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Calling All OG's

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Lonely
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Hey guys, just putting this out there to see if there are any 10+ year og's still around. As NS reaches the end of its 20th anniversary I'm hoping to get a handful of y'all to see where you are now, and get your takes on how the site/skiing has changed over time for an article. Even if you don't hit the decade mark I'd still like to hear from you. So for those who are interested, reply below and I'll reach out. Or, If you feel like it, just put your answers to the questions above right in here. Thanks guys!

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jca
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jcaComing up on 12 years.
Bring back park updates, they used to be so sick.


By 12, I mean 14 haha. I'm old but still sending backflips and sliding rails.
5 years ago
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Mixy
Posts: 8358 - Karma: 50,512
1337U just love shitposting.


Built:different
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5 years ago
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tomPietrowski
Posts: 7296 - Karma: 18,730
10 years for me, went from telling kids Full Tilts are not the only boots to being the product manager for full tilt :)

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hoodratz47
Posts: 12028 - Karma: 9,586
Started lurking 2002. First account 2003 perma banned then this one 2004.


Who hear remembers the great spam wars. Tubgirl and goatse as far as the eye could see do you have your spork. Or how about the day Irishdrink showed a pic of her ass

Lots of memories and met some cool people online and in real life.. it's not the same as it was. But what truly is.



And I still will never donate .......
5 years ago
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SuspiciousFish
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hoodratz47Started lurking 2002. First account 2003 perma banned then this one 2004.


Who hear remembers the great spam wars. Tubgirl and goatse as far as the eye could see do you have your spork. Or how about the day Irishdrink showed a pic of her ass

Lots of memories and met some cool people online and in real life.. it's not the same as it was. But what truly is.



And I still will never donate .......


Lol was that back when the NS admins would go to sleep and people would spam the front page with pure degeneracy until the morning?
5 years ago
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hoodratz47
Posts: 12028 - Karma: 9,586
It would get bad on non ski gabber. It was cutthroat
SuspiciousFishLol was that back when the NS admins would go to sleep and people would spam the front page with pure degeneracy until the morning?
5 years ago
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bob_dole
Posts: 4081 - Karma: 1,640
The sign up taps out after September 2001. So technically only 19, but come January I'm going to claim full 20. Been a lurker for a long time and had my 15 seconds of fame back in 08 during the early years of WCS. Is there any way to get the old school logo back in play with the dude doing the 3 tail? What is Harvey doing these days anyway?
5 years ago
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olic
Posts: 299 - Karma: 940
Started lurking on NS in 2008, made my account in 2012 and still check almost everyday, it's been a good time!
5 years ago
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Schoess
Posts: 2134 - Karma: 25,561
Been here since maybe 08-10. Account started in 2011. I think few people realize how centralized skiing used to be with NS. there was like NO park skiing on youtube back in the day. You had to find anything and everything on here. Bigtime nostalgia. The homepage used to be tiled as well and I remember it being a big deal if you got "front page NS". Can we also talk about the view count??? HOLY
5 years ago
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j_oski
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RparrAccount only goes back 8 years, but have been lurking for at least 12 total now. This site has been one of the only constant things in my life. Many things have come, gone and changed but skiing will always be something that I look forward to


