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Anybody else get sick of watching urban from time to time

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dolanslebensraum
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i feel like urban requires so much effort and is only for show. Would anybody ever do urban and not film it? Like how many skiers have ever gone to a big handrail and just hit it for fun? I wouldnt be surprised if the answer was 0.
But lapping the park, you can be lazy as fuck hitting the park rails and doing cork 9s off kickers is something that many good skiers would do just for fun, even without cameras rolling.
Urban rails get pretty repetitive. And the fact that probably no one in the history of skiing has hit an urban rail without filming it is pretty damning to the inevitable claims below that urban rails are fun.
Oct 6 2019 12:59AM
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Young_patty
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Not if it’s good urban
Oct 6 2019 2:27AM
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Knewnews
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how many times the batteries die and people hike til dark? for the love man.

also define big rail please.
Oct 6 2019 2:34AM
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HuumeHippi
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I have done some urban without filming, because we didnt have anything to film with
Oct 6 2019 2:54AM
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AlmostCooler
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DolanReloadedi feel like urban requires so much effort and is only for show. Would anybody ever do urban and not film it?

I’ve mobbed some urban rails with friends for fun. We aren’t very good tho

**This post was edited on Oct 6th 2019 at 11:40:34am
Oct 6 2019 11:39AM
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cory.iyoob
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Probably not as fun as park in a short term sense, but can be more fulfilling depending on what you are tryna do with your skiing
Oct 6 2019 3:31PM
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McMaster_17
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I wouldn't say I get tired of watching urban, but it is nice to watch some nicee chill swag park laps for example changes Phil casabon. gnarly urban is always sick tho.
Oct 6 2019 3:42PM
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fredyferl
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If most urban rails were natural speed I'm sure more people would hit urban just for fun without filming, just like you try a trick in the park without filming. But shovelling stairs, building a lip and pulling a bungee without filming makes absolutely no sense haha
Oct 6 2019 5:14PM
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s.j.mitchell
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Not at all, it’s mind blowing too see how some people use features. I find it hard to get sick of it
Oct 6 2019 5:45PM
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Crust_Station
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I think it depends on the crew, i have no doubt that the second street boys are skiing down sidewalks and fire crackering stairs without filming it all the time. Urban skiing isnt just hitting big handrails, its skiing the streets, getting creative and being out with yr homies
Oct 6 2019 8:04PM
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hi_vis360
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I've gone street skiing and not filmed it so you're wrong
Oct 6 2019 8:16PM
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dolanslebensraum
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pinkcamo1000I've gone street skiing and not filmed it so you're wrong


Keep larping chad.
If you hit a handrail and didnt film it you probably suck enough that footy of your urban wouldnt be worth watching.
For the amount of effort and skill that goes into hitting urban its a waste to not film it, as long as it looks good/decent.
Oct 6 2019 9:56PM
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Crust_Station
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DolanReloadedKeep larping chad.
If you hit a handrail and didnt film it you probably suck enough that footy of your urban wouldnt be worth watching.
For the amount of effort and skill that goes into hitting urban its a waste to not film it, as long as it looks good/decent.


Urban is fun my guy, not everyone is skiing to get sponsored, make edits, etc, some people are just tryna slide rails with planks strapped to their feet.
Oct 6 2019 10:05PM
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LivingDaLife
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Have hit urban without filming several times. It's fun. It's also not boring to watch. You're wrong on basically everything you said.
Oct 6 2019 11:44PM
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dylansiggers
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DolanReloadedKeep larping chad.
If you hit a handrail and didnt film it you probably suck enough that footy of your urban wouldnt be worth watching.
For the amount of effort and skill that goes into hitting urban its a waste to not film it, as long as it looks good/decent.


lol you’ve reached Official Kook Status with this thread homie
Oct 7 2019 1:13AM
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dolanslebensraum
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dylansiggerslol you’ve reached Official Kook Status with this thread homie


Not really man, most people in this thread are agreeing with me.
But by all means, ditch you season pass and go log 100 camera free 8 hour urban sessions this winter instead of cruising effortlessly on a mountain. You should hang out with simon dumont while you hit handrails too. He says it gives you street cred.
Oct 7 2019 5:15AM
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HuumeHippi
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DolanReloadedNot really man, most people in this thread are agreeing with me.

