To Clear Up the West/East Coast Issue Once and for All

duhamelski

duhamelski

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Having skied on both coasts, in my opinion, this is the main difference.

East Coast- Filming is big. Skiers all want to go pro, move to Colorado, and film for big companies. They are used to ice and makeshift setups so they are good jumpers and jibbers. They consider it most fun to do the biggest and craziest trick.

West Coast- Skiers are used to soft snow and spend most of their time skiing whatever floats their boat. They hate to film and aspire to a lot less than east coast skiers. They enjoy skiing as a social activity and pursue other activities also. They absolutely hate to film and don't even really like to be filmed. They consider it most fun to do big floaty tricks with the occasional super tech trick thrown in.

The east coast, therefore, has more pros. However, I would like to settle the debate once and for all to the reason for this. West Coast skiers are just as good, and probably better, skiers than those on the east coast. A true west coast skier grew up skiing for other reasons than the spot light. Neither is better. Thoguhts?
 
haha very analytical. I thought it was funny :) Never skiing on the east coast, and living in the interior of BC where we are stuck skiing pillows in the trees, away from the spot light I am unable to add my two cents on the validity of your statement.
 
agreed, west coast kids are so luscious they dont have to try for shit.

kids on the east coast cant get a sponsor for shit, so they have to do

anything they can to make it to a place where they can just chill and have

the luxury of growing up shredding sick shit.

good call, the east coast has nothing, and the west has everything. head west young man.
 
I live on the east and ski for fun. I also enjoy filming and being filmed. I would also consider my self a good skier and would one day love to live and ski somewhere out west or at least Quebec. As much as I would like to go pro (I'm sure that everyone here does) I know it is not a reality for me so I chill a lot.

I agree with a lot of what you said.
 
I live in montana and I would bet that most east coast kids have a better park Than I do, because there isnt one at my mountain.
 
Oh you poor thing.

Regardless of my current or future location, skiing is gonna be fun. ANyway, iut looks like the EC is getting hammered while the west kinda isn't. Then again, EC's hammered is a west coast's typical storm.
 
In all honesty I would love to see an East Coast vs West coast jam- West Coast's rail game is starting to catch up- but it could be locals only- no transplanted pros- EC would fucking destroy though

now jumps- thats just not fair
 
i don't know if east coast skiers are as serious as depicted but i definitely like being filmed and skiing at as high a level as i can most days. i think the post above or two now maybe said something about a rail jam between east and west and i definitely would like this to happen if it was a newschoolers video contest top 5 or 10 go to finals
 
I think its less that westcoasters hate to film and stuff as they are just more interested in hucking sick shit...
Plus, the population densities of most of the west is FAR smaller than back east... California is the only western place that has comparable population densities, and most people in SF and Southern California dont care to ski because they hate the cold (AKA they are wussbag retards haha)
 
Why stereotype? Can't we just all be skiers, with our own interests, preferences, and influences? All united by the fact that we slide down hills on sticks?

I'm a west coast kid, who likes shredding pow, jibbing rails, and most of all having fun on skis. If you want to draw any further conclusions, come ski with me.
 
quit your bitching about east west shit as its clearly in the midwest where the true skiing goes down.
 
i dont know about the fact that west coasters dont want to be filmed. We don't push with outgoing determination to be sponsored too much I think, but we ski hard on whatever floats our boat and over time skiing these mountains we develop the skill that will get us sponsored some how. Lots of pros are from the west, Ian Cosco, Riley Leboe, Tanner Hall, TJ Shiller, Mark Abma, Mike Douglas, Sean & Callum Petit, etc.
 
it's a different life attitude more than anything.You're comparing peoper from say NY or NJ or PA to people from CO, UT or even CA.The attitudes for everyone is different, not just skiers. On the east, I think there's a lot of pressure to always be the best at everything you try. I've never lived in the west, but from my travels etc, it seems that people are more interested in just doing whatever they happen to be doing.On the East, there are also way more people on much smaller mountains so there are bound to be more pros or whatever come out of that kindof environment. You also have to consider that it's winter season for more than half the year in parts of the east coast. (it gets too cold and wet to do anything at about OCT until the snow falls whenever it does and then doesn't really get nice until about June, as opposed to places like CO that are always sunny. That means that kids look forward to skiing more since it's something you can do when it's cold and dreary etc...I don't think either cost has better or worse skiers, just different kinds. And you can't neglect the hard working east coast mentality that drives kids to hike a rail 30 times just to learn a new switchup.
 
I'm actually really sick of this shit always popping up. No coast loves skiing more than the other. West has better skiing, East, well, east kind of sucks for skiing, but you guys are lucky to log so many days and be able to drive down the road and be at your local hill with night skiing so you can shrewd after school. I would kill to have that opportunity. Quit giving a shit, no coast is superior, just have fun.
 
wait you havent started shooting people?
but in seriousness, does it really matter at all? this is just like the skier vs snowboarder argument with a different wrapper
 
EC skiers do it for the spotlight? They're good jumpers? They throw more tech/bigger tricks than kids from the west? Did you literally decide to go with the exact opposite of what EC skiing is like? Outside of Academy kids and maybe 3 mountains (Snow...Boulder...Springs?) you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Most EC skiers grew up in places where skiing, particularly freeskiing, is completely irrelevant to pretty much everyone. This spotlight of which you speak doesn't really exist.
Take a lap through Park Lane, King's Crown, Unbound, etc., and tell me where the film whores are.
I'm not sure which issue you settled.
The difference is that anyone from the EC who is serious about skiing—not necessarily trying to go "pro"—wishes that they lived out west, If not for the scene (like minded folks), for the accessibility to a variety of terrain and snow. If they don't, they're 15 and only want to slide rails and/or have the weird defensive thing going on.

 
Great post.
I'm an EC kid who now finds himself out west (Taos, NM), and the mentality is completely different. The EC is a frenetic, competitive, overly crowded,and high strung "culture".
 
I disagree with the original post. There are kids trying to get sponsored and filming everywhere. I saw way more filming in the West then I ever saw in the East. Kids are trying to get sponsored and make a name for themselves everywhere too. Say if you worked hard and got yourself sponsored by The Canyons or Snowbird/Alta...you get a free pass. I know kids who made it to that level. Then they are trying to find photographers to send out shots to companies.They were constantly trying to get noticed by reps and industry people around them.
I do agree however with Casual's quote above. The West is more laid back, not so high strung, and that was my favorite part about living there.
 
i livein ohio and we have really short ski seasons so therefore we have to wait most of the year to ski so we take advantage of the time we do have to ski and film so we can watch ourselves ski over summer,spring,fall etc
 
Ummm, what? I didn't know there was an issue? Thanks for furthering the myth that East Coast skiers and West Coast skiers are different and are at odds with one another. It does wonders for the community aspect of this site.
Moron.
 
Hey Mike, when are you going to come out and visit the west coast buddy? It's been too long we need to shralp some hela mad crazy gnar. Also by west coast I mean California not CO or UT they don't have a coast.
 
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