crappy member? more like knowledgeble member. he just dropped a fat paragraph about og park skiing in a thread. here
mountainviper
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Feb 3 2012
11:18:12
Quote Reply Well it's def older than 2000. I def did it on dynastar extremes back in '92 at killington and I highly doubt I was the first. It wasn't long after that year that levinthal started doin his thing in VT. So it was def gaining popularity before 2000. It just wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Some of the older heads may remember quarter skis. Basically where you cut the front 1/4 off an old ski and mounted a crap binding with shallow screws. Great for spring rippin. We used to also go through the "snowboard parks" (skiers weren't allowed back then) on the quarter skis and hit the rails. I was also attempting back then to make a twin tip. So we're others so it's no "claim". But I attempted to cut the tips off two pairs of skis and glue two tips together, try to ptex weld the bases, and hope the binding mounted at center would hold. It never worked longer than a few runs. I also tried cutting 3/4 deep notches across the tails of old rental skis and then bend them up in a vice. Then epoxy them. Those worked a little longer. If I wasn't such a pothead back then I probably woulda made myself a damn ski press and beat jay to the punch but herb and women win the day back then. Haha
