Skiers vs Snowboarders 1985
Skiers vs Snowboarders 1985
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Skiers vs Snowboarders 1985
“This is what all the fuss is *aboot*”
“we approach them kind and collect(ed) and ask them to leave and they lip off to us”.
What the hell would you expect?
“Oh of course, kind sir, I totally forgot that I’m breaking your arbitrary rule based upon prejudice, I’ll leave at once”.
This guy was king of the slopes.. The hair and glasses say that..
MISSILES GUYS MISSILES!
Oh look, people unwilling to share. Whats new?
Wow it’s like the Sharks vs the Jets except somehow even less threatening
And that’s when Johnny Tsunami came in to bring the skys and urchins together to share the mountain.
It’s so weird how the Canadian accent have all but disappeared.
Only trouble I’ve ever had was with a snowboarder who decided to take his own trail. He came shooting onto the main hill and wiped out my father. Could’ve been much worse. Got lucky.
People have always used “it’s dangerous” as a bullshit excuse to stop people doing things they just don’t like. I hate it.
Man, we will find anything to be “us” vs “them”.
When ever this is reposted its fair to point out snowboarding in 1985 is a drastically different experience.
Some didn’t even have edges so turning and stopping was very limited. They where a lot cheaper to so people would buy one and head out to a mountain to basically go sledding. So naturally old white people got mad about it.
Those gosh darn snowy smart alecs!
>What’s the difference between a snowboard and a vacuum cleaner?
>Where you attach the dirtbag.
Heard this so many times on the hill.
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1985, Different times different vibes
“do you see any compromise?”
“No, no skiing is becoming more and more popular ya know”
Yeah, not
Edit: apparently I was wrong skiing outnumbered snowboarding by almost 3 times in 2019
This was probably posted as a “look how far we’ve come” thing, but ski-only slopes still exist.
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2 seconds, and 4 fingers into the video…
Is that Seymour Mountain? I spent a good chunk of my childhood on that mountain back in the 90s, when season’s passes were dirt cheap. The vast majority of my time there was spent riding that slow ass chair-lift you see in the background. It took 10 minutes to ride to the top and about 1 minute to ride down (I was a speed addict as a kid).
Fun fact, this was Robin Scherbatsky’s first broadcast. Her ex boyfriend, Simon Tremblay, had an in with the owners of the Beaver Tracks ski hill through his connections at Splish Splash Ottawa Water Slide Park. He was so riled up by the rowdy snowboarders that he forgot to plug his band like he’d planned when he makes an appearance near the end.
I’d like to get lipped off.
Fun fact: there are still 3 resorts in the US which don’t allow snowboarders:
Alta, UT
Deer Valley, UT
Mad River Glen, VT
you used to be able to buy fruit juice in gallon jugs “think coolaid” we would pour out a quart and fill 3/4 full with cheapest port wine available and rest with Everclear this we would dump into juice and drink once in parking lot to prepare for day of boarding!
As somebody that skis and comes from humble origins.. there’s an old guard of generational skiers who don’t want the sport to grow or be accessible. They want the mountains to themselves even though lots of them are built on public land that is leased to the resort. Looks like the attitude is the same back then as it is now. People complained when hourglass skis were introduced because it would lead to fat people clogging up the runs.
This reminds me of this commercial.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugq45gdxqAs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugq45gdxqAs)
Aged like fine milk.
There are the smartalecs. Some of them are ne’redowells. The occasional ragamuffin. And a good number of ruffians.
This is insane, but ski patrol has always been wack and still is; I had my lift ticket cut off by ski patrol this weekend, absolutely SUCKS.
I walk onto the mountain from a common spot everyone uses and I’ve used for 22 years. I put my board on, ski patrol guy slightly below even sees me, I tumble over a couple of times because they were blowing snow and it was sticky, as I’m about to ride by him he waves to me and starts talking to me as he grabs my ticket and cuts it off. I didn’t see it coming at all, I’m instantly mortified, “what are you doing?!”, he tells me he closed the section off 5 minutes ago and I’m pleading that I honest to god had not seen anything and that I’ve been getting on at the section my entire life, that I was going out to meet friends and family that got on there just over an hour ago and that I’m sorry if I had missed something. Another ski patrol gets there and immediately starts speaking condescendingly to me, I try to respond because I am just in absolute shock they are serious about taking my ticket away, she gets offended I dare speak back to her, finally I’m able to speak and I BEG, “you guys what is happening?? I drove 3 hours to get here today, you JUST saw me put on my board, I have literally been here 20 seconds and you’re taking my ticket away, I didn’t see anything and made a mistake, please please don’t do this”. I explained the situation as much as I could in every way possible that I didn’t make any conscious decision to disobey anything and I unknowingly made a simple mistake, one that lasted no more than 20 seconds because it’s a smaaall section of the slope that connects to another lift. And they just wouldn’t budge, the one ski patrol genuinely seemed upset at me having the audacity of even trying to explain myself.
