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Mark Abma on Salomon?

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Kev
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He dropped k2 for salomon? he did his prelims on foils....


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Jan 30 2005 12:12PM
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Revert
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Urban Assault- you are an idiot. K2 is not a fucking core company, they are the biggest action sports corporation in the world. K2 owns Volkl, Marker, Ride Snowboards, Adio Shoes, Marmot Apparel, Rawlings Sports, Hawk Skate shoes, Planet Earth Apparel, Dana Design Backpacks, etc...this list continues on and on. Go to their website and find out for yourself






Feb 2 2005 1:34AM
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mckeeman
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apparently Seth isnt shooting with MSP this year, K2 has injected their cash flow into poorboyz, thus hes shooting with johnny...Its all one big sponsor game and the athletes are little puppets in the mess...





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Feb 2 2005 2:47PM
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trevorwoulddoit
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This whole Abma business smells

like

MSP

bullshit.


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Feb 2 2005 2:49PM
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aclsarescary
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I consider K2s freesking side core...they listen to what there riders want and then give it to them.

As for the new salomons, ice-is-scary: I guess the guns are the supper beafed up PR. They look huge anyways. I still wont buy salomon.









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Feb 2 2005 3:02PM
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aclsarescary
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This shit all happens in Snowboarding, a couple years ago MFM was filiming with Mack Dawg the whole year, and the video comes out and hes not in it. Because of sponsor BS he gets his part pulled and they dont tell him.
Because of that, Mack Dawg has to watch there back when they try to film anything in Utahs backcountry. bam bam.









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Feb 2 2005 3:04PM
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Corkster
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k2 way better



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Jul 15 2005 11:01PM
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CollinWright
Posts: 1919 - Karma: 82
^ u guys r stupid... salomon is HUGE!!!! salomon could probably offer abma more than k2 could, and abma decide to go with salomon...

Jul 15 2005 11:03PM
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Jenna1106
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Jul 15 2005 11:06PM
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Jul 15 2005 11:07PM
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Jenna1106
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ahhhh where did the rest of my post go

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Jul 15 2005 11:07PM
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Jenna1106
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Jul 15 2005 11:08PM
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Jenna1106
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i give up.

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Jul 15 2005 11:08PM
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poster
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fuck...thats true about salomon. but k2 makes better ejuipment and has better riders, whats up now

Jul 15 2005 11:09PM
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CollinWright
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^ hahaha salomon has the best ski team in the industy theres no question

Jul 15 2005 11:11PM
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Jenna1106
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Jul 15 2005 11:11PM
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Jenna1106
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ok thats annoying. why wont my post show up.

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Jul 15 2005 11:11PM
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Jenna1106
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i love mark abma. who cares what skis he's riding on. either way he's fucking rips and he's an amazing all around skier.

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high north session 3!!
Jul 15 2005 11:13PM
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Jenna1106
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there we go.

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Jul 15 2005 11:14PM
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Corkster
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if he switched to salomon how come hes not posted as part of freeride team on salomon website?



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Jul 15 2005 11:19PM
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Corkster
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goes to show how much large companies really care about their athleates



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Jul 15 2005 11:19PM
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guddgulf17
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Salomon sucks. Way too big of a company for me.


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Jul 15 2005 11:28PM
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$westside$
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i like Abma alot, and it doesnt realy matter wat company he skis no, but i just like k2 more

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Jul 15 2005 11:30PM
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CollinWright
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god ur dumb.. they havent updated a new site yet? My friend sammyc ride son the salomon international team, and salomon treats him like fucking gold, they give him anything he wants, and hook him up huge....

Jul 15 2005 11:35PM
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lalalalaura
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salomon doesn't sell the image i like the most in skiing...salomon sells the technology rather than the love of the sport itself... it's not "soul" enough for my taste... i don't really feel like salomon tries as hard to cater to the newschool movement as much as they want to sell product, which is fair enough seeing as they are a company, but i'd be more willing to support them if they tried as hard to sell their twintips as they did their racing skis..... but then again, i am a dirty hippy and am not a huge fan of corporations in any section of the market, so my opinion is pretty biased

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Jul 15 2005 11:39PM
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friedcheese
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for me it is like this ski companies sell skis which i buy whoever sells skis i like i buy from i dont care who is sponsered by who or who is supporting newschool by having "soul"

Jul 16 2005 12:08AM
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Schoening
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lots o cash must have been involved because salomon skis suck

Jul 16 2005 12:09AM
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lalalalaura
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i don't see the point in giving upwards of 400$ of my own money to a company i don't think is that spectacular when i can support another one....you have to buy skis at some point, it might as well be from someone you believe in

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Jul 16 2005 12:10AM
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IHOP
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A lot of people at hood did that, its not a special ski, you just put it through a riviter.

And about the Abma matter, good for him, if he's excited about it then thats a good thing.

Jul 16 2005 2:12AM
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klimp
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if abma is getting more money than good for him, he deserves it. He's a sick skier so i doubt that his skiing on salomons will make him put together worse segment.

Jul 16 2005 7:03AM
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watchmefall15
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it doesnt matter who abma skis for, he could strap any object to both feet and still be amazing

Jul 16 2005 7:31AM
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midwest_rep
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I like Salomon, I always buy their shit, never delams or breaks, good trade in policy

Jul 16 2005 9:36AM
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Dilla
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fuck, i hate this.



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Jul 16 2005 3:30PM
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JEAopardy
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ya he was riding salomon at high north

F33L ME?

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Jul 16 2005 3:36PM
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Freestyla_01
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If you got paid like $30000 a year more to ride some skis that aren't exactly terrible in any respects, why would you not do it?
It's not like the skis make that much of a difference to him anyways.
That kind of shit is trivial to skiers at his level.

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Jul 17 2005 5:43AM
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BlindFaith
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^yep - it's a job and a career just like any of us will one day have. They're lucky that they can do what they love and get paid for it, but just like any other industry, you do work and get paid for it. If Salomon offered Abma more money than props to him for taking it. He, like Candide, and hopefully a lot of other super talented kids understands that his window of opportunity is limited to make money skiing.






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Jul 17 2005 11:03AM
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*DrewT*
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why would he do that?!

go skiing

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Jul 17 2005 2:14PM
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Freestyla_01
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Because a professional ski career peaks at an age of about 26. Mark needs to make all the money he can before he is slowly pushed out of a high money making position in the industry, and has to do something for the other 30 years of his life before he can actually retire.

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Jul 17 2005 4:59PM
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powfoka
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salomon is for people just coming off snowblades yes they are finally on skis but they are still fags!

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Jul 17 2005 5:15PM
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forfun
Posts: 4916 - Karma: 66
salomon makes good skis (starting with this year, 1080s weren't that good) and i respect their riders.



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Jul 17 2005 5:20PM
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zmanalex
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Is it just me or is K2 loosing a bunch of riders?

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Jul 17 2005 10:54PM
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Kasanovah
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where'd Mike wilson go in that list ?? he's on ther now too ...



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Jul 17 2005 11:16PM
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THEYCALLME
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i saw him at camp rockin salomons

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Jul 18 2005 2:57PM
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i just puked. no... seriously, i did

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Jul 18 2005 6:47PM
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Schnoodle.
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yeah i seriously don't get why you would leave k2 for salomon... k2's the shit

Jul 21 2005 1:15AM
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Line720
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Yeah I was wondering why Abma was doing on Salomon Guns at High North

Wanna come to the pants party?

It was ok, my neck broke my fall.
Jul 21 2005 3:30PM
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CollinWright
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for more money you dumb ass

Jul 21 2005 3:31PM
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