butt and knees were black, my hands were so bruised that I couldn't cut my steak at dinner cos I couldn't grip the silver hard enough, and my friends had to give me five minutes warning if they wanted me to walk anywhere... I think they wondered if I'd ever learn to stand up!

[Gecko]

Actually, from my recollections of learning to snowboard, that's pretty accurate. After my first three days, my butt and knees were black, my hands were so bruised that I couldn't cut my steak at dinner cos I couldn't grip the silver hard enough, and my friends had to give me five minutes warning if I wanted me to walk anywhere... I think they wondered if I'd ever learn to stand up!.

I took an AM lesson at Stowe on my flatlam swallowtail Flite Rocket, and was struggling down Goat (making turns mind you) in a foot of fresh chop. Of course my second run on Goat got me threats from the Patrollers (Goat, Starr, National, and Liftline were off limits to snowboarders then) but I didn't spend in time in pain until I tried a halfpipe at stratton a few years later, Kelly Jo Legaz was a cool person to session with but I was bad

[Dr D]

I learned on an 80's burton with straight edges and no tail. I recall the learning curve being short but very steep. It also required copious amounts of duct tape. I was in love with the first assyms. now I see because they actually had a tail. I think my first board had something like 6" of split tail behind the rear binding.

[carvedog]

yes, he's a well known funnyman, but he's still the press, exagerrates things. I'm sure he's very knowledgeable about snowboarding :biggthump. just another not so funny guy IMO.

I think hes really funny. Took him rafting once and he's not funny in person but I love his writing. Missed the snowboard column so thanks Neil.
LMAO on that one.

I love when skiers ask me "Have you been out shredding it up dude?" Sounding like a used car salesman trying to butter you up for that Pontiac with 300K on it in the corner of the lot. NOT my lingo.

My answer. "I don't shred, I'm not rad and I ain't your dude."

[Tom S]

As a skiier and snowboarder... who could possibly care how someone slides down a mountain?

[Jack Michaud]

Dave Barry is freaking hilarious. If you do not think this is 100% funny and harmless, you are taking it the wrong way, and need to see a proctologist about that pole....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/snowboard/articles/barry.htm

[paragonUE]

as an alpine boarder, who happens to enjoy some mountain styles from the burton catalog. I witness skiers on a regular basis who dress in a very similar way. in fact last time I was at the mountain, I saw several skiers decked out in burton gear, it confused me a great deal.

[bobdea]

hahahaha skiers as elmer fud

LOL yeah, he's got a point.


New school skiers think they're ghetto fab, the one thing more annoying than a rich kid on a snowboard from suburbia trying to look and act like he's from from harlem is skier doing it. Skier park rats love to talk **** too, never seen anyone talk more trash than the skiers that ride the parks at mammoth.

[C5 Golfer]

Phunny thing is I will go out of my way to ride up the lift with skiers -- hate riding up with snowboarders that have no helmet, baggy pants, hyperactive a**holes and have no care for the personal space of the person next to them. So does that make me Elmer Fudd on an alpine board?? :biggthump

[carvedog]

as an alpine boarder, who happens to enjoy some mountain styles from the burton catalog. I witness skiers on a regular basis who dress in a very similar way. in fact last time I was at the mountain, I saw several skiers decked out in burton gear, it confused me a great deal.


Probably a bunch of transgendered cross dressers.

[paragonUE]

Probably a bunch of transgendered cross dressers.

yepp, has to be it,:eplus2: :lol:

[b0ardski]

How can they crossdress when all "new school" fashion is the same, you can only tell if they have four tips or two:lol:

[carvedog]

Phunny thing is I will go out of my way to ride up the lift with skiers -- hate riding up with snowboarders that have no helmet, baggy pants, hyperactive a**holes and have no care for the personal space of the person next to them. So does that make me Elmer Fudd on an alpine board?? :biggthump

Be vewy, vewy quite. I'm hunting jibbers. :biggthump

[patmoore]

As a practitioner of both arts I couldn't resist buying these shirts at Park City a couple of years ago.



http://i1.tinypic.com/xga4hz.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/xga6x4.jpg

[pebu]

I've been told that I'm not a snowboarder. I tried to dispute but they wouldn't hear it.

[willywhit]

I dare anyone to wear this getup on the hill

[paragonUE]

well, if thats a womens getup, its not that bad, but otherwise, ehhhh.....

[wavechaser]

I dare anyone to wear this getup on the hill

Willy, why are you selling? Specs? How many dayz on the suit?

