Best all round skier??

I think chris logan, adam delorme, parker white, ahmet dadali and banks gilberti all at least deserve honourable mentions
 
Although candide is probably the most well rounded skiier, he doesn't have a triple same with tanner so i'm going to go with Dane Tudor.
 
Candide, Delorme, and Parker.

Lots of other big mountain/pow guys are up there but they're not even close to how good the 3 above are in the park, and vice versa.
 
Ian Borgeson. A lot of the dudes mentioned here slay park and backcountry booters, but cant actually ski (real gs turns, really gnarly, tech lines) worth shit. Ian absolutely slayed it this year on the FWT (2nd at Finals) and not to mention kills it a park. Oh, and he can actually ski. He might not be a Candide but should be in the running. The two ski a lot alike.
 
Candide is about as good as they get. There might be others out there, but they haven't been doing it as long as Candide, nor with as much humility and style.
 
Although he may not be the best overall skier, gotta mention Banks. His style is super sick, kills it everywhere, and on everything. I mean the guy is a former pro boarder and skater, and he's pretty damn good at surfing too. Athlete wise I think he would take it any day.
 
12977699:BobTheSkier. said:
Dale talkington. His seg in all damn day
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Why would you even post this? Not even close to best all around skier. Show me a vid of him shredding a pow and/or big mountain line just once....exactly.
 
12977640:Huck_E_Cheese said:
Ian Borgeson. A lot of the dudes mentioned here slay park and backcountry booters, but cant actually ski (real gs turns, really gnarly, tech lines) worth shit. Ian absolutely slayed it this year on the FWT (2nd at Finals) and not to mention kills it a park. Oh, and he can actually ski. He might not be a Candide but should be in the running. The two ski a lot alike.
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This. Ian Borgeson is hands down the most underrated skier in the game. He finished 7th overall from the entire FWT, placed second in finals as well. Not to mention he has sick style in the park. The only other person to be so successful in the FWT and park was Candide. In a few years, he might be at the top of the food chain.
 
I'd have to go with either Pettit or Durtschi. Although, I must admit that Sean's superproof thing seems pretty gay so far.
 
Anyone saying Ahmet or Delorme or Talkington is clueless. Those guys kill it, but come on. Tanner's rant about real skiing on real mountains had a grain of truth to it. There'e a difference between stomping a 20 ft. cliff with your jacket open and skiing a gnarly line. There's a difference between what goes down in a Level 1 movie and a TGR movie.
 
12977858:faux_real said:
Anyone saying Ahmet or Delorme or Talkington is clueless. Those guys kill it, but come on. Tanner's rant about real skiing on real mountains had a grain of truth to it. There'e a difference between stomping a 20 ft. cliff with your jacket open and skiing a gnarly line. There's a difference between what goes down in a Level 1 movie and a TGR movie.
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While I think that Candide and Tanner are without a doubt the Top 1 and 2 best skiers of all time, im going to respectfully disagree with what you said. Yes Tanner was right in that rant, i agree that big mountain is a totally different ball game, but in an overall sense, you have to think about more than just big mountain skiing. There's so many factors involved in genuine skiing ability outside of how good someone is at urban, park, big mountain, etc. Those are categories, not fundamental skills. The thing that makes Candide and Thovex so good is that they are fundamentally better than every other skier in the world. These skiing basics such as edge control, a good eye to pick out lines, creativity, innovativeness, comfortability on a mountain, mental ability to overcome fear, etc. are what make up a great skier. When someone can apply these basics to all different categories of skiing, that's when a rider really excels. Candide's trials havent necessarily been documented as well so I'll focus on Tanner, a great place to start with him is the segment in Like a Lion where he describes how he fucked up in Vail and got put in a drunk tank or something like that then the next morning turned that mess into motivation to dominate the pipe. The fact that he was mentally able to overcome the shame and embarassment of that situation and still feel he was the best skier in that competition and then ski to that same level is something that I don't think many people in this world can do. Skiing is more a mental game than anything else, and to be the best ever, you have to have superior control of your emotions, fear, and confidence when compared to other riders. Tanner being the loud and expressive person that he is compliments his raw skiing ability. This is just my own thoughts, but for Candide I think it's his mystic and quietness that fuels his skiing. He knows how good he is, but maybe it doesn't compliment his mental state to go out and broadcast that. When he's in solice, he skis his best, and through his trials he's learned that I think. Candide and Tanner are polar opposites of eachother, but they both know that and know exactly what needs to be done for themselves to ski the best they can, and it just so happens that the best they can is better than everyone else can. That's my thoughts on it, feel free to add your own. I'd love to hear how everyone else thinks of skiing and is basing their decisions in this thread.
 
