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Remember last year when we so innocently expected Craig Coker’s “War of Rails” to have a little something to do with…well…rails?
We wouldn’t be taken in so easily this year. So we sent (and by “sent,” I mean that they attended with no help from us) the Hot Possie to be our eyewitnesses to skiing’s ongoing love affair with spinning on, around, and above rails. They have dubbed the trip “Hesher’s Holiday” and promise to produce an edit that reports their findings.
For now we are left with a pretty sweet teaser (above), and the official event edit (after the jump) as an assault on your good taste and desire to be entertained.
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Loonsters and Watervillains bury the hatchet in a cream-and-sugar-in-your-coffee edit.
One lap with Rob Heule at Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park.
Oh loooooook, Newschoolers is getting in on that super cutting edge “reality” trend. Damn, skiing is always at least two steps ahead of the culture at large.
So apparently the guys who were really pissy over being named the #2 comedy site in skiing are giving Tom Wallisch’s chauffeur, cook, butler, and assorted hypemen an “unedited and raw” show. There’s no chance that could be unintentionally, unselfawarely funny. None.
The 4bi9ers assure us that they are so “strange” and “weird” that their lives will make for an interesting watch. In fact, Steve Stepp isn’t even sure you’re ready for how krayzee they’re gonna get: “Everyone should be prepared to be weirded out. I’m not sure the public is ready to experience how weird my friends are.”
Prediction : These guys aren’t “weird” whatsoever, unless your social group doesn’t extend beyond white, upper-middle-class, post-college, skier twenty-somethings.
But, of course, I could be wrong, I mean: “Expect Dale to be Dale, Bryan to be really strange, and Black Steve to make a brief appearance.”
I stand corrected. That sounds fascinating.
I don’t know anything about Piotr, and I can’t read the language he writes in. What I do know is that he tags his videos with “freeski” and something about them has held a strange fascination with me since I discovered them a couple weeks ago (maybe it’s the hungry rabid dog look in his eyes in his profile shot).
Tree trunks are everywhere. Consider yourself warned.
The web edit’s short form has nearly killed the “crash segment.” But Ryan Hackbarth and Whiteroom to the rescue.
Remember being really pumped about this?
Us too. So we asked MOMENT VP Luke Jacobsen about it. His answer makes some sense, and makes us sad:
“No snow for urban is tough. We didn’t want to make a bunch of park edits. We hoped to have more episodes but shit happens. Another one is in the works. A week or two out I think…”
So there’s hope.
I watched about ten minutes of this year’s X-Games. In that ten minutes I noticed that not only is skiing second fiddle to Shaun White’s pants snowboarding, but we’re also behind those guys who do backflips on snowmobiles on the popularity bus.
What we need is our very own Jeremy Lin. Not a 6’3” Taiwanese-Chinese-American exactly, but that could work, too. What I’m saying is that we need a safely packaged (read: Christian) but racially unexpected hero to emerge. An evangelical-Inuit Tom Wallisch, perhaps?
On this one, I agree completely with Floyd Mayweather. Jeremy Lin is (Asian) unexpected (and Christian) and is therefore a media darling, and we need some of that magic in skiing.
So to wrap this up, if skiing is ever going to get top billing at the X-Games or waaaaaaaay more importantly, the Olympics, we’re going to need a little unlikely racial flavor. So somebody get down to Argentina, or post up at Ski Dubai, or just find the next Nicky Adams. (I don’t know Nicky’s religious affiliation, but just imagine a black-Canadian-Christian!) Nobody wants to see a white kid do more flippies than the white kid before him anymore.
Someone get this man a John 3:16 diecut
For those of you who can still stomach NS…does anybody come to mind? Is there some racially unexpected up-and-comer posting edits that are “ill” and “fresh” and “posi-vibes” and all?
So now that I’ve boosted BroBomb’s Baidu ratings. Have a nice day.
- Kastle Skis, they of the obnoxious euronunciation — “Kessley” – have produced a line of skis under the names “Colby” and “James” and “West.” As you can see in this video, they have “dual hollowtech” which keeps them “super damp” at all times. Precisely the not-so-subtle humor we’ve come to expect from skiing’s court jester. That is a joke, right?
Can somebody buy Powder Mag’s Mike Rogge a friggen hat? We get it—you have a sweet job and you’re all fun-in-the-sun all the time. But it’s not 1979 no matter how bad your magazine wishes it to be. Get a damn hat.
- Back by
absolutely nopopular demand…the Line/Amplid/Raichle boot that we will forever know as the late, great (skiboard-specific) Transfer. It will be called the Icelantic Stormtrooper this time.
Walk mode is BACK! Photos: NS
