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Best snowboard vid of the year (video)

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drugula
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for real

Group Effect from Skeleton Crew on Vimeo.


Nov 27 2009 3:15AM
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AlexGaynor
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Please allow me to fix your mistake

Knife Show Volume 2 from Mike Benson on Vimeo.


Nov 27 2009 3:27AM
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AptosFreeskier
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Get your sporks, ski gabber has been transformed! This thread should be in some sort of mystical void where snowboarding should go on a SKI website. Im down for snowboarding, but not in ski gabber.

Real talk
Nov 27 2009 3:34AM
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drugula
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oh my bad its just that from all this talk about how to somehow turn sking a little bit more into snowboarding i thought you did.
Nov 27 2009 3:55AM
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BC.
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a lot of that footage was shot at my home mountains.
Nov 27 2009 4:50AM
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holyDINOSAURS
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fuck off with the Knife Show shit. its not TAHT good.

however the SC movie was so fucking raw. sick.
Nov 27 2009 11:33AM
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enick
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wow
i hope no one has ever said that on this site
Nov 28 2009 12:18AM
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goombastompa
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agreed. these guys are gnar
Nov 28 2009 12:27AM
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dweezileast
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how come those snowboarders had such tight stances?
Nov 28 2009 2:24PM
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fillup
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That was so sick, i was entranced by it last night.
Nov 28 2009 2:24PM
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ForrestW
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move this thread... maybe to site discussion so that we can discuss why these movies are allowed on newschoolers
Nov 28 2009 5:49PM
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Deathcab
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haha you guys all talk about how you hate when snowboarders talk shit on skiing. Look at what you guys are doing.

Both vids were real sick.
Nov 28 2009 6:05PM
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johanblaze
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You are a fool.
Nov 28 2009 6:30PM
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snowmouk
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this video does not suck
Nov 28 2009 6:52PM
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CMYK
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I love snowboard movies just because their so much funnier then ski movies, generally have better cinematography, and more creative tricks.

I mean seriously, every ski movie ever follows the same basic "oh i love to ski so much its such a blessing to be able to ski" plot line.
Nov 28 2009 7:04PM
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j.bird
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Nov 28 2009 7:11PM
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chickenwang
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yeeee skeleton crew slays shit!

Nov 28 2009 7:35PM
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THATS_STREET
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videograss is the snowboard video of the year
Nov 28 2009 7:52PM
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HeathR
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who cares if snowboarding shit is one here. If you dont want to see it dont open the thread.
Nov 28 2009 8:02PM
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skiseemore
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i dont see why not post this in ski gab i mean it much more entertaining than the rest of the useless shit on here haha LNP part was legit
Nov 28 2009 8:11PM
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.travis.
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Sad to say, but that skeleton crew video was more entertaining than about 90% of the ski videos/edits i've seen. That vid was amazing and I would love to see skiing move in this direction. So much more fun to watch than the standard hyphy rap song and switch up after switch up that are ski edits these days. Just my opinion.
Nov 28 2009 8:19PM
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snocompton
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people def. give a fuck here.  so keep your pointless comments to yourself.
Nov 28 2009 11:42PM
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AlexGaynor
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And on a positive note: I LOVE SNOW
Nov 28 2009 11:47PM
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BroBrah
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that was the sickest shit ever! seriously, i loved it. that's how shred flicks should be made. very entertaining
Nov 29 2009 1:50AM
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Dukeybrains
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That was sick thaks for posting.

I enjoyed that more than any ski movie I've see this year.

Great music, if you don't llike it, at least you won't hear it in three other snowboard movies
Great vibes, felt like a day on the mountain with your homies if your homies were super gnarly snowboarders

And all those snowboarders didn't have the same thugged out homogenized style
Nov 29 2009 4:25AM
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ROOS.
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ALLLLL RIGHT IM ENDING THIS

Look we all know that although this is a "skiing" forum, BUT we also all know there are snowboarders all over this site. Get over it. If any of you guys think that super cool 1991 rivalry between snowboarders and skiers still really exists, you are retarded, or above 35. I think we can all agree that each others sports are cool, and crazy awesome fucking shit happens in both, and since they happen in the same place i think we should appreciate each others sports. I know this website is about skiing, and for the most part it is, but when a snowboard video is posted, and the hate-fest begins, it really just makes you guys look like douche-bags(for those who are hating). If you dont like snowboarders because they snowboard, change your mindset, because if you ski park, you will be with snowboarders. If you dont like snowboarders because you know one who is an asshole, thats different, hate on that one, but not the entire whole. For the newer people to the site, although you will find some long time contributors hating in here, for the most part i feel that a majority of big contributors dont hate snowboarders, because they have figured out that the sports are pretty similar and not half bad. I dont see why we cant get excited over Tom Wallisch and Lucas Magoon at the same time, both are fucking awesome. So shut up, sit down, calm down, and love your fellow man.

P.s. all of those videos were sick
Nov 29 2009 10:07AM
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erikK
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so touching.  +K
Nov 29 2009 1:17PM
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JayB
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Snowboarding in general seems stale and stagnant to me, and this video hasn't done much to change my impressions.

