Snowblades did first Urban!

mski

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The first urban rail ever photographed was of a snowblader! Its in the freeskierphotoannual! One of the most progressive and burly rails ever done!
 
dude i ski a shit load. but i am also a really busy person. dont get me wrong. i love freeskier mar and the freeskiing culture. but i dont usually have time to go thru every part of the mag.

i guess i should slow down the partying?

huh?
 
It was an old issue of FREEZE, Freeskier wasn't around yet and it was a picture of Levinthal sliding a rail. Was it the first urban ever? Doubtful. There was a ton of progression of skiing already occuring in Quebec, Wisconsin, Squaw, Hood and Whistler by the time that photo was published. It was undisputedly the first rail picture published though.
 
it was in freeskier, i believe it was in the section about winterton. and alot of people misunderstood it, and read it as the first urban rail ever, but it was the first urban rail ever PHOTOGRAPHED
 
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urban down rail (New York City, NY)
 
it was on line skis website a long time ago, when they had a page talking about the history of the company.
 
no thats not it theres a pic of it in the thread where jason levnthal did that online interview. someone asked him how it felt to be in the first published picture of a "skier" doing a rail and the picture sould be around there. i would find it but im too lazy for that kind of work.
 
ya they only gave me like 2 issues over 6 months but its still a sick magazine and i have the one with the guy snowbladin the rail, its pretty sick
 
I have that mag too.

Try asking felix rioux...Mother's Milk was his creation, he might have a few copies kicking around.

Iannick is a rail god
 
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