Surf has had a long history of localism. Stink eye, beach brawls, vehicular wax jobs, broken windows, mean blog comments, … i’ve even seen a “206 go home” spray painted in Westport.
Some places are worse than others. Some dudes are all bark no bite. But it’s best to just respect the people that live there. Nobody wants to get a broken nose, or go to jail, or bounce off reef cause you’re an idiot.
Snowboarding on the other hand doesn’t really have any localism. Maybe its cause the majority of snowboarders are middle class white kids, or because of the Responsibility Code, or Ski Patrol, or cause there aren’t hot girls in bikinis.
For example, if you snake someone in the pipe, you aren’t gonna get beat up. If however, you drop in on someone at Pipe, there’s a good chance you’ll get beat up in the water and on the beach when you get out.
Check out this excerpt from an interview Dan Brisse on Snowboarder-mag.com. Dude got to experience a little snowboarding localism–passive agressive, but localism nontheless.
“You had talked with me about that trip earlier this year and said something about a couple of the handrails being destroyed, likeliterally destroyed.
Yeah! Haha! You mean the ones that were ripped up and torn apart. It was crazy, ya know all of these spots weren’t secret, some spots had been hit before and been in local videos and whatnot but a couple that we went to had the rail actually cut out. Not the whole rail but just certain sections of it. Like there was this really popular down flat down and the whole middle part was hacked out by someone. It looked like some other snowboarders had done it and then for some reason didn’t want anyone else to so they just destroyed it. Then we came to another rail where someone had personally knobbed the top section of this rail, not the kind of thing the city would do ya know. It took a special tool to take them off, so it’s like these were the only guys who could hit it because they had the key.
Really?
That’s ridiculous.
It was kinda funny but a bummer at the same time. I mean….” Full article here: LINK
I wonder why there’s no legit local shit in snowboarding.
well, the backcountry shit gets like that…I was reading some posts on tgr forums about some stuff in Colorado that was fully on the surfer localism mentality. Scarcity breeds this shit, and there are still plenty of lines out there (lol like i’m a splitboard vet now or some shit)
as for nobody stepping to you in the pipe: you’re way bigger than all the little kids you’re snaking…
but the main reason:
surfers are dummies. They’re the dummest dudes on earth. srsly. that’s the mainest thing.
a pipe and Pipe might not be the best comparison but there sure aint much localism on a snowboard.
I’m saying brah: scarcity. There’s plenty of room to slash around, even on the Chinese Downhill Nash Assaults…how many dudes can you fit on a wave?
The only time space is a problem snowboarding is lift lines…
I’d knock a fool out for snaking my epic line down Davey Jones’ Locker though…just try it holmz ohhhhhhhhhhhh just try it
remember that Natural Selection thing that Trav Rice did a few winters ago? I heard the Jackson local were mega pissed on that. One of the bigger storms in a long time and Trav Rice shut down some of the sic bc. i wonder if anyone got any heat for that.
@ a man
Nice blanket statement. Surfers are dummies? A bro’s a bro. I’ve met a lot more “dumb” snowboarders in my day.
I feel for the Westport locals. F’ing zoo that place is in the summer.
yeah, i would be pretty friggin irate if someone closed some alpy BC for a contest on a good day. at least at kirkwood when they have big contests, they open sections of the mountain that are permanently closed due to too many deaths over the years. so its rad, you get to sit back and see some of the sickest shit with you own eyes. i saw doods throwing down the craziest lines (mainly the kiwi’s) and i also saw 2 doods die in one day. no shit. one dood that died got up and jumped on a back of a sled after straight bouncing like 30ft off a huge boulder going helllllla fast. it was at the bottom of his line, so he just opened it up and tried to turn and thread a small chute and straight exploded right in front of everyone… couldn’t effing believe he got up and then hearing he died in the heli ride cuz of all sorts of internal injuries, ruptured this, collapsed that, etc. effing gnar bucket.
i saw a dood in a wife beater and no gloves, riding thru the snowboard park with a whistle, blowing full steam once. i think he played too much football growing up. i could def picture him throwing down for hitting his rail or something.