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Travis Rice makes skiing look foolish

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bret
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I guess technically this is old news but FUCK, i just watched Absinthe Films' "Pop" for about the 1000th time, and Travis Rice pretty much singlehandedly makes our sport look dumb. If you haven't seen the movie, check it out: he does all the stuff skiers have been talking about doing for the last 5 years... backside 180's in the middle of GNAR lines into sw. cork 5's off really tall cliffs and windlips and stuff, crazy butters, manuals and tricks off double stage cliffs etc! Not to mention the double rodeo over Pyramid. Not to mention being the first snowboarder to ever hit Chad's and then proceeding to make children cry as he killed the gap harder than any skier EVER (sw cork 7's, big cork 5's and rodeos etc.) like seriously, until tanner sw 9'd chad's i thought there was no hope for skiing. Maybe there is, but until we catch up, Travis Rice is making us all look silly.





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Jul 27 2005 9:34PM
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cool.
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Rice is the best all-around snowboarder for sure. Thats it Thats All was one of the first full snowboard movies i've watched and now i'm pretty sure Rice can do almost anything on a snowboard...

skiing is getting there. soon enough
Jan 28 2009 1:36PM
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k-rob
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hahaha bump went all to hell because some idiots didn't bother to see when the thread was made.
Jan 28 2009 1:36PM
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alpineplease
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thats right nick steezy!!

check the date

zero karma for you!

Jan 28 2009 1:50PM
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jibmastaaa
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your kinda dumb... you cant compare the two sports like this, switch shit on skis is totally different, its just called the same thing, and saying he did sicker shit on chads then tanner and jon is wrong, tanner did a switch 9 and jon did a misty switch 9 i think, and no ones ever seen the footage. plus that was like 2 or 3 years ago. oh and also you cant compare buttering on snowboards to skiing, buttering on a board is 10 times easier.
Jan 28 2009 2:43PM
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jibmastaaa
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oh shit i just realized how old this thread is, woops
Jan 28 2009 2:44PM
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SEABURN
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so can skiers
Jan 28 2009 2:52PM
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Ben.
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4 years later and t rice still makes everyone look like pussies
Jan 28 2009 3:58PM
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Nico_G
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haha seriously, I bumped it cause i thought it would be interesting, what people would think about it now. Skiing is definitely getting up there but I cant say anyone is doing triple backflip 180's over 150 foot jumps on skis yet.
Jan 28 2009 4:20PM
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eastside
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not at all. going switch on skis may be harder, but spinning switch is the same difficulty. just watch the xgames. the winner of big air on a snowboard (trice) did a double rodeo 1080, while the winner on skis did a double frontflip (lame!). i hate to see our sport degress.
Jan 28 2009 5:22PM
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grambo
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Double rodeo 1080 is harder than a switch 9, just saying.
Jan 28 2009 5:41PM
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doritos
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I've come to the conclusion that Travis Rice isn't real. He is either a robot or a figment of our imaginations. I have never seen anyone shred as hard as that guy. Tanner Hall comes close, but I think I have to give the tip of the hat to Rice.
Jan 28 2009 5:41PM
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PhilboydStudge
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haha agreed

thats it, thats all was so good. he is so creative and does some of the sweetest stuff ever on snow. so much respect
Jan 28 2009 6:01PM
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dan4060
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Travis Rice is insane, but I have the same objections to this thread that I did when it was created.  Travis is not doing things on Sage's level in terms of the lines he is hitting.  He is pretty insane in other aspects.  Travis is unbelievable all around, but I don't see him as leaving skiing in the dust because I value the big mountain aspect of our sport FAR more than the pipe/park/backcountry booter aspect.  Rice is insane though, anyone should be able to appreciate his skills.  The title of this thread should have been something along the lines of Travis Rice is very skilled.  That I would have no problem with.
Jan 28 2009 6:03PM
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skithedirt
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yeah... thats it thats all is a pretty sick movie
trice is sooo sick on a board
Jan 28 2009 6:11PM
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Nico_G
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I would have to agree with that, He doesn't make skiing look foolish but he has done things that have never been done before.
Jan 28 2009 6:19PM
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MatRich
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heres how I see it

This discussion reminds me of hockey. When I watch a Canadiens game ( relate with any of your favorite temas, dont bash mine) no matter how nice the goals are and how good the game was, whenever I see the highlights of other teams I think, wow the canadiens are so far from this level. Yet they are ranked higher than most of the teams I see in the highlights that give me this impression. I dont know why this is the case but it is.

