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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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katrina
Posts: 2395 - Karma: 15,195
RyanvdonkDid he lure you in with tales of discount subway?


It was the three layers of tall cotton tees and the XXXXL ankle length puffy DC jacket that did me in
5 years ago
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casual
Posts: 6712 - Karma: 6,753
No, YOU’RE rad!


Can’t believe I forgot to mention John Hartman, Shane McFalls, and Allan Lam too. They were big believers in BroBomb.
katrina❤️

Also brobomb was rad AF
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DrZoidberg
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casualNo, YOU’RE rad!


Can’t believe I forgot to mention John Hartman, Shane McFalls, and Allan Lam too. They were big believers in BroBomb.


What happened to brobomb even? Just got consumed by the internet at large? That was like my source for non dubstep soundtrack edits lol.
5 years ago
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fghtoffyrdmns
Posts: 3007 - Karma: 6,963
ten years! met some really good friends through here, and ill always pop back in and say whats up (and ten years later, still a ski bum haha)
5 years ago
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4FRNT
Posts: 439 - Karma: 6,203
Got us feeling OLD out here
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SuspiciousFish
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4FRNTGot us feeling OLD out here


Hey when are we going to know who won those Devastators? I still got my fingers crossed.
5 years ago
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cydwhit
Posts: 5079 - Karma: 43,076
Not a true OG, but been lurking since '09, and writing on here since 2013, which makes it by far the longest relationship I've had with any outlet, and a huge catalyst to where I am right now. Ya'll are the best audience to make stuff for. Thanks!
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Sir_SkrillALot
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i just joined the site last week
5 years ago
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4FRNT
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SuspiciousFishHey when are we going to know who won those Devastators? I still got my fingers crossed.


Newschoolers will be announcing that one, as they ran the contest! Stay tuned, i will look into it
5 years ago
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Lemuel
Posts: 14544 - Karma: 11,165
Finally made an account in Feb of 07, can't remember why. I must have worked up the courage to ask a question in a thread or something. I had lurked for a couple years, and continued to lurk for almost a year after making the account. Have made some great friends through here back in the day, and was apart of a lot of NS history (draw ball, transformice, crazy IF3 and SIA shenanigans, NS meetups at Loon and Killington, The Ski Show with Rogge, being one of the original gear reviewers, NSchat, and winning so many damn contests and prizes with Dan on here. Don't quite check in daily, definitely most days out of the week even if for a split second. Good memories. My being on Newschoolers has defined ski culture for me especially during college.
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danbrown
Posts: 11939 - Karma: 21,834
18.5 years on here. not sure how long I looked at the site before creating an account in 2002. i've definitely made lifelong friends through here, and met tons and tons of people
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ssk
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Remember the SAS forums?! Really dating myself now...
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JayBadge
Posts: 199 - Karma: 1,337
My first account was in 2003 or 2004, there wasn't even 20k members registered to the site yet. Seen a lot of transition over the years. Really enjoyed the 'team updates' sections that used to be prevalent on the site, like brand specific blogs all in one place.
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Casey
Posts: 8033 - Karma: 27,135
I joined NS in high school, my buddy Schwags told me about it because he was collaborating with Jeff Thomas on some filming projects and whatnot. I got to tag along on some cool shit here and there- “hey not a pro and I don’t film... gonna straight air your booter today kthx!”

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**This post was edited on Nov 24th 2020 at 1:19:47pm
5 years ago
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hoodratz47
Posts: 12028 - Karma: 9,586
WHO HAS THE NS SHARK?!!!!!
5 years ago
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Twinjibber77
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KevskiI think the break from the scene was good, and I feel like I ski for myself now more than I used to.


