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Street Instead of Urban

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HoodratSkier
Posts: 65 - Karma: 10
Since most people on here are concerned with how to be little hoodrats, including myself, it is time that I propose we push skiing in a new direction and reconsider what we label as "urban." Urban has many connotations, like urban mountain, urban freeclimbing, and urban freestyle walking, which as far as I'm concerned, all sound pretty nancy pants. Therefore, to eliminate this not-so-street lingo, I propose we now label "urban skiing" as simply "street." Think about it, when skateboarders and bmx riders go shred the city landscape, they all refer to it as street. I wouldn't roll up to my bmx buddies and ask them if they wanted to hit urban, because certainly I would be laughed at. So Newschoolers, if you really want some street cred stop saying urban and start saying street.
Mar 27 2012 9:32PM 0 0
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UFOsarereal
Posts: 2264 - Karma: 975
Mar 27 2012 9:34PM 0 0
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ohboy
Posts: 1177 - Karma: 2,523
No.
Mar 27 2012 9:35PM 0 0
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PJS.
Posts: 11943 - Karma: 850
No.







Maybe.
Mar 27 2012 9:36PM 0 0
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Lampard
Posts: 3914 - Karma: 2,170
Maybe.









Probably.
Mar 27 2012 9:37PM 0 0
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PJS.
Posts: 11943 - Karma: 850
Probably.














Fairly Likely.
Mar 27 2012 9:39PM 0 0
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danderson.
Posts: 6560 - Karma: 5,246
Probably.










Definitely.
Mar 27 2012 9:39PM 0 0
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SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 165
Anyone wanna go hit street?
Mar 27 2012 9:42PM 0 0
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Afeld
Posts: 3516 - Karma: 68
Mar 27 2012 9:42PM 0 0
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.Cinderella.
Posts: 110 - Karma: 29
i can dig it. not that im going to be doing "street" anytimes soon, i can still dig it though.
Mar 27 2012 9:45PM 0 0
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.Dad
Posts: 11903 - Karma: 11,627
Defiantly.













