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X-games pipe 2006 best thing to happen to skiing?
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So one day removed from the epic battle of last nights X games pipe final i am left with many thoughts. which got me to thinking and i decided that that was the possibly the best thing that could have happend to the whole newschool skiing movement.
First off, the big air was truely a joke. It really didnt do anything for skiing. But then on prime-time TV on a weeknight we had an incredible battle of wills, progression and just a sick night. You got Dumont in extreme pain stepping up and ripping not one but 2 insane runs. Only to be followed by T$ and Laurent F. doing the same thing (sans the pain). Then we had interviews and stories about Dumont and Tanners injurys where they didnt make fools of themselves. For once a pro skier sobered up for an interview so the rest of nation thinks were coherint human beings. Also, today i heard people talking about tanner and dumont who never ever would have talked about them before last night.
To me, that was the best thing that could happen to skiing. People saw that were not idiots, and we can rip.
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maybe not best ever, but def one of the best
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yea, people i spoke to have some respect for tanner and dumont now.
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there was so much progression last night hatveit was going altleast 15 feet switch and then he did a cab 10 at the end even tho he fell earlier in the run
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Dude no way the best things to happen to skiing are as follows
1. POW POW
2. machines to access pow pow
3. Fat skis
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it wasnt the best thing but i liked it, everyone was charging so hard, laurent had a perfectly diverse run, hall had a pretty big amplitude run and good tricks and simon just charged and was hurt at the same time. what a good comp for a change.
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I only saw the finales, but it was great.
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yea i actually had ppl to talk to about it today it was sweet
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yeah a lot of people were talkin about tanner and simon that I would never have expected. Plus a lot were talking about Laurent and Andreas dropping in switch, made people respect skiing a lot more
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