Skiers ahead of their time.

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uncle_muscles

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Have there been any skiers in the past that were way ahead of their time? Maybe they were virtuosos who had no real room to grow so they made their own style or pushed mechanics like tweaks and spins to their limits?

I'm talking Glenn Plake and Laurent Favre types.

Hopefully someone has some names that didn't get much recognition because they were too different.

 
Eric Pollard. Go watch him ride park back in things like royalty, propoganda, stereotype, etc.
 
Um Wayne Wong invented afterbang before anyone even thought about hitting a rail on skis, or anything else for that matter, or landing backward.Eric Polard with wide park skis, and Andy Marhe if you watch his segments from the old Match Stick movies like The Hit List.
I'd say guys like Tom Wallisch, for sure, and definitely guys like Paco Garcia and Max Hill who are doing stuff that'll be way more accepted in about 3 or 4 years
 
Pollard was definitely way ahead of the curve and started pushing skiing towards super smooth style. Like was said, watch him in movies like Propaganda. He was one of the only skiers with a real smooth, lazy style.
 
Chris Honeywell and Stu Halverson cause they both 2 onto street rails with practically no jump on, thats ahead of its time right now. As far as the past goes, Everything mickael did. His style in exact science still looks cleaner than 95 percent of whats out right now. He was carving his take offs and landings in like 2001(wsi big air cork 5 blunt), that shit still isnt standard. Tanner been ahead of the curve for a really long time too, tbc he does a properly popped nollie onto a street rail(not that tip dip bullshit everyone does now)
 
Crichton, Pollard, even Travis Heed, the whole CASG crew is miles ahead of the rest of the skiing world in trick selection. Iannick B was revolutionary. throwing alley oop 2's and doing 450s like no ones business back when 450's were banger edit tricks.
 
holy shit i forgot about that. all this Crichton talk is getting me antsy. where is he this season?
anyone remember the "greatest park run to date" when Dave lost his ski and they docked him for it regardless of FIS ruling?
 
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I dont really know enough from a long time ago but to me Vanular seemed pretty far ahead of everyone else (a few years ago) and sort of spurred on the the park skiing at the moment. Shame he got injured was so stoked to see him in Refresh.
 
Shane McConkey was definitely WAY ahead of his time. Parkwise, i'd say Vanular's style is way ahead and revolutionary then anybody's. JP auclair too i'd say.
 
COREY VANULAR IN LSS. He was doing rodeo 9 mute to japan, a trick skiers today is still trying to copy. And rodeo 450`s and bio 810 to rail?

That best park segment ever!
 
Skogen Sprang: pipe flat fives both ways before anyone knew what the hell he was doing in 2000Evan Raps: D-Spin 7s off cornices and 7s off cliffs in Ski Movie in 2000Mike Laroche: flawless switch rodeo 7 tails in Ski Movie II
Then they all had serious injuries and the sport caught up and then went by.
And, of course, Shane, in ability, mindset and innovation...
 
SHANE: He wasn't even ahead of the curve, he INVENTED curve, literally.

CANDIDE. For about a million reasons, redefining pipe skiing being perhaps the greatest of these reasons. I've a feeling that when Candide Kamera drops, in whatever form it's gonna drop, it will redefine something. Who knows what, but redefinition will occur.

DOUG COOMBS. Dude basically invented Alaska.

...and loads of other dudes that have been mentioned.
 
Glad to see some people saying Vanular. He's one of the first ones I think of, he's always a year or two ahead it seems like.
 
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