Skiing in next Olympics!

sanchez said that fis was only allowing doubles, although that is promoting doing it, they are not changing, instead of hindering newschool they are hindering oldschooll, now most of you probably dont care, but this just shows that although fis is being pressured to change, they may change rules, but fundamentally they have not changed at all, they are taking the free out of freestyle, I think everyone should be allowed to do what they want, they just should all be judged fairly, a quad- high diffuculty, lower style, 360 grab- low difficulty, high style

corection: promoting newschool (not doing it)

i guess no one got my message, it came out wrong it guess.

ok

1. in freestyle moguls the reason it is in the big rut its in is because only 2 new school skier is in it, and only 1 is trying to puch the limits of what they allow. everyone who competes in f.i.s shouuld be pusing the limits.

2. i do believe fis will not limit the tricks that skiers pull in halfpipe and that skiers will be allowed to pull whatever they want in the pipe. i am all for skiing halfpipe in the olympiics.

oh, and who else thought the best thing in the olympics next to jonneys dinner roll was that jappenese woman who through the like iron cross into this weird grab, and then an iron twister daffey?










theres a natural mystic flowing through the air if you listen carefully now you will hear. its the first trumpet calling. might as well be the last. many more will have to suffer many more will have to die dont ask me why. things are not the way they used to be.

also we do have a say last year on their website they had a poll on which new skiing event to introduce. (a link was even posted onthis site). so yea we do, I dont think skiing is about competition though and I think that as much as possible we should try to keep that out of our sport and try to instead of having the money in competitions have it in sponsorships and focus on media (mags and videos)

for jibtech:

dude, how can you say FIS hasn't ruined snowboardin? ever heard of the ISF? i really hope so. but if you did, you would know what im saying. when snowboarding was first introduced to the olympics there was a huge controvercy as to who would run the events. FIS ultimatly won over the ISF. this tore the snowboarding world in half resulting in terje haakonsen not attending the nagano olympics.

the main thing here is that FIS has more money than it knows what to do with. they weren't passionate about snowboarding so they just hired some people that were. money gets you everywhere in this world which is bullshit.




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So what.... every little kid still wants to ride a snowboard, Mack Dawg Still makes the best snow movies ever... Snowboarding is thirving.

I SAY SO FUCKING WHAT?

but I dont want little poser kids skiing just cause its cool

u guyz want skking to be reconized more get more compinys lots of things to make are sport bettter. but in order to get these things u dont want to sacrifice or RISK other things... I Dont see how FIS can roon skiing if we keep skiing how we want to, evan id tey try to put rules il keep skiing for myself and so what i like not them, and if evryone does that they wont have an easy time changing what we love

but little poser snowboard kids snowboard cause they think its kool. dave levin and hucksplat are making some amazing points that should open up everyones eyes. another reason why snowboard halfpipe and ski halfpipe would and do work in the olympics because only a handful of tricks can be done,and its easy to see amplitude and the difficulty of a trick being done. thats why there is a snowboard halfpipe and not a snowboard big air. it would be too hard to judge a nig air based on its their own opinion on if a trick is harder than another. skiing halfpipe would be good in the olympics not bad. listen to what everyone else is sayin

why not? its the main reason that snowboarding has been more popular than skiing. david is looking at it from the business standpoint. he and all the other people in the industry know that the only way we can get money and attention is through getting ourselves out there in the biggest poss. venues.

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my comment was directed toward stephen. besides, would you rather see this shit grow, or get stagnant but still be 'hardcore'?

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If people don't want 'Posers' in their sport they should quit skiing and take up knitting. I highly doubt that anyone 'Poses' as a knitter.

ok i dont care about posers, everyone starts out as one it is just kids who will only do something because its cool and shuns everyone who doesnt do it. If skiing and snowboarding however where bothe cool i would be psyced. But the fis is hurting snowboarding recently (june 22) the isf ceased operations. Here is an article on it from snowboardermag.com
Death of the ISF





By Marty Ward

After snowboarding was recognized as a legitimate 'sport,' it was only a matter of time until the competitive nature of riders took over to create a forum worthy enough to freely express their art. When the National Association of Professional Snowboarders collapsed in 1990, five nations and 120 racers established the International Snowboarding Federation (ISF) with the goal of keeping the officiating by riders and for riders. It sought to bring the world's best competitors together to test their skills in an environment which embraced competitiveness, but stressed the idea of having fun. The ISF eventually attracted riders of varying ages and abilities, which allowed one-time rising stars such as Terje Haakonsen, Daniel Franck and Danny Kass to sharpen their skills at an early age on their way to joining the elite 'pro' ranks. The ISF set the standard for snowboarding competition, which contributed to the development of it as an Olympic sport in 1998.

