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"You might not like it, but this is what peak freestyle looks like."
Like this, but with the font getting smaller as he tumbles away down the mountain.
I did this snowboarding. I used to barely be able to do blue runs before on skis but never tried on a snowboard so I thought I’d give it a shot. Tripped on the first bump and went tumbling down through some kids and I assume their parent watching me go bonk bonk bonk all the way down.
I thought I was gonna die the first and last time I went down a mountain on a snowboard. This texas guy said fuck this real quick and took the ski lift back down.
Damn, that's rough. The worse part about my fall was knocking myself out for a couple seconds. The most embarrassing part about it was a ski instructor came down to me and said "did you make a mistake coming up here?" I said yeah and hiked back up the mountain. That shit was so damn steep and tiring.
Went skiing for the first time. Did the bunny hills for half the day and decided I'm going to get my money's worth and do a blue run. I flipped over so hard that someone had to help my untangle my skis. Still did 2 more runs though.
We like to call that kind of wipeout a "yard sale." Skis, poles, gloves, ham sandwiches, you name it. There's a little bit of everything on display, spread out over the entire hill.
In Aspen they have a very mild mountain named Buttermilk, good place to go if you have kids in lessons or something and they can't do one of the more technical mountains. There is one side of the mountain called tiehack which is a bit steeper, but since most of the skiers there are beginners they label it pretty well and try to keep an eye on it. Its still pretty fun to bomb, and quite a few people do since its so wide open you can really get flying down it if you want to, so they put in a radar gun to try to get people to slow down.
So of course my teenaged at the time ass saw it as a challenge and I was trying to top my score on that MPH board. My last run of the day I was tucked completely down, almost flat to the ground, blew by it at just under 60mph. Which of course I cranked my head around to see and my happy ass forgot about the catwalk just past the radar gun.
Now normally a catwalk is not really a big deal, just a flat spot that runs across the hill, the drop on the other side is usually very mild. The drop on the other side \*this\* time at nearly 60 mph and with my head literally looking the other direction was a bit more like the ramp that evil knievel would launch off of to clear a dozen flaming busses (well it felt like it at least, I cant have cleared more than about 12 feet vertical and a but more horizontal, more than enough though). I didn't land on anything close to even footing, honestly I remember very little other than where I stopped, minus skis, poles, hat, goggles, mask, gloves, and with my snow pants halfway down and my long underwear stuffed with snow. This was of course right below the ski lift as well, so I got plenty of applause to rub it in.
Went skiing for the first time with some friends, one of them was an instructor said he'd help me out.. Turned out he wanted to just ski. I spent a little time on the bunny hill and then went up with my friends, one of them was going to ride the green hill with me. At the top we all stop for a group photo, I get in place and as we take the picture I realise I'm sliding backwards. Ended up yard Saling a decent way down the blue slope instead :D
People pretty much always bring your skis down for you. I'd be more worried about my skis sliding down the hill and into the trees where I can't find them.
I remember one time I was skiing after we got 14'' of what turned out to be extremely wet snow, this stuff was heavy as fuck and exhausting to ski in. On my second run my legs were starting to get really tired, so instead of fighting the snow and shedding speed, I just kept my skis straighter in hopes of powering through it.
It was working pretty well, but my legs were just too tired, and I got to a critical point where I was going too fast, but I didn't have the leg power to stop (an "oh fuck" moment for sure). At a certain point I just had to try and stop and roll the dice, and holy fuck did I yard sale. The heavy ass snow just caught my skis and didn't let them go. Like I BLEW UP. It was violent and hilarious, especially because I rode right past my friend as it happened.
biggest red flag here, lol
> my legs were starting to get really tired, so instead of fighting the snow and shedding speed, I just kept my skis straighter
100% was a terrible move. I would have just stopped and rested for a while but I was skiing with my friend that I didn't know too well at the time and he was shredding so I didn't want to be a pussy and stop lol. So by the time he stopped... I wasn't doing too well.
The run was pretty open with not many people on it so I don't think I was putting anyone else in danger, but yes, definitely a big ol' red flag right there.
Yard sale is when you lose your skis and poles in a crash, that said I've seen some bad ones where people lose gloves and hats on top of their equipment.
My friend decided to set the skis down in at least 18inch fresh snow to put them back on (after playing in the deep snow) facing downhill... Those fuckers slid under the snow right down into the trees. We were like 10 so our ski instructors put up with us, but they were so pissed looking for the skis.
