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> Snowboarders have earned a poor reputation among skiers over the years – they often see us as those who sit in the middle of the slope. Maybe you don’t care w
by yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
> Snowboarders have earned a poor reputation among skiers over the years – they often see us as those who sit in the middle of the slope. Maybe you don’t care what skiers think, but for your own safety and the safety of others, try to avoid doing this. If you need to stop, stop on the side of the track where other people can clearly see you. Never stop behind the lip or in places where others cannot see you.
This sounds like more general othering to me. I mean, as a snowboarder, you could swap "skiers" with "snowboarders" and vice versa in the above passage and it would still ring true.
Really nicely compiled page though!
- actionfromafar 5y agoI think it's easier to sit down and stay put on a snowboard, just about everywhere. Whereas with skis, you seek out some snow naturally, probably on the sides, just to don't glide any further. (You don't want to sit down with skis. Sitting down provides more friction than standing up.)
- secretsatan 5y agoI don't think so, if anything it's improved from the days when many resorts simply banned them. I've seen plenty of skiers stop bang in the middle of slopes too, frequently older ones who should know better, to stop and chat and look at the view.
- arethuza 5y agoI'm a skier and it frequently annoys me that a lot of skiers don't check uphill before setting off from being stopped - skiers seem a lot worse for this than snowboarders.
- beezle 5y agoEven worse than the flocks (gaggles?) of skiers who stop for a chat in the middle of a run are those who repeatedly stop wherever they feel like on the moguls, often after just a few turns. Put a few groups like that on a mogul run and it is ruined for pretty much anyone on a board (and good skiers too). Boarding moguls requires keeping momentum - the time you are most likely to wipe is when going too slow or having to change lines abruptly because the person downhill decided to poop out four bumps ahead of you. Falling down is one thing but intentionally stopping anywhere other than the sides or directly behind a slow ski net is a really bad thing to do, regardless of how many planks you use. Don't do it. I'm also in favor of indicating by hand your intentions when there are multiple avenues available (such as turning into a mid-mountain lift instead of continuing downhill) to avoid potential collisions. Just because downhill has the right of way doesn't mean you will get it!
- celticninja 5y agoYeah, I saw a group of skiers stopped in the middle of a run last week and I thought that some had been hurt. They were confused as to why I thought something was wrong.
- u02sgb 5y agoI ski and board. In my opinion boarding was the really popular thing to start a while back. That meant all the newbies that didn't know slope etiquette were doing it. I think that's why it got the bad reputation. Skiing seems to be back to being cool again so things have levelled out a bit. The rivalry is still talked about though so it persists. There also probably a misunderstanding of what the "other" can see while moving.
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- rjsw 5y agoI am a skier. Have seen snowboarders practicing finding the worst place to sit. This was in the middle of a closed ski race course so the result of being below a lip could be bad.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoGreat. Your anecdote is not really an argument against my comment though. I have seen snowboarders sit in stupid places and cause accidents. I have seen skiers sit in stupid places and cause accidents. Both happen.
- celticninja 5y agoYup the common factor is people, not what they attach to their feet.
- rjsw 5y agoThey were not just sitting down in a stupid place, they were actively trying to work out where to sit so that they could not be seen from above.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoIt's hard to derive any more general insight from this one specific experience you have had.