For all you non-skiers out there, legendary shredder Scott Gaffney invented a squaw-based game that can be applied to your local hill called GNAR (Gaffney's Numerical Assessment of Radness). Here are some examples: GAINING POINTS Butt Naked (5000 points): Complete any full line butt naked. If you are jailed, you lose your lift pass or your clothes are stolen, you lose all your points. First Chair (5000 points): Get the first chair lift on a powder day. 3,000 extra points on offer for cooking breakfast while you’re in the queue. Ego Claim (500 points): After finishing a line, ski over to a group of strangers and shout ‘I’m the best skiier on the mountain.’ Also possible at the start of any chairlift ride with strangers. Pro Call Out (500 points): Yell to any pro (or perhaps skiing instructor) – ‘Hey, I can’t believe you’re a pro! I’m totally better than you are!” Fart Claim (500 points): Produce a fart in crowded gondola or equivalent and loudly state: ‘That was me!’ Mum Call (500 points): Call your mum while you’re riding a gnarly line. Anyone can kill tough runs – but this shows you can do it without a second thought. Pole Whacker (200 points): Vigorously whack your pole above a line for at least 30 seconds. Riding the line is not then required. Steal Clothes (200 points): Steal the clothes of any competitor completing a ‘Butt Naked’. LOSING POINTS Pass Pulled (-5000 points): A particular issue if you’re taking on the Butt Naked. Day Ender (-3000 points): A fall or injury that means you can’t see out the day. Cutting Line (-2500 points): Cutting the lift queue and being a dick. Lose Two Skis (-2000 points): Only lose 1000 points if you lose a singular ski, but if you lose a snowboard in a crash, knock off 3000. Tomahawk (-2000 points): Rolling two or more times after a crash. What would a kendama version look like? For sure -5000 points for thumbing a lunar.
Handy bottom cups -1000 pts Using left hand to adjust string or kendama -2500 pts Missing a line but saving it with a swirl -500p pts (or, 0 pts if currently competing in a 7 To Spike)
100 points for hitting the trademarked whirlwind after the line 200 points for high-fiving a homie after they lace 1000 points for being the camera man (no tripod shots) 500 points for doing a line on the opposite hand (or incorporating the opposite hand)
Alright, but missing it should be like -1000 pts then! And keeping a missed yank in an edit clip: -2000 pts
Around Tunbridge Wells (2000 pts) Around Tunbridge Wells Naked (5000 pts) Calling it Around TURNbridge Wells (-1000 pts)