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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
what the hell is this? http://burton.com/default.aspx watch that video about poachers and then see how you feel about burton
Dec 14 2007 3:43PM
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Pirruccio
Posts: 1301 - Karma: 70
im never buying burton
they dropped anon skiers
and i bought a pair of gloves and they fucking suck
and know there not a park glove
Dec 14 2007 3:46PM
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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
i mean this is no way to go about letting snowboarders on mountains...thanks a lot burton
Dec 14 2007 3:46PM
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lalalalaura
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 68
you're stupid
Dec 14 2007 3:47PM
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TylerS
Posts: 2720 - Karma: 49
no, burton is sick
Dec 14 2007 3:47PM
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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
constructive critism please? what is this 2nd grade
Dec 14 2007 3:49PM
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chrismoJBEATS
Posts: 5898 - Karma: 44
burton only makes good boards and binders, their outerwear, to me, doesnt last long and isnt high quality, tho some of it is sick lookin, i would not buy it. I do have a pair of burton gloves, will i wear them? yes, do i like them, eh...I also have anons, do i like the fact they dropped their skiers, yes and no.. i like it because y would we support them if their company is going back to their "roots" ( which on a sidenote i think is actualy digressing the sport) but i will wear my anons but i wont buy another pair.
Dec 14 2007 3:53PM
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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
yeah but i have to admit (i snowboard) skiing is our roots
Dec 14 2007 3:55PM
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TheButterHashira
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I know that contest is the dumbest shit ever.
Dec 14 2007 4:01PM
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STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
i dont know whats wrong with all you, that shit is hilarious to me.  Snowboarders are some of the funnest dudes to rip it up with.
Dec 14 2007 4:06PM
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Frza
Posts: 438 - Karma: 10
hahaha that was great, fuck all the gapers that are hating on the boarders.
Dec 14 2007 4:20PM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
im never buying burton or anon, i never have and never will
Dec 14 2007 4:23PM
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bigwhite.steeze
Posts: 8227 - Karma: 1,030
oh my god you are so wrong its unbelievable.

Burton makes the worst boards and bindings in the snowboard industry, and this is a well known fact. The quality is terrible. The only reason to buy burton is to get a new board every year, because you will almost guaranteed have to warranty yours at the end of the season if your a solid rider. There outerwear is known to be alot better than there hardgoods and havent personally heard of too many complaints witht eh quality of there outerwear.
Dec 14 2007 4:32PM
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BvK
Posts: 868 - Karma: 11
I have a burton jaket, and its great, so yeah
Dec 14 2007 4:39PM
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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
burton doesnt = snowboarding
Dec 14 2007 4:43PM
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Rbamf
Posts: 792 - Karma: 15
There's nothing wrong with burton's contest.  read the mission statement.  this is supposed to be a free country.  the more stupid rules like this are abolished, the more free our country becomes.  i don't know about you, but I value my freedom.  as it is, i don't feel like i have enough.  now, if i want to ride with my friends that snowboard at taos, i can.

get off you fascist pedestal, snowboarders are people too.  a lot of them are friends of mine.
Dec 14 2007 6:28PM
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ride-rider
Posts: 1761 - Karma: 20
so what? i think skiing is sick, and im a snowboarder.  alot of my friends ski and i snowboard witht them.  It dosent matter wheather your on 1 stick or 2! its like racism of the sticks.
Dec 14 2007 6:32PM
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billyblindbeatoffboy
Posts: 226 - Karma: 49
Snowboarding is so rebellious Who wants to ride at those dumps anyway they all looked shitty except alta, and Snowbird is right next to that and they allow snowboards. who cares
Dec 14 2007 6:56PM
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a-line
Posts: 970 - Karma: 10
Yeah fuck Burton, even my snowboarder friends don't buy their stuff.  Anyways why not support ski companies especially smaller ones rather than a huge corporate snowboard company that thinks they are far superior to skiers.
Dec 14 2007 7:05PM
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kslattery
Posts: 196 - Karma: 158
i dont like burton but snowboarders should be able to shred anywhere skiers can
Dec 14 2007 7:10PM
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grahamhowe
Posts: 167 - Karma: 158
do some research bud, u may not like there boards or there company in general.but the technology in burton boards is top of the line. and there bindings are up there too.
Dec 14 2007 7:14PM
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evan25
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im using my second red helmet this year and it is a quality helmet
Dec 14 2007 7:16PM
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grahamhowe
Posts: 167 - Karma: 158
the old guy who is interviewed is right, snowboarding is a culture. different resorts try to apeal to different types of people. these places may not want boarders because they want to apeal to a much older croud who generally ski. or parents who think that snowboarders are hooligans or bad people. it makes sense not to let boarders into certain places if they dont want that type of croud.
Dec 14 2007 7:17PM
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VTtreeskier
Posts: 1833 - Karma: 64
I can understand why boycotting buton outerwear as a skier is legit, but y do u want to boycott them because of this, i ski with boarders just as much as i ride with skiers and its just straight up discriminatory that resorts dont let boards ride their mountains, how would we feel if there were mountains that were sick and only allowed boarders. Burtons not so much ragging on skiers with this poaching shit as they are gapers, and whats wrong with raggin on gapers.
Dec 14 2007 7:18PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,537
who gives a fuck about burton!? BOYCOTT RCR
Dec 14 2007 7:39PM
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pfutz
Posts: 174 - Karma: 10
Burton boards and bindings are solid, the poaching contest is great.

