Replying to 1973 and the start of serious freestyle competition
Yeah, old guy here again. I was writing a sports column for a local newspaper when I was 16 and was fixated on 2 local stars; one, a classmate, went on to become an Olympic ski racer (Stephan Heinzch) and the other helped pioneer free style competition. That would be my older brother, Mark Rohrbach who along with Hunter Eng and a few other mogul hounds ended up in Sun Valley Idaho in March of 1973 for what was then the largest venue of freestyle skiers in competiution. 250 in all. Along with the requisite wet t-shirt contests (yes, I was 16 and got into the bars in Sun Valley to watch the young ladies in tight t-shirts get doused with water because I had legitimate press credentials) the competition featured the first mobius in competition, which I am sure is now lame and old school to you'se all. Just plowing through a scrap book and came across this column I wrote and thought I would share. I'll bet it's too PC and "family" oriented out there to have a wet t-shirt competition any more.
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