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Jake...
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How do you own a pair of 4FRNT skis and not know what NS is? A month ago I moved into a house for second year of univ. with a group of buddies and we got to meet our neighbours who were also students. Note we are from southern ontario, we get about a foot of snow a year (well... seems like it) and the hills are just ice sheets. The scene here is far from live. Anyways, it turns out the one neighbour starts talking about skiing. So i ask him if he is on NS and he gives me a blank face and says no... so then im thinkin this guy is some race case or something... so i ask him what he rides and he says a pair of 4FRNT MSPs... I cant get my head around it. I could understand maybe if it was a pair of you know rossis or salomons... but an independant freeskiing company and not knowing the core existance of the growth of the industry? Boggled.
Sep 16 2008 2:38PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
i didn't know about NS until about a year ago, and by then i already had two pairs of twintips and had been watching freeskiing movies since 2003. weird i know.
Sep 16 2008 2:44PM
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MatRich
Posts: 4789 - Karma: 1,813
wtf is newschoolers?
Sep 16 2008 2:47PM
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CK_Ski
Posts: 309 - Karma: 33
I didnt kno about NS until earlier this year.  and i live in Washingtoin which has a pretty good ski scene.  I try to tell everyone about NS even if they dont ski......that way they know what the hell skiing is all about now. 
Sep 16 2008 2:55PM
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shabinka
Posts: 743 - Karma: 10
I had those new fandangalled twintips for about two years before Thomson enlightened me to this fantastic site.
Sep 16 2008 3:30PM
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BvK
Posts: 868 - Karma: 11
i have known about NS since i have had twin tips (i love claiming).... and please tell me you got him addicted to NS
Sep 16 2008 3:36PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
i knew about brands like 4frnt and armada wayyy before i knew about NS, but a few months after i actually started skiing newschool and bought twins, i found out about NS (I don't remember how). Also 4frnt is also making a non-twintipped ski now which is gonna expose the brand out to gapers/carvers? so it won't be uncommon for people to know about it.
Sep 16 2008 3:38PM
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ButteredToast.
Posts: 6459 - Karma: 2,570
NS is where I learned pretty much everything I now know about skiing.
Sep 16 2008 3:44PM
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TOAST.
Posts: 7481 - Karma: 36,054
i learned about newschoolers from a kid at school 5 hours before I hit my first rail.
Sep 16 2008 4:03PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
skiing makes my pants tight.
Sep 16 2008 4:08PM
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Pipe_Munky
Posts: 10888 - Karma: 2,184
hey are you a newschooler?
Sep 16 2008 5:14PM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,415
no, the MSP is 4frnts all-mountain ski kind of like the chronic for Line.
Sep 16 2008 5:31PM
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holyDINOSAURS
Posts: 7038 - Karma: 639
i heard about NS from SBC Skier mag like......well must have been 6 years ago. ive been on here for almost 6 years. fuckign crazy.
Sep 16 2008 5:33PM
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DaveM
Posts: 2936 - Karma: 1,558
i heard about 4frnt bout 3 years ago and ns 2 1/2 years ago.. i dont see the big deal
Sep 16 2008 6:46PM
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styl.tweakit
Posts: 198 - Karma: 14
HAHAHA
Sep 16 2008 9:20PM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
NS taught me absolutely everything i know now about freestyle skiing
Sep 16 2008 9:23PM
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coffinparty
Posts: 231 - Karma: 11
not everyone is driven to spend hours infront of a computer
Sep 16 2008 9:25PM
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Skibumsmith
Posts: 5432 - Karma: 11,821
Yeah I knew about 4FRNT Line Armada Tanner Hall blah blah blah before NS. And I knew what NS was probably a year and a half before I joined.
Sep 16 2008 9:32PM
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fsscott
Posts: 4684 - Karma: 114
i found this site randomly acually and i can't remember how i did it lol

but yea i only searched for it after about a year of freeskiing
Sep 16 2008 9:33PM
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Scott~
Posts: 2551 - Karma: 49
For shame, Washington has about the most active group of NSers too~
Sep 16 2008 9:37PM
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mike_e
Posts: 2419 - Karma: 3,066
  
Sep 16 2008 9:38PM
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Pee_and_Ski
Posts: 1869 - Karma: 57
I found ns on windows media player last summer when i was looking for vids
Sep 16 2008 9:40PM
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50in07
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 1,471
I learned about ns last year and i had been constantly been watching edits for 2 years and i was riding line invaders
Sep 16 2008 9:43PM
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skibum2292
Posts: 398 - Karma: 9
i found out about ns from a friend a year after i started skiing.
Sep 16 2008 9:45PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
pussy.
Sep 16 2008 9:46PM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,415
so true...which is pretty nice.
Sep 16 2008 10:13PM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161
but some of us are.......
Sep 16 2008 10:27PM
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Treestman
Posts: 3049 - Karma: 300
there are people who kill it, but do not give a shit about ns, or even the new ski movies comin out or what the pros are doing.

they just ski.
Sep 16 2008 10:32PM
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AltaByrdSkier
Posts: 544 - Karma: 15
woo hoo my mom told me about newschoolers right out of the womb.
Sep 16 2008 11:14PM
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no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,272
i bet he's not the only one who knows about 4frnt and not ns, i knew about ski companies from watching movies and stuff before i knew about ns, i made an old account in 2004 when a friend told me about ns but i forgot all the account info. i decided recently to come back on to buy and sell stuff and i got wrapped back up in the good old ns
Sep 16 2008 11:20PM
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ReedSkis~
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 98
Its so sad, in NY there is one kid i know who has ns and he snowboards (nothing wrong wit' dat) the ski scene sucks here as one might expect from a state with minimal mountains. but it does make trips out west seem more fun...
Sep 16 2008 11:25PM
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KAS
Posts: 1417 - Karma: 68
I discovered 4frnt and Amplid from Jibbingame.com. I'm not entirely sure If I found Jibbingame for the first time on NS. For some reason I don't think I did, but I can't remember how exactly I found it.
Sep 16 2008 11:28PM
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