Jon Olsson triple.....suspicion?????

at the end of the video in the OP they were thanking the cat dudes and saying bye so no i dont think so. could be wrong though
 
glad they didn't hit it hard, don't wanna risk injury, but did they really have to put 4 straight minutes of "yeah, it was really really super windy so I didn't do it"?
whatever let the man do what he wants
 
you sir are retarded...

but trully trully retarded. like deeply.

why would they try tricks if they cant straight air it ?

that s just called being smart.

 
50k worth of shaper hours? that seems like a lot?

Although it would get expensive if u fly a helicopter up there every day I guess...
 
you would rather believe him because your are some little who cant ski for shit and does not know anything about the industry. Use your fucking head you retard. There was a massive Treblecone logo on it with none of Jons gay logos. I have never seen a bigger act in my life than Jon Olsson, he is a skier, not a business juggernaut. Sure he may make a bit on the side, but his image is such a fabricated load of shit.
Yes he is a pioneer, yes i do respect what he has done, but no, he or Colby or PK are in absolutely no way anywhere near at the forefront of our sport anymore
 
yeah sure cause everybody can throw sw dub 1440.

and it s not like PK is one of the most talented skier ever...

and i m pretty sure colby is one of the most consistent skier out here.

you are really retarded i said it once i have to say it again sorry.
 
claiming tricks is lame, butttt does anyone have proff that Jon himself claimed a triple or did sumone claim a triple for him? also with weather like that its not worth it with the season only months away. If you listend carfully he said this is "postponed" so whos nos whats guna go down wen the weather is good.
 
Yeah I'm not sure how he didn't explode when he hit the ground. Anybody else think he looks like an astronaut when they show him from the far cameras hitting the jump?
 
he's a rep. for backcountry.com, that's all. he doesn't know what's going on but he's not a fucking idiot like this kid who made the thread. for some reason he doesn't get that you PAY the mountain to build which gives them the right to put their logo on the jump. because it wasn't a shoot day, that's most likely why he didn't have his logos put on the jump. but that's regardless because the bottom line is that they built a jump, nothing went down, not a big deal. get the fuck over it. oh and there's a reason why jon made millions, you fucking retarded kid who's complaining about all this, and its not entirely because he can ski well. until you grow the fuck up, don't pretend you know what's going on.
 
and how about you tell us who that bigger act is? but no really you're right. his home in monaco, his lambos, JOSS, JOI... yeah its not him at all. he has a group of specialized personel who provides the money and business connections for all that to make him look successful but only makes a tad of money on the side. here i got a picture of his "image" team.

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again no fucking idea what you're talking about.
 
You are a retard! If you knew how windy it has been down in New Zealand you would realize that no one would have thrown a triple on that jump. There has been a storm the size of Australia just off NZ. Bringing heavy snow and gale force winds.

Fuck off
 
Jon's ability to exercise judgement about when not to attempt a new trick, as he did in this particular case, has enabled him to (mostly) avoid serious injuries, and thereby contribute to the sport for so many years.

Risk assessment is what separates the veteran professionals from the one hit wonders.
 
jon had a great attitude throughout. I liked that. considering what they were up against, this turned out okay.

I just hope they skied some of that pow and didn't dick around with that jump in those conditions the entire time.
 
You have no idea about the specifics of their agreement.

Money flows both ways depending on the situation. When it's a park shoot for a major production company, the MOUNTAIN pays for them to come out.

Regardless, you have no idea just like 123ski and the fucking OP, as you explained yourself. So stop with the same stupid shit they are doing and trying to act like you have some secret knowledge that no one else has.

