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Tripplesixty
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I found some sick footage, its european... Pretty sick.... someone may have linked to it before but heres the actual footage...

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com


http://www.coreupt.com/ ----- check it out
Dec 11 2009 2:20AM
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cbalkman
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Candide, not Kandide
Dec 11 2009 2:27AM
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-ShredTheGnar-
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^^^^^^^^^^
Dec 11 2009 2:28AM
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Tripplesixty
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word... im way to tired to be posting..
Dec 11 2009 2:28AM
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-ShredTheGnar-
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On a positive note.

Candide Thovex is such an awesome all round skier.. its pretty amazing to watch...
Him an Jon Olson have to be the most versatile freestylers.

Like Jon is awesome at big mountain and does FIS races.
Dec 11 2009 2:35AM
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Mstchief
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"someone may have linked to it before" ? dude its Candide Camera this is like someone reposting Chug life and saying its some sick footage from Canada
Dec 11 2009 2:40AM
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Tripplesixty
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Yeah I just found out about these guys and was pretty impressed, I guess I've just been stuck hearing about Simon, THall, Tom Walsh, Tim Durtschi and all the american guys
Dec 11 2009 2:45AM
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frampton
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thank you for that repost. always sooo sick to watch.
Dec 11 2009 2:48AM
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bpalmer
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as far as insane ski ignorance goes, this is the worst. but at least you picked a good one to repost. candide = allah. and allahu akbar.
Dec 11 2009 3:02AM
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kool.aid.man
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-k for raping the name of a legend.
Dec 11 2009 3:19AM
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Freeheel4real
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-10 karma for the name
+10 karma for reminding me about this video despite the repost.


it evens out....
Dec 11 2009 3:26AM
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dan09uk
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i love this video, hope he makes some more stuff like this soon
Dec 11 2009 4:56AM
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Beach
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I feel that you miss out how good this is to some some extent watching a poor quality version...

Dec 11 2009 5:08AM
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Armanzoid
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I didn't think I'd be on NS long enough to see a thread posting Candide as just some "sick European footage." I feel fucking old.
Dec 11 2009 5:17AM
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madsskaar
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this might be the best video everr! epic shit
Dec 11 2009 5:59AM
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Matty_C
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should i laugh or cry?
Dec 11 2009 6:05AM
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LOLO_FAVRE
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so if i really understand you've never heard of candide?????????
i don't know how old are you but the thing is you like freesking but you don't even know about the history about freeski
candide is a legend he's been around forever he was with the fisrt generation of freeskier

i wish you kids knew a little bit more about your sport cause it's annoying when people come and just talk about wallish and co ( no hate on tom and all the others)
but it would be great if you could know a little bit more about the pionneer of our sport
Dec 11 2009 6:23AM
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Armanzoid
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Someone should take the time out to write a basic history on skiing and sticky it forever. Or just make it required reading before they can post.
Dec 11 2009 6:40AM
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h_bar
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well put. im 17, and know pretty much everything that has happened the last 5 year. but i also know whats happened earlier. Candide was my favorite skier back then, i remember how often i would see his clips in skifilm.no films and rastafaride.

i guess this is whats happening now that skiing is becoming mainstream and all, young kids get trown into the mix with tall tees, tom wallisch, henrik harlaut, g-suits and magic suits. i mean, Wallisch get so much attention. Here in norway i believe he's the one with the most influence on regular kid, before PK and Andreas. Also, when Shane passed no one i know who described themselves as skier knew about either him or his passing. I went to this premiere for MSP - In Deep and some kids who only skis park where booing during Shanes part. Shit almost made me go off.

i guess its inevitable with the evolvement skiing is going through. so many up-comers, its hard to keep up for some.
Dec 11 2009 6:54AM
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Armanzoid
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Still though, it's Candide. You remember how stoked you were when you watched him fucking SLAY the x games slope course in 07? I do, I got chills watching that.

Actually, I'm just going to post it.

Dec 11 2009 7:10AM
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nickyp
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I love Kandide. His Koreupt promodel Kouldn't be any Kooler. Kan't wait to see what he Komes out with this season. Kool vid too. ++++++C
Dec 11 2009 7:38AM
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ONE-UP
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ooooooo witty
Dec 11 2009 7:44AM
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h_bar
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By all means, i believe that Candide is a legend! And i was beyond stoked when i watched the x-games slope in 2007. Its just that i grew up with Candide, Andreas and Shane. Kids these days grow up with casabon, harlaut, wallisch and durtschi. Im just saying that for people who came into the sport during the last two years is not that interested in what happend 3-5 years ago.
Dec 11 2009 7:54AM
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LOLO_FAVRE
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yeah and this is what is really sad kids don't even care about the story of freeski and what is more sad is that story is not even long!!!
it's less than 20 years so don't tell me they can't learn a little about it

that what make me feel sad and pissed cause sometime they talk about people they don't know or just forget people who help so much the sport to bring it where is it right now
Dec 11 2009 8:01AM
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exile_ch
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By the way, any infos as when the new Candide Kamera is going to drop out?

I'm dyiiiiing to see his next edit.
Dec 11 2009 8:56AM
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rorybw
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candide is basically why i am here today, and i say it with slight resentment but it was when he was in charge back in the day that skiing was at its finest. even the mini-dvd that came with the rossingnol scratch's in 2005 made me jizz. i would trawl the internet for hours trying to find his latest edit and when i eventually watched the opening segment of whappen it blew my mind. candide is the man.

