The Last Fight

fucking amazing article.

i was thinking of making a good comment, but c.faller and armadasteeze said everything i could think of.

Justin Dorey looks like he's crying...

why haven't we seen more individual or collaborations of ski companies pushing for it with hope for more sales as a result of the industry getting larger after the publication of skiing

Just to correct one thing ... Olympics are still doing demo sports. In fact there was 2 sports in demo last sumemr olympics. However they have so much more sports in the Summer than the Winter that they are just basically going for what THEY see as "sure shots" and add them to the list.

As for why the IOC listens to FIS in first, it's because of their own bureaucracy. To get a sport in the olympic, it has to be represented by an International organization and this org. needs to be a federation. Just that simple. The sports needs to be submitted by that federation wich in our case is FIS (and they went for skiercross a long time ago as Trennon said).

Other than that, good job Schmuck and Trennon for that interview. Also keep up the good work with the team Trennon!!! I didn't realize what was going on exactly with that unofficial team!

great interview, good luck to all the guys and girls!

Great article guys! It's good to get a little insight into what is actually happening out there.

People need to get over the whole "pipe not being in the Olympics" issue. It's not going to be in for 2010. Wait for 2014.

As for the team not being funded, that's tragic and should not be accepted. As someone involved with the CFSA with very limited knowledge of what's going on at the upper end, it would appear that the government funding just isn't there. Look at Alpine Canada. The amount of money that Ken Read has been able to coax out of the Canadian government has been huge while the funding to freestyle is lacking.

Television coverage in Canada is very much lacking for freestyle competitors. Turn on CBC every Saturday and Sunday afternoons and you will see a FIS Alpine World Cup race. Why? Because racing is still at the forefront of skiing in Canada. Ski-cross hopefully with breathe some new life into CFSA with funding because like it or not, Joe Public on his couch is more likely to watch 4 guys speeding down a course of jumps and rollers because he wants to see a spectacular crash.

What the CFSA needs is a figure head to speak that is nationally recogniseable. Alpine Canada has it's president Ken Read (first north american to win a downhill race) but CFSA has no one.

Faller, while the buraucracy of FIS does suck, it unfortuntately is running the show of every event on snow that doesn't require a motor.

Armada_steeze, great idea, too bad everyone will be watching the olympics and no sponsor is going to try to compete with the olympics.

DUDES,WHAT OUTERWEAR IS MATT HAYWARDS (YELLOW) SOMONE GET AT ME!

CFSA and the Canadian freestyle team left me with such a bad taste for the sport that I nearly quit skiing. Thank god I didn't and decided to give freeriding a chance. A decision that re-ignited the fire for the sport for me.

Considering that CFSA is contrived of mainly the same fucktards that were there when I was on the team, I would not expect much of a positive outcome.

A bunch of years back when I was in the rookie issue of freeze I mentioned some things about how terrible the cfsa is and Trennon was the first to back them up and put my viewpoint down. I would hope that this is atleast some realization that these people (the cfsa board) don't have anyone's best interests in mind but themselves. And that additionally, they are so stupid they really don't even know what their best interests are. If they are in the business of making money, which they are, halfpipe is surely a money maker. Just think of how many kids they could get to become "members" of their organization. Think of how many families they can put through undue financial strife in order to see their son or daughter become a "canadian freestyle ski team athlete". Trennon even says it in this article...it's all about the membership. Sure is...but sucks to be the kid who's good enough to get sponsored and generate an income but isn't allowed to because some homo at cfsa doesn't want to lose the kid's membership. This isn't even getting into how one might get chosen to compete for the team..."coachs evaluation" can account for as much as 30% of your possibility of even competing if things were run like they are in moguls and aerials. But Trennon's point is that if things weren't run like that the kids would be drawn to it. I just don't see how it could happen when it's still the same people that were running the show years ago. I know this is a pessimistic attitude towards change, and if by some flook of luck things did change trust me I would be all for it and the first to show my support. I commend Trennon for having thick enough skin to see so blatantly all of the beuraucratic B.S. and still be able to talk so positively of the organization. The only way someone could get these egomaniacs to step up and make a representation is to kiss their ass...it's a tough job. I hope he can make it happen.

I guess in the end we have the losers at CFSA to thank really. Thank you CFSA, thank you for taking my money all of those years and thank you for pissing off JF, Vincent and JP enough that they decided to go out on their own, make an entrepeneurial decision with Salomon and create a sport that is as positive and amazing as freeride currently is. So even if I don't see the halfpipe olympics in Vancouver or if I don't see it in my lifetime...thank you for sucking! With or without the Olympics our sport has already created legendary athletes and heroes for a younger new generation to come.

well everything has pretty much been summed up really nicely. If you have heard about..i think burton's..contest for snowboarding down ski-only hills, someone should pull the reverse and steal into the pipe on skis and rip between runs from a snowboarder. that would be epic. impossible...but nice to think about.

Yeah Schmuck! Thank you for the both of you getting the word out on what is happening however, I am still lost on what we can do!

well at least thers a chance that we could have pipe in 2010

^there is only a chance if people speak out

reedy makes a good point...

good to see you back on here dude!

Fantastic Article

yeah Trennon you're the MAN

Co-sign Reedy.

This is an amazing team pushing the front of this sport.

2010.

Is this really what we want?

More comps, more godamn serious comps with a whole lot of rules abd shit. We must not let this sport be ruined by serious copetitions and the rule loving old guys in fis and ioc, no atter what happens, we have too keep the most important thing in this sport: the fun of skiing how you like in the way you like with your friends, and having a good time... The competitions that are should be done by the riders, in a way the riders like, and the format should be like the north american open