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Do you think sking was more fun before it got blown up?

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NESblowjob
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 i think it was so cool when nobody really knew about what all these people were doing in the terrain parks, and it was still kinda underground like skateboarding.  Now it seems almost like contest rules are defining peoples styles and its got so much media attention. I guess this is good but i miss when it was more like a rebel thing and all about style
Apr 6 2009 1:47AM
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eheath
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Skiing is and will always been the same fun level for me, i dont base my fun on what other people think or do.
Apr 6 2009 1:49AM
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Maximumsushi
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It's better now. There are more people who ski in the park and shred around with twins. Terrain parks are better today compared to those of the past. Contest rules and media attention don't really affect my days on snow very much. I don't ski contests and the winner of the xgames ultimately has little to no influence on how much fun I have with my friends when we ski.
Apr 6 2009 1:50AM
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unchyll
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nooo
im stoked it blew up
when i was in 7th grade i was pretty much the only skier
now the majority of my friends all ski and wear tall tees
im stoked on all the progression because it just gives me more inspiration to try things that no one else is doing.
Apr 6 2009 1:51AM
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ShredtillURdead
Posts: 2024 - Karma: 93
who blew it up???
















someone take the bait....





Apr 6 2009 1:59AM
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Silence
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ski patrol duh
Apr 6 2009 2:03AM
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HaleBoy
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Dude the more mainstream it gets the better it gets. Tru story. Just look how mainstream skiing is in Europe without that kind of publicity and popularity we wouldnt have comps like the JOI
Apr 6 2009 2:40AM
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ShredtillURdead
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and text voting at the xgames.....

counter successful?


Apr 6 2009 2:49AM
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CoachG
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^ and dont forget the fact that now we're able to take it to the MEGAMOOOOOOOOOO
Apr 6 2009 8:04AM
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TZA.
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skie patroollllll SKIII PATROLL BLEW IT UPPPPP
Apr 6 2009 8:45AM
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Dobies.
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Why is it that tons of kids on this site are so against anytihng that is popular or appealing to the general public.  I have heard so many people say they used to like a certain rapper or group, but fail to like them anymore because they are popular.  Get over it.  Just because something appeals to more people doesn't mean its not cool.  And popularity is great for skiing.
Apr 6 2009 10:06AM
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The_Tim
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why does every kid think they were park skiing when it was underground? bet most that respond in this thread started doing park when it was getting popular. not before hand.
Apr 6 2009 10:12AM
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NESblowjob
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i just feel like it used to be more like skateboarding,   and now not so much
Apr 6 2009 2:18PM
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Blandct
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for once im going to agree with e heath...
Apr 6 2009 2:20PM
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240nut
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Skiing is not blown up.  If anything the attention is a good thing it brings new faces into the sport.  I love this sport and would never be able to walk away.  Some people are addicted to cocaine and shit but im addicted to a different type of line........
Apr 6 2009 2:39PM
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Malcolm
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agreed!
Apr 6 2009 2:45PM
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swanton
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Lol? Skateboarding is mainstream as fuck. You meant rollerblading.
Apr 6 2009 3:57PM
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Aaaron.
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ryan sheckler!!!?!?!?!
Apr 6 2009 4:05PM
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blindside
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my idol!?!??!?!?!

but I have to agree with eheath
Apr 6 2009 4:08PM
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h_bar
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ski patrol blew it up
Apr 6 2009 4:09PM
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Aaaron.
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simon dumont!!!!?!??!!?!
Apr 6 2009 4:18PM
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k-rob
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the only thing i have a problem with is when kids have twins, yet they don't even ride switch. the fuck is the point of twins if you're not going to use the other tips? riding switch is the bees knees.
Apr 6 2009 4:35PM
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anti_bunk
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personally, i will always find enjoyment in sliding down a snow covered hill with pieces of wood strapped to my feet.
Apr 6 2009 4:42PM
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J.D.
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Yes. Absolutely. For one reason...

The biggest mistake we ever made was convincing people that fat skis were good.

That's a secret we really should have kept. I really believe that now. Much as I love what some of the innovators have done for the skis themselves, which are better than they've ever been, they've caused a lot of problems for a sport they were just trying to make better in any way they could. I even like that it's brought more money into the sport because a lot of people do this for a living and they're better off now because of it, but money isn't everything. I would be so happy to go back to the old ski designs if it meant I could ski the terrain I like for longer. Back in the early part of the decade, the first couple of years, no one really skiied pow. Well, they did, but they didn't go hunting for it. I remember a day as late as 2004 when in mid winter, 30cms of fresh and bluebird I put fresh tracks in a bowl within the ski area all day long, must have had 15 laps or more and saw maybe 5-10 other people in there the whole day.

