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1999 Freeskiing Open

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Pitolairas
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Watch this little gem!

The 1999 US Open of Skiing from Vail, Colorado put on my Mike Jaquet and Micah Abrams of now defunct Freeze magazine. This was the second ever major ski slope style competition and featured switch take-offs and landings and off axis moves that now look old school but were cutting edge back then. JP Auclair, JF Cusson, Vincent Doria, Philou Porier were the star and very, very young Tanner Hall is featured as well.
The course was rough and but got the job done.

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SirBooley
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ahaha there are some golden quotes in here.

"woody factor"

"huck for dollars"

JP, "the strategy for me today is not to kill myself, and not look like a pussy either"
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Mr.Bishop
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Those days were so much fun. It was awesome to be part of something that was so new and fresh.
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yuck
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man this is so sick, amazing to see the beginnings of our humble sport just 13 years ago... now look at it.

was that slopestyle course just 2 jumps? the misty sevens were dope haha and young tanner, oh god. someone should go back in time and show him his adult friend finder pictures
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JWeinstock
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"huck for dollars" that was great
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grown-ninja
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use to love the days when a 5 would get you some respect, and the hill after a day at middle school was the best thing ever-good thing is i haven't improved in nearly 10 years ha.
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NotGhood
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Hahaha that was awesome.
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Blurst
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Reminds me of watching level ones balance. Awesome little video right here
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dan1080
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skiing has come so far. great vid to watch though
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JahSpriggs
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One of the reasons I am proud to be from vail... I got so see the beginning of the sport before my very eyes!!! every US free skiing open and was a big influence on my choice to ski park! I got all those guys autographs!!! Claim!
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Stickity
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flat 3 at 1:40 was so dope haha
it's crazy how much literally everything has changed
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Sklar
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So cool!
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Drail
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Man. I was thinking about the US Open the other day. With Olympics coming up in a few years and Dew Tour down to one stop, I think the time is prime for a resurrection of the US Open. Skiing needs a big open event.


BRING BACK THE US OPEN!!!!
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2_fadez
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[IMG]http://us-f3-edit.store.yahoo.com/I/mbstores-store_1989_10138271[IMG]

RADICAL BRAHHH

And that huck for dollars kid HAD to be tanner. Too close a resemblance not to be
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Gr0mo
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oh man has the big air event come a long long way.
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a_burger
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That was awesome. Love watching these old videos
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Boggs
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The scary part is that I was only 7 when this was going on, and I'd say Im part of the older demographic on NS.
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Craigskis
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^No you ain't.
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kvan
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Good stuff. JP was the man back in the day and still is today.
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Pugalope
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Micah pocketing the money was f***ing hilarious...
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FuckAllOfYou
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dat tweaked backie

actually really sick!
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skiing used to be so chilllll.
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TijmenDal
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Damn, was that gret
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CaptainSlow
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Haha that is so great, I wish skiing would go back to days like that
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loganimlach
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micah was the fucking man. "there is no biting. at no point. during any of the heats."
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mammothpunks
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Nice. I did skiercross in 2000 and filmed the rest of the events. Bunch of that footage was in Scandalous!


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Sklar
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the woman who was interviewed about skicross was my coach
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Holte
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So raw. So fun.
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DIX~
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Same age as you and I feel pretty much dead average for NS, maybe even young still
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dylhole
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Way better back then.
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loganimlach
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Man I must have watched the Scandalous trailer hundreds of times. To this day that's one of my favorite teasers.
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mammothpunks
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I have Scandalous on DV tape. Need to digitize it and put it up on here if long as levin is down.
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Drail
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He put Blunt up, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind if Scandalous went up as well.

oh by the way, Blunt:
https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/3514/Blunt:-The-Final-Blowout!?o=2
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freestyler540
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It took 15 years to blow up the sport!
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leninlover
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lol you would be from Vail. Is there a strong Rastafarian movement there?
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loganimlach
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That would be so fucking sick. For anyone who's curious, feast your eyes on one of the greatest trailers of all time:

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1dread
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Yeah.... Free FRee FREE SKIING!
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matt-luczkow
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I can't believe that was only 13ish years ago! was so sick at the time
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Tremblantskier
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As if they didn't shot Philou's switch back, he had the rental boots with the walk and attack system on and random everything because the airline lost his baggage
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PacificRimJob
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Man... and I remember all of this stuff...

I remember the first time I ever saw those yellow salomons that could go backwards... and saw "Fifty" (possibly last good Warren Miller film) and freaked the fuck out as a 12/13 year old seeing guys throwing down in the park on skis...

Before that, the only 'extreme' skiing I had ever seen was TGR flicks like Harvest and some of the earlier McConkey shit where it was just sending it down spines. Seeing park skiing for the first time was mind bottling.

And it was so core back then. Took about 10 years after that before there were more than maybe 3 or 4 other park skiers at your local mountain... and that's on a good day... and you made friends with them quickly because you were unique.






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