Why do some skiers act "gangsta" or "ghetto"?

i wear baggy clothing cuz it hides movement.. if your shits tight than you can see every little movement in your legs and arms and it makes your style wack as fuck..
 
I think its gone to far anyone who doesn't ski and watches a video with henrik harlaut not skiing but talking must think our sport is a complete joke, i mean didn't the kid grow up making champagne with his parents, thats not thug at all.
 
When people go to the mountain its a time to have fun. Sure, in real life your not a gangsta, but when you go to the mountain why can't you be? Why not have a little bit of fun and dress up like a gangsta? Personally originally I just wanted to look different from every other mom dad and family at the mountain. By rocking tall-t's, jerseys, and ridiculous colors I stood out from the crowd. It just matched the type of skiing I was pursueing. I'm not saying I was the best at the mountain, I was far from it. But compared to 95% of the mountain I was doing something (as a skier) that was completely different from most. It became a community thing were I would know who is a 'freeskier' by their twin tips. But then everyone got twin tips so in order to form a community where people could recognize other, a gangsta trend developed. Ofcourse music was also a huge influence. But know rappers and a lot of black people want to have that ed hardy rock star look.

Its funny cause know when I go to the hill I look like everyone else in the park.
 
whats not to like about being gansta or ghetto. The lifestyle is demostrated by this thuggin video

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com
 
too lazy to read everyones post but just my two cents. not everyone is trying to act "black" or whatever you wanna call it. some of us like the feeling of super loose clothes and tees that are 5 sizes too big. if you go watch a ski video, would you rather watch it of someone with clothes that fit them and has some oldschool tunes, or a video where someone wheres tall tees to there knees and slays like a mofo while having some dope hip-hop tunes playin?

to wrap it up, "gangsta" or "ghetto" looks a lot smoother than normal sized clothing.
 
i think Mickael Deschnaux (mike D) or how ever his name is spelled, was the first to ride like a thug.

he had the afterbang down a couple of years before everyone else, and rode with tall tees and listen to french rap.
 
to seriously answer you question i would say because kids from the suburbs wanna be like black people and the ski hill is the perfect place to dress/act gangster cause there is almost no risk of getting your ass kicked for it
every little white boy likes to wear a tall tee and be a thug every once in a while (including me) so why not do it at the ski hill? simple as that
 
baggier clothes are more comfortable. out of school, tv, ps2/3, WII, and music, music is the number one thing our ears hear in a time table breakdown. and if rap is the most favored music on this site, which i bet it is, why wouldn't we talk and act more ghetto, like rappers do? nigga!
 
yeah..i have pretty much had my question answered, and my karma has been lowered a little too much for my liking...and i have been shamed
 
Tall tees keep snow out, so that is function kinda unless you went oldschool bib pants that do a better job of it. Baggy clothes in comps hide a lot of sin, so that is function.... The talk, got no answer for ya.
 
Unfortunately it already has..it really makes me feel welcome to newschoolers...all i did was ask where this trend came from
 
every body know music influences style everybody(almost) listens to rap while they ski and rappers wear big close so we do to
 
People who wear ridiculous ghetto shit is bad, i think the perfect medium is will wesson and andy parry they manage to look cool and different but not ridiculously ghetto
 
Not to be an elitist fuck, but i feel this shit looks absolutely heinous. Mainly the girl on the right, but seriously, the retard is strong in this one. No wonder the rest of skiing doesnt take us seriously.

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man i duno all i can tell u is its just a look and some of us like that look
i like to think of myself as a skiing schizophrenic not that i have schizophrenia
but i have 2 getups baggy as all f**kand tall/skinny
i love my getupsbut i always rock something tall and i love being a wigga haha
 
wearing clothes that is to big isnt gangster at all, we just have somthing in common with gangsters. and anything else but big oversized clothes on a skier looks soooo fucking gay and when i see it, it just makes me wanna snowboard.
 
this thread has really lost it's direction.
we know why people do it now. but when and why did they start doing it?
 
Because:

Like you said, there are no black people on the slopes, and since there are no black people, the white skiers have assumed the position of "The people to be scared off when walking the park" (no pun intended)

And just to be more scary, we wear longer and baggier clothing so we skinny white boys look bigger and badass cause realistically We are still just Rich skinny white boys that are scared of the true black people who wear similar cloths but actually stab you will a 'pole' rather than talk smack about doing it.

Its the only place Blacks dont go, its the only place us white boys have control, its our Hood!

 
She is not a "skier" she's a rollerblader who slides on 141 skis past features in the park.
 
I don't think i act ghetto or gansta, but I definitely listen to hip hop (atmosphere, murs, living legends). I also don't wear tall t-s but I do wear my outerwear pretty baggy and the reasoning for that is cause i'm 5'7 and only 110lbs and I hate looking like a skinny twig on skis. It looks so awkward.
I think some people just really get into the style though. I don't blame them except when people where massive tall ts. I feel so much better going off jumps listening to hip hop and moving with the music than I do listening to Muse. So maybe people are just doing that to an extreme and end up acting gangsta too.
 
Mary, you're way cooler than me. Maybe Gangsta Golf is the next big thing and Tiger will show up at the Masters wearing baggie pants, a Tall-T, a hoodie, A flat bill and a bandana. The whole fashion part of freeride cracks me up. On a pow day, you could put me in a pink one piece and I'm going to have fun.

Last year I didn't have to coach one day and it was a sick powder day. All I had was my uniform which I wasn't allowed to free ski in. I borrowed a coat and pants from a buddy who out weighs me by about 50 LBs. The shit was way baggy on me, and it was probably the only time in my life that I looked like I had any sense of fashion on the hill. There was a girl that we were skiing with. We were riding up the chair lift and I made a joke about being able to fit two of me in the pants I borrowed. She said that I could get into her pants any time I wanted. I kinda laughed thinking she was joking, but then she gave me this look and said "Seriously". I told her my wife probably wouldn't think that was cool.

Anyway, I guess chics dig the thug look.
 
if yo havent notice baggy clothes makes you look like you have more style.

skier with tight pants and shit dont look as clean. i guess baggy clothes hide the flaws
 
read my signature. i wear a tall tee because sometimes i pop my collar and cause jamal smith is fuckin awesome.
 
my question is. what the fuck does baggy, gangster, etc, HAVE TO DO WITH BEING BLACK?

that is all
 
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