Trick most ahead of it's time?

Candide at Superpark 3 (2001?). Cork 5 off the ~120 foot hip, also boosting probably 40 feet off the deck. Not many people besides Sammy would even straight air this today...

 
13172768:danbrown said:
brady perron did that 6+ years ago
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shiitttt, can i get a video? I honestly thought hand drags on rails were pretty new, especially when someone gets completely horizontal. I have not seen this brady perron wizardry you speak of.
 
I feel old that I can remember all of these.

I remember TJ was buttering off lips back in 2006, and that didn't really take off until a couple years ago when Henrik started doing it.
 
13173998:Kevski said:
I feel old that I can remember all of these.

I remember TJ was buttering off lips back in 2006, and that didn't really take off until a couple years ago when Henrik started doing it.
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yah totally...
 
Mike michalchuk. Spelling it wrong but cant remember how its spelled. Throwing the double chuck or dub alley oop backside rodeo in the pipe back in the mid 90s.

Snowboarder but i cant really think of anything else that far ahead of its time. Jeff andersons rail skills maybe.

I know its a ski site but thats dubs over a decade before the dub wave hit. Impressive regardless of the ski/board deal
 
13174002:VANULAR said:
yah totally...
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perfect response.

Vanular nose butter 5 drop in Shanghai six at least 2 years before Tj in seven sunny days. Corey probably has more of these tricks than anyone else, rail transfer in show and prove, first pretzel etc
 
CRJ in the first few matchstick movies always blew my mind.

I like to think about how many random shredders can do insanely complex maneuvers they develop from their local hill and style etc.. Where I ski it gets icy and bumpy real fast usually so I've definitely gotten better at shredding and doing stuff with ice and little bumps over the years, like this last season I started doing a bunch of sideways landings on rails cause it was just ice. I know I'm not the first one to do that, but someone did years ago, cause their hill's rails landings were all ice.
 
13174217:joly.sp said:
perfect response.

Vanular nose butter 5 drop in Shanghai six at least 2 years before Tj in seven sunny days. Corey probably has more of these tricks than anyone else, rail transfer in show and prove, first pretzel etc
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TJ's first butter was in X=Ten....know your shit......

my vote goes to Vincent Dorion's sw cork 9 lead tail in the backcountry in propaganda...2001..... that was CRAY

or Anthony Boronowski's unnaty lip crook in Happy Days (even if it was an accident).
 
13172728:saskskier said:
Pep's 180 cliff drop
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This...

Candides cork 5 at super park..+ his D-spin 7 over chads

Wilson Flip

Adam Schrab switch backflip to flare

Phil Bellangers pipe segment in Ready,fire aim

Jon Olsson Kangaroo Flip

Tom Wallisch everything

Corey Vanular Rodeo 450 on 270 out and the rodeo 630 on.
 
I may have missed it but did Dave Crichton not get mentioned once yet??? SHAAAAME!

Dude was way ahead of the game in every regard.

[VIDEO]http://vimeo.com/16401788[/VIDEO]

[VIDEO]https://vimeo.com/78268999[/VIDEO]

**This post was edited on Oct 15th 2014 at 10:05:36am
 
Jossi Wells Switch Dub 14 at JOI 2007. This trick didn't even start showing up again until like 2010.
 
13174351:N.L. said:
cr johnson 1440!

pep, as a whole was cutting edge.

travis heed was and still is that edge
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Yea if it hasn't been mentioned yet, Peps 180 in 1242 basically started switch landings in pow

alot happened around then, tanner brought in nollies, mike wilson sent one of the first double corks on skis.(though gigi ruf accidently did one to his ass in destroyer back in 98, and jp walker had his risky flip in 02 which was pretty much a dub cork/underflip 9)
 
13172696:Drail said:
Anything the schrab brothers did. Sure, their tricks lacked style, but damn.
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This. A forward double misty 1440 in the backcountry in, what, 1999?

Also whoever said Sammy had the first triple is wrong by about a month. Bobby in Alyeska was May, Sammy was around June of the same year at Mt Hood
 
13175121:Grilledsteeze212 said:
He was so ahead of his time.
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Watched that video like 20 times over the last few years and just noticed now that the second grab is actually a TAIPAN...crazy!!

