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-Dan
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First off-This is a claim thread. I dont care who you are now, but at some point you were a fan of this skiing and this kinda shit got you excited. Congrats if you are "cool" now and act like its not a big deal, it isn't but until you've been around a while you don't learn that. So allow me to claim the illest shit that happened to me at IF3.

I wanna hear your stories too cause I'm getting hyped for next week. I know I must not be the only one with fan boy claims from montreal. I went to iF3 all 4 years of college- 09, 10, 11, 12. Lemme detail the highlights from those years

Year one
- Partied in Stept’s hotel first night
- Slept in car cause I fucked up booking my room
- Made finals in a beatbox contest for new skis
- Got an extra VIP prize pack by tricking this trick
- Watched every movie
- Watched guidos fight from across the street while passing doob with radio ron
- Brother got robbed trying to buy weed

Year 2
- Tricked way into Thursday night VIP red bull
- Walk in with t wall and t hall
- Almost won new skis again, fuck Mike Douglas
- Brother bought weed successfully from two guys named Shifty and Psycon
- Even Sigstad invited me to the Field Productions room to watch their new movie
- Only person allowed in with backpack in the club at Tanner’s party besides Tanner
- Run into a drunk (then intern) Malcolm who cant find NS office
- Bring him to the office, where everyone was waiting for an after party on the last night, and Malcolm had the key to let people in.
- Played Kendama with Wallisch and Rolland

Year 3
- Win tickets for free on NS
- Beat box for All-Star to freestyle to
- All the party venues can be seen from my hotel room’s window
- Slept through the entire Poor Boyz movie
- Rocker party - Pete high fives Cali P during show
- Knock Clayton Vila on his ass in a mosh pit and take his sunglasses
- Try to pick up some mtl chicks and fail


Year 4
- Ordered my tickets but never got charged
- Met LVV and talked to him, he remembered my name the next day
- Met all the guys that would later form the Tabarnak Pack
- Outside club first night this guy turns to me, sticks his hand out and says “Doug”
I look at him and say No, then grab my brother and say, “This is Doug, I’m Dan”
Turns out it was Doug Bishop aka Mr. Bishop but he got a haircut so I didn’t recognize. We all laugh a bunch and he invites us to a bar for drinks. Three pitchers and two rounds of shots on NS and then we’re invited back to the office where weed that was purchased with Iberg in mind is smoked before Eric ever even knows it existed. We talk until 7 in the morning about skiing and media and the future and fan out about so many things.
- Doug (brother) won a pair of K2's for doing some shit on stage.

I'll gladly expand on any claim. My stories from times at iF3 are my favorite stories to tell anyone in my life. Being a fan is fucking cool. Sorry if you don't get excited about dope shit.

**This thread was edited on Sep 11th 2014 at 3:38:21pm
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-Dan
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In the office prolly around 4 or 5 AM
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Those are some IF3 stories to remember folks. I'm stoked as well for a TRU IF3 this year, better see some lip on blind 2's in the movie category
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Mr.Bishop
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TallxT

In the office prolly around 4 or 5 AM


Dude.... WHAT A NIGHT. Epic and totally random meeting.
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yelsel
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My first IF3 was the most epic of all of them. Meeting up with some of the raddest people ever, getting shitfaced in the NS office, bfast meeting totally pie eyed, buying tanner hall a drink at whatever party was going on that night, smoke fests galore and a shit ton of poutine. My god it was so much fun!



PH represent
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danbrown
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my memories from the three ive been to are far and few in between. but its real fun
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jerm
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Filled a zip lock back full of liquor, stuffed it into my underwear and went to the after party. Got into the club and pulled it out. Proceeded to distribute my liquor bag into cups of friends.

Tried it again the next night with Andy Parry and we both got busted.
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Childstar.
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PM Me if you have spare room in your hotel room, I'm looking for a place to stay for Thursday-Sunday and have real dollars to pay.

I want to make it out this year!
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bakedpow
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if3 is calling and i must go
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Childstar.
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dicksquadPM Me if you have spare room in your hotel room, I'm looking for a place to stay for Thursday-Sunday and have real dollars to pay.

I want to make it out this year!


Found a place! That was quick! Thanks NS!
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MacMahoooon
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So many good times over the years had. remembered and forgotten

In over half the pics posted here so far /claim!
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nutz.
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saving my lunch money for the rest of the month to blow it all on that one weekend.

see y'all soon!
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bakedpow
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is if3 whistler happening this year?
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Trojan~Man
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on my way out from the sean petit k2 rocker party last year i was tackled to the ground by 4 very angry cops, brought to their car and questioned for about 30 mins after which they let me go allegedly because "i seemed like a good guy" (despite being shit faced out of my mind i was as polite and nice as i could be to these guys because they seemed fucking pissed haha) they let me off of a 700$ fine for public disturbance/mischief/vandalism (that never occured) .... many other stories claim worthy were had but this is the one i felt like sharing :P i have many good witnesses to the quadrocop tackle, which is the only reason i honestly know it even happened haha
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grant.
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My first and only year so far was awesome. Got really drunk with good people, saw a ton of movies, visited the saddest strip club, got called a girl by a bum cause I picked up a pack on menthols, and basically met the famous tall t dan who hooked me and a homie up with shirts and stickers which we wore at the party that night and put stickers on all kinds of shit.
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FelixRioux
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I have many, many iF3 memories that are all blurred in my mind. Not so much from partying, than the chaos and roller-coaster ride that it is put this event together and meeting a 100 new people in the same weekend.

