I ski blues and blacks

Astomp

Astomp

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ha ha i love this comment. i work at a ski shop and think it is hilarious when people come in and say i ski blues and blacks. anyone else?
 
it's a little weird. I honestly don't know how most of the runs at my mountain are classified. I mean, I can make a pretty good guess for most runs, but i just don't pay attention to classifications.
 
like, for binding adjusting ? type 1 type 2 type 3 stuff ? or do they just walk up to you and claim it for no reason ?
 
I think it's funny as hell, people think they are good skiers because "I can ski black diamonds" I worked at a ski shop for two years back in west virginia and I'd hear that shit all the time and the blacks back home are laughable. At my home resort back there it would be considered a black diamond if there was a liftpole in the run.
 
More likely, it's just people trying to tell you about how good a skiier they are. For those who don't get to ski every day, much less every year, measuring progress by what type of run you can go down is all too common.

If that's what they wanna do, then, "let him do him."
 
i find it far more funny that my friend who works at a shop says people still come in and ask where the fanny packs are.

... he told some guy "they're over there by the gay porn" once... i thought it was hilarious
 
There is this girl on my bus that was talking about skiing, and I ask her what skis she has and she replys "Well I just upgraded this year to 'shaped skis'"
 
^sorry cna't backflip. But hey those that rent are gonna be somewhat uninformed about sking. I mean who rents skis and is a good skier.
 
the binding adjustment used to be hilarious... that type 1-3 thing someone mentioned.... youd say im a type 3 expert or some crap then the dude would be like ummmm are you sure you know what that means?!?!? haha refering to the drawing of a skier doing a jump turn or some crap. yes it means i jump turn.
 
my mom, haha. shes been skiing for 44 years and still rents skis and rocks jeans. she can outski almost anyone haha
 
its kinda funny because only a very few mountians follow the guidelines for classifing their trails so a green at one mountian would be a black at another if they dont follow the classification
 
when i get little kids in my lessons the parents are like yea take him on the ganjala cuase i think he can ski black diamonds now. 9 out of 10 time they cant ride the JAY-bar
 
yeah some places claim their runs as black diamonds when the would be a blue at another resort. usually just cuz they have a few moguls on them. some resorts call runs black diamonds just to make the mountain look more challenging when you read the trail map. go to www.biglines.com to read about a new naming system. Hopefully the phrase I ski BLACK DIAMONDS will disapear forever!
 
i just find it funny because it doesnt matter what you can go down it matters how well you ski.
 
yea my friends are like...well since bradford (a hill with 200 vert feet) has blacks and cannon (one of the harder mtns in ne) doesnt have double blacks then... cannons cool cuz they dont care about those classifications. i hate it when people are like yea one time, i was on this double black diamond...i automatically zone out cuz if u talk like that..haha i dont care
 
how about im a level III skier, what exactly does that mean? theres more to ripping than levels and shapes/colors on a board.

im the shit thats my level
 
i think its just annoying and stupid as hell, i ask a person if they consider themself as good, and they answer, yea i cant ski blacks that well, but i can ski blues, o yea i can do some jumps, like the big ones on the side of the trail, i get soo much air and i can almost do a 180
 
In colorado there is now Double Black Extreme terrain. Off imperail express in breck some shit is rated that, and you can bomb it with gs turns. But yeah now Texans can say I hit an extreme trail, but then get fucked on the spill out black that has a few bumps
 
It must have been like 7 years ago when some dork in high school came to me and asked "did u ever do a black run???" trying to intimidate me or something.
 
i cnat talk to someone at my school about skiing wihtout them saying "are you gonna be in the olympics?" what the fuck...i always tell them "no my type of skiing isnt in the olympics" and they say"why dont you do moguls" god damnit fuck all them
 
A level III means you ski aggresively on all types of terrain. It means a hell of a lot more then 'I ski blues and blacks'. It is a more universal way of classifying your type of skiing so shop guys can have a better idea.

But the thing I really hate is when people say 'Billy took a lesson at this hill and is a level 7'
 
Last weekend the old guy in a local shop tried to tell my buddy's dad all about "parabolic" skis.

I couldn't help it.. I took him to task to show me these "parabola's" He tried to explain how all ski companies make thier skis with symmetrical tips and tails. I just about cried when he went on about how a "type I skier" should use a 150cm a "II" should use a 165 and a "III" should ride on a 175, but "anything longer is only for powder skiing in Alaska" It's freakin' sad how ignorant some people are.

I had to leave, and told my friend and his dad to do the same.
 
Wow, that's almost scary how ignorant that is.

As for classifications of black diamonds go, here in Ohio if it has the slightest slope to it it's called a black diamond.

And you get all these people who brag about going on "black" hills even though they can't stop... or ski for the matter.

I HATE OHIO.
 
this nerd was talking to me on a ski trip ans as like yeah im learning tele skiing and i was just like i have twintips and he left me alone
 
or the time when i skied switch down a blue in the midwest and this kid told me that "Rocky Mountain Blues" are a death sentences, then i told him that i have skied out of bounds and shit, he told me that he has skied an 89 degree slope that was 15 minutes outside of seattle
 
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