To the dismay and shock of ISF supporters, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognized the ski-specific Federation International Ski (FIS) as the sport's official governing body. Three-time world champion Terje Haakonsen boycotted the Olympics as a result of the FIS being appointed to oversee the officiating. Other riders followed in Haakonsen's footsteps and concluded FIS rules to be inappropriate for snowboarding. Unfortunately, the FIS maintained its control over the Olympics, which perpetuated the belief that snowboarding is a discipline of skiing and not its own, individual 'sport.' And Haakonsen, who would have been a medal contender, represented neither his country, nor his sport.

Although the ISF continued to represent snowboarding on an international level, it began to lose power, sponsors and finances to the larger, Olympic-officiating, ski-specific FIS. Why should a sport that was created for sheer enjoyment have its competitive leg left helpless under the evil, capital-driven eye of the FIS? The ISF, whose goal was to give back, furthering snowboarding's development, had to watch as their governing control was stripped away and ultimately given to the skiers

As of June 22, 2002, the ISF has forever ceased all operations. The ISF was created to represent competitive snowboarding for riders and by riders. But now with the FIS as the official governing body, the snowboarding world has to accept its role as being governed by an entirely different sport--skiing. I guess the idea of Olympic snowboarding being governed by a sanctioning body who keeps the sport's best interest in mind is out of the question, at least for now....

(trust me, the '' things aren't actually there)

I should have checked this thread more often. To reply to stephen, there will always be posers, and the more the better. They are the ones out there who buy the gear to get into the sport, who listen to our words on what videos to buy, which gives guys like levin and johnny more money to make better movies and live a little better off (they desirve it). The competitions will become better with more money coming into the sport, I don't know if you guys remember the x-games this past year. There was a TON of noise about how the judging was done. I feel like we need something to guide the sport.

I'm not saying that FIS is the best group of people for the job but they are the obvious choice. The IFSA was a good start a few years ago but it's focus is in big mountian. They don't even have scantioned rules for slopestyle, big air, or half pipe events. So for a major corperation looking for some sort of saftey net the FIS will look very good to them, which in turn is good for us. Bringing more money into the sport, more money does mean better gear (ski companies will want the money of us as a whole so they will put serious R&D into making the best gear) better terrain around the world because the sport is now 'accepted' by the skiing world because it has been embraced by FIS (we need to face the fact the most hills are based on racing, they live and breath Racing and FIS, if FIS is telling them that this Newschool stuff is legit then there will be more terrain showing up, and not only more terrain, but more GOOD terrain). When you look at something changing like this you need to try to understand it from all sides. We'll bennifit from the changes although some of them might not seem the best.

a few last points here, like levin said above (pretty sure it was him) you don't have to ski like FIS tells us we need to. You can go off and do your own thing and rep all the benifits of sicker movies, better gear, more and better terrain, and everything else that will go along with it. And with the FIS SUCKS campain a few years back, I will say that at the time that was needed. FIS more or less had there head up there ass to what was happening. They saw freestyle as a dieing sport because there numbers were down, people droping out of USSA (and whatever they call it in canada) to do there own thing. It is pretty hard to ignor it when someone is saying FUCK YOU and printing it on shirts and stickers. They started to and saw what was going on and hopefully the mistakes they made in the past and have learned (or learnt) from it. You know they are changing with the things that are already happening (off axis spins, half pipe).

~prins

I think FIS has it's place in the olympics. They really can't control the tricks that people are doing because everything will have to be reworked. They'll be forced to include any tricks that are being done and they will be scored properly. They have every 4 years to re-work their scoring system for new types of tricks so they'll be doing a good job in the scoring. But mainly they'll be gaining huge exposure.

If you look at the FIS rules then you'll see that there are regulations for things like ads on clothing. Sorry but I don't want to see skiers with a giant 'getboards.com' logo painted on their back so I think it's good.

