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January 24, 2016 7:55 AM

Snowboarding New York
posted by PareidoliaticBoy (31 comments total)

Man, skitching has come a long way. It used to just take a pair of worn-out flat shoes and an unwitting UPS truck driver.
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:10 AM on January 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

*salutes these brave heros*
posted by The Whelk at 8:14 AM on January 24, 2016

If they were on bicycles the cops would not have been so cool.
posted by Nanukthedog at 8:27 AM on January 24, 2016

It's alright, officer. I'm a vlogger.

(the behind the scenes is pretty cool, too.. I thought I saw some drone shots in there)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:33 AM on January 24, 2016

Modern video recording technology is pretty astounding. Imagine how big a budget and how much time you would have needed to film something like this twenty years ago.
posted by octothorpe at 8:40 AM on January 24, 2016 [4 favorites]

The rest of that channel is everything terrible about New Yorkers and full time YouTube personalities congealed into a sticky mass of awfulness. But the snowboarding looked fun.

Also those drone shots look super illegal now that the new FAA rules are in effect, unless they somehow had a commercial waiver.
posted by T.D. Strange at 8:57 AM on January 24, 2016 [4 favorites]

Oops. Forgot the previously-posted urban-snow-sports videos; in B.C, and Quebec. And, the dog-powered one.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 9:41 AM on January 24, 2016

With the above ground trains shutdown, I had to walk about 30 minutes to get to the nearest underground stop. The only place to walk was the street (I don't own snowshoes). I was almost clipped by an SUV driving way too fast for the weather. So, while this is pretty cool, when they say that they will arrest people for driving around in civilian vehicles, I really wish they actually did.

Although I didn't watch it all the way through. If the driver gets busted at the end, I will re-watch with pleasure.
posted by Hactar at 10:01 AM on January 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Rationally I should hate this (lawbreakers! dangerous!) but they looked like they were having such a good time (white sunglasses and a letterman jacket like it's 1980s teen movie!) I can't.
posted by vespabelle at 10:14 AM on January 24, 2016

JoeZydeco: "Man, skitching has come a long way. It used to just take a pair of worn-out flat shoes and an unwitting UPS truck driver."

Ah, skitching. It's one of the things I can't explain to people who didn't grow up in the '70s.

We used cardboard and those stupid plastic sleds until someone got a set of those tiny, shitty, plastic K-tel red skis for Christmas one year, and then it was on.

I still remember the call that a station wagon was coming over the hill. Four dudes couldn't skitch behind a Honda.
posted by Sphinx at 10:14 AM on January 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

white sunglasses and a letterman jacket like it's 1980s teen movie!

I too was wondering why he was done up as one of the bad guys from Hot Dog.. The Movie.
posted by Flashman at 10:21 AM on January 24, 2016

"Yes, officer?"

That was fabulous!
posted by jamjam at 10:24 AM on January 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

It does look fun, but I admit I was waiting for one of them to hit a car or a garbage can or something. Carrying the flag was the cherry on top.
posted by freakazoid at 10:51 AM on January 24, 2016

Can somebody please explain what a New York is?
posted by srboisvert at 10:52 AM on January 24, 2016

Can somebody please explain what a New York is?
posted by srboisvert at 1:52 PM on January 24

It's where people from a Chicago go to be cool.
posted by four panels at 12:24 PM on January 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'm not sure, but I think it's on Metafilter's lawn.
posted by gwint at 12:25 PM on January 24, 2016 [4 favorites]

It's alright officer, I'm white.
posted by el io at 12:30 PM on January 24, 2016 [10 favorites]

That was very fun to watch! Thank you for posting.
posted by nickrussell at 3:02 PM on January 24, 2016

I can't figure out if it's online, but someone did something similar in the 90s/early 2000s in downtown seattle during one of the big weird snowstorms we only get like once a decade. They timed it up so they blasted by the live newscast of conditions downtown on like, the 5oclock news.

...except they were skitching a snowmobile, and going like 30+mph

I looked at it as a kid and went "...someday, someday"
posted by emptythought at 6:21 PM on January 24, 2016

Well it's not quite as exciting but someone took a dogsled through the biketrails and streets of Pittsburgh.
posted by octothorpe at 6:46 PM on January 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

HA HA Try that arresting people for driving in a blizzard shit in North Dakota and see how far you get before your squad is upside down in a ditch.

City folk.
posted by Twang at 6:51 PM on January 24, 2016

I still remember the call that a station wagon was coming over the hill. Four dudes couldn't skitch behind a Honda.

Where the hell can you actually grab a car anymore? Remember when cars had large metal bumpers with edges? The whole neighborhood could grab onto those UPS fenders.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:59 PM on January 24, 2016

It's alright officer, I'm white.

It's alright officer, I'm Casey Neistat.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 8:24 PM on January 24, 2016

The cop probably asked Casey if he was going to be in the vlog.
/inside joke
posted by dorkydancer at 8:44 PM on January 24, 2016

HA HA Try that arresting people for driving in a blizzard shit in North Dakota and see how far you get before your squad is upside down in a ditch.

I'm less of a fan of cops than most people; but it's probably a good public safety move to tell NYers that if they try to drive in the weather they just experienced that they'll be arrested. In ND it's hard to imagine any circumstances in which such a threat would be issued. Even dumb folks tend to be smart enough to pull over when there is an actual white out (for non-snow living folks this is when you don't have 3 feet of visibility in front of you).
posted by el io at 8:45 PM on January 24, 2016

Uhh am I the only one wincing at how much they're ruining their board and skis with the pavement and ice on the street?
posted by numaner at 11:30 PM on January 24, 2016

I had that reaction, too.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 12:35 AM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

Uhh am I the only one wincing at how much they're ruining their board and skis with the pavement and ice on the street?

Rock-skis and boards are a thing for any serious gravity-hound. Changing conditions demand a willingness to sacrifice old equipment for the sake of a run. This is especially so for anyone who generates a revenue-stream from these pursuits. My best freind was the coach of the Alberta Junior World-Cup Downhill Team back in the day, and sponsors would come by and leave stacks of skis at the hotel for the racers. Race skis and boards are typically used once.

Those Snow-Blades™ in the making-of video are designed specifically to take Spring-skiing gravel intrusions.

If you watch this video you'll see excellent use of spark imagery.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 5:48 AM on January 25, 2016

I've been complaining a lot about police in the US lately and this is an *excellent* way to address the issue.

More seriously, I'm just very jealous.
posted by iffthen at 9:39 AM on January 25, 2016

> am I the only one wincing at how much they're ruining their board and skis with the pavement and ice on the street

No, that's their own choice. I was wincing at what they were doing to the road with their chains.
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:58 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

HA HA Try that arresting people for driving in a blizzard shit in North Dakota and see how far you get before your squad is upside down in a ditch.

This reminds me that I once came within a couple dozen feet of rear-ending a state patrol car when going more than 90 miles an hour and got completely away with it.

As I was jerking the steering wheel to get into the left lane, I was sure I was either going to hit him or lose control of my car, but no.

It all went down around one in the morning driving north on I-5, between Portland and Seattle during the second ashfall from Mount St. Helens, and visibility was so bad I could barely see the shoulder of the road. I realized there was a car ahead of me only because of a faint and very diffuse red glow superimposed on the ochre fog-reflection from my headlights.
posted by jamjam at 3:00 PM on January 25, 2016