JichelMusten
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Personal opinion but rope tow parks make some of the best skiers
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yungcigsmoker
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No, rope parks make some of the best rail skiers.
cory.iyoob
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You forget to ask yourself if this was a stupid idea for a thread.
Swandog7
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13403071:Mr.noodle said:
While I can agree that we slay rails and aren't very great at jumps, our skiing is definetly not poor in general. I myself ski rope tow parks everyday I ski because in Minnesota that's all there is. Our jump game is usually like cork 7/cork 9 and rodeo 5 versus people in breck throwing doubles. It's really because we don't have jumps to serve us for bigger tricks. Ropes are convenient and nifty as hell because they are right next to the features so you can hit a feature 4x more than hiking without actually hiking but the park gets pretty bland after a while.
John18_6
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13403099:Swandog7 said:
The jumps in MN are terribly built. The landings flatter than North Dakota (that's pretty damn flat). Spirit Mountain knows how to make good jumps. When they do it right, they're better than a lot of jumps out west. They are nowhere near big enough for learning doubles though.
13403071:Mr.noodle said:
Saying people on ropes can't carve is BS. Buck Hill breeds some really good racers and that's because they have a high speed rope on their racing practice hill. I get what you mean though, midwest kids can't ski big mountain for shit but carving really isn't that hard, literally just shifting your weight onto one edge of both skis.
If you can learn to carve on the man-made ice pellets of rope parks, you can carve anywhere because generally the snow conditions allow for better control anywhere that real snow exists.
My Opinion:
Rope Tows kick ass and give you as much if not more vert per hour as high speed chairlifts (depending on how fast the rope is).
crimeenthusiast
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for me, my jump game is more about spinning all 4 ways rather than doing a left dub but not being able to spin past right 5. Thats what you get though when you're big jump is a flat 15 footer. And yeah midwesterners slay rails
NMMedia
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13403071:Mr.noodle said:
I beg to differ. I've skied a rope park in MN most of my life. And without a question every trip I've made out west I've had comments about how good my carving/big mountain skiing is from other rippers (most have commented, "you learned in the Midwest didn't you? You kids know how to set an edge" or something along those lines). Its not the length of the hill you learn on or the size of the mountain, its the conditions. Here in the midwest we learn to shred on glare ice, not the nice soft snow you get out West. So when we do go out West shit is easy mode for us.
oldworld_newlife
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imo i would rather be able to slay rails and throw a few simple 3s and 7s than be flippin and floppin like a madman in the air. i love big air and shit but ik ill never be like that. rails though, now that i can do
John18_6
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13403786:WuWang said:
shit you got us. we put up a decent fight though. Usually we get a few hills to open their bunny hills with rails in October. Lutsen's last weekend is this weekend (although usually they go into the first weekend of may). Prime season only goes from thanksgiving to early to mid march, while the rest of the world enjoys staying open to 4/20.
dingus
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We have a rope tow park at my mountain and is the only rope tow park in the pacific north west as far as I know, my problem with rope tow parks is I am extremely lazy, and end of sitting on my ass most of the time not progressing, when in a chair lift in a park I don't have the option to sit on my ass (aside from on the chair) so I end up doing better in those. But thats just my lazy self.
