Replying to Newcomers to Freeskiing

So I've been noticing a ton lately that there is a whole new wave of people entering the sport. New members popping by that have only been into this for 2-5 years, stories of shops like D-Structure having kids aged 9-13 walking in the front door completely fresh and uneducated about anything Freeskiing... but thinking it looks dope.

What I'm rapidly cluing into is the fact that they have seen a completely different sport than any of us who have been in it from the late '90s until now. Even if you joined the revolution in 2004 - you'd know a drastically different sport than joining the cause in 2009-2013.

Questions like the Relevancy of Tanner Hall, Who the fuck is this Candide guy, is Tom Wallish even that good.... seem like insanity if you've been there for a few years but there's actually logic if you never got the history.

With an ever increasing speed of progression, we are apt to immediately discard the past and only focus on the here and now. New person walking into the sport might only ever view T-Hall as that dude that has been injured their entire time in the sport and having some vague idea of the fact that he used to win X-games back in the day when the tricks weren't as hard.

I almost blame myself for not putting more historical education out into the world. I definitely think all of us need to do our part to point out things from history to check out. Rad old movies, good edits, etc.

What I don't want is for people to come into the sport and view it just like classic freestyle. Like "Oh great, I can join a competitive freestyle team, try to win every day and go to the Olympics." I think to not get into the traps of the past we must make sure that the lifestyle of it all, the fun, the character is something we make sure the new blood realizes is out there.

TL;DR - There's new people coming into the sport and they don't have easy access to the history.