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Maxisaskier
Posts: 19 - Karma: 10
          Sitting in my one floor household staring out at our sleet covered roads, I slowly get dressed for some pre-season skiing.  I believe that I am so numb to the fact that I live in Michigan that I am stoked for even the slightest snow.   In my ever growing sport of new school free-skiing, you need every day you can get to just compete with all of the other skiers in our area, and I am completely willing to take whatever mother nature throws at me.  So whether rain or snow you can rest assured I am outside on a ten foot vertical hill with a shovel and some homemade jumps preparing for another grand opening day in Michigan.  Even with my aching back and sore shins, I feel I have bigger skiing related issues, like, why the cliques? It seems that wherever I go, be it my home mountain of pine knob (not a mountain, a knob), or vacationing in Utah, you just can’t get past the competing groups of skiers and snowboarders.
           Let me clarify. When I say “competing,” I am not referring to style or skill, I am referring to how “cool” someone is dressed.  Does nobody realize that this only leads to the creation of even more pseudo skiers?  Personally, I can hardly stand someone who dresses like they own the place, and when its time to throw down, they eat it on a 180, I would have no problem with this beginner learning, but why do you have to have the top of the line matching jacket and pants?  I think the dress by rank rule should apply and these hoodlums need their ticket ripped once or twice to learn a lesson.  After all, not everyone is Simon Dumont, or Pep Fujas.
         Now for you Simon Dumont haters, what’s up?  What is a logical reason to hate someone as influential and big as Simon Dumont?  I can understand that he became the….well lets say “Tony Hawk” of free skiing, but he did after all earn this rank.  Now I’m not saying that he's my favorite or anything along those lines, personally I have no favorite, but I cant complain about him just because he has become big, good for him… so shut up.
          Now, before everyone on newschoolers.com start posting hate threads or comment on this with things as senile as, “you’re a dumb head,” lets take a deep breath and let your deteriorating ego restore to its initial health.  Remember that we all love the sport whether we are good or bad, and I am completely okay with the sport growing, but next time, before you cut the kid off who’s about to kick a switch 7 on the big kicker, remember your role, a polite, “dropping in” at the top of the hill would suffice.  Sorry if I have offended any of you have a nice night and a great season.

Goodnight.



Jan 6 2009 1:18PM
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SteezethePirate
Posts: 506 - Karma: 34
uhm wow...personally i hate people like that too but i dont really express my self in large essays, all in all though, if this was an english composition writing class you would do quite well
Jan 6 2009 1:24PM
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Maxisaskier
Posts: 19 - Karma: 10
it is an essay
Jan 6 2009 1:33PM
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jensen
Posts: 2576 - Karma: 1,265

i love people who think they are next just becaue they called "dropping next".  go to some local surf lineup and see how far that gets you.  respect gets respect, simple as that.  at some mountains, it is snake or be snaked.  it is just how it is.  live with it.

Jan 6 2009 1:55PM
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pussymoneyweed
Posts: 2055 - Karma: 60
people can dress however they want

im suck and i wear a 4xl tall tee xl ski pants and a large jacket

sorry about that
Jan 6 2009 2:01PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
I see where your coming from but seriously.  Who gives a fuck.  I rock XXL Oakley antifreeze and I could probably throw like a 5.  But I'm good outside park.  So who are you to judge me by what I wear.  And I don't have that stupid tough guy attitude either, I'm just out there to rip some lines, not have some kid judge me skiing ability by what clothes I wear.  Just cause you think I look cool doesn't mean I have to go throw a double cork 14.
Jan 6 2009 2:26PM
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hellomynameisjef
Posts: 5794 - Karma: 167
people can wear what they want there is not going to be a thing on like LDCs website that says "if you cant pull a cork 7 within 10 minutes of wearing this jacket you will explode. sorry."
Jan 6 2009 5:10PM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
hate simon?
on the contrary
       I am writing to inform you that there has been a death in the family, A rogue in the system, or in simple words, something that simply shouldn't be said, and just isn't right.  I am, before your very eyes, answering Question Four, "Three Reasons Why Simon Dumont is the most attractive man alive."  First(!) may I bring to attention his dreamy eyes.  Bluer than a the depths of Lake Tahoe, colder than a Whistler pow day, yet as vibrant as a warm spring morning, as yearning as a summer glacier jump line calling your name, and as wistful as having to leave the mountain 5 hours before closing.  They speak of summers gone by and winters yet to come, of comp runs yet to stomp and pillow lines waiting to be slashed.  The only comparison I can find is the near perfect Zac Efron(see link A), who pales in comparison to Simon's heavenly good looks and ravishing charm.

