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Uh, you mean the Freeride WORLD Tour. The other "world tour" is actually just the north american one. the best north american comp skiers are on the FWT- cody and drew. America is not a planet people.
And yeah, Henrik won it in his debut year which is pretty ridiculous.
To the question:
A) It's a retarded question that has been asked a million times already and still never produces an answer.
B) It's probably Tanner, but only based on NS 'best skier' criteria. TGR would probably say Hugo Harrison or similar.
C) How many times do you have to be wrong and still not learn? I can't believe there are still people talking shit about Jon's big mtn skills. Sigh.... If you have to explain....
D) Gus Kenworthy? PARK CITY (or wherever he skis) IS NOT A PLANET. Doing pretzels on a rail isn't sdiR$&"*^T£"£&%"^£.
E) I'm gonna say Candide just because.
F) Next generation: Kye, Pettits, Thomas Krief, and apparently Jossi kills it in the big mtns so we'll see.
I've become immune from north-american attempts at sarcasm, and i'm broke right now so haven't been able to scrape together the funds for a new sarcasm meter, as a result of which I really can't tell if that is a joke. I'll have to assume so until i find evidence to the contrary, but there's a small part of me that is horribly afraid it wasn't. Please would you clear up the confusion on my part.
Much obliged xx
No problem. I wasn't directly calling you out, I was more referring to the large percentage of north americans on ns with a tendency to think of the north american ski scene as the entirity of skiing.
And the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to think it's a shoot-out between Tanner, Jon and Henrik Windstedt. Tanner's attributes don't need much justification although I would say that his pipe domination, while being mighty impressive, is perhaps slightly cheapened by the lack of genuine depth to pipe skiing. What I'm saying is that there are probably 20 guys in the world that could realitically win X games slope or even big air (or at least 10) whereas in pipe the field is considerably narrower. That said, perhaps it merely seems that way because tanner is just so much better, who knows....
And still there are idiots doubting Jon's big mtn credentials... Just because he hasn't had afilm segment on it. Wake the fuck up kids. If a tree falls in a forest and you weren't there to hear it, you honestly believe it didn't make a sound? The result of the only big mtn competition Jon ever entered speaks for itself: gold. against the likes of kaj zackrisson, sverre lillequist, stian hagen, seb garhammer etc. For those of you who are aware that there is life outside Amurkah and therefore know who the fuck i'm talking about, well... thanks i guess. And say what you wil about big mtn comps but they sure as fuck are a truer test of ones skiing than creamy pillows.
Which brings me to Windstedt, a former elite park skier who has won the freeride world tour in his rookie year... You see where I'm going with this? You could argue the merits of almost anyone legitimately, for hours and there would still be no answer.
p.s. its candide by the way, just because.
Skiing does revolve around North America bitch. Even racing now. Stop spraying your Euro trash here. Your entire statment about halfpipe skiing is retarded. That big mt. contest that Jon won was a joke. Ask your friends Kaj and Stian. And what the fuck do you know about creamy pillows. Long pillow lines are super complex to ski because everything is blind. You can hardly ever see your line when starting or while in it for that matter. You have no clue. Shut it.