12977858:faux_real said:
Anyone saying Ahmet or Delorme or Talkington is clueless. Those guys kill it, but come on. Tanner's rant about real skiing on real mountains had a grain of truth to it. There'e a difference between stomping a 20 ft. cliff with your jacket open and skiing a gnarly line. There's a difference between what goes down in a Level 1 movie and a TGR movie.
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While I think that Candide and Tanner are without a doubt the Top 1 and 2 best skiers of all time, im going to respectfully disagree with what you said. Yes Tanner was right in that rant, i agree that big mountain is a totally different ball game, but in an overall sense, you have to think about more than just big mountain skiing. There's so many factors involved in genuine skiing ability outside of how good someone is at urban, park, big mountain, etc. Those are categories, not fundamental skills. The thing that makes Candide and Thovex so good is that they are fundamentally better than every other skier in the world. These skiing basics such as edge control, a good eye to pick out lines, creativity, innovativeness, comfortability on a mountain, mental ability to overcome fear, etc. are what make up a great skier. When someone can apply these basics to all different categories of skiing, that's when a rider really excels. Candide's trials havent necessarily been documented as well so I'll focus on Tanner, a great place to start with him is the segment in Like a Lion where he describes how he fucked up in Vail and got put in a drunk tank or something like that then the next morning turned that mess into motivation to dominate the pipe. The fact that he was mentally able to overcome the shame and embarassment of that situation and still feel he was the best skier in that competition and then ski to that same level is something that I don't think many people in this world can do. Skiing is more a mental game than anything else, and to be the best ever, you have to have superior control of your emotions, fear, and confidence when compared to other riders. Tanner being the loud and expressive person that he is compliments his raw skiing ability. This is just my own thoughts, but for Candide I think it's his mystic and quietness that fuels his skiing. He knows how good he is, but maybe it doesn't compliment his mental state to go out and broadcast that. When he's in solice, he skis his best, and through his trials he's learned that I think. Candide and Tanner are polar opposites of eachother, but they both know that and know exactly what needs to be done for themselves to ski the best they can, and it just so happens that the best they can is better than everyone else can. That's my thoughts on it, feel free to add your own. I'd love to hear how everyone else thinks of skiing and is basing their decisions in this thread.
 
12977908:TheTrap said:
While I think that Candide and Tanner are without a doubt the Top 1 and 2 best skiers of all time, im going to respectfully disagree with what you said. Yes Tanner was right in that rant, i agree that big mountain is a totally different ball game, but in an overall sense, you have to think about more than just big mountain skiing. There's so many factors involved in genuine skiing ability outside of how good someone is at urban, park, big mountain, etc. Those are categories, not fundamental skills. The thing that makes Candide and Thovex so good is that they are fundamentally better than every other skier in the world. These skiing basics such as edge control, a good eye to pick out lines, creativity, innovativeness, comfortability on a mountain, mental ability to overcome fear, etc. are what make up a great skier. When someone can apply these basics to all different categories of skiing, that's when a rider really excels. Candide's trials havent necessarily been documented as well so I'll focus on Tanner, a great place to start with him is the segment in Like a Lion where he describes how he fucked up in Vail and got put in a drunk tank or something like that then the next morning turned that mess into motivation to dominate the pipe. The fact that he was mentally able to overcome the shame and embarassment of that situation and still feel he was the best skier in that competition and then ski to that same level is something that I don't think many people in this world can do. Skiing is more a mental game than anything else, and to be the best ever, you have to have superior control of your emotions, fear, and confidence when compared to other riders. Tanner being the loud and expressive person that he is compliments his raw skiing ability. This is just my own thoughts, but for Candide I think it's his mystic and quietness that fuels his skiing. He knows how good he is, but maybe it doesn't compliment his mental state to go out and broadcast that. When he's in solice, he skis his best, and through his trials he's learned that I think. Candide and Tanner are polar opposites of eachother, but they both know that and know exactly what needs to be done for themselves to ski the best they can, and it just so happens that the best they can is better than everyone else can. That's my thoughts on it, feel free to add your own. I'd love to hear how everyone else thinks of skiing and is basing their decisions in this thread.
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you did well at english in school didnt you.... I completely agree with you, there are too many categories to determine a single best all round skier, we need an organised competition to narrow down the selection
 
reggie reposter, hands down the best in the game.although he puts out the same edits time and time again,people still pay attention to him!
 
