To all those whining about he hasn't progressed enough, can't dub, isn't tech enough, can't spin left......so the fuck what?
Why are there expectations placed on him to be even a little bit better than he is right this second? Newsflash: Not every kid with skis on their feet gets off the chairlift and plans his slope run or says, "today I'm getting that fucking left cork 9 with a blunt". Maybe he doesn't have ambitions of being some fucking ski jock—fine by me, because the vast majority of people with that approach or outlook are cocky arrogant dicks who if they weren't in tall tees and skiing, would be "progressing" in football, or basketball or whatever.
Whether you like his style, his bag of tricks blahblah, fall the fuck back and jump off his dick. Say what you want, the kid is always grinning ear to ear and obviously loooooves to ski. He gets a pass in my book, for that alone.
What's he need a left sw 10 for? So he can win all those comps he enters? Oh wait....
I never resort to the idiotic argument of "If you're not as good as so and so, you can't say anything vaguely negative about so and so", but it fits here. Jon Brogan doesn't have a videoblog series, he doesn't film every second he spends on snow, and he sure as fuck doesn't tweet or twit or whatever the fuck it is what tricks he will or has tried. In other words, Brogan is more like YOU.
The kid has filmed (released) what....10-12 minutes of footage, and a superunknown edit? I think people are still sore that he won, and hasn't gone on to become a huge part of the level 1 program. Get over it. Plus, he hasn't had a single season where he's lived out west all year and really committed himself to skiing as a "career". If you're a fan, be pumped on what he DOES do, not let down by what he doesn't. If you aren't feeling his skiing, sweet, watch who you like.
