Replying to Enough Is Enough!!
Tanner Hall has once again made an extremely controversial move that has the whole of Newschoolers buzzing about their adoration or hatred for the once Poster child of Newschoolers, Armada, Dakine and everything freeskiing. However, recently it has come to my attention that Tanner may have made a few to many highly hypocritical moves on his part to deserve his fancy " SKI BOSS" title. Let us start from the beginning when tanner hall was at the height of his career and then, as most if not all of you know, Tanner had an unfortunate incident seen here.
after this unfortunate event, tanner regained his composure, as well as health both physically and mentally, not without his tampering with drugs and excessive partying that to this day have visible left their mark. After this crash Tanner went on to win Gold in Pipe in 2008 as well as winning The Dew tour Halfpipe cup in 2009.
After this Tanner once again injured himself and only was able to ski again in 2010 and went back to competing in 2012 and was succesful in his pipe competitions. However then Redbull proceeded to drop him. And the once enthused Tanner Hall, who was oh so looking forward to the Olympics, began to go back to the Powder, Rasta lifestyle his body was more accustomed too and was much less hard on his presumably aching body.
Throughout these years Tanner was running Inspired, and B-dog, E-dollo and B-Paul were headlining Inspired through the B&E show as well as other various things. Tanner saw there success and stardom and thought that joining the B&E bandwagon may be the much needed push his career needed. And thus the once hardcore pipe and park skier who did nothing but compete, the same person who campaigned for the Olympics and the great things they would do for our sport. That same person, decided instead that he was Anti-Olympics, anti FIS and anti-conformity within our sport. Instead tanner "Shredded" mellow backcountry lines and pillows and did sub par urban at best, which more recently involves nollieing from the lip for the rail, down to the landing. As well as, doing tricks off of walls that might as well be a park jump.
The once 7 time Xgames gold medalist, now exclusively skis "REAL SNOW ON REAL MOUNTAINS WITH REAL ROCKS." and tags along with the "Cool Kids" of INSPIRED. Giving himself a nickname and spectating as B&E throws down, just so that he can feel like he's still as good as everyone else. Tanner needs to stick by his guns and stop trying to continuously keep up with the "cool kids" and their opinions, style, lifestyle etc. I have respect for anything and everything Tanner has done from slaying the pipe for all those years, and molding freeskiing to what it is today. but he needs to stop changing his mind all the time, and newschoolers needs to understand he is not the be all and end all of freeskiing and that his opinions are not necessarily always the correct ones.
Come one Tanner, enough is enough!!
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