When people say:
'well Szocs and everyone wore FIS sucks shirts then they must have a good reason'
You have to realize that most of the reasoning behind it was money related between FIS and the skiers. So why should they be taken out of an event where the prize is recognition and a medal. FIS can't take a portion of either.

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everyone should listen to jibtech, he knows what he's talking about.

who cares if theirs posers in our sport...or will be....as long as your not one of them who gives a fuck. i know a kid in my grade who just bought head my tricks who sucks cock and skiign, has all this sick equitment, and he is a poser. do i care, no. its one more person to ski with in the park, its one more person spreading new school skiing, and as long as your not one of those posers it does'nt matter.










theres a natural mystic flowing through the air if you listen carefully now you will hear. its the first trumpet calling. might as well be the last. many more will have to suffer many more will have to die dont ask me why. things are not the way they used to be.

ok i have already noted that i dont mind posers i was meaning people who cant think for themselves and have to do whatever they think is cool or 'mainstream'.I dont want to see newschool turn into what other skiing disciplines have, where kids brag about what competitions they were in and ask you what ski club your in, I guess it doesnt matter to me though because I will always be doing what I want to do having fun.

(trust me, the '' things aren't actually there)

Alright, I'm gonna post a conversation Jibtech and I had.

TheDave001: does what I'm saying make sense to you?
TheDave001: cause I've never delt with FIS
ElnegrD: yah it's a good possitive look on it. But in order to make it to the olympics the regulations are going to be based on world cup standings. So people will have to ski the world cup halfpipe events. FIS will never be able to fuck with what we have now, it just wont happen. But they sure as shit will fuck with their own little world cup bullshit. halfpipe will be super good exposure, the people that will win it, wont be the people that do the world cup circuit. it will be the people that are pro and did just what they needed to, to qualify and get in. exactly like snowboarding.
ElnegrD: and even worse than all of that. drug testing. anyone who wins, will test positive. bottom line
TheDave001: but didn't snowboarding have some like last chance qualifiers?
TheDave001: haha Jon won't
ElnegrD: yah, the US team does that. but not the canadian
ElnegrD: Jon is exposed to enough second hand that he's a pot head
TheDave001: AH that brings me to my second point
TheDave001: US has no good halfpipe riders
ElnegrD: Another problem is, (with the canadian team for sure, not absolutely sure about US) in canada you will have to be a 'canadian team member' to compete and possibly the same regulation to even compete in the world cups. meaning you'lll have to go down another level (nor ams) to get on the canadian team and ski worldcups to make olympics. So when you get on the canadian team. The only sponsors you can keep are ski sponsors and goggle sponsors. the rest is up to the organization
TheDave001: see that shit is gay
TheDave001: then canada won't have a good team if they keep the rules cause no one would put up with that bullshit
TheDave001: so maybe in that case they might change the rules?
TheDave001: dude have you seen how ben packs blunts?
ElnegrD: indeed it is. But another thing you have to understand. The CFSA (canadian freestyle skiing association) would be the people taking care of that. and I honestly cannot even explain to you what those people are like. They are the biggest fucking theives in the world. They are absolutely fine with ruining a life to make some money. it's disgusting. Another thing is, they are completely and utterly STUPID. There's obviously a possibility they would change their rules. but knowing that organization as well as I do. I'd be willing to bet that they would not be able to change it because some butt fuck would say it was unfair for those who have worked their way up through the norams. and that 'team sponsorships' are a great way to go. ya man, they are a sick way to go. If your the CEO of the organization, your rollin. The athletes will see JACK SHIT! when I was on national team, I wore three patches.
ElnegrD: each one of those patches is worth 500 000 and I didn't see a fuckin dime.
TheDave001: ya thats officaly gay
TheDave001: so the question remains then would skiers bother?
ElnegrD: and the answer is yes. Olympic gold is history forever. At the xgames your popular for one year and it's bye bye biatch. Also, xgames gold is worth in the long run 6 figures top end or bottom depending on the person. olympic gold is worth a minimum mill. MINIMUM, johnny stomped out a solid 15. Thats the reason why they get away with all of this shit. The olympics themselves are so powerful that people will end up beating the shit out of themselves for years, fr one night of glory. And truthfully being one of those olympic hopefuls, it would still be worth it no matter how much I bash it
TheDave001: ya
ElnegrD: bottom line, your right. skiing wont go to shit, BUT only if the athletes refuse to take the already restrictive rules and regulations that the CFSA and possible USSA may propose.
ElnegrD: And it WILL help, as long as the athletes care to make sure that it's all legit
TheDave001: ya thats kinda what I was thinking that the athletes would have to make a stand somwhere along the line
TheDave001: I wonder how ross powers is doing with is gold medal
ElnegrD: and they will. especially with so many athletes that have come out of FIS organized sport to this sport. They know their shit and it wont happen twice. Thats the advantage we have over snowboarding. we have the potential to put ourselves in an even better situation than they are in now.
TheDave001: ya for sure
ElnegrD: honestly, I've known this was coming for a few years. And didn't totally know where I stood. but it sorta feels like it's my duty as a former canadian athlete to make sure that shit doesn't happen again. So ya I'll still compete in it (assuming I qualify) but under the regulations that WE set.
n a demo sport, each country is allotted a number of spots based upon the registration of athletes at all levels in that sport. and then once the sport is established as full olympic status it is based on the standings of the world cup team athletes. the more top fives or whatever, the more spots that country gets.
ElnegrD: and its ALWAYS more than 4.


