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*shidasha*
Posts: 203 - Karma: 15
I witnessed something today that will forever change my perspective on the progression of this sport. I'm not at liberty to discuss what I witnessed. But what happened has changed my perspective of skiing and what we risk every day on the hill.

I'm a little disturbed by the progression of this sport. Jumps are getting bigger, rails are getting more gnarley, and the consequences of this evolution have been prominent this year with all the injuries we've seen. I just want to know where it stops. When will people or will people ever realize that they've gone to far. Is it worth the risk? I don't know. I think yes and no for a million different reasons.

I think I'm just worried that our sport has turned into somewhat of a daredevil stunt show. Maybe that's why we get mocked and scoffed at by the general public. I don't know. I just hope that maybe we could put our priorities more into the progression of style and creativity and less into just plain sketchier sh*t.

I really don't want to see this many injuries again in one season. This has been a really creepy year. But I'm not sayin "be careful" or anything... cause you know I'm all about hittin that sh*t. just use your head.

nothin but love,
shidasha

May 1 2006 11:52PM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Plain and simple, we've been doing big and scary shit since twin tips where first made. It's just bad luck, and a few conditions comming together at the same time resulting in the worse case senario. It's not that the jumps are getting bigger or the lines are getting knarlier because face it, the stuff causing major injuries/casualties are either things out of our control completely (avalanches) or when we least expect it on normal hits (sadly Lars Veen). Am I saying that we should keep doing what we're doing and just throw caution into the wind? No. I'm saying that to think our progression of our sport is to blame is not the issue. Other sports such as freeriding mountain biking are doing stuff way more risky out there where in professional slopestyle comps. if something goes wrong on one of the features, it could easily result in death. It's just the luck of the draw and this season especially shows that luck can run out on anyone at anytime.
May 2 2006 8:20PM
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nick01477
Posts: 115 - Karma: 10
tru dat bother
May 2 2006 9:12PM
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D^evils
Posts: 410 - Karma: 10
its personal preference, if a skier wants to go off a sketchy huge jump and have the chance of getting broke off then let him (or her) do it. But then again there are plenty of places on the mountain to work on style and progressing tricks where the chance of serious injury/death are limited to a serious screw up. It's all about what you want to do, not what other people want you to do, realize that.
May 2 2006 10:15PM
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40calGlockSkier
Posts: 176 - Karma: 9
Progression=Risk

Risk = Fun

Progression = More Fun

It's a vicious cycle. Look at other aspects of our lives and evolution that involve those very ideals. Love, decent example. Transportation, good example. Who can forget Space Exploration, PERFECT example!
May 2 2006 10:27PM
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squibble
Posts: 4569 - Karma: 104
i dont want skiing to because some gymnastic sport where all the tricks become perfected and if you land a little off you lose, just like "freestyle" skiing in the olympics, they hit their huge jumps with 50 + feet of height with no poles and do like tripple sow cows or whatever they do. i liked it better when skiing was just about doing nice tricks off nice jumps, the simple days
May 2 2006 11:21PM
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Bundo
Posts: 2197 - Karma: 49
what a shitty thing to say. moron.
May 3 2006 12:13AM
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Stan_Darsh
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 185
HEY BITCH YOU STOLE MY FRIENDS ICON get a new one
May 3 2006 12:23AM
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babysteeze84
Posts: 720 - Karma: 285
To hit the serious shit (jumps, backcountry, cliffs, ect), you have to be able to say, "it's cool if I don't make it today, I will go out doing what I love/live for," and it's coming to terms with that.

And you have to have bowling ball sized cajones.

Skiers are going to continue to go bigger and push harder as long as the heart is there and the mindset is clear.
May 3 2006 1:25AM
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albatross.
Posts: 4380 - Karma: 772
skiers seem to think like mountain bikers, the only way to push forward is to go bigger and be more gnarley. I dont think thats pushing forward, thats just going bigger.
May 3 2006 1:40AM
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babysteeze84
Posts: 720 - Karma: 285
Heh.

Nothing gets me more excited than seeing one of my recently acquired favorite skiers doing something crazy/not done before.

Go for it guys, do what you love. :)

I have to say I definitely knew my limits and went past them this weekend while skiing in Mammoth. ;)

How can you know where you're at unless from time to time you surpass it?
May 3 2006 2:24AM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
Me personally I know my limits, but I love the rush, the adrenline that comes from leaving ones comfort zone, dropping the tight line, ski down that run faster than I should. I push cause it makes me feel alive. And when all is said and done there is no better feeling than stomping the piss out of the line or the air or the rail that required every ounce of skill one has. Those are the moments that I take with me off the hill, the reason I strap the skis to me feet, the reason I love this shit.
May 3 2006 2:41AM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Actually by the transitive property Progression would equal just fun.
May 3 2006 9:17AM
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iskindiana
Posts: 1149 - Karma: 19
nice pull
"one mintue your eating a burger the next you're dead meat"
May 3 2006 9:22AM
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rachael575
Posts: 1412 - Karma: 90
wow, someone is desperate for attention on NS..... pretty pathetic i might say
May 3 2006 3:43PM
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Balken
Posts: 94 - Karma: 10
your right about it being a creepy year. I have seen a shit load of people get hurt this season
May 3 2006 4:03PM
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BFINO13
Posts: 1563 - Karma: 14
u dont belong to newschoolers progression is the sport in its self go away u make me cry a lot
May 3 2006 4:05PM
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scratchskier170
Posts: 443 - Karma: 10
ya the sport is getting more dangerous and people are trying new things. but when you fall 10 times on a rail and you want to give up and you never want to even look at it but they you decide to try it one more time and you get it. its the best feeling ever. the whole risk thats involved makes it that much better when you do stick it
May 3 2006 4:17PM
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