Skiing one pole?

SteevJee

SteevJee

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theres both poles and then theres no poles , but why not one pole? is this the new steeze? tell me your thoughts
 
sure, why not. but the better question is, why?

I think it would look awkward and un-balanced.
 
i skied with only one pole for a few day after i tore A ligament in my thumb. it only lasted a few days cause it was super wierd and no poles works better
 
If your talking like that, why is everyone always talking about less poles. Why not 3 poles? Or, you could have ginormous poles. Think BIG.

In case some of you are wondering, this is all sarcasm.
 
maybe not one regular pole, but one extra long, double sided, super pole!

itd be like rowing a kayak
 
haha man, back about 3 years ago when my school had the grd.7 ski thing, me and a couple of the better skiers in the class had this old guy as our instructor. I bent the shit outta my pole and tried to bend it back and it snapped, so the old guy showed me how to ski with one pole, you had to pole plant for your left side with your right hand and shit, it was really awkward. So i just said screw it and skied no poles the rest of the day.
 
haha thats what i thought of!

def. not a fan of this idea, plus poles are just too much of an asset when beating up snowboarders
 
I did it for most of a season when I broke my wrist. Couldn't hold a pole with my cast, and once the cast came off my wrist was too weak. It felt super weird at first but I got used to it. Better than no poles because I needed one at least for skating and pulling myself forward in the lift line.
 
what would be the point of that...2 poles help u turn and huck spins

no poles make u grab s more grabby, and meke u look like a newb

one pole is beyond newb
 
i skied with a single 8ft bamboo trail marker, changed hands to pole plant, then pole vaulted over a mogul, it was pretty fun....but i dont think i would ever actually ski with one pole
 
please say you didnt say that

that last statement you made is going to make this thread a 3 page thread full of arguments and rants on which one is "steezier"

good job
 
I did when my nose started to bleed a whole ton and I was holding it with one hand and poling down the moguls with the other hand.
 
how about instead of using one pole u just take out an umbrella, then start pulling some really steezy 3's and sw1's holding an umbrella over your head - someone shod actually try this
 
Nothing new about skiing with one pole:

from Wikipedia:

"Some Telemark skiers continue to ski with a single long pole or "lurk" held in both hands in traditional style. The lurk should only contact the snow on the inside of the turn, though some find better balance results if the lurk contacts the snow on the outside of the turn."

I've seen some old Norwegian footage on TV where the guys threw front flips with leather boots, wooden skis and long single poles.

A quick search also lead to this:

www.telemarkdown.com/index.pl?page=telestick.

 
Sorry, the link doesn't work.

(anyway, it's on the site if you click "telemark ski deals" and scroll down)

Picture:

telestick_thumbnail.jpg
 
i had a dream last night that it was my first day out and that i only had 1 pole...and i was like "its the new steeze" then i broke my skis...lost 1 of them...and walked around for like 1 huor lookin for them being pissed i was at the hill and not skiing...

i get the same dream more or less every year around this time...
 
i am so glad you brought up this point. I grew up knowing a hardcore Norwegian tele-marking family and they would bust out the one pole/staff thing every once in a while and throw down some mean pow turns.
 
Thanks.

Just have to school these young punks once in a while (cause I can't do that anymore in the slopes, heh):)

And yes, I have nothing against new schoolers but sometimes it's pretty funny that it seems that they (note:rough generalisation here) don't know shit about the roots of the sport...I mean there has been alot of cool & interesting things before NCAF, and even before the so called "Plake era"!

 
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