Deschenaux Interview

symms honestly who the fuck cares? mik d isn't trying to prove anything to anyone, he's just stating his opinion, and just because you don't agree with his opinion doesn't mean he is wrong. you don't need to write 5 paragraphs about how "retarded" mik d is. just smoke a blunt and chill the fuck out.
 
I dont think he was particularly calling anyone out, even though he did mention simon, and charles He was just saying that frontflip misty 7's arent his style nor are octograbs. He would rather be steezy than all arialistic. he would rather ski to have fun and for himself than to prove to other people that he is the best by winning comps with crazy tricks.

 
yeah im happy for him, but he's not gonna be able to make as nice of a living as when he was doing his sw cork 10s at usopenbigair
 
lets not start speculating on what 3 very different people might say about such a controversial issue (by NS standards ofcourse).

Infact lets leave the whole Nimbus crew out of this argument since they have nothing to do with it.

 
well whatever symms is a good skier i am sure but all i gotta says is i have never watched anything with him in it and they way he has hated in this thread i prolly wouldnt watch one. if i had the choice of a mik d, jon, simon, symms edit to watch i would always pick mik's.
 
That nosegrab 5 was fucking sick.....

I agree though that 180's and 5's are pretty fucking easy. Pretty much anyone can do them these days.

The only way I could see 180's and 5's and 7's getting more technical, is if you throw some shifties in there. Im surprised more pro's/etc dont do shifties.
 
yeah id way rather watch mik ski than symms, he is good and all but shit there are tons of other skiers that can do pretty technical stuff and tweak grabs, he just looks like any other skier, he's nothing special, while mik has a very original style and way of skiing.
 
to add to that, i freestyle, i have lots of guns, i have ninthward skis, and i rep 9th to the fullest.

nah i was kinda fuckin around man but symms seems like he is saying that mik d is just doing tricks that all decent kids are doing. but the fuckin guy has more style that jesus. no doubt it my mind that he could do octos and learn dubs. also the no poles thing who cares anymore it really is one less thing to bring with you when you are skiing park, you dont need them. ya i use them when hitting big jumps just as he said. i dont exactly know mik d but i talk to him on msn and shit sometimes about shit and i was going to help him with some shit a while back. as crazy and retarded as he may seem sometimes the dude is chill he is a smart guy and knows whats up.
 
its all aerials stuff. i dont know about aerialists doing flat spin variations and stuff, but with all the flippy spinny variations they do im sure they have done that type of stuff. but still its all crap an aerialist could do first try then laugh at how easy it is.
jon's and especially westers kangaroo flips are pretty damn steezy. but its overused, and its stupid how most people only think you got skills if you can do 14's and crazy doubles. its not creative, its all crap people could easily do on a trampoline, then they are just taking it to the snow. its the people who can do a jump or rail or jib, whatever and do it in a way nobody has ever though about that are creative. taking a trick from the trampoline or water ramps to snow isnt creative, its ballsy.
 
i think much of what has been said in this thread is completely irrelevant: comparing mik d to people like jon or simon is like comparing a Lamborghini to a Rolls Royce. Sure, both are sweet cars, but they focus on two completely different things. Jon, Dumont, etc push the envelope of what is possible on skis in a quantitative manner while Mik pushes in a qualitative manner.
 
like today i just saw a group of skiers cruising through the park all day, they were doing these nose butter 3's on boxes where they would hit it with extra speed and kinda float above the box doing like a nose butter 3 thing. they were hitting the side of the landings instead of taking it straight, doing crazy butters and stuff on the knuckles and off the 20 footers. hitting rails switch and instead of turning 90, just going straight backwards on one ski then doing stuff out.
there is a ton of stuff you can do to be creative rather than just hucking yourself in a different way.
just watch this

id rather watch that stuff any day over jon and dumont doing kangaroo flips and 12's over and over again.

 
woah thats a lil uncalled for, symms has sick style, descheneux had the best style ever back in the day like in exact science but the video in post wasn't anything spectacular.
 
that vid is so sick!!! last shot when he says are u filming right now is my favorite place in the world. my. baker, grandmas step up jump!!!
 