I couldn’t even get back up to my family where I got on the mountain, I had to go to the lodge and call my father to come pick me up. Before leaving we go speak to the manger and he gave me a refund for the ticket because I didn’t even get to use it. Instead of staying the rest of the weekend I drove all the way home immediately incredibly defeated, and I’m still in just as much shock they weren’t willing to give me a warning instead after I explained the entire situation.
Did snowboarders back then not know how to break? You can break on a snowboard much quicker then a ski
“Only see there point of view, they get tunnel vision.”
“Do you see any compromise in the future?”
“No. Not not at all. We don’t want them”
Hmmmmmm project much?
“Only see there point of view, they get tunnel vision.”
“Do you see any compromise in the future?”
“No. No not at all. We don’t want them”
Hmmmmmm project much?
Simpler times…
I started boarding in 1986 and like nearly all the other snowboarders at my local mountain I had never skied before and had zero knowledge of mountain etiquette. We were all skate rats who were used to aggressive skate sessions and skating off-limits terrain. So that attitude definitely pissed off a lot of skiers. We also would hit every jump and bank on the mountain which was not the traffic pattern that skiers were used to. It took years to settle conflicts down. One resort had the snowboard instructors cruise the mountain and act as mentors to the snowboarders.
Guy: “They don’t see our point, they only see their point and won’t listen…”
Girl: “Do you see any compromise?”
Guy: “No.”
“Most of them (the snowboards) have no brakes on them.”
Two things: 1) So some snowboards DO have brakes?
2) And skis do?!?
*Most* of them have no breaks on them! 🤣🤦♀️
Good God did you see the lift line at 2:52?
wtf is in the center of the camera?
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Yard Sale! Fuck that skier they were interviewing.
I worked at a ski resort when snowboarding came to Colorado. IIRC The issue was the boards did not have their own slope and the grooves they were cutting, were dangerous for normal skiers.
I can’t wait til these people are gone…
That guy is a factually Boomer. Hilarious.
Pokémon cock and Pokémon balls
Thank god we didn’t end having to suspend the experiment due to high fatality rates!
I ski pretty often and don’t really have a problem with snowboarders except when they sit down in the middle of the run and you have a group of 5 in a line over a ledge.
Both can be oblivious to those around them and easily get in the way or knock others over, it’s generally accidental and sometimes unavoidable, so nothing really to get annoyed over, but when your group is blocking 1/2 the run by sitting down over a ledge and making the rest of the people funnel onto one side of the run, piss off.
I remember this coming full circle about 10 years ago for a friend who teaches snowboarding classes. Some longtime skiers on the mountain would harass snowboarders, take beers with them up the slopes and toss their empty bottles at boarders. There were far more snowboarders than skiers and it made the operators debate banning skiers. It calmed down for a bit until a skier tossed one of their poles like a javelin at a snowboarder that passed them. All of a sudden everyone had opinions against snowboarders and skiers on each side.
You should see the youtube videos when cars were first seen on the roads together with all the horse and carriages!
Well that’s a narc if I ever did see one
Wait do skis have brakes? Lol
This collection of interviews serves as a great reminder for what perspective is and how it affects you. Sometimes if you are too rigid in accepting something you don’t see or be unwilling to see that it is in fact just fine. Happens every day with many different things, at that moment in time nobody likes it or wants it, in the future people accepted it and is actually a totally normal thing now
“Most of them have no brakes on them”
Ah yes, I forgot skis have a emergency handbrake in case you are going too fast and snowboards do not have such a functionality, most of them
Man those boards were horrible.
there will always be nerds who hate on action sports
skating is more accepted than its ever been and still you go on any thread involving skating on r/videos and it will be full of people saying “you know hes setting a bad example by not wearing a helmet…” and “hes gonna hit someone and that makes him a moron. I don’t care if he kills himself but you dont endanger others” and ” he really shouldn’t be vandalizing private property like that”
nerds will be nerds
Burton board, basic bullshit
This video shows the stuffy skiers versus the fun-loving snowboarders but honestly every single person I’ve met who does either is a pretentious snob. There‘s something about expensive hobbies and sports that draws in the most insufferable people.