No skating in pond skim competition?

TheButterHashira

TheButterHashira

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Kinda coming to vent. So I wasn't even there, but my cousin was doing a pond skim competition at our local hill this weekend. He was moving across the pond faster than anyone else, but was told at one point he was DQed for skating. No one every communicated it was against the rules to skate(also what kind of rule is that?). He wasn't given another try and when I reached out to the guy coordinating the thing he said he told him twice not to skate, but the guy was basically yelling it at him as he was going down.

What really makes it fucked up is that the guy coordinating is a snowboarder and said it was unfair to the snowboarders. This same dude apparently bought the prizes(pair of skis) from the winning boarder(who didn't even make it all the way across in the last round.

Just wondering what the rules are for pond skims at other places and why would they have skiers and boarders compete against each other and then tell skiers they can't pump speed by skating.
 
topic:TheButterHashira said:
Kinda coming to vent. So I wasn't even there, but my cousin was doing a pond skim competition at our local hill this weekend. He was moving across the pond faster than anyone else, but was told at one point he was DQed for skating. No one every communicated it was against the rules to skate(also what kind of rule is that?). He wasn't given another try and when I reached out to the guy coordinating the thing he said he told him twice not to skate, but the guy was basically yelling it at him as he was going down.

What really makes it fucked up is that the guy coordinating is a snowboarder and said it was unfair to the snowboarders. This same dude apparently bought the prizes(pair of skis) from the winning boarder(who didn't even make it all the way across in the last round.

Just wondering what the rules are for pond skims at other places and why would they have skiers and boarders compete against each other and then tell skiers they can't pump speed by skating.
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Sounds like a bunch of karens running the event
 
stupid rule. how else are you supposed to make it across the pond anyways when they lower the starting position every round to eliminate more people. why dont the silly snowboarders have their own category then?
 
Pretty lame honestly. Pond skims are for the people.

It technically a "contest" but they're literally just about fun. Always a great to wrap up the season. Also at first I thought he was skating across the water like Jesus.
 
Should have gotten ski patrol involved, no retension devices to prevent runaway equipment, they shouldn't have even been able to use their leash-less liability lunchtrays especially with a large crowd at the bottom, rules is rules....
 
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