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10 people freeskiing could not live without??

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0ggzy
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Ideas???
May 13 2011 3:40PM
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[evan]
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tom wallisch x10
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May 13 2011 3:40PM
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Mike-O
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School assignment?
May 13 2011 3:40PM
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RubberSoul
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tanner hall, candide, new canadian air force, kangbang
May 13 2011 3:41PM
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0ggzy
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sort of
May 13 2011 3:42PM
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tuna.
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loose cannon playaz.
May 13 2011 3:44PM
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[evan]
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oh its serious, well in that case:

Jon
Candide
Tanner
We all know CR and Shane are not with us anymore, but I'd say they still have a big influence. R.I.P
Bobby
Tom

That's all I could think of for now, tom and bobby are debatable, but they've pushed the sport in a different direction so i had to include them
May 13 2011 3:46PM
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BmoChop
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a bunch have already been said, so I'll say Jon Olsson, Eric Pollard, and Dumont.
May 13 2011 3:48PM
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Elg
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TC
May 13 2011 3:50PM
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Mike-O
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Why not do it youself then?

Even this site is abundant with information regarding your topic, make your own decisions and maybe learn something.
May 13 2011 3:55PM
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Wibby
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Wayne Wong
May 13 2011 4:09PM
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Mr.Turtle
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Mr. Bishop
May 13 2011 4:14PM
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funtimes
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Mike Douglas. Didn't he invent the twin tip? I feel like that is an intergral part of freeskiing...haha.
May 13 2011 4:16PM
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funtimes
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*integral
May 13 2011 4:18PM
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BrownEyeIn
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seth morrison
dean cummings
pep fujas
t hall
eric pollard
ian macintosh
shane mcconkey
chris davenport
kent kreitler
May 13 2011 4:21PM
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BrownEyeIn
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boom
May 13 2011 4:21PM
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jarrell
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Jonny Mosely
Glen Plake
Jossi Wells
Justin Dorey
Jon Olsson
May 13 2011 4:25PM
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joshua
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Him and a couple other dudes like J,P. Auclair.
May 13 2011 4:26PM
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tall_t
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tammy wallpaper
edollo
chug
lj
bobby
bdog

May 13 2011 4:28PM
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Shlogan
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tanner
tom
seth
jon
candide
sammy
glen
henrik
pollard
mike d
mike w

dammit! thats 11 haha
May 13 2011 4:32PM
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Shlogan
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also, alex schlopy could be on here soon. not yet but hes going to get there
May 13 2011 4:34PM
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Gstrong
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b and e
May 13 2011 5:04PM
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danbrown
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obviously wallisch isnt in the same universe as guys like wayne wong, moseley, mcconkey, douglas, etc, but id think his name belongs on that list. that superunknown was the epitome of a game changer, and it absolutely rocked the freeskiing world. the cult following it generated both culture wise and trick wise is absolutely unreal.
May 13 2011 5:11PM
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danbrown
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tanner, candide, seth, jon, pollard, jay lev production-wise, the list goes on.
May 13 2011 5:13PM
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Will.T
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i lol'd
May 13 2011 5:16PM
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Davy.Crockett
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May 13 2011 5:17PM
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RudyGarmisch
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I like to think that if all the pro skiers in the world disappeared along with twin tips, there would still be someone out there doing this sorta shit on their own, with no role models or knowledge that this stuff is possible, pushing their own frontier just for the fun of it.
May 13 2011 5:20PM
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fatbastard
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You just talked about McConkey from 1993-2003.
May 13 2011 5:30PM
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a.wall
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i honestly dont know a whole lot about oldschool freeskiing but i'll give it a shot.

