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Rails are fun, grabs are wack, and wayne wong smoked more than tanner hall and mickael combined

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dilla_says_go
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i started this as a response to another thread but i decided to go with the full-out rant.

...rails are real fun but don't compare to real skiing (going from the top of the mountain to the bottom mountain for those of you who forgot). theres definately a lot of room for progression on rails, and when theres ice everywhere rails are a good way to enjoy skiing.

however, i think grabs should go. we're skiers, we don't need to grab our equipment when we catch some sweet air. anybody that argues that grabs put you in a good body position can totally suck my koala in a denny's parking lot. truth is you can lean back to grab oppblunt or lean over to grab reverse mute and just not grab. don't worry. your skis arent going anywhere. and enough with the gay "assume the position" truckdriver grabs. seriously dumont and schiller are sick skiers but they don't need to be bending over like prison inmates. knock that shit off. its just obnoxious.

and how about this! talking to a homie a few nights ago we were cracking up drawing lines between the [new]school and the [old]school. wanna bust some wide leg steeze? try a spread eagle mo'fucka. nice shifty, bro! or...was that a twister? i hear gagniers new grab is a daffy doublegrab. wasn't grab man (brad holmes) throwing those back in the infant days of FREEZE magazine (rip). next time you are messin around on the way to the terrain park throwin' nosebutter 3's over rollers- know that you're doing a tiproll. follow it with a polish bagel and claim heavy with a worm turn. back in the 70s the smooth-lazy steeze was called the "slow dog noodle". i can't make this shit up.

lastly, any skiers that think they're badass because the blaze chron on the slopes should spark one up for the 70's freestyle scene, which was fueled by cannabis, pabst, and beautiful women in stretch pants (we should be so lucky today).


i'm going to go find some olin mark Vs and center mount them with some look p14s.
Sep 25 2006 12:46AM
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dilla_says_go
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oh yeah and i dont know if wayne wong in particular smoked the ganja. that was stupd of me to make that claim... im fairly certain that his comrades did, however.
Sep 25 2006 12:48AM
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forfun
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myspace is soooo ghey
Sep 25 2006 12:49AM
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lalalalaura
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"Full out rant" is a bit of a stretch.
More like, "casually-worded, general opinion on certain aspects of skiing that you apparently don't enjoy."
Sep 25 2006 12:51AM
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SteveStepp
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how could you say grabs are insignificant? grabs are the main reason skiing is progressing. everyone these days throw the same tricks. its all about adding a new grab or adding a different style.

aside from double flips, the actual spins and flips arent changing. its the grabs that are the reason skiing is going to continue to move forward. please dont say grabs are useless.

if we eliminate grabs, we go back to the year 2000; where grabs meant nothing, and everyone hucked tricks.




grabs mean everything!!!!
Sep 25 2006 12:53AM
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Andre.B
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Sep 25 2006 12:56AM
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DIPSEThaze
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Double tip grabs are for Colby West types. The kid can't turn but he sure is flexible. Tanner, Pep, and Candide never do grabs that are based on flexibility. These skiers epitomize steeze: style combined with ease. Gymnastics look hard, but not stylish. Only one skier makes double tips look good and that is Jossi Wells, because he's so small and flexible that he can actually do the grab without looking like fresh meat in a prison shower.
Sep 25 2006 1:09AM
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freezed
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haha...full dog noodle. word.
Sep 25 2006 1:11AM
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r5tommy
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interesitng point with the no grabbage
Sep 25 2006 1:12AM
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Dkrew13
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um, I like to ski
Sep 25 2006 1:16AM
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TMswitch06
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that sounds like a very single minded way of looking at sucha great sport
Sep 25 2006 1:16AM
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MALONE
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Brad Holmes never did any switch ten crossed up BLUNTED "daffy grabs" your a tool, skiing is skiing ITS ALL FUCKING SKIING, and theres sooooo much different ways to do all of it, shit son thats why its Ill.
Sep 25 2006 1:19AM
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bpalmer
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dude you are a clown.


you need to go to www.oldschoolers.com if you think grabs are wack. brad holmes is fucking wack dude.