Big THIS... wish I could tell my high school self that
5 years ago
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NBCskier
Posts: 3877 - Karma: -289
march 2004. not on here much but still come ever so often to check up.
5 years ago
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Rosbif
Posts: 2543 - Karma: 930
Lurked since 05, account is from Jan 06

I stop by here every now and again, but happily don't feel the need to get involved in shit posting anymore. Skiing is still my life and my basic park skills are about as bad as they always were.
5 years ago
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ThaLetterM.
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Joined in February 2005 as a lonely and depressed teenager in Wisconsin obsessed with skiing. Moved to salt lake after high school because of Tom Wallisch’s superunknown video. Attended the U of Utah and eventually founded Vishnu (my bad)

life is weird man.
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ThaLetterM.
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Hey also, can someone finally tell me what Black Watch was? I met Eheath my first night in Utah at a house party and he still wouldn’t tell me

Shout out to the crochet cult for sure
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-Dan
Posts: 7194 - Karma: 53,542
LemuelFinally made an account in Feb of 07, can't remember why. I must have worked up the courage to ask a question in a thread or something. I had lurked for a couple years, and continued to lurk for almost a year after making the account. Have made some great friends through here back in the day, and was apart of a lot of NS history (draw ball, transformice, crazy IF3 and SIA shenanigans, NS meetups at Loon and Killington, The Ski Show with Rogge, being one of the original gear reviewers, NSchat, and winning so many damn contests and prizes with Dan on here. Don't quite check in daily, definitely most days out of the week even if for a split second. Good memories. My being on Newschoolers has defined ski culture for me especially during college.

We gotta be the winningest duo in the history of NS contests.
5 years ago
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Anti-Hero
Posts: 1269 - Karma: 344
I’ve been on for 16 years
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Vino
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12 years...
Being from Montreal, it's kinda sad to see IF3 and Regionals forums slowly going away. I mostly lurk regionals hoping for something nice in the area, gear talk for some tech advices (old FKS not fitting my new boots, whats up with that?).

This thread also makes me realise that I really need to change my helmet, I've been repping the OG logo on it for about 10 seasons now.
5 years ago
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closeyetfar11
Posts: 387 - Karma: 1,079
15 years here. Fell off a few years back, but would still come to lurk now & then. This thread is the reason I reset my password, and logged in for the first time since 2017. Think I'll make a habit of it.

I remember lurking the site in HS computer lab, then finally making an account. We would find the best photo and change the school desktops. NS and FREEZE were the only links to real freeskiing I had growing up in a very rural CO town. My only freeskiing friend and I would split a subscription to Freeze, and swap the mag between classes.

I've now been working 12 years in the industry, and like to think NS has something to do with it.

Best old threads were shooping Tanner's face onto everything, and shooping beards on Twall (see below).

Thanks, NS, and cheers to another 20.
5 years ago
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closeyetfar11
Posts: 387 - Karma: 1,079
casualNo, YOU’RE rad!


Can’t believe I forgot to mention John Hartman, Shane McFalls, and Allan Lam too. They were big believers in BroBomb.

I knew I'd find you in here, buddy :) BroBomb was incredible. 2.0 potential in the future...?
5 years ago
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freeski_Shaggy
Posts: 617 - Karma: 279
Been around since 06'. Went away for a bit, but lurk around just about everyday now. The highlight was definitely winning an AM spot in the Midwest Ski Film Festival and being able to meet up with so many homies (plus show our movie) ! Great times on here, not sure I will ever actually leave. Thanks NS!
5 years ago
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,899
Found this site looking for twin tip ski reviews in 2003. Joined in 2004. You could say I've been a member of NS for the majority of my life.
5 years ago
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TNORTS
Posts: 2077 - Karma: 2,761
Welp, I thought there was no way I was in the 10 year club but I looked at my profile and... sure enough. I got into free skiing/park skiing as a result of a meathead films/ski the east flick my dad got me for christmas on a whim- Snow Gods was the name. I couldn't believe the stuff they were doing. At the time I was probably 12 or 13 and having a snowboard identity crisis. That movie got me to switch back to skiing. From there the internet was my friend in learning everything else about the sport, and newschoolers kept popping up again and again. I made an account when I was 15 or so and spent a lot of my time after school reading the forums, entering the contests, watching edits, etc. When I went to college at UVM, I kind of fell off and stopped spending as much time on NS (more friends, more skiing, more school work, less time for the internet). Now I come back here and there just to see what's changed basically, and occasionally to get a different perspective on skis/gear than the TGR crowd provides.