Fax
5 years ago
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GayWolf420
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Been a trip to say the least. Joined NS shortly after moving to UT with my family when i was like 12 or 13 and had no idea this world of skiing existed outside of my shitty little homehill in MI with a sketchy park. Blew my mind that crews like 4bi9, clownschool, and many other scenes going on here were IN Utah and was near it all....joined a freestyle team shortly after cuz my sisters were on Brightons race team and i didnt like racing but freestyle seemed cool and the rest is history....now currently a certified freestyle coach for the very same program i grew up skiing with. Lifes cool, man. Been a pleasure to share all these years with you all. Heres to many more
5 years ago
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GayWolf420
Posts: 38259 - Karma: 131,671
Been a trip to say the least. Joined NS shortly after moving to UT with my family when i was like 12 or 13 and had no idea this world of skiing existed outside of my shitty little homehill in MI with a sketchy park. Blew my mind that crews like 4bi9, clownschool, and many other scenes going on here were IN Utah and was near it all....joined a freestyle team shortly after cuz my sisters were on Brightons race team and i didnt like racing but freestyle seemed cool and the rest is history....now currently a certified freestyle coach for the very same program i grew up skiing with. Lifes cool, man. Been a pleasure to share all these years with you all. Heres to many more
5 years ago
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Lonely
Posts: 7180 - Karma: 70,137
Wow guys! Big thanks to everyone who has posted in here or responded to my PM. I wasn't expecting such a great turn out. Still working on getting more PMs sent out. Didn't realize there was so many old folks left, so many that we may have to pick and choose. Really appreciate this community.
5 years ago
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SofaKingSick
Posts: 9805 - Karma: 66,235
started looking at the forums in 2000 and made my first account in Dec 2001...member number 3000-something. been here on and off (but mostly on) ever since :)
5 years ago
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steezbox
Posts: 1394 - Karma: 701
Wow I didn't even realize it, but I guess I'm OG. Lurking since 08 member since '10. Guess I'll drink to that?
5 years ago
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Squirtle
Posts: 288 - Karma: 1,584
Started looking about 13 years ago, didnt make an account until about 10 years ago. I haven't been the most active member as you can see from my post count lol. I used to mostly just lurk and watch videos. Much easier to be active now that an app exists.
5 years ago
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Drail
Posts: 14045 - Karma: 10,324
Hello. I 'member when skiing wasn't cool. But then it was cool... until it was played out and stale. Nowadays kids be doing ballet tricks on or around rails and if you're not grabbing double stale in your switch triple you might as well stay home.

Oh, and member #42 or something. I don't think NS existed in '99 so I guess 2000. Something something Huntney grabs are still cool, prove me wrong.

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5 years ago
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Obie.
Posts: 1741 - Karma: 3,646
2009. I lurked for a while before that until I got my first twin tips. Didn’t feel like I was worthy of an account until I crossed that milestone. Learned a lot about the culture & I can still remember reading the hilarious OG threads for the first time.
5 years ago
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hoodratz47
Posts: 12028 - Karma: 9,586
Getting schooled online by jd_may.

Back when the nhl thread was fucking outrageous. The callouts
5 years ago
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VT_scratch
Posts: 8862 - Karma: 6,825
Been a member since April 2007, cruised around without an account for a couple years before that. I remember going over to my friends house after school, we always looked up to his older brother who was a good skier (and was rocking things like 1st gen armadas, siver cartel, knitted headbands, showing us lifty of the month i freeze, etc, you know the era). His brother showed us NS and we'd get on the super slow awful internet at the time and go on NS, mostly looking at videos. Back when you had to click the link to the .mov file and it would take a while to load up a 10 sec clip. This was early digital file time, but before edits were really a thing. Probably like 2003-2005.

Still love NS.
5 years ago
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VT_scratch
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VT_scratchBeen a member since April 2007, cruised around without an account for a couple years before that. I remember going over to my friends house after school, we always looked up to his older brother who was a good skier (and was rocking things like 1st gen armadas, siver cartel, knitted headbands, showing us lifty of the month i freeze, etc, you know the era). His brother showed us NS and we'd get on the super slow awful internet at the time and go on NS, mostly looking at videos. Back when you had to click the link to the .mov file and it would take a while to load up a 10 sec clip. This was early digital file time, but before edits were really a thing. Probably like 2003-2005.

Still love NS.


I remember seeing these log in pages, but was not a member at this point



5 years ago
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casual
Posts: 6712 - Karma: 6,753
Almost 13 years. Met my wife on here. Eyyy

was one of the brobomb guys way back when and met some rad dudes like Rogge and Dunfee Jon Hartley and Matt Barber, Cody Townsend and did some writing for Powder because of NS.

there is NO WAY I’d be a decade long pro patroller if not for NS. My entire life was shaped here.

pancake hamburgers forever.

