Warren Miller Has Ruined Skiing

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Skiing has changed. The innovation and breakthroughs to new, unexplored sides of skiing are slowly coming to a standstill. As we have witnessed, competition skiing, be it big air, slopestyle or halfpipe, is progressing through stagnation of difficult and technical trickery over stylish and fluid showings. With the current progression, it will be a cold day in hell before a smooth, carved 900 Tail will win over a rotating double flip with a dubious grab.

Some of us blame the competitive nature of extreme sports.

Some of us blame the mainstream exposure.

Some of us blame the interference from the IOC.

I blame Warren Miller.

For decades, Warren Miller has been an influencing figure in the skiing industry, connecting many a family once a year to huddle together in a theater and listen to Miller's soothing narrating while witnessing both the old and new sides of skiing on the big screen.

Until he sold out. For years on end, his famous line closed off the movie night for the viewers:

"If you dont do it this year, you will be one year older when you do."

A truly inspiring, and yet vague philosophy. What is this mysterious 'it'? I believe it was a driving force for many aspiring young skiers and even older, more experienced snowhounds to push themselves a little bit more whilst on the slopes, while still enjoying all the fun in skiing. Now, that era has come to an end.

In Level 1 Productions' 2009 feature film "Refresh", Miller was a special guest star, meant as both a throwback to for the older generations and an introduction to a ski film legend for the young ones. It was nicely glued together, and many alike waited anxiously for his eternally quotable finishing quote. Alas, the legend had been tarnished.

No more did he let us imagine our own fun, how we push the sport forward and how we decide the future of skiing each year. No. This time he had a different agenda. He abused his own infamy in the skiing scene. He knew his influence was close to that of Brangelina's to the blogosphere. He knew, and he had waited for so long to take the reins from us all. Little did we know, that all that time spent listening to his smooth, calm voice was just an act to lure us in through sonic hypnotism. We had all been under his spell even before our births, and due to the ungratefulness of the youngest skiing generation of tall-tee toting, full tilt rustling, Saga sacking afterbangers, he had decided to take the style out of our sport.

"If you don't do a double cork 1260 this year, you'll be one year older when you do."

Just like that, he took away the magic. He sealed us all inside a silent vacuum which exist only of the largest spins, the biggest flips and worst of all, the inability to see how ridiculous one looks with a quadruple layer of man-dresses - on or off the hill.

I blame Warren Miller.

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Just because he tells where the sport is, and where it is going - he is not the one changing it.
 
man, you took that line way too seriously. the only point is that it was tying together newschool (the dub) and old school (warren miller).
i thought it was a clever take on the classic line
 
if that was honestly meant to be a sarcastic joke, then damn that was a ton of effort for something that didn't end up being funny
 
NotThatGuy, what you have just said, is the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
 
Congratulations OP! That was the most well written crock of shit I have ever read. ...and I still have no idea what you are talking about. It doesn't seem like you do either and it kind of reminds me of an old joke I heard:

A huge bull is out in the pasture and it takes an enormous crap. Farmer sees the huge pile of crap and decides to use some of it for fertilizer, so he shovels some into the bed of his pick up. He leaves the shovel sticking out of the pile. A little bird flies over, lands on the pile, eats some, then flies up on the handle of the shovel and chirps away for a awhile. The bird takes off, falls into the pile of crap and dies.

The moral of this story: Never fly off the handle when full of Bullshit.
 
I'm not going to read anything in this thread beyond "I blame Warren Miller."

You're a fucking retard if you think Warren Miller (the individual, which is who you are referring to) was anything but a fucking godsend to the sport of skiing.

First of all, no one has ruined skiing because it is still awesome.

Second, skiing can not ever be ruined. It will always be the same, riding skis down snow. The only thing that could potentially ruin that would be a massive ski shortage because we run out of trees, or global warming removing all of the snow.

Third, you are hopefully thinking of Warren Miller Entertainment.

Sorry for being mad, but you can't just go slandering peoples' childhood heroes like that.
 
Ok I was bored enough to read the rest of your thread, and come on. He is just poking fun at how ridiculous the progression of skiing has been, just like he was throughout the movie.
 
eh hard to tell since somebody actually did bring the warren miller has nothing to do with WME response before you posted that. so for all i know you didn't read the thread just like that person didn't since you didn't seem to have read the responses.
 
Not really. He was referring to WME in another context, but not bringing this popular line "W.M. has nothing to do with WME". You don't spend enough time on NS if you don't know this phrase ^^
 
Warren Miller is the most influential living skier in North America. end of story. He is and always will be the man.
 
Puff puff pass brotha, set down that bong for a couple days and get back in to reality.

if your afraid of inovation and progression go join an omish cult
 
i'm on ns all the time. of course i know that phrase. honestly you sound like you're the one who isn't quite sure what you're talking about.
the phrase you said is about how WME sued Level 1 because people commonly mistake WME for Warren Miller, not realizing that Miller was on Level 1's side. and I know that you know that, I'm just explaining it for the sake of my point.
when the person in the previous post said they hoped the OP meant WME, I think it's safe to assume that they were expecting the OP to be talking about the Level 1/WME fiasco. that's how it came off at least.
same context.
 
dude, im pretty sure he meant it as a joke. kind of ridiculing how everyone thinks the double corks are the way to go.
 
I'de like to say obvious troll is obvious. If so well played because you got everyone and I got a giggle out of it.

However, if you are being serious you are a nutjob because warren miller is da boss.
 
ugh. alright, keep acting like you were literally talking about those exact words and not the general "warren miller isn't WME" reply. a more mature NSer would say "didn't realize somebody had, in fact, posted that already." there's really not much of a difference between your "special line" and what that other person already said. both tell the OP that warren miller is not affiliated with WME.
 
See, that's why I earlier said: obviously, you haven't come across this standard "W.M. ..... WME"-line very often in here. I have. That's why I said it. I've seen the other reference to WME but still figured that I could make a joke out of the fact that in this thread - unlike every other WM-thread, the "obvious" hasn't been clearly said. So chill and don't start an essay about maturity. Thanks. Don't mention it. ;)
 
I have, I usually read any thread about the WME controversy. I don't understand what is making it seem like I haven't seen that. And that hasn't been said because many probably read this thread and knew it was about something else.
Also, either you would say thanks and I would say don't mention it, or I would thank you (although I don't know what for) and you would say don't mention it. Doesn't make sense for you to say both ;)
 
Ok, so if you have, then you'll have noticed that there were at least 10 guys quoting the obvious. And I was simply joking about the fact that no one has done it yet. Like a 2 page French skier thread without the word "gay". ^^

My god, am I (Swiss) actually talking to a native English here? ^^

I said "Thank you" and "Don't mention it" both in terms of "Yeah, don't even bother to disagree again and just go along with it by saying "Don't mention it"." Idk if this is rhetorically genius but at least put some effort in understanding other people's comments, will you? ;)
 
in english we use 'don't mention it' to mean 'you're welcome.' so you basically said, thanks. you're welcome. maybe that's how you meant it, and if so then alright.
i know you're not a native english speaker, i was just letting you know that it sounded a little confusing.
 
Haha, I should have known that almost no one would recognize a causerie even if it slapped them in the face.

I'm kinda disappointed that a guy who works for The Ski Journal didn't get it, I hope it doesn't speak volumes of the magazine's quality.
 
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