Jon's new dubs!!!!!

jos-in-nz · 2007-02-26 19:13:06

ok so jon has just got 2 new dubs 2day! the DJ flip. DJ 10(d-spin 630 to flat 450) and the DJ 12(d-spin 630 to flat 630). yup jon is unbeatable now!!!

Sideways_Shane

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sick!

Mar 2 2007 4:53PM

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shoenice22

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yea he knows his shit

Mar 3 2007 12:01AM

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tori

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WORD.

Kids, what does skiing mean to you? Win at all costs, or just pure enjoyment of the mountains?
Jon seems to spend his time on skis either training or competing. He did US Open/X, then flew all the way to Australia with a coach to train on a seriously shitty water ramp facility for weeks. Then he goes back to the snow only to build a replica of his comp jump, and hit that same jump over and over. All so he can win his own invitational. Yes he's landed something new and insanely technical - but how many people are doing Kangaroo flips now?!!
Is that where you want our competetive sport to go? Racing styles? Where in order to get the one up on the competition you have to be priveleged enough to spend all your time with a coach - drilling things over and over, spending most of your training time OFF snow, ...don't want to go freeskiing coz you might get hurt for next weeks competition... phsssssssh. That's not why ANY of us are here.

As Doug has said, snowboarders (Travis Rice , David Benedek) have been doing 'doubles' for a couple of years now - and guess what? No one else in the sport seems to give a shit! See many doubles in this years snowboard X Slopestyle?

I call a 2 year fad. At the most. But hey, if it wasn't this then it'd just be a competition to see how many extra 180's can be added to a cab 10....

Mar 3 2007 4:43AM

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tori

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Glad you see it that way Jos. Still want a competetive ski career?!!

Mar 3 2007 4:45AM

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freeskiing is on a level where the pro´s have to train hard for their success..... i bet all of them spendin a lot time @the gym to push the limits further and further... like jon said in his interview, he wants to invent new tricks, so that is totally legit. he also has a huge racing background so he is used to train in a way like that. tanner wants to use more and more natural features for his tricks, simon goes bigger and bigger in the pipe and jon want to step up the technical level to a point nobody else can do it.... so what is your problem? what does skiing mean to you? everybody has a different opinion of that... jon had more powder days in his life than all of u so why the fuck should he care..?

Mar 3 2007 6:20AM

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tori

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For me skiing is about freedom. Im just saying that the direction things are going is looking a lot more like racing/moguls - purely in the regimented training sense and the cost of being competetive. I know for a fact that all of these guys spend a lot of time in the gym - you have to if you want to continue doing this sport for a long time - but that is a far cry from introducing tricks that can ONLY be learnt on water ramps, of which there are very few facitlities in the world. So it becomes not a question of who is the best, but who can afford the travel and coaches. Its hardly a level playing field.

Mar 3 2007 4:54PM

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Well, I hade to step in and let you knw what I think!
I ski because I love it, carving, powder, bumps, park... I think it all great! but I am also compeditive and live do develop my sking, and where the level is at right now you need to train to reach new levels, you cant just go out and chill and raise the bar.. But this is still freeride to me as I CHOOSE to do this, I love feeling the rush when I push myself and do stuff that scares me..
I dont have a coach telling me to get up at 7am, I love what I do and that is what drives me to get up in the morning and try to reach my goals...
Now when I did what I wanted, I can go out and ski around and enjoy skiing for what it is, because to me skiing is freedom, I have the freedom to do what I want and if I CHOOSE to go hit I water ramp to achive my goals, is that so bad?
I do have the opportunity to go to OZ and hit the ramps, but it was not given to me, I worked hard for it!

Mar 4 2007 9:47PM

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sick jon I'm sure every body will like your new dbl like we all liked the kangoro...keep it up

Mar 4 2007 10:31PM

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those sound gay. dub flips should be left to airialists!

Mar 29 2007 11:13AM

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jons insane...

Mar 29 2007 5:12PM

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he deff. is.

Mar 29 2007 6:22PM

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i got mad respect for that. it's not like he just has a rich daddy who pays for him to go to water ramps. And almost all of us have some sort of a competitive spirit, so if you had the opportunity to be the best at what you do, wouldn't you do it? ya it takes a lot of hard work but that is probably pretty cool knowing that you are the only one that can do a trick like that.

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