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Randy_QuenchTom Brady
DoleCandide
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MyLifeIsAwesomeShane McConkey
dan4060Candide has been mentioned and I will agree. I will add his Freeride World Tour success to the other things I have seen people bring up. Winning FWT events is absolutely incredible to watch. I don't think anyone else has won FWT events AND x games medals in slopestyle, although I could be wrong.
Ryanvdonkyou forgot that candide has pipe and big air golds in xgames as well as slope. in pipe he pioneered going huge while tricking. us old farts all remember that battle with CR very well with both of them going to the moon. on top of that, first to stick chad's gap.
dan4060McConkey destroyed every facet of skiing. What I particularly like was his billygoating, something which takes incredible technical skills to do. He could do anything, but his billygoating is some of the greatest skiing I have ever seen.
Candide has been mentioned and I will agree. I will add his Freeride World Tour success to the other things I have seen people bring up. Winning FWT events is absolutely incredible to watch. I don't think anyone else has won FWT events AND x games medals in slopestyle, although I could be wrong.
Jonny Moseley should be getting support. Won an Olympic medal. Changed an Olympic discipline, a GREAT big mountain skier, watch TGR's The Realm if you don't believe me. He was trading lines with Nobis and Jones and holding his own, something most of the guys who came from the park to big mountain have never been able to do. I believe he also won an x games medal although I'm not sure. At one point he was definitely the best all-around skier in the world. I wish he had stayed with skiing after 2002, he might still be the best if he had.
Sage. The best spine skier ever. He also mixes tricks into lines and can ski the park. When Tanner Hall calls you the best skier in the world, and he has called Sage that, that says something.
Daron Rahlves. It is a real shame Rahlves never won an Olympic downhill or Super G medal. He was definitely good enough to do it, and if he had he would have been remembered as one of the great speed event guys ever, which he was. He is also one of the best big mountain skiers in the world. Like Moseley he could have made it as a pure big mountain skier, something which cannot be said of many of the 'all-around' skier guys. Being that great a racer and that great a big mountain skier gives him a good argument for being the best ever. There have been better racers but no Olympic racer has gone over to the big mountain realm and dominated the way Rahlves has.
Henrik Windstedt. Almost made the Swedish Olympic team as a bumper. Competed in slopestyle events. Won Freeride World Tour events and the overall FWT title one year. Does tricks off of AK spines. Can also destroy AK lines without putting tricks into them. He is another guy who could have made it as a pure big mountain skier, not someone who was a park guy who got a shot to ski in a heli because of his sponsor.
Seth Morrison. Skis big mountain at absolutely the highest level. No one does tricks off of the size of cliffs in the middle of lines the way Seth does. There are guys who are doing more technical tricks in big mountain lines but no one does tricks off giant cliffs like Seth.
Richard Permin. In Superheroes of Stoke one of the MSP guys leads off Permin's part by saying he has never seen anyone ski at the absolute highest level of park skiing and the absolute highest level of big mountain skiing at the same time. That says something.
dan4060Jonny Moseley should be getting support. I believe he also won an x games medal although I'm not sure.
dan4060I remember those battles with CR well. When he and Candide were going huge the winter action sports world took notice. Those battles showed just how big skiers could go. CR would be another candidate for this list if he had never gotten hurt, very sad.
Candide did a d-spin over Chad's back in 2000 I think. TGR has footage of it from their movie back then.
snomasterHe also should have won 2002 bumps with his rodeo 7. Though I think him naming it a dinner roll was reason enough to keep him off the top spot. Then it was pretty much all downhill from there...
ozzywrongYou know your shit man !! Henrik Windsted was the man
dan4060Henrik Windstedt. Almost made the Swedish Olympic team as a bumper. Competed in slopestyle events. Won Freeride World Tour events and the overall FWT title one year. Does tricks off of AK spines. Can also destroy AK lines without putting tricks into them. He is another guy who could have made it as a pure big mountain skier, not someone who was a park guy who got a shot to ski in a heli because of his sponsor.
weedooNot that anyone is asking but 2016's goat is wack wells hands down
SessionIt's a fucking travesty that all these names got thrown around, but no mention of Sammy.
skidemon22Depends on the medium, but:
All around: Candide
Big Jumps: Bobby Brown
Pipe: Dumont/ Hall (though I have always loved watching Dumont more, Hall has more wins)
Rails/Urban: *fill in the blank*
DoleCandide
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leprechaunsissyRails/Urban: Shea Flynn, Andrew Hathaway, Vanular
