Do You Really Need Ski Brakes?

unless you wanna walk to the bottom of the slope after eating it at a table you should keep your brakes. i lost my ski once and the brakes got stuck and the ski continued downhill like a wild goose on steroids.
 
Haven't you ever fallen? It just keeps goin otherwise.

One time, I saw a snowboarder who left his board at the top of the park walked away and some dude kicked it, or it slipped.. the board went all the way to the bottom and fell out of bounds down a trench.. Brakes are a necessity
 
Leashes are okay but if you really want steez you should get breaks, leashes and those powder ribbons (gaper gap not included).
 
and why the hell would you not use brakes? unless you have a 200mm waist ski, keep the fucking brakes on. ride with leashes and get hammered in your head by your skis when you fall.
 
Before bindings had brakes, they used leashes. If it came off, they'd tumble and stuff. Do you really want your metal-edged ski spinning between your legs?
 
^thats true, and if you eject, and you have no brakes, and your ski lands on the base it becomes a fucking missle.

you're liable for any damages caused by your ski to anything if that happens, because you didnt put a brake on. so if somebody gets hit by your ski doing 70mph and dies, youre basically screwed.
 
dumbest thread ever? lol of course you need ski brakes. Like someone said above, one time my brakes didn't come down when I released and my ski went flying into the trees. Took me almost an hour to find it because it went under the snow and kept traveling for another 50 feet or so.
 
After falling and missing my skis, my breaks didnt work(tyrolia shit) and my skis hit a kid far down the slopes, not fun
 
yeah iv'e saw a pair of scratch go flying down the hill past me once. fuck they hit a tree at the bottom and fucking exsploded. the cap like shatered into a thousand peice's it was pretty sweet.
 
even tele skiers are required to wear leashes with their skis. in my years skiing at a resort, iv never seen a tele ski come off....well, besides the releasable ones. but anyway, unless you ride like your backyard, once your ski is off your foot, and if it lands upright, you wont get it back till it hits a car at the parking lot. they wont stop.
 
Put cho brakes on foo, I broke the brake off a pair of rentals and it went flying down the hill. I was hoping it'd hit a kicker but alas, it just went and hit a tree. Good thing it wasn't my ski :D
 
I thought about going brakeless on my spatulas, my thinking was if they come off they'll just stick in the pow. Then I woke up from my dream and realized that a ski that big turn rightside up would ski pow itself. They still take off with the brakes on.
 
in vermont it is illegal to ski without brakes. don't know how many states have this law.
 
one time i saw a loose board flying down the hill, it hit our biggest table, did a backflip, landed perfectly, and kept going. It was crazy. True story. Luckily no one got hurt
 
yes you definitely do. that being said, sometimes a ski can pop off without the heelpiece being released and then it doesn't matter if you have brakes or not.

such was the case yesterday when i saw a ski ripping down springboard under the solar coaster chair at blackcomb. the ski must have been doing 70km/h and I never saw it stop (it was still going went it went over a ridge and out of sight). Hopefully it didn't hit anyone when it did. But if skis didn't have brakes, this would be happening all the time. Imagine the carnage.
 
brakes pervent skis from becoming spears...those things fucking fly without them.

JD, how sweet would leases be while sessioning the park and hikin eh :P
 
Actually bro after about 100mm in the waist a properly waxed ski isn't going to stop. My prophet 130 came off last year and cleared a 40 ft table at Northstar with the brake down. My Propet 100 went like a 100 yards down a hill through mad powder one time last year too. If you ski steep and wide brakes are pointless. I'm going with P18s and leashes on my 130's this year i think.... long leashes.
 
I have seen a line brake sitting by itself lost and disconnected from the ski on more than one occasion, whats that about? (once in vail park and once at the base)
 
yea you dont need them but they are good to have....because one time my brake got stuck and i had to go retreve my ski at the bottom....it sucked...
 
aren't the brakes normally connected to the bit under the heel so when the weight comes off that bit pops up and the brakes go down regardless of whether the binding opens?
 
haha are you fucking kidding me.. stay out of tahoe if you dont have brakes , i dont want to be impaled by our gay ass ski when you fall every 15 feet with your din set at 4.
 
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