12977305:Lou. said:
Candide, McChesney, durtshi, delorme.
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Love that 3 of the 4 on this list are on our team.

In no particular order I am going to say:

LJ (why has no one mentioned him yet)

Candide

Ahmet

Tom

If any one of these 4 wanted to they could put everyone else to shame in any of the more specific types of skiing. But what makes them stand out is that they are able to do everything year after year and be at the top of competitions, rails, jumps and back country when they decide to.
 
There's really quite a few who come into it, but I think the ones that have kept proving they can do it all for a number of years are Dane Tudor, Delorme, Tanner, Candide and Petit.
 
- First to clear Chad's

- First to spin Chad's with a dspin7

- Superpark hip

- 810 to rail

- Gold in moguls

- Gold in xgames big air

- Gold in xgames pipe

- Gold in xgames slopestyle

- 1st at linecatcher

- 1st in FWT (first year competing)

- Big Bertha

- Kamera 1 & 2

- Few Words

- One of those days

I rest my case.
 
12978063:CrutchKiller said:
Jokes? Probably
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Jon Olsson is for sure up there with the most all round skier out there.

He did a lot of big mountain skiing at the beginning of his career, then went on to be one of the most influencial park skier of his generation, park and pipe.

Now he is actually competing in racing which is almost unheard of coming from a freeskier. He's the fucking definition of an all round skier.

As for Wester, he went from one of the top dogs in slopestyle and big air to filming big mountain seg for TGR (or msp?). He just came back from a trip in Chamonix where he skied some GNARLY lines.

So yeah Olsson and Wester are good picks.
 
Dane Tudor Hands down. He has epic pow segments, epic urban, and he landed a triple at Breck. You really don't get much better than that.
 
12977148:MarkusHaakon said:
I Never know why there is no one saying Even Sigstad, he also kills everywhere, and is without a doubt a better urban skier.
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12977292:outaouais_reppin said:
tim mcchesney is pretty much killing it everywhere this year. those last tricks in the latest faction edit where unreal and he's definitively comfortable in the streets and parks,pwhite and chris logan too are both pretty good all around skiers.
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12977390:C-Wal said:
completely forgot ahmet, i know the guy doesn't ski the craziest lines yet, but he sends it off big cliffs, probably has the steeziest switch landings and we all know his urban and park game.
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12977480:Divine said:
Honestly even though he is new to big mountain I think you should put lj strenio in the mix
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12977538:gaper_assasin said:
i gotta say chris logan is a contender as well
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Dear Lord are you kids kidding with some of these replies? Half of the kids answering in this thread have probably never been outside of a park before and never watched a movie besides Stept or YouTube edits...

The correct answers here are Tanner Hall, Sammy C, Dane Tudor, and Candide Thovex. You could probably put Parker White and AD up there, but they've still got a little ways to go until they are on that other level. Nobody else really comes close to them when it comes to ALL around skiing. I haven't seen Ahmet skiing any big mountain/AK or gnarly backcountry lines, he mostly just hits cliffs and kickers in the BC...Not saying that its not sick, I'm just saying that there is a whole different level that guys like Sammy and Candide are on, and its very unique. A perfect example of it would be the way that those guys kill big, gnarly lines with such fluidity and style.

Tim McChesney? Are you fucking kidding? Whoever contributed a comment like that deserves to be euthanized. Sure, his respective skiing his really sick, but come the fuck on children.
 
12977148:MarkusHaakon said:
I Never know why there is no one saying Even Sigstad, he also kills everywhere, and is without a doubt a better urban skier.
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12977292:outaouais_reppin said:
tim mcchesney is pretty much killing it everywhere this year. those last tricks in the latest faction edit where unreal and he's definitively comfortable in the streets and parks,pwhite and chris logan too are both pretty good all around skiers.
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12977390:C-Wal said:
completely forgot ahmet, i know the guy doesn't ski the craziest lines yet, but he sends it off big cliffs, probably has the steeziest switch landings and we all know his urban and park game.
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12977480:Divine said:
Honestly even though he is new to big mountain I think you should put lj strenio in the mix
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12977538:gaper_assasin said:
i gotta say chris logan is a contender as well
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Dear Lord are you kids kidding with some of these replies? Half of the kids answering in this thread have probably never been outside of a park before and never watched a movie besides Stept or YouTube edits...