tanner pep candide olsson these guys are taking skiing places its never gone before. it's because of bunk ass clowns like you that snowboarding has taken the limelight for the past ten years. skiing is finally making a comeback through progession and style, and you want us to do spreads? shit.
Sep 25 2006 1:34AM
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TMswitch06
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you do kind of remid me of a senile old man
Sep 25 2006 1:40AM
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Dkrew13
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I can not believe im backing up MALONE of all people, but hes right, everyone does their own thing, I think 1260s are stupid, but at the same time its sick cuz its hard. Id rather see a cork 3 or cork 5, with or with out grab i dont care its all a part of skiing.and brad holmes never really did shit, I will stand up to that
Sep 25 2006 2:06AM
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theoz
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Brad Holmes rips, he was the youngest person ever on the Us freestyle team. Him and Palmer headlined the ROxy in there shit band Fungus, and he straigh up fukin rips, misty 9s back flips of huge cliffs you kids that talk shit on holmes are idiots yes he old but he still rips harder than all of you, his pro model was the sickest mogul ski, But ill agree on one thing brad holmes has the gayest rail style ever but he still ripsand was punk before most of you kids were potential cum stains on your mumas face..
Sep 25 2006 4:03AM
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DeSena
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completely right... Like in Ski Porn extras if you watched "10 years with JP in it" just look at the difference... he would 7 with no grab in 2000-2001 but when it hit 2002 2003 new grabs started to appear and now the grabs are gettign much harder and difficult and as you see in that clip of "10 years with JP in it" the difference from 1996-2006 is unbelieavable thanks to grabs and more
Sep 25 2006 6:40AM
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theconcept1212
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i dont grab alot not cause its gay, but cause if you look comfortable, then it doesnt matter..it looks decent
Sep 25 2006 7:10AM
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skiierman
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Meh, I don't grab because I like it better than grabbing but I don't think it should go. Grabbing adds style, difficulty and originality. To say that you shouldn't grab, that's going against half your later arguement. Without grabs then there would be no one throwing sick tweaked out mute grabs off cliffs and I know you love those.
Sep 25 2006 7:12AM
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720laxskier
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you are a retard for posting that. this is pretty much your way of saying "i cant keep up with all this sick new shit, so im gonna say we dont need it" right? well just cause you cant boost 18 feet outaa the pipe with a flat 5 truck driver doesnt mean that dumont needs to stop doing it. he did it a lot, but in the end its still sick and you suck.
Sep 25 2006 9:54AM
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dilla_says_go
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no fuck you all. i make the rules around here, and if i say no grabs... no fucking grabs!


obviously if you want to grab you can do it, and im sure people will be grabbing for at least 3.67 more years. in fact, some grabs look downright sick. i just think that you don't need to grab to get your body in kewl positions, and people should be more openminded about the sport. don't make freesking an institution. its an art, and we should get wacky.
Sep 25 2006 11:33AM
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ECfreeski3
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word. thats all there is to it
Sep 25 2006 11:37AM
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bpalmer
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see, thats a way better attitude! grabs are not wack, but we do need to keep progressing.

i totally think we should get wacky. i was talking to travis perkins while i was in park city this weekend and he's talking about his new tricks for comps being very unconventional and no-grabby. he in particular mentioned a cork 9 screamin seamen, which would obviously be off the hook and totally original.
Sep 25 2006 12:01PM
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skiseemore
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that was intense i like the part about smokin weed and chicks in tight pants my parents were parta that scene they still have flashbacks
Sep 25 2006 12:23PM
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waynewong
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word
Sep 25 2006 12:30PM
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404404
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its my body i do what i want.
Sep 25 2006 12:31PM
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iskindiana
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im pretty fucking stoked that u refrenced "tip rolls, polish bagels, cork worm turns... those are the shit.

i dont agree with the whole grabbing rant other than dumont style truck drivers need to go.

and i agree with your rant about the "chron" fad that is skiing.
Sep 25 2006 12:35PM
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bob_dole
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steve is just a straight up class a bullshitter.
Sep 25 2006 12:53PM
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waynewong
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I love cranking down a slick groomer and laying into a big outrigger turn, hips smashing the snow and then rolling into a big polish donut...reminds me of break dancing but on snow...

