How much of style is just the tricks you do?

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I think I understand...

Let's say Andy Parry were to start doing truck drivers and bluntslides on everything- even if he was using his personal style of doing tricks, people would be saying he was using B & E style

Likewise if Henrik Harlaut started doing 5-0's and hippy killers people would say he was using Wizard Style

So a lot I suppose idk OP
 
How much of style is the tricks you do? like a cork 3 vs a dub 10, or a dub switch up pretzel 2 vs a tailpress back 2?

I mean obviously there is a lot to be said for individual skiiers personal style, but how much would that change if say kieran mcveigh was doing triple swaps and dub 10s? or Bobby Brown buttering onto every box?
 
Do whatever feels natural. Put your own style into it. I've never tried a 2 on because they look gay and most likely I'd get nutted so I stick to those lip tail presses. way more fun
 
sloppy 2's on look ugly. sure they are difficult but i'd rather have a more stylish surface swap or 2 out.

oops I said it. ?????
 
well I mean of course do whatever feels natrual, this isn't a question to make my style better, more an attempt at some sort of discussion here on NS
 
the confusion of style. style = how you do a trick. Was it smooth in the air? did he land back seat? did i just see a switch snowplow into that rail? those are factors that determine ones style. Wearing a xxxxl tall tee doesn't automatically give you style. I don't think one style rules all. I think if you show control and make hard tricks look easy, you have good style.
 
i actually feel for what op is saying. different tricks have different feels to them, and to do them in a way that feels stylie requires different things. people talk about delorme's sick style but a lot of it is just how fast he skis and how well he butters and presses. i would say its 50% what trick you do and 50% how you do it.
 
style is executing a trick exactly the way you envision it.

thus style is 0% the tricks you do. and 100% the way you do them which is why both the B&E guys, and guys like Nick Goepper have tons of style. For the most part they're all able to do tricks the way they see them in their heads.
 
came here to post something like this^. i think the most stylish skiers are those that can exercise the body control necessary to really stomp a trick. since body control and mental awareness (i.e. visualization, air sense, etc.) is developed by being mindful and aware when you throw tricks, it seems completely fair to say that the most developed skiers are those who have been having the most fun and have been living in the moment. if you are preoccupied or generally focused on anything besides the here and now, it's harder to get more comfortable, which translates to worse style.
 
prepare to get crucified for suggesting that Goepper has style.

Seriously. Make sure your address is impossible to find in any way or you're gonna wake up in the middle of the night with some 14 year old wearing xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxl jiberish with a blunt in his mouth that's really just seaweed and listening to wu--tang standing over you with a machete so he can take your balls.
 
...Or does your style influence the tricks you learn? i.e. Adam Delorme or Laurent Dumartin's style is very fast and smooth, so something like a 450 on doesn't fit into his ouevre as well as someone like Wallisch who's style is very "light" and technical.
 
2 on is a cool trick that real men perform onto the tallest of down rails. Dissenters of the 2 on are just pussies. Garrett Russell does the coolest ones.
 
i respectfully disagree with your definition of style, although i agree with the sentiment. part of style is definitely rooted in doing a trick the way you see it in your head.

a definition of "style" seems elusive. in my experience, style is when someone makes something that's very difficult look very easy. it can be in anything: skiing, cooking, playing music, etc.

so i think there has to be at least some degree of technicality to the tricks that you're doing in order for it to be considered stylish.

technicality is relative, of course, to the audience. to someone that maybe skis a few days a year, seeing a person do very smooth 180s or switch 1s on medium sized jumps or tailpresses on a box may be very impressive. to this community, it's borderline boring.

even when we talk about the most purely stylish guys in the game, they're still doing some pretty hard shit: nose butters onto rails, big zero airs, super slow flat 5s. they're just making it look real easy. if anyone thinks that the stuff b-dog is doing is less "tech" than what nick goepper is doing, they just don't know what they're talking about.

If you think about it, the term "steeze" meaning "style with ease" is pretty unnecessary, because the term style implies that you're making it look easy. nobody ever sees somebody that looks like they're trying too hard and calls it stylish.
 
I dont like to huck and hope for the best. I do not repeat the same trick over and over again (unless im training).

My style is all about stomping every line on the first try, vary the maneuvers and try to be equally good at all the aspects of skiing. My videos reflect that.
 
Sigged.

But yeah I see what OP's saying, and I agree. But I don't think we'll really ever see a pro completely change their everyday tricks, just cause they've settled into what they enjoy, and those kinds of tricks are usually what they are known for.
 
I would actually love an edit of strictly backflips. Like a top top bottom run, no skipping features, and backflips everywhere.

Your style is defined by how much fun you have doing whatever it is that you're doing.
 
did you see nick geoppers mout snow vid from i believe the begining of last winter? all b n e style tricks (trucker slides butters n what not) with very minimal style even though he was stomping,

not hatin on geopper though he does sleigh
 
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