 
First off, it wouldn't make the tiniest difference if any other pros had been there, because in those conditions to even hit the damn thing is ballsy, so when you say "if Bobby or TWall or Henshaw had been there" all you're doing is proving that you know absolutely nothing. all of these pros have lives and careers to think about, thus there is no chance whatsoever that any of them would have done more than Jon did.
 
sure, just ignore the jump that was specially made for them at a huge cost, and go ski some pow. that's what a real professional would do
 
Why does everyone here have to keep pointing out that I don't know anything when I haven't even had the chance to defend my reasoning yet?
Of course money flow both ways, but in the case of Jon having special jumps built for him, he does spend some money. I never said that all $50,000 of it was specifically his. Some was the resorts, some was his. It is true that I don't know the specifics of the percentages paid by each party.
Having said that, however, when the resort apportions money for a jump for a specific athlete to hit, it is not a far stretch to refer to that money as Jon's money or "his money", just as you would refer to that jump as Jon's jump or "his jump" Obviously he does not own that snow, he does not own the equipment used to make that jump. The employees that built the jump do not work directly for him. But that does not mean that you would not refer to his at his jump (as has already been proved hundreds of times in this thread). The portion of the money spent on the resort was not paid directly to Jon, so in that sense it is not his money, but in the sense that it went directly towards the mean to Jon's end, it could be referred to as money that he convinced the resort to spend on his jump..and thus his appropriated money..or his money.
Just because my name is Orange due to me being a rep that has nothing to do with Jon Olsson directly does not mean that I am uneducated nor far removed from the ski industry in general.

Now, onto another point. The person that I called "not very bright". I am sorry that I implied that your intelligence is sub par. However, you need to realize that Jon Olsson make a lot more money than you could possibly imagine. Much of that money is earned from sponsorship deals. If Jon Olsson were not a business man, as you implied, he would not have the number of sponsorships that he currently has. This is especially apparent by the fact that many of his sponsors are not related to the ski industry. In skiing you have to treat yourself as a marketable asset in order for you to convince companies to slap their logos on you. If that isn't an aspect of business and marketing..then I don't know what is. Perhaps you can enlighten me.
 
um... yeah i never said i did so why are you so angry? just pointing out the assumptions made by this idiot could/probably are very wrong because i know a little about how it works seeing how my homies have had park shoots every spring for the past few years. of course it all depends on the situation.
 
ah... not entirely true. agents are the ones that hook up deals for the athlete including sponsorships, unless he strikes his own deals such as starting up the eye wear company but that's when only jon knows how much of that business he runs. but yeah he makes a fuck load.
 
I am fairly aware of how much work sports agents do in formulating and executing sponsorship deals. I also know that Jon's agent Fredrik Jonsson does a ton of work for Jon and much of his success can be directly attributed to him. But anyone that knows Jon knows that he is a super busy guy, he does a lot of his business himself because he enjoys it, and the fact that he started an eyewear company does not help anyones case trying to prove that Jon is not a business man.
 
I might be wrong, but i'm guessing its a Helly Hansen jacket. HH worked with Moods Of Norway with the design on their stuff, and their (MON) logos consists of tractors and anchors and stuff like that. Again, i might be wrong.
 
Seeming as tho a snowboarder hit the jump when Jon left in perfect conditions, knuckled it and is now fully paralysed, i think it shows how good he is to be able to flat5 whilst its windy.
 
he sould have done it on Folgefonna or Juvass glacier this summer. they would probably do it for allmost no money, and build a 3x better kicker.
 
That wasted 6 minutes of my life. I got to see like 3 tricks (none of which were good) off a massive kicker built to go huge. But, I still give props to all the athletes who did it. The only good part a was Jon overshooting the jump. I laughed cuz he didn't get hurt
 
i could be completely wrong, but i think the euro pros do much much better than the ones in the us. skiing is just much bigger overall in their culture, and freeskiing in particular has a greater feeling of legitimacy.
 
i was there the day they were hitting it, the jump was alot bigger than appears on video, it was just bad weather timing i think (bad weather every day for like a week before this) and they were just struggling to get enough speed. if they had those too problems fixed i would say that it was defiantly triple able
 
Jon didnt pay for this jump. It cost the RESORT over $50,000 in cat/man hours to create it. But resorts do things like these for promotions and notoriety. And there is no ski pro out there who could afford to drop 50k on a jump. Not even Jon, Simon or Tanner. These guys arent making millions a year.
 
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