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Godfather of Skiing

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tjski
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Who do you think is the Godfather of freestyle skiing? I think it would have to be Johnny Moseley becasue after his 360 Mute grab in the olympics freeskiing blew up.
Dec 23 2005 9:58PM
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skidemon22
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word to that
Dec 24 2005 2:05PM
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Charley.
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plake moseley and jp auclair
Dec 24 2005 2:06PM
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freestyler540
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Mike Douglas, JP Auclair, 3 Phils, JF Cusson, Glen Plake.
Dec 24 2005 2:18PM
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.hazen.
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plake definitely added the edgy attitude and personality to newschool, while douglas threw in a whole new bag of tricks. since then its been mroe of an evolution of style on the elements the originals put together.
Dec 24 2005 3:04PM
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alev
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gaffney, alf engen, jackson hogen...warren miller, scot schmidt, douglas, plake, alot of the canadian air forrce
Dec 24 2005 3:28PM
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Bundo
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while all the previous examples are the publicized godfathers, PETE PROOS progressed the sport way harder than all of them but was just unknown but if you get you hands on the movie Sanity and The State of Michigan Vs. TK then you will see for yourself. 5 years ago he was doing 270 on, uphill and down hill switch ups. backflips off 60 foot cliffs, road gaps to rails, rodeos both ways. he is a godfather that needs to be mentioned.
Dec 24 2005 3:30PM
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awsomecoolguy
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Dec 24 2005 3:41PM
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BCREWwhat
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plake FRICKIN BLOWS. funny man, not that best skier
Dec 24 2005 4:11PM
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MALONE
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sorry boss but.... YOUR WRONG plake rips ive skied with him a few times and on the mountain, he can hang with the 20 yr olds even when hes rocking 205's
Dec 28 2005 8:26PM
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WhiskeyRodeo
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i dsont know but i think mosley has a game for ps2
Dec 28 2005 8:34PM
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chillonhill
Posts: 1314 - Karma: 125
Officially eveyone who freerides knows its Mike Douglas and J.P. Auclair is runner up
Dec 28 2005 10:18PM
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iridefattwins
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well there can be diff gorfathers for the diff terrain like seth and glen for the bc and tanner and friends for the park
Dec 28 2005 10:24PM
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chillonhill
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There is only 1 Godfather period,
Dec 28 2005 10:33PM
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hartig
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i love doing that trick off random, shitty kickers
Dec 28 2005 10:53PM
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head686
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still jp
Dec 28 2005 10:54PM
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ArMaDa_Ski_
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Douglas,Vinni D,Candide
Dec 28 2005 11:05PM
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MLB
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God damn it.....it is Mike Douglas....the end....that is even his nickname given to him by the newschoool community sooooo shut the fuck up about this already.
Dec 28 2005 11:14PM
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chillonhill
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I concur
Dec 28 2005 11:16PM
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back-woods
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Seth and Plake yo two of the biggest icons in the industry
Dec 28 2005 11:23PM
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Coalescent
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douglas and plake
Dec 28 2005 11:25PM
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jimmychung
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of course. none other.
well, others have followed and further influenced, like shan mcconkey and jonny, but no one touches glen.
Dec 28 2005 11:55PM
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chapz
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douglas or moseley
Dec 29 2005 12:09AM
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kendrick
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freestyle skiing has been a progression, todays champions are standing on the backs of giants. chronologically speaking, Stein Ericson, Wayne Wong, Stu O'Brien, Nelson Carmichael, Edgar Grospiron, Jean-Luc Brassard, John Smart, Jim Moran, Sergei Choupletsov, Jonny Moseley, JF Cusson, JP Auclair, Mike Douglas, Shane Szocs, 4 Phils, Tanner Hall, Mick Deschenaux, Candide Thovex... assisted by the likes of Warren Miller, Greg Stump, Freeskier Magazine, Freeze Magazine, Iberg, Poor Boyz, and events like the Olympics and
X-Games.
Dec 29 2005 7:53PM
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chillonhill
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hey you forgot Jean Yves
Dec 29 2005 8:00PM
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A_W
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you almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about until you said "4 phils".
Dec 29 2005 8:00PM
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chillonhill
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He might mean Philou Poirier
Dec 29 2005 8:19PM
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chillonhill
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But he did forget Vinnie Dorion
Dec 29 2005 8:22PM
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freeskisquaw
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Stein Erickson.
Dec 29 2005 8:29PM
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RWalker
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douglas



AK pride
Dec 29 2005 9:11PM
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Hedekar
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I am suprised that no one has mentioned Shane McConkey. He DID pioneer fat skis and continues to push the sport into new directions. And he can still rip better than most, pontoons or not.
Dec 29 2005 10:36PM
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Ski_Punx
Posts: 783 - Karma: 49
You gotta look way back to the Miners, and settlers who used to ride huge planks to get around, work, travel and have fun. as far as where Freeride skiing is now I would say it was Plake and Schmidtt first, then The New Canadian Airforce, for taking what those guys were doing before hand and progressing it. You do have to admitt that Mosely did change Olypimic mogul skiing forever. Gotta give that dude props for that!

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Dec 29 2005 10:38PM
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kendrick
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ya, philou poirier would be the 4th phil in my post. Since the question was about the godfather of freestyle skiing and not freeskiing, I left Plake and McConkey out of the list of skiers who helped shape freestyle skiing. While Plake and McConkey are most definitely fathers of freeskiing, they are not standouts in the history of revolutionizing freestyle skiing.
Dec 30 2005 1:47PM
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-Tristan-
Posts: 915 - Karma: 19
exactly, reading this i was hopeing someone would say that, this is newschoolers so i figured that someoen would have picked up that he is known as the godfather of newschool earlier on in the thread
Dec 30 2005 2:15PM
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martockpublicenemy
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those look like b3's
Dec 30 2005 2:54PM
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SHastatahoe
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i'm pretty sure douglass is considered the grandaddy of it all. Morrison is probobly just the crazy uncle, and the new canadian airforce are all our cousins. oh the sweet family tree of freeskiing
Dec 30 2005 5:50PM
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