And I thought that grab just got invented recently by Matt Walker...Turpin is way too underrated
 
13173482:ObeseBunny said:
Frej's double cork 7. The majority of people thought it couldn't even be done, and then boom, here comes this guy out of nowhere throwing what I still believe to be the best dub 7 ever.[video]http://vimeo.com/40189116[/video]
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It would have been amazing to see that in person. No one else moves through the air like that.
 
this was 9 years before the quad quad. Steve Corbett was an animal. right around 3:30 for the banger but the whole thing is nuts. 170' distance and 80' high?! who does that nowadays even?
=183
 
MY FRONT 6 AT ktOWN SHOWDOWN 3 YEARS AGO I STOMPED THAT SHIT SO HARD AND MY BOY GOT THE SHOT ON HIS T3i WE DIDNT HAVE A GLIDECAM YET THO SO ITS MAD SHAKEY BUT U CAN STILL KINDA TELL THAT I REALLY STOMPED IT. IT WAS AT KTOWN SHOWDOWN COLIN BECKER WAS THERE AND HE GAVE ME PROPS. ALSO ANY QUAD FLIP IS REALLY DOPE.
 
13172789:THEagency said:
jon olsson teddy bear crisis sw misty 9
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not to be a dick but he was doing those in 2001. but then, he did almost land one on chad's that year (TBC, 2005)... which would have been equally crazy as tanner's sw 9 there, which i think is still one of the gnarliest things ever done on skis

as for my answer, most of the ones that came to mind immediately have been listed

but im pretty sure anothony boronowski did a surface swap in happy dayz.. didnt see that again for a long time i don't think
 
Can anyone shed some light on the first skiier to really make rail skiing a big thing? Like mid 90's before the Solomon 1080 was released im assuming...
 

this and wilsons dub 10 over the snowbird halfpipe in teddybear crisis were both way before the dub cork movement really got rolling
 
13481151:Titsandwich11 said:
not to be a dick but he was doing those in 2001. but then, he did almost land one on chad's that year (TBC, 2005)... which would have been equally crazy as tanner's sw 9 there, which i think is still one of the gnarliest things ever done on skis

as for my answer, most of the ones that came to mind immediately have been listed

but im pretty sure anothony boronowski did a surface swap in happy dayz.. didnt see that again for a long time i don't think
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I'm pretty sure he actually did land the sw misty 9 over chads, although it was not in tbc. Hoping my memory didn't trick me here
 
13481724:AdiibA said:
I'm pretty sure he actually did land the sw misty 9 over chads, although it was not in tbc. Hoping my memory didn't trick me here
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as i remember it, he didn't land any of the 9s (not sure about other tricks, im sure he tried or did a sw 5 before the 9, and he sends a huge spread eagle nut grab over it in the TBC credits), but just barely washed out on the landings, like he was super close. and then they decided to leave his shots out of TBC because they would detract from the drama of tanner's stomps and fall. the only time i saw the footage was in some obscure Head ad that someone linked to one time

id love to see all the footage of him (and more of tanner) there that day
 
13481743:Titsandwich11 said:
as i remember it, he didn't land any of the 9s (not sure about other tricks, im sure he tried or did a sw 5 before the 9, and he sends a huge spread eagle nut grab over it in the TBC credits), but just barely washed out on the landings, like he was super close. and then they decided to leave his shots out of TBC because they would detract from the drama of tanner's stomps and fall. the only time i saw the footage was in some obscure Head ad that someone linked to one time

id love to see all the footage of him (and more of tanner) there that day
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Did you ever hit Chad's gap? Any trick over it?

"I did, I was actually the first one to hit Chads switch, I did a few switch 180s and 8 switch misty 9s, but I kept going to big and never landed a trick."

http://jon-olsson.com/the-interview/

looks like you were right.
 
13483121:AdiibA said:
Did you ever hit Chad's gap? Any trick over it?

"I did, I was actually the first one to hit Chads switch, I did a few switch 180s and 8 switch misty 9s, but I kept going to big and never landed a trick."

http://jon-olsson.com/the-interview/

looks like you were right.
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good find

sick how they included the video too

i can't believe he hit it that many times. that is so gnarly and tiring haha

"I did, I was actually the first one to hit Chads switch, I did a few switch 180s and 8 switch misty 9s, but I kept going to big and never landed a trick. Tanner got his switch 9 and the and then came up short, so I saw the whole thing from the inrun and heard his voice bouche in the gully. Its the scariest thing I have ever down and I would never do it again, was full hard pack on the wall of the gap on the day we hit it. When Tanner hit the wall, his skis did not sink in more than 5 cm!"
 
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