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Is Freeze Still relevant?

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Mr.Bishop
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https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/43286.0/From-the-Archives--Q-A-with-FREEZE-s-Micah-Abrams

This article got me thinking... Is Freeze magazine still relevant, or is it simply the leftovers of a past generation? Some things are better to have burnt out vs. faded away.... and maybe Freeze is one of them?

I don't know. Freeze was such a pivotal moment in my life. Literally the ONLY reason that I'm into this type of skiing is because I was standing at a magazine rack in London, Ontario at a Shoppers drugmart with my buddy Lucas, and saw this fucking dude on the cover of a mag doing some crazy upside down flippy thing. It was Seth Morrison doing a Lincon Loop for reference... but man my life changed that day.

I saw a High North ad, and knew that I needed to get into this type of skiing and get myself out to Whistler. The next year was spent shredding park as hard as I could on 205 slalom skis with no twin-tips, and saving every penny I could to go to Summer Camp. I did, and promptly followed it up by dropping out of school to become a pro skier.

I eventually realized I was better at getting sponsors than I was at filming or winning contests, and as such settled into a role as an ad sales guy at Newschoolers. History that you NSers know follows from there.

I just wonder with all this Freeze hype - how many people really had that type of a connection with it? Is it a romanticized piece that you all simply hold special because you know you should, or did Freeze touch you the same way it touched me?

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SofaKingSick
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waiting4snowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnsA0R-JMA


oh yeah holy shit i totally forgot about that. thanks!
Oct 14 2016 2:05PM
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danbrown
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try taking a crack at who the 14 are


Oct 17 2016 1:42PM
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___ASP___
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I would argue that Freeze is still relevant. I wish a magazine like this still existed. They were so in touch with the free ski crowd and I don't remember a single issue that I wasn't super excited to flip through when it came in the mail.

Like other on here, Freeze was the reason I started skiing.
I was walking through a book store and saw Vinnie Dorian jumping with a Heli in the background. It made me stop in my tracks and pick it up. I went to the local hill the next day to rent some sticks and try my hand at skiing, and it was the best decision I have ever made!

Oct 17 2016 2:24PM
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SofaKingSick
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danbrowntry taking a crack at who the 14 are




david crichton
jon reedy (cover shot, right?)
dumont?
...and more!
Oct 17 2016 2:28PM
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Moses
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Titsandwich11david crichton
jon reedy (cover shot, right?)
dumont?
...and more!


Oh man, that was the 1st issue of Freeze I had delivered!

I think there was Abma, Anthony B, Mike Wilson, Rory Bushfield, Jon McMurry, Turpin, Peter Olenick, Jon Kozody, Chris Booth, ...annnnnd Tom Wallisch. The rest escape me.
Oct 17 2016 8:35PM
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SofaKingSick
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MosesOh man, that was the 1st issue of Freeze I had delivered!

I think there was Abma, Anthony B, Mike Wilson, Rory Bushfield, Jon McMurry, Turpin, Peter Olenick, Jon Kozody, Chris Booth, ...annnnnd Tom Wallisch. The rest escape me.


good list. was anthony b on there? he was labeled "rookie" in Propaganda, which came out the year before haha
Oct 18 2016 3:17PM
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@LANTASKI
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snowmosexualFreeze is way before my time(14), but my dad still has a small stack. Wayy better than anything we have now

This makes me feel so fucking old
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