A message from Kent Kreitler

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for those of you on facebook you can view it here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140334687063&ref=nf

I feel like some of you know who Kent is, some may not. Kent is a big mountain ripper, used to appear in the old MSP movies every year.

Here's his take on it:

"I just happened to very randomly come across this. These guys have generally been about doing as little as they possibly can for the skiers. I was banned from skiing for Warren Miller years ago because I would not sign their B.S. contracts giving them all the rights to everything you do and we had various confrontations over the one time that I did ski for them in AK. These guys have massive ticket sales and sell footage to ad agencies, reality television and others around the world and you won't ever see a thing. From what I have seen, you are treated no better than a circus monkey if you are in a Warren Miller film. You have to decide if you want your integrity or "exposure"- not an easy call all the time. I have absolutely no idea what is going on in the ski industry at this point but I hope you kids are standing together and putting an end to this type of thing by now. It's impossible to achieve much alone but together you can make things happen. Tons of love to all and WM himself."

good to see some of the old big names still have a love for the industry, even if they aren't a part of it anymore.

Sep 24 2009 11:45PM

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"These guys have massive ticket sales and sell footage to ad agencies, reality television and others around the world and you won't ever see a thing."

Was WME some how responsible for Talon Manning?

Sep 24 2009 11:47PM

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K-Thomas

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also, good find Trevor. very interesting to see a respected athlete like Kent Kreitler's take on it.

Sep 24 2009 11:47PM

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Ski.Ballet

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Wise words from a true legend.

Sep 24 2009 11:48PM

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JTK

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appeared in classic TGR movies as well

Sep 24 2009 11:49PM

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Willard

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wow i dont think a single person from ns will ever attend a wm film again

Sep 24 2009 11:50PM

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TWoods

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I don't think most people involved in the industry will ever attend a WME film again

Sep 24 2009 11:51PM

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Willard

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is the word on tgr yet and what are they saying?

Sep 24 2009 11:52PM

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Ski.Ballet

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Similar comments, except they don't appear to be nearly as upset about it as NS.

Sep 24 2009 11:56PM

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TWoods

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they aren't as invested in level 1. they are more into.... TGR movies. haha. so that makes sense.

Sep 25 2009 12:15AM

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No, they are just as upset. Most people on TGR just posses a vocabulary large enough to come up with something more then: "Fuck WME!"

Since many of them are also working professionals, many in law, they also have a tendency to think out what could actually happen.

Sep 25 2009 12:15AM

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JTK

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translation: its full of old people... who are better than us.

Sep 25 2009 12:18AM

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TWoods

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well, at least know more than us. generally. haha.

Sep 25 2009 12:24AM

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KyleA

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Hey, my name is not KyleA, BUT props to Kent Kreitler! You fuckin kill it in the BC, and thanks for putting out the true word of some of the actions taking place behind the big show aka the "premiers". For so many kids who are willing to do anything to get exposure its very easy to pass up your values to achieve the "dream".

Anyhow, MAD RESPECT TO KENT KREITLER

Sep 25 2009 12:28AM

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Shlogan

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thanks for the read, nice to see a skiers support for skiers rights, i have not read all of the threads yet, could anyone tell me how much they are being sued for?

Sep 25 2009 12:35AM

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freezed

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kent kreitler is the man. i hope even if he's not actively involved, he's still shredding somewhere...

Sep 25 2009 12:37AM

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Sep 25 2009 1:48AM

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TWoods

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When you shred as hard as kent, I don't think you can actually NOT shred. haha.

Sep 25 2009 1:53AM

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Tortao

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kent is the fucking man. i remember watching him in the old tgr movies, he shreds sooo hard

Sep 25 2009 2:11AM

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Kent is the man... an early pioneer of our version of skiing, and perhaps one of, if not the first, to truly cork a 360.

Its amazing to see the support of the people that were my idols and inspiration while growing up!

Thank you Kent.

Sep 25 2009 2:27AM

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"These guys have massive ticket sales and sell footage to ad agencies, reality television..."

This is probably how tanner's crash got on true tv. Not sure if that was ever in a WM film tho..

Sep 25 2009 9:20AM

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im glad to have read that

Sep 25 2009 11:12AM

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Caveman.

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Anyone remember the TGR film from a couple years back where they had the WHistler segment that crudely made fun of Warren Miller? Where was the uproar over that one? Maybe WME was afraid to go after a company the size of TGR..

Sep 25 2009 12:02PM

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most WME movies premieres are attended by families and weekend warriors that ski trails outside of the park. so regardless of any 'boycott' WME will still sell out venues and make money. I think level 1 and warren miller should have reviewed his WME contract a little closer...

Sep 25 2009 1:16PM

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fouldsys

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very insightful. thanks for posting that.

Sep 25 2009 1:44PM

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fouldsys

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ya pretty sure that was anomoly. it was a thoroughly entertaining segment. i wasnt aware of any uproar after that though.

Sep 25 2009 1:49PM

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mvele

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What is Warren saying about this?

Sep 25 2009 1:51PM

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likely keeping his mouth shut. which is what I would do.

Sep 25 2009 1:57PM

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He's 84 now, does anybody other than me think that WME putting this kind of stress on him is, on top of everything else, is a very selfish thing to do? If for no other reason than that it is nothing but unnecessary stress caused in the life of the man who is the middle of all of this.

Sep 25 2009 2:16PM

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This whole story makes me sad. The only thing you can really do is to avoid any WME productions and tell as many people involved in the ski industry about this.

And Kent Kreitler was one of the reason I got into skiing. When skiing still seemed boring to many I saw him and Micah Black throwing back scratchers off 25 ft cliffs. That was when I wanted to be like that. Way to rip fellas and stand up for what is right.

Sep 25 2009 2:37PM

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Willard

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i do remeber that it was the snowboard seggy but they didnt break any laws

Sep 25 2009 3:24PM

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