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Who thinks poles matter?

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madmasta_jib
Posts: 259 - Karma: 9
Seriously, my poles are all banged up and are only 110 cm. and im not short either. i like em short so i feel like nothings in my hand
Mar 10 2006 3:23PM
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Billiards.
Posts: 6853 - Karma: 816
Every one who said they cant ski with out them and never will ski without them I feel sorry for. Poles are important for big mountain and backcountry. They also help keep me balanced in the air. But skiing with out poles is one of the best things I have discovered. When I film I use poles, but with out poles I feel soo free. Everyone has to just except it, the nopoles steeze is coming. And when you dont use poles grabs are way easier and it takes more talent. Nopoles are siiick.
Mar 10 2006 11:35PM
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table_top08
Posts: 863 - Karma: 10
no pole steeze makes you look like a gay ass blader. and why wouldnt you use poles?
Mar 10 2006 11:37PM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
are you fuckign serious....did you read this thread? do you know who "andy" is...YOU SUCK, YOU COCKBAG
Mar 10 2006 11:39PM
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espong1321
Posts: 763 - Karma: 10
why would u
Mar 10 2006 11:39PM
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Literature
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Do you know anyone?

As skiiers, we have been taught our entire lives to use poles, because to many people, poles are just as important to skiing as boots or bindings. We have gone so far in this direction that we don't even know what to do with our hands when we dont have poles.

Tomarrow, I am going to ski everything without poles. I want to seriously try it, because I really haven't given it the chance it deserves.
Mar 10 2006 11:45PM
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Billiards.
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Thank you. Before ragging on it, you all need to try it. Thank you so much. Its wierd but i feel way strongly about this. I ski and film mostly with poles. But skiing without them is heaven. One of my favorite ways to ski a rail park. And its not like blading!!!! blades are tiny little skis that you cant get good carve on anyways.
Mar 10 2006 11:50PM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
yea the whole reason blading is gay has to do with the length of the skis, nto the lack of poles....who made that rule anyways?
Mar 10 2006 11:53PM
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Literature
Posts: 13673 - Karma: 3,085
I normally ski with poles, but I want to try something different.
Mar 10 2006 11:56PM
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Aseets
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It really makes you feel free-er on the hill. My favorite it just straight sliding rails w/o poles, it just feels good.
Mar 10 2006 11:57PM
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Billiards.
Posts: 6853 - Karma: 816
word. It feels more natural. idk but its just the best.
Mar 10 2006 11:59PM
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Aseets
Posts: 2171 - Karma: 17
Yeah and getting your whole hand on for a grab is niiiiice.
Mar 11 2006 12:24AM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
I broke my pole, this just reminds me that I need to get new 20 dollar ones that work just fine from sportscheck tomorrow
Mar 11 2006 12:51AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
poles are a part of skiing dude. skiing without them, needed or not, is just gay. besides they help with the yardsales.

-- K I D
Mar 11 2006 12:55AM
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timoski
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says who?
Mar 11 2006 12:58AM
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BigJerkDog
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ski with poles or you are gay just like the rainbow motha up above.
Mar 11 2006 12:59AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
oh, man- peps who ski without poles just are not right. just my thoughts. its a part of skiing. why not just ditch them in the x games then? they all use them- why? because they just do
Mar 11 2006 1:01AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
last thought- if you want to ski w/out pole go ahead and be different. You won't change anything and just look like a homo. If anyone is going to change skiing, new school skiing, to be skiing without poles its going to be someone big. bigger then you. so ski w/out then and be happy. until a pro chooses to not use them everyone else will. fact.
Mar 11 2006 1:16AM
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SteezePatrol
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clockwork orange was a weird movie, and your a weird kid
Mar 11 2006 1:17AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
andy mahre
Mar 11 2006 1:17AM
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Swick825
Posts: 1798 - Karma: 11
if we didnt have poles we would be no better than snowboarders- hopping and wiggling along the flats.
Mar 11 2006 1:21AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
honestly i think poles are somewhat useful if youre skiing a tech line and you need an adjustment, but for super non-tech stuff, there really is no real reason....theyre kind of like training wheels. in the park im sure even crazier grabs could be done w/o poles, and in general switch steeze seems beter too
Mar 11 2006 1:21AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
except that we can skate...
Mar 11 2006 1:22AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
poles are cool. they need to be incorped into tricks more.

hit the milk bar
Mar 11 2006 1:26AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
you'd actually rather start seeing pole flips ac opposed to new sick doublegrab variations?!?!?
Mar 11 2006 1:28AM
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BigJerkDog
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besides poles are good for knocking snowboarders on the head as you ski by them as they sit on their ass in the middle of the hill/mtn.