?...no?
Oct 7 2019 5:43AM
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Dlonetti
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I am just baffled by this thread
Oct 7 2019 8:38AM
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CalumSKI
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me n the boys skied a kink rail at lebreton flats in ottawa for fun
also there is a cool down rail by my school that i wanna hit this year
skiing is fun
no matter what
Oct 7 2019 9:07AM
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Sno-Void
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Watching park or mountain is 100x more boring I think (especially park)

Street is the best version of skiing I think. It's unsanctioned, unapproved, uncoached, and unpaid. You get a lot more variety with spot selection and see a lot more unique stuff with different approaches to skiing.

I think it's pretty fun too, I like hanging out with the boys and drinking coffee and being a public menace. And filming isn't a bad thing like I think you're saying, I get stoked being in charge of the cam and filming the homies trick well for sure, especially if it's a spot I can't really step to.

With the way things are going on the resort tip (it costs $130 for a day pass & $1,100 for a seasons pass at my closest mountain), I just get bummed out watching park skiing. It just seems like you're paying a bunch of money to film something that's kinda boring. There is only so much variety of skiing you can do in a pre-built terrain park, it all just kind of blurs together for me. I can't point out a specific park video that I've enjoyed in the last 5 years. I think people are starting to feel that sentiment, which is exciting, I can feel the winds of change in skiing. And these days I can't even really get a filmer up to film me with those prices. (That's not to say i'll never film a park clip again).

That being said I hate using bungees and I never want to touch one again. And I'm tired of seeing winches into wallrides or street jumps.

That's my manifesto thank you.
Oct 7 2019 11:23AM
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hi_vis360
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DolanReloadedKeep larping chad.
If you hit a handrail and didnt film it you probably suck enough that footy of your urban wouldnt be worth watching.
For the amount of effort and skill that goes into hitting urban its a waste to not film it, as long as it looks good/decent.


Dude I would just go to rail gardens solo when there was snow and hit a few rails after work cause I didn't have enough time to make it to the mountain. The rails there are almost always set up and have natural speed so it was super low effort. Yeah I'm not that good but I'm pretty sure you can still have fun skiing if you're not a pro

wheres your urban footy at? Have you ever even skied street?
Oct 7 2019 12:48PM
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CalumSKI
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pinkcamo1000Have you ever even skied street?


he def hasent cause this wouldnt be a thread if he did
Oct 7 2019 12:51PM
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-Dan
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ITT: Guy who has never hit a street rail attempts to discredit the entirety of street skiing in an effort to preserve his fractured ego.

Just find yourself a nice natty speed down rail and have a session. You either hate skiing or you don't. I know where most of us stand.
Oct 7 2019 2:40PM
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dolanslebensraum
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pinkcamo1000Dude I would just go to rail gardens solo when there was snow and hit a few rails after work cause I didn't have enough time to make it to the mountain. The rails there are almost always set up and have natural speed so it was super low effort. Yeah I'm not that good but I'm pretty sure you can still have fun skiing if you're not a pro

wheres your urban footy at? Have you ever even skied street?


Nah. I have zero street credits.
Oct 7 2019 2:54PM
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FapMasterFLEX
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Dolan threads slap, on god.
Oct 7 2019 2:58PM
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dolanslebensraum
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CalumSKIhe def hasent cause this wouldnt be a thread if he did


-DanITT: Guy who has never hit a street rail attempts to discredit the entirety of street skiing in an effort to preserve his fractured ego.

Just find yourself a nice natty speed down rail and have a session. You either hate skiing or you don't. I know where most of us stand.

Meh. Your missing the point. About 1% of good skiers would ever hit urban without filming it.
Stop pretending that fact is not crucially damning to the “i would do big urban hits just for fun” Argument
Oct 7 2019 3:00PM
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CalumSKI
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DolanReloadedMeh. Your missing the point. About 1% of good skiers would ever hit urban without filming it.
Stop pretending that fact is not crucially damning to the “i would do urban hits just for fun” Argument


I would do urban hits for fun
filming is a hassle and I ski for fun, not footage
Oct 7 2019 4:49PM
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-Dan
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DolanReloadedMeh. Your missing the point. About 1% of good skiers would ever hit urban without filming it.
Stop pretending that fact is not crucially damning to the “i would do big urban hits just for fun” Argument

The point you are trying to make is only arrived at when you apply some incorrect assumptions. The first is that you lump all of street skiing into “big urban hits” or you are saying those are the only ones worth doing/watching. None of that is true.
The next problem is you assume street skiing is only done if it’s filmed. This is also not true as made clear by other responses. Even if it were true I don’t see how that would take away from it at all. You say it’s not fun and people only do it to film it. Let’s assume that’s the truth, although it’s clearly not. In that reality it still exists and filming it is fun, or the results of working towards a full part or project are fun. And what is the problem with skiing only being a part of the entire fun process? No problem. So again, go hit a spot and find out how fun it is for you. Maybe it’s more fun when you tell the stories about getting kicked out, or show your crash clips, or building spots is more fun for you or maybe filming it is the fun part and you love making a full part. Whatever it may be, skiing is at the heart of it.

