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AndbrerBeginner skiing lessons are a waste of money, your friends can show you how to put a boot on, put your weight onto the front of the skis and snowplough in about 30 minutes, beginner ski lessons sliding around the flat with one ski on is a waste of time and money
aNIGmaYup totally on the same page as you! I think part of what it is it that his clips look cool to just regular people who arent skiers or ski fanatics so he probably gained a lot of momentum like that. Your average person sees a misty 7 and goes, what trick was that? But see his simple stuff and are like "oh yaaa wow thats cool". Just a theory, idk man.
freeballerMost of the people on NS and all park skiers have never even listened to Wu-Tang, despite confessing their complete love for the Wu.
SofaKingSickalso there are no 16ers in colorado ya goofball
.Fryrossi fks/look pivots are super overrated. they’re just as good as any high end binding, people only jerk off to them because the heel swivels and they look cool. good luck when the brakes break.
WestcoastsendPark skiers who can't shred all mountain are posers.
JoeC92The people who circle jerk Jerry of the day are usually Jerrys making fun of themselves but don't realize it
Jesse_I don't like daffy butters or @Tophaloaf simply because the trick is ridiculously easy (learnt it in about 10 mins) and I find the hype surounding it as a godly trick kinda annoying.
Might just be me but I don't get how he has such a big following for spamming easy as shit tricks like daffy butters or jumping over box and people will call it insane or "revolutionary"
Belchhe just jerks around. like thats all. tf
cool_nameI dont think he was, he was specifically mentioning ON3P and how his fell apart. He never mentioned companies that sell skis for cheaper, only that a company makes more money by having their skis break, which is stupid.
The $300 dollar ski in your example isnt making more money because their skis break, they would be making more money because they can deliver a ski that lasts just as long as 600 dollar ski for half the price. If the $300 ski fell apart in 10 days, compared to a 600 dollar one that lasts 75 days, the 300 dollar company would go broke and wouldn't make more money because their skis broke.
McMaster_17bruh. lol hes not saying they make money BECAUSE their skis break
cool_name"Skis that break make more money anyways"
It sounds like he is saying just that
McMaster_17Hes saying the companies that make the most money, like on3 and armada, sell skis that aren't as durable as ppl think they are. it doesn't really matter tho whateva
a_burgerto ad to this; skiers who brag about how good they are at “normal skiing” are more annoying than kids who can’t carve
mtbakerpowSkiers that brag in general are annoying af
McMaster_17Hes saying the companies that make the most money, like on3 and armada, sell skis that aren't as durable as ppl think they are. it doesn't really matter tho whateva
IsitWinterYet17Ok I know this is gonna get some mega hate, but I prefer the lift bar down.
Maybe that's because it's more common to do in the East vs West. It doesn't hinder me and I like the foot rests. I've found it really only bothers snowboarders because their boards get all tangled up in the foot rests. There's really no reason to not want the bar down unless you're morbidly obese and it's hitting your stomach, or you're just trying to be cool. But whatever. Not judging. Just my unpopular opinion.
AndbrerFind this so bizzare as someone who skis Europe. from what I've seen in videos the chairs in US don't go very high. I've been on plenty of chairs in Europe that if you fell out you would just die, so maybe that's why we always bar down here.
IsitWinterYet17Ok I know this is gonna get some mega hate, but I prefer the lift bar down.
Maybe that's because it's more common to do in the East vs West. It doesn't hinder me and I like the foot rests. I've found it really only bothers snowboarders because their boards get all tangled up in the foot rests. There's really no reason to not want the bar down unless you're morbidly obese and it's hitting your stomach, or you're just trying to be cool. But whatever. Not judging. Just my unpopular opinion.
cory.iyoobMy unpopular opinion is I feel like it’s the opposite. Better skiers realize the difficulty of coming up with your own new style for an edit and having your tricks flow with it and there’s is definitely room for that in skiing. It’s a different type of skill than the more tech skier but it’s still important. because having lots of very different skiers with different styles makes skiing way more interesting. Worse skiers overlook it because it’s not as objective so it’s harder to judge. Plus even if the daffy butters are easy they still look sick, some regular butters aren’t super hard and people still have them in their edits. I’m obviously biased in this case though.
IsitWinterYet17There's plenty of places in the US where you would die falling out. All it takes is a few stories high and you could be screwed. People don't die often though from falling since it's rare to fall
cory.iyoobMy unpopular opinion is I feel like it’s the opposite. Better skiers realize the difficulty of coming up with your own new style for an edit and having your tricks flow with it and there’s is definitely room for that in skiing. It’s a different type of skill than the more tech skier but it’s still important. because having lots of very different skiers with different styles makes skiing way more interesting. Worse skiers overlook it because it’s not as objective so it’s harder to judge. Plus even if the daffy butters are easy they still look sick, some regular butters aren’t super hard and people still have them in their edits. I’m obviously biased in this case though.
Andbrerso why this thing about not putting the bar down? what if the chair has to stop and swings back with momentum and you slip out?
Seems absolutely ridiculous that you would purposefully make it less safe.
DeebieSkeebiesbeing social is fine, but some days you just want to soul shred and be left alone.
do people get annoyed when people are on the chair with both earbuds in and don't really wanna talk? nothing wrong with being social, but some of us just want to ski with ourselves and be left alone. I get irked when people try to get your attention on the chair when you're trying to zone out. I had a dude grab my arm once and get all pissy cuz I didn't talk to him.
john18061806edge control edge control edge control
TheBagOTricksIdc how good your edge control is, it looks like shit. That's my unpopular opinion :D
mystery3I have kids, bar comes down. I will politely remind you to watch your head though.
WestcoastsendPark skiers who can't shred all mountain are posers.
glynner24Especially everyone from the midwest
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Jesse_I somewhat agree but this doesn't change my annoyance with the hype around it all, creativity in skiing is def important and I understand where you're coming from. But I just don't get his "new" style if you can call it that.
Hear me out, the first time I saw anyone ever "daffy butter" I thought it looked sick just as I thought jumping over a box was cool the first time I ever saw anyone do it, but after seeing that exact trick by the same skier multiple times over the course of multiple edits with minor variation in his "daffy butter" I just found that it wasn't creative, original nor did I see the appeal anymore. To me i find that the struggle with creativity in skiing is obviously being creative in the first place but also continuing to do so.
I watched some of Topher's older edits and I realize that he is in fact a skilled skier, I just don't get why he's milking the easy tricks he does is all.
fredferlandGood Company is pretty lame/boring.
