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Originally posted by girlski0912
No offense taken and I am not replying to this out of defense for my stance....I just want to take an opportunity to clarify my point about guys and girls in big mountain comps.
Incorporating a huge cliff into a line and actually landing it is a definate indicator of how well you ski. But I know alot of guys who aren't necessarily the best skiers entering comps, throwing huge airs and by some off chance sticking it. To me that isn't skiing. I am in agreement with you.
On the other hand, the girls that I compete against select hucks that they can incorporate into their skiing to up their line score. What I was saying is that I think that men have implicitly been encouraged to increase the hairball factor in their lines via huge drops and the effect that this is having is that the higher line scores are going to guys who are dropping huge but who maybe aren't the best skiers all around. It's called Big MOUNTAIN, not Big AIR for a reason.
Because of this, yes Blurred Elevens, I still beleive that women are keeping big mountain skiing in it's purest form. You wouldn't huck something you couldn't land if you were out in BC, so why is there such a need to do it in competition? That isn't skiing, it's a sausage fest at that point.

First of all, you are right. Some guys are just huckers, not stompers. They suck. For others that do STOMP, it's a little different.

To give you some background, when they first started the US Extremes in Crested Butte, AIR was a judged category. However, due to liability reasons, etc, they changed that as a category, but the comps have been judged the same ever since. You have to go big to win those contests, you and I both know it.

I agree with you about the whole BIG BALLS vs SKILL arguement, but most top 15 skiers in the US Extremes are good skiers, and the only thing seperating them is [jamie pierre voice] the size of their balls[/jamie pierre voice]

Did you know Seth Morrison never won the extremes because he straight-lined everything, only to suffer in his scores in the categories of fluidity and style......true story.

Oh, and BTW, If I wasn't hucking shit in the BC I could'nt land, I would'nt be getting any better.

[girlski0912]

Glad that we got that settled then!

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[jayfrizzo]

Originally posted by half-fast
I think that unless you live on a coast-you have to leave surfing out of the inexpensive mix

Then unless you live near the mountains you need to leave skiing/boarding out of this conversation.

Oh, wait.

[jayfrizzo]

Originally posted by robokill1981
Watching the trailer for Soul Purpose made me think one thing: compared to the past several years our sport appears to have really stalled last season. The trailer should show the most progressive stuff in the video, but everything in that trailer could have appeared in any video of the past 3 years as nothing looked new. So, Yes, if that trailer is an indication of things to come then our sport has become stagnant.

Don't base an entire sport on the trailer for one movie.

Snowboarding's still progressing, and it's fucking gay. Since skiing is so much more ungay, it's gotta be progressing.

</infallible logic>

[tonghands]

I guess I don't see why everyone wants skiing to grow. I can see why if you've got Pro aspirations, but for the rest of us I just don't see what's so great about it. Back when I lived in Denver I cursed skiing's popularity every time I got stuck on I-70.

Gear will always be around, someone will always step in to fill a void if there's one there. I don't think that skiing becoming more popular will lead to cheaper lift tickets, in fact I'd bet it's the other way around. Those cheap Colorado passes happened because of a lack of skier visits, not because of growth in skier visits.

Windsurfing is my summer sport, and it has basically imploded in the last 10 years or so. Cost of gear (way more than skiing), having to cart around all the gear, and the fact that there are only maybe 6 reliably windy spots in the US have all combined to basically kill off the sport. Number of shops are way down, number of manufacturers are way down, number of participants are way, way down.

But it's still super fun. Gear is a bit harder to find, but it's manageable. Except for maybe two places in the continental US, you never, ever have to worry about a crowd. Nobody worries about image, because nobody's watching. It's just stoke. I guess I don't really care if skiing becomes more poular or not, but either way I'll keep skiing.

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Originally posted by robokill1981
Watching the trailer for Soul Purpose made me think one thing: compared to the past several years our sport appears to have really stalled last season. The trailer should show the most progressive stuff in the video, but everything in that trailer could have appeared in any video of the past 3 years as nothing looked new. So, Yes, if that trailer is an indication of things to come then our sport has become stagnant.

Did you even watch it? A guy throws a 810 to rail, and than another hits a tree to lincoln loop......

We've all seen that in past movies......

[jayfrizzo]

Burred: Jibbing's not skiing, just ask Dexter.

[Buster Highmen]

I think you're overlooking the moist pleasures of slathering hard, ripe core chicken technology with kaopectate and having a few beers.

[tibaher]

that's a very amusing assimilation!

and I agree with all of you
it is our sport, therefore we are!