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Which pro has done most for the sport?
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tanner hall. tanner has progressed it immensely publicly.. don't go all individualistic emo liberal shit on me for sayin the word public... he has sponsored the sport well and works his tail off to do it i think
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its not whos the most popular
like i said earlier very few people who dont follow skateboarding know mike v. but everyone knows tony hawk yea theyve both done a fair amount for the sport but mike v. made it cheap so more people could do it
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I was just thinking who has drawn new people into the sport.
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Tanner
Pollard
Cusson
Morrison
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simon dumont invented the half pipe after all...
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Pretty sure it was McConkey with the whole fat ski/twins thing. Him, douglas, new canadian air force . . .
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Plake- Between his skiing, and his design work with Krypton.
Morrison - Big mountain insanity
Douglas - We might not have twins without him
Pollard - Progression, what?
McConkey - Fat skis might not be what they are now without him.
Ughhh.. there are so many other skiers that are SOOOOOO close, like the New Canadian Air Force, as they helped show Salomon why twins were needed as well.
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Douglas and Jp pushed it to begin with.
Tanner and candide and jon pushing it now
mahre, seth and pollard push it in the backcounty
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well there is more then just one like (correct em if i am wrong)
mike douglas helped invernt the twin tip (or put it into production)
jp auclair for being who he is
johnny mosley for inverntign things like grabs
sorry about the spellings
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u all kidding me... glen plake started it all
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Glen Plake, Seth Morrison, Shane McConkey, Tanner Hall, Mike Douglas, Johnny Mosley, Eric Pollard, Simon Dumont and JP Auclair... they all contributed soo much to the sport
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JP AUCLAIR AND DARLA HALL
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add Doug Coombs to that list
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for sure the New Canadian Air Force, back in the day, cause the were the ones that pretty much invented twin tip skis with salomon
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jon olsson and tanner hall and simon dumont have changed it the most. espn has helpd also with the x games. even hicks no wat it is.
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Jp auclair, Jon, Tanner
And I would say simon dumont for the pipe. at the time where the riders in the pipe would go 5 feet high doig 1 540 and a couple of grab in their run and then finish with a 900, simon was the one going fast, high and getting more and more technical tricks.
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umm, no he wasn't very technical just was going huge...jon and candide and cr really progressed pipe skiing. the first year simon won, look and jon and crighton's runs, both were super technical, and had as much air as tanner got the first year he won (which he shouldn't have). also, jon is the only reason pipe stayed in the x-games, since everyone else's runs were a joke that first year. cr and candide i shouldn't have to talk about.
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Basically Mike D rocks so hard
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Dylan Natale
Tim Durtschi
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vanular will revolutionize the future
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