Early predictions for Olympic Teams/Results.

For Slope I'm gonna go with Tom, just can't beat his smoothness. Gus and Bobby will definitely be top 5 for sure though

luckily it's not just us and a competing at the olympics!

i go with

slope men: Tj

Canada FTW!! it would be nice but I doubt it

its a little early to start making predictions, for all you know none of those guys you think will win will even be in it.

Canada sweep!!!!

slope- goepper

except a lot of riders.

predicting a lot of future spins

is tj competing this year? if so ill be stoked to see that

Boring skier will win the boring olympics

Goepper takes gold in slope blahh blahh

Who is the most robotic pipe skier? David Wise?

Both he and Goepper are jesus freaks anyways so there yah go!

Not a chance in hell anyone who actually deserves to win is going to.

i dont know how you were the first to realize it but yea this is what its gonna be.......

Yes please! It also feels like a while since TJ has thrown down at a slope contest. Maybe JF Houle, the Gagniers, or some other Canadian will be in the mix as well. The only medal count that matters is in the winter haha.

vanular for gold? haha

Best case, Vanular, Max Hill and Mikael Deschaneux sweep the podium

Glad that usually at the Olympics weigh the women's events the same as the mens as far as publicity. Hopefully Roz and Kaya can sweep for Canada. Also I hope Teej can make a great comeback, I think he still has the ability to win comps.

team canada gonna win.

I hope, it's a stretch for slopestyle though.

I like Henrik for slope & T-Hall for pipe, but I feel like the slopestyle medal could go to pretty much any of the dudes who make the teams. Hall is going to fuck the competition up.

You guys are fucking retarded. sellin your souls to the devil and you will keep helping to support corpations in their attempt to invade our way of living to profit off it. you will see how shallow it will become. We have such an unique niche in the way we live as freeskiers and supporting these outside forces will do nothing but conform ourselves to all the other bullshit that surrounds us. I ski to escape the reality of the world nowadays, supporting this shit is bringing their reality into freeskiing, Killing the way of life I love. Already kids have to pay a fee to compete to gain points and "advance their position" In competition skiing.
There should be no fee necessary to gain "points" in competitions, no liscence necessary to do a certain trick in a competition, and no fee necessary to hit a certain jump in a park. Fuck this shit.
Keep freeskiing free. Have some goddamn respect for your roots as a FREEskier. Fuck off.

Mens Slope - EDOLLO

ahaha this is the best. ahmet is the shieet

Kevin Rouland wins pipe men

Hey man. Let me start by saying that I love your style. Your eye trip seg was mind blowing. With that said....one of your main sponsors, Under Armour, is worth nearly half a billion dollars. They are a corporation, and make their shit over seas. They are one of the companies that are "sucking the life out of the hard cores".
Also, full tilt is another one of your sponsors. Guess who owns full tilt? K2 - which is worth nearly 1 billion dollars. And guess what? K2 is owned by Jarden Inc., which is a multibillion dollar corporation. 


I hate to say it Ahmet, but the product you push on kids is just part of the bullshit you rail against. So please, get off your soapbox and realize you are just a pawn in what you are preaching against. 

/end rant.

and shit while i'm at it, Volkl skis, one of your other sponsors, is owned by Jarden too. Jarden is worth nearly 3 billion dollars - and last year the company CEO made nearly 13 million. 

So before everyone talks about how hardcore they are and goes on and on about how skiing is only lining the pockets of corporations - lets keep it in mind that nearly all major ski companies are lining the pockets of company execs. 

Just to add onto this, I think the wall street movement is dumb. I just think it's wrong that some pros brand themselves as "hardcore" when they are just as guilty as any other pro for boosting the profits of corporations they rail against.

They hate the man, but they work for the man.

