Unpopular opinion thread skier's edition

13920951:dildotester69 said:
why did ppl down like my post? Andri can do a quad cork, Henrik cannot. I don’t know why everyone says he has sick style and is king when Andri and Nick Goepper are better than him.

P.S. I think Gus is really doing a great thing for skiing. He’s giving our sport publicity but also showing that skiers have a sensitive side to them. Gus also has way better style than Henrik and is more creative.
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Lemme see you throw a noe butter triple and come back here and call it simple
 
Watching edits with cambered skis is super boring. Much more fun to watch someone using ON’s or V’s or something rockered. Idk why but it just looks a lot more appealing.
 
Pow skiing is incredibly boring to watch. Along with the kimbo sessions.

Edit: all it is is just butters everywhere over knuckles and hitting an uprail (Kimbosessions). It would probably be super fun but it’s just boring to watch.

**This post was edited on May 31st 2018 at 8:07:42am
 
I am so sick of blind swaps to switch. Most of the time when I see it in an edit it isn't even done well. Just some shitty shifty on the rail where they don't even get close to a full swap, and then immediately whip their legs around to force it back to switch. I feel the same way about front swaps to forward
 
I think switch landings almost never look as good as normal landings. Switch take-offs look sick though.
 
13932545:FIRAT said:
I think switch landings almost never look as good as normal landings. Switch take-offs look sick though.
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I'm kind of indifferent on which look better personally, but I find it much easier to execute a clean switch landing for some reason. Especially if it's some sketchy trick that I can barely hold together. I'm also fairly certain that it's easier on the knees.
 
Park skiing is on a big downslide, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hit bottom sooner then later. I think things like over-regulation by the FIS, mainstream contests, spin to win( more flip/quad to win), and major conglomerates buying core brands are what is going to kill it.

I feel like it’s going to look a lot like skateboarding in the early 90s/late 80s. There’s going to be a core group of riders/companies that are going to keep it going, but it’s going to look vastly different on he other side.
 
13932558:MLB said:
Park skiing is on a big downslide, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hit bottom sooner then later. I think things like over-regulation by the FIS, mainstream contests, spin to win( more flip/quad to win), and major conglomerates buying core brands are what is going to kill it.

I feel like it’s going to look a lot like skateboarding in the early 90s/late 80s. There’s going to be a core group of riders/companies that are going to keep it going, but it’s going to look vastly different on he other side.
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You hit the nail on the head here.
 
13932558:MLB said:
Park skiing is on a big downslide, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hit bottom sooner then later. I think things like over-regulation by the FIS, mainstream contests, spin to win( more flip/quad to win), and major conglomerates buying core brands are what is going to kill it.

I feel like it’s going to look a lot like skateboarding in the early 90s/late 80s. There’s going to be a core group of riders/companies that are going to keep it going, but it’s going to look vastly different on he other side.
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I feel like this already happened in like 2013-2015 when the thug era was over, and new wave skiing wasn’t a thing yet. 2013-2015 was the worst era of park skiing imo.
 
13932621:DIRTYBUBBLE said:
I feel like this already happened in like 2013-2015 when the thug era was over, and new wave skiing wasn’t a thing yet. 2013-2015 was the worst era of park skiing imo.
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I could see where your coming from with that, but I feel there are some legs still. People are riding the olympic’s dick trying to say that it “legitimized our sport”. We never needed vindication from the outside since the beginning, why the fuck do we need it now?
 
I have way more respect for skiers who wear helmets when skiing urban than people who don’t wear helmets when they ski urban. You can still be steezy with a helmet and they stop you from dying. Urban is sketchy shit and nobody wears helmets. Stop showing off.
 
13932558:MLB said:
Park skiing is on a big downslide, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hit bottom sooner then later. I think things like over-regulation by the FIS, mainstream contests, spin to win( more flip/quad to win), and major conglomerates buying core brands are what is going to kill it.

I feel like it’s going to look a lot like skateboarding in the early 90s/late 80s. There’s going to be a core group of riders/companies that are going to keep it going, but it’s going to look vastly different on he other side.
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A downslide in terms of it being less 'core'? Since it's definitely become more and more popular and has never been as well known and popular as it is now. And is this really an issue? Like why care if more big companies are getting involved and more people want to ski park?
 
13932788:VinnieF said:
A downslide in terms of it being less 'core'? Since it's definitely become more and more popular and has never been as well known and popular as it is now. And is this really an issue? Like why care if more big companies are getting involved and more people want to ski park?
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Because big companies are fickle, and that’s a huge problem. Every company is out for profit, but at least the core companies know that if they alienate their market they don’t make cash. Large companies follow the whims of the market. As soon as park skiing shows a slump then they dump that brand.

Same issue goes with resorts. RCR is the perfect example. Terrain parks are the most expensive and high risk feature of most ski resorts. The amount of cat hours, man hours, maintaince, and insurance cost is crazy compared to the rest of the resort. The moment that the cost exceeds the risk, parks die.

The attention of the general population is super fickle. We’re riding the wave off of the olympics for now...but what happens when that wave dies off. What about the years between the olympics? The core brands and resorts are all were gonna have to support the sport. Right now we are losing those core brands.
 
