uh, kid, look at your icon. weed still plays a huge role in freeskiing culture. its undeniable.
all you children that are watching DARE or whatever they show you in middle school health class nowadays, trying to deny where your skiing culture came from, need to reexamine the way that freeskiers ski, dress, talk, and conduct themselves. some of the best skiers of our time are open pot smokers. and please, don't delude yourselves into thinking this is distant past I'm talking about. yeah, candide, tanner, mik d, the golden age of freestyle shred, all pot smokers. but recently? watch the new level 1 movie.
do you kids REALLY think that the afterbang/tall T/etc steeze that you're so poorly trying to imitate was invented by a SOBER person? do you really think that when travis heed was dropping that OG afterslay part in wicked that he wasn't blazed out of his mind? what about when vanular did LSS, or when tanner did WSKI or 1242? how bout mickael in stereotype? or mickael in ANYTHING? candide's movies were called rastafaride for fuck's sake. do you really think that b-dog, henrik, brogan etc aren't smoking down when they're acting all gangster and shit? that's WHY they act gangster! shit, thats why gangsters act gangster! because they're fucked up!
i'm not saying that you infants should go out, buy some weed and smoke it. because it won't turn you into the best skier ever. and there are SO MANY talented freeskiers that don't smoke weed, and maybe never have and maybe never will. to each his own. but to think that weed wasn't part of the invention of freesking style or culture is lunacy, and to think that its effects don't pervade most aspects of freesking, especially the park scene, is even worse.