For years, Ahmet Dadali has been one of the best street skiers in the game.
Hes logged banger segments and been a steady presence in the high consequence and injury prone sport.
In the 2015-2016 winter Ahmet competed in the first ever X Games Real Street video competition.
For the second year of Real Ski, Ahmet has returned, but this time as a judge.
Ahmet and fellow skier Vincent Gagnier, rounded out a judging panel of ski industry insiders.
Onlookers, may see his involvement in judging a contest as somewhat hypocritical, or out of place.
He explained, however, why Real Ski makes sense to him.
How long have we been doing competitions that mimic the streets?
he asked hypothetically, Now were taking it to the actual streets, and putting medals to it.
Now you have the real street skiers doing it instead of a bunch of comp skiers.
Ahmet explained that this helped them not get kicked out of spots.
Where a slopestyle course gives every skier the same setting, the streets give them endless possibilities.
There were a few of them that were really top notch in that way.
Its apples and oranges.
To me its about the superior progression, and what street skiing [is about].
Its so hard to compare them, thats where it gets difficult judging.
I think we did a good job.
The consensus was relatively solid, way more solid than I thought it would be.
This is just one way to look at street skiing, through the lens of one of its greats.
