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Define newschool skiing

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Vernicus
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how would you define newschool skiing?
Feb 20 2008 10:50PM
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alaskakid
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www.newschoolers.com
Feb 20 2008 10:53PM
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ThaLetterM.
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write this down:

butthole.
Feb 20 2008 11:03PM
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Sufferboy
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pretty much taking the gentlemen look out off skiing and revolutionizing it
Feb 20 2008 11:03PM
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BEARS.
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tom wallisch
Feb 20 2008 11:04PM
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sirskizalot
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wut would they change the name to
Feb 20 2008 11:32PM
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killabees
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two words, two thumbs; bob kelso

Feb 20 2008 11:33PM
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SteezePatrol
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more than 200 cm stiff plank groomer skiing
Feb 21 2008 1:43AM
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anxju
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tyler marsland
Feb 21 2008 1:45AM
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SteezePatrol
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marsland entertainment introduces aggressive alpine skiing?
Feb 21 2008 1:47AM
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XtRemE11
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FUN!
Feb 21 2008 1:55AM
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Literature
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You can't, which is the beauty of it. You can do what you want, add your own style, and ski how you feel.
Feb 21 2008 3:11AM
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sdfjklioeur
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tyler ceccanti!!!
Feb 21 2008 3:37AM
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Flarestrike
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A place for friends???

wait already taken by Myspace...i know, there's a DVD at the snop i work at that perfectly descirbes it:

Star, skis and hucks
Feb 21 2008 3:42AM
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LIL_WAT
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 thats how i define it.
Feb 21 2008 4:28AM
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PBraunstein
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^^i wanna know what that guy is listening to...
Feb 21 2008 8:28AM
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killabees
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yes beyond your belief
Feb 21 2008 9:43AM
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DaLiNeRiDEr21
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SNOWBLADERS

Feb 21 2008 9:48AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Hah well personally I've hated the name newschoolers.com for a looooong time... I think its just so 2001.  But, that being said I think that we're stuck with it.   Skilounge is alright, but it doesn't speak to what we are.   Any generic ski names just don't suit it... freeskiing.com and freeskier.com are good, but taken.  So don't think that you're going to be seeing a namechange anytime within the near future, we'd all decide that together and it would probably take a really long time.

To define newschool skiing though, I always give one very simple sentence to people that ask me. 

"Skiing's answer to snowboarding."

Snowboarding isn't as fragmented as skiing because it got to start fresh.  Kids got into it, and snowbarding was just snowbarding whether your rode pipe, park, BC, raced, whatever, its was just about going out and having a good time. 

Newschool skiing to me means the new thought behind skiing, which all of the youth is embracing.   You don't have to be just a racer, or just a recreational skier, park rat, big mountain guy, whatever... you can simply go out on the hill and enjoy whatever aspect of skiing you wish without worrying about it. 

Thats what it means to me.


Feb 21 2008 10:08AM
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EMK
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when old people ask what i mean i tell them " do you know what the kids do at the skatepark? well kinda like that but on snow"

for a def, i'd write; a type of skiing that sees particapants perform acrobatic and technical manuvers on jumps, rails and jibs with style as the important aspect.

oh yeah, and grabing.
Feb 21 2008 11:12AM
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EMK
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yeah but i don't think that just skiing pow for example counts as new school. to me you have to be doing tricks. i didn't mean to imply that it was just park, bc is new school too so long as you do tricks - "acrobatic manuvres".
Feb 21 2008 11:19AM
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Steezasaurus
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Newschool skiing to me is doing different thing on the mountain instead of going straight down a slope. Including park, backcountry jibin, urbaan jibin,or just messin aroud on the slopes doing butter, drags etc. or even making a rock on a slope that was oonce scenary some sort of jib where you can jib it and do stalls and that sort of thing on it

Feb 21 2008 11:19AM
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HangThePope
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Newschool Skiing as defined by Wikepedia.com:

Newschool skiing is a type of alpine skiing which involves advanced tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails. This form of skiing resulted from a combination of the growth in popularity of snowboarding as well as the progression of Freestyle skiing. "Newschoolers", or those who specifically ski in this style (as opposed to traditional freestylers, big mountain skiers, racers, etc.) are often found in terrain parks, which are designed specifically for tricks.

Feb 22 2008 12:40PM
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Valind
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cant be said better than this.

Feb 22 2008 12:45PM
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