Rapid Fire : Favorite skier, movie, video part, etc

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So there's this skateboarding podcast that I listen to that always asks these rapid fire questions to each guest at the end of an episode. Thought it would be interesting to do the same for skiing.

Favorite skier:

Favorite movie:

Favorite video part:

Favorite style:

Most talented skier on planet earth:

Favorite trick:

Hardest trick for you:

Most illegal trick:

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten:

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed:

Last new trick you learned:

What’s the one trick that got away:

Favorite local brand:

Favorite local skier:

Worst company:

Worst trend:

Worse style:

**This thread was edited on Aug 18th 2018 at 1:58:22pm
 
Cool thread idea. This stuff changes for me day to day though. There's too many factors to anyone's skiing to give a definitive answer; no one is clearly "the best". I'll take a stab anyway though.

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Favorite skier: Adam Delorme

Favorite movie: Keeshlife movie

Favorite video part: Rob a bank to get rich

Favorite style: Delorme

Most talented skier on planet earth: Sage Cattabriga-Alosa

Favorite trick: My favourite trick to do is a 360 Japan

Hardest trick for you: 720s

Most illegal trick: Does this really apply? I guess for private property urban spots?

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: Hitting a mini rail switch one of my skis ejected when the tail hit the end of the rail and I greased it anyway.

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Pontus Pentilla 450ish to down rail over another feature and a ~30 foot gap

Last new trick you learned: backslide mute

What’s the one trick that got away: Lincoln loops

Favorite local brand: CROOKVALE

Favorite local skier: Nathaniel Baker

Worst company: Head

Worst trend:proliferation of conservative extremism

Worse style:picking on people for how they look

**This thread was edited on Aug 18th 2018 at 1:58:22pm
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13937448:skiP.E.I. said:
Cool thread idea. This stuff changes for me day to day though. There's too many factors to anyone's skiing to give a definitive answer; no one is clearly "the best". I'll take a stab anyway though.
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Favorite video part would have to be someone's part in a movie, and most illegal trick would be a trick that you find wack
 
13937454:fredferland said:
Favorite video part would have to be someone's part in a movie, and most illegal trick would be a trick that you find wack
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Antti's part in the Keeshlife movie. Anything goes for tricks. The dumber the better.
 
Something more than just a quote

topic:fredferland said:
So there's this skateboarding podcast that I listen to that always asks these rapid fire questions to each guest at the end of an episode. Thought it would be interesting to do the same for skiing.

Favorite skier: tanner hall

Favorite movie: Into the mind

Favorite video part: Nick Mcnutt Tgr almost ablaze

Favorite style: delorme or antti ollila

Most talented skier on planet earth: right now? Henrik Harlaut, in their prime? I cant say anyone other than candide

Favorite trick: Daffies

Hardest trick for you: I still haven't learned a 360, can nb 3 though

Most illegal trick: getting any kind of air or speed near mountain safety

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: me doing the mconkey ass slap off the wave at snowbird

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: rodeo 9 off the wave, still have no idea who threw it but everyone was talking about it, main suspect is thayne rich

Last new trick you learned: nosebutter 3s

What’s the one trick that got away: came really close to landing a 360 last year. I'll get it this year

Favorite local brand: I dont really have one

Favorite local skier: Blake Wilson

Worst company: Revision

Worst trend: hat under helmet

Worse style: pro skiers? Evan McEachran is not my taste. Of people I see? Rossignol rental dads, but they're just gapers.

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Favorite skier: T wall

Favorite movie: G.N.A.R

Favorite video part:will Wesson in less

Favorite style: T wall

Most talented skier on planet earth: harlout

Favorite trick: Charles gagniers mute slide

Hardest trick for you: backslide

Most illegal trick: double shifty anything

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: accidentally ass sliding a rail

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: hand drag 270 shuffle to forward on dryslope

Last new trick you learned: surface 3

What’s the one trick that got away: 270 off, next season for sure tho

Favorite local brand: syndicate, based in Scotland but there like no Northern Irish ski companies

Favorite local skier: killamuffin on insta

Worst company: revision

Worst trend: those helmet covers gapers wear

Worse style: don't know really
 
topic:fredferland said:
So there's this skateboarding podcast that I listen to that always asks these rapid fire questions to each guest at the end of an episode. Thought it would be interesting to do the same for skiing.

