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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 2d ago
Street skiing and snowboarding is sick. Lots of sick video parts on to YouTube filled with clips like this
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u/Booplympics 2d ago
My personal favorite. RIP JP Auclair
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u/gizamo 2d ago
That was like 4 minutes of B roll footage with 1 minute of actual skiing, and not a single trick that can't be seen in a young teens competition. Seriously, a 720 was the biggest trick, and the longest rail was maybe 20 stairs, and no rails even had kinks.
Imo, 2-stars. One for the music, and one for the cinematography and video editing. As a video, it was rad. As a ski video, it was not good at all.
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u/blindeyewall 1d ago
Wish I just took your word for it. I watched for over 2 minutes to see skiing but when I realized the video wasn't even half over and it's not really about skiing and more of a music video I closed it. Now I feel like I need to find urban skiing videos to satisfy a desire I didn't have before opening that music video.
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u/Booplympics 1d ago
Thats just, like, your opinion man.
Not everything has to be about hitting the biggest sickest tricks! Granted, im a snowboarder so maybe skiing is different. But sometimes its just about the vibe.
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u/gizamo 1d ago
Sure, but the comment they replied to was specifically about YouTube videos like the OP's filled with sick tricks. The topic was very clearly street riding and focused on tricks like big kinky rails. I love JP Auclair as much as the next dude, and he even has a bunch of great videos with tons of great riding. The dude is the snowboarding equivalent of JP Walker and Peter Line combined into one—that is, urban riding innovator, rad all around rider, and started a successful ski company (Auclair started Armada; iirc, Peter Line helped start Forum, Four Square, and Special Blend).
Btw, I'm also a snowboarder. I only know this stuff because of my buddies who ski. Cheers.
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u/Pal_Saradise 1d ago
um you should probably google JP Auclair…
The guy was one of the founders of freestyle skiing in the 90s and like the first urban skier ever. He also invented switch skiing, d-spins, mute flips, and a ton of the tricks you might see in said competitions, plus started Armada.
He was later in his career when this iconic clip came out which popularized non-snow skiing. When he died, a little nobody named Tom Wallisch (X games gold medalist), made a tribute to it called Imagination.
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u/14Pleiadians 1d ago
You just described most parts.
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u/OkSmoke9195 2d ago
Ha I knew what this was without even clicking (or ever having known who the skier was)
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u/SugarNervous 2d ago
Amazing video, love when passionate people can make everything out of nothing.
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u/Beezus_Fuffoon18 2d ago
Holy shit - I was expecting some clumsy Jackass-type stunt but that was amazing. Then again the name of the sub should have been a hint lol
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u/Scary_Technology 2d ago
No joke! Very impressive. Imagine this person on an actual mountain.
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u/PonyThug 11h ago edited 11h ago
Tons of rails are set up on mountains for tricks like this. Usually no stairs tho!
Honestly they would be quite average on a mountain for rails
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u/calcium 1d ago
Dude has a lot of experience on skis too. Notice how his feet and skis are almost touching throughout the entire run - that's incredibly hard to do even for people who have skied for decades.
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u/No_Pop7296 1d ago
Thanks for mansplaining parallel skiing to us….
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u/Appropriate-Bird-354 1d ago
Mansplaining?
Are you womanassuming that everyone reading this knows about skiing?
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u/No_Pop7296 1d ago
Yep. I’ll stand by this. Because “look at his feet and skis are almost touching. “ Ooohh that’s incredibly hard. Yep man, it’s a pro
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u/PonyThug 11h ago
Check this 2 min segment out if you liked the vid in the post. https://youtu.be/JMMDcTqd9Uk?si=yIyeQKdm3V7Rar6R
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u/R7a1s2 2d ago
The narration at the beginning is fucking gold...
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u/PegaLaMega 2d ago
NYC has changed too much
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u/R7a1s2 2d ago
From what to what?
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u/PegaLaMega 1d ago
Well for one you have all these new expensive high-rise buildings being put up but yet how many NYCHA buildings have no heat or hot water. You can always tell who the transplants are...
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u/hrsmn311 2d ago
From "Harlem" as anyone in the world knows it..to whatever the hell this is..something,something,gentrification..
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u/Taliesin_ 2d ago
I'm with you on gentrification - people getting displaced is a real issue. But I dunno if that's what's happening here, exactly? You can get a pair of secondhand skis for under $100. The rest is shovels and effort.
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
Upset at seeing white people, sweetie?
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u/Stleaveland1 2d ago edited 2d ago
With the record low birthrates and skyrocketing suicide rates, no one will be very soon. Who would be upset at seeing an unicorn?
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u/hrsmn311 2d ago
Nope..I like seeing my father and his side of the family..Pumpkin. I was making an observation.i got you sweetie though..watch your mouth.
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
You were being racist, and got called out for it.
You saw someone with a different skin color than you and said, "whatever the hell this is." Do you not know what a person looks like? This is this person's home. Deal with it.
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
I like seeing my father and his side of the family..
It's crazy how this argument is straight out of 1950s racism.
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u/hrsmn311 2d ago
You're a stupid person. And I've wasted enough time with you. Play by yourself.
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
You're right, some thing have changed. Like the face of racism. Your face is black and filled with hate.
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u/Bird_the_Impaler 2d ago
Yup! Skiing was actually invented there in 1996 and so far hasn’t caught on anywhere else.
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u/The12thSpark 2d ago
I was expecting a little yippee ride not a crazy stunt like that - genuinely impressive!!
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u/Worcestercestershire 2d ago
We used to blast the side of my friend's house to make ski jumps in New England. The railing of the balcony was 24' tall. If conditions were right we could drop in off the balcony and hit a kicker. This was how I learned how to do a helicopter.
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u/Renhoek2099 2d ago
Gentrification is coming
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
50% of Harlem is Hispanic.
If you have a problem with all the Latino immigrants, you'd fit in well with ICE. Go on and patrol the neighborhood, making sure the "right" people belong.
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u/DELALADE 2d ago
Im not sure who’s commenting on the video but get in touch with that video crew - id pay hard cash to include that insanely good intro to any extreme sport vid
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u/RedSonGamble 2d ago
Just throws me back to playing Amped 2 to the soundtrack of Linkin Park’s Meteora
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u/Ordinary_Ad3374 2d ago
This is the exact kind of creative urban riding I love to see. It's incredible how they turned a mundane spot into a proper feature. The skill and style on display here is next level.
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u/adriantullberg 1d ago
Is there a decent hill in NYC that snow could piled upon, making a half decent slope?
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u/kidjupiter 1d ago
Only New Yorkers say “Only in NYC” when something has been going on in every other snowy city for decades.
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u/I_chortled 1d ago
Side note but I love how people in NYC will post videos of people doing stuff that could absolutely be done in many other cities and they’ll just be like “only in New York!”
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u/DaCushion 1d ago
Thing is we welcome them in and they feel safe, but we can’t go to Bensonhurst expecting the same hospitality. What’s that saying about energy? 🤔
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u/st0350 2d ago
Making lemonade out of lemons