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Meeting Pros

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AAas
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What are your stories with pros? This thread is probably a repost but ill start:

Im walking down the lakewalk (Duluth, MN) and I see some guys hitting this crazy rail. It was a 3 foot high rail on a 10-11 foot high bridge into a wallride. Naturally I go and see who it is. Cam. Riley. They were filming for Mutiny but unfortunately this shot never made it into the movie.
May 14 2014 10:03PM
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kkeatz
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If you count Jlev as pro then i met him up at bolton valley, as well as Compton and goepper at Snow
May 15 2014 3:41PM
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Karl_Hungus
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i bumped into lj while surfing out on the waves at lincoln city and saw nick goepper get wrecked while surfing this summmer
May 15 2014 3:46PM
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Chubz.
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Skied with dollo brig and bpaul during the inspired demo tour.

Everybody was just so damn stoked on skiing and life. It was awesome. Phil and Paul went in early but Henrik stayed out in the park until close trying to dial this trick he was trying all night. Just shows you how much the guy loves skiing, he never wanted to go in
May 15 2014 3:56PM
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stupendous-man
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Paul.On Gaper day at Timberline (also WCS public day) I rode up the lift with Will Wesson and Giray Dadali. About halfway up the lift I turn to them in full gape and asked "Do you guys know how to backflip?" They looked at each other and tried to stifle their laughs, and then looked back and replied "yeah." I asked them for advice on backflips and they gave me some tips, it was also a super foggy day so they were basically trying to convince me not to try it yet. As we were passing the parks I pointed over to the large jumps and said "I think I'm gonna try it on those jumps." Will immediately tried to talk me out of it in a sort of friendly way.
As we were about to get off the chair I look over at them and said "Im just fuckin with you guys, I'm the best skier on the mountain." and then proceeded to ski away and do some sick spread eagles.


I really hope you sent a flip in the midst of those spread eagles
May 15 2014 4:01PM
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Matthew_Denham
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Saw Tom and Henrik in the parking lot at mount snow during the Dew Tour back when I was still a little gaper. I didn't know who they were, but I knew they were pros, so I pointed at them and said to my friend "Dude, those guys are pros". They then pointed back and said "YOOOO" followed by a bunch of hoodrat shit that I didn't understand back then.
May 15 2014 6:59PM
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S.J.W
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tigerrstyleTwo years ago at a Poor Boyz premier in Seattle I asked bobby brown if I could be on Bobby's life. He said I could and then told him my name was boner. I think it's around 6:40 in episode 18 of Bobby's life


hahahah, I just looked it up then. "I can't say boner" props to you for still having a sense of humor while around Bobby.
May 15 2014 7:16PM
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Dubal
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when i was in quebec for Jr nationals I saw abm in the lodge. Turned out he was awarding the medals for slope and I got one!
May 15 2014 7:20PM
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jack_t_price
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I was skiing at breck and met Nick Geopper. I tried my first dub right in front of him and he got hella stoked. He was a charilift behind me after that and asked my name, age, and where I am from. I stomped it 3 runs later and he called my name from the chairlift and told me it was sick. I was too stoked.
May 15 2014 8:30PM
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elinde
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Just go to Whistler in the summer and you will meet any pro you want. Or Hood I guess, but I've never been to there.
May 15 2014 8:36PM
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CalvinStork
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ProfPolymathI was at hylands and I saw Phil Casabon and Henrik Harluat skiing and I said something like nice dread and he gave me the finger. I didnt know who they were then so I asked someone who are they and he said phil casabon but he was mumbling so for a lond time I thought his name was phil cinnabon


i feel like Henny wouldnt give anyone the finger... especialy since he almost always wears mittens
May 15 2014 9:34PM
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notspoicey
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tigerrstyleTwo years ago at a Poor Boyz premier in Seattle I asked bobby brown if I could be on Bobby's life. He said I could and then told him my name was boner. I think it's around 6:40 in episode 18 of Bobby's life


hahahah shit i remember you!!!!
May 15 2014 10:12PM
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RaphtaQc
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In Quebec City last summer, I was walking down the street to go to Wu Tang and talked to Harlaut and Casabon ! I was pretty stoked and .. high
May 15 2014 10:53PM
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PKchu
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I had a few skiercross races with John Spriggs and several other locals at Vail a few years back. They groomed the side of the jumps burms and we had a great time.
May 15 2014 11:29PM
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MitchT
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tigerrstyleTwo years ago at a Poor Boyz premier in Seattle I asked bobby brown if I could be on Bobby's life. He said I could and then told him my name was boner. I think it's around 6:40 in episode 18 of Bobby's life

Haha that's awesome, I particularly enjoyed the 10+ second blank stare into the camera when Bobby's talking.
May 15 2014 11:46PM
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tigerrstyle
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skeazlaurenhahahah, I just looked it up then. "I can't say boner" props to you for still having a sense of humor while around Bobby.


