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Why is it called "Chads gap"?

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balzach
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is there a logical answer or is it just some name someone came up with?

**This thread was edited on Jul 21st 2014 at 8:40:16am
Jul 18 2014 3:23PM
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SlurmsMckenzie
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bcuz Chad Meeks was the first skier to huck it
Jul 18 2014 3:25PM
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balzach
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SlurmsMckenziebcuz Chad Meeks was the first skier to huck it


ahh okay. i thought it would be something like that
Jul 18 2014 3:27PM
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RubberSoul
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because chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this

http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards
Jul 18 2014 3:28PM
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smuggs
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chad z and the lcc boys literally were 100x more badass that pussy pros these days.
Jul 18 2014 3:32PM
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RubberSoul
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RubberSoulbecause chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this

http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards


i'm at work so can't look any more right now but at 8:31 in that video chad hits it and comes up short. def a shot of him landing it in the movies that video is synthesized from along with a bunch of other clips of him being a straight badass
Jul 18 2014 3:34PM
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balzach
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damn those guys go way bigger than most people today! they gotta being back going high and far. shits insane!
Jul 18 2014 3:41PM
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snomaster
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are you sure that wasn't candide at 8:31? who was the guy at 8:07 that went inverted and got crushed at the base of the wall?
Jul 18 2014 3:46PM
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RubberSoul
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snomasterare you sure that wasn't candide at 8:31? who was the guy at 8:07 that went inverted and got crushed at the base of the wall?


no i'm not positive but i'm relatively confident that's chad. same with 11:53, i thiiiink that's chad clearing it. i think in '99 (year that candide first cleared it. did d7 in 2000)

but yeah don't bet your life on that. in clay pigeons (ostness movie from 99 that some of these clips are from), both chad and candide wear outerwear that looks sorta like that (at least in grainy black and white!) so it's tough to tell sometimes
Jul 18 2014 4:00PM
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whackhouse
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RubberSoulbecause chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this

http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards


So rad
Jul 19 2014 2:29PM
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ESB
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Chad Zurinskas. He conceived it but couldn't clear it. Candide was a quiet 16-year-old kid who politely asked if he could try, and cleared it after a few tries.
Jul 19 2014 3:03PM
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alev
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chad muska hit it first then got sponsored by circa and boom the rest is history
Jul 19 2014 6:09PM
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suup
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Buy candide thovex's new movie and find out chumps
Jul 19 2014 6:17PM
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Skibumsmith
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Fuck yeah, The Bolero Project is sweeeet. They were going fucking huge in the early 2000s.
Jul 19 2014 6:23PM
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Mr.Bishop
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ESBChad Zurinskas. He conceived it but couldn't clear it. Candide was a quiet 16-year-old kid who politely asked if he could try, and cleared it after a few tries.


Man, those shots of him hitting the other wall like 4 times in a row were insane.
Jul 21 2014 10:32AM
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Splice.
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ski patrol blew it up
Jul 21 2014 1:24PM
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balzach
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Splice.ski patrol blew it up


those fuckers
Jul 21 2014 7:00PM
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ZachAndCheese
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Splice.ski patrol blew it up

It's actually named after Chad of ski patrol, he was the first to blow up the gap and has done so every year since
Jul 21 2014 7:01PM
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edai
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One of those threes off that huge ass cliff was disturbingly big, i thought the dude was gonna explode when he hit the snow
Jul 21 2014 7:57PM
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soulskier
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Named after the first guy to find it, Chad

According to Wikipedia his last name is Zurinskas
Jul 21 2014 8:45PM
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