To all those that think selling out is bad for our sport...

skiierman · 2010-11-02 20:32:20

check out my new entry for why selling out is great for skiing and why Brink almost killed it.

geet

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nah

Nov 2 2010 8:34PM

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skiierman

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i still appreciate you looking at it and rating it before ever reading it!

Nov 2 2010 8:37PM

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smuggs

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skiing was around before the money that you people think the sport needs even existed.

/end thread

Nov 2 2010 8:38PM

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skiierman

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possibly, but then again, how restricted would our sport be without that money?

Nov 2 2010 8:41PM

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chicken

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I agree with what you are saying, but the way you said it was terrible. It was just so unbelievably full of fallacies.

seriously look at this excerpt...

"....It might simply be because kids who are still in grade school are fucking idiots. They're all stupid, brazen, little chipped pieces of crusted up discharge that only know what they see on TV...."

I just find it ironic that you were attacking grade school kids in such a juvenile way.

Nov 2 2010 8:55PM

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Skierman isn't intelligent, so he puts everyone down by cussing them out to make it seem so. I could care less what he says.

Nov 2 2010 9:02PM

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"Chocolate"

Nov 2 2010 9:11PM

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smuggs

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what do you mean restricted, my favorite thing about the sport is that i can put on some skins and climb a mountain then come down.

but i did find this picture from 1931.... shocking and i guess it was best the sport was full of sell outs!

Nov 2 2010 9:17PM

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best. movie. evar! (at least on the Disney Channel).

Nov 2 2010 9:47PM

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Heath.

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You need to separate your ideas with paragraphs, reading your blog makes my eyes bleed, because its infinite lines of reading.

Nov 2 2010 9:48PM

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Wibby

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cool blog...

Having big name sponsors does not mean selling out.

Athletes should be paid.

Selling out is changing your ideals/brand/product for the dollar and in a direction that is different than you once were.

Nov 2 2010 9:51PM

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Wait your hating on grade school kids when you clearly weren't there to find out what it was all about? Try indents and paragraphs next time buddy that blog hurts my eyes.

Nov 2 2010 9:52PM

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some of this is true but you need to chill the fuck out and make paragraphs (that's one of the first thing we learn a school)

Nov 2 2010 9:54PM

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emryium

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Stop complaining about the text block, it takes a minute to read... And Skierman is right but only up to a point. As long as the sponsers have something to do with skiing its cool(Nike, Adidas, Monster, even coca-cola. If Macy's were to sponser Tanner Hall, I might have a shit storm though.

Nov 2 2010 9:56PM

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100% agree, selling out is not getting a big name sponsor. Selling out (in my opinion) Would be doing something against your morals just to make money. This whole, who is a sell out and who isn't, is really quite a terrible argument. Some people seem to think that "selling out" means you signed with a big name sponsor that doesn't produce a product specific to your area of interest (Energy drinks signing skiers, shoe companies signing bands... ect.). It does not make you a "sell-out" to want to make money doing something you love. When was the last time that a sport suddenly stopped being fun just because it became popular? I would say never, but you can argue that if you want. In my mind, When somebody stops doing something, whether it be: a sport, listing to a certain type of music or wearing a type of clothing; Then they have sold-out to the notion of a "sell-out". I don't know what everyone else thinks, but if you don't want to do something just because it is popular then, I am glad to have you gone.

Nov 2 2010 10:11PM

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Soul Skaters FTW
And they got spanced by the most legit company ever "Pup n Suds"

Nov 2 2010 10:14PM

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selling out is not good for skiing! TEMPORARY money is good for a while but its an investment in quick funds usually, and so money will actually be taken out of the sport and noone will no longer know what they stand for once all the ideals and morals of the community have been raped and pillaged for profit. and then all is left out to dry like your mums crusty panties.

^my opinion

btw. I did not read your point coz you had no link.

Nov 2 2010 10:17PM

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I Lol'd

Nov 2 2010 10:23PM

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Isn't Simon Dumont sponsored by target?

Nov 2 2010 10:25PM

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This is exactly what I was thinking.

Oh and I'm in grade school, and I barely watch TV. This means that according to you I am a little chipped piece of crusted up discharge that only knows what I see on TV, and since I barely watch TV I must know nothing.

Not all kids in grade school are dumbasses, I may not have years of experience on my side, but I am capable of much more than you seem to think someone in grade school is capable of. For instance, enstead of spending hours wasting my life infront of a screen displaying images that are often ment for pure amusement, I personally find reading a book amusing as well as a better manner of broadening my horizons.

Sorry for the hate, but your statements concerning people of my age are prejudicial and mostly false.

Nov 2 2010 10:25PM

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skiierman

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yeah, good point. i'll have to do that next time.

Nov 2 2010 10:37PM

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skiierman

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i hate the term blog... but i'm sure people see selling out as say jossi and tj being on nike's team although its widely known that nike uses sweatshops, even though jossi and tj aren't supporters of such a thing. then again, i went on the definition of what brink used because he's one of the most influential people in action sports, aside from johnny tsunami.

Nov 2 2010 10:40PM

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i believe that's the glove company's logo aswell as targets. they look the same.

i believe it to be called Empyre? Empire? whatever.

