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wrenegade
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Check this shit out.










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Aug 24 2003 3:06AM
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wrenegade
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McConkey, sorry I can't spell






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Aug 24 2003 3:06AM
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caylorswift
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i want some


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Aug 24 2003 3:13AM
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ReggaeConcept1
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shit, those puppies look about 120 underfoot

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Aug 24 2003 3:20AM
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thuglas
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holy shit!!! they're like waterskis! what happened to the spatulas?
Aug 24 2003 3:37AM
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caylorswift
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they are waterskis. read the picture properties


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Aug 24 2003 3:46AM
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doghoy
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buy me some

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Aug 24 2003 5:23AM
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The_Professor
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those are stinger water skis, he mounted them up to show the advanteges of the spatula technology, you can turn side ways on the steepest of steepest slopes effortless because they are so big, there is a clip of him in focused sliding this gigantic face the measured 45 degrees entirely sideways

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Aug 24 2003 5:53AM
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Matty.
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i wonder how well they ski

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Aug 24 2003 5:53AM
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The_Professor
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he said ' the greatest powder skiing ever'

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Aug 24 2003 5:56AM
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Hedekar
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I have said it before, Shane McConkey is a GOD.






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Aug 24 2003 7:25AM
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doghoy
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word to that

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Aug 24 2003 7:33AM
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P-JO
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Id like to try them skis out myself.




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Aug 24 2003 8:06AM
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Schmitz
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So is it possible to just buy some water skis mount them and then ski the pow? do they not need edges??






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Aug 24 2003 7:15PM
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Schmitz
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and what is the technological advance's in the spatula's rather a normal pair of water skiis?






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Aug 24 2003 7:19PM
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huckster989
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you need edges to ski so they really only slide sideways but its wicked cool
the magazine is called 'POWDER' cool! - my stupid non-skiing friend
Aug 24 2003 9:14PM
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dave_euler
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i saw a pic of him sliding sideways on those things on 'Skiing' it looked sick
Aug 24 2003 9:48PM
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Schmitz
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those skis don't have edges- the pic. -






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Aug 24 2003 11:01PM
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Nickskier
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Mcconkey is the coolest. he made skiboarding cool in his video.
Aug 24 2003 11:06PM
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wrenegade
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those skis don't have edges as they are waterskis, but his spatulas do. I don't see why you would really need edges to ski powder anyway






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Aug 25 2003 1:27AM
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Papa
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that's pretty huge and funny looking




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Aug 25 2003 2:06AM
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ReggaeConcept1
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yeah, the spatulas have reverse camber so they are useless for anything less than a foot or two of powder

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Aug 25 2003 2:06AM
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lineskier10
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we did that at my school ski club, we put binfings on water skis, but there is no powder in CT to try them out on
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Aug 25 2003 2:54AM
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nealdawgdiamond
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holy crap! those things are massive


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Aug 25 2003 6:13AM
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Hedekar
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I wonder if it would help you to do tricks off the wake if you mounted ski binders on your waterskis, and used your ski boots?? hmmm, that's one to try for next summer.






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Aug 25 2003 8:35AM
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shawnm1260
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my friend hit up some sliders on lake tapps on water skis
Aug 25 2003 9:04AM
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huckster989
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wicked i've been trying to jump on water skis but its a bitch. yeah we thought about the ski binding thing and i think if you just forward mounted wakeboard bindings it'd work pretty well

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Aug 25 2003 11:06AM
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dilla_says_go
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conk also mounted bindings facing forwards on snowboards and used them like huge pow skis too. check it in powder magazine.

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Aug 25 2003 5:05PM
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doghoy
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haha nice

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Aug 25 2003 10:39PM
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manus
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^^ an instructor at Whistler did that too with snowboards, and they also did extreme front/reae mounting and 2 sets of bindings on one pair of skis. They had it in their video section last year. It was pretty damn funny and definately worth a watching if they still have it there.
Aug 25 2003 10:48PM
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Matty.
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i saw that

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Aug 26 2003 5:16AM
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Jib_This
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McConkey is a god, and the whistler video is hilarious for those of you who haven't seen it yet. I think it's still at www.whistlerblackcomb.com in their video section.