This is coming from a guy who can remember watching two guys on Snurfers ride the pow at Paradise (Mt. Rainier) in '79, and has watched the evolution of the sport since then. I've been around since the beginning, had friends hitting the slopes with Sorel's and Winterstick Swallowtails back in the 80's, stuck with when it seemed like everyone else under 30 had ditched their skis and wouldn't STFU about how snowboarding was "The Source" for years and years and years through the late 80's and most of the 90's, and who rode for three consecutive years while rehabing both knees from back-to-back season-ending knee injuries.  I enjoy snowboarding, lots of my friends that I've been tight with for longer than most folks on this forum have been alive - and I have no animosity towards boarding at all - but the energy and innovation in snowboarding seems to have started going flat right about the same time that skiing had a rebirth in the late 90's.

IMO at some point the basic limitations of the technology constrain innovation, and the snowboard allows for fewer degrees of freedom and is flat out less versatile than skis. Whether you are traversing mountain ranges or hitting the pipe, skis are just a more versatile technology. Skiers have gone and will continue to go faster, bigger, and develop tricks that are more technical and have fewer limitations than snowboarders.

Nothing against weed either, but there's more to life than stagnating in every respect outside riding while spending the rest of your time hunched over a bong. For whatever reason, the vibe in ski videos just seems way more diverse and positive than the output I see in the snowboarding vids. There's an equally respectable place for a Jon Olsson and a Plake and Dean Coombs (RIP) and a Deschenaux and all combinations of the above in ski videos, mags, and culture - but I just don't get the same vibe from the boarding world. YMMV. 
Nov 29 2009 5:45PM
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Dukeybrains
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I would argue that snowboards allow for more progression in many areas, especially in the urban environment. Snowboarders innovate and push it so much harder on crazy urban and jib set ups.  There are things that work on skis that don't work on snowboards but there are also a lot of things that work on snowboards but not on skis.  Sometimes 2 active edges are nice to keep you locked in like in the pipe. Sometimes they lock in too much like when you're trying to slide that sweet tree jib all your friends are hitting and faceplant hard.

I don't really get what you're trying to say about the cannabis. Skiiers smoke lots of weed too, our movies may not reflect that part of the culture as much but ski movies seem to be concerned more with the cinematography and lighting than culture and lifestyle shots. Whether you are into that or not is a matter of preference.

Why are you even arguing this here, it's a sick video, who cares if you think skiiers can go bigger in the pipe or stay slightly higher on a backcountry traverse??
Nov 29 2009 6:29PM
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Drail
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so, instead of writing something long and pointless as to the validity of snowboard videos in ski gabber, i will write something short and pointless that doesn't actually state any thoughts or opinions on the matter:



(my threads)
Nov 29 2009 7:07PM
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enick
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you're dumb
so is snowboarding

Nov 29 2009 10:21PM
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JayB
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Just my opinions about "The Best Snowboarding Video of the Year." and why the format, tricks, and content seemed tired - some of which might be due to the limits imposed by their technical platform.

IMO any given TC episode beats that vid hands, down, and either of the vids I'll link below have a way more interesting story to tell.

"Steep"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7_4LrF8As

"Swift. Silent. Deep."
http://www.swiftsilentdeep.com/trailer

Again - YMMV.





Nov 30 2009 10:47PM
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W...
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THIS !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEwOz_nk7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOzyFBF6gjg&feature=related

where are those kind of soundtracks in ski movie for god'S sake. I mean, refresh got so many bangers, but the soundtrack ... damn (my opinion, and this does not included wallisch and casabon/houle)

Dec 1 2009 12:22AM
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.peter
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you obviously didn't watch the Skeleton Crew movie...
it's more raw than videograss, has some of the sickest riding I've ever seen, and it's free.
Skiing needs videos like that.

oh and the best knife show edit is "patch mach" "giants of Big Bear" is sick too.
Dec 1 2009 12:55AM
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.peter
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you obviously didn't watch the Skeleton Crew movie...
it's more raw than videograss, has some of the sickest riding I've ever seen, and it's free.
Skiing needs videos like that.

oh and the best knife show edit is "patch mach" "giants of Big Bear" is sick too.
Dec 1 2009 12:56AM
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Dukeybrains
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Yeah really whats with ski movie soundtracks lately, it's the same biggie remixes, played out dancehall and bad electronica in every movie. 
Dec 1 2009 1:13AM
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at least I'm not the only one thinking it, seems like everybody thinks it but nobody does say it, respect I guess, but yeah, shitty electronic, dance hall ... how can you get hype with that shit.

I have a collection of around 30 dvds, so I ain't a ski movie hater, but it's been a while since we had a PERFECT soundtrack movie. Forward was probably THE ONE.

Dec 1 2009 1:27AM
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drugula
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yeah definitely probably not the best snowboard video of the year, i just watched it and was hyped on it, and its free. so i said that. its just got every snowboarder ever in it soo thats cool. not best. everyones got their opinion though
Dec 1 2009 1:29AM
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golf
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Hard to earn was so sick thanks for posting that. I thought that first movie was awesome at first but tech 9 was killing the biggest urban shit i have ever seen
Dec 1 2009 1:58PM
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Dukeybrains
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Better stories, no shit?

Maybe because they are documentaries...
I'm rolling my eyes right now
Dec 2 2009 1:05PM
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