haha thanks man, i think hes coaching up at momentum this summer so if i see him up there ill try and get a video of him calling me boner or some shit like that
May 16 2014 12:10AM
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tigerrstyle
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MitchThatcherHaha that's awesome, I particularly enjoyed the 10+ second blank stare into the camera when Bobby's talking.


that was my first time actually meeting pros. I thought i had died and went to heaven. trust me id give any thing to relive the blank stare, and the whole time i was looking at bobby
May 16 2014 12:12AM
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deeppow96
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When I was in 6th grade, (2007-2008 season) I had Thanksgiving Dinner with Tanner Hall. I am family friends with his technician and Tanner was in CO training at Copper early season so he came over with them. My parents kept it a surprise for me so I was speechless when Tanner walked in my door with them carrying an apple pie.

I remember he saw the 20 questions game on our coffee table and he became obsessed with it. He also encouraged me to go out and ski, and not be a park rat. I remember him saying "Pow is where its at."

Needless to say I was a pretty stoked 6th grader.
May 16 2014 12:13AM
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Glone
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i was standing in line at early season copper when the pipe jocks come out to train. standing in the singles line, i see Tanner Hall standing right next to me in the line over. He complemented the Inspired Tall T i was wearing.
Pretty cool dude i thought
May 16 2014 12:49AM
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AKhoodrat
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One time i saw a bunch of guys decked out in level 1 and stuff and thought they were a bunch of random jibbers, but since they had facemasks on i didn't realize it was Will Wesson, Chris Logan, and Logan Imlach until i saw they had taken a trip to where i live.
May 16 2014 1:04AM
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HarlTheGnarl
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brotoskied with andy parry during tell a friend tour. he is a pretty normal guy. likes cats a lot.

No way! Andy/any pro in general is a normal guy???

skeazlaurenI was once in a lift line at perisher and Russ Henshaw was behind me and was like hey nice jacket(I own his jacket), so i turend around and saw it was him and freaked out cause and was like ahhhh thats the joke cause this is your pro model jacket probably making a huge ass out of myself and so I ask for a photo and a semi pro (Boen Ferguson) took the photo and I was just thinking like fuck I probably just offended that guys feelings. whoops


14 years old^
May 16 2014 1:16AM
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S.J.W
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HarlTheGnarlNo way! Andy/any pro in general is a normal guy???



14 years old^


curious to what makes you think that? HarlTheGnarl....
May 16 2014 1:25AM
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HarlTheGnarl
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jack_t_priceI was skiing at breck and met Nick Geopper. I tried my first dub right in front of him and he got hella stoked. He was a charilift behind me after that and asked my name, age, and where I am from. I stomped it 3 runs later and he called my name from the chairlift and told me it was sick. I was too stoked.


This is awesome.

CalvinStorki feel like Henny wouldnt give anyone the finger... especialy since he almost always wears mittens


Henrik can never do anything wrong in the eyes of NS…What if I told you that Henrik/B-Dog/Inspired went to a couple of ski shops in Tahoe for signings during their tour and said some super creepy shit to a whole bunch of different girls who worked at the ski shops that I knew?

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with people doing shit like that…I just think that NS needs to come to the realization that it's OK to recognize the fact that their favorite pro's (which on this site, is the Inspired roster) are not perfect in every aspect of life.

Good skiers? Yes. Stoked attitudes most of the time? Yes. Not afraid to speak their minds? Yes. Obnoxious in getting their point across? Yes. Great all-around role models? Not really, no. Eligible for big mountain skiing competitions? Fuck no.
May 16 2014 1:26AM
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broto
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HarlTheGnarlNo way! Andy/any pro in general is a normal guy???


Yeah that's what I was getting at ...
May 16 2014 1:52AM
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doyle.
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it really isn't a big deal skiing in Whistler, during WSSF I did the pro callout to Bobby and I don't think Gus got it. He yelled back to me "Hey, if you're so much better why are you riding the sleds with us!" All the other pros waiting to get back up the course were laughing.
May 16 2014 3:12AM
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BigScaryLarry
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on a first name basis with comtpon lupe and during the summers i party with franchino. met the b and e at mt snow. yeah thats pretty much it
May 16 2014 8:42AM
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BabyRoy
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I saw Joss Christensen, Matt Walker, and Torin Yater Wallace drive by after the dumont cup and I put out my thumb and they picked me up and brought me to some resturant.
May 16 2014 8:51AM
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NHall
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My friends and I are at the age where meeting pros is not as big of a deal as it used to be. But one night, we found our way to the Dumont Cup after party. First, I found my self taking a piss next to Nick Goepper who stumbled in and chose the urinal next to me. Then once we had washed are hands and talked about the pronunciation of his last name, I went out to find my friends had befriended Alex Schlopy, who bought us all three rounds of drinks. After we hung out for a couple of hours, hooking Matt Walker up with a girl, watching as Nick Goepper slips in between anyone that got near his sister, and playing a round of big buck hunter with Torin, we decided It was time to head out. On the way out we found Torin and Joss trying to get a ride back to the hotel, we provided... in my moms car. After making a stop at the gas station upon Torins request for munchies, we dropped the two olympians safely back to the hotel.
May 16 2014 8:53AM
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QuinnBestwick
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spliffs on spliffs
May 16 2014 9:53AM
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John18_6
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Went to park city and didn't see any pros /claim
May 16 2014 10:17AM
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kpuzzo
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i skied with nick goepper. nasty but somewhat of a douche
May 16 2014 10:45AM
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TheMeccaMovement
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john18061806Also, I was eating some food at my airport gate and noticed Sammy Carlson sitting 10 feet to the right of me. Started watching on the top of hood on my computer, i could see him getting a kick out of it but he didn't say anything.


