The internet as the ultimate source of skiing's progression

this looks like an essay question i'd see on my final..

How many paragraphs does my response need to be?

Does this have to be in essay form or just a casual answer?

haha I just wanted to get my thoughts out as clear as I could but I don't give a fuck, just curious

mla or apa?

i think you answered your own question before you even asked it.

Chicago, BITCH

Am I alowed to use a graphic organizer?

typed i'd assume? what faunt?

double spaced?

Word count?

Yes.

these responses are why I do love newschoolers

Make sure to cite your sources

Ahhh of course so not only why you love newschoolers, but why you do love newschoolers.

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I would not really say that is correct. I would say te most progression was 2000-2006 or so. Doubles were thrown first by Jon Olson years ago. And really it's taken until last season until they progressed into triples. So it's not like things exploded and everything took off thanks to the Internet. I would infact argue it has more divided skiing. Now you have te whole style vs tech war. This I would mainly say is die to the Internet. In the past te exposure was big comps and the movies. These featured the wry top athletes doing the very best tricks. Thi is maybe why skiing progressed so fast in the early days as all that people were exposed too was the very best riding which they wante to emulate. Now with edits online anyone can make one and usually the tricks are although stylish are not a tech as we used to see. So kids now are emulating what they see online and maybe not trying why the top guys are doing as much. So as I see it the edit era has if anything changed profession from harder tricks to simpler ticks with style. Not a bad thing just differnt then it used to be.

Spot on shit

It's made it a hell of a lot easier to get information on snow conditions, or get music, or book flights, but in terms of style: it's easy to get pictures and videos of what's out there.... especially using forums. But at the same time, I think it can have a negative effect. It can be harder to be original and tempting to copy, with all the influences and opinions being put out. Compared to other sports, it's helped skiers connect during the summer, and keep the fire burning, but that's not related to style.

I would actually agree with this statement pretty fiercely - and its one I've made myself on many occasions.

The reason behind it is the idea of knowing what is possible. When I started this stuff in like '98 - you only got to watch movies once per year for the most part. You saw then what the pros were doing the previous year, and all of a sudden got a fire to try that trick.

When you see someone do something, you realize its that much more possible. Even something that is so simple these days as a 270 onto a rail was totally unthinkable on skis far enough back in time. You see that pro do it in the videos and you're like "oh shit, I bet I could do that..." and bam the world progresses.

When video distribution on the internet really took hold, it massive accelerated what the average person saw as possible. Not only did they see Tom W. doing crazy tricks, they saw other people just like themselves posting edits on the internet. Now, instead of dialing 270 on one year and then seeing that things had progressed to 450 by the next... you got a flow of average skiers doing these tricks faster and faster.

I have no evidence sadly, but anecdotally I've seen this happen in a big way. Average every day kids can jump on the internet, and see what their peers are doing last week, not last year. They see the pros push things, and everyone moves forward.

Its a powerful thing to see another skier do something for the first time. Things you previously might have thought were impossible or too dangerous, all of a sudden become closer in the realm of reality. Your own skills look worse in comparison, and you go out with your friends and push each other.

It only takes one skier at the hill to try that harder trick to have the rest of them realize they too could give it a shot.

I would say though that it isn't just skiing - its all of action sports. It also isn't the internet, its wide-scale video sharing. More than anything else, this has been a fundamental game changer and accelerant for progression within action sports.

Id say style is more influenced by the internet

i think having a centralized source for all things skiing is part of the reason there is so little diversity in the sport

It also likely has to do with the cultural diversity in skateboarding. Pair of shoes + skateboard ($250 max?) = skateboarder. Lots of different kinds of people can have access to it and just shred whatever urban environment they're in.

Skiing is completely different because 95% of the time you need to be from a relatively wealthy background (comparatively to skateboarding) just to get on the hill at a young enough age to learn. That makes it that there's way more of the same type of people on the hill, who are likely going lean toward pushing things in a different direction.

Of course, you are right that we don't hate on people for conforming enough.

Interesting points and well written paragraphs; however no sources were given and it is not double spaced. I'm going to have to give you a B+ on your paper for those minor errors. I will accept a rewrite for an A- grade if you're interested Mr. Bishop.