Dec 11 2009 9:22AM
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SkierX
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Tom Walsh?

Must be a new pro.
Dec 11 2009 9:24AM
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I_Am_Mod
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If i was a girl i'd be in love with candide...
Dec 11 2009 9:42AM
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Malcolm
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candides sick cause he slays pretty much everything on skis
Dec 11 2009 9:50AM
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snomaster
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wait, is this the same guy? why don't pipe skiers go that big anymore?






respect
Dec 11 2009 10:07AM
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Torbjorn
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Yeah, same guy, won the X-games back in 2003 with that run.

Candide has a tendency to stay in the background a lot of the time I think, then come out and do some of the gnarliest things ever. From the d-spin 7 over Chad's back in 2000 (?), to the huge cork 5 over the hip in Superpark 4, to the 810 to rail in 2005, and more.

(But pipe skiers, some at least, do go as big, or bigger today though. The highest air Candide had on that run was 17ft I think, while Dumont went 20ft out on that huge 9 in the X-games, this year or last.)

Dec 11 2009 10:35AM
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LOLO_FAVRE
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yeah  but when candide went 17 feet high the pipe was not as good as last year pipe so you can't really compare
Dec 11 2009 10:40AM
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Torbjorn
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Yeah, I guess the pipe standards have improved quite a bit these last few years.
Dec 11 2009 10:45AM
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triebby
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Amen, Amen.
Dec 11 2009 10:54AM
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JaphyRyder
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This is like saying, "Yo, I just found out about this Larry Bird guy, he is soo good! I only hear of DWade and Chris Paul, but I've never heard of this Bird character!!"

cmon man Candide is one of the true pioneers of this sport!
Dec 11 2009 10:58AM
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Mstchief
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im with you but your fighting a uphill battle dude, if its not constantly in the forums the 16 year olds don't care
Dec 11 2009 11:09AM
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Armanzoid
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Excellent analogy.
Dec 11 2009 11:14AM
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elliot.
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That video is amazing! got me pumped to get out there again! cant believe i havent seen that! he absolutley kills those lines and hits! 4:12 is soooo sick! such a change in style from what i remember from him....

the man is an absolute legend of our sport, total shame that many kids out there dont/wont know about him, this thread should be a lesson to everyone out there just how much guys like this killed and progressed the scene in the early days and are the main reason its the way it is now...

some of his earlier segments were amazing, left me speachless... One of the guys who first got me stoaked on park skiing and away from the big mountain. Everyone should see this from one of the ski movies (high society maybe?):

Dec 11 2009 11:22AM
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benJAHmin
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Im 15, but that doesn't mean that I don't know anything, or care about the history of freeskiing.
Dec 11 2009 11:26AM
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powerslide
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I'm looking at age 35 come january... I use to ski in a one pice suit with a nice belt and yellow knees before you were born and you need to know history - Lurent speeks the trouth.

look at this a true master at work:

Dec 11 2009 11:33AM
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benJAHmin
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I think you misunderstood me, I'm agreeing with Laurent, I was just annoyed that he was stereotyping 16 year olds by saying they don't care about freeskiing history.
Dec 11 2009 11:39AM
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benJAHmin
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sorry I meant i was annoyed with Mstchief not Laurent
Dec 11 2009 11:42AM
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Mr.Huck
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Stop it! You're cilling me. 

I may be on crack but didn't he win an espy of something like that for some huge gap that he rodeoed.  I remember seeing footage of some gap that Thovex killed and it wasn't Chad's I don't think, because I remember him landing pretty much right next to a tree.  Anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
Dec 11 2009 2:32PM
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Gstrong
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that is on freeskier podcast
Dec 11 2009 2:38PM
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Mr.Huck
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Got Link?
Dec 11 2009 2:42PM
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KramerC
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I watched that segment so much. Ski movie 3 was insain.

Dec 11 2009 2:59PM
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BNik
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Candide Kamera is my fav edit i get goose bumps when ever i watch it candide is by far one of my fav skiers.
Dec 11 2009 3:10PM
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Fischer-Addicted
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says it all
Dec 11 2009 3:50PM
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bob_dole
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i was on powdermag.com today and actually saw that there is now a candide photo table photo book type deal out...seems pretty freaking ill. its 10 years of pictures of candide and others who crossed the main photoG's path. check it out! would be such a banger gift for a die hard skier fe sho
Dec 11 2009 4:05PM
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skiierman
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action sports have a tendency to do that. it sucks because this is happening now with the new explosion in popularity so all kids are seeing are the new movies or whos in the comps. strange and really sad to think people who pioneer the sport are being forgotten about before they even turn 30.
Dec 11 2009 4:32PM
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freezed
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Candide IS freeskiing. From Chad's gap to out-boosting the snowboarders in the X pipe (blew everyone's minds at the time), to his switch 10 to win the X slope a few years later (i had to watch it like 10 times to convince myself it wasn't a 7)...not to mention his epic SMIII segment, one of the best of all time. He is THE man. Cork 810 to rail when no one was doing stuff like that, ripping the backcountry and doing park tricks off everything (see:rastafaride/pull-up films movies) at a level most guys don't even match today.
Dec 11 2009 4:41PM
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