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The best all-mountain skiier ever? (since plastic boots!)
Vallencant? Schmidt? Coombs? Ian Mac? Fransson?
I'm going with Baud just because of his turn
Who do you think? And why?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I am the best skier on the mountain 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Very difficult.
+1 for Baud, but when you look at some of the current skiers, e.g. fransson, they're really pushing the envelope.
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If you're looking particularly at popularising stuff, Plake, Schmidt and Hattrup have to be up there.
Heck, they have to be up there on any criteria.
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I'm the best skier on the mountain 
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Well... that's a toughie but look no forther than our very own forum because there is this
| Chamcham wrote: |
I consider myself to be the best skier on this forum, in fact on any forum, by far. Until recently, my claim to fame was skiing switch from Everest's summit, but only a few weeks ago, I managed to hitch a lift on a North Korean rocket, and skied the back side of Mars. The powder was awesome, with no snowploughers in sight.
If anyone wants advice on skiing elsewhere in the solar system, just ask. I'll be happy to share my expert advice. |
And then there's this
| northernsoulboy wrote: |
| Planets? I did a season in MACS0647-JD. Bloody Ryanair sent my kit to IC 1101, but luckily there was an Intersport there. I didn't get the skis I paid for, but that's a different story. |
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Thovex.
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Anyone on the Rossi S Series.
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+1 for Baud, he's one of the few of that amazing generation that survived.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| CH2O wrote: |
| Anyone on the Rossi S Series. |
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Dot., I can't believe you're a pro! I am SO much better than you!!
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You know it makes sense.
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Hans Kammerlander or Jean-Marc Boivin.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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oh yeah... and me.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Touchguru, trust me, that's not too difficult.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The guy from London who was in the Pacific bar in Val D'Isere last year......Judging by the way he was banging on about his powder skiing capability.
So my vote is him.
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davidhammy, yeah, defo him.
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Eddie the eagle cos he can dive too
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Alberto Tomba too
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Candide. No question.
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Actual all-mountain maybe someone consistent like Aurelien Ducroz at the moment or Coombes in the day, McConkey gets a vote for general awesomeness, Glen Plake for old school, Rhalves for the Freeride/race mix and Richard Permin at the moment
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Hermann Maier. If he could ski like he did on glorified ice, imagine what he could have done on powder.
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Nickski, well you may say that but there was an interesting vid of a DHer running a freeride line, while very impressive, it clearly wasn't his pitch of choice.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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under a new name, Defago on the face they use for the Verbier FWT stop.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Defago was on his DH race skis IIRC, so he wasn't exactly making it easy for himself
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Jef Wickes
Discussion over, next topic please
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Of their generation, when I stared skiing it was Sudain & Vallencant. I met Vallencant at a screening of one of his films, very humble guy with immense talent.
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Poster: A snowHead
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tbh - it's prob some geezer you never heard of who did the Eiger on wooden skis and in leather boots before global warming made an impact. Let's face it, what you are really doing is comparing video in the modern age. Take away the support, the kit and the helicopter and most of those lightweights wouldn't rate at all. Ol' skool - it was always one of the mountian guides who those in the know rated since they had to climb the route from the bottom prior to skiing it in tres dodgy kit that weighed a ton. Respect. We will not see their like again - more's the pity - and I for one shall be raising a glass to them soon.
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under a new name, cuts both ways. Take one of the film 'powder gods' and stick them on DH skis and tell them to scream down glorified ice at max speed. I bet they would look comparatively worse. Also with a lot of the film/powder guys these days it's what they do in the air, not on the snow
And Jeremy Nobis certainly made the transition from DH to film/powder god. In fact he upped the ante considerably for gunning couloirs.
That little American racer guy who I also did a Matchstick trip and didn't look to bad.
The off-piste stuff, especially with the equipment now on offer some times seems to me to distract from the talent and technique the racers have. True to some extent for both pro and amateur. You see guys skiing on glorified snowboards and think it must be close to turning off-piste into piste, just without boundaries.
Jon Olson was one guy who could cross over, film/powder/tricks/race. So as an all-mountain, who could do it all and wasn't a specialist, Jon Olson.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nickski, loads of the freeride guys come from race backgrounds.
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e.g Shane McConkey!
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Giorgio Rocca is the best turner of a modern ski I have ever seen, but Alain Baxter and Phil Smith from UK come close
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Franz Klammer (me)
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This thread is really an excuse to just kinda list a lot of good skiers isn't it?
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| This thread is really an excuse to just kinda list a lot of good skiers isn't it? |
On the contrary, it is an excuse to argue about what the hell "all mountain" means anyway. Clearly anyone who hasn't at the very least bashed gates, ground rails and thrown a corked 720 off some alaskan spines couldn't possibly be listed here, right?
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| Nickski wrote: |
| The off-piste stuff, especially with the equipment now on offer some times seems to me to distract from the talent and technique the racers have. True to some extent for both pro and amateur. You see guys skiing on glorified snowboards and think it must be close to turning off-piste into piste, just without boundaries. |
Did you resist those newfangled parabolic skis too when they came out?
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This.
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