Europeans WANTED

[allz]

Hi, now, listen all skiboarders in Europe, i think we need to recognize who we r, how many we r, where we r ...!
maybe here is the place, where we can make contacts! and maybe if all things goes well, make some skiboarding in Alps!!!

what u think? come on, European skiboarders!!!!!!!!!

[Greco]

Martins,

There are a lot of European skiboarders over at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ski-boarding

but since the owner lost his password the board has gone down hill because of porn spammers. You should get them to come over here.

-G

[allz]

wow, its incredible, ahh, but its 2000 , ok, maybe half of them are from USA, and half of them dont skiboard now, then its like 70 skiboarders are there! +the new ones like me.....yes, its interesting!
and i saw there some names, like i had writen in thread "old film"
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Greco, sure, this is the place where to go and comunicate, u r riht!
but i need to know who and where they are at first!

[Tayata]

hey,
i'm from southgermany and also one of not many skiboarders in
my region.
Aint there a european skiboarder
community anywhere in the net ?
If not we should start one ;) - shall we ?

tayata

[McShane]

it's your call dude!

let's do it (aint no reason to not do it)

[Tayata]

yea, but before you start something like this you should plan a little bit
there should be a team with up to four people who manage the community
also minimum two people should have enough knowledge about webdesgin, programming etc.
a sponsor wouldn't also be bad or another site which supports you (sbol ?)

but, the first question of all is : how many people would visit such a community ? enough so that it will hold up some time ?

greetz tayata

[marcolo86]

sup guys... I'm Marco, Italian skiboarder... It's good to see someone is mobilizing in order to expand skiboarding in Europe... I usually ride in north eastern italy. Anyone else in that zone...?

[Tayata]

hmm, no I never was in North Italy for riding :D
I'm usually in South Germany or in the Suisse

tayata

[allz]

yes, we should do sumtin bout that!!!

..about germany, i know that there is Zugspitze, and there is park too, halfpipe and so on:)

tayata, where r u riding???

[Tayata]

zugspitze is our biggest ski area
im riding the most time at the "feldberg", its not a glacier
but there are many small areas around it
and the prices are better :)
it is in the middle of the black forest

where is your favorite location ?

tayata

[allz]

hehe, sorry, but i am from Latvia, and i never have been in Zugspitze(just saw in the web) and i like that place (saw in webcams).

[qwaak]

Hi Tayata


I'm usually in South Germany or in the Suisse

Hey, I'm from Switzerland :)
Where have you been in Switzerland and which locations do you know? (Yeah, I'm curious :)

cu
qwaak

[Tayata]

hey,

when I'm skiboarding in switzerland than usually in Engelberg.
It's also the only place I've been there :/
because the distance to this area is the shortest for me.

and you :D ?

tayata

p.s.: I think we should really think about an european community or something similar.

[allz]

yes - i think so too!!! just need some ideas!

[qwaak]

Yeah!!! Engelberg rulez :)
I also usually ride there!

When will you go to Engelberg again next time?

cu
qwaak

[skeebördin]

hey qwaak,

Where in Switzerland are you from? I'm leaving in 3 days to head to Oberentfelden (AG), but i'll be skiboarding at Bettmeralp in January. (They also have a halfpipe there by the way, if anyone's interested. http://www.bettmeralp.ch/e/ )


-Oli

[qwaak]

Hi Oli

I'm from Hildisrieden (LU). With a car it takes about 30min to travel from Hildicity to Oberentfelden :)

Hope you enjoy your holidays in Switzerland!

cu
qwaak

[skeebördin]

Cool Qwaak,

small world. I have family in LU somwehere... they used to be in Kriens, but I forgot where they moved to now. I grew up in Rombach and Küttigen, which is by Aarau.

Anyway, if you're gonna be in the Aletsch-area or at Bettmeralp anytime between Jan 10 and Jan 17, lemme know. :D

[niklaswik]

Hi guys, I'm also one of those "european skiborder"-thingys.. ;) Here in Sweden everyone (almost) just say they're riding snowblades no matter what brand they have on their boards, which really annoys me.. :rolleyes:
Still there isn't really much other than salomons here anyway, I have some cheap, lame-ass brand called "Pale" (think it's Austrian or something) but hey, I'm not so hardware-dependant.. :D
To find something other than Salomon you have to be really good, I don't think there is even one pair of "the real stuff"(Line,Canon etc) in all of Sweden... :(

I really hope that Skiboarding grows bigger in Europe, and I mean "real" skiboarding not just little kids riding them like normal skis...

Whoa, this got pretty long, sorry.. :o

[Tayata]

hey niklaswik ;) - welcome in the club of the rare european skiboarders :D

so, let me see :
We have Latvia,
Germany,
Italy,
Switzerland
and Sweden.

