I am not saying that you were consciously like "ok today I am going out to film with my buddy, I am going to bust out all of my 270s and pretzels," I am just saying that I didn't like what I saw in the video. but that's ok, you can do whatever you want. I'm just going to tell you what I think, an you can do the same.
I believe that when you film with a filming company you have tricks that you want to do, either in the backcountry, on urban rails, or otherwise, and that just makes sense. What I am talking about is merely what I saw in this video. I got bored. I know you were just doing your thing, and just filming with your friends, but it bored me. Sorry. It just sort of surprised me that even you're not filming with Meathead or whatever big old film company you have to impress in order to further your career or whatever is going through your mind, that you still don't venture away from the part of your ski that's under your boot, that you don't do anything besides switch up while you're on the rail, and that there was nothing actually extraordinary in this video. I did kind of like your gap over the down from that rail jam though.
Sorry if you don't believe that this video represents your skiing properly, but if your Meathead footage is you trying harder to do these tricks, then I will probably not enjoy that stuff either.
I understand that some people want to see people spin both ways because it is hard. I just feel like that is not the most important thing. If you cannot acknowledge something as being legitimate because it is beautiful, even if it has nothing to do with spinning, than that is just unfortunate and sad. Difficulty doesn't have to mean how hard it is to complete a maneuver, it can mean how close to PERFECT that maneuver is. It is DIFFICULT to make a tail-press PERFECT. Fucking difficult. Probably impossible. The problem with skiers is that their perception of what is difficult is limited. The pursuit of perfection is difficult, spinning a lot is just spinning a lot, I don't care how much effort you put into it.
You're right, it is a shame that presses will get you nowhere in a contest, but that's not the point. The point is what is given the most appreciation in skiing movies and contests a like is not what is the most beautiful. What is given the most appreciation is what is perceived to be the most difficult, which is really just narrow-minded and not to least extent TRUE.
