#skiing is dead

I kind of want honestly. If they had the $50 options or under I probably would. Maybe I'd fucking ski more. Wondering how the performance is though.

Literally not skiing because I broke the boots I had and too cheap to buy new ones. Also too lazy to take off my snowboard boots to put on ski boots for a few laps.

This thing screams jerry, but I actually like the thought.
 
Wouldn't it be easier to just slap snowboard bindings on skis? With some of the massive waists produced they'd probably fit right? No premature ejections either!
 
13856934:mystery3 said:
Wouldn't it be easier to just slap snowboard bindings on skis? With some of the massive waists produced they'd probably fit right? No premature ejections either!
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Somebody once gave me a pair of snowblades with a block of wood drilled into them, and snowboard bindings drilled into that. They were everything you could hope they would be.

I entered the ski only contest we had, got knocked out in the chinese downhill, and poached the pondskimming contest. What a time to be alive.
 
If people would just buy boots that fit they wouldn't be that uncomfortable.

When I worked park crew full time I was in my ski boots at least 8 hours a day. I would even do builds in them because if I wore regular boots I would slide down the hill. Rarely did my feet hurt.
 
Not a bad idea... But I can see a lot of downfalls

1. Walking in ski boots is awesome. When well fitted, my ski boots become slippers. I wear them for 8hrs a day at least and never had any trouble. Most ski boots have a walk mode that makes them flex enough for a comfortable walk. Hell, there is a guy who ran the Boston marathon in ski boots!

2. For those who has tried fitting rubber boots in ski bindings discovered quickly that the foot has to be completely immobile for correct power transmission. With slack or soft boots, you will never dig an edge, or do a spin.

3. I have bone spurts on the top of my feet. You know that ball on the inside of your foot? Mine is big enough to destroy my foot when strapped into ill fitted boots or snowboard boots. Its the main reason I dont snowboard; the straps pass exactly at the worst points of my feet.

4. Blistering seems like another problem. Skiers feet do a lot of work while skiing and too much movement causes blistering around the heel.
 
Tbh I think this a bad idea simply because of the huge gap between binding and boot, would still be fun to try though.
 
I actually made myself a set of these. I used to snowboard back in the day so I used some old bindings on some skis I had built myself in shop class in high school. it worked better than one would think. but still wouldn't recommend.
 
this looks like a combination of those shit plastic snowboards you would own as a kid and a failed highschool project

still would send it tho
 
This product already exists and already sucks, look up Apex Boots, they're actually big enough to be sold at REI
 
apex boots have been around for a while same idea.... just not any snowboard boot they come with a boot.... GET FULLTILTS 420 pee in her butt
 
I feel like these things are snowboarders inventing a problem that doesn’t exist.

My boots are well fitted and are like slippers. I’d way prefer to wear ski boots walking around on snow than normal boots. Used to wear boots like 12-16 hours a day when I was working as a park staff sometimes and literally had zero issues.

The cost of these things can’t possibly beat the costs of Proper boot fitting?
 
skiing is generally an uncomfortable sport for most.

cold-ass weather, awkward stances all the time, boots that even when they fit properly still kinda hurt, etc.

its weird how we just get used to it honestly, like my boots feel like slippers but with a bad ankle, its still a bitch sometimes to ski around.
 
Boots shouldn't hurt. People need to get their boots from shops that have actual boot fitters.

Judging from the underwhelming response to their kickstarter, these things are going anywhere.
 
You know whats fucking hilarious, one time in my home hill i saw this old guy riding a snowboard with ski boots on, he had these weird as bindings, they looked similar to what skiboarders have. Regardless it was wierd as hell.
 
13857522:cchamb02 said:
Thats just damn sad u proably were ur goggles upside down u jerry
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U just owned those darn Jerrys in epic style XD

**This post was edited on Nov 19th 2017 at 1:14:40am
 
13857614:SenBilverglate said:
You know whats fucking hilarious, one time in my home hill i saw this old guy riding a snowboard with ski boots on, he had these weird as bindings, they looked similar to what skiboarders have. Regardless it was wierd as hell.
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It's not, you are just young. Hard boot systems were fairly common for carvers and racers in the snowboard world more than a decade ago but then they largely faded away. Burton is trying to bring them back with their new Hard On boots and bindings.
 
13857631:Sharko said:
It's not, you are just young. Hard boot systems were fairly common for carvers and racers in the snowboard world more than a decade ago but then they largely faded away. Burton is trying to bring them back with their new Hard On boots and bindings.
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Truth. There's still a bunch of them out there, carving like crazy.
 
13857614:SenBilverglate said:
You know whats fucking hilarious, one time in my home hill i saw this old guy riding a snowboard with ski boots on, he had these weird as bindings, they looked similar to what skiboarders have. Regardless it was wierd as hell.
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You know whats fucking hilarious? Your ignorance of slalom snowboards.
 
13857614:SenBilverglate said:
You know whats fucking hilarious, one time in my home hill i saw this old guy riding a snowboard with ski boots on, he had these weird as bindings, they looked similar to what skiboarders have. Regardless it was wierd as hell.
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Can't tell if serious or not
 
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