It sounds like the same thing is happening with some people about skiing and snowboarding. Maybe it is because we are constantly seeing the same tricks and seeing them on one board instead of two refreshes that feeling of amazement. As in hockey these tricks are performed by an other team (team snowboard) and even though they generaly do pretty much what we do, we tend to concentrate and remember the good things about snowboarding because they are all new to us. Where as in skiing we tend to ignore the amazing things because they are a part of our daily lives and we have seen it done many times. Even if it means pressing rewind a million times when seeing charles gagniers switch 1260 octo or seeing an other kangaroo flip we are more exposed to these than any snowboarding. We concentrate on the negative aspects of skiing because all of the good things have lost their lust after agressively rewinding.

For example, we havnt seen a snowboarder do a switch 1260 double nose grab but if it happened, I guarantee you that we would be making an other thread like this one. Even though this trick is of the same difficulty as charles trick, we are not going crazy about the octo grab because we all pressed rewind at least 4 times when it first apeared in a movie.

Snowboarding brings a sense of something new to the table since we dont watch it as much and that, I beleive is why it impresses us to the point that it does.

on a side note, I know for a fact that the same thing is happening on the other side of the spectrum. Many snowboarders also think that skiers are killing it and surpass their sport. This is an actual fact, lots of snowboarders I know feel this way and have told me. Not saying that skiing has necessarily surpassed snowboarding, but they beleive this sometimes for the same reason that we do of them.

Jan 28 2009 8:09PM
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doritos
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Interesting theory but I gotta disagree. I'm usually pretty bored watching snowboarding because it's hard for me to relate to it, I don't know how difficult any of the tricks are and it doesn't look as stylish to me as skiing. Travis Rice is different. Watching him board blows my skull wide open. You can immediately tell everything he's doing is insane, and it's all stylish as fuck. My snowboarding friends are blown away by Rice too, because he's doing stuff no one has really done before. At the very least, he makes the rest of snowboarding look foolish.
Jan 28 2009 8:18PM
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Jordan
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For sure.
Jan 28 2009 8:39PM
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Nico_G
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Definitely Agree with that statement.
Jan 28 2009 8:51PM
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Literature
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Bang on.
Jan 28 2009 9:05PM
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4dskier
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Why are you guys even talking about pop. If Travis makes skiing look like a joke it is in Thats it Thats All, he has takin double cork 10's to the backcountry and there isnt a ski movie to date that can compare with the cinematography in Thats it Thats All. I dont think you can really compare tricks on skis with board tricks but all skiers should try to do for skiing what travis has done for snowboarding. J hole represent
Jan 28 2009 9:22PM
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Ben.
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this thread is 4 years old
Jan 28 2009 10:21PM
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doritos
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I never date check. It's getting really annoying. Searchbar away people, seriously, glad to see you're using it, but if a thread is more than a year old you're in the clear to make a new one... Jesus.
Jan 28 2009 10:26PM
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wnab21
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I think skiing is way harder imo
Jan 28 2009 10:31PM
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skiP.E.I.
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Travis Rice also makes most of snowboarding look foolish.
Jan 28 2009 10:43PM
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eastside
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most things are actually easier on skis, hence bigger air and faster spins.
Jan 28 2009 11:58PM
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Baker
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He was a ripper when he was a little grom skier. Even sick snowboarders have their sick skiing roots.
Jan 29 2009 1:49AM
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AEROPLAEHN
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i just watched that's it, that's all in HD and it was fucking sick, mad props to that crew.
Jan 29 2009 2:18AM
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Steeze420
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word. put rice on skis for 2 years and he will be better than tanner.
Jan 30 2009 12:14AM
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Nico_G
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I dont know about that one. I cant say ive seen T rice hit pillows like tanner did in Believe even on a snowboard.
Jan 30 2009 12:24AM
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dangerdad
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im sorry, but those jibs on the top of the pine tree were crazier than anything i saw on skis last year. I saww the guy boarding the tram in jackson and he is fucking crazyyy
Jan 30 2009 11:01AM
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stjoseph
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I want to see a snowboarder 450 on pretzel 630 out. Or, 270 on to a down flat down pretzel switch up pretzel 270 out. Travis is dope but it's apples and oranges. Switch snowboarding is not switch skiing. hid double flips are sick but so are jons. they basically did the same trick at x games big air but jon did it switch.
Jan 30 2009 12:05PM
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doritos
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Rice's doubles > Jon's doubles by a pretty wide margin.
Those tricks you listed are impossible on a snowboard because they can't really grip rails. That being said, Travis on BC booters and natural terrain is the epitome of epic snow sports.
Jan 30 2009 12:14PM
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