Power To the Poachers
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- urmom0
Sup?
- sherman0
In 1989 we used to need a license for the 1 of the 2 hills here in town and the 2nd one didn't allow snowboarding for a few years after that.
- stem0
BTW, this is great marketing by Burton
- joyride0
stem... I don't think anyone is serious about the this is better then that... at least I'm not. It's all about a good time, and yeah, not dying!
- stem0
I don't know why it isn't all just lumped together and called 'snowplanks'...
I can see the difference from a sporting/competition point of view. However, in terms of pastime/holiday isn't it about bombing down a snow covered hill, catching the odd bit of 'air', trying not to smash too many bones and spending the evenings in the boozer?
The fact that there is seen to be a difference is simply down to peoples perception of themselves
- Faction180
jox is bitter. poor jox.
- emecks0
I spent every single winter weekend of my childhood up a sleety "mountain" in Scotland braving wind, ice and white-out conditions because my parents loved skiing. I was the youngest Scotsman and possibly the youngest Swiss to have made the crossing from Klosters (Switzerland) to Gargellen (Austria) and back again in one day on downhill bindings. (17 miles including 2 x 1000 metre climbs in SkiBoots without sealskins or touring bindings).
Snowboarding appeals to me despite all of the history I have on skis, but it would never replace skiing.
- jox0
And that's another thing. It's après-SKI. SKI! Why are they letting snowboarders in?
- stem0
Agree moth, if the attraction is the apres ski, why not just go to the costas like the rest of the brits. Oh, but skiing is far more sophisticated than that...
It's just snobbery.
- jox0
Then again, Elan wanted to focus on the crowd that knows how to work two objects down a hill instead of just one.
For the record, I was an instructor some ~10 years ago, too
:)
- stem0
Like I say, the two 'sports' are more closely related than each camps care to give credit for.
- moth0
I hate both camps.
They all ruin perfectly peaceful mountains with cheap bars and cafes.
And who ever thought of doing sport on a holiday? That's just wrong.
Frisbee on a beach is about as "sporting holiday" as I think is appropriate.
- joyride0
funny thing is, current ski tech came from watching snowboarders. The shape of skies, while always having a sidecut, only started to be able to carve in the last 10 years. The Elan (Forgot the name) was the first ski that got it's shape from watching snowboarders, ride. They wanted to make a ski that did what a snowboard can do...
- Skiers can also thank snowboarders for 'terrain parks'.czawada
- jox0
I agree with everything stem says.
And for the record, it is a million times more difficult to ski properly than to snowboard properly.
- stem0
What is the snowboarding version of fondue?
- stem0
The whole snowboarding thing started as some sort of dressed-down, anti-skiing pastime, but has just gone the same way as skiing in the respect that it is cliquey. It's an elitist pastime for rich kids trying to rebel against mummy and daddy (who probably look like the couple above)