For me the fun is the experience with my friends. Filming it is a way of remembering. When I see a 4 second clip that I was around for I get to remember a whole day, or even a whole trip, of skiing with friends. Make a full part and there is a whole season wrapped into 3-5minutes. Looking back on a year of shenanigans, hard work, mishaps and success with the right people is what’s fun to me.
Oct 7 2019 5:03PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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i think it'd be cool if people made ski segments like skate segments. i mean you look at a good skate segment and it's probably 60/40 street to park riding. plus park skiing is so much more relatable to the average park skier. not to discredit people that pour their heart and soul into a full street part but most of my favourite edits have been ones that were filmed solely in a public park during public hours. idk it just seems like more of a fun vibe and they're not doing it because they have to.
Oct 7 2019 7:01PM
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PKchu
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Getting clips and putting together a part is super fun, but for me personally I think it's a little more about the satisfaction that comes with it. The actual skiing is so fun, being out there with your best homies and accomplishing what you've been trying so hard to do. I don't ski street and I never did a lot in the past, but I feel like it's the same as skiing pow in that sense. The experience and getting out there, skiing, and landing what you work hard towards
Oct 7 2019 9:49PM
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Sno-Void
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.Dadi think it'd be cool if people made ski segments like skate segments. i mean you look at a good skate segment and it's probably 60/40 street to park riding. plus park skiing is so much more relatable to the average park skier. not to discredit people that pour their heart and soul into a full street part but most of my favourite edits have been ones that were filmed solely in a public park during public hours. idk it just seems like more of a fun vibe and they're not doing it because they have to.

I don't know what skate videos you're watching but every 'real' part or full length is 100% street.
Oct 7 2019 10:06PM
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dolanslebensraum
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Any urban worth doing is worth filming.
Keep spewing the bullshit wall of text, pretending that skiers would drive around looking for serious rails just to hit for fun without filming.
Most people in this thread agree with me.
Cut the shit, nobody with half decent skiing ability is going to go accomplish something impressive in urban without documenting it on film.
Ive yet to hear some skier brag about 450ing an urban rail they didnt get on film.
Its ridiculous. Watch the urban in ahmets eye trip part, and tell me he would do that shit without getting it on camera.
Oct 7 2019 10:08PM
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YeetCannon
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Depends, street guys go balls to the wall (literally) and when they arent doing something nuts it can seem slow.
Oct 7 2019 10:09PM
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HuumeHippi
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DolanReloadedAny urban worth doing is worth filming.
Keep spewing the bullshit wall of text, pretending that skiers would drive around looking for serious rails just to hit for fun without filming.
Most people in this thread agree with me.
Cut the shit, nobody with half decent skiing ability is going to go accomplish something impressive in urban without documenting it on film.
Ive yet to hear some skier brag about 450ing an urban rail they didnt get on film.
Its ridiculous. Watch the urban in ahmets eye trip part, and tell me he would do that shit without getting it on camera.


I have actually hitted that rail at 3:02 in eye trip without filming it. I ski for myself, not for other people, i'm not trying to get sponspred or anything, if i see a rail in movie and know where it is, why not hit it?
Oct 8 2019 4:27AM
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LivingDaLife
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HuumeHippiI have actually hitted that rail at 3:02 in eye trip without filming it. I ski for myself, not for other people, i'm not trying to get sponspred or anything, if i see a rail in movie and know where it is, why not hit it?


Is that the same rail Wallisch switch 450ed onto? Looks similar...Minnesota, right?
Oct 8 2019 3:46PM
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GrandThings
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Last year I put on my skis in my flat ass Boston backyard just to see if I could full 360 out of a bunch bounce on some stumps.

I was by 100% myself, 100% did not film it, and 100% had a ton of fun...
Oct 8 2019 4:39PM
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tsingtaofanatic
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I’m honestly surprised you said that. I would say urban is different every time because there is always so much variety in the rails and features you can find. I would say watching skiing in the park is more boring (if it’s always the same of course).
Oct 8 2019 5:11PM
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