Comments on: Know Your Roots

By: barberdude

barberdude — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:55:54 +0000

^ I remember back in the day ducking ropes to ski in snowboard only terrain parks at Brodie Mtn and just trying to clear jumps or air out of a half pipe. Those days had a certain energy that we shouldn’t forget.

By: MtothePang-burn

MtothePang-burn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:44:05 +0000

Haha reminds me of Windham night skiing and how we used to think we were badassess in the park even though I was rocking Elan Predators. I forgot about the candadian air force, saw them at Mt. Tremblant like five years ago. Going back like that caught me up in the moment, I need to ride some mountain.

By: drew hanks

drew hanks — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:35:14 +0000

wes cumberland!

By: mike nick

mike nick — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:31:37 +0000

ironic story for you… a few weeks ago i was picking my son up at after-school (he’s 5 now) and a counselor of his was wearing a line hoodie. naturally we ended up talking. i told him i grew up with the guy who started line skis, etc.

then he said “mike nick?” as if i was the guy who started line.

i corrected him and said that it was j lev’s company and i was mike, just an ex athlete… not the founder, blah blah … he was a bit taken back.

then i hooked him up with an orage pro deal card and off i went.

pretty cool to think that almost ten years later, kids who are now in college still remember some of the OG’s. or maybe i just don’t give the OG’s enough credit. when we were in the middle of it, it all just seemed to be something we did for the moment. cool to know its had a longer lasting impact.

anyway, enjoy the history lesson. i’m stoked for a Brobomb refresher course. now if only i could throw down the way i could back in the day i’d be really stoked.

see you on the hill

By: Barberdude

Barberdude — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:53:19 +0000

^ Rich did that issue also tell you how to do a 360, Polish Bagel, Ride a Halfpipe, and Ski Fakie??? I’m pretty sure I’m staring at that exact issue of skiing titled “The New School Issue”.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:48:04 +0000

Hell yes so stoked i found this website when i found the Goblin Interview. I remember the beginning of the “newschool” revolution. I remember Skiing magazine did like a whole issue on it and the New Canadian Air Force i couldn’t have been more then 9 or 10…got myself a pair of 1080 and studied that issue like a bible. it taught me how to do mute grabs and i remember the first time i did it i was so stoked. I’ve also got a picture of Jonny Moseley doing that 360 mute in Nagano signed by him and it says Rich catch big PHAT air. Ha ha the good old beginning of newschool skiing!

By: barberdude

barberdude — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:55:37 +0000

In the end it might only attract an older crowd, but I think there is some serious potential considering not one form of ski media talks about the past at all anymore.

I wish the damn kids would turn there rap music down!

By: brooke

brooke — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:06:25 +0000

As I’ve gone from being a kid who didn’t give a shit about the past, to an old person who thinks kids should care more than they do over the past decade, I can assure you only fellow old people will appreciate this. But who cares. I wish the damn kids would get off my lawn.