Can anyone stand on their skis?

[rorybw]

always remember seeing an ESF instructor standing on his skis as a child and even then i thought it looked sick. by standing on your skis i mean tucking your knees up under so your weight is balanced on the weight of your skis.

here is andreas giving us a demo:

 

[fragglemuffin]

ya..i do all the time...its a fun way to chill around

 

[MANDER]

ya its really easy. at first its hard but pratice makes perfect! haha

 

[D-HAWK]

i cant do it unless i got poless

 

[.makuma.]

jea..ive tried, and well just say that poles are required for the advanced

 

[cr1080cbr]

Its cake!!! Just lean foward and tuck your knees in....you will prolly land on your face the first couple of times...but hella fun and chill

 

[Steezasaurus]

yeah ive stood on them for 5 minute and love doing it in front of the gapers who look at me as if im the messiah

 

[Pirruccio]

i do them too

but is it bad for your skis?

 

[duckets.]

yeah, but i need to use my poles

 

[mogulman]

Skis aren't made with the intention of 'standing' in mind, and doing it routinely or for long periods of time can damage a ski. Don't fret though, the occasional ski stand shouldn't break or damage them....after all I hope you're actually skiing rather than 'standing' on your skis at the base of a mtn.

 

[Piste.Off]

who cant stand on their skis

 

[massrider1076]

every day about 5 kids post pics of themselves doing tip stands. so to answer your question...Yes, anyone can stand on their skis.

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

i can't believe someone would make a thread about this kind of thing

 

[Kal-Fitz]

i have only tried once and didnt get it. i lean as far foward as possible and my skis just dont go up.

 

[seine_Dudeheit]

not really a problem ... if your skis have a good pop - if they are too stiff and too long in front of the binding. 

 

[Kal-Fitz]

so if my bindings are behind central it will be harder to do?

 

[ButteredToast.]

I do to haha

 

[Robby.]

not hard takes practice

 

[chairdawg]

i enjoy 1 ski tip stands as if i was doing a land bound grabless kang

 

[-Kieran-]

i can

 

[KellyK]

ya, they're called tipstands buddy, and i bleve ther've been like 100 other threads about them lately

 

[skiEER]

why does it seem that people always make a couple of the exact same thread right at the same time

 

[saucer_boy_lives]

i know of two people that can walk in that position.

 

[l337]

i got a pic somewhre where like 15 skiers are all doing it at once

 

[ElliotG]

ya i can. to learn it you have to sort of lift up your feet not lean forward

 

[WhackStyle.]

Ya I can do them. I just decided to try it one day and did it after a few tries. It's kinda funny and not really that hard at all.

 

[skiminnesota]

i think we might be brothers??

 

[Powdered_Donuts]

 

[dave44]

there was a vid or picture of two guys facing each other in this field standing on their skis. it was so sick

 

[ryano]

i do it.

i'm pretty sure poles are required for this trick.

its pretty fun to do it and see little kids go, woah look at that. (then point at you) haha

 

[dave44]

it'd be hilarious if someone's bindings ejected them and they shoot facefirst into the snow

 

[Alex_thedroog]

happened to me, but I kind of just front flipped

 

[scientist]

Lately i have been working on the tail stand, and the daffy stand, both tricky as fuck.

 

[BMB]

thats sick

 

[80*s4eva]

word- anyone who does a tip stand using poles to hold or push themselves up is a gaper

 

[BusyJohnSohn]

The best is walking like that, you look like some giant praying mantis from Mars

 

[CoonKiller]

danm,i seen a guy doing a daffy standy ,so i decided to try it.

i almost snapped my acorn sack in half.

 

[stompdat]

Package breaker. I've done it.....On accident i was waiting in line one day and was streching and lost balance and wahlah, bam, there it was. It was a godsend or something .... then i fell, direct snow to face impact. No vid though. You'll have to trust me.

 

[titsLOL]

I can't stand on my skis. the second I get off the lift I just eat shit so bad, I need my friends to hold me up for balance it's really embarrassing I dont wanna talk about this anymore.

 

[steevner]

[CLAIM] I can do it without poles! [/CLAIM] but not for a long time. point is i can get into a tipstand with no poles.

 

[BvK]

^lol, i love nose buttering, do it whenever i get bored

 

[BvK]

This guy nose how to do it

 

[bobs]

mhmm, at first was like fuck this, now i do em all the time when i'm bored waiting

 

[glass]

in an old super8 ski movie my dad made with his friends there is a clip of one of them standing on his noses but stretching his poles out so his body is parallel to the ground and he walks with his two poles and skis.

i call it the spider walk

and i challenge you to try one.

 

[Jamie_Baril]

ya, mostly your edges

 

[fourhundred]

ohhhhh so sick

 

[Bigwoods]

I don't dig my tips into the snow... I butter them

 

[Jacuse]

Yeah, I do it sometimes when waiting for people

 

[artfullydodged]

imagine doin that facing your buddy and trying to knock eachother over

 

[sluethi]

 

[Alex_thedroog]

pun intended?