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Who wears there pole ropes on there hand tied up?
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Who wears there pole ropes on there hand tied up?
The other day my friend told me that its unsafe having the pole ropes on your hands if you're trying big stuff. because you can screw up when you're in the air and land with the pole right infront of you and hurt yourself alot.
(nailing your stomach)
I myself have it tied up because I think it feels more secure so it won't fall off. but most of my friends don't use the rope thing for the pole...
what do you do?
keep skiing
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I can't grab without them...I drop my poles, I dunno why
That was just so fresh, how you took it out of context like that...Do u have any Titanic Jokes for me?
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I only put my first four fingers through and not my thumb
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I use it, that way I am free to grab without worrying about my damn poles.
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I usually dont, Im scared of breaking my wrists or impaling myself. Its pretty amazing I usually hold onto both of my poles throughout pretty knarly crashes.
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ive planted the pole in the landing several times and hit myself in the face mouth and stomach, but i would have done that anyway if my strap was off. and if you dont put your strap on you drop them all over the landing then you have to hike up and get them and hold everyone up, and when you grab oyu can drop them
I like skiing
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i grab with my fore finger and middle. i've never had any problems with hitting myself in the face or stomach. just my knees in the face, it hurts.
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yeah thats what I'm afraid off, but i put my whole hand in side then I pull down and put my hand against the top my pole
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Yeah I keep my poles tied up, but your friend is right. Onetime i landed crooked with my pole stuck down in front of me. I nearly broke my tooth (i only at a weird angle now) and scratched my lip and face. I think that was rare, and I still keep my poles tied up because it's a pain to hike back and get your poles. It really up to you.
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I use short poles, so they are not as big of a hazord.
T-lo
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i use mine, i drop my poles for no reason if im in the air or even if im just standing there, and for grabs it makes it easier to not have to worry about dropping your poles
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yeah I never keep my poles tied up.... too much effort and after impaling myself a few times I figured enough was enough
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Yeah when i grab i let go of my pole so i dont really want to loos it in mid air and have to crawl back up to get it,....
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I once forgot to put it on when i was skiing out west and the pole got wipped out of my hand, and i stubled to grab it, then falling into the powder and rolling down the hill. Then having to hike back up to get it in waist deep snow SUCKS
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Superstition.. I always ride with them
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haha kev. that must have sucked
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I dont. I used to untill i stabbed myself in the stomach 30 stitches. It sucked.
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damn that sucks, this weekend my first time on twins, off a jump, landed and it went into my eye, got a big shiner and its all cut up, i think ill not strap in anymore. what about those Leko poles that automatically release? anyone have those or know anything about theM?
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I used to wear my straps... then my pole jammed into the ice on top of a table during a backflip gone wrong and displaced my thumb about three inches.
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i smashed my eyeball on my pole once.. thank god my lenses didn't shatter. all i got was 7 stitches.. otherwise i'd be blind in one eye. anyways, i still have them around my wrist. just habit i guess?
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i tore cartiledge in my sternum and slightly fractured my jaw by taking my pole in the chest and face...but i still have to wear my straps. It feels so weird without them.
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do you drive your car with the door open- my ski coach on pole straps
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you can still impale yourself with your poles wether they are off or not, if you plant your pole in the snow on a landing its going to stick there and hit you whether your strap is on or not, and its sooo annoying when someone wipes out and takes them a half hour to clean up all their stuff or hike back up the jump
I like skiing
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yeah its just not the same feeling with out them. its a habit forsure! whenever I try not to wear them they drop out of my hands it sucks
Damn Danish's are good. ehh jon? hahahaha, Je n'oublierai pas quand mon ordinateur a baisé vers le haut un jour et a fait des million et des million de poteaux dans au moins de 5 minutes!
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I always wear my straps. I just don't feel right without them...
Plus, I don't want a pole flying through the air loose and landing pointy side up... at least if they're attached the worst that will happen is get a grip in the chest.
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yeah i wear mine, im pretty stupid when it comes to that stuff, ill drop my poles in liftlines and when im skiing if i forget to put them on, o well
skiing is fun
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hahahahaha
Damn Danish's are good. ehh jon? hahahaha, Je n'oublierai pas quand mon ordinateur a baisé vers le haut un jour et a fait des million et des million de poteaux dans au moins de 5 minutes!