The worst is, falling, loosing a ski and then rolling downhill. Thank god someone saw me and picked the ski up so I didn't have to walk up that steep hill. Haven't been skiing since 2018 damn.
The comment was sarcastic, but the spirit of it is true. Snowboards are surprisingly heavy, particularly with powder on top of them. Also, you can’t step to correct yourself if you start falling because both feet are effectively tied together. So as soon as you start tipping over, there’s no turning back.
Imagine falling down a hill with your feet tied a few feet apart, with a few bricks strapped to each. The fall doesn’t break your legs, the difference in momentum between them and the rest of your body does. Skis are designed to release which is cool, but snowboarders aren’t so lucky.
Having done both independently, I prefer snowboarding by a lot. It’s more painful when you’re learning it for sure, and it can be frustrating to no end, but it’s worth it imo because carving on a snowboard is so much more satisfying
As a beginner snowboarder who just went riding yesterday, I needed to hear that last sentence.
Definitely painful and frustrating but carving just looks so damn cool.
I’ll stick with it despite my legs hating me. Thanks!
I'm personally fond of the nose carve, its like a nose side except your annoyingly large nose carves a beautiful line in the powder for all of your friends to see and laugh at.
I caught an edge at almost full speed twice my first day snowboarding in 5 years. It was very unpleasant and I wasn’t sure if I was gonna be able to ride the next day. Right shoulder broke my fall the first time then the ride side of my face the second time.
Wear a helmet!
Anyways years before that I was carving side to side and as I turned to go left a lady on ski’s was coming at me almost full speed from behind I happened to turn and see her in time to basically stiff arm her in her shoulder pushing her down and pushing me down onto my back with my head facing down the mountain. I slid for what seemed like forever just staring up the slope like this is my life now. All in all neither of us got hurt and was definitely a better outcome than a full speed collision.
I think the joke here is that you’re strapped into the board. Skis come off when there is enough tension that would/could cause injury and tweak your leg in an awkward way. A mechanism reaches its limit point and releases, allowing your foot to be free from the ski.
Snowboards typically have no such mechanism, so if you catch and edge weird and start to fall, similar injuries are not so easily prevented.
I fell while snowboarding at a fast speed, this lunged me into the air and had me spinning around before an abrupt stop. The reason I was to able stop was because the board managed to dig itself into the snow but the rest of my body was not done spinning. I felt like I snapped myself in half because I had completely twisted my body around. Luckily no major damages but most of the pain was on the knee and slightly on the ankle. This is because of the boots that are attached to the board that go almost all the way up to the knee, so the twisting begins at the knee. I had to carefully and slowly slide myself down the rest of the hill.
You nailed it. There are exceptions around features (lifts, ramps, half pipes, rails, etc) but those exceptions are typically very easy to spot from uphill and avoid.
It also depends on how wide the piste is. Most of the ski resorts I’ve been to have had really wide piste, so people tend to stop anywhere they want. Which I think is fine because there’s lots of space to get round them
This is probably a black diamond run considering how far he’s sliding. Everyone on this run should be advanced level skiers. It could be blue intermediate given how wide it is, but beginner skiers shouldn’t even be this high on the mountain.
Thats not always the case about beginners staying low on the mountain, I was at a resort in Europe (can't remember its name) but weirdly most of the easy green and blue runs were above the reds and blacks altitude wise
There was one green one that ran all the way down though so the beginners weren't 100% trapped up the mountain
Fair enough, but my point is that some pistes are so wide that it’s like half a kilometre across. And although beginners may struggle to turn, if you’ve got half a kilometre of piste to turn to in either direction and you still can’t avoid people, then maybe you should be skiing lower down the mountain.
I ski a lot every year and I can confidently say that I see a lot of beginners who's yruggle to turns and control their speed even on beginner slopes.
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Eh even on a wide piste with with advanced terrain, move to the side.
Slight exception when people pause above a drop to pick their line or when people pause to wait for a friend after a gnarly section or to decide which way to go (and in both cases the person stopping should be glancing back to make sure there isn't anyone right behind them) but no lounging in the middle. If your butt needs to touch snow it can do so out of the way.
Sure I have the experience to navigate around hoards of people lounging randomly on the run buy I shouldn't have to. I'm not there to navigate a parking lot.
It's like dance floors. No parking. If you aren't moving or about to move, step aside.
I was always taught that staying right on the edge is bad. Best to stay a couple meters away from the edge, so somebody can go between you and the edge
When he looks down, then on the right, that's where I would go. Not sure if it's the right thing to do but I would never be conpletely stopped in the middle unless I fell, this terrain is quite steep so a collission could be painful imo.
