Defenders of Possum
By Jon Hartley3 CommentsThe web edit’s short form has nearly killed the “crash segment.” But Ryan Hackbarth and Whiteroom to the rescue.
The web edit’s short form has nearly killed the “crash segment.” But Ryan Hackbarth and Whiteroom to the rescue.
Attention all ye who have been looking for a stand-alone ski stand. We all know ski racks are played and we’ve all been desperately looking for a new solution to display our sick boards and rad sticker jobs in the wide open for the beater public to adore. Thankfully, teaching a season program of 6 year olds gives you plenty of time to get creativity on the hill and around the base area. So here it is: the Ski Kickstand (patent pending, Ryan Dunfee Inc.)
1) Find a small incline right outside the prime traffic area of your local base lodge. (Head the warning that doing this at Killington will get your shit stole)
2) Put your skis together, preferably so the brakes are supporting each other.
3) Put your ski poles together at a considerable angle (see photo) and lean them against your skis around the heel piece or wherever the center of gravity happens to be. The points will need to be at a little bit of an angle to provide lateral stability.
4) Let ‘em stand, and voila! Your rad dad rides are on full display.
You’re welcome.
“Ooooooooh I’m so sick of these!” Shut up, there’s room for one more.
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Nothing like an 18th-century political cartoon as a metaphor for the current drama on the ski internet.
Last week we posted a self-congratulatory item when we discovered that one of the chief authors of the ESPN Freeskiing blog, the curiously anonymous ESPN Freeskiing (Megan Michelson?), posted a web story doling out awards to their favorite freeski websites. Newschoolers, one of freeskiing’s two most robust online communities (along with the TGR forums for bitter crusty old dudes), was not mentioned for its strength of content or community, but rather was awarded a measly second place for “Best Humor Site” behind yours truly, BroBomb.com.
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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.
A few facts about the latest GPSYfeeling edit:
1) Given the lack of Francophonic talents on the BroBomb staff, we didn’t understand a word that was said. Thank god those Brits were there at the end to tell us it was Valentine’s Day.
2) This was filmed on Valentine’s Day, which we can only assume is the first day it hasn’t snowed in Europe all winter.
3) The Tignes park looks pretty flippin’ rad.
4) Thoughts?
Grab your hat, your cat, and a loved one. Time to reinvent the laws of momentum with Jeff Kiesel and Jack Borland. Of the Yoke Collection, that is.
Walk mode is BACK! Photos: NS
JP Auclair and the Sherpas inspire the first round of kids to actually ski down the street like we all dream of.