Competitions have become almost unachievable and unrelatable to the masses, isolating them from the core of skiing.
This leaves us searching for alternatives.
Competitions have been a controversial and polarizing since the birth of the sport.
On one hand, the very concept of a ‘freeskiing’ competition can be seen as contradictory.
On the other hand, it’s natural to want see how you stack up against your peers.
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No one is going to email you back, that’s the thing.
It’s a big bureaucracy, they don’t get it, I get it.
Just emphasizing the freestyleness, the looseness, and calling out tricks.
$20 for this trick, $40 for that.
It’s just not something you see in skiing right now.
I want to scale this, I want to bring it to like 10 resorts a season.
The idea is, in a joking way, to create a ranking system like FIS or USSA.
I want to make fun of it.
“I just need help.”
I just need help.
This can change a lot of things in skiing.
A series of events like that one changed the course of my life.
But here I am, I’m doing it.
They may pursue skiing and go to college out West when they wouldn’t have.
The kids are going to go to college, and they’re going to stop skiing.
That’s not going to keep people skiing.
By college, how many people are still doing that.
Well this is an alternative right here.
Everyone else [other pros] are just doing their own thing.
It’s great, but it’s not necessarily giving back.
Giving back isn’t going to hurt anyone.
