The best gaper quotes

Alright, this is actually a light part of a horrible day.

My schools freestyle team had planned a day trip to Jay Peak on a friday, however the night before, a student and friend, on the road to being a professional snowboarder, with a $100,000 scholarship died in a car crash. When I arrived to school wearing snowpants being heavily sagged, supported by shoelace suspenders, covered with 42 inch layered tall tees and my XL saga jacket.

Every student was told to report to our advisory, think of it like a home room. When I walked through the door I saw nothing but tears and sorrow. The teacher proceeded to look up at me, chuckle and say: "Max, I really think we need to talk about your outfit..."

Again, this was a light part of a difficult day, still, technically, a gaper quote.
 
I swear each one of these actually happened.

gaper: how many skis do you have????
me: I have three paris of skis...
gaper: WOW nice thats a lot of skis!
me:yeah.....
gaper: hey what do for the different bindings???/
me:what do you mean?
gaper: do you just switch your bindings between skis???
me: .......
gaper: since you have more then one ski do you have different boots for each different ski

me: I just stared at him.....

Also I had one little gaper tell me he thought my 09 line P90s looked sexy...I was like "yeah dude there are man thanks for the compliment" After I got on the lift I laughed the whole way up.

 
With the first gaper after I stared for a while I proceeded to explain to him that one pair of boots would fit in all my skis. I also told him that usually people didn't take their bindings off their skis once they are mounted(usually) He seemed to get it but at first when he asked I actually thought he was joking or something....

People need to remeber we were all gapers once. Yeah its funny when someone dosnt know anything about the sport you do but how are they gonna get to know about it ulness someone explains the sport to them....

Hmmm seems I am a gaper for not being able to spell oh well
 
exactly i mean it can be all fun and games by making fun of them but the real thing to remember is that gapers are people too and their just trying to get into the sport, unless they are just really really stupid, but you can make fun of them behind their backs with your friends but when they ask you a question just help them out and dont be a dick.
 
So dumb and fake. Sounds like you mixed an attempt to make fun of gapers with dyslexia and came up with froudrop and firstfront.
 
not really a quote but I saw a kid that didnt know what a diecut was... he still had the paper/plastic over them stuck to his helmet
 
a gaper on my school bus says while me and my friend are talking about skiing:"i can backflip to you know!"

me and him:

"what?! , on what noah?"

gaper:

"on skis at the snowboard park only i ski so im not supposed to go there"

us:

"really? thats cool"

gaper:

"yeah i can do the stuff in the 'halframp' too like shaun white"

"i can also do 'sliders' and 'grinders' and the 'airs'"

me and my friend are thinking what the fuck how can a fat ass sixth grader do a backflip if he calls a half pipe a half ramp and rails grinders? my answer: hes a fuckin gaper!

 
coming from the kid who just posted in the chads gap from alta thread telling him he shouldnt do it, id think you too are a gaper
 
this might be a tiny bit funny if it was even 1% real. the thing is

it's obviously not, and it's not funny at all. If you look at any page

in this thread that's double digits, you'll see probably 5 different

stories about fake gapers calling grinds grinders, and slightly

altering the names of real things make them sound like they don't know

what they're talking about. The thing is, you haven't loaded any pics or vids of yourself skiing, and make fun of made up people on schoolbusses to make yourself look cool to other people just like you. How do we know you even ski? /endrant

honestly, I should remove this thread from my thread list. It pisses me off WAY to much.
 
I once met a gaperish kid who saw me do a trick and ask if I could backflip, I stopped skiing the park and had a chat with him and I taught him some tricks.

He later bought twintips and now he is hooked to freeskiing and not so much gaper anymore. And i see him go to the park on my mountain all the time.

Why laugh at them? They may say silly things but we all have to start/be somwhere.

We should be constructive NS, not hating on them.
 
Some dad was in the park and there was a channel gap and this kid was in between them so i went and the dad came down and yelled at me on how i could have killed him.
 
This is kind of half gaper, half me being an idiot. Last season I was hitting the 40 footer at my home resort. As I went off I saw this dumb woman carving down right where I was going to land. I just managed to go over her, and when I landed I stopped to yell at her. Unbeknownst to me, I was also not visible from the drop in. My friend, who had just assumed I had landed clean, had just dropped in, and almost landed on top of me! We had a good laugh about that one later.
 
