The New Generation

scofield

scofield

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4 years ago I wouldn't have imagined any of the kids that were just skiing around me at waterville, killy, and so on would be featured in PBP and Level 1 movies. The I Hate NY crew individually breaking off into some of the best athletes in the sport (wesson, you are THE best urban skier ever.) We got Hath and Walker (who I remember watchin on his little 4frnts do 9's and was like WTF?) filming with Poor Boyz. Alex and Nick martini whom I just skied with for fun on a regular, now sponsored by Salomon, Amped Intl., etc, shits craaazy. first and foremost though, wallisch. I remember this goof huckin lincoln loops of pump houses and dropoffs all over the east coast, huckin his nuts everywhere. Now he's the best park skier.. ever. i dont really have a point, it just jogs my mind. especially when Tanner, who was probably their idol, is still progressing the sport in other areas that they can't even touch upon.
 
you didnt see shit yet, watch whats coming next seems like kid's dont think these days, when i think i was scared to make a 360 at their age and they go out doing disaster 630's and shits, it's rediculous but great for our sport!
 
yeah man I know what you mean, not personally for me, but Ive also known some of those guys from the generation your talking about. For example my friend JP was noticing that too as we were watching Slamina seeing guys like Dylan Ferguson, Willy Deblois, and some of the kiesel bro's riding in these movies now he just remembered riding with them in USSa comps when they were around my age.
And now some of my generation is starting to come into the light like thistle and clayton and all those waterville guys, its sick to see some of your friends in some big movies now
 
Serious...

Another thing about the new generation. 3 years ago I never would have dreamt that people didn't know who Mickael Deschenaux was... or JF Cusson, or seen Propagana or Forward for that matter.

These days, there's kids that didn't start skiing until AFTER 1242. They missed a huge portion of what makes skiing what it is. I can't imagine my life without having those movies as inspiration.
 
The third to last trick in this segment (about 3:03) is the same trick that everyone is doing nowadays what people have a boner for. A rodeo/bioish 9. The one JF does is the sickest trick ever.

And I don't know what this has to do with the thread... but the younger generation of skiing should put $20 towards one of the older PBP, L1P, or MSP movies. It's open your eyes to the progression of skiing.

 
propaganda got me into park skiing haha. didnt have twin tips till after 1242 though. anyways yeah bons wtf with the orange name being all industry like? go back to the old days where you needed to be driven everywhere talkin about bums in trees haha. btw times change fast for sure.
 
I remember trying 3z before those movies came out. I also remember seeing JF in a van in govy and not knowing who he was. I was like 14.
 
While I agree that newer generation of PARK skiers are progressing at a rediculous speed, there are still vastly untapped areas of talent.

Personally I'd take skiing backcountry and taking after pollard than hucking dubs in the park. Of course its personal taste.

It is weird seeing kids you know explode in the sport.

Hopefully we can start getting some of this abundance of park talent into big mountain and backcountry and get this sport more recongnition than just being clumped into the park with snowboarders.

 
you guys are making me feel guilty for ski porn being the first ski movie i ever bought...BUT i have been lately watching older stuff in my roomate's stash of movies and it's still wayyyyy sickkkkk compared to the new stuff. But what really got me into it was watching all the kids my age just killin it and making me think hey if they can do it I can do it and then BOOM obsession.
 
i still watch movies like happy dayz, sessions 2142 (i cant remember the number now), french toast and ready fire aim all the time just because its great to see where the sport has come from.

+1 great thread
 
talking about wallisch..

i remember in like 04 when Ski Roundtop held basically the first pre-season rail jam in PA..Tom came out and won the comp on our Flat-Down box with a 270 and switchup at the kink if i remember correctly..no one knew who he was and he was killing it..won a few other rail jams at RT too..crazy
 
i miss when every video on newschoolers we would just argue what trick it was
" no man thats not a rodeo 5 tail you idiot its a flatspin 5 toxic.end of discussion"
I was like 11 when i got into skiing so thats like 7 almost 8 years ago and our idols were the kids who were on the alberta freeride team they were like gods to us. now alot of them are pro skiers

 
i remember skiing in wind pants and watching global storming once a week during the winter, ahhh VHS
 
thanks for posting that JF seg. I'm going to go watch propaganda and royalty now on my vhs.

it is crazy seeing how much shit has changed.
 
That's one thing that makes NS so awesome.....people that know about all that can teach us n00bs.....pretty much every week someone posts an edit of like Mickael Deschenaux or someone, like the one of JF in this thread.
 
hahaha that and cr's bio 9 the same year at superpark pretty much exemplified skiing for me for years after first seeing that movie. forward 9s (especially rodeo/flat/bio) have always been the coolest trick ever (besides maybe sw9)
 
i think one of my friends could be eligible for an orange name in a couple years. he was a freshman in high school last year and was throwing 9s at my mountain in Connecticut. the jump was only like a 25-30 footer at the most but he was getting some. effortless 7s off the jump. i know you guys are thinking thats not that great, but its Connecticut and it was his second year skiing park (i think).
 
I remember watching tom and steve skiing in the park when i was still a youngin and they were throwing misties, rodeos, etc. and then i went home and said to my dad "Some guy did a backflip!!!!!11!!!!1111! "
 
4 years ago there were not really any freeskiers at my local mountain or in my whole town... now you can find your stereotypical newschooler at either of our highschools
 
I remember when I was around 8-9 years old, reading about the "NEW CANADIAN AIR FORCE" in Ski Presse. At the time, I was SO stocked when my friend's older brother was throwing back flips with his first gen dynastars twin tips(the one with the COW base) right under the chair. Now, a kid I know slays harder than him and he's just 9 years old. That's what the new generation is about. The first ski movie I saw was Ski Movie 2 and it just blew my mind. The next year, I got a subscription to freeze and the year after I got Focused. As you said, it feels weird to think that the some 10-12years old who slays today don't know about JF Cusson. It was such a golden age even if I only lived the last part of it. In my opinion, the Session 1242 year was the one to make the generation between the old generation and the new generation of freeskiers and to truly understant freeskiing, you need to have seen movies like Ski Movie 1 to understand.
 
yup session 1242 was the beginning of a new generation. And even that generation is getting old. Something big is gonna happen again soon I can feel it
 
I remember seeing tim russell doing backflips out of the pipe at Bristol...everyone would go nuts. Back when Bristol only had a pipe and a "build your own park" run consisting of many janky homemade jumps to flat or usually an icy bombhole landing. Now the secret is out that backflips are easy and its the first trick all the little rippers learn and Bristol has a real park.
 
my first movie was Happy/Happy(free Helly hansen movie from like 2004) I was completely blown away by it cause I had just started skiing and had never seen anything like it before.
 
its crazy yo! i witnessed alex martini slide some pretty gnar rails in the back of a hockey rink towards the beginning of his ski rail grinding career
 
This is a good point.

But what always blows my mind is when I used to see you in all the old FP movies.

Now I watch you in probably the most popular crew around.... 4bi9

That never sises to amaze me.
 
Word Im 16 but I started watching the original MSP ski movies and most kids my age don't know what they are. Way funny. Even though it contradicts what everyone is saying in this thread. I live in SLC and there are only three "newschoolers" at my school. Its ridiculous how few there are for being 45 min away from the Wasatch Mountains. That being said... yes its absurd how good everyone is getting.
 
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