Petition to BRING BACK X Games Real Ski

I agree there's a lot of street skiers who deserve more support but I'm not sure if real ski is the best way to do that

What if X Games hosted an event like Red Bull Heavy Metal for the street skiers?

The Dew Tour Streetstyle was nice to give some street skiers exposure, but it was pretty much a slopestyle rail course.

Opened this thread to say shame that Joona Sipola never got to do realski but you beat me there.

We on the same page buddy 🤛!!

JAHnOpened this thread to say shame that Joona Sipola never got to do realski but you beat me there.

Oooo I actually like that…I think Thrasher bust or bail for skateboarding actually provides a good model for how you can make a street aspect a kinda hype comp 🤔

John18_6What if X Games hosted an event like Red Bull Heavy Metal for the street skiers?

The Dew Tour Streetstyle was nice to give some street skiers exposure, but it was pretty much a slopestyle rail course.

real ski was the sickest event and costs X games almost $0 to put on so i dont fuckin get why they ever pulled it.

partyandBSreal ski was the sickest event and costs X games almost $0 to put on so i dont fuckin get why they ever pulled it.

It cost more than they wanted to spend, that's how large corporations work. At this point, this event should be ran by a small independent company, but you'd still need a solid $50-100k.

John18_6What if X Games hosted an event like Red Bull Heavy Metal for the street skiers?

The Dew Tour Streetstyle was nice to give some street skiers exposure, but it was pretty much a slopestyle rail course.

real, they close streets and stuff for marathons, they should be able to for ski comps as well lol. prob not enough support for it tho.

eheathIt cost more than they wanted to spend, that's how large corporations work. At this point, this event should be ran by a small independent company, but you'd still need a solid $50-100k.

SLVSH should take on a similar venture. the platform is already established. the expense is really on the skiers resources and then the winning purses of course.

i don’t think this is the best way to support street skiers. Jake Mageu on the Level 1 podcast was talking about how you basically need to budget losing money on filming a real ski. Like factoring in food, travel, tickets, health care/injuries, lodiging, gas/car maintenance. It ads up not including cameras and winches and skis etc. Maybe a smaller event like a super unknown but solely street. Or a open event like steel city show down, with large cash prizes and open entry

I think that Forre dropping the best ski movie every season and offering the option to buy the movie before free release is a great strategy for urban skiing. The production is so much better than any real ski would be and I love how there are always a bunch of homies with clips in the movie. Go buy Forre Movie 2 and watch it right now btw.

partyandBSreal ski was the sickest event and costs X games almost $0 to put on so i dont fuckin get why they ever pulled it.

i would guess it used to cost X around 100k or more. the last year they put it on, each rider/filmer duo would receive 10k to cover expenses for filming a part. X also had to pay a producer to organize everything, contract other filmers to do the interviews, an editor to make the full show, someone to host the show, set design, pay judges to review and decide winners, etc... then advertising. it's not cheap at all for them to make it.

WoFlowzi don’t think this is the best way to support street skiers. Jake Mageu on the Level 1 podcast was talking about how you basically need to budget losing money on filming a real ski. Like factoring in food, travel, tickets, health care/injuries, lodiging, gas/car maintenance. It ads up not including cameras and winches and skis etc. Maybe a smaller event like a super unknown but solely street. Or a open event like steel city show down, with large cash prizes and open entry

maybe not the best but also not the worst. mango is right, but we did receive budgets to cover expenses. so, whether we exceeded that was sort of on us. most of the people who would be invited would already be established anyway so skis, winch, camera eqpt. wasn't really the first consideration, it was really for paying accomodation, food, travel and using those other tools that presumably we already had access to.

something that has an open entry component would be awesome. making a street part takes such a ridiculous amount of time, though, so it wouldn't work in a week or a few days like SU or steel city, not even considering snow levels somewhere on a given year, people in different places around the world, etc.

partyandBSthe expense is really on the skiers resources and then the winning purses of course.

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SteezyYeeterreal, they close streets and stuff for marathons, they should be able to for ski comps as well lol. prob not enough support for it tho.

A rail jam that shuts down wall street, that'd be the day. Wall Rides at Wall Street

gravelL take

im surprised they were paying the teams $10k for a 1:30 segment. with a shit ton of the footage being recycled into other videos, its almost like X was fronting a large portion of other film projects. i guess that makes more sense as to why they wouldn’t continue the event. i assumed they invited a bunch of top athletes and the ones that were already doing film projects would accept. in that case its kinda fucked that they gave Magnus $10k for a 3 trick edit.

partyandBSim surprised they were paying the teams $10k for a 1:30 segment. with a shit ton of the footage being recycled into other videos, its almost like X was fronting a large portion of other film projects. i guess that makes more sense as to why they wouldn’t continue the event. i assumed they invited a bunch of top athletes and the ones that were already doing film projects would accept. in that case its kinda fucked that they gave Magnus $10k for a 3 trick edit.

do you know how much time and money it takes to make a street video? and you think that should come out of riders' pockets?

as far as recycling clips - depends on the filmer/skier. some people have ethics about not recycling, some of us not as much. either way, all of the riders committed to, at least initially, releasing their X videos midseason outside of their own platforms and crews.

regardless of all of that, they put corporate branding from advertising sponsors on content made by individuals. that's plenty justification for them to give a budget for expenses.

graveldo you know how much time and money it takes to make a street video? and you think that should come out of riders' pockets?

as far as recycling clips - depends on the filmer/skier. some people have ethics about not recycling, some of us not as much. either way, all of the riders committed to, at least initially, releasing their X videos midseason outside of their own platforms and crews.

regardless of all of that, they put corporate branding from advertising sponsors on content made by individuals. that's plenty justification for them to give a budget for expenses.

naw never said it should come out of the riders pocket. i just assumed that the expense was not covered by xgames. therefore i assumed it was on the rider and their sponsors to front the bill as the exposure from the x games platform is what they are actually investing in. glad to hear that wasnt the case but that certainly makes it a lot more expensive of an event for them to hold than i originally thought.

in some senses i dont like recycled clips but if its from the 1:30 real ski and then incorporated into a longer project, sick. multiple projects? ehh idk.

but yeah curious what the watch count is on real ski as it was my favorite event. i for sure watched every video and tried to catch the live stream.