Bulgaria Ski discussion board

X Type on a 53 plate just had its first MOT. never use the public stuff terrible.

Boarders are nice to watch if they can board, problem is only a few can really board and the ones that are learning give up after there holidays cos its to hard for them to do it in the UK, then the next wave of learners hit the slopes and they give up. hence loads of people with thick planks (the borads not the boarders) uncontrolably falling over, all over the slopes.
Just my opinion not ment to upset anyone..... unless they are Swiss... then bu**er off.

“BLOODY SNOWBOARDERS.” That’s the phrase I kept hearing, muttered as someone rode past on one of Burton’s finest. Not in the early 1990s, when the cosy ski world was rocked by the arrival of a brash new breed of rider, but last season. The cold war between skiers and snowboarders is alive and well.
I say “muttered” because snowboardism has gone underground. If you snowboard, you may not hear the bile directed your way. But as someone who is mainly on skis, I hear it all the time, “They cut you up...they gouge up the piste...urgh, that noise they make...stupid clothes...”
The worst thing is I don’t just hear it from stuck-in-the-mud old duffers but young people and those who learnt to ski in the past 10 years. What the hell are you thinking, Johnny-come-lately? Snowboarding was established before you even started and its effect on the ski industry, improving ski design and influencing its style and attitude, was probably what got you involved. Slagging off snowboarding is like complaining about immigrants as you eat a curry heated up in your Polish-built kitchen.
The snowboardists don’t realise that what they’re really complaining about is teenagers. There are plenty of 20-, 30- and 40-somethings snowboarding who don’t wear their snowboard pants halfway off their behinds, or listen to whatever the 2006 version of Limp Bizkit is. And plenty of young skiers who do.
If your problem is yoofs in hoodies, there are just as many on skis as boards. And while boarding is banned from a couple of resorts in the world, no one’s going to ban under 21s from the slopes, so you’d better get used to them.
Follow David Cameron’s advice and hug a hoodie in a spirit of conciliation, because in reality it’s a minority of them who behave badly, and others are equally guilty.
I don’t tolerate dangerous behaviour on the slopes but my righteous rage has no prejudice – I’ve ticked off Kevin the Teenagers and middle-aged idiots, in cool gear or battered Nevica, on snowboards and on skis.
Sure, sometimes snowboarders don’t check their blindside before turning, but too many skiers fail to check their peripheral vision too. And as for the horrible sound of snowboards, that only comes on ice, and I can tell you they’re trying not to do it, they’re far more scared by the skidding than you are.
There’s one area where snowboardist skiers think that the prejudice is perfectly acceptable – off piste. “Oh,I haven’t got anything against snowboarders on the piste,” said one guy I was skiing the backcountry with, as two snowboarders appeared by us at the top of a powder field. “But off piste they churn up too much snow, because they make such big turns.”
The snowboarders set off and indeed made only two turns – straight down the fall line, leaving parallel lines just eight feet wide at the fattest point. Matey set off and made a turn like an articulated lorry, proving that although skiers can make tighter turns than snowboarders, not all of them do.
Despite having turned a blank sheet into lined paper, he still complained about the deep cuts the snowboarders had left.
By the way, if you’re a snowboarder reading this smugly, don’t think you’re getting away without any criticism. I’ve heard snowboarders sneering at skiers too.
It’s usually a couple of young lads, without much experience but in all the right gear to look like Shaun White. They laugh at all the “sheep” heading off down the pistes then go to the terrain park to slip off the side of a rail after two feet and poke the nose of their board over the lip of the halfpipe.
Many of the guys getting the biggest airs and pulling the gnarliest tricks in the park are doing it on twin tip skis. Try sneering when you’ve seen Tanner Hall and Pep Fujas drop off cliffs that would make you fill those pants that you’ve got all the extra room in.
Even some of those geriatric gits in their naff old ski suits could teach you a thing or two.(Pete) That ancient French guide you were sniggering at probably has a couple of first descents to his name, in couloirs that you didn’t think were even rideable.
The best snowboarders don’t think in separationist terms – when I asked leading Britboarder Johno Verity for tips on being a cool snowboarder he said, “Don’t diss skiers – they’re our brethren”. The same applies the other way round.
With global warming, both sports might be impossible in 100 years, so until then, why can’t we all just get along? Unless you’re a monoskier, in which case you can… [Article edited for reasons of taste].*
Chris Madigan spent the ‘80’s skiing, because that’s what everyone did, and the 1990s mostly snowboarding, because it was new and exciting. In the 2000s he’s skiing again, because it’s easier on his creaking bones