Why is it called "Chads gap"?

[balzach]

is there a logical answer or is it just some name someone came up with?

**This thread was edited on Jul 21st 2014 at 8:40:16am

 

[SlurmsMckenzie]

bcuz Chad Meeks was the first skier to huck it

 

[balzach]

bcuz Chad Meeks was the first skier to huck it

ahh okay. i thought it would be something like that

 

[RubberSoul]

because chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this
http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards

 

[smuggs]

chad z and the lcc boys literally were 100x more badass that pussy pros these days.

 

[RubberSoul]

because chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this
http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards

i'm at work so can't look any more right now but at 8:31 in that video chad hits it and comes up short. def a shot of him landing it in the movies that video is synthesized from along with a bunch of other clips of him being a straight badass

 

[balzach]

damn those guys go way bigger than most people today! they gotta being back going high and far. shits insane!

 

[snomaster]

are you sure that wasn't candide at 8:31? who was the guy at 8:07 that went inverted and got crushed at the base of the wall?

 

[RubberSoul]

are you sure that wasn't candide at 8:31? who was the guy at 8:07 that went inverted and got crushed at the base of the wall?

no i'm not positive but i'm relatively confident that's chad. same with 11:53, i thiiiink that's chad clearing it. i think in '99 (year that candide first cleared it. did d7 in 2000)

but yeah don't bet your life on that. in clay pigeons (ostness movie from 99 that some of these clips are from), both chad and candide wear outerwear that looks sorta like that (at least in grainy black and white!) so it's tough to tell sometimes

 

[whackhouse]

because chad zurinskas was the first dude to conceive of it and try it. he fell a few times and candide showed up and cleared it. chad totally got it at some point though... that day? idk

for more context watch this
http://vimeo.com/15907608

and google and search this site. or ask me questions cause i have a boner for chad's gap and know way more than these^^ retards

So rad

 

[ESB]

Chad Zurinskas. He conceived it but couldn't clear it. Candide was a quiet 16-year-old kid who politely asked if he could try, and cleared it after a few tries.

 

[alev]

chad muska hit it first then got sponsored by circa and boom the rest is history

 

[suup]

Buy candide thovex's new movie and find out chumps

 

[Skibumsmith]

Fuck yeah, The Bolero Project is sweeeet. They were going fucking huge in the early 2000s.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

Chad Zurinskas. He conceived it but couldn't clear it. Candide was a quiet 16-year-old kid who politely asked if he could try, and cleared it after a few tries.

Man, those shots of him hitting the other wall like 4 times in a row were insane.

 

[Splice.]

ski patrol blew it up

 

[balzach]

ski patrol blew it up

those fuckers

 

[ZachAndCheese]

ski patrol blew it up

It's actually named after Chad of ski patrol, he was the first to blow up the gap and has done so every year since

 

[edai]

One of those threes off that huge ass cliff was disturbingly big, i thought the dude was gonna explode when he hit the snow

 

[soulskier]

Named after the first guy to find it, Chad

According to Wikipedia his last name is Zurinskas