worm turns are dope...and easy on center mounts...
Sep 25 2006 1:01PM
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nitsua
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this thread is dumb
Sep 25 2006 1:05PM
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4ReeL_
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maybe because you suck at grabbing you said that, but honestly if you dont grab how gay would that look? and i love it when peole say all they do is ski big mountain and not park, then you see them in the park on a powder day. Just saying they ski big mountain because they suck at park
Sep 25 2006 1:06PM
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Hctiws_iks
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steve you inspire me,
to get high.
Sep 25 2006 1:10PM
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bob_dole
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and tyler is a druggie.
Sep 25 2006 1:12PM
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invaderskier36
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i totally agree
Sep 25 2006 1:15PM
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Holte
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grabs help you stay balanced in the air and keep you from flailing. And even if grabs are lame, flailing steeze is really lame.

but polish bagels, however, are the epitome of radness.
Sep 25 2006 1:23PM
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skiierman
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Ummm... not really man. It depends on the person because I know I flail a lot less without grabs.
Sep 25 2006 1:43PM
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Dkrew13
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well have fun sucking his dick, I dont give a shit about moguls, this is freesking or whatever, anything ive seen from that fat ass is a bunch of fucking shitty attitude, ..... I give him props for the intro in ski movie 3 , that was funny shit.
Sep 25 2006 1:56PM
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waynewong
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^^^

Brad and his insanely cute fiancee live right down the road from me...he skis/sleds nearly every day during the season, keeps an insanly positive attitude and along with shane anderson, KK and several others make up one of the most fun groups of gravity sports enthusiats you will ever meet...

it is sad that you judge others so quickly, it must suck to be so mean spirited and simple minded...

I just love reading such tripe, are you really so clueless? What have you accomplished in your life that puts you on a soap box to judge others?

come to Tahoe City some time, IM me, let me introduce you to Brad, or better yet, come on out to Squaw our first big day, walk on up to the KT lift line and start spewing your shit talk...see how long it takes to get a ski pole shoved up your little ass
Sep 25 2006 2:20PM
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JockinJLoads
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guys i think its obvious that he's mad because he's asian
Sep 25 2006 2:41PM
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-+Siver+-
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without grabs everything would be the same.
Sep 25 2006 2:45PM
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cgroves
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you should just stop posting stuff maaaaaan!!! your killin me
Sep 25 2006 3:27PM
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Andre.B
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good point! i love grabs, they make stuff change it up a little
Sep 25 2006 8:54PM
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dweezileast
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grabs would be lame if they didn't affect the way that you spin. different grabs make for different types/feels of rotations
Sep 25 2006 9:29PM
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tjski
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i agree, not to say Johnny Moseley stared the grab thing but he definitly got it out there with the 360 mute.
Sep 25 2006 9:33PM
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cracko
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haha. dont know why that made me laugh.
Sep 25 2006 9:51PM
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winterkid33
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yey steve.

its true without grabs there isnt much seperating us from the apes
Sep 25 2006 10:02PM
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railsldr1242
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i disagree with this statement. you can still make tricks look different without grabbing. i think that it takes skill to make a trick look good with a grab, but takes a lot more skill to make a trick look just as good without one. grabs and skiing don't go hand in hand. what i'm trying to say is that skiing isn't all about grabs, and sometimes i like the way tricks can look good without them. we need to be more open minded about the possibilities of style and body postition. having said this i in no way think that we should do away with grabs, they will always be a part of skiing.
Sep 25 2006 10:25PM
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snocompton
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i deleted mine 2 months ago. Its been rough.
Sep 25 2006 11:26PM
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WIllW
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I second all statements made my hennie
Sep 25 2006 11:34PM
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theoz
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hell yeh Brad holmes rips shit up hes like 35 and a better skier than all you little kids.. moguls are the best thing for your skiing period, Seth , Brad, Candide, Tanner, Tj, Loic Collomb Patton, Henrick they all skied moguls ask them if moguls are gay or not hey will proably knock you out. Moguls teaches you to be a real skier, the best all round skiers on the planet are former mogul skier, yeh most did alpine too and combine that with moguls and you get the best all rounders on the planet period..
Sep 26 2006 1:37AM
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Paul-o-Rama
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hmmmmm
Sep 26 2006 1:54AM
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