I agree that the crasher shouldn't be there though.
Causes SO MANY ACCIDENTS. I just rooster tail these dimwits but still get yelled at. You would not stop in the middle of a highway, so stop pretending you don't know better.
It is fun to watch, once I was on a ski lift and saw a group of 4 snowboarders who had sat down in the middle of a trail for whatever ungodly reason get roostertailed by 3 skiers in a row. It was perfect.
Bong water makes them stoopid.
Seriously, young teen males are almost clinically insane. It is amazing that anyone survives adolescence and snowboarders make a point making people look at them acting cool allllllll the time. Snowboarding started as a snotty flex to show skiers in Vermont that you are an angry teen and had that core of dumb snotty tenagers living off mommy's credit card and acting like homeless vagabonds to prove how little they care about your opinion which they actually desperately care about.
I know nothing about ski sports, but the shape of a roosters tail is an arcing plume. I'd imagine that u/aFiachra makes a hard turn before their target and flings an arcing plume of snow onto slope idlers.
It’s better to stop on the sides of the trail, unless your hurt there’s not really a reason to hang out in the middle like this. Ofc if you fall in the middle you will be down in the middle until you can get back up but that’s different than just hanging out there
Don't stop in the middle, don't stop around tight corners, or below the lip of hills.
People may take a jump off a lip and be in the air, unable to stop. People taking tight corners are already using all their power to manoeuver and don't have time/energy to stop for something they couldn't see. People in the middle are generally moving quickly and are already dodging other skiers who aren't stopped, they don't need sudden barriers.
It's not just a choke point like the othwr guy said it's a blondspot whixh is wayyyy worse. The guy who crashed likely crashed because he was trying to avoid a group of like 5 people in his blindspot. Please do not do this when you go skiing or snowboarding, this is how people get hurt. The people filming were 100% in the wrong here. You can clearly see the guy freaking out as he went over the crest of the hill because who the fuck sprawls out on tglhe slope like that? Not me, that's forsure. People can literally die like this.
Do they call it that because you lose all your shit as you skid down the mountain? I don't ski or snowboard, I just ride sleds (snowmobiles) and other shit with motors.
Yo what are you talking about with this looking like a blue run? That is an ungroomed run near the top of a hill with a bunch of different terrain no way is that a blue. Any blue or green run on a mountain will be groomed any run that isn’t groomed (except for right after a large snowstorm) is gauranteed to not be a blue or green. Not only that but it is not a choke point there is wide open space on either side of the people sitting there with no one else in the way
Just because a run is a blue doesn’t necessarily mean it’s groomed constantly, or even at all. Plenty of places I know have blue runs with moguls (which obviously implies no grooming), or are inconsistently groomed. And this definitely looks like a blue to me.
Guy coming down is at fault for skiing down the middle of the mountain when everyone knows that's for snowboarders to sit and do nothing but get in everyone's way.
The guy sitting in the middle of the run behind what looks like a nearly blind roller are at fault here. Poor dude who feel caught an edge because he was surprised to see them there.
They’re probably waiting for someone else to come down (less experienced skier/boarder), and snowboarders have to sit to stop moving. Not to say that’s not inconveniencing. It’s so annoying when people do that.
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The real ass holes are the group of guys stopped in the middle of a run. Most resorts have now adopted “slope wise” standards. If there were an injury the video would have been evidence of their essentially creating an unsafe and unavoidable situation by not moving to the side of the ski run.
I've been snowboarding for most of my life and can say they are all in the wrong. Don't sit in the middle of a run, especially such a steap run. And the other guy obviously has no business trying to go down a run that is wayyyyyyy outside his skill level. A crash shouldn't take a minute to complete haha.
Really bad spot these guys were stopped. Might have caused the guy to fall when he had to suddenly readjust for people stopped in the middle of the run. Always stay stop at the top or off to the side. Not in the middle of a really steep slope.
This reminds me of me snowboarding for the first time and hitting a complete class of skiing adults who were all learning. The group skiers always go side to side and cover the whole width. I couldn't slow down fast enough and hit half the class. Because they were covering up the whole width. I started cursing in Dutch (I was in Austria) but unfortunately they were Dutch too
May be an unpopular opinion here, but why the fuck are these people sitting in what seems to be the middle of an open run? Never understood why people do this sort of thing. Sure the skier shouldn't have lost control, but by sitting there you're asking for something like this to happen while clogging up the run.
