Illusion on skis

**jakeordie** · 19.02.2011, 20:14

@1:38.....probably not what you're hoping for.

**Shadows** · 19.02.2011, 20:22

just join this fuckin website and start skiing god damn
www.newschoolers.com

**gambiacrumember** · 19.02.2011, 21:06

Not really illusion, he just doesn't look. Also, skiers have the worst style and they complain about rollerblader style.

**jakeordie** · 19.02.2011, 21:21

Originally Posted by gambiacrumember

Not really illusion, he just doesn't look.

Exactly, the spin is natural but he carved right to the launch.

**macon deals** · 19.02.2011, 22:43

so he didn't execute well. it still was kind of sick. and it was only a 90. get an example of someone with style and more than half a spin... it's like a rollerblader poorly executing it as well. just because its harder doesn't make it cool for everyone to do it.

**jakeordie** · 19.02.2011, 23:14

I'm using it as an example of when a skier might do one. If it were a straight launch he wouldn't have been carving onto it, and wouldn't have been looking over his switch shoulder.

**flea** · 19.02.2011, 23:27

It's hard to believe people enjoy that crap.

**IROLLDOLO** · 19.02.2011, 23:44

Who gives a fuck about skiing? I aggressive skate.

**john doe** · 20.02.2011, 13:46

LOLZ at skiers trying to ride powder. I don't think he landed a single powder landing.

**Blade Psycho** · 20.02.2011, 14:46

Originally Posted by john doe

LOLZ at skiers trying to ride powder. I don't think he landed a single powder landing.

When you spend 6 months logging shots, you inevitably end up with a lot more footage then you can fit into a seg, and there's some solid stuff that ends up hitting the cutting room floor, extra angles, and a few ALMOST bangers that are worth checking out.

If you knew how to read, you'd know this was leftover footage.

**KalleGrabowski** · 20.02.2011, 15:16

Illusion of knees

**jakeordie** · 20.02.2011, 15:45

It's interesting how hate works. First you divide yourself from whatever you wanna hate, then you isolate any trait that's not mutual and decree yours superior and theirs inferior.

Why would anyone think not bending knees and not flailing arms is a weakness....struggling to maintain balance is more stylish?

**KalleGrabowski** · 20.02.2011, 15:52

Does not grabbing count in skiing?

**Blade Psycho** · 20.02.2011, 15:56

Originally Posted by jakeordie

Why would anyone think not bending knees and not flailing arms is a weakness....struggling to maintain balance is more stylish?

I understand where you're coming from, but I think bending the knees makes the body movements look more fluid. This is also why I think snowboarding looks cooler than skiing (except when skiers cross their skis when spinning in the air, I think that looks absolutely badass)

**IROLLDOLO** · 20.02.2011, 16:08

CULTURAL AESTHETICS.

Originally Posted by Kant

As regards the Pleasant every one is content that his judgement, which he bases upon private feeling, and by which he says of an object that it pleases him, should be limited merely to his own person. Thus he is quite contented that if he says “Canary wine is pleasant,” another man may correct his expression and remind him that he ought to say “It is pleasant to me. ” And this is the case not only as regards the taste of the tongue, the palate, and the throat, but for whatever is pleasant to any one’s eyes and ears. To one violet colour is soft and lovely, to another it is faded and dead. One man likes the tone of wind instruments, another that of strings. To strive here with the design of reproving as incorrect another man’s judgement which is different from our own, as if the judgements were logically opposed, would be folly. As regards the pleasant therefore the fundamental proposition is valid, every one has his own taste (the taste of Sense).

**jakeordie** · 20.02.2011, 16:23

I'm saying the biomechanics of the activity dictate the aesthetics. Squat landings and waiter arms may be an aesthetic way of maintaining balance on skates, but on skis the same measures are the mark of not landing right.

**IROLLDOLO** · 20.02.2011, 16:30

I'm saying that free skiing and aggressive skating are two different cultures and, more often than not, aesthetic judgements are culturally conditioned.

**jakeordie** · 20.02.2011, 16:36

Gonz has a point though, there are aesthetic forms that transcend individual cultures. I think a culture becomes greater by taking heed of this, and developing their aesthetics in accord with those of new participants.