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Freeskiing WT vs. Freeride WT ?

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paulmay
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sorry for my ignorance, but i dont know what the main difrences are betwen both comptions. is one more respected and more important than the other? i reaaaaly dont know :)



In the Freeskiing World Tour the rankings where:
Ski Men:
1 Arne Backstrom
2 Griffin Post
3 Aaron Schmidt

Ski Women:
1 Angel Collinson
2 Jacqui Edgerly
3 Jess McMillan


in the Freeride World Tour the rankings where:
Ski Men:
1.CANDIDE THOVEX (FRA)
2.KAJ ZACKRISSON (SWE)
3.HENRIK WINDSTEDT (SWE)

Ski Women:
1.ANE ENDERUD (NOR)
2.JESS MC MILLAN(USA)
3.JACLYN PAASO (USA)
May 2 2010 12:58AM
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ShadyHillGroup
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Freeride world tour is an invitation only comp i believe but its hero snow on peaks that most people never get to ski

Freeskiing world tour has open qualifier stops and less bigger names
May 2 2010 1:29AM
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Theenterprise
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I've actually heard the Freeskiing WT is better than the Freeride WT.
May 2 2010 3:47AM
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fricino13
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maybe you heard this cause it is north american comp.. or cause it is more open to new skiers... but in terms of skiing level is better freeride world tour
May 2 2010 9:04AM
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Matty_C
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not necessarily hero snow. the chamoix event that candide won was like 25cms of blower pow on top of bulletproof ice, the squaw event looked pretty cruddy to me and the verbier xtreme has had good snow for like 1 of the last 5 years. the difference is the size of the field- it's like 48 riders as opposed to hundreds, so the course doesn't become a mogul field.

as for the peaks being peaks "nobody gets to ski"... bullshit. there is no such thing as out of bounds in europe so anyone can ski the faces. in the case of the bec de rosses in verbier, they might just choose not to because it's insanely gnar.

the field is made up of some riders that qualify from the freeride world qualifying series (FWQS) and some that are invited (e.g. Candide).Basically the Nissan (freeride) is a far superior tour in terms of level than the Subaru (freeskiing). The faces are a million times bigger and more committing (mostly because many of the event are in europe, the riders are of a much higher level in terms of depth of field (and in terms of outright class) and it is actually a WORLD tour with events in Russia, France, USA and Switzerland. until this year where the subaru tour added a chile event, it was just a north american thing. How they called it a world tour was beyond me.

so yeah, Nissan (freeride) > Subaru (freeskiing).

May 2 2010 9:22AM
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paulmay
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thanks, and btw i think this year they are gonna add another stage to the subaru tour, Las Leñas, Agrentina
and the stage in Chile is gonna change their location, from the La Parva Ski Area the "McConkey Run"
to GreySchool is Santa Terecita, located in El Colorado Ski Area.

btw the run in chile this coming year is gonna be absolutly insane!
May 2 2010 10:36AM
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AA-Shred
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while we're on the topic, does anyone know when the freeskiing WT releases their schedule/calander each year by any chance?
May 3 2010 1:16AM
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