Plake

[Superstar Punani]

Just some Friday stoke dedicated to the guy responsible for getting me started on skiing 11 years ago today.

http://www.skitheworld.com/journey/images/photo_07.jpg

I would also like to acknowledge

http://classic.mountainzone.com/ski/...s/schmidt5.jpg

and Hattrup and Stumpy.

[optics]

Sweet.



Can't forget the little guys - like Griff Davis. Big ol' backs off forty footers in the late 80's. Awesome.

[sandytheskier]

I was able to convince plake to give me a kiss at the warren miller premier in slc last fall. That was cool. His hair was pink at the time.

[crashnburn'd]

Met him on a bitch of a cold day at Jay Peak earlier this year, dude is one cool guy...

[poostain]

Originally posted by Baconzoo
Plakes got two strikes in my book.

I sure he has opinion of you as well.

Oh yea, I forgot it wouldn't matter if he did. Sorry to remind you of that.

[hot_sauce]

me and Uber ran into him in the parking lot at the Mammoth Mini and he definitely came off as a cool down to earth guy

[Alkasquawlik]

Originally posted by optics
Can't forget the little guys - like Griff Davis. Big ol' backs off forty footers in the late 80's. Awesome.

I named my dog after him.

As far as Plake goes, I like what he has done for skiing, like what he continues to do for skiing, but on a personal level I think he's a fucking retard. The only encounters with Plake I've had are encounters similar to Baconzoo's.

Scot Schmidt is my god.

[poostain]

IF it wanst for Plake, all you wouldn't have skis to ski on. You'd be snowboarding or snoblading or playing vid games.

[13]

Originally posted by poostain
IF it wanst for Plake, all you wouldn't have skis to ski on. You'd be snowboarding or snoblading or playing vid games.

Uhhhhhh, sure.

Tanner Hall does more to bring kids into skiing than Plake does nowadays.

[poostain]

Originally posted by 13


Uhhhhhh, sure.

Tanner Hall does more to bring kids into skiing than Plake does nowadays.

I am sure tanner let's you wipe his ass, but palke'll use that cum rag tanner gave that you still got shoved in your pocket that you wak off in evr day watching lame vid form the x games ang wipe his ass with it.

[poostain]

Plake would kicj Tanner ass any day. Hell Brttney Spears could kick his ass too if she hadn't blown out her knee the other day.

[EPSkis]

Punani - whatchu doin' at the Heave?

[PaSucks]

Plake has done a lot for the sport, but he seems like a pompous dick to me. I have seen him on several videos spouting about his hatred for fat skis, saying how bad ass he is on his 215 cm DH boards. He is a self-rightous bastard with a bad haircut. He can ski, but a lot of guys out there can kick his ass on the hill.

[Jumper Bones]

yeah, but he's got a really hot wife. I mean really hot.

and he *still* gets paid to ski.

'nuff said.

[bdog]

Originally posted by PaSucks
Plake has done a lot for the sport, but he seems like a pompous dick to me. I have seen him on several videos spouting about his hatred for fat skis, saying how bad ass he is on his 215 cm DH boards. He is a self-rightous bastard with a bad haircut. He can ski, but a lot of guys out there can kick his ass on the hill.

If you met him in person you would have a different opinion. He is really quite the opposite of what you state. A genuine person with a great sense of humor who can still kick ass over most other skiers.

[hev]

A couple years ago I was waiting for a plane in DIA to go back east and visit my family. I was supposed to be going skiing in montana but had just broken my leg so i was pretty bummed. I was sitting in the terminal with x-rays in hand and I spot plake and his wife across the way. I shouted to him from where I was sitting and he went out of his way to come over and say hi. he signed my x-rays (we'll technically the envelope) and hung out and shot the shit for a while. he asked me about my injury, where i liked to ski, and was being totally chill and down to earth. pretty much the opposite of the mohawked bad ass you see in the movies. i think he brought that persona onto himself, but at least partly it's an act.

[Stikki]

Plake has a passion for skiing that’s contagious. That’s all that really matters.

I met him awhile back at a ski show. The poster signing line was really long. I thought this was because he was popular but it turns out he was spending time talking, sometimes at length, with every person he met. He genuinely was interested in what people had to say, especially their interest in skiing. He might be a derelict at times but the man is an ambassador for skiing.

[Jumper Bones]

remember, he's the original Bad Boy, the king derelict...

[teledave]

Originally posted by bdog
If you met him in person you would have a different opinion. He is really quite the opposite of what you state. A genuine person with a great sense of humor who can still kick ass over most other skiers.

That would be my opinion of him too, and I've had the opportunity to ski with him twice here in the SE (Ski Beech & Ober Gatlinburg) when was on his honeymoon tour. It would've been really easy for him to rag on the conditions and the mtns because they did indeed suck, but he seemed really stoked just to be in TN and NC and actually skiing with a decent throng following him.

Also ran into him once at Vail (around 1990) and followed his fan club down to an area and watched him throw a front flip off a drop under the liftline (somewhere on the righthand frontside of the mtn.), the first time I had ever seen (film, TV or otherwise) anyone but the acrobatic guys do an invert. He was all talkative with everybody, I've never gotten any sense of dickishness from him at all.

But, that was over 10 years ago so if you've got more recent bad experiences so be it, I'll just remember him as he was to me.

[mountainbored]

Originally posted by Jetter
remember, he's the original Bad Boy, the king derelict...

You must mean Shaun Palmer, right?!
If I gotta hear Plake laugh at everything and nothing one more time on Reel Thrills, I'll puke. He rips but he's a kook.

[Jumper Bones]

thou shalt not poo-poo the great Stumpy's words.

[Game Over]

Originally posted by mountainbored
You must mean Shaun Palmer, right?!

Funny, I recently read in a article posted here that before a thing called snowboarding hit in the early-mid 80's, Shaun Palmer used to follow, on skis, a older teenaged Plake around Mammoth. The article made it seem Plake was one of the guys Palmer looked up to as a kid. Plake was the first guy I ever saw straight-line something impressive (Whistler Bowl in L. to Thrill).

Oh yea....and my addition to the 80's hardcore list, Kevin Andrews and Tom Jugnst.

[Jumper Bones]

Yeah, Freeskier's Plake interview this past year said that Palmer got a lot of his drug addictions (and inner demons) from Plake, who could do the stuff and shrug it off.

not the best role model at the time, but I'd say he's worked it out.

[mountainbored]

I was wondering if anyone was awake.

[SponsoredByDuctTape]

The first season I lived in Mammoth ('94-'95, fackin' EPIC winter btw), Plake and Kimberly lived RIGHT ABOVE ME! No joke. I spoke with the dude on a daily basis. One of the coolest neighbors I've ever had. If the cars were snowed in, my roomate and I would give Plake our keys before heading to work, and he would move our cars for the plow. When it was dumping, he was the first (and sometimes only) person out shoveling the walkway to our building - shoveling, i.e. no snowblower. When he's not on TV, he's much quieter and calmer. I will agree with Mountainbored about that dumbass Reel Thrills show, but he's really much different away from the camera. Definitely old school, which might get him in trouble sometimes, but I'd have the Plakes as my neighbors again over just about anyone else.