Too-much-urban

i just like the old ski movies so much more than the new ones everythings so much more raw and ghetto it seems like skiing is about money now more than ever
 
How many people die in avalanches compared to urban. That's not taking into account all the other gnarly shit that happens up there.
 
I know this is bad but I dont really enjoy watching backcountry skiing. all the park shoots and urban shots are what make me buy movies. when someone goes out and hits a crazy urban rail, its so sick. maybe because ive never skied in the backcountry being im from Minnesota but thats how i feel about it
 
I agree only to the extent that I can't fully appreciate an urban-only segment. Someone may have unreal rail skills and creativity, but it won't be THAT impressive without jump and/or backcountry shots as well.
 
I can agree that large segments of films that are only double/triple kink urban rails can get old...

But I'm curious about how long you've been around freestyle skiing and how much urban you've watched? Not trying to challenge your love your skiing or your enthusiasm or anything, just curious. No hate.

Because if urban is now getting old, then triple jump lines in the park should be a distant fading memory. We're reaching a point in park skiing where progression is starting to rely on the ability to build bigger jumps, and longer rails, and taller pipes, etc. Creativity is no longer the driving force, because there's kind of a rut of expected features and expected tricks. In a lot of cases, IMO, its harder to be creative when you're holding all the cards, when you can manipulate all the variables to create something exactly as you had planned in your minds eye. There have certainly been some really cool and unique FEATURES built in the park in the last few years. But tricks? Meh. All of these really awesome and unique features are met with predictable tricks. Spin faster. Flip harder. Grab more. We're progressing into a rut.

The simplest features are the ones that result in the most creative tricks. All of Andy Perry's alien wackiness? THAT takes creativity and imagination, and he does them all on flat boxes and dfd rails. Simple features require you to ride at a level where you make the feature more than it seems to the naked eye.

And the most simple features can ALWAYS be found in the urban environment. I mean fuck, a wall. Just a 12 foot wall. But maybe beside the wall, there's a concrete ledge, and below that a dumpster. All of a sudden, you have to figure it out for yourself. Wall ride to massive air over the ledge to bonk on the dumpster? Maybe a tow into the ledge; grind the ledge, hit the wall at the end, 180, back flip off onto the dumpster, 180 off to ground.

Any given episode of Nipwitz, for example, can show shit like that. Most of the features that they use in an urban environment take so much creativity, so much precision, an so much effort. And that's just in the process of setting it up. The skill and ability that it takes to hit some of those features far surpasses, IMO, the ability that it takes to a take a run through the park. It's really fucking mind-blowing.

 
my apologies, I just took the time to gander at your profile and realize that you've been around probably longer than I have. But you;re profile picture is one of your doing urban...
 
pretty much agree. i think people go online and watch edits to see park skiing. its way more accessible and theres not much incentive to pay to watch pros ski park when ams who are just as good post up online for free. i buy the movies to see pow and urban, both of which take much more time, effort, and foresight to shoot than just an afternoon in the park.
 
def not cheap to film urban, just get find the spots alone is a huge expense and opportunity cost since you could be doing other things and you spend countless hours driving around looking for potential spots...you could spend an hour setting up and hitting a feature and not get a shot...

for those who film it you know how crazy hard urban is since it takes hours just to get a 3-5 second clip, I totally respect those who pump out urban segs
 
I love seeing the urbans, but I really do like to see the top pros doing some good old park rails as well. See what they can do on a perfect set up if you know what I mean.
 
revolver was so much powder, which was awesome, but it got old fast. With urban, every rail it pretty different so it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time
 
i kind of agree. I mean i love watching urban seggys. i just love the expression of creativity that comes from the minds of the skiers and the filmers. but you are right, there is wayyy too much. If they are going to add more, at least make it on the level of JP Auclairs All I Can part. I love those long, creative urban lines
 
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