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Originally Posted by SSOWDEN
I have missed over 4 weeks of skiing because I was taken out by an in control knuckledragger on ballholler. It was your choice to ride fast, not my choice to be hit by someone.
You are probably just good enough to be dangerous, think you are in control but don't realize shit happens.
Get a clue!!!!
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I've taught both skiing and (mostly) snowboarding for the past six years. Guess that makes me a part time knuckledragger and creator thereof. Each sport has its merits, and each helps me understand the other a bit better. And, yes, while some snowboarders do wear apparent picnic table covers around their knees for pants, providing comic relief for most, many just enjoy the art and beauty of plying the snow.
As for control, lack thereof is certainly not relegated solely to snowboarders. A fellow instructor had one of his femurs modified into a three piece bone by an "in control" skier a couple of years ago. The young woman who hit him was skiing straight down a blue run without turning. She complained to the ski patrol that the accident would have been avoided if the instructor and his two students had not been "zig-zagging" back and forth across the run in front of her.
One good piece of situational awareness advice for snowboarders: use at least some of your toe edge turns as an opportunity to look uphill and behind you to see who is coming your way--especially the people about to pass on your blind side. Turning your head uphill helps align your hips and shoulders to better shape your toe-edge turns anyway. Try it.
As a person who enjoys both skiing and snowboarding, it would be hypocritical for me to be a hater of either. Hurling epithets does little to raise the respect of your sport. Like every sport, skiing and snowboarding each have their fair share of a-holes.
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