I'm going on 27 now and I've moved on from the east coast to Tahoe, where I'm working as a fly fishing guide in the summer and patroller at Kirkwood in the winter. I don't really ski park anymore in a serious way, but will still take a few laps here and there. I've moved on to bigger, natural terrain. Last season was probably my best yet, and accomplished a lot of things I'd always wanted to. I'm not out there winning freeride comps, but I hit a lot of personal goals and had a great time doing it with great people. As I've gotten older my perspective on skiing has changed a little bit. I'm a little less competitive with myself, and I have a little less to prove. I'm a lot less willing to take big falls, especially now that my career choices require me to have all my body parts fully functioning.

I'll always be nostalgic about those early days though. Everything was so new and evolving when I got into the sport- there were only a few big names that stuck around and stayed relevant- now there are so many rippers on instagram pushing the envelope that it becomes a little mind numbing to see the shit that people are pulling off. It's been cool to see the sport evolve though, and I feel lucky to have gotten to witness a good chunk of that evolution, though I definitely missed out on the reeaaal OG days.
5 years ago
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backfrmthecrypt
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Joined in 2010, lurked for far longer. Dropped off the face of the earth for a while. Signed in today for the first time in years. I feel like NS/ski gabber helped me actually know what I was talking about back then. Now I am just old and embarrassing haha
5 years ago
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Huck_Norris
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little1337Your kid doesn’t even know how much clout he has on this site automatically



I didn’t even think of that. I wonder if there’s generational karma rating points from combining a green and a pink name. #inquiringminds

Wait a second... Can anyone else claim knocking up a green name?
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reeski
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17 years strong
5 years ago
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RudyGarmisch
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I found NS when I was looking for freestyle skiing videos in middle school, but I didnt see the point of making an account or posting, forums were weird shit in 2002. Dailymotion also had better videos/format at the time anyways, like Rick Worbelski's Risky Flip.

TGR's Further was my first freestyle ski movie I owned, had to show everyone I knew the Candide D-spin over Chads. I was fucking annoyingly into skiing as a teenager.

PBP's 1242 in Seattle was my first ski movie premiere. I had no idea who Auclair and Boronowski were when they signed a poster for me, but I did recognize Philou Poirier strangely.

Terrain parks peaked in the PNW in 2006-2008. The shit they used to push at Stevens in the public park was straight up silly by todays standards, huge and sketchy. Utah might have got Tanners ankles but Stevens got his tibial plateaus, never forget.

Bryan Gallant
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Black Watch and Pancake Hamburgers
Washington Regionals always Best Regionals
5 years ago
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SuspiciousFish
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RudyGarmischI found NS when I was looking for freestyle skiing videos in middle school, but I didnt see the point of making an account or posting, forums were weird shit in 2002. Dailymotion also had better videos/format at the time anyways, like Rick Worbelski's Risky Flip.

TGR's Further was my first freestyle ski movie I owned, had to show everyone I knew the Candide D-spin over Chads. I was fucking annoyingly into skiing as a teenager.

PBP's 1242 in Seattle was my first ski movie premiere. I had no idea who Auclair and Boronowski were when they signed a poster for me, but I did recognize Philou Poirier strangely.

Terrain parks peaked in the PNW in 2006-2008. The shit they used to push at Stevens in the public park was straight up silly by todays standards, huge and sketchy. Utah might have got Tanners ankles but Stevens got his tibial plateaus, never forget.