Now everyone and their mom has 100mm waist skis. The main result of that is that everything is tracked out in less than half the time it used to be, and stuff almost no one used to access is being skiied by people who have no business being there, sideslipping shit and hiking in backwards with their skis off across a perfectly skiable traverse. The side-effects, more inexperienced BC access, more avy deaths, leading to more negative exposure and people saying things like "Let's make skiing out of bounds illegal" are the next stage of problems we're going to run up against. It's forcing more and more real skiers who do this because it's their life farther and farther from the resort boundaries, where it used to be I could ski blackcomb as much as I wanted in-bounds and never get tired of it.

Things were way better for me when snowboarding was the cool thing to do and skiing was looked at as a bunch of racers and 40 year olds on Atomic carving skis.
Apr 6 2009 5:11PM
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Crack.
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this sport blowing up is good...
Apr 6 2009 5:16PM
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K2skipunk
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You know what, that comment was really stupid. E heath always has good points, and the balls to argue them, theres no reason that people should dislike his thoughts, disagree, yes, thats legit then. I'm just tired of certain members getting called out for who they are and for the ideas they have had in the past. If you don't find his posts funny, well, that sucks, but they have always made me laugh.

To go along with that idea of not hating on people, that's when skiing was the most fun. When you could go out, and ski without being called a "fag" for having a unique style. Skiing is up to the individual to decide what they think they should do, wear, or act like. That's what makes it so much fun, it's a way to express yourself. In recent years, it seems as though the majority of this site has conformed to a certain style of skiing, and just trying to ski like the pros do. Some times I wish skiing wouldn't have so many pro skiers so that people could define theirselves and not give a shit about what people think.
Apr 6 2009 5:17PM
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pjbauer
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exactly
Apr 6 2009 5:18PM
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TheQuailman
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First off, I would like to state that I love and always will love skiing.

But I enjoyed the culture around freeskiing so much more in the past.  It used to be where there would only be 5 or so freeskiers with twintips on at my local mountain and everyone would be friends.  If you saw some one with twintips on, hitting a rail in a midst of snowboarders, you could go up to them and you were instant friends, regardless of skill level or age. 

Now when you go to the hill, theres 50 skiers and 75 snowboarders in the park, not 100 snowboarders and 5 skiers.  Sure its great to have more skiers but freeskiing has lost its intimacy and close knit culture.  With the extra skiers, comes a whole bunch of douchebags.  It used to be where every skier was friendly, now most are, but then there are a bunch douchebag, punk kids that brag and talk shit and have no clue what skiing is about. 

Skiers use to try to stick out from the crowd of snowboarders.  A while back, browns and other dull colors where popular for snowboarding.  Skiers wore bright XXXL outfits, sometimes basketball jerseys, stickers on the helmet, candy-cane tapped polls, anything possible to stand out and just be an individual.  Now everyone weres the same stuff, obnoxious XXXL clothing, LRG hoodies from Marshalls, and tall tees.  Then people start wearing ridiculous looking tight pants to stand out.  And now theres no where to go.  Everyone stands out now, and no one stands out.

Sure, skiing is still fun, it will always be.  I still love skiing with my friends, they haven't changed.  But the cultural around skiing now suckks.  I understand why so many pros don't bother with NS or any of the bullshit.

Apr 6 2009 5:28PM
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chicken
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The actual skiing part is probably better, we have good parks and better skis etc..

But I really liked the whole culture alot more back in the day
Apr 6 2009 5:34PM
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*TURBONERD*
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i'm still so pissed about that
Apr 6 2009 5:41PM
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armadajj09
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Very well written. I agree 100%
Apr 6 2009 5:43PM
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wnab21
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A tiny bit it makes me mad that guys like Dumont get all the attention now and guys like Hornbeck who can slay dont even get much of a chance. But i dont mind it that much all in all, i just like that more people are thinking skiing is "cool" and not just snowboarding. I will always love skiing to death weather everyone does it or i am the only person on the mountain with two planks on, its just what i do and always will
Apr 6 2009 5:44PM
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*Nefarious*
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Ya... every day is such a rich new experience, as my ability grows and my mind opens I think skiing gets more and more fun.

