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Mr.BishopI volunteer.
pussyfooterYou're missing the key factor between skiing and skateboarding: money.
Mr.BishopSeriously though, why don't you start writing articles that goes over this side of skiing and in this tone of voice?
Brocka_FlockaThat's honestly a great start and something I've been considering doing. But part THRASHER is that it's a platform for contests and events like KOTR.
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TheHamburglarcurrently wearing my skategoat shirt. jake phelps is a psycho asshole, mad respect to him. KOTR for skiing would be fucking rad. terrorizing fancy tourist ski towns with a list of stupid challenges would be sick as fuck. please, someone of importance in the ski industry, make this happen!
pussyfooterYou're missing the key factor between skiing and skateboarding: money.
fresh_princethe fact is that if skiing had more money it would loose what little edge that it has.
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Mr.BishopThough it basically seems like you're just talking about Quebec.
Mr.BishopSkateboarding has been pretty darn good at maintaining that edge... same with snowboarding.
fresh_princeT
Mr.SaltyI want skiing hall of meat
JOYSTICK*team road trip challenge without freeskier? yes please.
Mr.BishopI volunteer.
Mr.BishopSeriously though, why don't you start writing articles that goes over this side of skiing and in this tone of voice?
parvizfaizbring freeze back! fuck skiing really has gotten lame, we need less helmets, more fuck snowboarding, and more shirtless crashes
Mr.BishopIts also editorial acceptance. I mean Freeze didn't have enough readership to survive, because deep down inside skiers kind of secretly want to be lame.
I mean NS can easily be this exact place OP wants. Problem is we turned the voice over to the people, and it wasn't as edgy as we thought it would be.
But seriously - I mean why aren't more people stepping up and shaping the voice into this on Newschoolers? We could really easily do this.
k-robit's 2015. nobody needs Thrasher. skiing isn't skateboarding. Newschoolers produces multiples upon multiples of content that magazines do, for free, for everyone. i just don't see the benefit of a photo magazine when we have the internet.
steezy_dogefirst one to make a skiing hall of meat gets all of the karma
b_rendI made one about a month ago but it is only for crashes that happen at my local hill.
Mr.BishopI mean Freeze didn't have enough readership to survive, because deep down inside skiers kind of secretly want to be lame.
fresh_princethe fact is that if skiing had more money it would loose what little edge that it has.
cydwhitThis should happen, and honestly, I think NS totally has the community and resources to pull it off....
casualReally embraced the new web money making maxim of tricking people into producing free content so that you don't really have to compensate people to do it.
KneeDropof all your wonderfully entertaing thoughts ive read..this is my favorite by far. well done sir.
pussyfooterYou're missing the key factor between skiing and skateboarding: money.
roach1324Skiing can never be as "edgy" as skating because if a 13 year old kid wants to go skiing they need their parents to blow at least a grand on gear plus lift tickets not to mention how they need to be chauffeured to and from the ski hill. As much as skiers try and be thug on the hill they are still on average a clean cut preppy bunch.
ghosthopskiing doesn't have a soul
put together a zine, just xerox it oldschool style. Make a thread, accept submissions, mail it out to those that are interested. Clearly there are enough people interested to make a few of these worthwhile. There is nothing like holding something homemade in your hands and I don't have to watch your shitty gopro edit.
Mr.BishopYeah I don't know if that is so implicitly true. Snowboarding has done a good job at keeping edgy, even when all kinds of dads are doing it.
roach1324Think about how snowboarding started- skiing was gay as shit and a bunch of rebel teens ignored the old yuppie mogul skiers and started doing their own thing. They were banned from a bunch of ski areas and were seen as punk kids. Snowboarding grew from rebellion where skiing is gold star certified by "the man". You need to watch Johnny Kapahala for a history lesson.
As a side note, even though i have been going on about how gay skiing is it don't mean i'm ever going to stop its still my favorite feeling in the world. I just don't agree with manufacturing fake culture. The skate and to a lesser extent snowboarding culture that you guys are talking about trying to replicate are organic to those specific sports. Why make skiing into skating when it is totally not the same thing. Will we all get laid? Skiing has its own thing going and its quickly taking back riders from snowboarding. If skiers needed and wanted a thrasher mag there would already be one.
Mr.Bishop"newschool" or "freeskiing" or whatever the fuck you want to call it started the same way. Same type of attitude, etc. We just have gotten a bit off course from that lately, which is more of what I'm putting forth.
Its a common theme when I talk with a lot of the founder guys, where there's something wrong in the direction we've been taking which has a lot more to do with the skiing of old vs. the youth culture that was fought for so hard in the early 2000's.
I by no means say we need to copy other places, but its always OK - and even a great idea - to take influences.
roach1324As a side note, even though i have been going on about how gay skiing is it don't mean i'm ever going to stop its still my favorite feeling in the world. I just don't agree with manufacturing fake culture. The skate and to a lesser extent snowboarding culture that you guys are talking about trying to replicate are organic to those specific sports. Why make skiing into skating when it is totally not the same thing. Will we all get laid? Skiing has its own thing going and its quickly taking back riders from snowboarding. If skiers needed and wanted a thrasher mag there would already be one.
Mr.Bishop"newschool" or "freeskiing" or whatever the fuck you want to call it started the same way. Same type of attitude, etc. We just have gotten a bit off course from that lately, which is more of what I'm putting forth.
Its a common theme when I talk with a lot of the founder guys, where there's something wrong in the direction we've been taking which has a lot more to do with the skiing of old vs. the youth culture that was fought for so hard in the early 2000's.
I by no means say we need to copy other places, but its always OK - and even a great idea - to take influences.