Quite honestly I understand where Mike D. is coming from...skiing is going though what skateboarding did lets say 5 or so years ago. For example, back in 2001 big stairs and rails were all the craze in skateboarding and the masses loved it. However, there were people like me and pros who found this, lets say "aerial skateboarding", idiotic and senseless. Sure its great if you can 50-50 20 stair rail but its futile and it doesn't have any substance. Or in other words style...

So using this as a parallel example to skiing...right now we are in a phase when hammers are all the craze. I understand what Mike D. means when he's referring to "aerial skiing" and the progression of our sport. It seems like at every competition everyone must spin 1080 or more and double something in order to be deemed a worthy podium finisher. When was the last time someone pulled out a nice lofty zero at big air competition (pep fujas)? Or when was the last time a skier broke his/her same old run in a half pipe competition. I have been in this sport since it started and let me tell you style has gone out the window...

Lastly, you must understand that there are different generations of skiers. The 98-02 generation type, in my opinion, we crave innovation but there is a fine line between acrobats on skis and just pure freeskiing. For example, we grew up with swith cork 900's as the motherload of all tricks and really didn't think otherwise. On the other hand you have the younger generation that really don't understand the progression of tricks through the years and the only thing they've been exposed to is the mentality that spinning as much as you can is golden. I bet you if we took a 16 yr old kid today and let him watch Happy Dayz he'll find that type of skiing boring. If you showed him lets say a Plehouse movie he'll go nuts for it. What I'm trying to get at is that different skiers grew up in different times of freeskiing and, therefore, there is a difference of opinion when it comes to style and the progression of our sport. Quite simply Mike D. has experienced many aspects of freesking throughout the years and has the right conclude that style must be an immanent part of skiing. As to ways to incorporate style is another debate, however, he has earned the right to question the mainstream ways of freeskiing today.

 
COMPLETE BULLSHIT SON.

I like Mik's style, he's a dope skier, but it's not baller to drop fellow pro's names and talking shit like a 16 yr old shitstain grom with no class. Tanner grew up, hopefully Mik does to.

However, aerialists could NOT steeze out a newschool tricks in a few days. Those penciled out tools would take yrs to emulate Colby, Jossi or TJ throwing and stomping steezy 10's.

Take a break from posting in this thread kid, you're street cred is not going to improve by repping ninthward skis. You live in the suburbs, skiing park and smoking weed doesn't change that.
 
dude are you fucking retarded. these are top of the line olympic fuckin athelets in a weeks time they could learn to grab with some style. i dont give a fuck about street cred i could give a fuck what u think about me i dont know you and if i did i would think youre a bitch. hate on tanner hall then he dropped simons name all over the place at the x games. mik d used simon as an example and i am sure if u asked him if he thought simon was a great skier he would say yes, he just does not like the spin to win or everything has to be a double to place at a comp. mik d is one of the creators of style for our sport. the way he throws tricks looks different than any other skier.

suburbs haha i live in the fuckin woods you dumb fuck. the town i live in isnt even a fuckin town its actually called a village there are about 500 residents here maybe. dont pretend like you fuckin know me and know where i live. skiing park fucking sucks i really dont like it but its all i have right now. i skied powder all my life living at mt. baker in washington so really in the end i could give a fuck about all these park comps and shit but i did grow up watching mik d and trying to imitate his style.

i dont know why you are talking about 10's thats really not the issue you here mikael doesnt really have a problem with tens as he throws them a lot. he is talking about the dub spins and the 12's and 14's that are becoming regular in comps. THE SAME FUCKING TRICKS ARE WINNING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN ITS GETTING BORING AS FUCK. sorry for all the cursing you just piss me the fuck off. you are the exact problem with newschoolers anymore. you are some fuckin noob who has been on here less then a year trying to talk shit on vets. this was pretty much a waste of time for me to sit here and write all this because in the end i could really careless about anything you have to say. you are to fucking stupid to agree with what people are trying to say.

you like pepsi i like coke. i like style you like spin to win. people like different things man deal with it.

as far as ninthward skis goes, you can go fuck yourself. i dont know mik that well but i talk to him sometimes dude is cool as shit, i talk to campbell owner of ninthward skis and a few people that work and ride for him. basically i am trying to rep a company that people i like work and ride for.
 
rapping in french and skiing on his own. he really doesnt care about comps or films anymore although he should be in 1 or 2 this year. he skis for himself unlike half the other pro skiers.
 