warren miller
jp auclaire
jon olsson
candide thovex
shane mcconkey
tanner hall
the guys in that part of transitions where they talk about going to the backcountry and do whiskey flips
mike douglas
i dunno thats all i got
May 13 2011 5:37PM
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Static
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jason leventhal deserves a mention
May 13 2011 5:43PM
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Algebra
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Booby brown and Tom wallisch have had a general impact on skiing but in the ns community it's definitely b dog and edollo. People look up to them like they are the 2nd coming of Christ
May 13 2011 6:08PM
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JDA
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Shane
Mike D
Candide
T-Hall
Jon
Dumont (like him or not he has done a lot for our sport)
Eric Pollard
Henrik
Sammy C
C.R
May 13 2011 6:22PM
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Inline.
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dumont? i don't think so!
May 13 2011 6:55PM
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whoa-dere
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me
May 13 2011 7:25PM
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mwagner
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Johnny Mosely - Reinventing the sport
Shane McConkey - all things insane
Eric Pollard - park style reinvented in the BC
Simon Dumont - Pipe...need I say more
Jossi Wells - doubles progression and technicality
Tom Wallisch - rail technicality (originally going to Crichton and Steele Spence)
Tanner Hall - the competition game changer, had the whole (park) package back in the day, now powpow
CR Johnson (RIP) and TJ Schiller - big spins, big grabs
Ian Cosco - the documentation of ridiculousness that is somehow related to skiing
Charles Gagnier and Will Wesson/Andy Parry - ...what just happened? part of skiing

thats what I think


May 13 2011 7:29PM
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mwagner
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forgot to shout out RIP to McConkey as well!!
May 13 2011 7:30PM
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los.pinguinos
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TOM WALLISCH
May 13 2011 7:36PM
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_DUSTY_
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You're a retard. Dumont and Tanner are the reason pipe skiing is at the level it is right now.
May 13 2011 7:38PM
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monkatizer
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.
May 13 2011 7:40PM
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DUKES
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hornbeck because of shuffles
May 13 2011 7:46PM
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_Jeffrey_
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C.R. Johnson
Tanner Hall
Shane Mconkey
Sammy Carlson
Seth Morisson

Thats all I can think of.

May 13 2011 8:44PM
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TheHuggyBear
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lol what a lot of kids dont get is that freestyle skiing would not be at the level it is now if it was not for Simon Dumont. If it wasn't for Dumont beating the top pros at the age of 14 then no one would be pushing it at the level they were at.
When asking this question you have to look into who is pushing what and how. For example not many people were doing flips on and off of rails before Jon Mcmurray really started doing them a lot. Tanner and Simon really pushed pipe. Arne, Shane, and CR pushed the shit out of all aspects of skiing but mainly the backcountry (RIP). Pep and Jon Olsson pushed the limits in their time as well.

Sparknotes: Every small generation is going to have people that they couldnt live without in every single aspect of the game.
May 13 2011 9:02PM
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.Midwest
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Darn, someone beat me to it. Octograbs are sexy.
May 13 2011 9:07PM
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BIGben*
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All what you huys said plus, hate to say it, but dumont...
May 13 2011 9:13PM
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shredsox
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Glenn Plake, Scott Schmidt

Trevor Peterson, Dean Cummings

SETH MORRISON, Shane Mcconkey

Jf Cusson, Jp Auclair, Vincent Dorian, Mike Douglas

Tanner Hall, Candide Thovex, Jon Olson

Tom Wallisch ..... (too early to tell on who else from this current "generation" Bobby?, Jossi? Sean Petit?)



May 13 2011 9:36PM
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astralboy15
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10 random parents that buy their kids this years gear. freesking WOULD NOT exist otherwise.
May 13 2011 9:39PM
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babujib
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add bdog, sheist d and dave crichton and you got yourself a list.
May 13 2011 9:47PM
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T.MARTIN
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LEIGH POWIS x 5
ME x 5



jk.
May 13 2011 10:15PM
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zagfan5
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if were talking purely freeskiing park and pipe, and no big mountain id say:
in no order
- Tom wallisch
- Bobby Brown
- jon olsson
- simon Dumont
- t-hall
- Colby West
- Andreas Håtveit
- TJ schiller
- mike hornbeck
- jf houle


May 13 2011 10:44PM
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gombo8
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i love how everyone puts the biggest names in skiing today just because 1 they either dont know anyone who formed the sport except from tanner hall or 2 because they think that landing the first triple is bigger then the first frontflip or even creating the first turtleneck with a elastic collar or making the first mirrored sunglasses from scapes of metal. Klaus Obermeyer needs some more props.
May 13 2011 10:45PM
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thesheik
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its max hill. he may not be as famous, but next year everyone is gonna try to look like he did three years ago.
May 13 2011 10:47PM
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