Favorite skier: wabs

Favorite movie: eat the guts

Favorite video part: will Wesson I’m partly cloudy

Favorite style: Emile Bergeron

Most talented skier on planet earth: liz swaney

Favorite trick: nosebutter 3

Hardest trick for you: blind 4

Most illegal trick: no idea what that’s supposed to mean

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: my ski popping off Mid air

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: quad shifty

Last new trick you learned: backslide

What’s the one trick that got away: my front 2s are much less clean than they used to be

Favorite local brand: arsenic

Favorite local skier: mike brewer

Worst company: revision

Worst trend: baggy sweatpants, magnus is the only guy that can rock them

Worse style: hunter hess

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Wabs getting is first backflip is the skiing highlight of the year
 
Favorite skier: Jerm Vey

Favorite movie: Eat The Guts

Favorite video part: Travis Heed- Wicked

Favorite style: Parviz Faiz

Most talented skier on planet earth: Seth Mo

Favorite trick: Backslide Back 2

Hardest trick for you: Anything on jumps >35’

Most illegal trick: Front Swaps

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: Did a disaster on an largeish a frame, not my best clip to date but it was the first time I feel like I did something worthy of being on film.

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Anything Otto was doing at Windells this summer

Last new trick you learned: Backswap to sw

What’s the one trick that got away: Safety Backslide Front 2 on closing day at Brighton

Favorite local brand: Smart Skis

Favorite local skier: Tweak

Worst company: Head, Rossi, Salomon

Worst trend: Pretending skiing is a sport and not having fun.

Worse style: Trying to mimic someone elses style will always make you look kinda wack.

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Favorite skier: Karl Fostvedt

Favorite movie: ON3P 2

Favorite video part: JP Auclair in all I can(rip)

Favorite style: Mista Mango (Jake Mageau)

Most talented skier on planet earth:

Favorite trick: nose butter 7 blunt

Hardest trick for you: Corks

Most illegal trick: idk

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: me doing a fatty back

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: a dub 12

Last new trick you learned: Lofty Backflips

What’s the one trick that got away: flat 3s

Favorite local brand: ON3P

Favorite local skier: Drew Tabke

Worst company: Saga

Worst trend: Ruroc Helmets

Worse style: Nick Goepper (ik i butchered the last name) hes too robotic

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Dale Talkington

Pleasure

Too many to choose

clean and fast

candide

360

540

lip on blind truuuuuuu

front 2

dub backflip

backflip

front swap

Vexum

myself

revision

track pants

new wave
 
Favorite skier: Antti Olilla

Favorite movie: BE Inspired

Favorite video part: Antti Olilla Athlete Edit

Favorite style: Jake Carney

Most talented skier on planet earth: Henrik Harlaut or Jesper tjader

Favorite trick:

Hardest trick for you: 5s

Most illegal trick: lip b2

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: dunno

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: saw some tricks from this is home live in verbier

Last new trick you learned: K-Fed

What’s the one trick that got away: what

Favorite local brand: Faction. I ski verbier so it counts

Favorite local skier: dunno

Worst company: Rossignol

Worst trend: trying to be new wave and creative but you end up copying the new wave badly.

Worse style: I honestly hate how Magnus has been riding at Zermatt lately, way to loose for me
 
Fuck it...

Favorite skier: There are too many and it changes all the time, but I'll go Pollard or Casbon

Favorite movie: Idea

Favorite video part: Far too many to name. Antti in Keeshlife and Hornbeck's Level 1 Opener spring to mind but I probably missed my favourite somehow.

Favorite style: This shit is impossible... I'll go Parker White.

Most talented skier on planet earth: Parker White blows my mind every time I see him ski in real life... or Tanner.

Favorite trick: To do? Long nosebutters

Hardest trick for you: Straight backflips scare the shit out of me.

Most illegal trick: Coming off rails early and calling it good.

