Krotchs_BrotherNothing wrong with disliking the style. The thing is, most of the kids hating on the bunch are hating because they don't consider the tricks "real" just because they aren't technically difficult to do. That's what is annoys me.
You can like whatever you like, but don't try to discredit a persons skiing because it doesn't fit some stupid template you've created in your head for "real skiing".
Like when kids try to say the game of slvsh with lsm and bmack is shitty because they do no real tricks.
If its my set and I decide I want to do a nose manual for 5 metres that's my trick and my set and my call to make. Like it or not, doesn't make it any less "real" and any less of a trick.
I understand your argument but the thing is, skiing, just like anything else in our lives requires a binary of what is and what isn't. It's too idealistic to say that simply anything is a trick. Thats where the debate comes in because each person has their own definition of a trick and a cut off line of what qualifies and what doesn't to them. I've never discredited the bunch because they aren't doing tricks. They definitely are, just I don't care for some of them because they are no harder than say doing a back2, something you learn your first year of park. Sure they may do things that aren't being done, but there has to be a point where you realize it wasn't being done because it isn't hard or entertaining.
Also the hypocrisy of the bunch and many people that emulate them is that they themselves have created a template in their head. They generally do the same style of skiing and hardly ever branch out from their 'own' style.
The wells brothers are honestly at the pinacle of free skiing because of this. They know no limits, they can do stuff as technical and weird as the bunch and then turn around and throw a trip 10. They're far more of an inspiration to me than the bunch because they aren't content with just doing the same thing over and over. Just my opinion though.
I feel like the bunch style of skiing is following very closely in snowboardings steps. If you look at snowboarding, it's over saturated with kids wearing doofy clothes and doing weird taps and grabs with out spins. It's really starting to get boring. Lol hopefully skiers don't start wearing dopey ass helmets ironically like snowboarding..
