Ok can we stop hating simon?

yes and no- simon's a great skier no doubt but to me it seems that he cares only about winning, and really not so much about the sport- we saw it at x- he was going to win anyway, he coulda done one of his dope cork 3's (which he does better than anyone) or something else cool and shown the world something cool about freeskiing and yet he threw dubfront... i saw it myself at london freeze big air. he threw the same cork 10 he's been doing for ever every single hit, got throught to the final on his name alone and didn't look like he was stoked one bit, just going throught the motions. i don't think he's innovating or pushing the sport- even in pipe- he's just found what he's good at and kept repeating the same formula for years. not a cliche gangster fad guy? watch his part in forward- its one of the most wigga seggies ever.

make no mistake, he's an awesome skir, one of the best ever (esp. pipe), but i really don't think he's progressed the sport to any great degree, certainly not compared with tanner, jon, JP, Candide, Pollard etc.

i really want him to prove me wrong at JOSS, but i'm not expecting him to.

i was just thinking that today...like he seems like an ok dude and an amazing skier

+++karmaaa

well simon kinda stole jons gold medal a few years ago in pipe when jon definitely should have won

hahahaha, i like how you posted your rating and karma sick bro!

anyway you're from the east and live on the east, well central thats not the point you probably met him at a poster signing or somthing where he's paid to be nice, i met him at one once too where i thought he was super cool too, then he's done some stuff that ive thought was nice too but ive also seen him be a duche but i guess everyone can be so that's kinda irrelevant. bottom line you dont know him stop sucking his dick.

his new edit was sweet props for that, he does do gnar stuff and is really good. he was at breck killiin it a couple weeks ago. absolutly no hate on his abilities.

Not progressing the sport.

dumb thread.

i will continue to hate untill everyone that boo'd tanner at the x games and cheered dumont dies. oh and double front flip victory? he shoulda let pk continue, he's like frat boy USA, congrats you're just like every gaper that worships this man cuz he goes big and is sponced by target.

Let's see what other skiers, who acutally KNOW dumont think bout him.

Taken from symms blog.

 Dumont Wins Again

November 13, 2008, 9:54 PM

By: John Symms

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Simon Dumont has spent the last six months on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite myriad achievements in competitive halfpipe skiing and a recent eclipse of the world quarterpipe height record, he can't seem to convince the public that he is not just, as they say, a pipe skier. It's driving the poor little guy crazy.

Simon started the game, and the day, off with a switch lipslide (I hate saying "lipslide," but there's no equally concise term available) to inward 270. Tim easily replicated Simon's trick, and subsequently matched Simon's K-Fed. For the moment, it seemed that neither competitor would win this contest with ease. However, over the next few tricks, Dumont quickly trumped Russell with a 270 on to switchup to switch, a switch tails over (hmm, might want to find a better name for that one) to inward 270 out, and a switch tails over to switch, all unanswered.

The similarity of his last two tricks might seem a little petty to some, but to The Dumont, a win is a win. And any win feels good. Really good. So good that for the last six hours, he's been celebrating with jubilation that I myself reserve for winning scratch tickets, new Mountain Dew Commercials, and the happy resolutions to romantic comedies. After Simon's big win, he took a late lunch at some average Summit County eatery. He requested a table for six, so that his ego would have its own chair after everybody in the group of five was seated. After ordering himself a Grey Goose and ginger ale, and proudly announcing that he'd "earned it," Dumont periodically patted his ego on the head. In a subtle twist of irony, Simon's ego, although unquestionably inflated by the day's conquest, looked to be roughly 5' 4", based on where Simon's laudatory head pats were landing.

A little fuller, a little prouder, and a little more a rail skier after his first big win of the season, Simon left the restaurant with his head held high (relatively). "It felt great to great to get a win under my belt today," says Dumont, "especially against somebody who I always used to think of as a good rail skier." To continue his celebration, he recited all the words to "Gangsta's Paradise," by Coolio, and some Biggie song that I don't remember the name of. He also sang along with about half of "Still D.R.E.," but couldn't quite finish it before getting home.

He's currently pumping his fists in the air, and telling everybody to ask Tim how his PIG game went today. Tim, on the other hand, feels a little down in the dumps at the moment.

soooooo to the important question on everyones mind...

hows your karma now?? :-P

i stopped reading after this:

"he pushes the sport more than any other person"

absolutely not.