How can skiing progress any more?

Leveroni

Leveroni

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Think about it, how much more can we push this sport?Physically there is no way a human is going to start doing 6 full rotations.We can only make jumps so big before we start pushing our threshold..and the capability of our equipment.
I think we still have a few more years of more spin to win and things of that nature..but within the decade I think competition is really going to come down to perfection and style rather then technicality. and edits will come down to creativity.
 
There's always going to be new shit that people are trying. Maybe the future of skiing has something to do with pond skimming.
 
i just think of it like skateboarding. it kinda hit a nice big 'spin to win' time for a little but it's still going strong after that. creativity does play a role but there's still new tricks to be invented.
 
big mountain slopestyle competitions where you gotta ski base jump off every hit.

double 1620 to rail, pretzel switch double misty 1440 out to wing suit off a 2000ft cliff anyone?
 
It's all about how you view "progression." Skiing will progress because times will change and the next thing that everyone loves (so hot right now) will become "cool".... that may be the current thing thats "in" but progression is in the eye of the beholder because it is narrowmindedly confined to contests which are a joke because judges don't consider progression.. they judge what is in and "cool" at the moment.

I say your best bet is to progress yourself and find out how skiing can progress YOU any more.
 
i want to see a double cork/double flip dub true nose. like true truckdriver like colby used to do, not the crappy dumont truckdriver.

also, has any one done a kangaroo 10/12? like dub flatspin, but then more spinning out of the dub flat than just 180
 
its going to end at triples. people are going to just get hurt if we try to progress past 4 full rotations and i think it would look just plain stupid. But triples for sure are on the horizon.
 
seriously. that was the best energy from a contest ive ever seen. everyone seemed to be stoked. even my gf, who doesnt even understand skiing, was watching it and having an amazing time.
 
agreed that was a fucking rad format, plenty of time for everyone to throw down and improve on what they've already done
 
that was most impressive to me. if someone had told me yesterday that tj was gonna do a dub 16, id picture something hideous, not the whirling ball of steeze i witness.

the only thing i was bummed about was that no one did a kang flip. they seem to have been forgotten with all these other dubs, and i still love that trick. it just looks cool with a good solid dub japan.
 
i saw him do switch dub 9, but not kang, though i may have missed it during one of my breaks to change my pants from whatever stuntery i had previously viewed. it was going so fast it was hard to keep track. which just added to the awesomeness.
 
ditto. dew tour should add in a big air. even if it wasnt at every stop, as a wrap up to the last stop or somethin.
 
i think its possible if you grabbed your tip, then kick the binding, bam your on 1 ski, coming back to the landing you better get the placement right
 
Swapping between skis and snowboard mid-air.

Basically, a friend rides alongside you with a snowboard and boots, and once you take off, skis come off, boots come off, and you put the snowboard gear on, then land all steeze-like.

While doing a Dub 14
 
"Physically there is no way a human is going to start doing 6 full rotations."
Sorry bud, humans are already doing way more than that in aerials - doublefull-triplefull-full has been done, which translates to cork10+cork14+cork7 = tripcork 3240 = 9 full rotations.
Yeah I know it's aerials and it's not really corks, but I'm just addressing the "number of rotations a human can do" point.
 
ya i agree with this creative features and such are going to be the new frontier similar to the way skateboarding has gone
 
look to people like t hall and pollard, pep and andy. these guys know that jumps can only go so far and kill it in the editing and ridiculous shit categories. i've seen tanner and pep both pretzel mad shit, they dont do it that much because its getting played out whereas those guys are in an elite situation of like ten guys who can kill it that hard in the backcountry. look to them.
 
I await the day someone puts down a pipe run with a significant number, if not all, the tricks being done switch. People have dabbled at adding switch tricks but I think there is still a lot of room for progression there.

Might be tonight?
 
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