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Aug 26 2003 8:57PM
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The_Professor
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dude all the shit that mcconkey has done this winter is insane ' front flip off a 700 foot cliff with a parachute' and now this? i cant wait to see his segment in focused

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Aug 27 2003 2:59AM
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doghoy
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damit i couldn't find that vid, in the whistler archive

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Aug 27 2003 3:53AM
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doghoy
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anyone got any links to any vids to him or anything?, sorry for the double post shit

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Aug 27 2003 3:54AM
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Ricker1
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Isn't there a point where skis are just too big? Big points for creativity though.
Aug 27 2003 6:56AM
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wrenegade
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skis are never too big






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Aug 27 2003 7:33AM
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Hedekar
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Short skis suck and Fat skis Truck.






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Aug 27 2003 8:08AM
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Schmitz
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once you go fat you never go back






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Aug 27 2003 6:44PM
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manus
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the clips from Whistler are at (I dunno how to make the link active here)
http://www.whistler-blackcomb.com/gallery/movies/

they are in the April Fool's Day Ski School Programs clip.
Aug 27 2003 7:10PM
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Vtsnowski
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those are some rather fat skis




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Aug 30 2003 5:15AM
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Jammu
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I bet those are 'snice' in moguls
Aug 30 2003 1:15PM
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l_KeViN_l
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^ whoever posted about the snowboard thing with 2 bindings facing forward, thats called a parellel or something and mckonkey didn't invent that.
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Aug 31 2003 4:28AM
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mmm4twintips
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I got the pleasure of skiing the Spatula last season in pow at Mammoth with Shane and the skis is absolutely amaizing the best 100% pow ski out there but he will even tell you its for pow and pow only the ski has no stability on anything less that powder.

it does have edges but if you are forced to ski them in no pow cond you have to go strait and hold on because the dont turn but in the pow there is nothing thats even close.

He skied on the waterskis to show the concept of the spatula which is its ability to float sideways which make turning that much easier.
The whole idea for the spatula came from watersports.
Sep 2 2003 7:44AM
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plasticskier
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two bindings mounted on a snowboard type thing is called mono boarding

its been happing in europe for since i've been skiing which is about 15 years
Sep 2 2003 5:57PM
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we call the '2 bindings on a snowboard facing forward' a mono board. old people here do it. kinda like old school skiing keep knees and feet together.
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Sep 2 2003 7:39PM
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manus
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yes mono-boarding (aka mono-skiing) has been around for a while, but I didn't think that came up at all. I know I (and other people) mentioned the mounting of ski bingings on a snowboard (using a snowboard as a ski - skiing on 2 snowboards) and also mentioned mounting 2 pairs of bindings on one pair of skis (alowing 2 people to ski on one pair of skis).

Never thought I'de hear of mono-skiing on a newschool board. That is one aspect of skiing I wish the sport could erase, but I guess everything in the history of skiing has played into the current scheme of things in one way or another.
Sep 2 2003 7:57PM
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Astomp
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2 people on one ski would be really awkward. but then 2 bindings on one ski is just like an alpine board.
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Sep 2 2003 10:33PM
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mammothpunks
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Plake gave my friend some tandom skis. Gotta see 2 people bust them out this winter. Old k2 220s with 2 sets of bindings

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Sep 3 2003 12:09AM
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A Straight Line Twisted
When Shane McConkey (who we'll be profiling in October) mounted up some Stinger Graphite water skis, hopped off a cornice in Bella Coola, B.C., and slid sideways down a 45-degree spine for 2,000 vertical feet, he wasn't out of his mind on mushrooms, he was product testing the way only McConkey can. 'The shape of these skis allows you to throw 'em sideways while keeping you on top of the snow, so you don't have to muscle every powder turn,' he says. Oh, now we get it. That makes perfect sense.

http://www.skiingmag.com/skiing/adventure/article/0,12910,478910,00.html
Sep 10 2003 9:41PM
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