This thread on the other hand.... is kinda lame. 
Dec 14 2007 7:44PM
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tsmack
Posts: 69 - Karma: 10
guys, i snowboard, im saying this is the wrong way to let us on the mountain, it will give the mountains an excuse to bitch at us for being dicks
Dec 14 2007 8:11PM
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BobYohan
Posts: 3001 - Karma: 375
burtons marketing strategy has always included hating on skiing. if you reward them for that you're that bitch in class who tries so hard to be friends with the kids who make fun of him. have a little backbone
Dec 14 2007 8:56PM
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sdfjklioeur
Posts: 2082 - Karma: 114
im sorry but your retarded.


Dec 14 2007 9:05PM
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aronSKIP
Posts: 124 - Karma: 11
If there were snowboarding only resorts, we'd be doing the same shit.
Dec 14 2007 9:18PM
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.oz.
Posts: 743 - Karma: 40
i like the contest. its creative and entertaining. im not saying i like burton i just like the contest.
Dec 14 2007 9:26PM
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Flarestrike
Posts: 437 - Karma: 18
If you want ski gear stick with Orage, there gear is for skiiers and they have really unique designs and stuff...burton grew up making boards so they will stick with the market they started with.

Direct from burton website:
"Burton Snowboards is a rider driven company solely dedicated to creating the best snowboarding equipment on the planet." 
Dec 14 2007 9:31PM
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Elijah.
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Dec 14 2007 9:47PM
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sean2martin
Posts: 41 - Karma: 10
i think that its gay that those mountains wont let snowboarders there. HOWEVER, a bunch of jackasses going in there and causing problems, is just going to justify why those mountains dont let boarders in, and will only create more problems, solve nothing.
Dec 14 2007 9:55PM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,805
Their boards are...alright. But there are better, more advanced companies out there, that I would rather bring my business to.

Bindings are up there too? You've got to be kidding. Their bindings are garbage. From personal experience to word of mouth. I've said it many times before. Their quality does not match their prices. End of story.
Dec 14 2007 10:44PM
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KRAMPUSNTROLLZ
Posts: 2715 - Karma: 355
first of all what pisses me off the most is skiers who wear burton stuff. second burton is the wal mart of the snow worl mass producing crap for crap people.
Dec 14 2007 10:50PM
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saucybiscuits
Posts: 2554 - Karma: 173
prty much sums it up.
Dec 14 2007 10:52PM
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RRP-llc
Posts: 205 - Karma: 10
Then why do TONS of pros, who are sponsored by other binding brands, use Burton bindings?  Travis Rice has been on Cartels for a long time even though he is riding for Bent Metal, and there are a much more.

I love how all the skiers are hating on Burton because they are corporate.  They are still private (owned by Jake).  How many ski companies can say that?  In 30 years if Armada or 4FRNT are the same size as Burton is now will you say the same thing?


Final thoughts... You could argue the contest worked (Taos).  I said COULD.

Hasn't this been beat to death already in other threads?

I agree with the post a few up, worry about RCR not this contest.