i don't hate.
Mar 11 2006 1:29AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
LAX- F no.
you are strong on this issue. why? poles belong in skiing. now
Mar 11 2006 1:31AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
im not really that strong for it, i just think nopoles has a place a skiing, be it innovation, balance learning, enforcing fundamentals. and to deny nopoles a place in skiing is ignorant, shortsighted and wrong
Mar 11 2006 1:44AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
To live is to die. As is to ski w/out poles is to ski with. I concur poles are not a crucial factor of what is that is now. They do however belong. I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to obtain the unknown. Our pale reason hides the infinite from us. But, keep the poles for now. Maybe its just me- I’ve had the same pair for about 10 years. They are beat to hell but are a part of me when I ski. Can I ski with out them- yes, but I won’t. So F it- ski with or with out. I’m just going to say that you will be the minority w/out- but hey that is a good thing. Stand out. What are you going to plant on each mogul as you pass it?
Mar 11 2006 1:45AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
i never said i ski all the tiem without, but i enjoy the experience of not having them. just as living a minimalistic ski bum lifestyle gives you perspective on how useless and retarded alot of pop culture and our obsession with technology is, and how doing drugs give you a different perception of reality, a differnt way to view it, (what is addiction, how differnt is choclate addiction from drug addiction etc.)...

it just gives you a differnt perspective. the main thing its done for me is that i like initiating my turns without having to pole plant, THE REALIZATION THAT ARMS ARE IN NO WAY INVOLVED IN TURNING, BUT SIMPLY HELP YOUR MOMENTUM WAS pretty cool, sorry i didnt mean the caps, but im too lazy to retype that
Mar 11 2006 1:50AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
i think nopoles can really help your balance (read: steezze), ski fundamentals (not poleplanting), and can definately creat some sick grabs
Mar 11 2006 1:52AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
oh yea and i only realized this because i broke my pole in line trying to unbend it and wouldn't have otherwise, so other people who jsut blindly say somethign is gay without trying it or even thinking of the possibilities shoudl expand more
Mar 11 2006 1:54AM
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BigJerkDog
Posts: 20 - Karma: 13
Quote LAX: so other people who jsut blindly say somethign is gay without trying it or even thinking of the possibilities shoudl expand more

so "welly" put my friend. Expand more I will.
Mar 11 2006 2:01AM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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Try skiing big mountain lines without poles, it would be retarded, you could get away with in the park though seeing how you don't even need to turn or pole plant
Mar 11 2006 3:04AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
i have, sort of, not real big mountain, but ive done small hucks and when you think about it you don't pole plant in big mountain you carve (well not really carve, but make huge sweeping turns) mostly, unless its super tech or rediculous, all you need to do to turn is shift your weight left or right...i mean i abide by the rules of the less turns the better...i agree, but like mellow shit like devils castle or the shoulder were fun and different wihtout poles
Mar 11 2006 3:14AM
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Mahre
Posts: 2507 - Karma: 490
so i skim through this shit...all i can do is laugh....yes everyone, you better wait till the big names dont use poles to not use them yourselves....skiing isnt about the freedom to do what YOU want, its doing what the PROS do...isnt it? and also...as you plant your pole on those 6 moguls in a row, i will make 1 turn across the top of them all without poles.
Mar 11 2006 3:37AM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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Yeah I agree to an extent, a lot of lines have big sweeping sections then really tech billy's in the middle of them. I guess you don't really need poles but not only would you look like a skiblader, you couldnt push up terrain without poles very easily, let alone traverses. I just don't see the advantage of not using them.
Mar 11 2006 3:43AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
i think it expands your skiing...or at least the way you think about it
Mar 11 2006 3:46AM
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espong1321
Posts: 763 - Karma: 10
a switch turn perhaps?
Mar 11 2006 1:05PM
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duhamelski
Posts: 3842 - Karma: 192
poles just feel comfortable in your hands. and they are nice for getting speed for urban stuff
Mar 11 2006 2:23PM
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grubix2
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I'm not really a fan of the no poles steeze. Thats mostly because most people who don't use them look like total retards. Basically look like skiboarders. But if you can rock the no poles, with out making your arms all stiff and looking like an idiot, more power to you.
Mar 11 2006 2:35PM
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eastchris
Posts: 674 - Karma: 16
my poles are old, bent and spray painted. I stiill ski with them through becuase it feels weird without them plus you look retarded
Mar 11 2006 2:53PM
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deathcookie
Posts: 1800 - Karma: 1,196
i like skiing with poles that are really short.
Mar 11 2006 2:54PM
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BusyJohnSohn
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i feel so awkward without them and i dont know where to put my hands. It also helps me to lean forward and not chill in the backseat
Mar 11 2006 5:26PM
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wykydrydyr
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i can do a 720 on flat ground
Mar 11 2006 5:27PM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
yes hence you are a bad skier and you need the crutch of poles to ski right. if you were able to stay out of back seat without poles, and then you used poles...wouldn't you be a better skiier????
Mar 11 2006 5:48PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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same here
Mar 11 2006 6:01PM
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timoski
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thats progressive as fuck
Mar 11 2006 6:02PM
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bass_munkie
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each to their own but for me i gots to ski with poles. after race training, moguls training and skiing a wide variety of terrain all over the hill i find myself needing them in the park. i feel real unstable without them. i feel like i've given it enough chance when i've been filming so i'm gonna stick with what i know.

but i have respect too people out there that make it look good. i don't think there are many skiers that can... it rarely looks natural. if you make it look good have fun with it. i don't think it'll catch on outside the park though.
Mar 11 2006 7:20PM
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Billiards.
Posts: 6853 - Karma: 816
I stongly disagree with you. They belong in big mountain skiing, not park skiing. Its morefun and you can steez it more. I feel more stylish without them. let me repeat myself, skiing without poles is the most fun thing ever.
Mar 11 2006 7:52PM
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