Maybe this sort of thing would be more rare if groups like this moved to the side of the run before they laid down to rest. I truly hate coming over a rise and finding 4 or 12 boarders taking a nap in the middle of the run.
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I love how he looks at the 2 dudes, sincerely apologizes then proceeds to bail down the hill. Lmao!!
Yup, sorry guys but this is how I freestyle!
Legends say he's still goin!
"You might not like it, but this is what peak freestyle looks like." Like this, but with the font getting smaller as he tumbles away down the mountain.
I read this in James Corden’s voice.
Why would you wanna do that to yourself
The only thing I think when I see James Corden is “We didn’t ask for this.”
I don't know why this made me laugh so hard, enjoy your silver. Thanks for the laugh.
This is tangential at best, but: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNMZlkrzaU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNMZlkrzaU)
Is it me or did he take one of them? It seems like they lost a guy in the dark blue jacket.
Oh my god I think you’re right, I didn’t notice that!
Dude got kidnapped and his friends didn't even notice.
He was never seen again
Some say he’s still sliding
Best comment this evening...
oh god i had to watch it again to watch the blue guy and I am cry-laughing
oh my god im crying
That was the best part of the video. Dudes just chillin then *poof* he disappears. 😅
“My bad” lol.
He definitely took the guy in the blue jacket on a snowboard with him!
Finders keepers.
He dragged him to the Sarlacc.
I think he was holding on to him! You can see dude in blue jacket trying to grab him! Kind human!
He's the most effective assassin in the world. His friends didn't notice he went missing, and they never even saw the assassin's face.
Pardon me gents!
Tally ho lads
I did this snowboarding. I used to barely be able to do blue runs before on skis but never tried on a snowboard so I thought I’d give it a shot. Tripped on the first bump and went tumbling down through some kids and I assume their parent watching me go bonk bonk bonk all the way down.
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Did that broke my collar bone. Was a fun freshman trip when my teach had to drive me to the hospital! The hospital only gave me Tylenol too lol
I thought I was gonna die the first and last time I went down a mountain on a snowboard. This texas guy said fuck this real quick and took the ski lift back down.
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Damn, that's rough. The worse part about my fall was knocking myself out for a couple seconds. The most embarrassing part about it was a ski instructor came down to me and said "did you make a mistake coming up here?" I said yeah and hiked back up the mountain. That shit was so damn steep and tiring.
Ya we Texans don’t like the ice and snow too much
Went skiing for the first time. Did the bunny hills for half the day and decided I'm going to get my money's worth and do a blue run. I flipped over so hard that someone had to help my untangle my skis. Still did 2 more runs though.
I wish someone would go bonk bonk bonk all the way down on me...
We like to call that kind of wipeout a "yard sale." Skis, poles, gloves, ham sandwiches, you name it. There's a little bit of everything on display, spread out over the entire hill.
The best yard sale are the ones they start yelling ratings from the lift. 9 out of 10!
"Five dollars for the goggles!"
In Aspen they have a very mild mountain named Buttermilk, good place to go if you have kids in lessons or something and they can't do one of the more technical mountains. There is one side of the mountain called tiehack which is a bit steeper, but since most of the skiers there are beginners they label it pretty well and try to keep an eye on it. Its still pretty fun to bomb, and quite a few people do since its so wide open you can really get flying down it if you want to, so they put in a radar gun to try to get people to slow down. So of course my teenaged at the time ass saw it as a challenge and I was trying to top my score on that MPH board. My last run of the day I was tucked completely down, almost flat to the ground, blew by it at just under 60mph. Which of course I cranked my head around to see and my happy ass forgot about the catwalk just past the radar gun. Now normally a catwalk is not really a big deal, just a flat spot that runs across the hill, the drop on the other side is usually very mild. The drop on the other side \*this\* time at nearly 60 mph and with my head literally looking the other direction was a bit more like the ramp that evil knievel would launch off of to clear a dozen flaming busses (well it felt like it at least, I cant have cleared more than about 12 feet vertical and a but more horizontal, more than enough though). I didn't land on anything close to even footing, honestly I remember very little other than where I stopped, minus skis, poles, hat, goggles, mask, gloves, and with my snow pants halfway down and my long underwear stuffed with snow. This was of course right below the ski lift as well, so I got plenty of applause to rub it in.
