Unpopular opinion thread skier's edition

Andri has better style than kelly sildaru. She has the most cookie cutter style and if racers could magically do tricks, itd look like her
 
14080602:CharlzHub said:
I guess you’re right that new creative features can be shit. But why don’t we still have shit like this?

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Since comps are about technical ability and not creativity, most competitors would just opt to slide the red rail on the right and transfer to the hubba handrails, instead of trying some crazy combo that is actually interesting
 
Fisheye shots are stupid. I'm talking about actual fisheye - not ultra wide angles.

Fisheye just distorts the hell out of the shot and end up with a pointless black circle around your image, plus it makes whatever is in the shot so small you can't really even tell what's going on.
 
I just watched Jyosei and i thought it was underwhelming. The filming and editing was sick, but there was probably only 2 or 3 minutes worth of skiing in the 12 minute video
 
I liked the vx2000 comeback more when it was a niche thing. Nowadays it feels like every crew is doing it to stay relevant. Honestly makes it difficult to watch and figure out what’s going on, especially when they pixelate the hell out of the footage as if the edit was actually filmed in 1994.
 
a lot of movies in recent years just try too hard. it feels and looks fake. just be yourself and send it men and women.

90% of people I meet at film screenings are giant superficial plastic bags who pretend so hard to be ,,freeskiers/riders". they re brilliant gatekeepers and shit talkers but once you try to go skiing with them you realize they suck big ass. The ,,community" in my area stopped being a community a few years ago.

**This post was edited on Dec 6th 2019 at 7:25:25am
 
14083683:ConesForBreakfas said:
I just watched Jyosei and i thought it was underwhelming. The filming and editing was sick, but there was probably only 2 or 3 minutes worth of skiing in the 12 minute video
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The first part of the edit with the pow shots and carving shots were lame as fuck. Yea they might not be traditional all-mt. skiers/typically ski park, but those were not good shots at all. Fucking hot tub landings and they were getting like two feet of air. The Blondes edit blew this one out of the water in that regard.

Not at all knocking on the urban shots because any urban shot takes a lot of work and skill to do. Also very very nice to see more female ski edits. So yea good work ladies!
 
14084940:dgraves said:
The first part of the edit with the pow shots and carving shots were lame as fuck. Yea they might not be traditional all-mt. skiers/typically ski park, but those were not good shots at all. Fucking hot tub landings and they were getting like two feet of air. The Blondes edit blew this one out of the water in that regard.

Not at all knocking on the urban shots because any urban shot takes a lot of work and skill to do. Also very very nice to see more female ski edits. So yea good work ladies!
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Yes i was refraining from saying this, but the skiing wasnt great either. Knowing how rad and talented they are, i was a little let down
 
14084876:surfaceoutsiders said:
Magnus is not an evolved version of Mango bruh
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Ones got a superunknown win, an xgames gold, and two pro model skis. One currently doesn’t. Just sayin.

edit: AND a couple baller Level 1 segments. It’s what any new wave shredboi would aspire to evolve to.

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Extra fat pow skis are a marketing gimmick for people who can’t send or use their quads effectively. Like I get it if you’re always using them for steep and deep, but unless there’s 10+ inches of pow every time you’re going out you probably don’t need them.

RIP karma from here on out.
 
14085493:Young_IPMC said:
Extra fat pow skis are a marketing gimmick for people who can’t send or use their quads effectively. Like I get it if you’re always using them for steep and deep, but unless there’s 10+ inches of pow every time you’re going out you probably don’t need them.

RIP karma from here on out.
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I skied brighton on bdogs and I'm about to ski jackson hole on magnuses

I don't need no pow sticks
 
14085539:Thegenericskier said:
north east is better than the west
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West: bigger mountains; better pow

East: more core/dedicated skiers (not saying west doesn’t have core skiers)

Similarities: Parks on East are just as good as our west if u know where to look

i feel that in some period of every skiier/snowboarders lives that they should switch sides of the country for riding for a period of time (East goes out west; west goes out east) and I don’t mean like a week trip I mean living there for like a year. Ofc that’s also if you get a chance to. Both sides of the country have unique skiier culture and I want to grow up and ski out west and see how it is out there (if I get the chance)
 
14085854:Whackson said:
West: bigger mountains; better pow

East: more core/dedicated skiers (not saying west doesn’t have core skiers)

Similarities: Parks on East are just as good as our west if u know where to look

i feel that in some period of every skiier/snowboarders lives that they should switch sides of the country for riding for a period of time (East goes out west; west goes out east) and I don’t mean like a week trip I mean living there for like a year. Ofc that’s also if you get a chance to. Both sides of the country have unique skiier culture and I want to grow up and ski out west and see how it is out there (if I get the chance)
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Yeah but that means i would have to live in the east. Sure maybe the ski culture would be interesting, but non-skiing east coast culture? ?
 
