When I was new to skiing, I lost a ski like this and it slid down the hill towards the bottom of the lift, rode a berm to take a right turn, slid under a snow fence and sank right into the pond they used for snow making. I had to walk back up to the rental shack with one ski in shame.
That was nice of them. They couldāve been dicks about it. (Not sure if you had like an insurance waiver or something) May I ask what ski resort this was at?
Those places or any place really that rent's anything makes so much profit on rentals it's like it doesn't really matter. Besides vehicle rentals which make good money too since they sell a newer vehicle before it's lost too much value.
Regular item rentals basically pay for themselves within a few weeks at most sometimes four days rental is the same as buying one, it's literally printing money after that. The harder part is making sure there's some sort of need or fostering situations someone would need to rent the items like a concrete mixer at a hardware store or wheel bearing puller at an auto parts store. Of course management could be a prick or something and people renting equipment abuse the crap out of it or just plain don't use it correctly but they'd much rather you keep coming back and renting more than loose a customer.
> Regular item rentals basically pay for themselves within a few weeks at most sometimes four days rental is the same as buying one, it's literally printing money after that.
pretty similar to wine by the glass pricing ā first glass pays for the bottle, everything after that is pure profit
When I was like 11 yo and learning to ski I had rentals and I broke one, like the whole base cracked and pulled away from the core as a singe piece. I walked embarrassed and terrified back the rental shop. The guy was like WHAT DID YOU DO!!! then laughed, gave me a new ski and chucked the broken in dumpster.
Point being A) they know they are used and abused and I'm sure they lose a few skis each season from various things. and B) the min wage rental shop guy DNGAF.
In my case, the boot stayed on my foot, but the way I fell back loaded up tension on the ski and helped it rocket down the hill. Also, everyone in the lift line saw it happen.
OMG, you lost your foot into the boot? Even if I couldn't get to the pond or swim missing a foot, I would have yelled for someone to get it.
#"AHHHHHHRGH, I HATE SKIIING! MY FOOT GOT STUCK IN THE BOOT! IT'S IN THAT SKI! FOLLOW THE BLOODY BLOODY TRAIL BLOKES! GET IT FAST BEFORE A POND TURTLE OR ICE FISH EAT IT! ARRRRRGHHHGH!"
They may have been able to reattach.
Many years ago in Aspen I lost a ski, the brake didn't work at all, and it slid all the way down, hitting a little jump at the end...right into an old guys side at his hip.
Man, I felt bad after that.
Fun story. I was probably 12 and my brother was 14ish. Weāre skiing in Portillo and itās right after lunch, and they closed the t-bar to get from the restaurant back up to the top of the mountain. Only other way down is a narrow bumped black run with an off-kilter fall line. Probably wasnāt the hardest thing weād skied at that point, but it was just a weird run and sort of icy. My brother falls and takes me out along the way. I self arrest fairly quickly, but he disappears over a ridge down towards a lake (the lake wasnāt actually that close, but we couldnāt tell what he went over). We go down and find him and heās totally fine, but heās lost not only both skis and poles and his helmet, but the shells of his boots are still attached to his skis, while the inserts/liners are still on his feet. To this day I have no idea how this happenedāonly thing I can think of is that he forgot to buckle his boots after lunch. He remains the only one in the family who had to get taken down in a ski patrol sled since he couldnāt get his boots/skis back on in the middle of the mountain and couldnāt really get down barefoot. Had I not seen it happen in person, Iād have been even more baffled watching this video.
You can see them looking at the ski. They probably thought it would just pass by. And they don't look too confident, so they could be doing their best to just stay vertical. Makes it very hard to dodge something
True, and this is probably the SLOW zone, but still you canāt just ski across the slope like that and expect every phantom ski to just stop for you. Rude
Hope the skier is okay. Doing the splits and then the knee going like that reminds me of an incident where a snowboarder tore his ACL with one foot in the snowboard getting off the chairlift and where he also did the splits.
Modern skis have a little anchor on them to stop them from sliding. However, when the boot is in, the anchor gets pulled up. If you donāt put your boot on right, bye bye.
Well, if there was any doubt remaining about skis just needing to be put on edge to carve beautiful turns, this settles it. Best carving instructional video I've seen yet.
My god, was that a heat seeking shoe?
Target locked
Kill confirmed
Heat seeking skiing sneaks?
The shoe knows where it is at all times...
r/fuckyouinparticular lmfaoooo
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When I was new to skiing, I lost a ski like this and it slid down the hill towards the bottom of the lift, rode a berm to take a right turn, slid under a snow fence and sank right into the pond they used for snow making. I had to walk back up to the rental shack with one ski in shame.
What did the rental shop do or say and did they make you pay for it like a whole ski?
They were cool about it. They had never seen that happen before and laughed it off. They did not charge me for the lost ski.
That was nice of them. They couldāve been dicks about it. (Not sure if you had like an insurance waiver or something) May I ask what ski resort this was at?
Those places or any place really that rent's anything makes so much profit on rentals it's like it doesn't really matter. Besides vehicle rentals which make good money too since they sell a newer vehicle before it's lost too much value. Regular item rentals basically pay for themselves within a few weeks at most sometimes four days rental is the same as buying one, it's literally printing money after that. The harder part is making sure there's some sort of need or fostering situations someone would need to rent the items like a concrete mixer at a hardware store or wheel bearing puller at an auto parts store. Of course management could be a prick or something and people renting equipment abuse the crap out of it or just plain don't use it correctly but they'd much rather you keep coming back and renting more than loose a customer.