Not many and also not many close together :/

[niklaswik]

Yeah not close at all.. :/ And I didn't even know there were any proper mountains in Latvia.. ;)

So.. Any of you that knows any europe-based webshop like skiboards.com that sells skiboardingstuff? 'cause the shipping cost is really high from the US to "over here"... :mad:

[DSM-IV]

Dutch Skiboarder here
let's drop a lil story

I've skied years and years but got to know skiboarding 4 years ago, since there are NO mountains in Holland (or should I say the NETHERlands) there's hardly any gear but I was able to buy some shitty salomon buzz 99.9's which I used 1 year. dreaming of Line's (yeah I know they suck now) but not able to order them because of the money including shipping costs. a local skistore, at the indoorskidome got one pair of SBPRO's 2 years ago, I was able to get them a lil cheaper and bought them. I was happy for one vacation but fucked up last year, after some jumps one of the boards just split in 2 dividing the top layer from the bottom.
january 16th I'm going to Val Thorens for a week. I was planning on buying Canons (since I do have some money nowadays) but didn't want to risk getting the boards after going on vacation (shippingtime and stuff) so while going to some shops again looking for a rental, I found a guy who had 10 boxes full of never used 2 year old SBPRO's again for 99 euro's, since renting them costs almost the same in france, I just bought them so I can trash em as much as I want ( I even got a spare one left)

skiboarding here's kinda though, they all call em bigfoots or snowblades, and 99% of people riding them are retarded folk who just can't normally ski, so other skiers or boarders (logically) think I suck too

next year I'll buy some REAL equipment
Salomon should be sued!

shout outs to all the european skiboarders

[Greco]

like skiboards.com ?! damn that hurts. have you looked into the shipping costs of skiboardsonline.com ? i'm not sure but maybe they are lower since we use us global express mail not ups or fedex.

btw, i haven't heard of any european online skiboarding stores.

-G


Originally posted by niklaswik
Yeah not close at all.. :/ And I didn't even know there were any proper mountains in Latvia.. ;)

So.. Any of you that knows any europe-based webshop like skiboards.com that sells skiboardingstuff? 'cause the shipping cost is really high from the US to "over here"... :mad:

[niklaswik]

Ooops, sorry Greco.... :o

Still that was just an example, don't take it too hard.. ;)

I'll check the costs, maybe I'll do some shopping here, but I have some other stuff I need to buy first, and I'm a bit low on money... School doesn't pay very good.. ;)

[McShane]

Hej Niklas! you're damn right - there are NO proper mountains in Latvia. all we have are glens and pits :D:D:D and its all snowparkish. (thats actually another reason why i swithced from skis to skiboards.)
but its mobile era now and i've seen alps, scandinavians, caucasus (not just in pictures :P) and thre is cooperation with russian helliboarding association that reaches as far as kamtcatka.
but whatever... i guess there wouldn't naturally be any europe-based skiboard online shops as long as there is no demand. :( so, now we gotta do what we can - either wait for the sport to expand or buy stuff at local stores (which is salomon/fisher/blizzard/elan), or order it from the states...

[niklaswik]

hehe, "its all snowparkish" that sounds fun! :)

I just got new skiboots today (Head RR-10) and on saturday I'm going to do the great comeback after almost 2 yrs away from the slopes! :) My local mountain sucks though, but it'll be a lot of fun anyway! They have a few little jumps and one big jump but that'll do anyway... When I feel speedy it takes almost exactly 2 mins to go all the way up and all the way down (1.45 up, 15 secs down :D ) so as you can tell it's not big at all... In week 9 I'll go to the real mountains (we have such in sweden you know... ;) ) in the west for a day, that'll be great fun! :)

Yeah, I guess there isn't very much need for shops like that, but that's what our USE/ESC mission is, to make the european people want real skiboards! And the local ski shop here actually had some almost-real skiboards from Head, they were wide and all but had real ski bindings.. Sick!!

[McShane]

1.45 up and .15 down - that pretty much sounds like everything here in latvia. so it's not THAT bad afer all :D:D
by the way, i checked out where exactly you're from. i guess years 5 or so ago i was on exchange to soderhamn (which is quite close to you, isn't it) and one day we had a field trip around the county. i remember a resort called Jarvso or smth - is this where you ride?

[niklaswik]

Hehe.. :D

Yeah, that's close, about 60km away.. :)
Nah, I have never ridden in Järvsö, but I'd really like to, 'cause that's the biggest "skislope-collection" or whatever you should call it in about 200km from me. I ride in Edsbyn, maybe you passed that place to, but it's not very big.