14085955:ConesForBreakfas said:
Yeah but that means i would have to live in the east. Sure maybe the ski culture would be interesting, but non-skiing east coast culture? ?
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Yes yes, how could anyone stand to live in the most educated, historically relevant, and culturally progressive region of the country.
 
14086109:GrandThings said:
Yes yes, how could anyone stand to live in the most educated, historically relevant, and culturally progressive region of the country.
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Nah man I don’t think you get it. You East Coasters will never understand what it’s like to smoke gnarly amounts of kush outside the local In N’ Out. Fuckin tourist posers man they’re ruining the west. We just wanna smoke kush and listen to LA rappers (aka the only valid rappers lol you East Coast kids will never understand the vibes bro). I need to find a new Ron Jon sticker for my Subaru.
 
14085955:ConesForBreakfas said:
Yeah but that means i would have to live in the east. Sure maybe the ski culture would be interesting, but non-skiing east coast culture? ?
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non skiing culture in rural Maine is basically trucks, hunting, and weed, are you talking about boston or something?
 
14086136:pinkcamo1000 said:
non skiing culture in rural Maine is basically trucks, hunting, and weed, are you talking about boston or something?
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ooh that sounds like Montana. I like. But I wasn't talking about Maine, definitely like Vermont, New York, Mass, etc
 
14086109:GrandThings said:
Yes yes, how could anyone stand to live in the most educated, historically relevant, and culturally progressive region of the country.
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Most historically relevant and culturally progressive my ass. Way to just throw thousands of years of indigenous people's history and culture down the fucking toilet. In 1770, the California region's native population was an estimated 300,000. In New England? The Iroquois only had like 10,000 people, so my generous estimation is somewhere between 50-100,000. Much less significant. In 2005, California had the largest native population in the US. What about hundreds of years of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and settlement in the south and west? Almost the entire west and southwest is all named in Spanish or a similar dialect. I'd say that's pretty damn relevant.

Even to current standards, culturally progressive? Where was the first weed legalized? Texas and Oregon made the first steps toward legalization in 1973. 1978, New Mexico was the first state to consider weed 'medicinal.' San Francisco is considered the most transgender friendly. Everybody in the whole world knows at least two US states. California and New York. That must say something about the cultural presence of Cali, right?

Most educated? In what sense? Maybe by the shitty United States school system. The east has some of the oldest richest families and I would say (without doing any research I'll admit) that the general wealth of the east coast is greater than the west. So most of those people have no idea how it's like to live dirt poor. They have no idea the hardships that many people go through, so in that sense, they are uneducated. Yes, there are certainly poor regions in the east, but I imagine it's easy to completely avoid them. Sure, the east has some big name schools like Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, but the west does too, like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cal Tech. New York and Boston may be huge hubs of business, banking, and trade, but so are Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Finally, I see so many posts on here of people wondering which western college to go to, which western state or resort to move to, and have barely seen anyone ask the same thing about the east. Most relevant to this forum, where was the first terrain park? Bear Valley, California. In the west.

Sure, the east is very educated, has a very rich and developed history and culture, and has a huge significance in freeskiing, it is totally false and hand-wavy to claim it as the most of any of those things.
 
14086153:ConesForBreakfas said:
Most historically relevant and culturally progressive my ass. Way to just throw thousands of years of indigenous people's history and culture down the fucking toilet. In 1770, the California region's native population was an estimated 300,000. In New England? The Iroquois only had like 10,000 people, so my generous estimation is somewhere between 50-100,000. Much less significant. In 2005, California had the largest native population in the US. What about hundreds of years of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and settlement in the south and west? Almost the entire west and southwest is all named in Spanish or a similar dialect. I'd say that's pretty damn relevant.

Even to current standards, culturally progressive? Where was the first weed legalized? Texas and Oregon made the first steps toward legalization in 1973. 1978, New Mexico was the first state to consider weed 'medicinal.' San Francisco is considered the most transgender friendly. Everybody in the whole world knows at least two US states. California and New York. That must say something about the cultural presence of Cali, right?

Most educated? In what sense? Maybe by the shitty United States school system. The east has some of the oldest richest families and I would say (without doing any research I'll admit) that the general wealth of the east coast is greater than the west. So most of those people have no idea how it's like to live dirt poor. They have no idea the hardships that many people go through, so in that sense, they are uneducated. Yes, there are certainly poor regions in the east, but I imagine it's easy to completely avoid them. Sure, the east has some big name schools like Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, but the west does too, like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cal Tech. New York and Boston may be huge hubs of business, banking, and trade, but so are Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Finally, I see so many posts on here of people wondering which western college to go to, which western state or resort to move to, and have barely seen anyone ask the same thing about the east. Most relevant to this forum, where was the first terrain park? Bear Valley, California. In the west.

