dwt802Not wrong. Durham grew up a mogul kid (probably with money) and transitioned to freeskiing when he was young and flexed his age for years. He was surrounded by people at carinthia, sugarbush, sunapee, and more naturally acculturated him into a core east coast scene while he also attended ski academy at the same time. Add social media into the picture and all of a sudden he knows exactly what’s cool and what’s not when it comes to what to wear. Meanwhile he learned so fast and in a structured manner resulting in horrible style(imo). He’s probably out of touch as fuck with the real skiing community but appears as if he is it, but because of how he was influenced and appears, kids start to look up to him now as he’s older now and it all makes sense because of all this.
that kinda all sounded negative but no hate to the kid, he’s a dirty skier and was just into one scene but was actually in another and is kinda goofy but so are most skier kids from his era. He’s really not that bad compared to Luke which I won’t go into.
at the end of the day though they both rip and are just having fun so kids looking up to them isn’t the worst thing (assuming they’re good people in actuality) even though it won’t be as good for the culture as to where influence has been now and in the past.
Luckily we got young snow and others emerging too…
**This post was edited on Oct 20th 2022 at 5:01:53pm
you do realize young snow goes to the same academy? many others have, the gnoza brothers, bode raffa, mac forehand to name a few. It’s fair to assume they’re all privileged, but imo it doesn’t take anything away from the skiing. they all have distinguishable styles, along with trick selection. Money shouldn’t have anything to do with style, i’d agree most academy skiers are very stiff, spin to win. But i’ve seen many kids on ig from Minnesota who also ski stiff as a board and spin 2 con 6s in every ig post.
Im just tryna say focusing on someone’s financial state as a way to critique them in a sport that’s already inherently expensive & inaccessible is quite dumb. There’s plenty of stylish wealthy skiers and non wealthy skiers. Same goes with less fortunate skiers.
Y’all feel free to hate on peoples style or skiing including my own. But bringing money into it is lame imo.
Sry for the rant op^^ this isn’t only directed at you as it’s a common theme on NSers and i once felt the same way.
