David Wise (the Undude) - New York Times

but the difference i see is you train for football, but you just go skiing....there is a reason that the guys who've led our sport through the years aren't the guys that have limited themselves to just one tiny aspect of the sport. its because skiing makes you better at skiing faster than anything else...and all parts of skiing make you better in the other parts...you just cant tell me that one hit hiking the pipe for a week is making the most of your time..

this training mentality is more prevalent because of the olympics..thats no hate on the olympics, because fuck yeah for skiing....but if all you do is train pipe(and the way i took it, look down on the rest of us), then i barely even see you as a skier(let alone respect you as one).

i will say again, i love skiing(all of it) more than life...and i love skiers who are stoked skiing..

and i want the face of our sport to have the same mentality, regardless of who they are and what they do in their free time.

go TYW!!! i hope olympic pipe skiing doesnt become the undude show. i.e. "the flying tomato"..i want to watch an unbiased competition.

i didnt think it was cheap, or a comeback...just a statement of opinion i'd hope most skiers share.

and yeah i hike rails, sometimes, i even hike pipe, sometimes. but you'll never catch me making a day off it, let alone a week or a season or a 'career'..theres so much more to skiing than park and pipe..

i do hope that if nbc makes this the undude show, and shits on the rest of us flannel wearing dirtbags, you'll see my concern

they shat on and stereotyped freeskiers...

since you are here that includes you