Having already been an athlete for canada this is how I see it. I can't really explain how much I am back in love with skiing again. I hated it on that team, but now I love every minute I can spend out on the snow.

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You all have to realise that this thread has very little to do with sports but everything to do with politics.

If the IOC weren't politically motivated, they would have awarded governance to the ISF years ago. Unfortunately the IOC sold out on their morals many years ago and are now more focused on making money and gaining individual prestige than promoting sport.

Reedy should know plenty about the IOC and the CFSA they're both dirtier then a freshly expunged monkey turd.

The Olympics have been corrupted beyond all hope of redemption. Ironic how the event that was supposed to appease differences between waring nations has now become equally contraversial and decadent as the problems it was supposed to solve.

The Olympics still represents the pinnacle of excellence sport. Though to me it just feels like that ultimate pinnacle has been brought closer to the vile earth.

whoa.. thats some heavy freaky truth.

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Prins mentioned about FIS specs for park and pipe.
I saw a copy of those specs last year and unless they've changed since then they are complete garbage.
The FIS specs for park at that time were no different than those for upright aerials with the exception of lenght of jump and landing...SAME CLONESTYLE TRANNY ON THE JUMP!!!
And by the looks of the pipe specs you would think the FIS is trying to reinvent the wheel.
I know people on the eastern freestyle committee and I know that they sat around in committee to work on these specs with no athletes or park/pipe builders present...just a bunch of 30-40 year old coaches and TD's trying write the book on something they know nothing about and something that scares the crap out of them becuase they dont know how to coach or judge it.

ya mudflap I am aware of that but also at juniors for freestyle this past season they had a uprights jump to a quarterpipe and the guys from central that went out there said the qp was sick. So they must know how to make them but maybe not how to write it down? and the hp at the last winter olympics looked decent as well.

Prins...you are right about the olympic pipe...it was friggin amazing and problaly the best one ever..BUT...it wasnt because of the specs. It was great because it was built by Pat Melandoski. I forgot to make an important piont in the previous post...the FIS specs for transtion DO NOT match any pipe cutting machine out there. The SLC pipe rocked because Pat is one of about 3 people in the world that can squeze everylast bit of tranny out a superdragon. FIS specs for boarding call for a certain width/pitch/lenght and specific transition that matches both the superdragon and HPG R17. The FIS ski specs I saw were way out of wack with eliptical trannies that cannot be made with exsisting equipment. The FIS is so screwed up that they cant even flip to snowboard section of the rule book and look at the specs of what is known to already work or at least look up the specs on the machines availible to shape pipes. They dont even follow there own specs...the world cup at Sunday River the season before last was held in a 10ft tall pipe! That was the where I saw the wack eliptical transition specs in the first place.

I reckon slopestyle should replace moguls altogether.

whoever said moguls was gay is retarded. it was one of the most watched events in the games. yes FIS is fucking it up but guys like Mosely and bloom will take it to the next level. NOw only if slopestyle or big mountain were in the olympics,

just give it all time and the fis will relize they suck and that in order to get pepople on twigs there gonna have to allow slopestyle and halfpipe into the olympics, id rather have it stay how it is the usfo is good enough we dont want every little kid on the hill wanting to buy the 1080's or dress like jon.

happy shut the fuck up.
Moguls is a tight sport and it's fun as hell as long as you do it you're way, and do the tricks that you want to do.


