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SofaKingSickalso dumont was kinda crazy back then. ive heard some top shelf skiers talk in mystified tones about his hitting big new jumps fearlessly. so i don't have a hard time imagining him saying okay let's do it on this sketch-ass setup and everyone else being like okay sure
what i wanna know is, if he hadn't gotten hurt here, would he have possibly been involved with hitting chad's with jon and tanner that year?
Park_RangerYo watch this flick from the OG Riley Poor and you will see how hard Simon used to go. The shit he was doing 15 years ago was so gnarly and ahead of his time.
https://vimeo.com/14951104
Overall, this is a sweet movie that I feel like no one knows about. Tons of awesome history in this.
Park_RangerYo watch this flick from the OG Riley Poor and you will see how hard Simon used to go. The shit he was doing 15 years ago was so gnarly and ahead of his time.
https://vimeo.com/14951104
Overall, this is a sweet movie that I feel like no one knows about. Tons of awesome history in this.
Park_RangerYo watch this flick from the OG Riley Poor and you will see how hard Simon used to go. The shit he was doing 15 years ago was so gnarly and ahead of his time.
https://vimeo.com/14951104
Overall, this is a sweet movie that I feel like no one knows about. Tons of awesome history in this.
paulbunyanits the way dumont presented him self to the general public. out of the couple times ive actually met dumont it seemed like he was forced to be in the situations he was. example salomon jib accademy at my home hill... it was a solid 15-20 degrees out and a blue bird day... simon came late. barley skied with any kids and was heard complaing during lunch that it was too cold and the pipe was awful( our pipe does suck you could hand carve a better pipe) but in my old age. i look back and have a feeling he was really pushed to go to events he didnt even want to go to by his sponsors, example jib accademy, sponsors wanted that PR but it back fires when the athlete has no good things to say and is just a crabby prick.. this is why i think he has bad reputation to most people.. with that being said i never met tanner when he was younger, so im not entirley sure how he was as person. but i can confirm that if these two were not a part of the sport at the time they were it would be a whole differnt park scene right now. both tanner and simon carved the way for a lot of monumental stuff to happen.
paulbunyanits the way dumont presented him self to the general public. out of the couple times ive actually met dumont it seemed like he was forced to be in the situations he was. example salomon jib accademy at my home hill... it was a solid 15-20 degrees out and a blue bird day... simon came late. barley skied with any kids and was heard complaing during lunch that it was too cold and the pipe was awful( our pipe does suck you could hand carve a better pipe) but in my old age. i look back and have a feeling he was really pushed to go to events he didnt even want to go to by his sponsors, example jib accademy, sponsors wanted that PR but it back fires when the athlete has no good things to say and is just a crabby prick.. this is why i think he has bad reputation to most people.. with that being said i never met tanner when he was younger, so im not entirley sure how he was as person. but i can confirm that if these two were not a part of the sport at the time they were it would be a whole differnt park scene right now. both tanner and simon carved the way for a lot of monumental stuff to happen.
SofaKingSickmy experience has been that non-NSers knew about him as much as any other skier, tanner included. which was surprising to me, but slumdog illionaire was a hit i guess haha
dylholeI was there that day he overshot and it's probably not fair to put the blame solely on the sled driver. We were testing speed for quite a while that morning, trying to figure out what seemed like the right speed, and it certainly appeared obvious to me the speed Simon was asking for was quite a bit faster than everyone else. That being said, a lot of the speed was generating from slinging yourself off the tow rope and speeds tended to vary with each tow/slingshot. It wasn't the safest jump ever built, but it sure was a fun one once you got the speed dialed. Kudos to Simon for stepping up and hitting it first, as no one else was very motivated to. And bigger kudos for him for standing up on his own after taking that fall. And maybe kudos to PCMR for giving us the green light to hit that jump after the initial overshoot?
SkiBum.That's because Jim Mangn had to get the shot and get his movie made. That really worked out well for him...
SkiBum.That's because Jim Mangn had to get the shot and get his movie made. That really worked out well for him...
SofaKingSick(larry king voice) expand on that
SkiBum.Jim Mangan was the park manager back in the mid 2000's at Park City. He had an inflated budget and ego and some sort of big movie dream. So he did the I ride Park city movie and pulled out all the tricks. There was movie crews, helicopters, cable cams on kings crown and pipe, jumps and crazy set ups over mine buildings. All this chaos for this movie he wanted.
