The first skier to ever grind a rail??

Daver_BC

Daver_BC

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Who was the first skier to ever grind a rail, box, anything like that.

i'm pretty sure a boarder grinded before skiers did but i wonder who the first skier to grind was.

 
it'd be interesting to find out, but there would be so many claims..

probably a european, thinkng about it. those crazy french
 
probably some yahoo who ducked a rope to get into the "snowboard only" park and hit it up. but im sure you could find the first documented slide pretty easily by lookin at old ski mags and movies.
 
forget what i just said, i got yours and his screen names mixed up, hence the joke has no meaning. though my guess would be the vinnie, JF, JP combo was sliding rails regularly first.
 
I would say JF was one of the first. I vaguely remember an interview from a few years ago and he said something about he thought it would be cool if skiers slid rails like snowboarders so he tried it. I could be wrong, but he was one of the first for sure.

It could have been just some random dude that no one ever herd of that tried it back in the day for the hell of it.
 
im sure the first time was an accident and the person prolly never tried it again.

but as for doing it on purpose, i think the world will never know
 
As much as I love JF there were definitely guys doing it before him. I forget, there is some old ski movie where theres all the old school guys grinding a PVC pipe sitting in the snow. Fuck I wish I knew what movie it was.
 
loon mtn. back when they had the snowboard park w/ the big arm and hammer box and the giant log slide....this was before freeze was ever made, twin tips were ever invented, and before "newschool" skiing was born. a skier/former rollerblader busted into the park and was tearing up the rails on an old shitty pair of salomons before anyone had even dreamed of it.

Ahhh, those were the days.

 
i would guess that the first skier to grind something prob did a 50-50 on some log decades ago, if not centuries. but the first modern skier to grind prob was a snowboarder, since so many early riders were converts who skied as well as rode. so some random dude prob jibbed with his buddies while on skis.
 
Probably some time around when the first twintip was nivented- in the 1930's. People think that K2 or Salomon invented the twin, but, it was actually a ski called the Banshee. It was all wood, no edges, and has a raised, pointy tail. Im going to guess someone slid a rail or something of the sort back then by accident. No idea. But I do know the first twin tip was made in the 1930's. It was from an old edition of FREEZE.
 
Don't you kids know anything? With everything in skiing it has gone through the same process.

-Jp was the first to do it with style

-Vinnie was the first to do it backwards

-Jf was the first to do it, period.

 
I'm telling you JF was not the first. I love JF probably as much as anyone else out there, he is the steeziest mothafucka ever. Such an innovator. But...I've seen OLD SCHOOL footage (I'm talking b+w super 8mm stuff) somewhere. I saw it on RSN one time when I was up at Sugarloaf. It was one of those old school flicks where there are guys on fucking 240s attemping triple frontflips and insane shit like that. So badass. They were totally doing some sort of grind. I kid you not. Looked like a pvc-ish pipe.
 
i bet it was some stupid drunk ass dude, and then one of the memebers of the old " new canaidan air force " saw it and one of them did it. 
 
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Julien Regnier, he has a pic in a french magazine sliding a rail, he was riding pow'air skis (rossignol old scratch) with a grind system on the base, like double edges.. maybe year 1999 or 2000
 
Yea but people were obviously doing it before then if they were making skis with grind plates.
 
remember before there were any twin tips and the only ones were like mad expensive so people just took regular skis and boiled the tails so you could bend them. those were the days.
 
....and back when kids built twin tip snowblades, which evolved to the 140 cm mike nick pro model, which eventually became a full length ski.
 
People were sliding rails, pipes and logs before any of you probably even skied....the first to do it was not any of the names or dates mentioned above.
 
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