Sure, the east is very educated, has a very rich and developed history and culture, and has a huge significance in freeskiing, it is totally false and hand-wavy to claim it as the most of any of those things.
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I'm literally not even going to try hahahah.
 
14086153:ConesForBreakfas said:
Most historically relevant and culturally progressive my ass. Way to just throw thousands of years of indigenous people's history and culture down the fucking toilet. In 1770, the California region's native population was an estimated 300,000. In New England? The Iroquois only had like 10,000 people, so my generous estimation is somewhere between 50-100,000. Much less significant. In 2005, California had the largest native population in the US. What about hundreds of years of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and settlement in the south and west? Almost the entire west and southwest is all named in Spanish or a similar dialect. I'd say that's pretty damn relevant.

Even to current standards, culturally progressive? Where was the first weed legalized? Texas and Oregon made the first steps toward legalization in 1973. 1978, New Mexico was the first state to consider weed 'medicinal.' San Francisco is considered the most transgender friendly. Everybody in the whole world knows at least two US states. California and New York. That must say something about the cultural presence of Cali, right?

Most educated? In what sense? Maybe by the shitty United States school system. The east has some of the oldest richest families and I would say (without doing any research I'll admit) that the general wealth of the east coast is greater than the west. So most of those people have no idea how it's like to live dirt poor. They have no idea the hardships that many people go through, so in that sense, they are uneducated. Yes, there are certainly poor regions in the east, but I imagine it's easy to completely avoid them. Sure, the east has some big name schools like Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, but the west does too, like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cal Tech. New York and Boston may be huge hubs of business, banking, and trade, but so are Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Finally, I see so many posts on here of people wondering which western college to go to, which western state or resort to move to, and have barely seen anyone ask the same thing about the east. Most relevant to this forum, where was the first terrain park? Bear Valley, California. In the west.

Sure, the east is very educated, has a very rich and developed history and culture, and has a huge significance in freeskiing, it is totally false and hand-wavy to claim it as the most of any of those things.
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Lmao skimmed this. No one fucking cares hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
 
14086153:ConesForBreakfas said:
Most historically relevant and culturally progressive my ass. Way to just throw thousands of years of indigenous people's history and culture down the fucking toilet. In 1770, the California region's native population was an estimated 300,000. In New England? The Iroquois only had like 10,000 people, so my generous estimation is somewhere between 50-100,000. Much less significant. In 2005, California had the largest native population in the US. What about hundreds of years of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and settlement in the south and west? Almost the entire west and southwest is all named in Spanish or a similar dialect. I'd say that's pretty damn relevant.

Even to current standards, culturally progressive? Where was the first weed legalized? Texas and Oregon made the first steps toward legalization in 1973. 1978, New Mexico was the first state to consider weed 'medicinal.' San Francisco is considered the most transgender friendly. Everybody in the whole world knows at least two US states. California and New York. That must say something about the cultural presence of Cali, right?

Most educated? In what sense? Maybe by the shitty United States school system. The east has some of the oldest richest families and I would say (without doing any research I'll admit) that the general wealth of the east coast is greater than the west. So most of those people have no idea how it's like to live dirt poor. They have no idea the hardships that many people go through, so in that sense, they are uneducated. Yes, there are certainly poor regions in the east, but I imagine it's easy to completely avoid them. Sure, the east has some big name schools like Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, but the west does too, like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cal Tech. New York and Boston may be huge hubs of business, banking, and trade, but so are Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Finally, I see so many posts on here of people wondering which western college to go to, which western state or resort to move to, and have barely seen anyone ask the same thing about the east. Most relevant to this forum, where was the first terrain park? Bear Valley, California. In the west.

Sure, the east is very educated, has a very rich and developed history and culture, and has a huge significance in freeskiing, it is totally false and hand-wavy to claim it as the most of any of those things.
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mega cringe
 
14086153:ConesForBreakfas said:
Most historically relevant and culturally progressive my ass. Way to just throw thousands of years of indigenous people's history and culture down the fucking toilet. In 1770, the California region's native population was an estimated 300,000. In New England? The Iroquois only had like 10,000 people, so my generous estimation is somewhere between 50-100,000. Much less significant. In 2005, California had the largest native population in the US. What about hundreds of years of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and settlement in the south and west? Almost the entire west and southwest is all named in Spanish or a similar dialect. I'd say that's pretty damn relevant.

