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Why does is seem like all good skiers are short?
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I have noticed that many of the extremely talented skiers are also very short. Is there a connection? Not saying that their are not tall skiers that can rip because my man john spriggs can fuckkin ball.
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so your saying little kiddies are talented?
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no thats not what i said at all. I said why are all the extremely good skiers so short.
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Lower center of gravity or something like that
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john spriggs 6'5". jon ollson 6 foot. adreias haviet 6 ft. jacob wester 6'2". peter olenick 6'1". liam downey 6'4".
just to name a few. i used to think the same thing until I actually started paying attention
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you guys need to read i clearly said that there are good skiers that are taller but dumont, hall, west, carlson, clarke, riddle, wells, all of those guys are under 6'0
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i dont like short people.
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fine. I don't like you back. :P
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exactly. tim durtschi 6'2", alot of the guys are normal hieght.
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A bit off topic, but how tall is TJ schiller? I was always wondering
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hahah im just playin man. but to be honest i think normal sized skiers look better, when i see super short dudes like simon skiing i just think of little boys. there are tons of exceptions though. dylan natale is the steeziest dude around and hes like 5'4, kids got sick style.
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its all balanced out. it seems like there is a fair number of short skiers and tall skiers.
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skiings an equal opportunity sport. well poor people cant do it but who cares.
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yea but 4 dumont being short, he gets rediculous amounts of amplitude in the pipe, and i always thought the bigger/ heavier u were ud be goin higher until i saw dumont a couple yrs ago.
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tj shiller, dont forget. But its his sexiness that makes him so good.
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low center of gravity makes it easy to be steezy
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I am 8'3" and I can rip just as good as any of those guys...I just choose not to be in videos or comps or any publicity because I get made fun of.
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maybe because 6 foot is above the average height for a man. last i checked it was like 5'9"-5'10".....its not that hard to figure out there is no true connection....
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isn'tspriggs 6"4 er something i saw him the other day and he was pretty tall
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ya, and he blew his spleen up running into a wall going mach chicken.
I guess this myth is busted!
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I'm 5'11" so this makes me feel better
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dumont, vincent dorian, colby west
short short short
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something to do with the center of gravity and spins
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big people have longer arms and legs to control, which can be awkward without practice, but there's pros and cons to each. I think bigger features are less intimidating/easier (popping up onto urbans etc.) when you're bigger. as far as falling it's a toss up. smaller people are closer to the ground, but bigger people in general can absorb and distribute bigger impacts. tall steeze seems less common, but when a big person slays it looks soooo good imho. oh yeah and big dudes dont get nutted as often.
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i remeber seeing him in taht dna ad when theyre all gettig on the bus. hes fucking giant
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word...I rarely nut, but just because I said this I will get a bad one.
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maybe beccause they started doing jumps and stuff wen they were young, and all the pressure closed up their growth plates
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i think for amplitude it is more propotions, i am 5' 5" and ski a 185 karma for pipe, and its super stable so i think it helps me go pretty big, if i was like 6' 3" id want like a 200 hahaha
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there are soo many good skiers out there that an argument using four or five skiers in comparrison doesn't work - size doesn't really matter in skiing, its all about skill and the mentality - it just happens that it seems more skiers are "short" even though they are all average height for the amount of skiers out there - with around 40+ top of the line skiers to look at it is possible to find your vincent dorion's and your john spriggs just like if you took 40 other random people - there could be some truth to the fact that many good skiers are short but it is not a big factor like how height helps in basketball and football
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uh, because liam downey, josh bibby, max h and like a trillion others are such terrible skiers because theyre over 6 feet?
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alright so im as tall as the average man. and 7 inches taller than the average woman.
id say it would be easier to be a shorter skier in terms of being able to move quicker and not have to control longer limbs, but they definitely have to work a little harder for the speed and power. there are pros and cons to each side
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thats creepy how u knew all their hights
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i rather be shorter than a taller skier, even though you have more trouble with speed but you can make things a lot steezier a lot easier then a tail skier would. Tall skiers on rails just dont look good to me unless they have huge amounts of style.
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omg liam d is ssooooooo goddamn tall!
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less fear because they have a shorter distance to fall to the ground
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pretty much all aerialist are short
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*claim alert*
I can shred the gnar like anyone (almost anyone) and i'm only 5'2" and done growing. Keeping speed with bigger people can be a pain in the ass though. Smaller people have to work harder to keep speed and momentum while bigger people have to work harder to, well, do everything else.
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not a skier ...but lucas magoon is pretty tall and he has crazy steeze. and crazy big clothes.
atleast on fueltv they said he was tall...
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Liam, Spriggs, Alex Martini
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friend of mine is a small guy. Hes not mega small but he is smaller and he owns every race he goes into. I remember once he said he could be more like me cause he said winning all the time is boring. He wasnt being sarcastic either
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exactly. unlike sports like basketball and pole vault, it's not mandatory to be tall or short to ski. therfore, the heights of professional skiers vary greatly.
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what there are lots of good tall skiers wester and olenick! there at least 6 foot!
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