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Finnish Style!
« on: November 14, 2012, 08:25:10 pm »
I love these guys!

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jim-ratliff

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2012, 08:38:28 pm »
Excellent. Thanks.


What I like most is that, in spite of the falls, they are clearly having fun. Amazing.
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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2012, 07:41:30 am »
Beyond the word: DEDICATED!!!!  :-\

Amazing!  G

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2012, 10:37:44 am »
To me, it's the simple tricks that require precision (more than balls of steel) that I like in this video:  The whole bit about skiing with one ski over the tube and stepping into the ski as it emerges from the other end....that is pretty damn slick!

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2012, 12:46:24 pm »
To me, it's the simple tricks that require precision (more than balls of steel) that I like in this video:  The whole bit about skiing with one ski over the tube and stepping into the ski as it emerges from the other end....that is pretty damn slick!

That's my favorite one. These guys aren't very polished, you can't say they are smooth or stylish, but they sure are imaginative. Not to mention tough.

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2012, 05:10:04 pm »
my bones hurt in sympathy. :o
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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2012, 07:38:59 pm »
LZB:
Parts of me ache in sympathy as well, but not something you could directly identify with.
I know, I've never experienced labor.   :-[
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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2013, 06:41:51 pm »

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2013, 07:14:13 pm »
These guys kill it.  Love their stuff!

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2013, 08:53:22 pm »
Great stuff. I love how they just use the stuff that's part of the city.  Great link.
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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2013, 05:52:32 am »
Gives a whole new definition to "rock skis"!

Rock on Finnish skiers!

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2013, 04:34:41 pm »
Great video.  I liked No. 7 in the series too.  "Do you crash a lot?"  Hilarious!

One night last winter I was waiting for my daughter to finish her volleyball practice at the local community center, and watched two guys out at the back of the building doing the brick wall slam that these Finns were also doing.  They used a bungee cord to fire themselves across the snow, launch off a ramp to clear a railing, hit the wall at an angle, and drop about 15 feet to another ramp built on a below-grade loading dock access road.  I loved it! Good on them for getting off the couch.  Beats sitting at home doing video games. 


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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2013, 02:31:14 pm »
If someone posts a "gangnam style" ski thread then I think we've probably taken these skiing style threads just a tad too far. ;)

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2013, 04:40:37 pm »
Hey, it's a change from talking about PMTS all the time.  Just sayin'....  ::)  ;)


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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2013, 07:33:37 pm »
If someone posts a "gangnam style" ski thread then I think we've probably taken these skiing style threads just a tad too far. ;)

I've been hoping somebody would. The Koreans are fun to watch.

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2013, 09:29:03 pm »
Hmmm..... gangnam style and PMTS in the same thread.  Where have I seen that before?

Svend,  take a look at http://pmts.org/pmtsforum/viewtopic.php?t=3841&p=39081 for a different view of the PMTS guru.

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2013, 08:41:18 am »
OK, now I get it.   ???  Didn't clue in at all to H-A's gangnam reference.  Hilarious!

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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2013, 05:38:52 pm »
I won't subject you to it, but talking Gangnam style.....
There is an OB/GYN video, gangnam style on the web that KILLS!!!

It had all of us on the labor and delivery floor rolling on the floor laughing.

Now, back to skiing. Unless you want to talk about birthing babies. :o
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Re: Finnish Style!
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2013, 08:24:57 pm »
Post the link. We've never been averse to thread drift. After all, the biggest thread ever on the forum was about coffee machines.  I imagine we'll all just gag and turn our heads.
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