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- From: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.COM (Andre Giroux - Sun Montreal SSS)
- Subject: snowboard sucks and all that ...
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:11:30 GMT
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- I had fun reading the "snowboard sucks" debate in this newsgroup.
-
- Mind you enjoyment is a very personnal thing. But I have never had such a gliding/
- surfing/carving feeling like the one I had once I went down on my first complete
- downhill ride on a board.
- it's too bad the sport has been picked up by teeny boppers who want to rule the world
- while listening to some weirdo punk rock band, with pet shop haircuts and the
- "birth defect" look. It the "rebel's sport"... I really don't USE snowboard to make
- a point.
-
- Even as a boarder, I was once sweared at by one of those. One snow board can do alot
- of damage. But of course I didn't do anything.
- as one said in his message :
-
- I enjoy skiing in the trees
- more than any other types of skiing but have never seen a snowboarder
- in the trees. I would find it hard to believe that they could follow me in
- the trees do to the radius of their turns. Do snowboarder's do the trees,
- just curious, do not mean to put any one down. I thought the guys/gals on
- the boards really looked graceful coming down the open bowls, easily the
- best people I've ever seen on boards.
-
-
- snowboards look and ARE far more elegant in powder and corduroy. not mentionning
- air techniques.. I agree trees and bumps are a bit heavy, and a boarder does not "flow"
- as well as a skier. But I've followed lever 3 skiers in mogul runs. a board is not
- a handicap...
-
- let me finish by mentionning one interesting phrase from a K2 Gyrator add :
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-
- "I know a lot of people who used to ski, I don't know anyone who used to
- snowboard"
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- andre
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