Tanner Halls says YOUR not acctually Skiing!

haha ya.

someone should bring up his DEEP DARK past

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i don't even know if tanner's in this, but just look at the background of the DVD menus

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Alright i think pretty much everyone here misinterpreted tanner.

He is saying that the well paid pros that have access to that kind of skiing should be doing it, not skiing on fucking ice for fun.

If I were colby or simon, who are arguable two of the most famous skiers, I wouldn't spend a single hour skiing park. I would be out in the BC filming some REAL skiing, and traveling to where the snow is the best. Park is for days when the snow sucks. If the snow doesn't suck why the fuck are you in there. You can do all the same things skiing real mountains as you can skiing park, only with better snow.

As pros, these skiers generally have access to a large amount of travel money. Tanner's question is why do they use than money to sit around keystone training for the x-games when they could be travelling to wherever the snow is the best. I feel that it is a waste to spend that kind of money on that kind of skiing.

I don't think this is directed towards the newschool movement or anything that people are bitching about here, but I feel that a lot of people could take it to heart and not spend all of their time in the park. Even on the east coast, which is where people bitch about how there isn't anything other than park, you can usually find some cool spots to do something creative instead of seeing how many more spins you can add onto your trick.

Also, stop bitching about how heli skiing costs a bunch. A few elite pros get to go heli skiing on company money each year. The others are using snowmobiles or skinning up to get to the "Real" skiing that tanner is talking about. You don't have to spend 7000 dollars to go big mountain skiing. You can do it for free. All you have to to is get off your lazy ass and skin up there.

Quit your bitching.
 
Fairly sure Peter Olenick went to Alaska and killed it with TGR several years back. Simon had a backcountry segment in Everyday is a Saturda, and they looked like pretty man sized things. Just saying.....
 
i actually agree with him although i do think park and rails is real skiing as well but what i would strive for in life is to be able to ride pow and big mountain lines all the time its just not going to happen but, i definitely didn't like how he was calling out the guys on the forefront of the park game because he aint there no more
 
wow tanner has a lot energy when he talks...

seems like its cool now to be a big mountain skiers , in 10 years people will all be skiing pow and jon will laugh at us saying that race is cooler .... why dont we just do what we want ... at the end its just siing.
 
Haha, its true. That is real skiing. Rails may be the illist to you guys, but it really isn't skiing. And btw skiing strait into a jump and doing a trick is aerials. Carve.
 
hahaha wow anyone who doesn't take what Tanner said with a grain of salt needs a wake up call because he's obviously blazed out of his fucking skull.

Perspective people.
 
How can you not appreciate something as awesome as that video? He had a shitty message but it's refreshing to hear someone speaking their mind, not caring. It is sad to see him say that when he talks about how their isn't a rivalry in pipe. Don't make the small ski community smaller, dick.
 
How can you not appreciate something as awesome as that video? He had a shitty message but it's refreshing to hear someone speaking their mind, not caring. It is sad to see him say that when he talks about how their isn't a rivalry in pipe. Don't make the small ski community smaller, dick.
 
Tanner just went from obnoxious, to fucking retarded.

Way to shit on the only reason you're "famous". The only reason you can ski all over the place, the only reason you can get to France to watch other people ski, the only reason you have your money is from park riding. If it wasn't for park, you would still be a piece of shit high school dropout stoner.

Sorry Tanner, some of us don't have Red Bull ushering us to the top of mountains to do "real" skiing.

Someone needs to go break his jaw as well.
 
this is so true ^^^^^ He's really coming off as a total dick in this movie. sure hes blazed off his ass but still to call out some of the best in the business like that. real skiing is what you do when you put boots on your feet and attach skis to them
 
game ending 3 pointer my ass...

who's to say what kind of skiing is better or real? its not affecting tanner in any negative way, so why should he be complaining about it?

last time i checked, you cant slide a dub kink in the backcountry for do a dub cork 12 without having a high risk of injury in the backcountry...

maybe the reason simon chooses to go to keystone and work on his skills is because hes not some high school drop out who sits on his lazy ass all day with a fake french accent smoking weed and having no ambition other than to not care (if thats an ambition at all)

maybe some pros like simon and colby, who are bright people, have goals like winning the xgames. you feel like its a waste, but they dont

who's to judge which kind of skiing is better? if theres a "better" kind of skiing, then why ski at all? what if football is a better sport? shouldnt you not be so focused on skiing, because you have the opportunity to play football?
 
the way i see it, this is as if coldplay made a video with nasty diction such as "fuck that" ripping on wu tang for rapping, and calling rap fake
 
youre just arguing semantics now, you get the point im trying to make

yeah maybe tanner might wanna win pipe a little bit, but simon wants it more, so why should he have to ski pow?
 
Some of these well known pros make their career(thousands of dollars!) skiing park. easy to say they should ditch and embrace real skiing. Tanner Hall didnt just drop competition, he dominated for years and moved on. I dont even think you could say that simon or Jon ever dominated, Jon has his own priorities like any other big name. These guys have got to be training, because if they dont someone else will, and they wont be able to afford freedom 35. Tanner and Candide are both exceptional cases of huge success at young ages, and received the relative freedom to choose their own path through hard work years ago, sounds insane right, but some athletes actually have to treat skiing in too many ways like a job.

Tanner wants these guys to do whats best for his vision of the sport, he wants the best of the best in this arena now. If everyone rushes into the BC at once theres gonna be a mortgage crisis... on mammoth condos.
 
this post fucking sucks and sounds like its been written by a 12yo

read the intelligent posts throughout this thread, exactly like that game ending 3 pointer. You kids are fucking hopeless sometimes, go find something constructive to do other than over-analyzing something one of greatest people in this sport said like its for a 20 page research paper your going to give to your 8th grade bible school teacher.

You notice how most the older, more mature members that have posted in this thread agree or interpret what he said in a positive or neutral manner? its not a coincidence.

and stop whining you damn east coasters how "blah blah blah thats 3,000 miles away from me", hes not talking to or about you. so get over it, we all know the east and midwest suck, this isn't addressing you, stop looking for attention and go skiing.
 
very true!!
On that same note, Candide and Tanner have similar legacies of dominance in many aspects of skiing, but not once I have I ever heard Candide spout off like that. Candide trains hard and lets his skiing do the talking, which is exactly how it should be.
I'd be stoked if Tanner focused his energy on rehabbing and getting back out there to try and catch up with Candide who is clearly on a whole new level of ripping lines.
 
Out of all the drugs people mentioned in this thread that one makes the most sense to me even though i doubt it but if he blazed he wouldn't be raging out like that and freaking out.
 
argg....tanner is definitely pointing at the cutting edge of skiing (several times), BUT HE DID FORGET TO MENTION ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE who are working their way up to that point.
keep riding how u want to & remember if it goes on the internet, everyone can see it.
 
Another note tanners won x games like what 7 times obviously he doesn't care anymore were as someone like Colby hasn't yet so that's probably why hes training for it.
 
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