absofuckinglutly
Mar 27 2012 9:46PM 0 0
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Algebra
Posts: 5215 - Karma: 1,665
I feel like I heard stept say that once. Or something along the lines of we ski the streets or something
Mar 27 2012 9:47PM 0 0
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CRiP
Posts: 1317 - Karma: 463
OP is the roughest n*gga alive. only he is hard enough to call urban "street"
Mar 27 2012 9:52PM 0 0
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JWoods
Posts: 2369 - Karma: 2,630
Yeah dude lets be exactly like snowboarders, skateboarders and BMXers. GOOD IDEA
Mar 27 2012 10:15PM 0 0
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BASEDaL
Posts: 1413 - Karma: 72
i call i get to be like shaun white!
Mar 27 2012 10:18PM 0 0
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Dr.Gonzo
Posts: 2552 - Karma: 87
more like urban freestyle fapping
Mar 27 2012 10:22PM 0 0
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.Hugo.
Posts: 17354 - Karma: 28,165
i've always called it street. Always thought urban sounded weird
Mar 27 2012 10:25PM 0 0
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stickski
Posts: 1938 - Karma: 1,525
urban mountain.. haha this concept intrigues me
Mar 27 2012 10:26PM 0 0
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Age
Posts: 591 - Karma: 176
I only put my skis on on steep pow. I walk down streets though 
Mar 27 2012 10:29PM 0 0
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KillaSteeze
Posts: 3329 - Karma: 354
Most Defiantly not. " Urban " is unique unlike "street" which sounds boring.
Mar 28 2012 12:41AM 0 0
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Dr_Hobo
Posts: 162 - Karma: 24
There's a reason that skaters and BMXers don't call "street" as "urban". It's because skiing is usually done on the mountains, nowhere near the urban environment, whereas skaters and BMXers are always in parks in urban areas. And "street skiing" sounds kinda like a slopestyle course just running down the side of a road.
Mar 28 2012 1:12AM 0 0
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hemlockjibber8
Posts: 5820 - Karma: 2,842
haha you just asked for credibility by claiming to do something as your "BMX" friends do. Fuck me, I didn't realize skiing was so gay
Mar 28 2012 3:07AM 0 0
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GratefulShred
Posts: 413 - Karma: 383
Adjective:
  1. Denoting or relating to popular dance music of black origin: "a party that features the best in urban music".
This definition actually reinforced me saying "urban."
Mar 28 2012 3:31AM 0 0
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TijmenDal
Posts: 4849 - Karma: 1,295
OP has a point. Street sounds cool.
Mar 28 2012 3:32AM 0 0
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VD.
Posts: 4054 - Karma: 4,545
lost it
Mar 28 2012 3:53AM 0 0
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buddychaps
Posts: 1817 - Karma: 579
We should just call it Jib Life brahhh
Mar 28 2012 4:10AM 0 0
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day10
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,535
I'm down.
Mar 28 2012 7:16AM 0 0
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.ZT.
Posts: 5679 - Karma: 2,776
IDGAF
Mar 28 2012 7:17AM 0 0
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casey.clement
Posts: 208 - Karma: 596
no street sounds like we skateboard.
Mar 28 2012 8:10AM 0 0
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rileyCL
Posts: 239 - Karma: 30
legit
Mar 28 2012 1:16PM 0 0
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Session
Posts: 3971 - Karma: 6,051
OP is likely neither "street" nor "hood". In all probability 100% faggot. This thread is dumb.
Mar 28 2012 1:27PM 0 0
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vault.
Posts: 469 - Karma: 91
urban still retains something right?
Mar 28 2012 7:19PM 0 0
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Aiden-P
Posts: 1310 - Karma: 38
right?!?!
Mar 28 2012 7:28PM 0 0
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BlakeHeidinger
Posts: 463 - Karma: 206
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAT0nDuoNIo This is what I think of when someone says street skiing
Mar 28 2012 7:36PM 0 0
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CheddarJack
Posts: 5201 - Karma: 7,367
The term "urban" includes more than "street". I.e. jibbing a playground like in the new SkiFi would not fall under the category of street IMO, but most certainly falls under urban.
Mar 28 2012 7:44PM 0 0
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ChocolateMilk.
Posts: 1129 - Karma: 214
I was thinking the exact opposite of what you just said maybe im wrong though.
Mar 28 2012 8:09PM 0 0
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[evan]
Posts: 5628 - Karma: 108
I don't give a shit and am going to say whatever the fuck I want and fuck you if you don't like it because you're a pussy.
Mar 28 2012 8:14PM 0 0
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Ruffles
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 14
Then we would have to start saying fakie instead of switch.
Mar 28 2012 8:48PM 0 0
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Parks.
Posts: 5612 - Karma: 1,089
no...skiing in generally on a mountain...skiing in the town simply implies that we are bringing skiing to the urban, fast paced environment
Mar 28 2012 9:16PM 0 0
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rewand0
Posts: 315 - Karma: 14
Call it what you want.
Mar 28 2012 9:32PM 0 0
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skiRay
Posts: 7554 - Karma: 898
fuck no. skiing is a rural sport, so when you ski in a city is urban.... makes perfect sense
Mar 29 2012 1:57AM 0 0
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KillaSteeze
Posts: 3329 - Karma: 354
This. I hate the word fake in reference to skiing
Mar 29 2012 2:11AM 0 0
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KillaSteeze
Posts: 3329 - Karma: 354
"Fakie" ...stupid autocorrect
Mar 29 2012 2:12AM 0 0
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day10
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,535
we wouldn't have to do anything... fakie isn't the same as switch anyway.
Mar 29 2012 2:35AM 0 0
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Ruffles
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 14
That's like saying urban isn't the same as street...
Mar 29 2012 7:54AM 0 0
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day10
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,535
noooo it's actually not.

fakie ollie looks like a nollie, switch ollie looks like an ollie. in skating switch and fakie have to do with your foot position on the board, and in snowboarding it has to do with how you work the board. and there is not way to spin "cab" in skiing.
Mar 29 2012 9:41AM 0 0
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Ruffles
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 14
Fakie=backwards, I really don't care about terminology though so whatever.
Mar 29 2012 9:57AM 0 0
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day10
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,535
well you're wrong so it's a good thing you dont care.
Mar 29 2012 10:51AM 0 0
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Ruffles
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 14
How am I wrong? It's backwards in skateboarding, rollerblading, and biking. So in general fakie=backwards. Even though everyone calls skiing backwards switch(which I am fine with) it's still fakie.
Mar 29 2012 11:40AM 0 0
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day10
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,535
Fakie: rolling backwards; the rider is in the normal stance, but rolling in the opposite direction.(Basically a switch nollie position) [copied from Wikipedia article of skate terms]
Mar 29 2012 12:11PM 0 0
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day10
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Switch Stance: riding the board with the opposite footing than usual.
Mar 29 2012 12:12PM 0 0
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