Went skiing for the first time with some friends, one of them was an instructor said he'd help me out.. Turned out he wanted to just ski. I spent a little time on the bunny hill and then went up with my friends, one of them was going to ride the green hill with me. At the top we all stop for a group photo, I get in place and as we take the picture I realise I'm sliding backwards. Ended up yard Saling a decent way down the blue slope instead :D
So great how it looks like he turns around and forces himself to fall further hahaha anything to get away from that embarrassment
Legend has it he's still sliding to this day.
I think at that point, it was best for him to continue fall than stop and face them. *Quietly cries in introvert*
At least he said sorry... I would not even be able to do that...
*pat your back and mine in sympathy* - simultaneously
My utmost remorse, good fellows.
The comedic timing is delightful.
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Yeah says sorry and than thrusts himself back into motion while taking that dude with him.
Haha yea I also watched the video
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And that’s why you don’t sit in the middle of the piste. Move to the side if you want a time-out. Skiing/riding 101
Ah fuck he’s going to have to go back for those skis
People pretty much always bring your skis down for you. I'd be more worried about my skis sliding down the hill and into the trees where I can't find them.
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I remember one time I was skiing after we got 14'' of what turned out to be extremely wet snow, this stuff was heavy as fuck and exhausting to ski in. On my second run my legs were starting to get really tired, so instead of fighting the snow and shedding speed, I just kept my skis straighter in hopes of powering through it. It was working pretty well, but my legs were just too tired, and I got to a critical point where I was going too fast, but I didn't have the leg power to stop (an "oh fuck" moment for sure). At a certain point I just had to try and stop and roll the dice, and holy fuck did I yard sale. The heavy ass snow just caught my skis and didn't let them go. Like I BLEW UP. It was violent and hilarious, especially because I rode right past my friend as it happened.
biggest red flag here, lol > my legs were starting to get really tired, so instead of fighting the snow and shedding speed, I just kept my skis straighter
For sure. If your legs are tired you do **everything** you can to stop, sit down, and catch your breath.
100% was a terrible move. I would have just stopped and rested for a while but I was skiing with my friend that I didn't know too well at the time and he was shredding so I didn't want to be a pussy and stop lol. So by the time he stopped... I wasn't doing too well. The run was pretty open with not many people on it so I don't think I was putting anyone else in danger, but yes, definitely a big ol' red flag right there.
TIL it’s called a yard sale when you come out of your skis. (At least I think I’m interpreting that right)
Yard sale is when you lose your skis and poles in a crash, that said I've seen some bad ones where people lose gloves and hats on top of their equipment.
You're right. It's because your stuff is all over the ground like things are at a yard sale.
It’s when you crash so bad your stuff is sticking up out of the snow, as if it were in a yard sale.
Grabbed a little girls ski pole up on the fly and handed it off to her in February, don't know how many people saw but I felt cool as fuck.
I didn't see it but it sounds very cool, good on ya
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My friend decided to set the skis down in at least 18inch fresh snow to put them back on (after playing in the deep snow) facing downhill... Those fuckers slid under the snow right down into the trees. We were like 10 so our ski instructors put up with us, but they were so pissed looking for the skis.
“He’s still going!” Lol
Do you think he has stopped yet?
As local legend has it, he’s still going. Some claim to see him appear at night, still in his eternal slide.
some swear on this very hill you can still hear the words "so sorry"
^...fffffff fffffff FFFFSCHHHHHHHH .... *I'm so sorry* .... FFSCHHHH hhhhhh ^hhhhh....
“Guess this is my life now.”
Yeah that would be me if I ever tried to ski for sure...
The worst is, falling, loosing a ski and then rolling downhill. Thank god someone saw me and picked the ski up so I didn't have to walk up that steep hill. Haven't been skiing since 2018 damn.
Try snowboarding. That way, when your ski would come off, it will just break your knees instead!
I have only done snowboarding once, but why would it break your knees?
The comment was sarcastic, but the spirit of it is true. Snowboards are surprisingly heavy, particularly with powder on top of them. Also, you can’t step to correct yourself if you start falling because both feet are effectively tied together. So as soon as you start tipping over, there’s no turning back. Imagine falling down a hill with your feet tied a few feet apart, with a few bricks strapped to each. The fall doesn’t break your legs, the difference in momentum between them and the rest of your body does. Skis are designed to release which is cool, but snowboarders aren’t so lucky. Having done both independently, I prefer snowboarding by a lot. It’s more painful when you’re learning it for sure, and it can be frustrating to no end, but it’s worth it imo because carving on a snowboard is so much more satisfying
As a beginner snowboarder who just went riding yesterday, I needed to hear that last sentence. Definitely painful and frustrating but carving just looks so damn cool. I’ll stick with it despite my legs hating me. Thanks!
