the future of skiing has something terrible in store.
competition skiers are still generally all the skiers that will be thrown into videos. In skiing there is no LINE that seperates competition jocks and skiers that go out and just film.
In snowboarding, you can see that competiton boarders make good money. It doesnt matter what boarders really do in big air and halfpipe competitions because if they spin to win or not, they'll get their sponser check and the check for winning the competiton or placing, whatever.
Then, you have your boarders that the most respect is shown to, which is mostly the guys who just go out and film. Well, luckily in the snowboard world you can get paid for that too, and you can do technical tricks without worrying about doing a 630 onto a downrail, or a 450 pretzel 630.
skiings wack as fuck, either you compete and flip like a fucking mad man and make money and get thrown in movies because your sponser pays for you to be in them, because you have good comp results, which in skiing means your automattically good or pleasing to watch.
I just feel bad for guys like josh bibby, frank raymond, or anyone else really like those two who are really good skiers who dont go compete and just try to do all the tricks that will get them farther in the "ski" industry, and because of that are pretty much making next to nothing. (doubleflips, spinning to win on rails, pretzeling every fucking spin on a rail)
skiing IS wack.