Family member or friend of family: So do you play any sports
Me: Yeah I'm really into newschool skiing (explains what it is)
Family member or friend of family: Oh, like snowboarding
Me: Yeah..
That happens a bunch. Same with "how do you stay on a rail on skis"
Gaper quote 2
(Watching Tanner CR and Sprigs segment at my grandfathers house)
Grandfather: This isn't skiing, it looks like they're just falling down a mountain
So many people just don't understand action sports but I mean looking at action sports it is kind of understandable that some people would think that.
 
"Marker bindings are the best bindings on the market right now."

"Yeah, my friend has bindings that are so old they are METAL!"

I facepalmed hard when I overheard that convo in a ski shop.
 
me: dude I'm hella excited. I'm getting some pro pipes for $189.
friend: Why would you get pro pipes?
me: they're basically more durable, race base suspects.
friend: but they're pipe skis.
me: .....
 
Have you even looked in the mirror?!

(whilst wearing shorts, shinguards, a poc helmet with chinstrap and mouthguard dangling)

i honestly wanted to fall on the floor laughing hahaha
 
this thread is a cynical peice of garbage. These 'gapers' most likely live in a diferent place, where there are more likely no mountains, no snow, and no freeski scene, so when they approach you, dont expect them to know the model of your skis, how exactly the resort operates, and what the name for a trick is. Honestly these people want to enjoy the sport of skiing and have fun, they are not going to look up every edit ever and learn all this terminoligy for one day on the mountain.

I know personally my grandma never saw snow until she was sixty, so when people like her ask where the moguls go, it is not to get scoffed at and ridiculed, but to learn about the sport they are new to. Skiing is a privilege, we are blessed with being able to have the money to buy skis, outerwear, helmets, googles, poles, gas money to drive every weekend, tickets/passes to the mountain ,and even get whole boxes of jiberish and three diferent jackets, like i have seen on some wts forums. It is elitist and wrong to mock people who are trying to enjoy the sport and have no exposure to it for mistaking terms. It is like asking a third grader to do the taylor series for sinx when you are in college. seems elementary to you, but for someone who doesnt even now what calc is, it is risible.

Lets just all enjoy skiing, since it is the sport we all love, and instead of narcissistically insulting those who have less exposure to the sport, lets help them identify what trick you threw, what skis you have, and what happens with the moguls and how they are made, so that they too may learn about the sport and progress, just like we all had to.

 
i saw this at a mall in china today
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Hey guess what.

We're not degrading anybody. It's just funny to us given what we know about the sport. Yeah, when somebody thinks they're superior because they know more they're an asshole but for the most part it's just poking some light fun at people who haven't learned yet and we've all been there.
 
i was on the palmer lift in hood with my friend and 2 gapers about 2 weeks ago... this is what went down:

Gaper: "why do u freestylers use twinteipers?"

Me: "ugh.. idk its easier to ski backwards and grind rails and stuff "

Gaper: "oh.... and y do u guys use really small poles?"

Me: "well i guess cuz we dont wnt long poles to get like caught up wihle were in the air, and i feel its just kindof easier."

Gaper: "Oh... what do they use those bags for (pointing to windells airbag)?"

Me: "to practice flips and stuff into it b4 u take it to a jump"

Gaper: "what are they filled with?"

Me: "...air"

Gaper: "oh..."

Me: "... and sometimes their filled with jello"

Gaper: " is that one filled with jello or air?"

Me: "uh im not sure. i think that one has both"

then me and my friend were just quietly laughing untill we got off the lift
 
This kinda got covered at least 30 pages ago... and in almost every page since... Personally, I would rather see some gaper stories, made-up or not, than hear people repeatedly complain about how the stories aren't real or how the thread may or may not be dead.

That is all.
 
Me *standing at the bottom of a run at some hotdog stand drinking a Gatorade, I overhear some fat Gaper woman, talking to her slightly less gaper friend*

Gaper: (looking at a t-bar) "look at those people going up the hill, they must be really good to just go up like that"

Gaper friend: "no they have that rope thing pulling them up"

Gaper: "oh is that what that thing does?"

I think she actually thought that as you get better at skiing you somehow can defy gravity and just ski uphill...
 
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