Nov 2 2010 10:41PM

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steezee5

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Smail makes me agree with him yet again.

OP really sucks, to make a name for himself that way. Whether it's online or a joke or not. Time and effort can both be spent so much more productively, so easily!

Nov 2 2010 10:45PM

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jason...

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that was straight painful to read. if you want people to take you seriously try sorting your wall of text into paragraphs, you consistently call people stupid and yet you can't even perform this simple task.

another point if you want people to take you seriously, try not insulting people right and left, or at least if you're going to do it use something better than just seeing how many swear words you can mix together in one sentence.

"It might simply be because kids who are still in grade school are fucking idiots. They're all stupid, brazen, little chipped pieces of crusted up discharge that only know what they see on TV and how to make book covers with newspaper. They have NO sense of how to survive outside of their mom's uterus."

how old are you man? you're probably over 20 but you sound like a whiny 15 year old in every fucking post you make.

these kids and their parents are the reason skiers have the means to be considered sell-outs. you think any well adjusted 20 year old is going to buy something just because Tom Wallisch wears it? no, some 13 year old on their moms credit card sure as hell is though.

"With that said, I hope some of you know-it-all dick-heads are reading this because it gives me the opportunity to drop knowledge on you so hard that it may cause your balls to drop and grow hair (yes, you want this to happen)."

im not even gonna say it, oh the motherfucking irony.

like every other popular sport park skiing was around before all the money came in. it was surviving fine and was a more tight nit community. the more popular your sport becomes the more morons that affiliate themselves with it. is this much popularity really a good thing?

money didnt ruin skiing, it just changed it. for better and for worse.

Nov 2 2010 11:02PM

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skiierman

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do you honestly think i was trying to be serious? wow, haha.

Nov 2 2010 11:19PM

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jason...

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yes that was pretty obviously a serious blog post. trying to cover up for your retardation after the fact? wow, haha.

Nov 2 2010 11:21PM

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skiierman

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@th1337

i referenced brink as the basis of the whole thing so of course i was being serious. caught me!

people who enjoyed it, enjoyed it and for those who are too blind by hate over petty insults and a stupid argument such as selling out and are now angry. so, thanks for reading!

Nov 2 2010 11:25PM

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skiierman

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and its broken up now so its easier to read.

Nov 2 2010 11:29PM

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jason...

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i dont think comedy is your thing, if that blog post really was a joke, it was not funny.

Nov 2 2010 11:47PM

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jblaski

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Of course you support selling out. If it wasn't for selling out, you would be a no one. Now you can run your mouth on a ski website designed for teenagers about how "my friend is sponsored by Monster and is a pro". And "see that add for Verizon with Tom Wallisch? I was there that day!"

But hey, at least you can tell your retarded children about the time you got on the stage with "my friends. WHO ARE PROS!" and made an complete drunken ass out of your self at a ski premiere.

We all know that you couldn't keep a job as a gear head (probably because they didn't give you a good enough discount on Monster, right?). But maybe when a PRO!! SPONSORED BY TARGET!! comes in to eat at Jimmy John's, you can tell your 16 year old co-workers that you know them.

Nov 3 2010 12:29AM

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skiierman

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my first bitter stalker... yesss.

how many of you can claim that you have some pathetic human following you around like a stray cat waiting for you to drop the next crumb for them to eat and feel normal again for the next 5 mins? and what's this ad for verizon? i haven't seen it, it'd be tight! as for the movie premiere, i think you're talking about the rail event center of which all of our friends were blackout. no, i'm not talking about people who have sponsors, (which matters how?) but all our friends who ski and hang together regardless of talent, who met up hours before hand to drink at a homies house because its premiere season... i'm positive you were not invited, sorry boss. is that why you're bitter, stalker? or is it because you know so much about me and yet i have no fucking clue who you are? as for the job at BC, my hours were cut from full time to 7 hours a week, two weeks before rent was due. i was pissed and said things i shouldn't have because i knew when i would get fired for it, i'd only lose those 7 hours. man you got me there with my current job as a delivery driver! i mean anyone with a job to support them while as a student is a terrible thing! you know me so well... well you didn't until now, but at least you won't sound like a uninformed creepy-ass fuck, but an informed creepy-ass fuck. congrats! i think it'd be amazing if your homies saw how pathetic you are behaving because guess what, i've probably known them for longer than you have!

as for the premiere at the rail event center, sorry for partying you bitch... sorry my bitter, stalking bitch.

Nov 3 2010 12:58AM

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this is embarassing

Nov 3 2010 1:05AM

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Mike Dubie http://apps.facebook.com/contourcontest/index.php?showphoto=184 its the photo of the skier in orange pants. vote for me please

Nov 3 2010 1:08AM

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whoa this is an epic stalker call out, do you have a notebook filled with dumb shit skiierman has said/done?

Anyway, only poor people think money ruins things. And that is for good reason, because it does ruin it for them. Fact is 99% of people who are into skiing at all have had a life that gave them plenty of opportunities to be rich and they blew it by being lazy and/or stupid. And yes I said that is a fact even though I just pulled it out of my ass.

Nov 3 2010 1:13AM

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