    Secondly is his hair.  A simple search on Google images reveals that The Dumont's hair is perfection at it's best.  It perfectly rests above his heart-stopping smile, perfectly straight with a slight wave towards the end.  Even after a long hard day of progressing the sport and showing up all the would be competition, his helmet hair puts all other forms of hair to death(see link B.  It is like a quiet seduction, a warm summers sunset over the Costa Rican Pacific Coast.  The way it tosses in the wind  after a perfectly executed cork 900 and the way it frames his face, with a Red Bull New Era hat playfully perched on the top.

    Lastly, his immaculate goggle tan.  The contrast from the flawless patch of skin above his angelic arching eyebrows to the chiseled cheek bones, and finely shaped chin is enough to make anyones heart skip a beat(see link C).  This most perfect of tans can only be achieved by hours upon hours of slaying, shralping,killing,slaying and shralping, pow, park, pipe, urban, and the explicit gnar, and EVERYONE loves a hard working man.
  
     Though he is the target of so much hate and often accused of selling out, Simon Dumont is the image of a freestyle skier.  Not to mention his work with the Target House for disfigured children.  He is a model citizen, not partaking in the counter-culture practices of of certain Rastafari inspired athletes, or the disgustingly urban-inspired underground ski crews, Simon is a man who we can all wake,ahem,look up to.
      
      Best Regards,
      Aaron Agre
Link A
http://expn.go.com/08/ski/080612_dumontefron_h_big.jpg
Link B
http://www.redbullskiing.com/riders/RB_Ski_Dumont_bio.jpg
Link C
http://doglotion.com/sites/default/files/u3/dumont2.jpg
Jan 6 2009 5:17PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15950 - Karma: 9,432

i love it when people look like theyre insane and they cant even ski down ahaha

Jan 6 2009 5:26PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9927 - Karma: 9,360
Same here
Jan 6 2009 5:29PM
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Ski..4..Life
Posts: 1347 - Karma: 97
yeah im the opposite of the people you mentioned.

i spend so little on my clothing cause i gotta keep my cash for lift tickets.

helmet = $10
jacket = free :D  ( HH too)
Pants = $75
Boots = $30
Skis = $300
Poles = free

so right now im skiing on only $415 worth of stuff, im sure some peoples jackets cost more lol.
and it gets the job done fine.
Jan 6 2009 5:33PM
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Hairmetaler
Posts: 1200 - Karma: 15
y do u care what people wear????? i can see y u dont like the jerk offs of the hill but seriously dude. If someone dresses cool and is a cool person but cant even do a 3 or a box i dont care ill still hang out with them. freestyle skiing is about having fun not about throwing the best tricks, its about having a good time with ur buddys and getting stoked on learning new things, whether its a box or a cork 7. this whole idea of if u dress cool you have to be good is BS. there are plenty of people who look like gapers and can rip and plenty of people who wear baggy shit and are just learning. "cliques" or crews are fun to be in cause its a group of friends that can push you and support u no matter what ur skill level is. Respect a skiier as a person first, then as a skiier.
Jan 6 2009 5:34PM
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Twiggz
Posts: 129 - Karma: 10
Is saying drop next considered rude? I never say it around skiers but i do when theres like 50 snowboarders sitting around and cutting people off. Im just wondering I never saw it as rude but now that you mention it, it might be haha
Jan 6 2009 5:48PM
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KNUCKifyouBUCK
Posts: 1330 - Karma: 9
word i agree with basically everything you said... sick of some of these kids rock g suits lookin stupid as shit... hate all you want, most of them are only embarrassing themselves.
Jan 6 2009 6:47PM
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KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
i agree with you 100% about dumont and how he doesnt really deserve any hate because he is better than everyone here and makes more money than most people here doing something he loves.

but i would have to disagree on the outfits. i do think that super xxxxxxxxxxxxxxlllllll tall tees like 9 of them sticking out ur jacket which is below ur knees is completely retarded and has no fucntion and i think it is just fucken idiotic in general but there is nothign wrong with wearing matching jacket pants or watever. i personally rock some matchign jacket and pants, have never gotten any hate for it any time and i dont think i am the best park skier out there at all but def nto the worst. i do kill it just skiing and carving and shit not to sound like a cocky asshole. but just cuase someone likes something and can afford it doesnt mean they cant wear it.
Jan 6 2009 6:58PM
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