So much to say, but oh so lazy.  So I'll just suck it up and let it all flow:\
People keep complaining that alot of racers are cocky and are dicks, etc.  What about all the cocky jibbers??  90% of racers are very cool chill people.  Its the same with jibbers: most are quite cool, but some are just dicks, just like racers.
Second, on the topic of gs suit: they may not be your style, but why disrespect the people that do wear them?  They are trying the'r hardest to win, and part of that at times is wearing a gs suit.  Why make fun of someone for trying their hardest to win?
Third, I definitly agree with everyone who has been saying that racing helps your overall skiing. I also agree that racing has helped emencely with the development of our sport.
Fourth, you keep talking about racers needing to get out of the gates and learn some tricks and that there is more to skiing then just racing.  The same can be said about jibbing.  Alot of people on this site need to get out ot the park.  And besides that, most racers do much more the just race.  Daron Ralves, for example.  He is the US's best downhill skier of all time, and he admits that he loves sliding rails and would take a deep powder run over racing anyday.  And even if not, why knock someone for prefering to race?  That is their preference.
Last, I must say for once take the side of the anti-racers just to say this: people saying that ignorant people that say stupid stuff (refering to the anti-racers) should be kicked off of this site are fucking hypocrites.  Shit like that is just as ignorant as the things that you find ignorant.
As I have many times before, people just need to think things through before they say them.  Too much shit is posted without really thinking them through.  I also think that people respond in a much to hostile manner.  If you want to refute what people are posting, then by all means do so, but so it in an intellegent way, but just 'you should go suck a dick you fucking little shit.'
That is all.
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