I’m obsessed with analyzing and reflecting upon the last decade.  I can’t get enough “best of” lists, news stories, and discussions from the first decade of the new millennium. It’s been the most influential and important decade of my life, and possibly everyone else in their teens to mid-thirties. We’ve seen the true rise of the internet, cell phones, and awesome blogs.  We witnessed 9-11, a couple wars, Katrina, and the Great Recession. Music has shifted from rap rock, boy bands, and compact discs to “indie” music, autotune, and iPods. I personally graduated high school, college, and got married.  Every aspect of life seemed to progress and change at an alarmingly fast rate; skiing was no exception.

I just returned from celebrating Christmas at my parent’s house in upstate New York, and I brought my entire ski magazine collection back with me. When I got home, I spent hours skimming through piles of Freeze Magazine, every issue of Freeskier published, countless issues of Powder, and the infamous Axis Magazine. With this vast collection of skiing history at my fingertips, I plan to bring out the best and worst of the last 10 or more years of freeskiing, since no one else will.  We need to recognize, respect, and laugh at the apparent changes skiing has made over the past decade.  It’s alarming to read on NS that some kids don’t know about the New Canadian Air Force, Candide Thovex, Julien Regnier, or understand how this whole “newschool” thing started.  I get nervous that skiing will forget its roots and neglect to learn what worked or hasn’t worked from the past.  Thus, BroBomb births the new series “Know Your Roots.”

So let’s get nostalgic before we forget.

Come back for discussions about the stuff everybody seems to have forgotten, like Axis Magazine, Huntony grabs, New Canadian Air Force, Parkasourus, “13”, skiboarding, Skogen Sprang, Freeze Magazine, Julien Regnier, Siver Cartel, JF Cusson, Stereotype, David Crichton, Ski Time Magazine, Boyd Easley, SB1, Rory Will, Ask Brad, Line print ads, Nicky Adams, gorilla steeze, Mike Nick, Jonny Moseley Mad Trix, Josh Loubek, Kent Kritlier, The Three Phils, etc…

(Disclaimer: I won’t be talking about all of it, just the important crap.)