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The True People Who Invented Freesking

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dmc12380
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The 4 main people who inveted freesking are J.P.Auclair, JF Cusson, Iannick B., and Mike Nick. These were not the guys who were first intorduced into hucking cliffs, doing tricks, and pow skiing like glen plake and jonny decesare. They started fresh on there local snowboard park, poaching and doing the only tricks invented such as daffys, twisters, and back scratchers. They invented freesking before pipes were made and the first rail was a log only snowboarders could do. These people would build a little booter on side of the trail that would toss you ten feet, and session it for hours. This is also before people filmed and made movies for park skiers, not pow. To show you how far back, it wasn't until years later that freesking blew up and mike nick and iannick b. switched to "skiboarding".
May 12 2007 2:31AM
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SteezePatrol
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nah dude it's all about ballet FIS style
May 12 2007 2:33AM
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steezyjibber
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i believe u
May 12 2007 10:16AM
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AhrenStein
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your way off. you dont even have mike d. in their either
May 12 2007 10:21AM
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Pklink04
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Glen Plake? Greg Tuffelmier?
May 12 2007 10:42AM
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Kevski
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^yeah, mike D is the "godfather of freeskiing". He started sooo much.
May 12 2007 10:43AM
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zylstra
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How can you not count powder skiers as well?? Scott Schmidt was a maaajor pioneer in the freeskiing scene, hucking cliffs on size 200 straight skis. Although I agree that JP and JF DID start the revolution of park skiing, that isn't all of what started our great sport out to being what it is today, a fusion of the two.
May 12 2007 10:47AM
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chickenwang
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whos mike d.?
May 12 2007 11:02AM
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Dakoulas
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Vinnie? Szocs? Atkinson? You are forgetting a bunch there sir. BTW Mike Nick was a skiboarder still when freeskiing started and Iannick didn't start to show up in movies until a few years after.
May 12 2007 11:21AM
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DJAK
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A few different zones all got going at the same time in general. Tahoe had a scene (Mammoth was a couple years later), Vail/Summit County, Whistler and Quebec/New England all got things rolling in the mid nineties. The first few times these groups got together was at the original freesking opens in Vail. Most competed on Salomon Super Force 9's. The 3S version was most used.
May 12 2007 11:32AM
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ColbyV
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mike douglas

you should know that
May 12 2007 11:32AM
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Hairmetaler
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glen plake?????
May 12 2007 11:34AM
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Scolson
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vikings
May 12 2007 12:53PM
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schism
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toben sutherland?
May 12 2007 1:07PM
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steezerampage
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you cant just say those four guys. This is retarted. You could say these 4 guys were some of the guys that started it.
May 12 2007 2:24PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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canadian air force.
May 12 2007 2:45PM
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caylorswift
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i cant believe no one said Doug Coombs.

come on people, coombs is the man, plain and simple.
May 12 2007 3:06PM
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TWoods
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nice post, besides the fact you forgot a whole lot of information
May 12 2007 3:40PM
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TheButterHashira
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i put cool pics and autographs of skiers and boarders on my walls in my room and i put one up of mike d today.
May 12 2007 3:43PM
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dmc12380
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^^ sorry im not up to par on my skiing history but i made this late last night when i was all fucked up.
May 12 2007 3:44PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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that would be snowboarders who invented freestyle skiing. snowboarders started hitting rails and jumps with some style long before the thought crossed anyt skiers mind. there were several skiers that saw this and wanted to do it on skis a couple years later. so they first started doing freesking but basically, without snowboarding, theres a good chance freeskiing on rails, wouldnt have been invented.
May 12 2007 3:47PM
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ATLskier
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I think he's just talking about park skiing, but he made a misleading title. With the current title, coombs, schimdt, and plake started it basically.

yeah, you can't just say 4 people. It developed simulatneously in a bunch of different locations. like pollard was doing it with a buch of other people in hood, the tahoe scence blew up. I thinkg that the new canadian air force had the most to do with it though.
May 12 2007 3:53PM
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Dr.Seuss
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1 word, glen plake.      KIDDING thats 2 words
May 12 2007 3:53PM
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chickenwang
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my other post got deleted because it was refering to a ski company that no one can talk about who think there the shit but never put out skis.....
May 12 2007 4:17PM
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DEADTOYOU
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http://www.skiboardmagazine.com/archives/interviews/mnickinterview.html

Matthew: Where do you see line going with their skiboards and skiis? Any crazy new things planed to change the sports?