Bryan Gallant
Pikachu
Papasteeze
Black Watch and Pancake Hamburgers
Washington Regionals always Best Regionals


That reminds me, didnt someone die at Stevens back in the day? There was some story where some dude basically started from the top of the park and bombed down into a jump and landed like 50' past the landing. His friends thought he was trying to gap one jump to another or something insane like that.
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hoodratz47
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I remember hearing that story down at hood at a party or something.... He went for it I guess
SuspiciousFishThat reminds me, didnt someone die at Stevens back in the day? There was some story where some dude basically started from the top of the park and bombed down into a jump and landed like 50' past the landing. His friends thought he was trying to gap one jump to another or something insane like that.
5 years ago
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Trifes
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13 years now haha i just joined here when i was 13 years old haha...damn now time flies.
5 years ago
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skiguy04
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Been here 18 years
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a_burger
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SuspiciousFishThat reminds me, didnt someone die at Stevens back in the day? There was some story where some dude basically started from the top of the park and bombed down into a jump and landed like 50' past the landing. His friends thought he was trying to gap one jump to another or something insane like that.


heard a similar story at Sugarloaf from a patroller, they measured his crater at 120' past the knuckle or something wild, didn't die but got really fucked up. People used to be dumb I guess
5 years ago
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Huck_Norris
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hoodratz47WHO HAS THE NS SHARK?!!!!!


Pretty sure the NS shark died from an untreated std it caught in a 3 way with JayDope and girl #97.
5 years ago
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Pipe_Munky
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oh hai dere!
5 years ago
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.[sanhedrin].
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I joined September 2004. Still checking in with Newschoolers as often as I can.
5 years ago
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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I am only a 6 year plebian
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SkierPT
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10 years official, around 12-13 with lurking.
5 years ago
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reeski
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I’ve been scrolling through NS for the last 17 seasons and I have to say I like the vibe better now then I did back then. I feel like the site is more well rounded, of course there’s lots of park skiers but there’s also backcountry and RV/vanlife NS’ers it’s still enjoyable to come on hear and read what lots of like minded people have to say. Cheers to another 17 years ladies and gents!!
5 years ago
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NBCskier
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SuspiciousFishThat reminds me, didnt someone die at Stevens back in the day? There was some story where some dude basically started from the top of the park and bombed down into a jump and landed like 50' past the landing. His friends thought he was trying to gap one jump to another or something insane like that.


that was at snoqualime. some kid on mushies bombed the top part of the park to boost some 30ft table top. landed at the base of the next kicker like 150ft past the landing. his heart ripped out of all the connective arteries and what not. saw ski patrol working on him while riding the lift. it was gnar.
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CatdickBojangles
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What happened to @MaryO she was Tom’s biggest fan and super active on here?
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Drail
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Hheyyyyyy.
Pipe_Munkyoh hai dere!
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207
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CatdickBojanglesWhat happened to @MaryO she was Tom’s biggest fan and super active on here?


she's been holed up in her house pumping fox news and breitbart through her veins, spewing racist, anti mask rhetoric on facebook and twitter. Damn shame, lady had achieved legend status but she's got super boomer karen racist anti vaxxer anti mask energy now. Wish i was joking.

**This post was edited on Dec 22nd 2020 at 12:37:19am
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Cyanicenine
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8 Years official but I lurked a couple before I made an account. I mostly stayed in gear talk and came for tech knowledge. Agree that the vibe has gotten a lot better these last few years.

**This post was edited on Dec 22nd 2020 at 1:16:44pm
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123ski
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Check my profile. I was member number 25 until I got banned, but I’m still in the first 500 I think. It says I’ve been a member since before September 2001 ...
5 years ago
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cool_name
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10+ here

I still remember beating my drum and making a fuss over how the mods were ruining the site by banning everyone

Turns out I was right, site is a ghost town now. usually come back this time of the year when the skiing bug is too much to keep bottled up.
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