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casual
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ey bro I’m a decade long pro patroller and the homie malcyzk moved on....who I gotta hit up for the proform my dude?
tomPietrowski10 years for me, went from telling kids Full Tilts are not the only boots to being the product manager for full tilt :)

**This post was edited on Nov 20th 2020 at 12:45:44pm

**This post was edited on Nov 20th 2020 at 1:51:01pm
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katrina
Posts: 2395 - Karma: 15,195
casualAlmost 13 years. Met my wife on here. Eyyy

❤️

Also brobomb was rad AF
5 years ago
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soup
Posts: 6354 - Karma: 4,486
hoodratz47Started lurking 2002. First account 2003 perma banned then this one 2004.


Who hear remembers the great spam wars. Tubgirl and goatse as far as the eye could see do you have your spork. Or how about the day Irishdrink showed a pic of her ass

Lots of memories and met some cool people online and in real life.. it's not the same as it was. But what truly is.



And I still will never donate .......


Irishdrunk and skibrdingbtch. Both their nudes were sweet.
5 years ago
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TheClap.
Posts: 21685 - Karma: 4,254
Shoutout for all the NS parties over the years

the endless memories made

the stupid amount of many made in the bst and cults

I really owe NS for most of my success stories

NS has and will always have a place in my heart
5 years ago
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nyckier
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2005.. long enough to remember when this was a bunch of trip reports from jibij employees shredding the echo mountain park with fat skis and skinny pants.
5 years ago
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ajax
Posts: 2855 - Karma: 1,259
Member since November 2005. I remember I was a sophomore in highschool and my friend printed out an article from NS about T-Hall busting his ankles on Chad's Gap. He printed it out and brought it to school to show all of us haha. Funny to think that's how we used to share information. Anyway that was the first I heard about the site, and logged in a bit after that. I've met a bunch of friends on here since then, and there's been so many highlights. Crochet cult, backyard jib cult, regional forums, x games threads, NSRadio, so many good memories.
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SkiBum.
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I remember that cult back in the day. With my old username before I got the boot and hard delete.


What ever happened to cults? Those still a thing?
casualAlmost 13 years. Met my wife on here. Eyyy

was one of the brobomb guys way back when and met some rad dudes like Rogge and Dunfee Jon Hartley and Matt Barber, Cody Townsend and did some writing for Powder because of NS.

there is NO WAY I’d be a decade long pro patroller if not for NS. My entire life was shaped here.

pancake hamburgers forever.

**This post was edited on Nov 20th 2020 at 7:38:13pm

**This post was edited on Nov 20th 2020 at 7:39:18pm
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Smuffy
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katrina❤️

Also brobomb was rad AF

Talking shit in the anonymous comment section? Classic

2007 here. Still check in almost every day to see if any of my homies have edits on the front page. Back in the day that used to be a big deal, now it's almost a daily occurrence.
5 years ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52710 - Karma: 175,330
13 years ago my friend made me an account ao I could post park updates. Now I'm still here and I don't know why.



Have met a ton of people from NS. Ridden different mtns, road tripped, couch surfed, crushed it at beer pong, argued with people, given advice, gotten advice, watched dope edits, read cool things, seen some rowdy pictures, and somehow gotten pretty darn fond of this weird internet forum called newschoolers.

Would do it all again. Also tinychat was the friggin bomb. Miss yall. Woo yea winter skiing things cool snow stuff fun!
5 years ago
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hemlockjibber8
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Started lurking in 01 on the slow ass computers at the public library. Just being a weird ass kid using up all the time they would give me, looking at ski photos. Member since 03. Still have never had a profile pick or changed my name.

The community has changed but that's because the sport has changed. I have so many friends that I met just because they had twin tips. Obviously this website will be different.
5 years ago
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i+am+ghetto
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14.5 Years. i was absolutely fascinated how my idols just posted here on a regular basis. and come x games this site went nuts :)

good times.
5 years ago
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Chris.B
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I remember in 2009 seeing a guy at my local ski hill with a nearly knee length purple tall t that said newschoolers along the bottom and that was how I first found out about the site. I spent the next year lurking, watching a lot of traveling circus and chug life, learning about Chad's gap, mattresses in pools and seeing pics of girls that were solid 7's. In 2010 I finally became a member so I could participate in Jiberish hype threads. I was really into gear talk at the time, I loved reading about all the details of bootfitting and seeing leaked prototype pics of Nike ski boots. The cults were great for getting trick tips and finding out how to make a summer setup. During class in high school my friends and I saw a lot of 4bi9 and hoodcrew edits on newschoolers, when we were supposed to be writing essays. Around 2015 I stopped going to ns regularly and though I still loved skiing, I felt less interested in the culture around it.