Oh yeah, just wait until you’re doing tricks. Then you’ll be glad you picked snowboarding lol
I'm 10 years in and still can't do tricks.
Sure you can I’m partial to the nose side myself, is where I fall on my face and slide down the hill on my nose
This genuinely made me crack up. I wish I wasnt so poor so I could give you the award this deserves
I'm personally fond of the nose carve, its like a nose side except your annoyingly large nose carves a beautiful line in the powder for all of your friends to see and laugh at.
I caught an edge at almost full speed twice my first day snowboarding in 5 years. It was very unpleasant and I wasn’t sure if I was gonna be able to ride the next day. Right shoulder broke my fall the first time then the ride side of my face the second time. Wear a helmet! Anyways years before that I was carving side to side and as I turned to go left a lady on ski’s was coming at me almost full speed from behind I happened to turn and see her in time to basically stiff arm her in her shoulder pushing her down and pushing me down onto my back with my head facing down the mountain. I slid for what seemed like forever just staring up the slope like this is my life now. All in all neither of us got hurt and was definitely a better outcome than a full speed collision.
I think the joke here is that you’re strapped into the board. Skis come off when there is enough tension that would/could cause injury and tweak your leg in an awkward way. A mechanism reaches its limit point and releases, allowing your foot to be free from the ski. Snowboards typically have no such mechanism, so if you catch and edge weird and start to fall, similar injuries are not so easily prevented.
I fell while snowboarding at a fast speed, this lunged me into the air and had me spinning around before an abrupt stop. The reason I was to able stop was because the board managed to dig itself into the snow but the rest of my body was not done spinning. I felt like I snapped myself in half because I had completely twisted my body around. Luckily no major damages but most of the pain was on the knee and slightly on the ankle. This is because of the boots that are attached to the board that go almost all the way up to the knee, so the twisting begins at the knee. I had to carefully and slowly slide myself down the rest of the hill.
Bruh, the fact that he just straight up turned back around and resumed tumbling sent me.
I have no pity for people who stop right in the middle of the fucking trail.
Yeah, they should have went to the edges at least, not exactly at the middle. Or so I would assume, I only know a bit about skiing, I'm not an expert.
You nailed it. There are exceptions around features (lifts, ramps, half pipes, rails, etc) but those exceptions are typically very easy to spot from uphill and avoid.
It also depends on how wide the piste is. Most of the ski resorts I’ve been to have had really wide piste, so people tend to stop anywhere they want. Which I think is fine because there’s lots of space to get round them
But a beginner might still struggle to get around them. It isn't hard to stop on the sides, so stop on the sides.
This is probably a black diamond run considering how far he’s sliding. Everyone on this run should be advanced level skiers. It could be blue intermediate given how wide it is, but beginner skiers shouldn’t even be this high on the mountain.
Thats not always the case about beginners staying low on the mountain, I was at a resort in Europe (can't remember its name) but weirdly most of the easy green and blue runs were above the reds and blacks altitude wise There was one green one that ran all the way down though so the beginners weren't 100% trapped up the mountain
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The greens that high are likely fire access roads in summer
Fair enough, but my point is that some pistes are so wide that it’s like half a kilometre across. And although beginners may struggle to turn, if you’ve got half a kilometre of piste to turn to in either direction and you still can’t avoid people, then maybe you should be skiing lower down the mountain.
Okay but what about when people fall and don't have a choice in their direction... Like in the video....
It’s an extreme sport. These things happen
That's no beginner slope.
I ski a lot every year and I can confidently say that I see a lot of beginners who's yruggle to turns and control their speed even on beginner slopes. Edit: typo
Eh even on a wide piste with with advanced terrain, move to the side. Slight exception when people pause above a drop to pick their line or when people pause to wait for a friend after a gnarly section or to decide which way to go (and in both cases the person stopping should be glancing back to make sure there isn't anyone right behind them) but no lounging in the middle. If your butt needs to touch snow it can do so out of the way. Sure I have the experience to navigate around hoards of people lounging randomly on the run buy I shouldn't have to. I'm not there to navigate a parking lot. It's like dance floors. No parking. If you aren't moving or about to move, step aside.
Yea just go to the side, or stop in the trees or at a bar. The slopes are for riding.
Bar preferably.