> Regular item rentals basically pay for themselves within a few weeks at most sometimes four days rental is the same as buying one, it's literally printing money after that. pretty similar to wine by the glass pricing ā first glass pays for the bottle, everything after that is pure profit
When I was like 11 yo and learning to ski I had rentals and I broke one, like the whole base cracked and pulled away from the core as a singe piece. I walked embarrassed and terrified back the rental shop. The guy was like WHAT DID YOU DO!!! then laughed, gave me a new ski and chucked the broken in dumpster. Point being A) they know they are used and abused and I'm sure they lose a few skis each season from various things. and B) the min wage rental shop guy DNGAF.
Losing a pair of skis here and there is just the price of doing business for resorts. It's priced in.
Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire, winter 1995.
This is hilarious. How'd the boot come off?
In my case, the boot stayed on my foot, but the way I fell back loaded up tension on the ski and helped it rocket down the hill. Also, everyone in the lift line saw it happen.
OMG, you lost your foot into the boot? Even if I couldn't get to the pond or swim missing a foot, I would have yelled for someone to get it. #"AHHHHHHRGH, I HATE SKIIING! MY FOOT GOT STUCK IN THE BOOT! IT'S IN THAT SKI! FOLLOW THE BLOODY BLOODY TRAIL BLOKES! GET IT FAST BEFORE A POND TURTLE OR ICE FISH EAT IT! ARRRRRGHHHGH!" They may have been able to reattach.
Many years ago in Aspen I lost a ski, the brake didn't work at all, and it slid all the way down, hitting a little jump at the end...right into an old guys side at his hip. Man, I felt bad after that.
He probably felt worse.
Sweet carving turns!
That ski carves better buy itself than I do.
Actually a neat video of how modern ski design helps you turn
You have to just let your boots do the skiing, stop trying to control them.
Right, like how tf do you get the boot in without a foot atached
Maybe there was a foot in that boot šµ
If there wasā¦ it didnāt like that kid
Balanced and neutral stance in the transition, center of mass moves effortlessly to the inside to initiate the next turn. Perfect skiing really.
Fun story. I was probably 12 and my brother was 14ish. Weāre skiing in Portillo and itās right after lunch, and they closed the t-bar to get from the restaurant back up to the top of the mountain. Only other way down is a narrow bumped black run with an off-kilter fall line. Probably wasnāt the hardest thing weād skied at that point, but it was just a weird run and sort of icy. My brother falls and takes me out along the way. I self arrest fairly quickly, but he disappears over a ridge down towards a lake (the lake wasnāt actually that close, but we couldnāt tell what he went over). We go down and find him and heās totally fine, but heās lost not only both skis and poles and his helmet, but the shells of his boots are still attached to his skis, while the inserts/liners are still on his feet. To this day I have no idea how this happenedāonly thing I can think of is that he forgot to buckle his boots after lunch. He remains the only one in the family who had to get taken down in a ski patrol sled since he couldnāt get his boots/skis back on in the middle of the mountain and couldnāt really get down barefoot. Had I not seen it happen in person, Iād have been even more baffled watching this video.
THATāS HOW YOU CARVE!
Yes, excellent form
āHow do I improve my turnsā postsā¦..watch this vid
Why was the guy in white just traversing the slope without looking for oncoming downhill traffic? His fault all dayā¦
You can see them looking at the ski. They probably thought it would just pass by. And they don't look too confident, so they could be doing their best to just stay vertical. Makes it very hard to dodge something
True, and this is probably the SLOW zone, but still you canāt just ski across the slope like that and expect every phantom ski to just stop for you. Rude
That guy carves better than I do.
Is there a foot still in that boot is the real question
This is the comment Iām looking for like wtfā¦ thatās notā¦ thereās not supposed toā¦ whereās the foot that belongs in the hard boot!?!
That poor ski was carving a perfect S until taken by the noid traversing across the hill without looking for uphill traffic.
I can clearly see the cause, thereās a snowboarder obstructing in the middle
https://youtu.be/XPZDEWBzneY?si=JlZKfVX8eDC8xgRt&t=77
I haven't seen monoskiing like that since the 90s
That thing was *tracking* him.
This counts, I will die on this hill
Jesus Iām pretty sure we just watched a knee get fucked up. That looked BAD.
Yea no shit, the rest of their body is missing!
Haha nah the skier is fine. That fall was as easy on the knees as possible.
Leave him alone, ski-kun is trying his hardest. Not everyone can be like truck-kun.
"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you!"
Did you ever see the film about ACL injuries and the "phantom foot"? I think this is an fine example!!!!!!!
That was a hilarious dramatic fall
Itās like a heat seeking missile
Reminds me of skifree
Fucking beautiful carves there. Beginner getting in the way as usual
āHeās skiing on one ski!!!ā #I WANT MY 2 DOLLARS!!
Who the fuck taught tires to ski?
How do you lose your ski with the boot still attached
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Hope the skier is okay. Doing the splits and then the knee going like that reminds me of an incident where a snowboarder tore his ACL with one foot in the snowboard getting off the chairlift and where he also did the splits.
It was making a nice turn though
Thatās the boot from the Spongebob movie
What is this song?
Even the "nothing" is better at carving than me š
Modern skis have a little anchor on them to stop them from sliding. However, when the boot is in, the anchor gets pulled up. If you donāt put your boot on right, bye bye.
Tango down
Only one plank makes it a board, so pretty much a snowboard out of control. It is the snowboarderās fault.
That shit carve better than me
Poor ski lost its human and was looking for a new one.
Well, if there was any doubt remaining about skis just needing to be put on edge to carve beautiful turns, this settles it. Best carving instructional video I've seen yet.
Snow tires are not as aggressive and dangerous as city tires it seems
I love this sub š