Much internet controversy arose after this edit was posted on Newschoolers late last week. The edit captures slope jock supahstar Nick Goepper jibbing one janky-ass setup in his hometown Indiana backyard. Many seemed to be confused as to how or why Goepper, who to many “core” skiers is the Park Jock Antichrist Who Has Come Hither To Destroy All Thing Core In The Name Of Contests And Olympics, put together an edit portraying his much-debated human side and authentic love for skiing. Of coure, the simple explanation is that Goepper loves to ski. But simple is boring, and we’d rather fuel some conspiracy theories with no basis in fact and see how many people take us seriously despite us telling them beforehand that they are made up and untrue.
The following rumors presented as questions are made up and untrue:
-First of all, is Nick Goepper REALLY from Indiana? We’re pretty sure he was made in a FIS-approved mold injected with Red Bull at Windells Academy, with a made-for-TV boyish face copied from an Old Masters sculpture. Red Bull then used their government contacts to create a false Indiana birth certificate, since the middle America farm boy rising up through the ranks to become a new-age Olympic ski champion is just too much for Bob Costas to not dedicate an hour special to.
-Did he even want to make this setup, or did his handlers, who we assume are the mysterious entourage of people watching him in the background of the video, build it for him and force him to ski it with a smile on his face via threats with a cattle prod in order to make him seem more down to Earth and ebb the flow of Antichrist claims?
-What will Nick Goepper do next? Post an edit of him skiing POWDER for FUN?!? Get caught hitting a bong with Michael Phelps??
-How soon will our readers knock us for using something as contrived as “Newschoolers controversy” for original content?
**BEST 180 OF 2012 CONTEST UPDATE: Lots of you sent in videos, which take a lot of time to want to watch. Also, several of you sent in the same clip of Will Berman, and will have 48 hours to find a new video. Check your e-mail. Hoping to get the next round of the contest up later in the week.
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If Nick Goepper is getting paid for this, Will Wesson should live in a mansion next to Shaun White and Ryan Seacrest! And Jon Hartman shall be his janitor.
I wonder how his parents felt about him tranny-finding the vinyl siding. Shit’s expensive.
NS’ers bitching about Nick Goepper need to put their collective dicks back in their pants: Just as Skiing has seen several distinct disciplines throughout its history, freeskiing’s meteoric rise and virtual usurpation of the overall ski industry has grown to a point to where freeskiing can have several viable sub disciplines within it. It’s whatever, there will always be a strong grassroots effort that appreciates heady steeze and these skiers will get their fare share of exposure in The Sport’s Second Decade. Nick Goepper is just 2013′s freeskiing equivalent to Chris Anthony (Of Warren Miller fame) Very talented yet lame as fuck. While a guy like Clayton Villa s this era’s Dean Cumming. In one sense, the amount of range and versatility a skier can have in carving out a successful and modestly lucrative career in one sub genre is cool for the hopes of growing the sport. On the other hand it makes me miss the salad days of 2002 where Multi “Freeskiing” Discplined skiers like CR, Candide, Tanner, Pollard could master the competitive and film side.
shit was still edited like it actually mattered, which we all know skiing does not, and nick talked to the camera like a director gave him some motivation before putting him in front of the lens.
[...] and came to the forefront of freeskiing attention in early January, with the release of Nick’s “Backyard Slopestyle” edit. Speculation at the time was that the Goepper camp was trying to curry favor towards their star [...]