--rick
Dec 14 2007 10:57PM
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MadSteezin
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I think its great. More power to them. I don't think mountains should be segregated.
Dec 14 2007 11:26PM
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JstHuckIt
Posts: 422 - Karma: 16
So violating property rights is a form of freedom?  You do know that the dudes who started this country intended that only people who own property, should be allowed to vote...I don't care what Burton does...but if anything they are jst proving why those mts don't allow snowboarders in the first place...
Dec 14 2007 11:43PM
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FUUUCK
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not really
Dec 14 2007 11:57PM
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PacificRimJob
Posts: 24703 - Karma: 29,680
I have never liked burton, but i lost all respect for them when they bought up forum...

took the most core boarding company over the last 10 years and practically fucked it all up.
Dec 15 2007 12:28AM
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PacificRimJob
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With that said. they gain back a little bit after seeing what this shit is about...


haha.. I FUCKING LOVE IT.

and it actually makes me want to fucking poach so bad... I hate the gaper fucks that I saw at Taos and shit...

and Alta was lame too, because they were pissed i skied "backwards"

fuck that shit... all out protest man..
Dec 15 2007 12:33AM
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ramennoodles
Posts: 226 - Karma: 10
dopest contest ever! It would be funny as fuck being one of those dudes getting harassed by some power hungry ski patroller
Dec 15 2007 12:40AM
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[fisher]
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Am I the only one to notice that the people hating on this contest or "boycoting burton" have less than 500 post?

I think this contest is amazing, i couldn't stop lauging about it.

As for boycotting burton, good for you, I personally try to buy orage stuff over any thing else because it is skiier based.

Also about how you don't like how they droped skiiers, why should they have skiiers?  They are a snowboarding company not a skiing company.  Whats next, Line or Armada signing a snowboarder to promote skiing?
Dec 15 2007 12:48AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,861
its ridiculous how a mountains can ban all snowboarders and i think its a genious contest. but burton makes shitty clothes (gloves jackets stuff like that) i dont know enough about their boards and boots to determine if those are shit to.
Dec 15 2007 12:57AM
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liaosongfang
Posts: 385 - Karma: 43
you're a complete dumbass.  ya, their boards suck.  that's why they're the biggest board company there is, they have the sickest team, they've been making board since forever....should i continue?  ya, they got huge from making crap boards?  that's their bread and butter.  they're a board company.  they made boards long before they made outerwear.  sure they'll have a board every so often with some sketchy quality.  who doesn't?  my father in law knew jake and started one of the first snowboard companies but got out of the industry because he didn't like the whole scene.  now he only rides burton stuff cause it's quality.  how would you know anyway?  "it's a well known fact."  give me a break.  some of your friends probably say that so therefore it's a well known fact.  total fag. 

ya, i think the contest is pretty gay.  they're trying too hard to be all hardcore.  i think it's funny to go poach some lines but i think it's gay the image they're trying to sell.  same goes for dropping their skiers.  gay.  just trying to sell an image.  it's just about marketing.  gay.  doesn't change the fact that they make sick boards though.
Dec 15 2007 1:09AM
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Johnolerud
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yup I'm saying this is all about marketing and to get exposure....if they're so "core" maybe Jake should stop doing ads for hewlett packard and crushing little shops that pushed Burton for years before they could open burton specific stores(don't know the shop stuff firsthand but hearing stories of it). 

Yeah, stupid those areas don't allow boarding, but 4 areas, whatever..spend your money elsewhere...kids are gonna go get locked up trying to be all crazy for their videos etc, end up having weed in their pocket and get a real arrest....guaranteed that stuff happens....

will make for some hilarious videos though.......
Dec 15 2007 8:53AM
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mtdg311
Posts: 93 - Karma: 10
So just cause people have more of a life than sitting on here all day every day making useless posts, that makes them less intelligent or their opinion less valuable?  Sorry we can't all be as cool as you. 
Dec 15 2007 11:06AM
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SkierX
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You like your freedoms as long as you can tell others what to do.

When you spend millions of dollars in buying a business, you can run it how you wish and provide a product of your choice. If it's a poor choice, the business will fail.
Dec 15 2007 11:09AM
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.Capn.
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I like snow boarders but I hate Burton. This contest would be a whole lot funnier if their marketing strategy wasnt to exclude skiers and then they just excpect to be included in places there not allowed.
Dec 15 2007 11:29AM
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