aight fine, here's what I know, mostly through hearsay, magazine articles, and other shit: Back in the day, a couple of kids were skiin' bumps in Quebec. They were also spending time jumping with snowboarders, and would even spend time on snowboards when it was possible. One of them was JF Cusson, the other was Vinny D(not sure...). One day JF was working on mute grabs at some random little jump on some crap hill with Vinnie, when along came snowboarders. The snowboarders laughed at them, JF got pissed, and threw his first mute 3. Later on, the two met JP Auclair while skiing for the Quebec mogul team, and they started chillin' in terrain parks(only they're speaking french, so it's 'l'austi'd d'terrain park de marde'). The more they ski bumps, the more they get pissed at it. In 1996 or 7(maybe earlier) JF throws the first ever mute 3 in mogul competition, touches down on the landing, and gets a SUPER low score for that jump. The beginning of the end.
While all this is going on, Mike D, Shane Szocs, and Marc McDonnell(haven't heard that name in a while eh kids?!) are skiing bumps at Blackcomb, chillin' with/coaching the national team, and generally jumping on their days off. They find out that a misty flip is possible on skis while screwing around with napkins at a whistler restaurant. Mike D wants to huck one off the Blackcomb windlip(off Glacier chair,I think. There's 2, in case you're wondering. One off 7th Heaven too)
Through some kind of weird fate thing, Mike D and Szocs end up coaching the national development bumb team. JF, JP and Vinnie are on it. They are BRIGHT prospects for the Canadian team. Trouble is, they spend all their free time NOT skiing moguls. Mike D follows them around one day, and finds them in the park. What he sees is revolutionary. Skiers GRABBING and spinning. He knows what to do next, and starts skiing with the boys, and Shane too. They make crappy videos, and shane ends up at SIA vegas to show off the videos. No one cares except a dude by the name of Johnny Decesare, exprobumper/owner of Poorboyz productions, out of cali. He takes 1 look at the tapes and KNOWS that he's found the future. He bets his company on the 5 Canadian kids with mad skills. Filming for 'State of Mind' commences...
State of Mind is released, and that summer some weird skiing is seen on the glacier. Also seen: JP teaching a bump skier by the name of Johnny Moseley how to throw a mute 3. Johnny uses that mute 3 to win at Nagano. He later claims to have invented it himself. Freesking is beamed into millions of homes worldwide, and mogul commentators don't quite know how to explain/can't quite grasp the reality of what just happened(the mute grab..). Fast Forward to 1999(I think), Mt Snow(I think), X Games, first ever skier big air. Mr Moseley is in first place after the final's first jump. He is throwing some kind of rodeo or a corked spin(dinner roll) and is holding both of his poles in one hand. JF Cusson is in second throwing some kind of spin(Not sure, 720 maybe)Moseley has a HUGE lead in points and decides not to take his third jump, leaving Cusson with one last jump. Cusson drops into the inrun and spins to fakie. He performs what could be considered the first ever fakie 720 in contest history(shaky at best by today's standards), sticks it, and moseley decides to take his last jump. He tries an inverted 720 and crashes hard. JF Cusson wins the first ever Xgames skier big air. Combine that to his win in the 1998 USFSO(slopestyle, 3 jumps, 3 different grabs) and JP's win in the big air at the same event(mute 3), not to mention Vinnie's lunatic driving to the Summer Xgames big air demo in san fran after being left off the original 1080 team, and throwing down SICK fakie 9s and 7s, and you have the beginnings of what is now known as Newschool. Remember that while all this is happening, other athletes are joining in, and Mike D/shane szocs are getting Salomon and K2 to make the first really commonly available twin tip skis(1080s delivered to JP and JF at 98 USFSO, but only for the awards ceremony) and Mike D is pretty much babysitting JP, JF and Vinnie, cuz they're super young. That's a really quick incomplete summary of what went down, and more people will add to it/fill in the blanks, but you get the idea.
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