The difference between the Nimbus crew and mik d is that nimbus is actually moving the sport in a new direction; same thing jon and simon are doing with the flips. Progression isn't linear people...there is more then one way to push things...

mik d is throwing 180s and 540 nose grabs...while they are fun, there are no where near 'progressive'. Mik d isnt in the limelight anymore and he can't come to terms with that.

I have no idea why they would even follow him anymore...

I've seen much better edits from kids on here them from him.

I've seen better call-outs on here too...
 
How ironic, a mik d sheep defending the steeze potential of aerialists.

Haha, I took 2 min to tell you to shut up, and you spent a few paragraphs flaring up, I don't care who you are, you ninth kids are all the same, sheep calling everyone else sheep.I happen to like Mik, I just don't think he is in any position to claim the true progression of the sport while flaming Simon. Oh and Colby and Jossi took 1st and 2nd at the US big air with sw 10's.

 
So you hate skiing park, grew up skiing powder, don't care about comps and here you are crying about dubs and spins and saying you emulate mik d's style? If skiing park sucks, what is it you are trying to emulate? Blunts, bitches and baggy clothes? I've never see footy of him ride a big line or slash pow, not to say he couldn't. Claiming that skiing park "fucking sucks" and then claiming to emulate Mik D's style (a pure park rider)just doesn't add up son.
 
it adds up perfect. taking a sick style to the backcountry....

and i dont really hate skiing park its just not nearly as fun. he really didnt call out simon just used him as an example of what he doesnt like. i doubt he would say simon is a bad skier, that would be calling someone out.
 
correct me if i am wrong. tanner hall one of the best and most stylie skiers in the world said simon needs to spin both ways on national tv. sure he can spin the other way but when u see him in videos 95% of his spins are to his natural side. there is progression in dub flips and shit thats cool i give props to them i have no problem with them i just dont like seeing the same tricks win comps over and over again. i havent seen jon do an unnatural dub flip yet. there are 2 different things to look at here. spinning and doing tricks both ways which is tech and throwing yourself off a jump which takes balls but is just not as tech ya its hard and takes skills but to do the same trick with the same amount of style and ease unnatural is a lot sicker to me.
 
Just shut up man, you're speaking from the bottom of a hole now.

Mik is dope as hell, but he called out simon. That shit is not baller, I don't care who you are, simon is a killer in the pipe who needs to spin opposite and land sw more often. Tanner is pushing the sport in the right direction, Mik is doing the same thing he's done for years, only now he is grabbing nose and ditching his poles. I love his style, but he's nowhere near the forefront of "pushing the sport" and shouldn't be hating on simon for a dub he tried in some practice footy.
 
speaking your fucking opinion is not hating. he said he doesnt like the tricks he does in comps he never said he was a bad skier mikael knows simon is good skier without a doubt and if you asked him if he thought simon was a good skier i am sure he would say yes and give him props. he is talking about comps he just doesnt like all the dub flips and huge spins that people do over and over again. did he come out an say "simon is a bitch he sucks at skiing kid is a faggot fuck him fuck jon fuck all the top skiers right now they all suck" did he fucking say that. no you fuckin cunt he didnt.
 
no meth. i did just break my ankle in a few places and did a bunch of other damage so i am on a large dosage of pain killers which could lead to the way i am acting.

so sorry i just hate how everyone hates on this site it bothers me. we are all out for the same thing to ski and have fun. so what if someone says they dont like what people are doing in comps. i did some hating i really do think symms is an amazing skier and funny guy i just think that mik had a different perspective on skiing as do i and i just like big slow steezed out tricks more. no need to hate on the guy he did help push this sport to where it is today.
 
hi, my name is *insert name of local ski hill here*

i miss you, *insert NS user's in this thread's name here"

please, stop arguing on the internet and go skiing on me
 
Tanners the one gettting the love right now, everyone else is getting hate, this is the the great cycle of NS.
 
