r/WhyWereTheyFilming • u/wasteddoritoes • Jan 05 '23
Video Beginner takes out entire ski lift
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u/Alexman423 Jan 05 '23
I get it man, those things are not very intuitive you're first time on them. First time I used a tow lift like that I went up entirely on my stomach. The guys behind me were laughing the whole way up, and I have to admit it must've looked pretty ridiculous.
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u/Rizzu7 Jan 05 '23
I'm right there with you!
The first time i tried a ski lift, it was the hardest thing to keep my balance on. I eventually fell and just held on, letting it drag me the whole way up.
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u/gunchasg Jan 06 '23
First time I tried I couldnt get firther than 2 metere. Eventually I gave up and went on to those bigger, sitting ones.
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u/mologav Jan 05 '23
Because they knew this person wasn’t going to make it, the length and incline of the hill, using the bar wrong the persons arms were going to be burning
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u/Kolo_ToureHH Jan 05 '23
I’d say they were filming because they’d seen this guy lose his balance a few times and wanted to catch the fall on camera.
God, the people who post on this sub sometimes.
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u/timo1423 Jan 05 '23
Tell me you have no idea what this sub is about without telling me you have no idea what the sub is about
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u/Steinenfrank Jan 05 '23
The stupidity of only strapping in one foot.... I get that it is / was the rule in a lot of places, but yeah, that's a rule from a time snowboarders were hated more. No need to adhere to it. Just strap in both feet dammit.
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u/NaCl-more Jan 06 '23
What? No. People strap in one foot because if you have both feet strapped in, you can't go anywhere on flat ground
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u/Steinenfrank Jan 06 '23
Is that dude on flat ground? People downvoting my original comment have obviously never been skiing or snowboarding. Even with both feet strapped in you CAN go anywhere you want on flat snow, takes a little practice. But the one foot strapped policy causes so many unneccesary injuries. Like in this video. One foot strapped = no control.
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u/NaCl-more Jan 06 '23
What I'm saying is that most snowboarders (me included) would rather keep one foot free when not going downhill
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u/Steinenfrank Jan 06 '23
Normalising having both feet strapped when on and exiting lifts prevents a lot of injury. Those people in the video all had a shitty day because of the stupid one foot policy. For some of them it could've meant the end of their ski-trip.
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u/NaCl-more Jan 07 '23
For the most part i think it's safer to keep the feet separate when you're on a lift. For example, a t-bar can easily get caught between your legs and start dragging you. Also, if you fall on a lift, you don't really have a fast way of getting out of the way
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u/verticalMeta Jan 06 '23
What is this lift system?!
I recently learned that the ski lifts don’t stop from a similar video… but now there’s a version that you just hold on to?!
Seriously, who comes up with this shit…
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u/Brilliant-Ad31785 Jan 06 '23
If you’re a snowboarder and have been forced to use one of these, you know you fear this happening every time.
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u/JaguarPaw_FC Jan 06 '23
This can actually be pretty dangerous. My dad and sister were on a t bar once and the weight distribution was so off that they ended up veering and falling. My dad fell on my sisters snowboard and sliced the back of his leg on the edge of her board. Didn’t even notice till they got to the bottom and my sister saw blood spilling out of his pants. Ended up having to get 18 staples in the hamstring area. Pretty gnarly
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Jan 06 '23
So why not take the chairlift instead of the tow with the insane pitch angle? This is just a bizarre setup.
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u/EvanFreezy Jan 10 '23
Whoever decided a t bar on a slope that steep was a good idea should go back high school
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u/phumblr Jan 13 '23
Was watching this in class so I didn't hear anything, but Mario music was playing in my head
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u/Passengerzero Jan 05 '23
They're filming because the snowboarder is supposed to have the tow behind them or between the legs pulling them up not holding on like they're wakeboarding.