Yea I want cheezy poofs

FIS sucks, plain and simple.

If you use your 'IMAGINATION' anything is possible squidward.

I must say i had little know how on what the FIS is and how they overan the ISF.
This has been one of the most interesting posts ive ever read.
And jibtech and hucksplat have some really intersting ideas.
Wicked

No, moguls suck. I can give you many reasons why too. This is why im in support of halfpipe in the Olympics. No matter what it cant be as fucked up and gay as moguls, thats right they're gay. There has been enough posts above on why, and how the athletes would never let halfpipe get that way. The reason im saying get rid of moguls is because with these new rules it will get even gayer. Although, I respect Jonny for doing and taking the time to get FIS to allow him the dinner roll, it was ugly. Not as bad as twister, twister, spread, daffy, but still ugly. If they are gonna do newschool they may as well do it right. No one really respects moguls. Im not saying its not hard, but it is awfully stupid. And now they are going to let corked spins happen. Which most likely no one will do anyway. Because now instead of a quad twister theyll do a double twister to double spread. So sick. Even if anyone does corks, theyll look bad. You cant go big enough for them. By doing this, FIS is already fucking with newschool again. Believe it bitch. Thats why they may as well get rid of it and do it right with halfpipe, or at least come close to getting it right right from the beginning.


And who said there is less to judge in halfpipe? Ppppppppfffffffffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttt.

sim you are a fucking retard, you obviously have no idea how big you can go in the moguls. Have you ever tried doing a quad twister? i would bet not, because even though it is a gay trick, it still takes a shitload of air to do it. I used to ski moguls and the best i could get over a 40 foot table top was a halfass triple, by the way, a forty foot table is plenty big enough for a cork seven, but you probably didn't know that because you are a dumbass.


Yea I want cheezy poofs

NO you probably dont know cause your a dumbass.
Like I said. Corked spins wouldnt look good at all going that small. Maybe thats big for you, but really its not big enough to do something like that nice and smooth. Did Jonnys dinner roll look really good too you. Cause if it did, well then I might as well not even talk to you. Props though on the triple twister over the tab.

i would rather see slopestyle in the olympics

the last few posts have all been people contridicting others opinions.. Lay off, some people think moguls are tight, some think they're gay.. what is so uncomprehensable here?


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All i can say is if any one in the world were to judge such an olympic event, then it better be the founders,

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SHANE SHOZES- WTF your a goose, nice choice of judges though, if it came down to it , slope style would be way better between moguls and slopestyle.

sim again you are a fucking retard, you have no idea what you're talking about. first off, jonny didn't even throw a dinner roll at the olympics. second i would compare the amount of air these guys are getting to clearing a 55 foot table, and if you think you can't style up a cork 7 ggoing that big, you might as well kill yourself.


Yea I want cheezy poofs

all off u guys are so fukin retarted skiing half pipe does not belong in the olympics. the olympics was started 2000 years ago for spots like running. these are the sports for te olympics skiing is for the x-games us open ect. if the fis gets control over half pipe or anything then the sport is gonna go to hell. and anyone who thinks it's good for the sport is fucked. who gives a shit about expouse for skiing wat does the freeskiing comuity suddenly need the approval of the average fat ass american. man america is so gay all u guys do is feed your fat faces and all u give a fuck about is cash. get out of the sport if u want money go do football or baseball or one other of your wanker sports keep your shity rules the fis and your so called need for exposue out of the sport. THe fis screwed freestyle and they fucked up bad with judging at the olympics eg. heikki sorsa switch mctwist 18 feet outta the pipe. in the judging specs for olympic half pipe u get higher scores for straigh airs fuck man danny kass was throwin inverted 1080's compeard to the big grabs of ross powers. don't get me wrong ross powers is sick but the fact is the olmpics does not encourage progression and the only reason the fis wants half pipe is so they can make money off it. they allready do it in moguls they keep all the money and leave world hamps like larrui lassilA with no money and bearley being able to get a free pair off skis. so once and for all fis is fukin gay and so is the idea off having halfpipe in the olypics just so u guys can have a new place to prove your selves. I know I'm gonna get alota shit for this post but who cares don't like me fuck u I don't give a shit. will

Here you guys go, i spell checked mogulbarrons post so it doesn't hurt your head to read it.