Last year I was feeling nostalgic after thinking about how it had been a decade since I started using twintips and decided to check out Newschoolers again. I found the site to be really refreshing compared to the seemingly endless scrolling of facebook and instagram. Since covid started I've been going on NS a lot more often and am really enjoying it, posting videos and photos is much easier than it used to be and the site feels way more active than it was 4 years ago.

Can't wait to experience all the great things that'll happen during the next 10 years on NS!
5 years ago
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FaunaSkis
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Been here since 08. Got introduced to it through somebody reccomending NSTV videos like Chug Life. Stayed for the forums. I’ve made many friends and met up to ride with people on here.

Got super interested in ski gear and still always check gear talk first. Through that I got a bunch of help with building my own pair skis. I then built on that until I got to where I am with Fauna today with having my designs built in a factory, instead of cranking them out by hand, making skis for the kind of people I met through Newschoolers.

I definitely wouldn’t still be here if it wasn’t for the community and Ian Cosco being stupid funny.
5 years ago
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dylansiggers
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15 years
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jca
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dylansiggers15 years


Fuck you're old
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dylansiggers
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jcaFuck you're old


lets grow old together jeff
5 years ago
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VT_scratch
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jcaFuck you're old


post more season edits. shoutout stepdown productions.
5 years ago
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Crispy.
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Didn't realize it was 10 years till I just looked.
5 years ago
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Skibumsmith
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jcaFuck you're old


We’re all old as balls.

**This post was edited on Nov 22nd 2020 at 4:13:57am
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Slowbro
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I've been on here 10 years, started after watching EDIAS, the 2009 JOSS edits, and Chuglife. I was a pretty shitty member originally due to being 13 lol. The forum itself hasn't changed much other than slowing down, and is the only "traditional" forum I still post on or even look at. It's a nice reminder of the old internet.
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207
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time flies man. What I'd do to just log onto NS like it's 09. Watching the new episode of Chug Life and Traveling Circus, worshipping Jon Brogan, trading Jiberish hoodies, EastAR5's (RIP) ridiculous threads and posts, Solid 7, the Chads Gap Callout, responding +k to members when they did something good. Man this website has changed but glad to still have it here.
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207time flies man. What I'd do to just log onto NS like it's 09. Watching the new episode of Chug Life and Traveling Circus, worshipping Jon Brogan, trading Jiberish hoodies, EastAR5's (RIP) ridiculous threads and posts, Solid 7, the Chads Gap Callout, responding +k to members when they did something good. Man this website has changed but glad to still have it here.


almost forgot about Oakley Crowbars. EVERYONE had those goggles and B/S/T was basically just a listing of Crowbar parts and Jiberish hoodies.
5 years ago
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doGelyst
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I remember having my Dynastar Candides down to grinding the wood core on rails, and then my T-Hall pros with 0 edge, i could just do butter 360s everywhere.
5 years ago
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teamdummy
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Been a member since 2003. High North camper alumni summer of 2000( shit 20 years ago??) I still scroll through ski gabber nearly every day. Gear gabber weekly. Still ski about 50 days a year. Still 95% park too. Its the Midwest so...
5 years ago
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hoodratz47
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Man some blast from the past on this one! Where did the time go!!!!!
5 years ago
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Ryanvdonk
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katrinaMy husband and I met hiking rails preseason. Pretty sure NS is a part of why we are together 12 years later lol.

**This post was edited on Nov 19th 2020 at 7:11:23pm


Did he lure you in with tales of discount subway?
5 years ago
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Ryanvdonk
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and 15 years, fuck...guess I'm still trying to research those social skills on the interwebs.
5 years ago
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jeremyo13
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Lurk since 05, member since 08, still check in daily during the season.

still enjoy my time here, but this version of ns truly is sterilized compared to the anything goes days of when I first joined
5 years ago
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