'09 Year in Review Top 5 Ski Stories

Malczyk

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I'm sitting in DIA with free wifi and time to kill. I hope there's some sweet mixtape article of all the rad shit that happened this year on the front page soon. Maybe? yes? If not. post you're top 5 skiing (newschool based) stories of the year in here please, here mine:

1. Shane leaving. - Skiing was changed by him and will never be the same

2. Tom Wallisch presented to the world - Dew Tour, Dumont Cup, JOSS makes him most influential jibber on the block.

3. Web Series madness - Started with Nimbus and is continued with TC, CASG, Jon, Chug and anyone with iMovie

4. L1P/WME Mayhem - Made people make loud noises, everyone loves sticking it to the man and it introduced Warren Miller (the person) to a whole new generation of people and unearthed the heartless joke that is WME.

5. Poorboyz shake up - with the addition of Jeff Thomas and filming 95% of the best skiers in the world (and a bit too many AMs) they popped off a movie with more bangers than an Oakland street on a Sunday afternoon

Notables:

- Jibij closes doors - Josh Bishop doesn't even sell the brand, just vanishes. Lettign down the team of 800 skiers and definatlely hurting the Karma rating of joshbryant

- Afterbang introduced - I'm biased but if you understood the hard work behind making a 100% new way of making a ski, its a big deal for sure.

- Will Wesson nominated 3 of 5 nominations for Best Jib at the PVAs - Unprecedented and beating Tanner and Sammy?!

- Seth Morrison winning rider of the year in the Readers Poll, being #1 six times in the 9 years of the PVAs exsistence, #2 three times.

- Tanner Hall breaking both legs AGAIN

- Dane Tudor showing big mountain can be steezy

what else?
 
If it's based purely on Newschoolers and % of threads / banter etc.... fuck me, Saga and Jibberish clothing has to be in there somewhere!! lol.
 
Xavier seemingly coming out of nowhere to win Xgames.

David wise stomps the first dub 12 in the pipe.
 
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