BUT I fully agree, the culture was so much cooler, and felt so much cooler to be a part of, back in the days of FREEZE, Super Park shoots that every pro (all 20 of them) and every film company (both of them) would go to, etc... it was a special little club for sure.
But the money/media/sponsors have opened so many doors, it can't be looked at negatively
Apr 6 2009 5:45PM
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Boggs
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Qft. This happens alot.
Apr 6 2009 6:03PM
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artfullydodged
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i do miss the days of stealing benches from the lodge to make rails, but im glad its blown up, just be happy you were there to see the beginning of something amazing.
Apr 6 2009 7:21PM
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Download-My-Apps
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I felt like novelty back in the day, but still love the sport. and ahah since when is skateboarding underground?
Apr 6 2009 7:40PM
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Bo.s
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well i started skiing like 3 years ago and when ever i think of a trick in my head i will just see it in freeskier

i think the only problem is that everbody is coming with new tricks so instead of people getting judged on how original they are they are being judged on there style

whicht isn't really bad

Apr 6 2009 7:56PM
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IceCreamer
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I think that skateboarding is the most mainstream action sport out there, but skiing is really not mainstream yet.
Apr 6 2009 8:03PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
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wait...  when did skiing "blow up" ???  im pretty sure it still has a long ways to go
Apr 6 2009 8:21PM
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Silence
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Very soon skiers will have that stereotypical 'attitude' that snowboarders have/had..(if it hasn't happened already)

That sucks balls.
Apr 6 2009 8:23PM
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panojibber
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How much other people like something has never affected what I want to do.

I have skied since I was 7 years old and I never stopped. I was stoked when I was in grade 5 and just skiing because it was fucking sick and I just wanted to be extreme and ski the steepest gnarliest mogul ridden cliff riddled runs I could find.

The popularity, movies, magazines etc. etc. have just shown me a new side to skiing, and one that I happen to like. If theres cliffs to hit or pow to ski though, you won't see me in the park, you'll see me doing what I was doing way way back in the day, I still liike doing the same stuff, but sometimes that isn't accessible or good, in which case I head to the park.

Besides, I think its good now that its getting bigger. It gives everybody more opportunity, more people to ski with, more people to teach and learn from, more jobs in the industry, more skis to choose etc etc.

Apr 6 2009 8:29PM
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ataraxia
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who blew skiing?!
Apr 6 2009 8:56PM
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grambo
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I hear you, this is obviously a bigger problem somewhere like Whistler or Jackson, Alta etc. where you have a higher concentration of skiers (both rippers and advanced intermediates who are getting on fat skis and tooling around, falling backwards down Spankys etc). On the other hand, riding fat skis is so much fun, and you cover terrain so much faster. I have more fun now than I did in the mid 90s as a 130lbs kid skiing 193 slalom and 198 gs skis freeskiing. It's also nice having terrain parks that aren't hand sculpted. Hand dug/shaped half pipes sucked.
Apr 7 2009 2:21PM
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MidWestGaper
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it was sweet when skiing was unkown and sort of the rebel thing to do in the park compared to snowboarding. but where in a new age of skiing where most skiers will have twin tips, wider skies, and will hang out in the park. skiing will never be known anymore as just going big in the pow and heli skiing. now the park is becoming the big picture in skiing, and its not necissarly a bad thing. just the style of skiing is changing. dont get me wrong though, i love the pow and always will but im really starting to like the park as well bust out some sick tricks
Apr 7 2009 2:29PM
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Aaaron.
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i, personally, love seeing 8 year olds throw fives and sevens, and try trap boxes taller than they are.
Apr 7 2009 2:31PM
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BennyV
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Skiing is more fun now because more people do it, there is more money for the industry to operate. Terrain parks are getting more money, ski events have gotten national exposure with the xgames and dew tour (minus text voting), ski movie companies have higher budgets to make greater movies year after year, the sport progresses faster and in different directions than with fewer people involved, and finally, people get to see how cool skiing actually is opposed to the general assumption that it died when the "cool" snowboarders came about. Way more positives then there are negatives with exposure and "blowing up" in my opinion.
Apr 7 2009 2:31PM
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johnnypsunami
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those were the good old days. propaganda.

those were the days when you saw someone else with twin tips and you were all stoked because you knew they knew every single thing about 'newschool' skiing. Nowadays everyone and their dad have twintips, and I'll bet half of them cant even ski switch.

Apr 7 2009 2:34PM
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Aaaron.
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that is definitely true
at least half.
Apr 7 2009 2:36PM
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MidWestGaper
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its also sweet to have a website like this were everybody can go and share useful information and interesting things about skiing
Apr 7 2009 2:36PM
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Ben.
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i think skiing was more fun before you started making threads
Apr 7 2009 2:37PM
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