Mike: That's a J. Lev. question, but Line has always been devoted to progressing the sport ever since day one in J's garage he and I and the rest of the Line crew was under the same influence and thinking, skiing was lame and desperately needed a kick in the ass. So we gave it one.


anyone interested......well i thought this was a cool topic so i posted this.....



May 12 2007 4:29PM
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alaskakid
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what company is that?
May 12 2007 5:00PM
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Calb3rt
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techninthward yo!
May 12 2007 5:09PM
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chickenwang
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cant say it it will get deleted
May 12 2007 5:13PM
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adam.
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mike d helped invent the first twintip
May 12 2007 5:28PM
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AhrenStein
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your not allowed on NS anymore
May 12 2007 6:05PM
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tjski
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douglas...
May 12 2007 6:13PM
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chickenwang
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lawlz fuck you ill eat your babys (read the whole thread)
May 12 2007 6:40PM
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FUUUCK
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ZOWNED!
May 12 2007 6:48PM
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zesty_buddy
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gud post left out bits n skiers......
May 12 2007 6:51PM
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ATLskier
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1080 was not the first twintip. k2 poacher and a few others were before it.
May 12 2007 8:26PM
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eljefe
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can't forget griffin cummings and the hood crew...who were BOLTING ceramic tails onto their race skis to land backwards. I can't believe no one ever mentions these guys
May 12 2007 8:29PM
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teamdummy
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well you you know its summer when these shit threads start appearing again---
May 12 2007 9:24PM
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K_Day
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G.T.
May 12 2007 9:31PM
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SteezePatrol
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yea fuck FIS it WAS the vikings
May 12 2007 9:35PM
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hoodratz47
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GRIFFEN CUMMINGS AND IKE SMITH.... they fuckin did it
May 12 2007 9:56PM
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rockymountainmilitia
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for sure man. hood and baker were going off around the same time the new canadian air force was starting up. switch riding was born then.
May 12 2007 10:02PM
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poofartpee
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and shaun white helped with that too man he just switched to snowbording last season
May 12 2007 10:07PM
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Krongos
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yeah and what about the guys who taught pollard at hood, they claim to have been there the same time jp was in quebec building jumps
May 12 2007 10:36PM
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DANETRON
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i can ttell if you guys are joking or not

May 12 2007 11:12PM
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pommes_vertes.
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that was a really good thread. if by good, i mean terrible.
May 13 2007 3:03AM
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dmc12380
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ya, i left out a lot of people. Mike Douglass, Shnane Schocz, and a bunch of other people from the first Ski Movie by The Font Line. I'm talking about freesking before twintips and skiing backwords were even thought of. I'd also like to add this:

Interview With Ex-Pro Skiboarder: Mike Nick
By: Matthew

Matthew: How did you get started in the sport on skiboarding, what was your background?

Mike: I started skiing when I was 11, my father taught me. I grew up with the levinthal brothers and we would go skiing every weekend. Then we all began snowboarding. After a few years, we all went our separate ways to college but kept in touch. J. Lev. began making skiboards in college and we all started riding them together. Then J. and I got invites to the 98 X-Games for the first ever skiboard event...you know what happened next, and the rest is history.

May 13 2007 4:22AM
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dmc12380
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I rode with a guy on a killy lift who went to high school with J. Lev. and Mike Nick and said he help invent twintips with them for a science fair project way back when.
May 13 2007 4:29AM
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skiRay
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yeah i was gonna say Plake, Mike D, JP, Mike Nikc, Jonney mosley, Tuffelmeyer, and szocs
May 13 2007 10:28AM
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SHastatahoe
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Why hasnt anyone mentioned Shane McConkey? I see him as one of the original pioneers. Havent you guyes ever seen Global storming? 13, Ski movie?
May 13 2007 4:38PM
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schmies
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lots of wrong info here.......
May 13 2007 11:25PM
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dweezileast
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everybody just can it. Freeskiing was invented by greeting card companies.
May 13 2007 11:32PM
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