13932833:GrandThings said:
Unfortunately, I feel like this just isnt true
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This. If anything, I've noticed a significant decline in involvement/engagement, numbers, and investment in freeskiing over the past 5-6 years.
 
13932836:Shewlur... said:
This. If anything, I've noticed a significant decline in involvement/engagement, numbers, and investment in freeskiing over the past 5-6 years.
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IMO the peak of freeskiing visibility was around the time when Tom and Martini signed with North Face. This is the first example (I can think of) of a major corporation penetrating our little bubble.
 
13932836:Shewlur... said:
This. If anything, I've noticed a significant decline in involvement/engagement, numbers, and investment in freeskiing over the past 5-6 years.
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Wat.

Have you been on instagram? Have you been to a well known resort park? Hell, even smaller resorts have generally ramped up their parks over time. The sport is as big as it's ever been.

Y'all are sorely out of touch with the sport if you think it's going downhill (pun intended). The bifurcation between core and corporate is just becoming more apparent as time progresses, look at any other action sport and how it does the same thing. No need to go lose your heads over it. Skiing's just fine and will continue to be until climate change really screws everything up but that's neither here nor there as far as this topic goes
 
13932833:GrandThings said:
Unfortunately, I feel like this just isnt true
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You only have to look at slope style and now big air being added to the Olympics to see that there is more appreciation for freeskiing from the outside world than ever before
 
13932958:K-Dot. said:
Wat.

Have you been on instagram? Have you been to a well known resort park? Hell, even smaller resorts have generally ramped up their parks over time. The sport is as big as it's ever been.

Y'all are sorely out of touch with the sport if you think it's going downhill (pun intended). The bifurcation between core and corporate is just becoming more apparent as time progresses, look at any other action sport and how it does the same thing. No need to go lose your heads over it. Skiing's just fine and will continue to be until climate change really screws everything up but that's neither here nor there as far as this topic goes
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Good points. Way more people ski park now and I think lots many people have a general idea of what it is now. Its just much different than it was, when there were like a handful of super-well known, almost celebrity like professional skiers.
 
13932697:CharlzHub said:
I have way more respect for skiers who wear helmets when skiing urban than people who don’t wear helmets when they ski urban. You can still be steezy with a helmet and they stop you from dying. Urban is sketchy shit and nobody wears helmets. Stop showing off.
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I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a helmet present in an urban shot...

Who did you see do this? Was it a Nick Martini shot from 2011?
 
13933085:J_Christoph said:
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a helmet present in an urban shot...

Who did you see do this? Was it a Nick Martini shot from 2011?
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LJ, Will Wesson, Khai Krepala, Magnus all have some sick urban shots with helmets and it doesn’t make them any less steezy.
 
13932958:K-Dot. said:
Wat.

Have you been on instagram? Have you been to a well known resort park? Hell, even smaller resorts have generally ramped up their parks over time. The sport is as big as it's ever been.

Y'all are sorely out of touch with the sport if you think it's going downhill (pun intended). The bifurcation between core and corporate is just becoming more apparent as time progresses, look at any other action sport and how it does the same thing. No need to go lose your heads over it. Skiing's just fine and will continue to be until climate change really screws everything up but that's neither here nor there as far as this topic goes
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Exactly this.

Hills are busier than ever on weekends in January. Freeskiing if freeskiing isn't equally popular to alpine its close and closing the gap. Once Michaela and Lindsay leave the sport it will be more popular. I can't name an American male racer that is young and active off the top of my head younger than Ligity.

Requiring snow is the challenge which isn't a small deal of course lots of people live somewhere it doesn't snow and all the hills in the US are vulnerable to a bad season. Also noone wants to ski in April in good years when its warm and beautiful. But go to Killy in early November when its shitty snow and shitty weather and you have to hike up to the Gondola and you will see that every chair will be full even on a Tuesday.
 
13933167:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
That's cause they would have literally died without them.

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Maybe unpopular opinion, maybe not, but as much as it sucks to crash, it's pleasantly surprising to see pros' crash reels. It's easy to forget how many takes some of these require. Also that determination though. Wow.
 
13933167:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
That's cause they would have literally died without them.

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He should have won. Yes, Magnus's was sick, but the wow factor just wasn't there like it was with LJ's.
 
Practicing your back flip/cork rotation before you drop will not improve your trick. It just makes you look like you have Parkinson's disease.
 
13935837:Quaff said:
Practicing your back flip/cork rotation before you drop will not improve your trick. It just makes you look like you have Parkinson's disease.
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visualization is key;) it does make you look like a Joe gnarly for sure tho
 
13866282:Jesse_ said:
I don't like daffy butters or @Tophaloaf simply because the trick is ridiculously easy (learnt it in about 10 mins) and I find the hype surounding it as a godly trick kinda annoying.

Might just be me but I don't get how he has such a big following for spamming easy as shit tricks like daffy butters or jumping over box and people will call it insane or "revolutionary"
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This must be why you included a clip of you performing a botch job of Toph's daffy butter in the most recent edit you have posted?

When you are an OG like Topher, the countless hours/years dedicated to skiing just because you love it, shine through in your riding. Tiny nuances in skill/style developed over years can elevate the simplest maneuvers into mind bottlers.
 
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