Brobomb: Parkasaurus

so much progression used to happen at these things!
flat down rail, crichton merking the trap rail. remember turpin killed that dino gap.
those were the days. when i used to know every make and model of twin tip.
 
I'm so glad I wandered into this thread. So cool looking back on the raw days of freeskiing's progression... Long gone are the days that I could sit down with a new issue of a ski magazine and actually read the entire thing cover to cover. RIP Freeze...
 
haha yeah now i dont know dick about current skis

btw not a big deal but they referred to tanner's sw450-270 as a 450-270, and im pretty sure john mcmurray only did a backflip onto that rail, not a front. whatever
 
couldn't be more true. every kid that seems to start getting into the freeski thing now does it because they no doubt love skiing but i feel alot of them also do it becasue they to be rich and famous , well known, whatever blah blah blah. freesking has begun to move away from what it was originally intended.

The New Canadian Air Force, all those OG freeskiers started doing it because they were sick of the structure and limits of either moguls or racing. With moguls there was only specific runs that would put you on top of the podium. If you weren't doing trick X and trick Y you couldn't win. There was no way for people to be creative and individual. If they came from a racing background (like I did) i feel like its cause they were sick of going around gates all day, they wanted to rip around, jump off shit, have fun the way they wanted to. Be an individual. While major comps are somewhat "free" they are still regimented comps. If your not throwing X amounts of spins, and particular dubs, you won't win. If you look at major comps most of the pros have very similar styles, its no longer that "free". Kids come up and they don't try to do what they want, they try to do what pro X does. I'm almost sick of the freeski world right now and i hope other people see what i'm trying to say.

FREESKING DIED WITH FREEZE
 
The first Freeze i bought was the last one they ever published. I didnt even realize how big of a deal it was until later.
 
BEING NOSTALGIC IS GAY, THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED, CHANGE WITH THEM AND STAY "COOL" OR DO SOMETHING ELSE
 
Makes me feel old as shit too.

I had a love-hate relationship with Freeze. The typos and terrible writing made me hate it, yet the photos and coverage made me love it.
 
I doubt Freeze would make it. There is just to much traveling all over the world to cover everything which is mad expensive.

Besides, West Coast Sessions and Orage Masters have pretty much taken over that niche of Parkasaurus, same with JOSS.

That was just such a big deal back then cause there weren't that many terrain parks open to skiers or even at all back then.

Ya Freeze was def cool, i dunno, magazines are just a dying breed. Thrasher magazine is the only mag i get these days, freeskier doesnt come to me prob cause i didnt pay for a new sub
 
The children of NS will probably never really understand the importance of FREEZE to the freeski community and movement. I hope more kids start getting on BroBomb for the know your roots shit so freesking can have a chance to live again

 
I forgot about that. Everybody thought he was going to be a huge up and comer, and then we never saw him again. Kind of a bummer.
 
agreed,

except there still are those types of skiers everywhere, now we're just outnumbered.

i remember a few years ago on some random week night at my 300 ft home hill, seeing this dude hike our only jump over and over, continuously pulling screamseam 3s right to his feet. reminded me of new canadian airforce shit, exactly. JF!!!
 
and since we're on the topic seeing pep on public enemys with only tuned up tails is....well. dope.

 
This. I remember in 7th and 8th grade I would be expecting the new issue of Freeze to show up for like 2 weeks before it got there then I would read it cover to cover, probably several times. I still have all my old issues of Freeze. I subscribed to Freeskier for a year or two after Freeze died off, I think I've thrown out most of those issues. Anyone remember the forums on the Freeze magazine website? You think NS hate is bad now, should have seen that site haha.
 
Nice, I remember Freeze always published sequences like this

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Nothing meshing up, and I remember sometimes they would paste random sky shots from other photos to fill in the voids.
 
does anyone have any pictures from lines special forces day with mike wilson, skogan, pollard? those were such epic backgrounds.
 
I hear you, but I'd argue that only maybe W Coast Sessions is in the same spirit as Parkasaurus. Orage Masters def has the emphasis on fun, but it's a team comp based primarily on funny costumes, choreography, and lots of Kokanee.

JOSS is about progression, but I'd say it's a VERY different kind of progression. Jon wants the biggest newest aerial tricks to happen at his event, that's really the goal.

Parkasaurus had the goofiness of the Masters, the big (for its day) features of JOSS (but with way more rails), and the "session"-ness of WCS.
 
Exactly! Parkasaurus wasn't even a comp. I like how he pointed out in the article that we need more large scale get togethers of big dogs and up-and-comers without any competition. Something with the spirit of Parkasaurus, but with updated creative features.
 
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