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ilyshorty13
Posts: 30 - Karma: -19
Does the goat of different ski events change as the gear changes? I can’t imagine someone back in the day had the same opportunities that new skiers have. Lebron and Jordan were playing the same sport with mostly the same gear but skis are constantly changing as are boots and training methods. Is it even possible to call someone the goat when it could change with the gear
Oct 20 2024 6:50PM
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Slowbro
Posts: 3822 - Karma: 20,852
Nah you could have landed any triple people can do these days on a pair of scratches from 2004. Pipe skis have remained mostly the same so I don’t think gear advancing is a huge factor in pipe either.

Gear has probably made a bigger difference in big mountain / backcountry freestyle
Oct 20 2024 6:55PM
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Farmville420
Posts: 4570 - Karma: 58,254
training methods got more efficient but I promise you that if Candide had all the water ramps and airbags that Troy P had, he was never gonna learn how to do that weird ass double flatspin pretzel shit, kids are so good these days its absurd
Oct 20 2024 7:12PM
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KilaTsunami
Posts: 2884 - Karma: 27,249
Farmville420training methods got more efficient but I promise you that if Candide had all the water ramps and airbags that Troy P had, he was never gonna learn how to do that weird ass double flatspin pretzel shit, kids are so good these days its absurd


That’s a good fuckin point
Oct 20 2024 7:32PM
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SteezyYeeter
Posts: 3527 - Karma: -11,579
idc Candide is still the goat
Oct 20 2024 7:53PM
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1spliff2guinnies
Posts: 728 - Karma: 2,502
Gear not so much. But athletes have so many training resources and better understandings of biomechanics nowadays that most tricks are in reach from a young age. Juniors throw dub 10's like its nothing.
Oct 20 2024 8:31PM
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