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Most over-rated pro?

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midwest_rep2
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Who do you guys think is the most over-rated pro out there? I'm not trashing them or anything cause they could surely kick my ass skiing and I'm sure they're pro for a reason. But maybe they have really good personal skills to get noticed? Or have friends in the right places? Who is overrated? I think Steele Spence is a bit overrated. Yeah he kicks it at rails but I dunno, doesnt seem like a well rounded skier. His switch bios arent too smooth and he doesnt really have a big bag of tricks and his pipe skills arent up there with the rest.
Feb 15 2003 2:28AM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
Mosley seems to get trashed in here. Come on he really brought the sport to the mainstream media. Its like Tony Hawk. He brought the sport forward, allowing other to follow.
Feb 16 2003 9:54PM
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Lateralis
Posts: 1228 - Karma: 332
mosely is a good skier,hes just lacks some newschool talent that like tanner and jon carry
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Feb 16 2003 10:01PM
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Casper
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What a fuckin rediculous post.



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Feb 16 2003 10:07PM
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Ghost
Posts: 7116 - Karma: 339
For someone to be 'overrated' they would have to be rated highly at the current time.

Right now Simon Dumont is rated pretty high.
Do you think he is overrated?

Doesn't he just throw the cork-9 and a few other tricks?

Just bringing his name up

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Feb 16 2003 11:17PM
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BlingBlang
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WHAT?!?! Simon over-rated? If anything, people don't give him enough credit. Where do I start with his tricks? Halfpipe...900, Ally-oop flatpsins, inverted 7s, flairs, and every variation of those tricks from 180 to 900 as well as with different grabs. Slopestyle is just ridiculous. Switch and regular cork and switch and regular rodeo 5,7, and 9. Unnatty shit. Mistys. Bios. Nasty rail shit with lots of unnatty rail shit. What else do you want? He can probably learn it in a day.
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Feb 17 2003 2:28AM
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heroue
Posts: 247 - Karma: 50
moseley was throwing switch rodeo 7 japan at the 2000 xgames when candide win
Feb 17 2003 6:07AM
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Huck2live1612
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im definitly going with raps i cant believe he thought he shud ahve had a better score when he crashed a cork 7
me: what the hell is that?
sister:its a boat u dumbass
me:well what the fuck do they nedd it for? the shitheads
Feb 17 2003 9:15AM
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LastNightISavedAnAngel
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i think that tanner is over rated. dont get me wrong, hes probably the best guy out there, but everybody makes him out to be so much better than he is.
Feb 17 2003 3:10PM
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Phil
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moseley's the most overated outside the industry but thats because hes the only known pro outside the industry. He did throw a switch rodeo before tanner and he did get 4th in the last olympics he just doesnt ski anymore. Raps is overated or he just overrates himself. Last year in freeze he said there were only 10 skiers in the world that were as good as him. Also, i think freeze interviewed him for the interview special. and hes done shit in contests for the last couple of years.
Feb 17 2003 3:25PM
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west
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i would have to say some of the line team
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Feb 17 2003 3:51PM
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DRISKEY
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skifree737 you suck. Pep is the man. hes the best and coolest skiier out there
skiing is just like sex... when its good, its gooooood. and when its not so good, its still pretty good
Feb 17 2003 6:05PM
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dooner
Posts: 4796 - Karma: 75
uuuh, rex pulls unnatural cork 900 tail grabs. i dont think ANY skier can do that besides him. thats sick whether he is gay or not....
'Dude, we're sick. I mean, he's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so, ya know...' -CR Johnson
Feb 17 2003 8:33PM
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chugLIFE
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ya NO ONE can do unnaty cork 9's. r u jokin? philou is doing back to back cork 9 safetys LAST YEAR in the pipe
Feb 17 2003 10:15PM
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BlingBlang
Posts: 16 - Karma: 10
Rex admitted to not even being able to do regular misty 9's anymore. So since he can do only his mistys unnatural, are they really unnatural?
Feb 17 2003 10:49PM
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-=koLLac=-
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Candide is the man!!! Is he french? I saw him on Eurosport in Slovakia like 4 years ago throwing sick shit when newschool didn't even exist as the sport we know it now. And he still rocks!! I agree with the superpark movie,he used the huge hip as a table(I think he did an insanely big 180 something)....
still,no pro can be overrated for what they've accomplished
Feb 17 2003 11:43PM
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NoTeefa
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this is retarded


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Feb 17 2003 11:53PM
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jibs
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rex is unbelievably under-rated....anyone who saw him do the snow jam comps should know that....he's damn smooth.