But one memory from last year I think embeds what an iF3 experience looks like is when Reed Speedman and myself closed the Rocker Party. The guy who staged dived onto his head, wasn't dead, everyone had left the building and we were left with a fridge full of booze (backstage). Reed couldn't let all that go to waste and took a case to head back to the hotel. I tried to explain to him you ca't walk the streets with these casses because they were marked for bars and clubs. He acted tough like it wasn't a problem. We get out through the back door, turn the corner and end up face to face with a cop car. You should of seen the expression on his face. Looked like he was shitting bricks. The cops politely asked him to open and empty all the bottles and then let us go... That's when I pulled out the 2 bottles I had in my pockets and gave one to Reed. He needed one, poor guy though he was going to jail or something. Anyways, not a crazy story, just my last memory from last year :)
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TotallyTrevor
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hahaha this is awesome, SOLID claims...It would be awesome to experience IF3 ONE OF THESE years, and I don't think that is entirely too farfetched.
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Chubz.
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most definitely making the trip up next year.


Looks like such a rad time.
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zahava
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I need to get my shit together ASAP.
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ModMommy
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I'm SO stoked for this. Holy shit.
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Lemuel
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TallxT

In the office prolly around 4 or 5 AM


I'll fill in what TallxT forgot. Yes, that is me passed out. I slept in the NS office 2 out of 3 nights that year. Oopsy? This was 2012. First night we partied with the Tabernack boiz, met Bishop and Moosey (can't spell that isht), they invitied us to a bar where we drank more than I should have. I remember getting to the NS office but came out of my blackout waiting inline at Tim Hortons at 6 the next morning. Lolz ensued. Bishop gave my hat (in pic) to a homeless man. RIP hat. 2nd night nothing noteworthy happened worth explaining. 3rd night, rocker party, ended up going back to NS office, Malcom (skinny white boy) pulls manhole cover from street like Hercules, also broke mad shit. Hilarious. Woke up in NS office, Bishop dead on the floor, spent 10 minutes trying to find the door to leave, spent 25 minutes walking back to Hotel (btw I have no idea where I am, just know I have to go downhill). Shirtless btw due to rocker party. Sleep till 9:54, check out is a 10. Scramble, leave camera in room, car battery dead, wave down french speakers in the street for a jump, Dan falls down stairs and breaks ankle. Final leave and eat Al's french fries.


The prior year (2011) was better in my opinion. To sum it up, I moshed with Chugg, got the only high 5 / hand grasp from Cali P during one of his sets and everyone cheered for me, woke up after first night missing out 3rd homie who hooked up with a french chick like a boss. Also Dat Nu Nu during Poor Boys.

And yes we slept through PBP in 2012 cuz two thumbs down. I probably missed some things.
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Lemuel
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Also to note, if you and / or your friend believe and embrace in JAH, he shall protect. Unless that day be Sunday. Jah does and did not protect that Sunday.
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SIX
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Honestly, so much crazy shit goes down at IF3, every year is just so sick!!
From drinking with pros like T Hall, Casabon, Henrik, Stept crew etc... to my friend being hit on by Kaya Tursky a few years it's just a crazy intense weekend. There is always a lot of alcool involved. Those are only some of the politically correct things that I can say on here ahaha.




The Rocker Party is always a great time, the retro party is sick as hell also... man if you are not going you are really missing the best gathering of the ski industry in my opinion.
Downtown Mtl at night is just a crazy place to be also, so many things happen and can happen.

Be there or be square (for real)
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BBurt
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I'm a sophomore in HS right now, if I went as a juinor would I have as many tales to tell as the rest of you or would I get shut down at everything?
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frank9190
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driving bixi at 5 in the morning in the city so drunk its a must.
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ChickyParm
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Too hype to explain for IF3 this year
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YUNG_milksteAk
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BBurtI'm a sophomore in HS right now, if I went as a juinor would I have as many tales to tell as the rest of you or would I get shut down at everything?


I went last year as a junior and it was fun, only made it into 2 parties tho and hooked up with like 5 redbull/monster girls nbd
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schism
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This will be my first IF3, and my first real time off from working in northern Alberta doing construction in 3 months. Looking forward to having some good stories from this.
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LAME.
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Every single year i went to if3 i saw dan, i guess he failed to remember that...


Also, last year at the rocker party some dude dove off the stage and broke his neck, bitch made.
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.frenchy
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I don't know why I've never gone to if3... really. montreal is by far my favorite city and i go up there a few times a year to watch hockey. I gotta go
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Lé.Skiing
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I have been thinking I want to go to IF3 in whistler, but I'm not exactly sure how well it would work out I mean I could sleep in my car and that's not that big of an issue for me, but anyone know what the cost for an all access pass would be?(or if whistler is all sold out) If I can't make this year I will definitely be making it next year.
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p-fo
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I'll make it out there sometime. Quebec FS team was telling me to come and party with them this year too... Someday.
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1337
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Dan&Pete, what year did I meet you guys?