I completely agree with symms and nomensteven. This interwiew was fucking retarded.

Mik d used to push the sport in the right way, like 5 years ago. But I mean, whats the deal with calling simon for his new double flips and grabs like the octo? How can he call his tricks technical, doing not-so-stomped 5 noses, and barely grabbed 180s. Oh, excuse me, he can do those BOTH ways. Something that every kid in a park is able to do nowadays. I dunno, but a sw 9-10 or 12 octograb from Charles is way more STYLISH,TECHNICAL and ORIGINAL than his 180s.

With the sport progressing, pros have to be creative and do technical tricks that not every kid in PC would do on a meduim size kicker. Not like mik D, pushing the sport his own way. bullshit.

And PS: I am not a big fan of simon's new double. But with mik D calling him out when we see after what he does on skis, saying he is pushing the sport, I think it was very un-necessary from his part.
 
StartFragmentI just want to clarify some things.Simon can spin both ways, he chooses not to because an alleyoop 9 is 10 times harder than a right side 5. Simon is making the best of the 4-5 hit pipes the mountainsare giving us to compete in. Untilthe mountains help us progress the sport by building taller and longerhalfpipes, we are left to choose what 4-5 tricks we think are best or more funto do.A lot of you are assuming that people doing double flips and12’s are not having fun. How doyou know? I am going to guess thatthey are having fun because they are trying new tricks and pushingthemselves. After perfecting their180 and 5 nose grabs both ways, they probably got bored.Tanner does doubles. Check out his movie Believe. He just does them in to pow. I bet hehad fun doing those.Doubles are creative. People have been doing 5’s with grabsfor years. You can only spin a 5in so many creative ways before you might want to try a double. I would have to say that Lolo is beingway more tech and creative with his 5’s and 7’s this year by doing a screaminseamen in them and grabbing it.

For all of those hating on comps, need to change yourattitude going into the comp. It’sa day to ski with all of your friends and possibly make 100 new friends. Exactly what Simon and Jon are tryingto do this weekend with the North American Open at Breck.Stop hating, go skiing, do 180’s or doubles, whatever makesyou smile.EndFragment
 
you all are just so fucking stupid retarded it's god damn crazy, mick never called anyone out gush, he was just making a poin t and took un luckely simon as an example...god..

wtf in this world is wrong with all of you, you diss and trash everyone everyday in this gay forum anway so why can't just proriders tell each other they don't like whta each other is doing...

omly shit you all are so fucking nuts right now
 
its like ya a lot of kids can do those tricks and i am starting to see more videos of underground kids doing dubs. but mikaels style is what sets him past everyone else. ya kids do shit with ill style but not like that lol. at 1:30 damn that 270 on with that like bounce he does when he lands is sooo fuckin sick.
 
yeah, like there are alot of steezy skiers, but nobody can compare to mikael. it seems like everyone thinks of good style as moving as little as possible, tweaking grabs, just textbook style. but that shit gets old, cause everyone can do it. mik d moves around in the air, he flails sometimes, but when he does its still soooo steezy, when he moves around in the air or when he lands, its in such a fluid natural looking, comfortable way. like i guess the best way to describe it is "real style" where someone like jon or somebody, when they do a steezy trick there is always a hint of the style being forced, with mik its just natural. there are very few skiers that can compare to his style, but i dont think anyone can beat it.
actually id almost compare it to blake nymans style. though they are totally different, mik is gangster as fuck, and blake is happy hesh style. i think they both have the most natural looking style out of anyone.
 
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