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Most Influential Skiers Of All Time

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Z_rob
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I searchbarred and all I found was threads from like 3 years ago and felt like skiing has changed a lot since then so here we go...


well actually its pretty self explanitory.

my vote goes to
-4bi9 and the Jiberish team (Totally changed the style of skiing)
-Pep and Andy (No Poles)


Jan 30 2009 7:13PM
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eastcoastsoloMAN
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glen plake
need i say more
Jan 30 2009 7:15PM
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hellomynameisjef
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tanner hall
Jan 30 2009 7:15PM
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.Capn.
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Wayne wong
Jan 30 2009 7:18PM
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Crack.
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yea Thall ftw
Jan 30 2009 7:19PM
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Aaaron.
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4bi9!

Jan 30 2009 7:19PM
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anxju
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jon, simon, tanner, etc etc
Jan 30 2009 7:24PM
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nathanielstyza
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of all time?
new canadian air force.
4bi9 wouldnt exist without 'em
Jan 30 2009 7:25PM
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grambo
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From early 90's on (my era)

Scott Schmidt
Glen Plake
Seth Morrison
Tanner Hall
JP Auclair
Mike Douglas
Bode Miller
Herman Maier
Jan 30 2009 9:51PM
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LMPJibbin
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jp auclair, boyd easley, johney moseley, mike douglas, jf cusson, tanner hall, add to my list if i forgot...basically i mean the uber team (armada) and the new canadian airforce.

and if were counting non-athletes.....the dude that invented twin tips (founder of line skis), and the guys at salomon for comin up with the ten-eighty.

Jan 30 2009 9:57PM
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LMPJibbin
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wow i forgot bode miller, seth morrison, shane mcConkey, scott schmidt, doug coombs, and glen plake
Jan 30 2009 10:10PM
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cobra_commander
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Sean Palmer, Craig Kelly, Jeremy Jones and Travis Rice.
Jan 30 2009 10:35PM
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SV420
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First off thank you to the one dude who said Scot Schmidt. But why are people saying Johnny Moseley, ya he progressed Freestyle skiing to probably as far as it will go, until they start making bigger jumps, I mean come on they do like the smallest D-spins and shit now, but tell me what has he done for freeskiing, or why he should be he most influential skier of all time?
Jan 30 2009 10:39PM
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skithesprings
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so it goes like this

glen plake and wong

seth and sage and hoji

pep in 1242, tanner

tod wallnutz

harlaut

Jan 30 2009 10:40PM
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jfbolieuvaldi
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4bi9 influential freeski for sure but its a the new wave  in 90s its was  jf cusson jp auclaIR and other guys  that i'm to young for remember their names..in 2020 freeski will probably be  totaly other way
Jan 30 2009 10:46PM
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aidansheahan
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Mikeal Deschuneax

enough said
Jan 30 2009 10:47PM
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no_steeze
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johnny moseley
glen plake

Jan 30 2009 10:49PM
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SV420
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tell me why
Jan 30 2009 10:51PM
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charmander
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STEIN ERICKSON!!!!
Jan 30 2009 10:55PM
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Drail
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honestly... people were listing boyd easley and tom wallish and you bitch at people for listing johnny moseley?

gee, let's think. 98 olympics, wins gold with a 360 mute grab. pretty influential dude. I will admit it had a huge impact on my life.


anyone who did something first or thought of as impossible can be in the "influential" category. I guess Boyd did a misty 1080 in x-games, but that's nothing compared to the 360 mute. and Wallish... he's got the style and the tricks, but does a nice afterbang really warrant him "most influential of all time" I doubt it.

Plake (skiing and image), Schmitt (skiing), Seth Morrison (sticking tricks off cliffs that are just... huge), JF Cusson (trick inovation), JP Auclair (first "style" skier), Dorion (switch shit), Mike D (he made it all happen for the New Canadian Air Force), Johnny Moseley (wins gold with 360 mute when everyone else is still doing twisters and daffies), Chris Turpin (first to prove that skiers can do switch hits in the pipe - and possibly the most underrated skier of the past decade), and at a fully personal level Dave Bishop (I haven't seen him ski in a few years, but for a few years he was just, wow.).

There's my list.
Jan 30 2009 11:25PM
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KFRADtheLaxBro
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Tom Wallisch motha fucker need i say more
Jan 30 2009 11:25PM
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Blurst
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you probably should. Pretty much all the guys have been named but on the womans side definatley sarah burke
Jan 30 2009 11:31PM
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cobra_commander
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thats a good list, I think you hit it pretty well.
Word on Turpin being the most underrated. The amount that guy has done for skiing is insane. He still kills it too.