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: Probably back 6 with a nosebutter at 4.

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: I guess Alex Hall's straight air from We Are The Faction Collective

Last new trick you learned: Backslide back surface

What’s the one trick that got away: Nosebutter cork 9, never got a clean one.

Favorite local skier: The upcoming gang out of Zermatt: Crackjack, Andrin and Gio.

Worst company: Revision

Worst trend: Skiing for FIS points

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Favorite skier: Henrik Harlaut

Favorite movie: Refresh

Favorite video part: Alex Bellemare/Chris Logan in After Dark?

Favorite style: Dollo

Most talented skier on planet earth: Candide

Favorite trick: rodeo 7

Hardest trick for you: right side corks

Most illegal trick: front 2’s

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: 4 pretz 4

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: AK’s triple 18

Last new trick you learned: 270 backslide to switch

What’s the one trick that got away: misty 4 outs

Favorite local brand: Vishnu

Favorite local skier: Corey Jackson

Worst company: revision

Worst trend: treefort neck wallets

Worse style: andre rigatoni (low hanging fruit)
 
Favorite skier: Candide

Favorite movie: Few Words

Favorite video part: All of Few Words

Favorite style: Candide's

Most talented skier on planet earth: Candide

Favorite trick: Lazy three over people like Candide

Hardest trick for you: Anything Candide already does

Most illegal trick: Backie over a cop car

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: Clip of me watching a clip of Candide

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Riding out into a lake and grabbing hold of a rope attached to a heli

Last new trick you learned: I can't be Candide

What’s the one trick that got away: Being Candide

Favorite local brand: Quiksilver

Favorite local skier: Candide isn't local

Worst company: The one that doesn't sponsor Candide

Worst trend: Whatever Candide isn't doing

Worse style: Any one that isn't Candide's
 
Favorite skier: Charles Gagnier

Favorite movie: Ski Porn

Favorite video part: Simon Dumont Revolver

Favorite style: Old wave

Most talented skier on planet earth: Sammy C

Favorite trick: Phat cork 9 blunt in the pipe

Hardest trick for you: Any unnatty spins

Most illegal trick: Shuffles

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: First 360 on a decent size jump on my ipod touch back in the day

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Phat backflip to knuckle at Pink Flamingo Camp 2013

Last new trick you learned: Cork 7

What’s the one trick that got away: 540s

Favorite local brand: N/A

Favorite local skier: Goepper

Worst company: Vail Resorts

Worst trend: No poles - makes you look off balance

Worse style: The Bunch/ New Hoodcrew - just not a fan of the wave

Come @ me

**This post was edited on Sep 16th 2018 at 12:06:33am
 
Favorite skier: Sean Pettit before the snowboard thing

Favorite movie: idea

Favorite video part: that one part of numinous where kye does the massive 7 onto the pillow line

Favorite style: Sammy Carlson

Most talented skier on planet earth: Candide

Favorite trick: tbd

Hardest trick for you: cork 5

Most illegal trick: doing a front flip of a small cliff, backslapping, then calling it clean

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: idk

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: switch 5 shifty off a biiiggggg cliff

Last new trick you learned:cork 7

What’s the one trick that got away: anything on rails lmao

Favorite local brand: theres no ski brands from Saskatchewan

Favorite local skier: theres no skiers from Saskatchewan

Worst company: revision

Worst trend:new wave

Worse style:new wave
 
Favorite skier: Eric Pollard

Favorite movie: Teddy Bear Crisis

Favorite video part: Opening scene in Idea

Favorite style: Pollard

Most talented skier on planet earth: Thovex

Favorite trick: Cork 3

Hardest trick for you: Blunts

Most illegal trick: Blunts

Favorite clip you’ve ever gotten: Lawn Dart

Gnarliest trick you’ve ever witnessed: Watching the skiers at Alta

Last new trick you learned: Opposite butters

What’s the one trick that got away: 9

Favorite local brand: Flip Wilsons

Favorite local skier: anyone in the crew

Worst company: all love

Worst trend: all love

Worse style: all love

**This post was edited on Sep 20th 2018 at 5:52:37pm
 
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