/end rant, end rant haha

I have yet to see where either of those companies are using skiing in a light that will negatively affect the future the existence of free skiing, name an instAnce where either one of em had pushed a view that is against the way of which we thing, under Armour had supported war of rails and supported a guy like me (who supports a different than average view of skiings future) and full tilt who has been built through freeskiing and for it. Althought I do understand what you are saying to an extent, it just doesn't compare to what's on the horizon. And as big as UA Is they really do care about freeskiing and they have portrayed that with bringing me out to Baltimore multiples years to talk about my ideas And feelings toward it all, not only that, they have supported war of rails with to an extent that would surprise many, because it is a cool competition and deserves that kind of respect throughtout freeskiimg.
Like I said I can see where you get the Idea that either one of those companies can be seen in a certain light they truly are in it for the soul of freeakiing. On the other hand I know what these other companies have in mind from second hand hearings from very respectable people in the mind of freeskiers. At the very least of this at least you can say that UA and Full Tilt have been in this before Olympics was in mind.
I live this way as a lifestyle choice, when I was in high school I told my teachers I would be a janitor at a ski resort to be able to ski everyday in a state that had no idea what our side of skiing really was. And I would still do the same. I love this shit and I hate to see it take th direction that its takin into. I hope you can see It from my point of view.
Lets be proud of ourselves to have our own sect of skiing, that is seperate from racing and bumping, where we have not had to follow the same criteria to call ourselves a successful sport, we need to stay true to our own trend, it's not impossible it has been done by skateboarding and they have been able to make a very large profit off of it. Do you realiz what kid of message we would send to the world if we kept running free skiing amongst ourselves and don't allow those outside influences to divulge themselves in the aspects of our sport. Fuck, we would be so strong: please think about this, what if as skiers we took a strong stand against all this and let snowboarders conform to it now ( which most of them dont want to do anyway) That really means something to what freeskiings all about. Olympics is what dying sports come to to get rebirthed. We don't need that, on the opposite side Olympics needs a rebirth, especially in the younger aide of viewers. They need us, it's jot the other way around. We are doing great things as freeskiers and we are growing everywhere, we have not capped off.
I don't care if Olympics will bring in a bunch of random people into our sport, we are doing amazing and it is shown in th very close community that we maintain as of now. We will keep growing without Olympics, we don't need them. What the fuck does a gold medal mean????? It's treacherous to the means of freeskiing in my opinion and to many others I talk to on a daily basis. Please just stand up and take a stance against this shit. We need to be strong to keep freeskiing alive and well

just tossing it out here how is guessing who will win olympics fucking retarded? Olympics happening whether you like it or not so why not let kids talk about it?

^^ ALso not trying to hate on ahmet,love him as a skier just dont see a reason for the rant.

And as for Volkl they have been making twins pretty much since the revolution of the 1080s so that means something to me and that's what I've been riding them. So don't be too quick to judge, I know my hostoryy, I've lived it. I am with the movement against the corporations "that shape the way you and I live" I am against those for my own reasons and you ca. Pm me to find the reasons why, and believe me they are extensive. I'm not saying you are but not everyone that skis is from white suburbia

god dammnit you are such a tool.

you are the worst possible rep for any of the companies that pay you to sell their product...and i am the target customer.

^ Hell yes Ahmet. One of my friends is training for Aerial skiing as an Olympic hopeful, and I'm trying to get him to realize what Ahmet is saying. I just don't see the point of the whole idea of "certification" and other rules and guidelines. Isn't that what we got away from when we created freeskiing?

woodsy for slope

Hey Ahmet,

Go find some top slope and pipe pros that are anti-olympics, would be able to qualify but wouldn't compete, then talk.

Hahahaha target customer!!!! I will make money with or without your dumb ass.you have talked shit on me since the beginning, and guess what, you haven't changed a thing! Your a fucking ass hole and nothing will change that. I hope to meet you someday so I can see what a true poser you are. I meet so many cool kids all time that love skiin, and all I see you do is talk shit. Constructive vibe buddy.

I'm trying to make you think of what it all really means

...what it really means to you. Not everyone.

So what do Olympics mean to you. Why is it so important that you would sacrifice our own self importance to endorse it?

Preach.

didn't bother reading cuz I thought it was a stupid rant but I agree 100%

...dude your three biggest sponsors. volkl, U.A. and full tilt....ARE OWNED BY CORPORATIONS.

i heard ian compton made the team. i choose him

None of us in this thread are sacrificing self importance... We are simply expressing self interest and making predictions for an event that will happen and will probably be endorsed by a few of your corporate sponsors...

aaaaaand that's what's gay about skiing. there aren't any...

Ahmet- first off mad respect. ... but dude you are gonna have to get used to living with the olympics and more competition skiing, thats just the growth of the sport. Will the olympic committees and AFP ban Level 1 from making cool movies from this point on? NO . Will Newschoolers ever stop loving guys who are creative, innovative and passionate style-oriented riders who focus on filming? NO , we put them on a pedestal. Will the Olympics force Stept to stop filming urban and practice their dub cork 10s? NO.

The Olympics don't really mean anything to me personally. I'm no closer to competing in the Olympics today than I was before the decision to include slope and pipe was made. However, I know many people who would love the opportunity to compete in the Olympics so they fought for it. I support that and them.

What the fuck are you saying about self-importance? The Olympics won't change the way I ski and it sure as hell won't change the way you ski. So are you asking me to force people to ski a certain way or do you want to give people the option to choose?

If you want people to go against the Olympics, talk with your skis. I guess that's what you've been doing for your entire pro career. You were named skier of the year once which means your obviously really good at what you do. But at the same time, people sought out the Olympics. Skiing isn't comp vs. film with only one victor, Berman will still point his camera at you, and you still have sponsors.

Why can't they coexist?

Hahaha this thread takes me back to when Ahmet / Giray / Andy Parry were like the trifecta of doom on here. Golden Wheelchairs abound. Good times.

But there hasn't been a golden wheelchair in like... years?!?!

Osama knows whats up