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ponyboy
Posts: 403 - Karma: 12
I was up most of the night watching most of the old ski movies I own. Ran through the entire PBP catalog from start to finish. I was pretty amazed to watch stuff like "13" and "The Game". I remember when they came out and thinking this is the absolute shit. Now it looks like a bunch of freaks out hucking off of tiny jumps. I know how much the sport has changed since then, but do you think in 5 years we are going to look at Tanner, Pollard, C.R. segments from today and think the same thing, or is the sport reaching a peak?
Oct 24 2005 12:02PM
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C.R.420
Posts: 2441 - Karma: 28
is it really possible to go bigger than like a switch 9 on a 120 foot gap? i think skiing is at a peak
Oct 24 2005 12:11PM
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ponyboy
Posts: 403 - Karma: 12
I don't know, you would think so but every year we go a little bigger...
Oct 24 2005 12:13PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
thats what people were saying five years ago...just wait

I predict fluid pipe runs with switch landings and takeoffs....

I predict switch big mountain runs

I predict the first major switch strgt line in AK

I predict triple flips
Oct 24 2005 12:16PM
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.[sanhedrin].
Posts: 1654 - Karma: 938
^exactly what he said....swith runs in the pipe -- burnquist steeze.
Oct 24 2005 1:17PM
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InfernoHits
Posts: 4755 - Karma: 192
yea but remember when candide d-spin 7'd chad's no one though that could be matched so there is potential
Oct 24 2005 1:20PM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,635
At a certain point we'll hit the limit of human physical capabilities.

What happens then? Dead pro?
Oct 24 2005 1:21PM
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Kev
Posts: 7411 - Karma: 35
I'll be dead by then.

there are so many possiblies in skiing.

has anyone thrown anything unnatural off chads? switch unnatural? landed switch?

someone will do it eventually. or at least try.
Oct 24 2005 1:24PM
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ski_and_distroy
Posts: 328 - Karma: 11
skiing has hit a peak unless more people come about like wilson....double corks double under flips.
Oct 24 2005 1:25PM
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MarkieR
Posts: 5337 - Karma: 98
skiing has definitely not peaked. look at snowboarding, how long have they been going at it and travis rice just blew minds the other season with his chad's gap antics. the jumps may not get much bigger, but the level or tricks being thrown will get higher and higher.
Oct 24 2005 1:28PM
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.[sanhedrin].
Posts: 1654 - Karma: 938
let's do ourselves favors and never say that our sport will not be able to progress more than it has -- historically the people that say stupid ish like this are proven to be very wrong.

[ex] Bill gates was quoted saying that no one, under any circumstance, would ever need more than ONE MEG of ram for their computer. -- idiot.
Oct 24 2005 1:28PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
I think sw cork 7's will be done this year on chad's and pyramid.
Oct 24 2005 1:31PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
^^ I just want to see a huge style 180 over chads - thats will happen real soon
Oct 24 2005 1:35PM
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ski_and_distroy
Posts: 328 - Karma: 11
Im realy interested to see where rail skiing gose not just with like 270 on switch up shit butt like realy like crazy rails like down flat drop flat down < seeen it
Oct 24 2005 1:40PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
jibbing has as about as much to do with skiing as skibase jumping does
Oct 24 2005 1:42PM
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hype
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 21
i dont think its at its peak, but skiing's progress has definately flattened out a bit. Not a bad thing, it will allow more people to experiement
Oct 24 2005 1:44PM
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rudeboy
Posts: 270 - Karma: 375
i reckon it will progress in terms of style not difficulty of trick...
Oct 24 2005 2:19PM
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Intergalactic
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 47
i think the tricks will just continue to get bigger
Oct 24 2005 3:06PM
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rynmartn
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i think as far as jump size and difficult tricks that skiing has pretty much peaked. ppl will start getting more creative tho with rails and unique styles
Oct 24 2005 3:57PM
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westnile
Posts: 372 - Karma: 10
look at skateboarding and crazy it is now just you guys wait skiing is going to progress to unimaginable hieghts in the future
Oct 24 2005 4:31PM
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TheStamos
Posts: 9311 - Karma: 910
watch WAR.
Oct 24 2005 4:33PM
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justinm
Posts: 1219 - Karma: 26
when every trick is gonna be done etc. people will get more original and do funky shit, like snowboard, old school and all
Oct 24 2005 4:43PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
i think itll peak by 2010 and well see somethin new every here and there. theres still ways to be indiviudal and sick tho
Oct 24 2005 4:44PM
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HeliX
Posts: 362 - Karma: 20
What only the top few pro's were doing 5 years ago is what every kid on skis (who has some skill) is doing today. So I bet in 5 more years all the people we will consider "pro" will be doing what only the best few today are doing. The new best few will have come up with something more to blow your mind.
Oct 24 2005 5:09PM
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Deezl
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Why so closed minded? I agree with what you were thinking but something revolutionary could possibly come from jibbing.
Just because it is beyond our imagination does not mean it doesn't exist.

People said skiing backwards had nothing to do with skiing.
Oct 24 2005 5:29PM
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