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Skiing in the New York Times TODAY

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Jibtech
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Page D9! Eye heart Ryan Schmies!
Nov 10 2005 5:35PM
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west
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Just picked it up....sick.
Nov 10 2005 5:37PM
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MarkieR
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any information regarding the article???
Nov 10 2005 5:37PM
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jtski
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/garden/10ski.html
Nov 10 2005 5:40PM
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nothanks
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Okayyyyyy. Sick article.
Nov 10 2005 5:44PM
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gambino500014
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yeah Schmies!
Nov 10 2005 5:47PM
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4frntSkier
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dank
Nov 10 2005 5:47PM
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ihatemyscratches
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wait the sports section only has 8 pages. what the hell
Nov 10 2005 5:50PM
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ihatemyscratches
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HAHAHAHAHA "ARMADA, A [u]SMALL[/] UPSTART SKI COMPANY" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nov 10 2005 5:52PM
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lanks
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that's what they are. i don't find that humorous...?
Nov 10 2005 6:04PM
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SkiBM680
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I love how they simpilized all the tearms so the avergae joe will understand it somewhat. whatever more exposer = more cash for ski comps = better products
Nov 10 2005 6:20PM
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twintipteles
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yeah, at least the average joes can understand you too, "tearms" "exposer" what?
Nov 10 2005 6:26PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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sick
Nov 10 2005 6:29PM
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Ianskismslm
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"a newer type of ski made for performing skateboard-style tricks" hmm..
Nov 10 2005 6:30PM
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Adamskinick
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That's so sick. The writer did a pretty decent job for describing twin tips and all that. That's awesome this minute tiny sport is getting international coverage. This should be put on the cover of NS News... Congrats fellow NS'er Schmies.. this is sick!
Nov 10 2005 6:35PM
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skiierman
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Haha, they should have used technical terms just to confuse the shit out of people.
Nov 10 2005 6:37PM
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cork5_thovex
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that was a well written piece. i always wanted to know what those little creatures were on the ar3's. know i know.
Nov 10 2005 6:37PM
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forfun
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what a horrible article. its good Schmies and madsteez are getting press, but tyring to cover freeskining in that way just doesnt work.
Nov 10 2005 6:40PM
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MarkieR
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i think its cool. anything that exposes freeskiing to such a mass of people is cool.
Nov 10 2005 6:42PM
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FUUUCK
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there's also one in th toronto star last saturday
Nov 10 2005 6:44PM
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BK
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"This new form of freestyle skiing is also a reaction against snowboards, which have come to be regarded by some members of the younger set as the unfashionable pursuit of soft, middle-aged suburbanites. "

OHHHHH SNAAAAAAAAAAAP.
Nov 10 2005 7:14PM
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Adamskinick
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Yea that part was lame, but take it all in, it was a little untrue and stereotypical but you have to give them some leeway(sp?). They aren't going to nail a perfect description because there isn't one. Freestyle skiers like any other sport are all different.. No one fits a category and if we did, that isn't necessarily a good thing..
Nov 10 2005 7:16PM
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JZ
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"AR5 twin-tip ski model, a newer type of ski made for performing skateboard-style tricks"

haha, i do kick flips on my skis
Nov 10 2005 7:19PM
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bcboy_18
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the article kinda reminded me of the way someone would explain freesking to their grandma...
Nov 10 2005 7:22PM
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skogenjake
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schimies!

"AR5 twin-tip ski model, a newer type of ski made for performing skateboard-style tricks"

sry guy above me...i quoted that too...haha
Nov 10 2005 7:22PM
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wrenegade
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hey, its better than nothing. props to schmies and madsteeze for getting their names out there.
Nov 10 2005 7:23PM
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BK
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An unsuspecting loss on the 4th isle between the sandpaper hula-hoops and neon forest green telescopes to Leroy Mack’n WEEN in the 1985 Racquetball Championships proved to be an unprecedented turning point in Mr.Ween’s life. Thus a ferocious kite walkn’ Nerds Rope eatn’ Dolorean lovin’ zebra pin-stripped fluorescent navy blue WEENBEAR emerged. Inevitably, slagin’ an abundance of kreativity and electromagnetic python dynobots has led to an extensive client/collaboration list including projects with Honda, Volkswagen, MCA Records, Nike, Interscope Records, Avex (X-Trail Jam Tokyo =ome), Stussy, Evisu, Ben Sherman, Ecko, Von Zipper and Armada with proceeds going to the well being WEEN’s Krippled Little Brother Latrel. And the rest is history……HEY D!K


