I'm Austin Ross. I'm 14. I ski on the same Rossignol and Oakley team as Kye Petersen (13). This kid is not only my team mate, he's been my closest friend since we were both in diapers. We used to play GI Joes up in his room after skiing every weekend, and when he came to my house we set up bike jumps in my yard with pieces of plywood and rail road tracks.
We grew up together and we ski with eachother all the time. We've both helped eachother out with new tricks, adjusting style, learning names, even girls and stuff. I had just got off the phone with him when I noticed this thread. I makes me very dissapointed when people that don't know this kid personally sterotype and pre judge him based on what little facts or 'rumours' they've heard about him.
I truly belive that he deserves ever bit of credit he gets from companies. He has been working his way into the ski industry lil by lil for the last few seasons, with me, and the rest of the Blackcomb crew by his side. He can definately throw down with the best of them. And it really doesn't matter what trick he can or can't do, by tomorrow he will have learned another one anyway.
My advice to you people who don't know Kye personally or have never skied with him is: wait until he comes to your resort, slays you hill, and tames your ass in the park and the rest of the mountain before you go around showing off how ignorant you are.
Things like this only put pressure on people. Kye already has enough on his mind without having to worry about showing off to a bunch of computer nerds. Honestly, he would read this and laugh. Then we'd both catch the bus into town and pick up some women at the 7-11 (just the way Reddy showed us)...