Manswanseth
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Is it harder to do tricks with poles? Both jumps and rails.
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AndrewGravesSV
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Grabs are easier without for sure. After that just kinda depends on how comfortable you are with or without them
search4freshies
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Personal Opinion; only time it's acceptable to ski w/out poles is when your hiking/sessioning a feature in the park. And I mean proper fitting poles, not those little kid, arms straight down and they're still not touching the snow bullshit.
search4freshies
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13867182:Psullivan said:
If you are at risk of STABBING YOURSELF with a ski pole, you need to seriously re-evaluate your skiing technique. But I'll double down on your sentiment; you do you. Just do me a solid and do it far away from me, you sound reckless.
Psullivan
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13867185:search4freshies said:
When I'm doing spins + grabs its just easier to have smaller poles to minimize the risk of getting caught up with your poles. I have ripped my pants multiple times skiing with longer poles. You won't need to be avoiding me because my local parks are usually bad enough to keep people away.
mulchbrain
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They are just something extra to worry about when learning tricks. I actually broke a rib when just learning how to slide a rail when the pole made contact with the ground when I was coming off and stabbed into my side. But the reality is its all preference. I know it took me a bit to even think about dropping the poles because of peoples negative reaction to how it looks. People get upset about how its not doing it properly if you dont learn with poles . But fuck em dude its all just fun
DirtYStylE
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They give you a huge advantage in the from of additional swing weight. When you are starting out in the park they really are cumbersome. If you have a 50/50 chance of landing a 360, you really don't need them. The advantage becomes more noticeable when you start spinning 450's out or when you are in the backcountry either pushing around or making deep carves
**This post was edited on Dec 13th 2017 at 6:23:55pm
**This post was edited on Dec 13th 2017 at 6:23:55pm
Young_patty
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Skiing on a 300 ft hill in MN I don't really have a need for poles, however when I go on trips and get to ski on mountains I will use them.
270on420out
Active member
I started using poles again this season and I won't go back. The additional balance and swing weight help out a ton. Plus being able to actually turn,pole plant, and ride all of the mountain are huge advantages.
iced
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I used poles when I was a kid until I almost got impaled. No Joke. I went by a lift pole and it got jammed between a crack on a box on the pole and my ribs. ALMOST broke skin... has a red and purple bruise and lift trauma.
In conclusion yea short poles are cool for ones style, and no poles are good for another style. I find poles help me on rails for squaring my shit up and staying alert + when you do spins it forms a metal pole tornado and gets gerrys to fuck off
In conclusion yea short poles are cool for ones style, and no poles are good for another style. I find poles help me on rails for squaring my shit up and staying alert + when you do spins it forms a metal pole tornado and gets gerrys to fuck off
