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IDEA, and its impact on me...
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So my buddy just gave me Idea last week and i've watched it quite a few times. Since watching it I find riding park - primarily rails - sucks, and bores the shit out of me. What sucks is that I live right near Ottawa on the east coast and have never skied powder deeper than a foot, so i'm waiting for my chance to get out this winter to ski some sweet B.C. I know this is yet ANOTHER Idea thread but i thought i'd express my feelings...
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I tried a handplant today and totally ate shit.
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rails bore you and idea doesn't?, your messed up
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when i stand at the top of the park and im bored of doing my normal tricks..i just zone out and something creative pops into my head. i dont really need idea
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haha rowen that made me laugh
you'll get it
p.s i couldn't do a successful handplant to save my life
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This will generate KILLER hate but in my personal opinion, rails are getting worse and worse. I honestly find that all this 270 on sw up pretzel 270 is actually kind of funny to watch and doesn't really have much style or originality to it. Word to hand plants and new stuff like that because its really fun and fells cool to innovate. Maybe Im just getting bored of park and need to try something new...
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Rails are not the only think this sport has to offer.
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i feel ya man, possibly the most fun ive ever had skiing was on backcountry trail with 1-2ft after last years valentines day storm. but that was a pretty rare thing to happen, so riding park is just another way of getting myself more experienced moving my body around with two planks on my feet while i wait for that next pow oppurtunity.
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i cant wait to try them, and then do the exact same thing... i am especialy ready to try some hand drags...
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well I'm going to watch Idea and study ... bump
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i still have lots of fun hitting rails but its true, and y'know today i saw 3 kids do the exact same thing on this box one after the other and they looked like such speds
probably the funnest thing i did today was trying hand drag 180s on this roller at the bottom of the hill like i know they looked like crap but it was great to do something different
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I tried one up and over this mushroom of snow on top of the rock. My hand just went through the snow on top and the clod of snow split in half, and I decked my back on the rock under it. I saved my new skis tho.
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so youve never rode anythign deeper than a foot and you have a sir francis bacon icon.... interesting...
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just because i have the tick as an icon doesnt mean i run around in a blue costume.
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ill watch out for those damn shrooms then..
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i like that graphic and pollard's other stuff ... judging me from my icon.... pretty cool...
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no he just knows how to ski.
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i would say he has had them...but not from skiing.
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thats almost as bad as being a starving kid in africa..
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funny, i live in the west and ski very similar stuff to what was in IDEA, yet i found it boring. Believe on teh other hand, was great.
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yeah i was thinking about that today. all my boys were hiking one fucking flat bar to get some shots or some shit and i was like how are you not bored as hell? i love hitting rails but theyre not fun enough to hike and session over and over again. theres only so much that can be done on a 12 ft. flat bar.
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def one of the more amusing threads ive read in a bit. this is why i love ns, it keeps me entertained
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when i watch that i feel like goin to build a booter in to pow and hitten it it makes handrags look sooooo cool
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When I watch it, it reminds me of home. And Thanksgiving.
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ideas gotten me doing alot of butters
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I have been skiing without poles a lot more, and doing more handplants.
But I will still session a rail forever, I would love to do that right now.
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its definitely a really cool movie, i dont think its really had an impact on the kind of stuff i do though...
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its funny how all the kids saying "be different" in this thread all talk about how they were all trying hand drags...
sheep insulting sheep... i like it.
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i find this hard to believe(pun intended), i thought what was done in idea was much more progressive then some of the skiing in believe. I liked seeing the IDEA crew pushing switch pow skiing, and switch hits, i didn't see much of that if at all from tanners movie. both were fun to watch, but id replay idea over believe fo sho'.
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I haven't gotten a chance to watch believe yet, but I kind of want to...
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I have tried numerous handplants and ate shit every time except 2 or 3
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^^ word. Ya i only ski park cause there is no pow
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i agree, regardless of the skier, 270 on pretzel out is the same trick ive seen done many many times. there is no creative line choosing, just the same slide on the same rail. this goes for rails in general in my opinion. i never enjoyed doing them but i live on the east. so my backcountry in non existant. the mt Baker segment in Belive was unreal, ive always loved backcountry skiing especially through pines and pow like that.
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^I almost feel bad for having been there during that...
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so dont do rails?
you cant say this movie changed your life when youre not willing to make a change in your life.
You cant just come west and say you're a die hard powder junkie, then go home.
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Pow Pow -when you got it
Park -when you don't have powder(or if you live on the E Coast)
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ya but they dont do any technical stuff in idea.
they dont do any big drops are gnarly lines.
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cuz thats not the IDEA they are going for.
besides they don't have Seth in their video.
Just wait... Pollard is always a couple years ahead of the mainstream progression... and if Pep really wanted to he could do a "gnarly line" just watch his 1242 seg
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brian why are you posting like you just got raped??
haha
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your right. but it does show he's got big testicles. which is a must have for big mt.
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Rails are for skateboarders........
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I said almost... That week was too epic for words.
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i like pep's part in the hit list...he does some gnar cliff lines.
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