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The real vice documentary

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hoodcrew
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comp skiing is only one aspect of freeskiing (if you'd even fit it into that category because a judged competition is as distant as you can get from the unrestricted/ creative environment you'd think of with "free"skiing) http://thebunch.se/

vice focused their whole documentary around the olympiff #$$$ hype but as thall stated- they didn't do any justice to the history of this sport- twin-tips

few words shows the transition of aerials/ gymnastics to freeskiing as d-spin 7s evolved into grabbed cork seven variations. the amount of control + style ppl have on skis today is unlike anything that used to exist with fools sending massive fronflips on thin 190cm sticks





we joked before about making a vice documentary and that idea possibly could be incorporated into something bigger

"Follow up with us in the new VICE series "Freed;" a history of the performance enhancing drug, pot, and its involvement in action sports. From skateboarding, to snowboarding, this substance eventually entered the ski community, changing the sport to a stony recreational activity known as "freeskiing." It is clearly nothing more than a Highdea that in the late 90's, tips were added to the end of skis to allow kids sick of racing down a mountain to also ski backwards off a jump and do a backflip, something that had never before been understood in aerials and moguls. "


the $$$lympics shed a good amount of light on slope-style skiing to the general public with edoyyyo as the standout rastamon. this sport can be very entertaining and it'd be great to see more turntup skiiing on the tv

making an entertaining vice documentary that is more personable than a bunch of jocks/ athletes aspiring to make the USA team would be a great start. the way we see skiing is incorporating personality into style, it is usually inevitable.. the way someone skis often reflects character- soul




newschoolers should definitely help out/ play a large role in this endeavor. let's do it right and have vice make a proper INSPIRING documentary.. not some bullshit about park city training facilities and thall getting banned for pifffing the world too damn hard

the real vice documentary will show how fun this sport can be. this website illustrates how personable skiing is and the friendships that are formed from individuals sharing the same passion. one love

Feb 26 2014 4:47AM
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scarsimd
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Feb 26 2014 6:34AM
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louie.mirags
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Vice really sold out with the "Free" documentary. Are you guys trying to raise money or just giving us something to look forward to? How do we get the documentary we actually wanted?!
Feb 26 2014 6:49AM
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S.J.W
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This is a good idea, i like this idea, good idea
Feb 26 2014 6:51AM
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nutz.
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word, I think that's what everyone here's been trying to push vice to do
Feb 26 2014 10:28AM
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Gstrong
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This should happen. Screw devin logan!
Feb 26 2014 12:34PM
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John18_6
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Vice doesn't know anything about half the shit they say. I wasn't surprised.
Feb 26 2014 12:37PM
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Mr.Sloth
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Can we please?
Feb 26 2014 12:40PM
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Troy.
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I will do whatever it takes to get this made.
Feb 26 2014 12:49PM
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McLeod
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A Vice documentary on FREED: pot's influence on skiing or whatever you just suggested would be just as bullshit and short-sighted as a documentary focused only on the competition/olympics aspect of the sport.

and Joey, weren't you all about the olympic/comp scene for the past two years?
Feb 26 2014 1:03PM
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JAHBRADOR
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im pretty sure Joey does not run/have any say on what the hoodcrew NS account posts...
Feb 26 2014 1:09PM
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McLeod
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word
Feb 26 2014 1:36PM
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Weird_Tofer
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Vice needs to make a more up to date version of transitions that focuses more on the sport than transistions did on simon dumont and less on the olympics than vice has previously done. Iclude all the different aspects of the sport and how theyve emerged and become what they are today
Feb 26 2014 2:25PM
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mski
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Yup

The money to make it will be coming from somewhere...

I just want an epicly later'd series on individual skiers.

Im about to just take this into my own hands grassroots style
Feb 26 2014 4:38PM
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artrud
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why are we looking to Vice to fulfill this?  They clearly don't get it, don't care, or are too lazy to do the research.  Honestly, I now watch all their other content with a new set of eyes and wonder how skewed are all these other stories?

The ski industry has plenty of production companies that have been around from the "start" that can probably do a much better job of this (TGR, MSP, PBP, etc...).

Or you can just pop in a Few Words or Like a Lion

Feb 26 2014 5:25PM
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ZachAndCheese
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One documentary couldn't cover freeskiing, like it can't be defined
Feb 26 2014 5:28PM
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heFF
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highly doubt scrappy posted this shit..

Don't get angry james!
Feb 26 2014 7:17PM
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STAUSS
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vice has been slippin, it's all a money makin scheme- im surprised you're surprised. i'm just gunna keep skiing for tha love of that shit nawmean? that "documentary" was bullshit, we all see through that. but that's just how marketing works kid.

if people are interested in "freeskiing" because of the vice documentary then they will take a curiosity and have to look at other facilities, this will lead them to all of the things that we know and love about skiing.
Feb 26 2014 7:39PM
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AndreyaZvonar
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6:10 in the first video is crazy. pretty much like a really corked/flipped dub 10. intense for how old the video looks
Feb 26 2014 8:54PM
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yangumane
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my dad grew up skiing in the 70s and he told me that when he was 10 years old, 180cm skis were considered a normal size for his age
Feb 26 2014 9:06PM
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BMB
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threads for vigorous discussion later
Feb 26 2014 9:37PM
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RubberSoul
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yup, it was called a risky flip back then, thought of as a d spin 7 to backie

then there was wilson's version

then they became cool on a large scale again

funny how it goes
Feb 27 2014 10:30AM
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