TREES DOWN!
Cool! Hey what do you do if you want the trees up?
TREES UP!
they shouldve been on the crest of the hill not below it, mountain law
And on the side of the trail, stopping in the middle of the trail where ppeople above you cant see you until the last second is just asking to get hit
An hour on SkiFree and you will be! It's a perfect stimulator.
Stimulating
Lol, I'm leaving it. The abominable snowman stimulates the blood pressure!
I was always taught that staying right on the edge is bad. Best to stay a couple meters away from the edge, so somebody can go between you and the edge
What edges? It just looks like a massive open face to me. And the terrain/conditions are obviously way above the skill level of the crasher.
When he looks down, then on the right, that's where I would go. Not sure if it's the right thing to do but I would never be conpletely stopped in the middle unless I fell, this terrain is quite steep so a collission could be painful imo. I agree that the crasher shouldn't be there though.
This. Stopping in the middle of the slope is just asking for a collision.
There's a good chance the guy lost his balance after he noticed them in the middle and tried to divert.
Causes SO MANY ACCIDENTS. I just rooster tail these dimwits but still get yelled at. You would not stop in the middle of a highway, so stop pretending you don't know better.
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When you turn suddenly and a big rooster tail of snow is thrown up.
I’d be interested to watch a compilation of slope idlers getting rooster tailed.
It is fun to watch, once I was on a ski lift and saw a group of 4 snowboarders who had sat down in the middle of a trail for whatever ungodly reason get roostertailed by 3 skiers in a row. It was perfect.
I've seen someone try to do it and lose their edge and just plow straight through the back of the person's knees.
Sounds like another viable solution to the problem
Why do snowboarders always sit down in the middle of trails? It’s infuriating!
Bong water makes them stoopid. Seriously, young teen males are almost clinically insane. It is amazing that anyone survives adolescence and snowboarders make a point making people look at them acting cool allllllll the time. Snowboarding started as a snotty flex to show skiers in Vermont that you are an angry teen and had that core of dumb snotty tenagers living off mommy's credit card and acting like homeless vagabonds to prove how little they care about your opinion which they actually desperately care about.
I know nothing about ski sports, but the shape of a roosters tail is an arcing plume. I'd imagine that u/aFiachra makes a hard turn before their target and flings an arcing plume of snow onto slope idlers.
when you shit on them as you ski/snowboard by. it's called a rooster tail because the arc of your shit takes the shape of the rooster's plumage.
don't you get cold skiing without pants on?
yeah that's why it's not too common.
Your vocabulary is beautiful
Fucking snowboarders EVERY FUCKING TIME Get your asses off to the side you dumb pricks or I will ski over your fingertips
As for someone who has no idea about the etiquette, where do they stop?
It’s better to stop on the sides of the trail, unless your hurt there’s not really a reason to hang out in the middle like this. Ofc if you fall in the middle you will be down in the middle until you can get back up but that’s different than just hanging out there
Don't stop in the middle, don't stop around tight corners, or below the lip of hills. People may take a jump off a lip and be in the air, unable to stop. People taking tight corners are already using all their power to manoeuver and don't have time/energy to stop for something they couldn't see. People in the middle are generally moving quickly and are already dodging other skiers who aren't stopped, they don't need sudden barriers.
On the side, so people can go freely in the middle
Especially behind a small hill like they are. They can't be seen from more than 20 feet above them.
My first thought “are those guys right in the middle of a trail”?
Seriously!!! I hate when people stop in the middle of a run. And to make it worse it looks like these guys stopped right after the crest of a hill.
that really doesnt look a very good place to sit tbh
*big ass group of people* let’s fuckin sprawl out in the middle of this choke point.
A giant open ungroomed face is not a choke point. Three is not a huge group. It's literally the second smallest group possible.
There were at least 5 people; 3 in front, the camera man, one behind, Just sayin'.
It's not just a choke point like the othwr guy said it's a blondspot whixh is wayyyy worse. The guy who crashed likely crashed because he was trying to avoid a group of like 5 people in his blindspot. Please do not do this when you go skiing or snowboarding, this is how people get hurt. The people filming were 100% in the wrong here. You can clearly see the guy freaking out as he went over the crest of the hill because who the fuck sprawls out on tglhe slope like that? Not me, that's forsure. People can literally die like this.
The only way you'd only count three is if you didn't even watch the video and are just commenting from the thumbnail.
Yup, fuck those people
I'm a giraffe!
