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Who is the most overated freeskier?
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Who is it ?
Who knows?
Opinion?
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just cause you have seen a couple videos doesnt mean he cant go switch. he was doing swunderlfip sevens, in ski movie 3 i belive.
and also, you have to understand, candide mostly just goes bigger than every one.
the hip he hit straight on no one else even attempted, and he cork 5ed it, twice.
i think its hard to say someone is overrated when they are the only ones in the world hitting it. (that trick is still one of the sickest in history in my book).
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and cork 7s and his 5 always have mutes
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belanger, yea hes nasty at pipe but he hasnt won it in x the past couple years nd i dont think he competes in slopestyle
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unless u guys have acutally seen them in the park, u can't really say all that crap about them
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ive seen simon, he goes big. thats all he has going for him
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dude what? i do not understand that
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think about it, everyones always saying how hes sssooooooooooooooooooo under rated, this means he would be the most over rated under rated skiier.
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speaking of overrated, i think style is overrated. i kinda like crazy shit. there are way too many 5s these days. i mean a good smooth 5 is sick but thats not all i wanna watch. the trick is to make huge tricks have style
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thats what i thought he meant thanks man
but anyways i dont agree with if that kid thinks john is overrated the next thing hes gonna say is that brandon becker is over rated
fuck that
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you know whats funy is it was me who said that. you cant 100% honestly say that john hasnt gotten his fair share of attention and that seeing as everyone is always like JOHN SYMMS IS SOOO OVERRATED!!, that he isnt as under rated because that DOES in fact mean that he is getting attention
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Right...I understand where you are coming from but I'd say if he was getting as much attention as Rainville, or Pollard that are obviously better skiers. then hes over rated, but for a skier that really hasnt come out as much as them I'd say hes pretty decently rated, but if his name blew up really big and he wasnt backin it then hell yeah he was over rated
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sorrry i meant under rated where i said over rated in caps
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How has no one said RORY SILVA yet?...that kid is such a hack and makes me puke in my mouth everytime I see him flailing around in the air. The kid has no steeze, and is definitly over-rated because he shouldn't be pro in the first place.
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im gonna have to say jamie pierre is the most overrated skier. all he does is huck himself and hope he lands. he never even lands cleenly. ive seen JT Holmes throw a huge backflip and cleenly land on the same cliff that jamie pierre just hoped that hed land and then flopped on his side on landing.
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r u talkin about the one in happy dayz..cuz that was the sickest thing ever
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Actually I do believe Jamie Pierre doesn't even try to land. It seems he is pretty content on landing on his back and letting all his gay padding take the impact.
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are you talking about cnadide, because if so i must agree he is not overratted. he did an 810 with about a 40 foot gap to a rail with a grab on the spin perfectly
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hahaha. exactly im glad some1 agrees with me. you do have to admit though that he is a crazy mother fucker
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yeh dude candide gets boring all he does is tails... and corks... he needs 2 learn 2 do something new
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Tommy, you spin like broken washing machine!!
actually hes not overrated at all, more like severley underrated
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please give a reason to why you think eric pollard is over rated and don't be a jackass by trying to stir things up on NS its very annoying...
And candide is NOT overrated that is just a ridiculous statment to be made.
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yeah seriously, truckdriver 5s 20+ feet out of the pipe are so played
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If anyone on this site ever says candide is overrated again ill kill them, just think about his shots,
first d spin over chads,
huge mammoth cork 5
cork 810 to rail
huge step up cork9
ect
he created style and this sport
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i vote sammy carlson and tanner rainville
def not candide
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WHAT, ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS!! you gay man.
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i would say tanner cause hes a cocky bitch buthe is good
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jon olsson
sure, he's a good rider, but he always stays within his comfort zone and doesnt seem to push that hard - example xgames superpipe...he could've thrown down like nobody's business...
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well you mean in contests then... because, err... switch misty nine over chads is nothing to scoff at and hardly within anyones comfort zone. oh, and his bag of tricks is bigger than most everyones.
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prob greg tuffelmire. i used to think steele spence was but then i saw his segment in s6
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i can partially agree with that. droping cliffs doesnt take much skill, just balls. but in booter crunk, he skis some fairly hard lines in the bc. take a look
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i hope that was a joke... watch rainvilles seg in s6 and rethink your last statement
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favorite segment of the year
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Tanner Hall........sick of his attitude.....his skiing.......and his movies.........Pop Yer Bottles sucked soo bad. Tanner your not black....your whiter then white...doing the whitest sport in the world........just stop.
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you stole Rex's icon... id i would have to say brandon becker is the most underrated. there is no overrated.
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yeah and candides "simple" 3 in war is only the nicest 3 I've ever seen and that 450 out of that deck rail was not to bad either....I cant believe someone actually said candide was overrated
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Except that he does everything waaaay huge. His Unreal d-spin over chads gap was trick of the year and talked about for so long. The fukin massive cork 5 on that parkasaurus hip jump...everything he does is HUGE! That's what makes him so pro...he raised and continues to raise the bar for the size of jumps and the technical tricks you can throw over them.
He's not overrated, but maybe he just doesn't do the stuff you like to see. But for a kid like schiller see that someone pulled a 120ft dspin...he knows he can push it harder.
I guess that's similar to guys like jaime pierre...they push the limits of how big you can go in the backcountry.
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oh...and don't forget candids cork 810 to rail...kid pushes it so hard it makes my stomach turn.
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MICKAEL DESCHENAUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He won one big air comp a few years back and thats it, he always does the same tricks, but everyone talks like he's the best thing that ever happened to skiing.
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I hate you all... how can u be overrated on a sport compeletly based on preception... theres no stats in skiing... You rate someone on how much u like what there doing, so if someone is rated high its because alot of people like what they see, therefor there doing something right
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how is candide overrated? he does insane gaps onto rails like in war for example
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ya n it was so ahead of it's time too! still one of the nicest sw 10's to date
the only reason he didnt win anything else is because he hasnt been competing
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