I still don't think people realize the privelege they have been given to be strapping anything from the dome of madsteeez to their feet.
Nov 10 2005 7:29PM
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SnowCoast
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What a day for my two month free Nytimes subscirption to run out. I'll have to go pick it up now.
Nov 10 2005 7:30PM
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japanair
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Why is it in the Home & Garden section?
Nov 10 2005 7:31PM
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skiman523
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yes i cant wait to go to the mountain and preform skateboard style aireal menuvers in a u shapped ditch
Nov 10 2005 7:43PM
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acc
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that's really cool
Nov 10 2005 9:50PM
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skoganskier101
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halfpipe, a U shaped fromation in the snow
Nov 10 2005 10:04PM
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zepscratch
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new kind of skiing based on skateboard tricks
Nov 10 2005 10:34PM
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*shidasha*
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I haven't picked up the ny times in months and today i get it at the coffee shop for no reason. then I come across the article. Creepy.
Nov 10 2005 10:51PM
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.nafus.
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i liked that even tho it kinda described tricks strangely its good to see skiing getting some press and props to madsteez for keepin good graffiti alive
Nov 10 2005 10:55PM
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t3shellvenom
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why do they compare us to skateboarding, how is a flatspin 540 like a fingerflip?
Nov 10 2005 11:08PM
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jibvermont
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how the fuck can i do a kickflip on skis? teachhh meeee howwwwwwwww, NY times teach me the way.
Nov 10 2005 11:19PM
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ItsPhil
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awesome
Nov 10 2005 11:49PM
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scratchproteen
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"They want big air off the halfpipe - a U-shaped formation of snow - and acrobatic stunts in the terrain park, an area at many ski resorts set aside for doing tricks."

those lines are the best, its funny because we all know what it is...but then there are some people that have never heard of a "halfpipe" or "terrain park" its a sick article
Nov 11 2005 12:07AM
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STAUSS
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thats sick, even if they compare it to skating we're getting some bigger coverage.
Nov 11 2005 12:15AM
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schmies
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For the sport, it is pretty dope. The New York Times is one of the largest circulated papers in the world:)
Nov 11 2005 12:22AM
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Ski_Punx
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Madsteeze...Armada..SpX..The Ellingson's So Cali..is comin up...bout time!!

SpX
"I ride Skis"
www.skipunx.com
Nov 11 2005 12:49AM
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Ryno
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any exposer is good exposer
Nov 11 2005 12:57AM
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Hctiws_iks
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uhhh,skiing is not eaxctly minute. lots ofpeople skiandhitjumpsandstuff
Nov 11 2005 1:07AM
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BK
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you guys are the biggest pieces of shit and to even use yourselves in the same sentence with any of the first two companies you mentioned is a downright travesty.
Nov 11 2005 3:40AM
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whitekid
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word up
Nov 11 2005 4:24AM
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amlowenstein
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right on right on
Nov 11 2005 7:52AM
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Dupe
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thats so dope for the sport and for Armada...
Armada..what skiing will become
Nov 11 2005 8:10AM
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parkbuilder
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i do skateboard style tricks all the time when I'm skiing...i like to do kickflips and shuvits when I'm skiing in the streets
Nov 11 2005 8:23AM
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CorkWormTurn
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i totally agree there, but I didn't want to ruin the thread by going negative.

that article is awesome though. and you pretty much are doing acrobatics in a u shaped ditch.

as for comparing the tricks to skateboarding, you all should be thankful as hell. I can only imagine the responses here if he had said "rollerblading inspired tricks".
Nov 11 2005 8:54AM
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dandoy
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They're Weenbears and Weensharks! Everybody knows that, silly!
Nov 11 2005 9:01AM
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