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How can skiing progress any more?

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Leveroni
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Think about it, how much more can we push this sport?
Physically there is no way a human is going to start doing 6 full rotations.
We can only make jumps so big before we start pushing our threshold..and the capability of our equipment.

I think we still have a few more years of more spin to win and things of that nature..
but within the decade I think competition is really going to come down to perfection and style rather then technicality. and edits will come down to creativity.
Jan 29 2010 11:17PM
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iannelson
Posts: 321 - Karma: 43
Nigguh you must be trippin. Pun intended.
Jan 29 2010 11:24PM
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J-Evs
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wow
i dont think anyone has ever thought about this or made a thread on this
Jan 29 2010 11:30PM
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Leveroni
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Ey, after tonight this needs to be asked.
Jan 29 2010 11:32PM
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Utard
Posts: 2132 - Karma: 305
There's always going to be new shit that people are trying. Maybe the future of skiing has something to do with pond skimming.
Jan 29 2010 11:33PM
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Totes_Magotes
Posts: 2259 - Karma: 870
i just think of it like skateboarding. it kinda hit a nice big 'spin to win' time for a little but it's still going strong after that. creativity does play a role but there's still new tricks to be invented.
Jan 29 2010 11:35PM
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shr@gler
Posts: 1233 - Karma: 912

It Cant!! Skiing is over! you just witnessed the end of it.

Thanks for making us all feel like shit.

Jan 29 2010 11:37PM
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steezyjibber
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new grabs
butters off huge jumps

i don't really know
Jan 30 2010 12:14AM
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Drail
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big mountain slopestyle competitions where you gotta ski base jump off every hit.

double 1620 to rail, pretzel switch double misty 1440 out to wing suit off a 2000ft cliff anyone?
Jan 30 2010 12:16AM
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AEROPLAEHN
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DUBCORK SCREAMIN SEAMINS.
Jan 30 2010 12:17AM
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(fujative)
Posts: 332 - Karma: 14
It's all about how you view "progression." Skiing will progress because times will change and the next thing that everyone loves (so hot right now) will become "cool".... that may be the current thing thats "in" but progression is in the eye of the beholder because it is narrowmindedly confined to contests which are a joke because judges don't consider progression.. they judge what is in and "cool" at the moment.

I say your best bet is to progress yourself and find out how skiing can progress YOU any more.
Jan 30 2010 12:25AM
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Dainsey
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look at chris turpin.
the next thing is triples
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Jan 30 2010 12:36AM
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BMS-Productions
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nah, theres gonna be better stuff than him
Jan 30 2010 12:41AM
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shredables
Posts: 647 - Karma: 19
did anyone watch big air?
the perfect scores were so similar, until there were 1620's being hucked sloppily
Jan 30 2010 12:45AM
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PeterWojnar
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I'm just waiting... switch dub misty 16 octograb? I THINK SO!!
Jan 30 2010 1:02AM
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Ben.
Posts: 21463 - Karma: 683
i want to see a double cork/double flip dub true nose. like true truckdriver like colby used to do, not the crappy dumont truckdriver.


also, has any one done a kangaroo 10/12? like dub flatspin, but then more spinning out of the dub flat than just 180
Jan 30 2010 1:13AM
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Brock.
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its going to end at triples. people are going to just get hurt if we try to progress past 4 full rotations and i think it would look just plain stupid. But triples for sure are on the horizon.
Jan 30 2010 1:15AM
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Parkboy
Posts: 2303 - Karma: 32
^tripple dinner rolls
Jan 30 2010 1:19AM
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guythatskiswelch
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did one last night our sport is done!
Jan 30 2010 1:19AM
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Ben.
Posts: 21463 - Karma: 683
seriously. that was the best energy from a contest ive ever seen. everyone seemed to be stoked. even my gf, who doesnt even understand skiing, was watching it and having an amazing time.
Jan 30 2010 1:21AM
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Parkboy
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agreed that was a fucking rad format, plenty of time for everyone to throw down and improve on what they've already done
Jan 30 2010 1:24AM
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scientist
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Jumps will Evolve to resemble aerials jumps and it will keep getting dizziah
Jan 30 2010 1:27AM
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Ben.
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that was most impressive to me. if someone had told me yesterday that tj was gonna do a dub 16, id picture something hideous, not the whirling ball of steeze i witness.

the only thing i was bummed about was that no one did a kang flip. they seem to have been forgotten with all these other dubs, and i still love that trick. it just looks cool with a good solid dub japan.
Jan 30 2010 1:28AM
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Ben.
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i saw him do switch dub 9, but not kang, though i may have missed it during one of my breaks to change my pants from whatever stuntery i had previously viewed. it was going so fast it was hard to keep track. which just added to the awesomeness.
Jan 30 2010 1:34AM
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Ski_da_Bay
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It's all jibbin' from now on.
Jan 30 2010 1:39AM
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Ben.
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ditto. dew tour should add in a big air. even if it wasnt at every stop, as a wrap up to the last stop or somethin.
Jan 30 2010 1:48AM
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nickharris
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yee
Jan 30 2010 1:57AM
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Twinjibber77
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KICKING SKI'S OFF MID-AIR JUST LIKE SSX: ON TOUR!
Jan 30 2010 2:10AM
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PaleCelery
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you  might as well hang up your skis and start snowboarding
Jan 30 2010 2:30AM
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49566738265
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This thread is made 100 times every year X games comes around.
Jan 30 2010 3:15AM
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Willard
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i think its possible if you grabbed your tip, then kick the binding, bam your on 1 ski, coming back to the landing you better get the placement right
Jan 30 2010 3:18AM
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nickyp
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Swapping between skis and snowboard mid-air.


Basically, a friend rides alongside you with a snowboard and boots, and once you take off, skis come off, boots come off, and you put the snowboard gear on, then land all steeze-like.











































While doing a Dub 14
Jan 30 2010 7:29AM
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tride
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"Physically there is no way a human is going to start doing 6 full rotations."

Sorry bud, humans are already doing way more than that in aerials - doublefull-triplefull-full has been done, which translates to cork10+cork14+cork7 = tripcork 3240 = 9 full rotations.

Yeah I know it's aerials and it's not really corks, but I'm just addressing the "number of rotations a human can do" point.
Jan 31 2010 3:18PM
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finnajon5
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tripples?
i think butter tricks are the future and clown school ones
Jan 31 2010 3:34PM
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gypsytown
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your momentum would be wrong...
Jan 31 2010 5:50PM
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mer-man
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ya i agree with this creative features and such are going to be the new frontier similar to the way skateboarding has gone
Jan 31 2010 5:52PM
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Uncle.Badness
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Blunt rodeos.
Jan 31 2010 5:58PM
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Dr.Brown
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^this. /thread
Jan 31 2010 5:59PM
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Krongos
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look to people like t hall and pollard, pep and andy. these guys know that jumps can only go so far and kill it in the editing and ridiculous shit categories. i've seen tanner and pep both pretzel mad shit, they dont do it that much because its getting played out whereas those guys are in an elite situation of like ten guys who can kill it that hard in the backcountry. look to them.
Jan 31 2010 6:12PM
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Stiggy
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I await the day someone puts down a pipe run with a significant number, if not all, the tricks being done switch. People have dabbled at adding switch tricks but I think there is still a lot of room for progression there.

Might be tonight?
Jan 31 2010 6:35PM
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