Well the movie flopped pretty much. There were pallets of DVDs around. Couldn't even give them away. They tried every trick in the book to sell them or give them away. Pretty sure they all ended up in dumpster or shot as skeet.
Well Mangan got the ax. Or quit. Or both. But there are still pictures and videos of some crazy jumps and shit that went on that last year.
SkiBum.Jim Mangan was the park manager back in the mid 2000's at Park City. He had an inflated budget and ego and some sort of big movie dream. So he did the I ride Park city movie and pulled out all the tricks. There was movie crews, helicopters, cable cams on kings crown and pipe, jumps and crazy set ups over mine buildings. All this chaos for this movie he wanted.
Well the movie flopped pretty much. There were pallets of DVDs around. Couldn't even give them away. They tried every trick in the book to sell them or give them away. Pretty sure they all ended up in dumpster or shot as skeet.
Well Mangan got the ax. Or quit. Or both. But there are still pictures and videos of some crazy jumps and shit that went on that last year.
Park_RangerWhy didn't anyone buy the movie? It sounds like the production resources were first class, big name riders, big set ups... what went wrong?
Do you know if there is any footage anywhere?
I had no idea that people actually sessioned that jump after Simon almost died on it... did they also hit it with a tow in?
SkiBum.That's because Jim Mangn had to get the shot and get his movie made. That really worked out well for him...
Park_RangerWhy didn't anyone buy the movie? It sounds like the production resources were first class, big name riders, big set ups... what went wrong?
Do you know if there is any footage anywhere?
I had no idea that people actually sessioned that jump after Simon almost died on it... did they also hit it with a tow in?
dylholeI'm also pretty sure this was a few years before the I Ride Park City theme started. And Mangon wasn't there that morning if I remember correctly, nor did anyone from marketing or PCMR try to talk us into hitting it after the crash. I was just ambitious (dumb?) enough to get another snowmobile driver to give me some speed tests and somehow figured out the right speed and got a few laps on it before the lifts started spinning. Mangon did a good job of putting Park City on the map as far as terrain parks go, and it was plenty common to build jumps that weren't necessarily the safest back then. Look back at some of the jumps Mike Wilson drummed up and this would look like a walk in the park. I think there is some footage of trickery being done on this in one of Off Trail's movies and an old TGR movie too?
Park_RangerYo watch this flick from the OG Riley Poor and you will see how hard Simon used to go. The shit he was doing 15 years ago was so gnarly and ahead of his time.
https://vimeo.com/14951104
Overall, this is a sweet movie that I feel like no one knows about. Tons of awesome history in this.
eheathHeres the trailer, gives you an idea of what the movie was like for sure
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/887926/I-RIde-Park-City
Park_RangerThis is true. He was kind of the Shaun White of our sport for a while.
He had a more clean cut/comp jock image when compared to Tanner, so he got to be the poster boy.
johnblazeHe never wore tight pants though.
Park_RangerIt would be sweet to see a resort produce an all mountain film, shot all over the property.
BenWhiti feel like it really flies under the radar how insane vintage Dumont was. the quarterpipe air. the broken pipe segment. he was kind of a maniac.
jps2.0wtf does dumont do theses days
DeepskierFunny because 80 feet nowadays isnt that big. Wonder why they "needed" a tow in.
SkiBum.Not 100% sure the reason, that was a while ago. Thinking back right now. I want to say by the time it came out it took a while and was already a bit dated. I don't remember how it was pushed or marketed. It just didn't make a splash how it was maybe thought too. The dude above that was there or filming could maybe remember more then me. If you google it you may find it to watch on like YouTube or somewhere.
dylholeI'm also pretty sure this was a few years before the I Ride Park City theme started. And Mangon wasn't there that morning if I remember correctly, nor did anyone from marketing or PCMR try to talk us into hitting it after the crash. I was just ambitious (dumb?) enough to get another snowmobile driver to give me some speed tests and somehow figured out the right speed and got a few laps on it before the lifts started spinning. Mangon did a good job of putting Park City on the map as far as terrain parks go, and it was plenty common to build jumps that weren't necessarily the safest back then. Look back at some of the jumps Mike Wilson drummed up and this would look like a walk in the park. I think there is some footage of trickery being done on this in one of Off Trail's movies and an old TGR movie too?
eheathBut, this is the movie I think the dumont jump was in, this is from 2006
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/887927/City--Park-City--Official-Trailer
