Is Skiing A Dying Sport?

I think cause we're all talking about this stuff means skiing is plateauing harddd. As far as tricks go, from a technical standpoint, triples are at the upper limit, or pretty close. Oh well
 
I think cause we're all talking about this stuff means skiing is plateauing harddd. As far as tricks go, from a technical standpoint, triples are at the upper limit, or pretty close. Oh well
 
I don't know why so many of you worry about the progression, and where the sport is heading. Who cares if the sport is plateauing, there will still be parks and there will always be natural features on the mountains for you to ski and progress your OWN skiing abilities on.

Just look at rollerblading, the sport is dead in the publics eye, but there is still countless people out there pushing themselves and having a shit load of fun doing it.

So, instead of worrying about trying to figure out where skiing's headed, just ski and enjoy watching ALL the new directions and styles it will head in, as it will always continue to change. There is no point in getting all worked up over changing tricks and styles as it is bound to happen and complaining about it won't stop it.
 
look at skating. its progressing, but not with 10 new tricks every day. skiing will reach that point eventually, but it will never stop progressing. you might comparare skiing to rollerblading but there is SO much more to skiing than rollerblading. think about what we are capable in urban, jumps, even rails we are more capable. and people still rollerblade just for fun so kids will always freeski to progress themselves.
also look at downhill skiing. progression might be getting your time 0.1 seconds faster over a year. but thats still progression and they're still having fun
 
as a point of clarification, i wasn't criticizing rollerblading, merely stating this

i do rollerblade, in face i got people together for a session that's going down today

imo skiing can def be compared to rollerblading cuz both are overshadowed by a sport that happens to include a board, both have gone huge and subsided in terms of media but really they're making a strong comeback

sparknotes: i ski. i rollerblade. i love both blahblah
 
It will probably die eventually, everything has a life cycle. It's hard to argue that our current form of freeskiing isn't a manifestation of previous forms of freestyle skiing (i.e. moguls, aerials) that were in and are now out of popularity.
All I know is that I'm not going to stop skiing or even consider the significance of triple flips when I'm tits deep in blower.
 
well, when someone said that rail game will become much more important.I think all cool has been done, Next they will do 6s in, 8 out, then 8 in, and some day double cork 8 on.i think skiing is not dying, but its progression has been huge,..
 
I'm always going to ski and do my thing out on the mountain. What's going on in professional skiing and "progression" really doesn't affect me at all. Over the years I've become much less and less interested in what anybody else is doing on skis. I don't care/even know who won the Xgames/dew tour and I don't really buy ski movies anymore. It just doesn't really make a difference to me anymore. Great someone did 3 corks, but it just doesn't affect me at all/ matter to me. It just kind of seems irrelevant to me at this point. Not to say I don't enjoy watching skiing online and seeing new tricks, but it just doesn't matter to me anymore. And if triples are it and skiing never progresses any further, I could care less.
 
I think that hopefully it will go in more of a creative/unique urban feature direction.. sortof like how some snowboarders have gone.
 
hahaah is skiing dying because someone threw trips???

Hell no thats big air jumps maximizing its roataions with flips for time being. But skiing dead that will never happen as long as people have imaginations and motivation. Urban will get even bigger Steptproductions is a hole hearted asnwer that skiing will never die. Look at snowboard movies skiing just needs more creative crazy urban and i think thats going to start hitting the scence this year as every year the urban in movies gets crazier and bigger. Urban, rails, Big mountain, park everything iwill stay alive as long as people are enjoying themselves and progressing on their own it will and could never die. Skiing is for fun...not tricks
 
Skiing is just beginning it's reign of domination. olympics 2014 that's going to expose our sport to whole different market and there are going to be more steezed out gapers then you can throw a snow ball at.
 
i think park skiing has the potential to plateau as far as progression into higher rotations and more corks, but there's so much more to skiing. I mean, today's rail game is almost unrecognizable from what people were doing just a few years ago w/ taps, shuffles, better presses. Backcountry freestyle has almost no limit as far as i'm concerned just because of the shear variability of feature that can be found. But when everyone's hitting the same style table top jump of course tricks are going to get a little boring to watch because we've seen them so many times. Sure triples have tons of progression to go as far as axis and style, still I'd rather watch the newest B&E or Nimbus webisode. I can relate a lot more to these types of skiing and it gets me stoked to be out there
 
There is always room for progresshion, bios, triple different ways, style , screaming seman, double and triple grabs, rail progreshion, unique elements and who says a quadrouple isnt possible someones gonna try it. definitly not dead.
 
'Facts' like yours are debatable. So long as there are people watching, there will always be a competition on a minimum level. Each time your watch from a lift two skiers hit the same jump in a park, without knowing it, you judge which trick was better, cooler, steezier, whatever your standards are. You're still comparing the two, and to you there is a winner.
 
yeah just look at henriks bio. like thats creative shit right there. plus look at andy parry. hes got creative shit going on. we need the same thing for jumps. everyone needs to start doing octos
 
This thread is narrow-minded to the point of being completely retarded.

Millions of people across the world ski because it is a huge amount of fun. That was true years ago. It will be true years from now. The vast majority of those people couldn't give a fuck what tricks the highest level athletes are throwing in a small niche of the sport.
 
definitely not. next time you're in the park, take a look around you. you're gonna see a bunch of kids, many of whom are under 12, dropping in and going big; bigger even than some of the older kids. there is a whole new generation of skiers that is going to bring skiing to the next level.
and if anything else, respect for the sport is going to grow exponentially in the future
 
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