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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,725
    yes but for 350~500 squids you re getting a top of the range board/skis, so opne could argue it's actually 10 times cheaper! :P
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,860
    anton1r wrote:
    Since matt's uber expensive board has almost killed the thread. Time to ask another question...

    Who rides/ski's throughout the year in domes or on dryslopes or are we all 1 week in the alps kinds of people?
    Nah, the indoor one are a rip-off and the outdoor ones are like giving cookbooks to the hungry. Prefer to wait for the real thing.
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  • anton1r
    anton1r Posts: 272
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    anton1r wrote:
    Since matt's uber expensive board has almost killed the thread. Time to ask another question...

    Who rides/ski's throughout the year in domes or on dryslopes or are we all 1 week in the alps kinds of people?
    Nah, the indoor one are a rip-off and the outdoor ones are like giving cookbooks to the hungry. Prefer to wait for the real thing.

    Amen to that lad, Plus the indoors slopes are too short! By the time you've put a couple turns in it's time to wait in a drag lift line to go back up.. snoooze!
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,860
    Yep, I'm off on hols for a few days and am taking a few ski mags to read and get the juices flowing :wink:
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Earlier in the thread a couple of us talked about learning to ski, or already have done.

    On the subject of trying something new I'd throw something else into the mix.

    On your next boarding holiday, if there is no decent powder and all the offpiste is skiied-out rather than head to the park, get down to the hire shop and grab hold of a full on alpine carving setup.

    Hardboot riding on a freecarving or detuned race-type board is something totally different and something every rider should have a serious go at.
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  • kona_matt
    kona_matt Posts: 475
    Daz555 wrote:
    On your next boarding holiday, if there is no decent powder and all the offpiste is skiied-out rather than head to the park, get down to the hire shop and grab hold of a full on alpine carving setup.

    Hardboot riding on a freecarving or detuned race-type board is something totally different and something every rider should have a serious go at.

    the style poice would lock me up for the rest of the police and my friends would never talk to me again :wink:
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  • anton1r
    anton1r Posts: 272
    kona_matt wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    On your next boarding holiday, if there is no decent powder and all the offpiste is skiied-out rather than head to the park, get down to the hire shop and grab hold of a full on alpine carving setup.

    Hardboot riding on a freecarving or detuned race-type board is something totally different and something every rider should have a serious go at.

    the style poice would lock me up for the rest of the holiday and my friends would never talk to me again :wink:

    + I don't have the balls to ride fast enough to justify that sort of get-up. Maybe a good time to hire ski's though!
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  • paul.skibum
    paul.skibum Posts: 4,068
    kona_matt wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    On your next boarding holiday, if there is no decent powder and all the offpiste is skiied-out rather than head to the park, get down to the hire shop and grab hold of a full on alpine carving setup.

    Hardboot riding on a freecarving or detuned race-type board is something totally different and something every rider should have a serious go at.

    the style poice would lock me up for the rest of the police and my friends would never talk to me again :wink:

    You wink but that is actually how most people would think.

    I took up cross country skiing last season - teaching and for pleasure - and loads of people just joked about it - they were amazed to find out that all the park staff went out after work cross country skiing - these are the guys in the baggies ripping around on their boards that after work pull on a pair of leggings and haul it round a xc trail. I also saw one of them out on an alpine board on the ice.

    The true enthusiasts will try a new thing even if its not cool - the pretenders will always just pretend.

    I'm not having a go at you Matt I am just generalising. By the way I am a ski and cross country ski instructor and also ride my board from time to time (slowly!).
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  • kona_matt
    kona_matt Posts: 475
    paul.skibum wrote:
    You wink but that is actually how most people would think.

    i know, that's why i said it
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