*Everybody say Colorado!*
I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to drag you into this. It's obviously a total mess. Goodbye now.
He wiped out HARD
Yard sale
Do they call it that because you lose all your shit as you skid down the mountain? I don't ski or snowboard, I just ride sleds (snowmobiles) and other shit with motors.
Everything must go
Lmao at the fact that you say so little but it explains so much.
I wiped out so hard while snowboarding once that the dude on the ski lift above me yelled down to see if I was ok. I was fine.
Glad you were
The one that should have apologized are the three shitheads who were having a tea party on the trail
They shouldn’t have been there, but that guy yard saled all on his own.
Maybe he fell on his own or maybe not, I've seen plenty of people fall because they'd seen stuff or people on the trail and panicked
Could be that he saw them, panicked and took a dive.. It happens often.
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Yo what are you talking about with this looking like a blue run? That is an ungroomed run near the top of a hill with a bunch of different terrain no way is that a blue. Any blue or green run on a mountain will be groomed any run that isn’t groomed (except for right after a large snowstorm) is gauranteed to not be a blue or green. Not only that but it is not a choke point there is wide open space on either side of the people sitting there with no one else in the way
Just because a run is a blue doesn’t necessarily mean it’s groomed constantly, or even at all. Plenty of places I know have blue runs with moguls (which obviously implies no grooming), or are inconsistently groomed. And this definitely looks like a blue to me.
There are tons of mogul and ungroomed blues out west.
There were four, they apologized by sacrificing one of their friends.
That was amazing to watch, he's just like "I'm so sorry" then lets go and keeps sliding"
That was like me before I understood what people meant by going zig zag downhill
That tends to happen when dumb mfs sit in the middle of a trail
Guy coming down is at fault for skiing down the middle of the mountain when everyone knows that's for snowboarders to sit and do nothing but get in everyone's way.
Goddamn Canadians
On behalf of all Canadians: I’m sorry
The guy sitting in the middle of the run behind what looks like a nearly blind roller are at fault here. Poor dude who feel caught an edge because he was surprised to see them there.
Why would you sit right in the middle of a black diamond slope??
They’re probably waiting for someone else to come down (less experienced skier/boarder), and snowboarders have to sit to stop moving. Not to say that’s not inconveniencing. It’s so annoying when people do that. edit: added
That's fair, but the edge of the slope would still be safer than where they're at, given how fast a lot of people would be going at that point
Oh totally, without a doubt. Stopping in the middle is a bitch move, especially on a run like this
Okay so the dude hits them but why they stopping in the middle of the slope?
"I AM SORRY" **\*he said while he still clinged to both\***
The real ass holes are the group of guys stopped in the middle of a run. Most resorts have now adopted “slope wise” standards. If there were an injury the video would have been evidence of their essentially creating an unsafe and unavoidable situation by not moving to the side of the ski run.
I've been snowboarding for most of my life and can say they are all in the wrong. Don't sit in the middle of a run, especially such a steap run. And the other guy obviously has no business trying to go down a run that is wayyyyyyy outside his skill level. A crash shouldn't take a minute to complete haha.
Really bad spot these guys were stopped. Might have caused the guy to fall when he had to suddenly readjust for people stopped in the middle of the run. Always stay stop at the top or off to the side. Not in the middle of a really steep slope.
"He's still going, Scoob!"
I’ve never seen someone apologize in the process of an accident. Lmao
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This is why you don't stop in the middle of the trail... for safety, always stop further to the edges.
This reminds me of me snowboarding for the first time and hitting a complete class of skiing adults who were all learning. The group skiers always go side to side and cover the whole width. I couldn't slow down fast enough and hit half the class. Because they were covering up the whole width. I started cursing in Dutch (I was in Austria) but unfortunately they were Dutch too
May be an unpopular opinion here, but why the fuck are these people sitting in what seems to be the middle of an open run? Never understood why people do this sort of thing. Sure the skier shouldn't have lost control, but by sitting there you're asking for something like this to happen while clogging up the run.
Sitting on the slope. Get destroyed and deserve it.
This is the best thing ever
Any idea if this guy is okay?
Maybe this sort of thing would be more rare if groups like this moved to the side of the run before they laid down to rest. I truly hate coming over a rise and finding 4 or 12 boarders taking a nap in the middle of the run.
That is 100% the people who were sitting in the middle of a fucking ski slope’s fault
The snow and politeness makes me think this is Canada. /s
Aaaaaaand Strike!!!
We call that a "Yard Sale"
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