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Yeah whenever I'm too lazy to put my straps on, I end up dropping a pole on the way down... and worse yet it usually takes me a good 5 seconds to realise I dropped it, which results in much useless hiking.
Matt
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hahahaha that's the same thing that happens to me!
Damn Danish's are good. ehh jon? hahahaha, Je n'oublierai pas quand mon ordinateur a baisé vers le haut un jour et a fait des million et des million de poteaux dans au moins de 5 minutes!
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use short poles(mogul poles) I see to many kids trying to ride through the park with poles that go up to their chest why would you need them that long it makes you look like an idiot
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I use a mono pole for skiing in the pipe. Ya know, one of those 7 footers? It's sick because you can kinda do like a pole vault off of the coping. Try it.
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I wore my straps until I landed really sketchy one time and skied over my pole causing me to bounce my face off the snow and twist my left leg in ways that legs arnt suposed to twist. havent worne em since, I grab with my index and middle fingers.
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I use a mono pole for skiing in the pipe. Ya know, one of those 7 footers? It's sick because you can kinda do like a pole vault off of the coping. Try it.
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when i started skiing last year i developed a habit of not wrapping them around my hands for some reason. now whenever i put them around it feels to akward so i just take it off
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yeah i wear them. it feels wierd not too. except stupid head makes crappy poles... cause one of the straps is now in my jacket poket...... arg. so it feels wierd. i just hate how stupid u look when u drop a pole.... i dun like looking stupid for that. i look stupid enough as it is. ahhaha
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way back in the day (well no, actually more like 3 years ago) i never wore my pole straps... but than when i learned how to spin i kept fucking up on landing and for some reason whip my poles. they'd just go flying in a random direction - threatening to take people out... so than i started wearing them - now i just do it by habit without thinking...
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Nope, rarely wear them. I don't have a problem dropping them doing grabs or when i wreck unless it is an insane crash, then everything goes. The only time i wear them is when i do a comp, just so if something wrong happens, i dont loose points fro dropping them, and i wear them down steep hills that it would really suck to walk up. Other than that, im paranoid, it's gonna mess up my wrists...
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i love poles with straps! hahah last year i had Leki poles that had the things that like clipped on to your gloves, and yeah.. needless to say i lost them, so then like every time i would spin i would always drop my poles.. according to my friends it was pretty funny to watch, but yeah it wasnt too funny when i had to hike back up the hill for the stupid things.. now i just use scott poles with punk studs on them! haha which only comes after the lesson i got from Jeremy Fenno on how to wear my poles right.
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You guys are all a bunch of bitchs, you get shorter poles fucking i havn't thought one minute about smashing my face so it will never happen. Fucking quit if you don't wear pole straps!
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short poles with my straps on...I drop things...esp when it is cold
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i use poles with straps.......but i might not now
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i have poles that there are no straps so u just slip ur hand like into this cool rubber thing. they really old poles but i like them. i wouldnt use pole straps even if i DID have them. my dad's friend told me a story about him skiing really fasst catching an edge then falling. when he fell he let go of the pole of course but he had the strap on. as he fell the pole was behind him and he fell back and the pole went straight into his leg. he couldnt even pull it out himself it was stuck in so hard. and that is why i go NO straps.
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the people that hurt themselves. did it happen in the pipe or the park with the jumps?
hahahaha remember this Jordan?? 'if anybody who lives in the west would like to adopt me please contact me asap' you are simply the coolest!
Damn Danish's are good. ehh jon? hahahaha, Je n'oublierai pas quand mon ordinateur a baisé vers le haut un jour et a fait des million et des million de poteaux dans au moins de 5 minutes!
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THOSE POLES ARE BADASS!!!!! i stole some of those once and yeah, those are great poles.....my friend has those leki poles and they work pretty cool, but i definately recomen getting the pole with the rubber handgaurd looking things built right on the handle, those are phat!!
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yeah the 3 phils have them
hahahaha remember this Jordan?? 'if anybody who lives in the west would like to adopt me please contact me asap' you are simply the coolest!
Damn Danish's are good. ehh jon? hahahaha, Je n'oublierai pas quand mon ordinateur a baisé vers le haut un jour et a fait des million et des million de poteaux dans au moins de 5 minutes!
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