u sneaky sneaker u
May 16 2014 2:41PM
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danbrown
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Strange.Journey.on a first name basis with comtpon lupe



as opposed to calling them mr. compton and mr. hagearty?
May 16 2014 2:54PM
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Turkelton
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tigerrstylethat was my first time actually meeting pros. I thought i had died and went to heaven. trust me id give any thing to relive the blank stare, and the whole time i was looking at bobby


tigerrstyle imagines Bobby picking him up from the airport and catching him in a hug while he's holding flowers and pushes his flowing hair back while Bobby kisses him, and Boner feels like everything is right at that moment. They drive home and Bobby has made him pasta carbonara with a bottle of white wine and tiramisu for dessert. They eat by candlelight, and Boner laughs with Bobby harder than ever before. They see the lock of love in one another, and later that night Bobby pulls off Boners shirt and clothes and throws them over his pile of Red Bull helmets, and they make sweet love while Boner has a blank stare until he looks at Bobby and feels the surges of passionate love pass through each of them.
Gus kept calling and calling, with no answer. Boner was Bobbys true love.
May 16 2014 3:30PM
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Calb3rt
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at borderline camp once, zach d and durty tim were my coaches. at the end of the week i bought zach's obermeyer suit from him but he couldn't find the pants and realized that tim was probably using them so he sent me off to find him. I find tim just about done riding for the day and start talking to him about how great the week was, and then mention i had recently purchased the pants he was wearing from zach. he sort of just hung his head and slowly started taking off his pants in the parking lot, i felt bad.

another time i saw pep in the causewell shop, i had just bought his kung fujas the day before and snapped them while hand flexing them in my living room. i jokingly asked him if he would stand behind a product with his name, and if he could help me warranty them.
May 16 2014 3:35PM
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LC.
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I gave Glen Plake and his wife a ride from the airport last spring. Hands-down coolest guy I've met in my life. I could tell he was totally stressed and tired from traveling all day but he still took the time to talk to everyone else in the van and said later he loves getting people stoked just by being able to meet and talk but at the same time he was so humble and just stoked to have been able to ski for a living for the past 25 years.

I had my axe ready for an autograph when I dropped him off, then we just talked about biking for a while. And then his wife called me back 10 minutes later because they forgot to tip me - cash, posters and a neckwarmer. What a guy.

May 16 2014 3:37PM
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utahp0w21
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I once saw the traveling circus van at my local mountain. We saw them when they filming for East Coast Hard Core Real Stuff pt 1 this year. It was so sick
May 16 2014 6:15PM
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CalvinStork
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HarlTheGnarlThis is awesome.



What if I told you that Henrik/B-Dog/Inspired went to a couple of ski shops in Tahoe for signings during their tour and said some super creepy shit to a whole bunch of different girls who worked at the ski shops that I knew?
May 21 2014 8:44AM
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ccalahanne
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I met Dumont at Sunday River and we went up the lift twice and then the next week at the Dumont Cup he recognized me. Also saw torin, gus, alex bellmare, and goepper
May 27 2014 7:44PM
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edai
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When I was in 6th grade I met Tom Wallisch at the Mt. Snow Dew Tour. I was a total gaper, but knew exactly who he was. There was like a blackberry game you had to play at a Verizon booth and whoever won got to take some laps with Tom. I got 2nd, but asked if I could still go and one of the employees gave up his spot so I could go (thanks man), riding the lift I was in total shock the whole time. It's foggy because I was so young I just remember asking him about all the different shit he had going on, 4bi9, his competition run, etc. To this day I remember following him as his first trick of the run was a cork 3 on the first jump in Nitro, mid air his ski fell off and he landed on one foot then rode away. One of the Verizon employees skiing with us grabbed because I hadn't been hitting the jumps cause I was a pussy. We took like 3 or 4 more runs and he was so chill about it, that's all I remember though.

Meet up with him a few years later (4 i think) at Windells but never reminded him it wasn't the first time I'd met him. Since then I've met many more pros/ams (Compton, Andy, Wesson, Collins, Maks, Shea, Lupe, Goepper, etc.), but it'll never be as sick as wallisch.
May 27 2014 8:16PM
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