New Shift In Skiing

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[]Soul_Steeze[]

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So it seems like skiing is moving away from the park and more towards BC booters, and just shreddin the pow pow. i mean look at tanners last 2 movies..believe & massive and pollards little side project w/ nimbus and hunting yeti. personally i would really like to see skiing keep moving in this diretion. I enjoy watchin BC and pow segments way more than park. park is cool and all, but i just think a cork 5 in the BC looks way more stylin than a cork 5 in the park. i think skiing is too focused on spin to win and double & possibly triple flips soon. if we as skiers start to progress to much more, im gonna have a hard time seeing any difference between freestyle skiing and aerials.

what do you guys think? where do you see skiing headin in the next couple years? and if your home mountain consistantly got a ft of fresh every night, would you ever ski park....cuz i wouldn't.

 
Everyone enjoys skiing pow but i dont think that there is necessarily a shift going from park to pow, theres guys like you mentioned who are out filming pow but theres always gonna be the other group such as Stept and smaller film company's who are destroying the park and street rails. I love skiing pow and I also love skiing park but when it comes down to watching a movie, to me park is more interesting to watch, I enjoy watching bc booters and huge cliffs but eventually, watching people slay pow lines is not as interesting as watching park.
 
I think a good balance between park and bc is what the sport needs. But yeah any skiing is great!
 
I dont care where skiing shifts. As long as Ima part of it. I love park, love skiing rails, Powder fucking suckkkkss (gggaaahhh Sacasm), ski cliffs.
 
I think the actual scenery has something to do about it. I enjoy watching BC clips and edits, not only because of the skiing itself, but also because the shots they can get out there are so good. You can also get great shots in the park, but if the park looks bad it can ruin a great shot. Personally i would rathr watch a session in the BC then in the park, but if the features in the park looks good and are well maintained, i don't know.. I mean, when you see stuff like the poorboyz (?) transfer gap thingy being slayed, you might want to watch that over a normal bc booter, right?
 
i almost completly agree with this but id like a good variety but balance between the two in a film
 
The only problem with backcountry booters and that kind of skiing is the limited availability. There aren't that many places where you can consistently ski the backcountry, but you can ski park in most places.
 
I dunno, I think park has gotten cool again lately. Seems like last year the ONLY cool thing in skiing was switch landings in the BC.
 
im going to have to completely disagree with your statement. A few years ago this shift did occur and every big pro skier said that skiing need to progress to the backcountry and every thing needed to be slowed down and people would way rather watch a slow stylin 5 than anything else, but now i feel like the opposite is happening, all these crews like level 1 park riders (wallisch, hornbeck, henrik), stept, and 4bi9 are creating a shift back to park riding and filming park has become cool again
 
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TO T-HOLT

except the park is in one small spot on a designated run at a resort,

and BC is the millions of acres thats not controlled by the resort that

you can ski
 
I think if this trend continues some pros need to get there names on some avalanche awarness courses. The more hot dogger kids that are going into the bc thinking avalanches don't happen to them, the more deaths we are going to see in our sport.
The bc is a great place to be, but everybody needs to be aware of the consequences.
 
watching bc skiing is fucking boring, id just go to warren miller if i really wanted to watch people carve powder and do the same lines over and over
 
I think the trend will hopefully continue such that videos aren't all park or all BC.. I like it when video sections contain a mix of park/pow/rails not just one or the other. That is why I like segments by skier rather than by session for example.. I dunno why.. I just like the variety.. For that reason, my favorite video section of the year (haven't seen Reasons), was Mike Hornbeck in Turbo. Because in his 3/4 minute section he had, park, bc booters, rails etc. I'm not saying he was the best video performance of the year, (for me that has to be C.Ager, or T.Hall (again)) but his segment was my favorite single segment because of the variety.
 
You gotta remember tho that not all people have powder to ride on, so that's why lots of people like in the midwest and east coast like to just ski park. and some people just like it better, i wish i could ski pow like you western bastards, lol J/K
 
Just ski, who the fuck cares about the mainstream or anything. Stop analyzing every aspect of skiing, that's not at all what it's about. In fact skiing isn't "about anything," just go out there and have fun throwing down wherever and whenever.
 
haha yeh i come from aus and i dont exactly get to ski the best pow. if we are lucky enough to get a big dumping which is so rare like this year of 50cm in a few days then ill be outta the park to the better runs for good snow but other wise park is the next best thing and its what i like to do. people should try all them out and then not follow trends but rather do the part they like or the parts if they wanna shred park on non pow days then pow on pow days
 
exactly, powder is a luxury. Personally I have been out west once and would LOVE to ski powder all the time, unfortunately I live in upstate NY where powder hasnt actually been invented yet
 
your dumb. how can our sport progress if the east coast is still alive.

We can't all go in the BC and just hit booters.

If I was suggest a shift id say Butters and flatground ish.

 
I enjoy all forms of skiing, but I honestly would die happy if I couldn't hit a park ever again, as long as I still have access to my favorite BC spots.
 
i LOVED nimbus's bc shots. they were always creative and the athletes killed it.

i would rather see more of that then countless corkfives and pretzel-switchup-270 over and over and over
 
Skiing isn't changing the older guys like tanner and C.R. And T.J. are just starting there shift to powder. Remember who else competed. Douglas, pollard, and J.P.
 
skiing is definatly going towards a new direction i think. it really seems like skiing is going away from the whole thug fad, sure theres always gonna be the wiggers in skiing, but i think in a couple years there are gonna be alot more hesh, fitting clothing, skater type skiers. and the whole gangster thing is gonna sorta fade away, kinda like how the finger on da trigger movies are now a joke to half the snowboarding population, and people like the think thank crew are getting more and more popular.
as far as bc skiing getting more popular i kinda doubt it, its been a main part in movies for ever, and its so hard for regular people to go out and build an amazing jump like in most movies. but with park skiing, i think its going away from spin to win, huge crazy shit, to getting way more creative and fun.

 
Yeah, I see what you mean. I really meant to say that there is easier access to park than backcountry. Not that there is more park than backcountry.
 
I don't really think it's a new shift in skiing, I think it's more of a progression of the age of riders, not really the progression of all riders. It seems like a lot of park riders get a little older and start shredding backcountry. I mean, a lot of younger skiers and park skiers either aren't skilled enough yet for backcountry, and/or don't have access to it. I mean a ton of guys have moved from park to backcountry, and every year people say it's a new shift in skiing. When yearbook came out I remember when i went to the premiere they were saying Rory Bushfield and Mark Abma were doing the same thing.
 
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