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          Sitting in my one floor household staring out at our sleet covered roads, I slowly get dressed for some pre-season skiing.  I believe that I am so numb to the fact that I live in Michigan that I am stoked for even the slightest snow.   In my ever growing sport of new school free-skiing, you need every day you can get to just compete with all of the other skiers in our area, and I am completely willing to take whatever mother nature throws at me.  So whether rain or snow you can rest assured I am outside on a ten foot vertical hill with a shovel and some homemade jumps preparing for another grand opening day in Michigan.  Even with my aching back and sore shins, I feel I have bigger skiing related issues, like, why the cliques? It seems that wherever I go, be it my home mountain of pine knob (not a mountain, a knob), or vacationing in Utah, you just can’t get past the competing groups of skiers and snowboarders.
           Let me clarify. When I say “competing,” I am not referring to style or skill, I am referring to how “cool” someone is dressed.  Does nobody realize that this only leads to the creation of even more pseudo skiers?  Personally, I can hardly stand someone who dresses like they own the place, and when its time to throw down, they eat it on a 180, I would have no problem with this beginner learning, but why do you have to have the top of the line matching jacket and pants?  I think the dress by rank rule should apply and these hoodlums need their ticket ripped once or twice to learn a lesson.  After all, not everyone is Simon Dumont, or Pep Fujas.
         Now for you Simon Dumont haters, what’s up?  What is a logical reason to hate someone as influential and big as Simon Dumont?  I can understand that he became the….well lets say “Tony Hawk” of free skiing, but he did after all earn this rank.  Now I’m not saying that he's my favorite or anything along those lines, personally I have no favorite, but I cant complain about him just because he has become big, good for him… so shut up.
          Now, before everyone on newschoolers.com start posting hate threads or comment on this with things as senile as, “you’re a dumb head,” lets take a deep breath and let your deteriorating ego restore to its initial health.  Remember that we all love the sport whether we are good or bad, and I am completely okay with the sport growing, but next time, before you cut the kid off who’s about to kick a switch 7 on the big kicker, remember your role, a polite, “dropping in” at the top of the hill would suffice.  Sorry if I have offended any of you have a nice night and a great season.

Goodnight.