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Should skiing go mainstream?
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I've heard some people say skiing shouldn't go mainstream because we wouldn't be unique anymore, but others say it would benifit the sport. I think it would be dope if skiing was as mainstream as snowboarding, but I want to hear what everyone else thinks.
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ya but im talkin like as popular as snowboardin
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skiing is more popular than snowboarding
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Everybody that hates stuff as soon as they become mainstream are such losers. "OH I hate this band because other people like them now" that's exactly what they'll say when skiing does. They're gona bitch and moan or even quit skiing because enough people like it. It's rather stupid.
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haha skiing went main stream forever ago...the second kids started doing it for the scene is when it turned main stream.
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You know, i like when gapers laugh at me for being "a skier who tries to hang with the boarders in the park" and then going and throwing bigger than anybody in the park. It's kinda fun being the minority. That said, I wish more people recognized freeskiing as a sport like snowboarding is.
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i think that it would draw away from the sport and become really really corporate and bring more people who are unsuited for the sport onto the slopes.
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If freeskiing becomes mainstream its just better for all of us, more money in the sport, which means more competitions, more available equitment, more parks, better parks! MORE, MORE, MORE! it will just suck dodging the posers in the park but we do that now anyway, and its kinda fun chasing them out of the park and having them gape at you when you ski by backwards.
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^ i dont agree with you that there will be MORE competitions and better parks. it is true that mountains are realizing how important parks are, but most of the mountains have already caught onto the fact that parks are a necessary part of the mountina, so there will be only a few more parks wil be added to the terrain park circuit.
and i dont believe that there will be more competitions, maybe a few more, but not enough to really make a difference in the competition circuit (sorry for the repitition)
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i dont think skiing has gone main stream quite yet i get people talking to me all the time saying "oh you can do jumps on skis?" or when i tell them i ski they always look at me like im the biggest fag ever because they invision all the gapers when they think of skiing. no one knows shit about the freestyle apect of our sport.
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agreed.
more people supporting the sport, the better our sport will be for all of us.
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exactly... from here and on, it'll only get bigger, and then one they people will consider it the new snowblades and start skiboarding again.
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skiing is definitely already mainstream, hence the reason it is in the xgames. The real question is when will big corporate sponsers sign on and start sponsoring our sport (companies like VISA).
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it's headed in that direction already. i think we'll gain more than we'll lose.
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I've never seen a skier on the cover of Rolling Stone. I just saw Shaun White there. People are treating him like a king now. Don't get me wrong, he's decades ahead of even the closest competitor in snowboarding. He's damn amazing. But, I don't see Tanner (arguably the White of pipe skiing) getting all that coverage, support, and most importantly, money. Our athletes are so disgustingly under-paid. Where is the incentive for our professional skiers to keep skiing after 25? Our athletes have to go get a real job to live while snowboarders are hailed as heroes while our athletes are going bigger and doing the same, if not more, while recieving little public recognition, resulting in less corporate sponsorship. Corporate sponsorship = decent living.
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skiing is pretty mainstream right now as it is, i work in a ski shop and we move twins like crazy
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why not, it means better shit under your feet!
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it wood suk to go mainstream
i like being the only skier in the park and making snowboarders look gay
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i want skiing to be more mainstream just so that i dont have to explain to my fucking aunts and uncles what "freestyle skiing" is, and have them stare at me the whole time like i smoke crack.
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there's only enough snow for so may of us. the mountains are already crowded enough.
i'm not trying to keep people from enjoying skiing i'd love for everyone to know how great it is but it's pleanty easy enough for anyone to give it a try as long as they have the money. and if you enjoy that it's so easy now to get into park or other freeskiiing so yeah it already is mainstream!
the only way it's gonna get more mainstream is if pro skiers become household names for people who don't ski. this won't help the sport.
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I like where skiing is right now; hovering just below most people's radars just to surface once a year for the x games to remind people that we are still here.
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It would be nice to get a little more respect.
I hate how much publicity snowboarding gets when skiers are going bigger better and faster.
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i liked freestyle a few years back when everyone knew everyone and there were only like 20 pros to follow. following what every pro is doing is becoming a full time job.
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Skiing got mainstream when Paul Mitchell sponsored TJ Schiller.
No. Skiing isn't mainstream yet. I will consider skiing to be mainstream when my aunts and uncles and kids at school know what I mean by "skiing halfpipe" and "park skiing". At this point, "freeskiing" to them means going off jumps pencil straight without poles or going through bumps. Just no.
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I don't give a shit. If they like to ski and be on the slopes, that's great!
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theres nothing you can really do about making or not making it go mainstream. just whatever happens happens, and ill still ski no matter what people say about the sport.
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i dont give a fuck. im going to be skiing until my knees give out no matter who makes my skis. and freestyle skiing will never catch on like snowboarding did. snowboarding got so popular b/c it was an alternative to skiing, because for a long time, skiers were almost exclusive racers and/or fur wearers. so all the kids were like 'oh sweet this is actually cool', then a while later a few of them started doing it on skis. freestyle skiing might some day have a larger population than snowboarders, but it will never have the same impact, simply because the factors that would make it so just arent there.
yes, freestyle skiing is pretty damn big within the snowsports industry, but itll be pretty damn hard to make it 'the next big thing.'
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fads go in and out, but skiing has been around before america was founded, so i dont think our sport is going anywhere.
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