He isn't a "sell-out" to me, but I've heard/read stuff about him where it sounded like pure jealousy to me, because of his success. Boo-hoo...Sourgrapes mentality. He's living most of our dreams, admit it y'all:eek: ...
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He isn't a "sell-out" to me, but I've heard/read stuff about him where it sounded like pure jealousy to me, because of his success. Boo-hoo...Sourgrapes mentality. He's living most of our dreams, admit it y'all:eek: ...
Gotta give my .o2. My friend saw Glen at the Wood one afternoon earlier this year and approached him to ask him to ski with us. He said he was done after skiing with his wife for the day but would be back later in the week. Caught him later in the week on a great powder afternoon. Freshies were done but we were charging a jump line in some great snow. Long story short, I threw my first backflip ever with some private instruction one the chair from Mr. Plake himself. Two other skier buddies got their first flips. Plake threw down a couple stylie lincolns and a screamin semen for good measure. And yes I was on a snowboard. He didn't care, we were all having fun. He is an Amazing ambassador for skiing culture.
Cool you got to meet him. Skiing would not be the same without him. He's always been the ambassador for the World's coolest sport. Look at what he did for skiing before, during, and after the sport changed in the late 90s. As well as what Doug Coombs (RIP man) has done also...And as have many others done in a lesser-known and more obscure sense (for the sport)...
I know this thread has all but died, but I wanted to share my Plake experience. Met him in Jackson a few years back..."Blizzard of AAAH'S" came up during the conversation. Glen grabbed my shoulder, smiled and said "It's amazing what that film did for us all, isn't it?" and raised his beer to mine for a toast. I reverently agreed and went on my way...I have never been the same since.
Long Live Plake.
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Yup, met plake while breaking up an almost fight between Kimberly and some chick at a TSOL show in Mammoth. That sure was fun :rolleyes:
I have a few Plake stories too. When my son was about 6 mo old, his hair grew in as a mohawk. I took a picture and showed it to Glen at teh Stratton trade show, him, Hatrup and someone else was there and Glen laughed so hard at it and fell off the table. That was 16 years ago.
Current time, in talking to Dalbello with the Krypton, I got to spend some time with Glen fitting the boot and playing around with some prototypes. He truely is an Ambassador of the sport.
Aside from being the incarnate Jesus of the hairstyling world, he's a standup d00d, FKNA ripper, and all around nice guy to be around.
Even if he does live in the middle of nowhere out there with the tweekers...... :shrugs:
What an amazing thread. He writes a column in Dark Summer UK magazine moaning about twin tips and fat skis :)
And he gets all the pain meds he needs from his wife:
http://www.phpr.purdue.edu/facstaff/?uid=kplake
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Never skied with him, but definitely have seen him quite a few times at the 'wood....
I thought RSN's Reel Thrills created Glen Plake? You're telling me he skied or something before this?
I have a little disagreement with a friend of mine about the potential length of those skis in the first pic (the elusive standing mutegrab). Anyone care to enlighten me with their thoughts.
In response to the disagreement, I received this from my buddy...
My cousin and I saw Plake a few years back at Killington in the early season. From my impression of him as a kid, I expected him to be 9 feet tall. I was disappointed that he was only about 5'9" - 5'10".
I've never met the man, but I saw him at Mammoth at the end of last season, and he was ripping it up on skinny K2s that had to be 210s.
met him in 1996 i think when i was 6 or something... signed my poster "Dear Todd, Don't eat yellow snow" -Glen Plake-
I still have the poster in my college dorm
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Originally Posted by Showtime06
I actually thought he would be shorter, like 5'5"-6" or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dside11-11
They are K2 Xtremes IIRC the longest they were available were 207 or 208's, knowing what I know of Plake, they are the longest that were available.Quote:
Originally Posted by commonlaw
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I think it might've been too late...:wink:Quote:
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I've seen Plake many times at Heavenly and Kirkwood. Always a monster smile.
I'm wondering what you all think of Jonny Mosely. To me, that guy has done more for skiing than anyone since Jean-Claude Killy. He turned the table on snowboarding as the cool way to slide. Jmo..
http://www.jonnymoseley.com/2006/ima...s/jonny_21.jpg
Jonny came up huge in Nagano, thats for sure. No one has done more for skiing than Plake though.Quote:
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In 1993 (ish...'92, 94?) Plake did the "down home tour"...it was a tour of America's smallest 50 ski resorts. I think it was his wife and his honeymoon. I also think it was a K2 thing.
We didn't know this, and one day at Boston Mills ski resort, we see this guy (mohawk was not up) r i p p i n g the bumps up on our 250' bump run at our little hill in Ohio. He was taking lap after lap, and we were completely opposite, watching this unknown (which is almost impossible in OH) skier just kill our bumps from the chairlift. Then, he took a massive yard sale. like....huge.
A little while later a bunch of our friends came out of the lodge telling us the Glen Plake was in the 'loft' (the upstairs area where us bad kids hung out) signing autographs. He signed my skis (not k2 verticals, dynastars...ummm...the pink ones). We totally hung out with him all night, played mini basketball and took runs in the rain, then back inside for more mini baksetball.
it was so fucking rad! I was like 13 years old, and he was totally all of our idols. He had a great time hanging out with us, and was just psyched to be out skiing, even in ohio, on ice bumps in the rain!