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Wow, those core dudes on Epicski oughta tell Simon Dumont and Jon Olsson that they're gapers. I can see it now..."hey, you guys up there on that X-Games podium...yeah, you're a bunch of gapers"

The X-games dudes dress like dosh-nozzles...don't they realize that they can get even steezier air if they wear tighter clothes...
 

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In mountain biking, the dudes with all the expensive gear and the $8k bikes are always the ones who spend 40 minutes in the parking lot outside West Hartford Rez stretching so everyone sees them, while they guys in ripped up t-shirts and Ibexes are out there tearing it up.

The same dudes who stop at any intersection when they see someone and start breathing real heavy, take a drink, etc.. and let you go on your way with your 7 yr. old daughter and your old beat-to-hell hardtail so you can't actually watch them ride because they have NO idea what the hell they're doing?


I've seen a few of them there. Usually next to the Volvo SUV with the "Euro" stickers on it proclaiming that they live in the Farmington Vally, and have visited Nantucket, Block Island etc...
 

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The X-games dudes dress like dosh-nozzles...don't they realize that they can get even steezier air if they wear tighter clothes...

Those dosh-nozzles (did you mean douche?) probably realize that a 720 rodeo just won't look as cool in spandex. We might as watch men's gymnastics... the floor excercise in particular gets my blood pumpin.
 
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Those dosh-nozzles (did you mean douche?) probably realize that a 720 rodeo just won't look as cool in spandex. We might as watch men's gymnastics... the floor excercise in particular gets my blood pumpin.




Yeah but I like to say Dosh..haha...they don't have to wear race-suits but those big fur hoods aren't the most aerodynamic..lol..FWIW..For What It's Worth...the X-games are still more entertaining than the Olympics due to all the Steeze...
 

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GSS- Can we have a definittion of the word steeze? It seems like it may be about the same as smurf :)
 

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GSS- Can we have a definittion of the word steeze? It seems like it may be about the same as smurf :)

steeze


The combination of "style" and "ease." The word is spelled with a z just to make it more steezy.

Check out that steeze! Damn he's good.

Still think its retarded.
 

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From urbandictionary.com

1. steeze 145 up, 18 down

The combination of "style" and "ease." The word is spelled with a z just to make it more steezy.

Check out that steeze! Damn he's good.

3. steeze 181 up, 59 down

extremely smooth ghetto gorilla style, particularly while spinning off axis or sliding a rail on skis

that dude has sick steeze on that rail


Click the link for some steezy images:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=steeze
 

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So clearly, deriving the word "gaper" from the word "gap" (originating from the gap between the goggles and helmet/hat) is erroneous.


Correction. The term Gaper originally came from skiers who skied with a "gap" between thier legs.

Since the invention of shaped skis and the new technique (legs apart a bit) the term does not describe the action.

Gapers are alive and well everywhere.....
 
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GSS- Can we have a definittion of the word steeze? It seems like it may be about the same as smurf :)


Steeze is a combination of style and ease...I didn't even hear the term until I joined PASR 2 years ago..Papasteeze whose the father of Steezemachine(now Nipples) talked about steeze alot..so I started saying..Mad Steezy Yo...haha..I also renamed Blue mountain as Booter mountain because of the big mother f4cking booters..and some people call Blue..the boot..and french people call it Le Boot..Holla
 

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The term "steeze" is so 2005-06...
 

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Correction. The term Gaper originally came from skiers who skied with a "gap" between thier legs.

Since the invention of shaped skis and the new technique (legs apart a bit) the term does not describe the action.

Gapers are alive and well everywhere.....

Regardless of the location of the gap, my point remains valid.
 

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Since we are on the gaper subject, anybody know if the various foreign cultures have their own versions of "gaper"?

Back home we used to call gapers "Chainik", which translates to a tea pot. It is used generically in the eastern european contries to describe someone who has been doing something for a while and is still completely clueless about it. With skiing, it extends into the stereotype of an overweight guy with skinny legs, all wobbly and unstable, arms flailing skiing down the hill out of control.
 

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Regardless of the location of the gap, my point remains valid.

I always thought it was a hard A, too, and never understood how that relates to a gap. I figured it's really from the word "gape" as in "wide open", describing the mouth of the target, like a slack-jawed yokel, or the above mentioned mouth breather.
 
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Since we are on the gaper subject, anybody know if the various foreign cultures have their own versions of "gaper"?

Back home we used to call gapers "Chainik", which translates to a tea pot. It is used generically in the eastern european contries to describe someone who has been doing something for a while and is still completely clueless about it. With skiing, it extends into the stereotype of an overweight guy with skinny legs, all wobbly and unstable, arms flailing skiing down the hill out of control.

In CO they call that the Texas Tuck. We used to call them spores or Joeys...all kidding aside, this sport needs their $$...so snicker, sneer and joke all you want but we should stop short of shouting pejorative terms at them from the chairlift. Unless you're a complete a-hole.
 

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I thought the Texas Tuck was when a gaper drops into a racing tuck but has his poles sticking up like errant javelins.
 
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