One year, Vince Charette (aka one of the coolest Quebecois) and I go on the prowl for ladies. He ends up grabbing a random chick that walked past us, introduced her to me, and we ended up hooking up. Pretty casual.

Then there was that one year that malcolm kept trying to get in fights on the street across from a strip club. Cmac was holding him back.

I've met so many cool people at iF3 over the years. CMac, Bishop, Mousseau, Malcolm, Schmuck, Travis, Dan, Pete, Kate, Matt Rich, Eheath, Felix, Jen, Jenifa, BigJim, both Dan Browns (saw the greenname version at the boarder when we were both stuck in line at customs).

SO damn pumped for this year!!!
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Lé.Skiing
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Does anyone know the usual turn out in whistler? Is it usually good or has it been a disappointing turnout or what?
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Mr.Bishop
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Walter.1337Then there was that one year that malcolm kept trying to get in fights on the street across from a strip club. Cmac was holding him back.


You're mistaking Malcolm for his alter ego, Littlefoot.
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1337
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Mr.BishopYou're mistaking Malcolm for his alter ego, Littlefoot.

Agressive motherfucker, that littlefoot.
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Zimmerman
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see y'all there
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zahava
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Mr.BishopYou're mistaking Malcolm for his alter ego, Littlefoot.


Didnt he try to slam the hood of a cop car?...
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yellav
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you should recap the DAIS SIA trip, thats some pretty bulletpointable truness
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Mr.Bishop
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zbphotoDidnt he try to slam the hood of a cop car?...


Littlefoot would have swallowed the cop's soul.
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Mr.Bishop
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One time I hosted the Newschoolers awards (which is what the IF3 awards used to be called)....

And I only remember about 60% of being on stage. At some point tanner jumped off the balcony and fucked up his ankles, and I was never invited back to host my own awards ceremony again.
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op14
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Mr.BishopOne time I hosted the Newschoolers awards (which is what the IF3 awards used to be called)....

And I only remember about 60% of being on stage. At some point tanner jumped off the balcony and fucked up his ankles, and I was never invited back to host my own awards ceremony again.


Bishop parties too hard
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steezy_doge
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someone please tell me is if3 only fun when your 18 or over cause i feel like i should wait till i'm 18 but yeah also if3 is in a new place each year correct cause i think its montreal this year then whistler was last year but how do you know when and were it is and what nights have what things to do thanks!
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PDoyle
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Anyone going to IF3 London?
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SIX
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steezy_dogesomeone please tell me is if3 only fun when your 18 or over cause i feel like i should wait till i'm 18 but yeah also if3 is in a new place each year correct cause i think its montreal this year then whistler was last year but how do you know when and were it is and what nights have what things to do thanks!


I can guarantee you that you can have some fun at IF3 even if you are not 18. I suggest you check out our website, every info you need is on it:

http://if3festival.com/
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MatRich
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This one year, me and malcolm went up to IF3 after slaving away with vinyls at the office so we could earn some tickets. We ended up Taking a limo with a bunch of pros... just walked in and realized everyone in there was a pro so we just stayed. Turns out we took T Halls spot, he just couldn't find a spot and took the next ride up. We ended up smoking a blunt with everyone and screaming through the windows "show us your titties!" It never worked but the ride up was hilarious.

Then an other night that year we wanted to just go to one of the party's really quick and come back early/drive home since we had school the next day. We ended up staying, getting massively shitfaced by barhopping on our way back. The car was in the school parking lot so we could go home from there. We ended up being way too drunk, moved the car to a prime parking spot and slept right there, woke up the next morning at 7 am, people walking by the car, we just stumbled up and brought our silly beer smelling asses into class.

IF3 is always epic!
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Jaggy_Snake
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PDoyleAnyone going to IF3 London?


Yes! Will be there. Stoked it's at the Clapham Grand, nice place. Just outside the train station, so can stumble from the venue back onto the train!!
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BBurt
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YUNG_milksteAkI went last year as a junior and it was fun, only made it into 2 parties tho and hooked up with like 5 redbull/monster girls nbd


2.5 girls per party sounds like a pretty solid deal.
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00000000
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Bump with a bonus free taxi ride at iF3

https://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Get-free-taxi-iF3
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frank9190
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Walter.1337Then there was that one year that malcolm kept trying to get in fights on the street across from a strip club. Cmac was holding him back.


I got arrested by a cop who said I wanted to fight with everybody.

He mistaken me with malcolm pretty sure.
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t_rob
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MousseauBump with a bonus free taxi ride at iF3

https://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Get-free-taxi-iF3


American if3 goers before. If you don't have an international data plan, don't use data or be aware of how and why you're using it. I spent 80 dollars last year checking my email and looking at the map on my phone. So yeah, free uber is awesome but not when your spending $50 to hail that cab. It's really easy to forget that you can't use data the same way in canada. IF3 has hooked up it with free wifi in the past. Look for it and use it.
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