The one that no one has said yet is Warren Miller.  That guy has gotten more people stoked on skiing then any one else.
Jan 30 2009 11:46PM
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eheath
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Doesn't matter who it was, the only reason they were influential was because of good old NS.
Jan 30 2009 11:48PM
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waterfordsam
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Eric Pollard.
Jan 30 2009 11:53PM
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Cortez
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glen plake

jp auclair & friends

t-hall
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mwagner
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Tom Wallisch (Afterbang/Pretzels)
Matt Walker (Ginger Skiers/Rail Slayer)
Henrik Harlaut(Steeze,Foreign Everything Slayer)
T Hall (Pipe, and Park skiing as we know it today)
Jon  (Kangs, Male Model Skiing)
PK (Dub Corks)
New age pipe skiers,Riddle etc. (BIG Switch Hits)
E Pollard (BC Butter, BC Switch Skiing)
as you can see from the list above, everyone adds something to skiing, What will you add?
Jan 30 2009 11:58PM
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ptownshredder
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JP & Seth.......
Jan 31 2009 12:03AM
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alaskakid
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take tom wallisch out of this list for fucks sake
and add dave crichton
Jan 31 2009 12:07AM
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fappy
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lol at the internet crew 4bi9 being most influential of all time
Jan 31 2009 12:08AM
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wnab21
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glen plake
/endthread
Jan 31 2009 12:10AM
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YetitheWookie
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Man, the early LINE team was unreal.  Mike Nick, EP, Wilson, Dash, Griffin, Laroche, those dudes were just oozing style and potential it was gross...

The 3 phils were pretty bomb too.

There are so many, as well as all the cats you people listed above...

The sport has really taken off, and it's finally starting to branch off in different directions like snowboarding did...I almost want to shed a tear...lol, I'm so proud of skiing hahaha.
Jan 31 2009 12:24AM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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word up
Jan 31 2009 12:29AM
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Balto
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tanner-park and pipe
pep/eric-BC jib
seth-AK
McKonkey-being a thug
wallsich-steeze
Jan 31 2009 12:31AM
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MasterDebater
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mike douglas and the salomon team back then. if it wasnt for them, this website wouldnt exist.
Jan 31 2009 12:36AM
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SV420
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Thanks for the response, and i didn't say anything about wallisch because whenever i talk shit on him the thread usually gets deleted, and boyd has influenced my skiing because of his playfulness and attitude, so I don't have a problem with that, but Moseley has never influenced me because the only thing he excels at is moguls. Also I would consider it that he influenced the FIS by doing the dinnerroll, because its not like he was the only one to do a 360 mute in the '98 olympics, I'm pretty sure it was Julien Regnier that did one too.
Jan 31 2009 12:46AM
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SV420
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This isn't something to get so pissy about, and just because so many people know who someone is does not mean they were influential on a sport as a whole, plus he was such a sell out after the Olympics and that added to his popularity but that does not make him more influential. Also he is way more known than probably everyone else mentioned in this thread, but that does not make him the most influential person in the thread.

So I guess i just didn't expect there to be any bump humpers here, because I could only see them finding him influential because he did not charge very hard at big-mountain, especially for a Squaw local, and he was never very good at park, even though he won X-games slopestyle with the worst run i have ever seen and exposed some bullshit judging.
Jan 31 2009 1:24AM
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Download-My-Apps
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dude, I'll admit Jon Molsley was way over rated. But he did have a major impact on skiing. In 98 he did a 3 mute, doesn't seem like a big deal but the entire world saw it. Myself, I had never thought about doing a grab until I saw it on TV it self. He may be a huge dork and claimed to have invented tricks when others had already done the 3 mute, dinner roll (im pretty sure its a D-Spin) But he got worlds attention and therefore INFLUENCED skiing.

And people Tom Wallisch? Common, the guy rips no doubt and has crazy style on the rails, but the only overal influence he's had on the big scheme of the sport is what size of pants some 14 year olds buy. He's a marketers dream, but not even compareable to someone like Tanner.
Jan 31 2009 1:55AM
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steeze2pleeze
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all of mine have been said so im just gonna leave it at that
Jan 31 2009 1:56AM
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Ryanvdonk
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Vinnie Dorian! pioneer of most every switch trick
Candide is always pushing, same will pollard and tanner.

and Terje! despite being a boarder, he could do everything, and should be someone everyone should aspire to.
Jan 31 2009 2:46AM
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smuggs
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ana kornacova
Jan 31 2009 2:57AM
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ugsey
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warren miller
Jan 31 2009 3:38AM
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f.ray
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jf cusson came up whit the grabs in mogul and was getting disqualified every time when he was doing it at wold cup mogul. then johnny did it , won olympics and claimed it as his...
so cusson influence mosley...
Jan 31 2009 3:41AM
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unchyll
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.
Jan 31 2009 6:03AM
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cobra_commander
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Do you even know what influential means?

I mean for fucks sake being well known goes a long way towards being influential. Its really hard to be influential when no one knows who you are.  Yes there were other people who were better skiers then Mr. Mosley, but they were not well known so they could not influence many people.

J. Mosley made skiing cool again in 1998, and did so on international television.  If it was not for him Skiing would probably not be where it is today. Many of the people mentioned in this thread would probably be be doing 1 of 2 things right now if it were not for Jonny Mosley: a) bashing gates, b)snowboarding.
The fact is It is hard to say that Tom Whats is face and Henrik H. are influential when no one knows who they are or what they are doing.  Outside of a core (yes you can pat your self on the back) group of park/rail skiers, those two are almost completely unknown. 

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quebecfreestyler
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O YES!!!!
 and he's pretty much the nicest guy out there in the ski industry.

First one to grab his skis  and get off axis.
Jan 31 2009 8:02AM
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MagSeven
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Scott Vail

/thread.

Jan 31 2009 8:02AM
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Cudder.
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johnny Mosely because he started doing the tricks
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