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Feb 17 2003 11:56PM
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dooner
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im talkin about on tables son
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Feb 18 2003 2:24PM
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petek
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rex is also among the best 1 hit wonders, he is damn awesome at big air comps
its not what you ride, its how you ride it...
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Feb 18 2003 5:59PM
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Mad_Trix540
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i saw Rex at Toronto Snowjam. he was definately the best, and he seems like a funny guy, he gave some chick his ski and signed it cause she flashed him after he threw down in the quarter pipe.
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Feb 18 2003 6:33PM
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mattwalker
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OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!! You are saying that Steele Spence is underrated, and isnt well rounded! I ski with him, and he can ski bumps better than any pro at the X-Games, US Open, or any other big comp. Put him at the bumps and jumps and he would have won everything except halfpipe...he isnt really good in pipe, although he can throw some big tricks. He was like 10th in the world last year at Junior Worlds! And another thing, he should have won the Red Bull Big Air, his trick blew Jon outta the water (Jon is a good skier, but didnt deserve to win that day) It should have gone...Steele, Simon D., then Jon. He came out of Aspen where there arent a lot of big sponsorships and ways to get noticed, not like mammoth were there are big names from all of the big companies just watching for the next up-and-comer. We have no scouts, or big company representatives here, Obermeyer is here and thats it. SO it is hard to get noticed here! Plus, he was one of the first riders to really progress the rail part of our sport, him and Cusson, and a few others were really doing crazy shit on rails before Tanner, 3 Phils, and Evan and Candide, and CR. He was the only one to do the Titanic at X-Games...i could go on for hours about why Steele is NOT UNDERRATED! but why waste my time with fuckheads like midwest_rep who dont even know Steele!



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Feb 18 2003 7:28PM
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Lateralis
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halfpipe at bumps and jumps??? dont mistake me but wouldnt a bumps and jumps comp consist os bumps and jumps,theyre on tv all the time and all i see is moguls and aerials,if thered be a halfpipe it would defeat the whole purpose of having a bump and jump thingy
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Feb 18 2003 7:35PM
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Big-L
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he ment the ultimate bumps an jumps i think. like that hole contest thing where tanner got robbed
Feb 18 2003 7:51PM
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skieveryday
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Tanner Hall, ladies and gentelmen has to be one of the most over-rated skiers in the industry as of late. The amount of recognition he gets is insane. The kid has ads in shitloads of magazines...he's on fucking billboards. At this point he is one of the icons of newschool skiing. When I tell snowboarders on the lift that I can throw 5's and 7's, they ask me if I can huck like 'that Tanner Hall guy'. And as I recall, who won the half pipe comp at the X-Games this winter? Well, it wasn't Tanner. What I'm trying to say is that there are kids out there that ski just as well, if not better than Tanner in all areas. Guys that can rip the shit out of that slopestyle course and the pipe. But everybody's watching Tanner. What's the deal? Is Tanner over-rated? Is he receiving total recognition for shit that other skiers can do just as well? In my opinion...yes he is.

Now come on and tell that I'm a dumbass for saying that Tanner Hall is over-rated. If I cared...I wouldn't have written this.






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Feb 18 2003 8:01PM
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jakes
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i partly agree... tanners been throwing the switcch rodeo for 3 years at comps while jon, cr, easly, pep and other guys have been stepping it up constantly... yet he keeps placing good.... you have to give him credit though for being one of the few guys out there throwing spins to rails in comps.
Feb 18 2003 9:09PM
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snowqueen
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rory silva sucks

Feb 18 2003 10:29PM
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frasezero
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He is a fucking bitch boy that Rory Silva. FUCK DAT oh yeah Jack is a fucking homo jizzack
Feb 18 2003 10:32PM
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123ski
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um.......me
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Feb 19 2003 12:59AM
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midwest_rep2
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whoa whoa whoa...ok little_freerider or whatever the name is. You're right, I don't know Steele except from movies and pictures and shit. I just thought from what I've seen he wasnt up there with the rest but guess I was wrong. This thread wasnt supposed to be anything amazingly deep or anything, just your opinion on which pros get more coverage than their tricks or style deserves credit for. Sorry, if the post was so damn stupid then don't reply to it and sorry for bringing it up.
Feb 19 2003 2:27AM
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Rogge
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YOU ARE ALL FUCKING FOOLS!!!! OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE IN THE MAGS AND VIDEOS FOR A FUCKING REASON...


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Feb 19 2003 10:31AM
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Lateralis
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theyre all pro,who can someone be more pro then someone else?
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Feb 19 2003 12:27PM
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mattwalker
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...sorry for freakin out, but Steele gets that a lot since he isnt from Mammoth or Whistler. Um yeah....my vote is Rory Silva for most overrated. I think Dash Longe should get more credit than he does...he can throw any trick natural, unatural, switch, and switch-unatural before moving onto the next trick...which is sweet!


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Feb 19 2003 8:57PM
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jizack
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rory silva overrated, i doubt it, he doesnt get enough coverage. you are obviously a dumb fuck with out a clue. adn hey frase pull your fuckin string out.



fuk that
Feb 19 2003 10:01PM
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Anson
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blindblinds is really underrated. he is actually CRAPPYER than people say!
Feb 19 2003 10:12PM
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snowqueen
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I do not think that Rory is overated! he's one of the best with out a doubt.
Feb 20 2003 3:10AM
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lagwagon
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TANNER HALL SUCKS!!!
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Feb 20 2003 3:39AM
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hucksplat
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dude, tanner hall is sick. my favorite 3 jibbers are tanner hall, jon olsson, and candide thovex with many others in a tight tie for fourth. tanner has been laying it down year after year. he gets all the play because he deserves it dude. candide is just cwazy (and i've heard some cwazy rumors about him lately). jon just consistently kills everywhere. many people don't like either three for some specific reason, but minor differences aside, there's no doubt that all three are definitely among the elite of the best.
Feb 20 2003 6:48AM
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