The correct answers here are Tanner Hall, Sammy C, Dane Tudor, and Candide Thovex. You could probably put Parker White and AD up there, but they've still got a little ways to go until they are on that other level. Nobody else really comes close to them when it comes to ALL around skiing. I haven't seen Ahmet skiing any big mountain/AK or gnarly backcountry lines, he mostly just hits cliffs and kickers in the BC...Not saying that its not sick, I'm just saying that there is a whole different level that guys like Sammy and Candide are on, and its very unique. A perfect example of it would be the way that those guys kill big, gnarly lines with such fluidity and style.

Tim McChesney? Are you fucking kidding? Whoever contributed a comment like that deserves to be euthanized. Sure, his respective skiing his really sick, but come the fuck on children.
 
12977697:PKchu said:
Although he may not be the best overall skier, gotta mention Banks. His style is super sick, kills it everywhere, and on everything. I mean the guy is a former pro boarder and skater, and he's pretty damn good at surfing too. Athlete wise I think he would take it any day.
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12977790:MonnorCartin said:
What about Tom Wallisch? I mean, look at the wallisch project
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Banks Gilberti? Are you fucking kidding?

And I hope this other dude was kidding with the Wallisch comment. Tom Wallisch is the man, and thats really sick that he stepped up to cliffs and kickers in that, but he has a lonnnnggg ways to go in the big mountain realm. I'm hoping that he does pursue it though and kills it, which I am excited to see.
 
If we are talking about all around park... Tom wallisch for sure, he has the best style and technicality and slays rails.

But for everything including big mountain, park, urban etc.. I would deff say Candide, guy's a legend and slays everything
 
12978025:exile_ch said:
- First to clear Chad's

- First to spin Chad's with a dspin7

- Superpark hip

- 810 to rail

- Gold in moguls

- Gold in xgames big air

- Gold in xgames pipe

- Gold in xgames slopestyle

- 1st at linecatcher

- 1st in FWT (first year competing)

- Big Bertha

- Kamera 1 & 2

- Few Words

- One of those days

I rest my case.
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This candide. Is the man and have done it all..
 
I think that we should have all the people mentioned here ski a world cup downhill, mogul, gs and slalom course. Who ever does the best takes the title.
 
Tim McChesneys pretty good and Guys, candide doesnt do urban so hes not an all round skier, tho if he did he would rule!

Henrik?
 
12979357:Atomika09 said:
Tim McChesneys pretty good and Guys, candide doesnt do urban so hes not an all round skier, tho if he did he would rule!

Henrik?
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a) no

b) doesn't matter, he could if he wanted to, don't try to argue about Candide

c) no
 
12978184:HarlTheGnarl said:
Dear Lord are you kids kidding with some of these replies? Half of the kids answering in this thread have probably never been outside of a park before and never watched a movie besides Stept or YouTube edits...

The correct answers here are Tanner Hall, Sammy C, Dane Tudor, and Candide Thovex. You could probably put Parker White and AD up there, but they've still got a little ways to go until they are on that other level. Nobody else really comes close to them when it comes to ALL around skiing. I haven't seen Ahmet skiing any big mountain/AK or gnarly backcountry lines, he mostly just hits cliffs and kickers in the BC...Not saying that its not sick, I'm just saying that there is a whole different level that guys like Sammy and Candide are on, and its very unique. A perfect example of it would be the way that those guys kill big, gnarly lines with such fluidity and style.

Tim McChesney? Are you fucking kidding? Whoever contributed a comment like that deserves to be euthanized. Sure, his respective skiing his really sick, but come the fuck on children.
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This is hilarious, but I feel like parker deserves some more respect with the segments he has put out over the last couple of years. Everyone you listed was once the most on point all around skiers. I just don't feel like they are all filming every single version of free skiing the way parker is right now. And the question was asked for who's the best at the moment, not ever
 
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