Replying to Hey kids: shut up.

My reaction to lame threads like "where was simon" and everyone other opinionated adolescent (and some adults in there too, I guess) who rip on nearly anyone who isn't among the top 10 most innovative skiers right now.  I find it so sad that so many people can have such ignorant and unappreciative attitudes towards skiers who a) they've never met and b) are 10x better than them.  I am sure many couldn't care less about this post, but it is getting so old.  Have a little respect and honor, regardless of whether you deem the person worth it or not.  I do notice how it is never the people that are out there working hard and involved in the upper levels of the sport who are making these judgments, it is the little spineless wiesels who think they are awesome because they can do a cork 7 or something.  I think Teddy Roosevelt puts it best:

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”