[willywhit]

Willy, why are you selling? Specs? How many dayz on the suit?
saw the pants on SAC (maybe it was whiskey) the other day and then the matching jacket was on last night. Since jibbers think matching jacket & pants are cool these days to look like a fartbag commando,had to save that garb.
even a french fruitcake wouldn't rock that outfit...or would he ?
This was sweet, skipped it....too many rashguards already.

[Gecko]

After you.... :lurk:


I dare anyone to wear this getup on the hill

[Allee]

You need to hang at some of the resorts here. Everyone under thirty dresses in gear that looks like someone threw up on them.

[pebu]

saw the pants on SAC (maybe it was whiskey) the other day and then the matching jacket was on last night.
It was whiskey, I saw it too. Definitely an eyesore.
I knew somebody who wore some sort of fire-fighting suit. It looked like it was made from a space-blanket. It was actually kinda cool.

[willywhit]

You need to hang at some of the resorts here. Everyone under thirty dresses in gear that looks like someone threw up on them.

coupla weeks back, xmas shopping I found a Ronin Jacket in Lizardskin. Nice tech burton jacket, like $300 bucks but $125 at TJ Maxx.THEN....I found the matching pants, same exact Lizardskin print for like $100 bucks.
Just thinking.....how completely stoopid yet PIMP would ya look ?
Regardless, it was quality stuff for cheap(ish)
Full ON brownish lizard skin fartbag !

I know this thread is skier/boarder whatever but I have to laugh at some of the stuff people wear...to stay warm on the hill :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I really like the green wool hunting pants, black/red checkered wool buffalo plaid coat and the orange elmer fudd hat, leather gloves

[Allee]

I don't actually mind some of the pattern gear. Just the jacket with a pair of plain pants, or vice versa, actually looks OK, if you don't mind that you paid a bomb for your gear and next season the beautiful people won't be seen dead wearing it.

I was in Mission with Bartron a few weeks back and we found this burn-your-eyeballs orange jacket and pants set. They had some fluoro green pants as well that I'm sure glowed in the dark. All I could say was that you'd need to be a good rider to pull that stuff off...

[Neil Gendzwill]

I just keep wearing the same ol' black stuff year in year out. Fashion-forward, I ain't - one of the hazards of having 40 in the rear-view mirror.

[bobdea]

I've been told that I'm not a snowboarder. I tried to dispute but they wouldn't hear it.


I've had douchebags try that one with me, usually pointing out that they are on a solomon or a rosignol shuts them up.

[pebu]

I was actually told that by skiers. They try to mean it as a compliment, but it's pretty backhanded if you ask me.


No, I'm not a park monkey and I don't sit around the top of the hill with my belt around my knees. But dammit, I'm a Snowboarder.

[wavechaser]

I was in Mission with Bartron a few weeks back and we found this burn-your-eyeballs orange jacket and pants set. They had some fluoro green pants as well that I'm sure glowed in the dark. All I could say was that you'd need to be a good rider to pull that stuff off...

Two words...DAMIAN SANDERS!

http://www.alpinecarving.com/vint/exile/01.jpg

:biggthump

[bobdea]

http://www.alpinecarving.com/vint/exile/01.jpg WC
that is the most flamboyant nose grab
ever
in the history of man

[wavechaser]

WC
that is the most flamboyant nose grab
ever
in the history of man

In hard boots no less!

I was an Avalanche junkie from day one...it's what got me into hard boots in the first place...still have two old Avalanche stix on my apartment wall!

A bunch more on this page - from the original video:
http://www.alpinecarving.com/vint/exile/

[carvedog]

I was actually told that by skiers. They try to mean it as a compliment, but it's pretty backhanded if you ask me.


No, I'm not a park monkey and I don't sit around the top of the hill with my belt around my knees. But dammit, I'm a Snowboarder.


For some reason I still say that I am going skiing quite a bit. Which raises eyebrows on both sides of the aisle. The skiers say things like "I thought you were a snowboarder - dude?" The boarders say "Are you giving up your board?" Just doesn't make a darn bit of difference to me. Call me anything but don't call me late to dinner. When they are hoisting themself out of my trench then they can call me the sumbitch that wrecked the run. :biggthump

Serves em right if they are skidding instead of carving.

While not all black I am with Neil on the stealth thing. Even changed my helmet a couple of years ago to carbon gray from go-speed-racer-bubble-style red.