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there are still tons of tricks to do other than the normal slides, and crazy spins, sure i guess rollerblade grinds are one of them you can do on gayper day, but there are still so many different variations of presses, crooks, and other stuff. i was at the us open at copper last year and i was watching all the pros riding through the park just dicking around on their free time, and there was some crazy shit happening, like i think it might have been andreas, poping a 180 doing a huge nosepress so he was switch then 180 out, and it was a long box too, and all the butters on to press and spin combonations i saw were pretty crazy too. and its alot more original and creative than just grabbing your ski on the rail, i thought that fad was gone like 3 years ago.
i dont really have a problem with people doing rollerblade tricks, personally i think they look completely horrible, but if people want to do them thats fine i guess. im just saying, its not gonna progress in that direction, mostly because it isnt a skiing trick. they are pretty much taken straight from rollerblading, while there are plenty of skiing original grinds that are still progressing and popping up, that look much better.
I dont really understand where you are getting the idea that every sport should be isolated from each other and that influences from other sports are for some reason not allowed...
i dont think its wrong for a sport to be influenced by another a little bit.  grinds in every sport  copy skateboarding cause skateboarding started grinds, but every sport has their own version of it.  when people see a rollerblade grind, and do the exact same thing on skis, thats not a ski trick, its a rollerblade trick for rollerblades, its not original AT ALL, and just looks like yourreally desperate to do something else but arent creative enough to think of something on your own, and pretty much every single one of them other than mabye a broken looks like complete shit. really like doing some tweaked grab or crossing your skis on a rail etc. on a rail is just a joke.
we have boards, skiing is a board sport, use them!! stop pretending we dont. if you want to do rollerblade grinds, honestly buy some snowblades, it would work so much better on them.
I strongly disagree. think about snowboarding's relation to skateboarding. you think that nose presses, tail presses, boardslides, 50-50s, etc. are all completely different sport to sport? simply not true. take away the trucks from a skateboard and the grinds all look the same sport to sport. (there are exceptions of course). skiing can be the same. i think certain "rollerblade" grinds can look sick on skis. brokens, dub brokens, and farfs all look super sick on skis. i agree that some shit looks goofy like one foot with a grab, but shit, even that might progress if given time. oh, and sorry about the weird quoting, it wont let me quote everything you say for some reason haha
they arent completely different sport to sport obviously, every sport using boards is gonna have a bunch of similarities, but between them all they all have their own unique style and way to do them.
stuff like brokens can look cool, mostly cause it keeps that "skiing style" rollerblading definatly has its own style, and skiing has its own style and thats why alot of rollerblade tricks look so out of place and goofy, cause it doesnt look like skiing. its ok to copy other sports a little, you kinda have to, but when people start just completely copying other sports it gets kinda dumb.
the one laurent favre does in skimatic on the fd box where he slides on the side of his hip on the flat and then pops onto his skis on the down...so sick