Even to current standards, culturally progressive? Where was the first weed legalized? Texas and Oregon made the first steps toward legalization in 1973. 1978, New Mexico was the first state to consider weed 'medicinal.' San Francisco is considered the most transgender friendly. Everybody in the whole world knows at least two US states. California and New York. That must say something about the cultural presence of Cali, right?

Most educated? In what sense? Maybe by the shitty United States school system. The east has some of the oldest richest families and I would say (without doing any research I'll admit) that the general wealth of the east coast is greater than the west. So most of those people have no idea how it's like to live dirt poor. They have no idea the hardships that many people go through, so in that sense, they are uneducated. Yes, there are certainly poor regions in the east, but I imagine it's easy to completely avoid them. Sure, the east has some big name schools like Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, but the west does too, like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cal Tech. New York and Boston may be huge hubs of business, banking, and trade, but so are Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Finally, I see so many posts on here of people wondering which western college to go to, which western state or resort to move to, and have barely seen anyone ask the same thing about the east. Most relevant to this forum, where was the first terrain park? Bear Valley, California. In the west.

Sure, the east is very educated, has a very rich and developed history and culture, and has a huge significance in freeskiing, it is totally false and hand-wavy to claim it as the most of any of those things.
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California has a homeless population the size of Utah get the fuck outta here.
 
14086195:BST_Police said:
Lmao skimmed this. No one fucking cares hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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14086203:surfaceoutsiders said:
^^^^^^^^^^

no one wants to read your AP History paper
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14086205:Rparr said:
mega cringe
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Yall high school drop outs are just hating because you got one too many concussions learning k feds and cant read more than 5 lines without getting a headache
 
14086279:ConesForBreakfas said:
Yall high school drop outs are just hating because you got one too many concussions learning k feds and cant read more than 5 lines without getting a headache
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You had some valid points but dude it's the unpopular opinion thread. I think the original post that you responded to was mostly sarcastic or satire.
 
14085854:Whackson said:
West: bigger mountains; better pow

East: more core/dedicated skiers (not saying west doesn’t have core skiers)

Similarities: Parks on East are just as good as our west if u know where to look

i feel that in some period of every skiier/snowboarders lives that they should switch sides of the country for riding for a period of time (East goes out west; west goes out east) and I don’t mean like a week trip I mean living there for like a year. Ofc that’s also if you get a chance to. Both sides of the country have unique skiier culture and I want to grow up and ski out west and see how it is out there (if I get the chance)
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Come out west and youll find out that all the best skiers out west come from back east lol unless youre some prodigy who grew up on freeride team....but fuck even their parents are probably from the east haha.

I agree though. Ski culture, though not nearly on par as what we see in other countries, is pretty special and unique in places like the Midwest and the east so its cool to be exposed to both communities as you said yourself. (small ma and pa resorts vs. big leagues)

**This post was edited on Dec 10th 2019 at 8:28:39pm
 
14084798:cozyco said:
a lot of movies in recent years just try too hard. it feels and looks fake. just be yourself and send it men and women.

90% of people I meet at film screenings are giant superficial plastic bags who pretend so hard to be ,,freeskiers/riders". they re brilliant gatekeepers and shit talkers but once you try to go skiing with them you realize they suck big ass. The ,,community" in my area stopped being a community a few years ago.

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Blame social media. If your good at posing probably means more this day in age than skiing.

Whos gonna take pictures of themselves ripping or be slowed down by being in a group of douchebags.
 
14086279:ConesForBreakfas said:
Yall high school drop outs are just hating because you got one too many concussions learning k feds and cant read more than 5 lines without getting a headache
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I did get a lot of concussions you got me there (not from skiing tho), and I'm convinced it's why I can't concentrate. However don't be hating on people on here. Even if they are HS dropouts, they're prob the ones making sure you can ski on Christmas. What's the highest level of education you've obtained bud?

Disclaimer: I'm not a HS dropout.
 
14086418:BST_Police said:
I did get a lot of concussions you got me there (not from skiing tho), and I'm convinced it's why I can't concentrate. However don't be hating on people on here. Even if they are HS dropouts, they're prob the ones making sure you can ski on Christmas. What's the highest level of education you've obtained bud?

Disclaimer: I'm not a HS dropout.
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Im not the one hatin. I respect people for dropping out to pursue skiing if it's what they want to do. They're probably better skiers than me.
 
14086573:e.littt said:
Those city big air air competitions suck.
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Are you talking about watching them online or in person? I agree that watching them online is pretty boring but it seems like they would be pretty fun in person
 
14086573:e.littt said:
Those city big air air competitions suck.
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And over half the field rides on skis 10-15 centimeters too short for them and without poles....makes it look like aerials even more. Shit is wack AF.
 
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