David Levin... did someone hijack your screenname? I love you man (no homo), but had to step in here... I would have thought you know better then to tear apart some of the most talented up-and-coming kids in our sport?
Now we've all been part of some pretty questionable fashion trends over the years that we can probably look back on and laugh at now, maybe Tall Ts will be one of them, and maybe not, but to knock the actual skiers rocking them, and call out their style, skills, etc, is something of a surprise.
Maybe I'm misreading this (only read the last 10 posts) and its all a huge joke because you're high/drunk/bored, in which case, you're certainly caused quite the stir, but I'll go right ahead and vouch for the fact that a few years down the road, the names your calling out, and kids that are inspired by them will be leading the charge well outside of the terrain parks, streets, etc.
I'm usually pretty on point with these things.
If I remember correctly, just a few short years ago, Tanner Hall was little more then a park rat himself (and before that, like many, many others, a bump skier), and now he's unquestionably the leader of our sport, taking skiing to a whole new level on really big terrain. Where did he develop his skills? He'll be the first to get behind the names you've called out... Eric Pollard? Another one of the athletes at the forefront of backcountry progression; I remember watching him spin laps on 100cm skiboards at Killington, throwing misty 7s off gaper lips on the side of lift towers... Before Any Mahre landed backwards on 100ft+ bc jumps, I watched him do 450s onto park boxes for years. Boronowski started his pro career as one of the first and preeminent "jibbers." The list could go on and on... All these careers started off with what these athletes had access to, and interest in, at the time.
Bottom line, Wallisch, Ahmet, Henrik, Delorme, Brogan, Hornbeck, and the rest of 'em will be around for a long time helping to feed the direction of the sport you love, and chances are they'll be doing amazing things all over the mountain and beyond, and taking skiing to another level that none of us can conceptualize, regardless of what they're wearing. Give them the respect they deserve.