'All off u guys are so fucking retarded skiing half pipe does not belong in the Olympics. The Olympics was started 2000 years ago for spots like running. These are the sports for the Olympics, skiing is for the x-games us open ect. If the FIS gets control over half pipe or anything then the sport is going to go to hell, and anyone who thinks it's good for the sport is fucked. Who gives a shit about exposure for skiing? Why does the freeskiing community suddenly need the approval of the average fat ass American? Man, America is so gay all you guys do is feed your fat faces and all You give a fuck about is cash. Get out of the sport if you want money go do football or baseball or one other of your wanker sports. Keep your shitty rules the FIS and your so-called need for exposure out of the sport. The FIS screwed freestyle and they fucked up bad with judging at the Olympics. Example: Heikki Sorsa’s switch mctwist 18 feet out of the pipe. In the judging specs for Olympic half pipe you get higher scores for straight airs. Fuck man, Danny Kass was throwing inverted 1080's compared to the big grabs of Ross Powers. Don’t get me wrong Ross Powers is sick but the fact is the Olympics does not encourage progression and the only reason FIS wants half pipe is so they can make money off it. They already do it in moguls; they keep all the money and leave world champs like Larrui Lassila with no money and barely being able to get a free pair of skis. So once and for all FIS is fucking gay and so is the idea off having half pipe in the Olympics just so you guys can have a new place to prove yourselves. I know I'm going to get a lot of shit for this post but who cares, if you don't like me, fuck you, I don't give a shit.'

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Thanks jibs, that made it easier on my brain.


Yea I want cheezy poofs

Let's not forget that the FIS is a French organization, so all that about screwing American's doesn't work...I'm going to ban you.


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I keep my dredlocks in a napkin ring.

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I pitty the fool who don't use 1-800 Collect.

thanks for the speel check I have the worst hang over ever at the moment I can bearly think straight. will

I barely read any of the above posts cause there too damn long, but anyway. The snowboarding in the olympics still kinda blew.
Why was JJ Thomas on the podium, shoud have been Heikki Sorsa and Trevor Andrews up there with Tommy Czeshien or whatever.
Ross Powers run was less that amazing. Anyway, skiing half-pipe in the olympics would be okay, but its nothing to get too excited about.
Just another comp, who really cares. Wow, worldwide exposure, big fucking deal, a few months down the line no one will care or even remember what happened just like all the other lame comps.
Ya, it will kinda suck to follow every single damn thing that snowboarding did before us, but I guess thats how it goes. Skiers need to get an original damn idea, FIS just sees the money, skiers will put in way too much effort into a bullshit comp and get nothing out of it.
But I dont think it will even happen, but I'm not very smart.

Heikki lost because he had gay hair and pink goggles.


What's happening?
I keep my dredlocks in a napkin ring.

Ya, but he's European so that explains it all.

europe rules america sucks ass

Which is exaclty why America emulates Europe's every move, right?


What's happening?
I keep my dredlocks in a napkin ring.

Anybody that says 'fuck exposure' needs their head checked. Exposure is what makes JP walker and Peter Line fuckin millionares. Exposure is what puts good terrain parks in resorts. Exposure means that there will be more ski manufaturers, which means lower prices and more twin tip development in skis. It gives people that hope to become pro skiers or ski photographers an income.

Oh, sorry I forgot there's only one downfall, 'posers' right? are 'posers' bad, no. Everyone started somewhere, the real posers are the people that buy the skis and sit at home, and who cares about them? not I, they don't get in my way and curse me out on the hill. So really you hate beginners.

So are you an insecure labeling bastard?

Or a person that's afraid that their unique sport will catch on with more people and you won't be original anymore?

Gimme a break.
-Mike

Mercer: drinking mans protein shake
Me: hahhhahahahaha
Mercer: sick ass
Me: That's the funnyest thing I've heard all day
Mercer: good make it your sig on ns.com faggot
Mercer: and hump the vacume while your at it.

You guys took all the time to say stuff about the history of FIS and all kinds of crap. Don't you have something better to do? Halfpipe should be in the olympics. Why not? Even if the tricks are limited its better to watch than cross country.