No doubt these are desendents from the orginal Dogtown and Z-Boys club kids. Long steep slopes in dangerous terrain where a single mistake at the wrong moment can mean death would rightly be classed as extreme skiing! Jumping out of Helicopters is extreme skiing. But this is a different breed of extreme skier. This is a combination of BMX biker and Urban Skateboarder extreme skier/boarder.
Every generation has its share of adventurers and envelope pushers. But this is beyond triple black diamond and out-of-bounds thrill seeker skiing. My friends, even King Leonidas and his mighty 300 Spartans would say...This is Madness!!!!!! And it's that very madness that makes this so damn inspirational to this old geezer.
I salute the younger generation of XXX-Extreme Skiers for doing what I never even dreamed was possible. Watching you guys gets my old heart a pumping and a thumping again.
Congratulations to a new breed of ski film producers. After 60 years old king Warren Miller is finally getting competition.
A salute to the orginal school now old school Frank Bare. Frank Bare made a mad man jump back in 1983 that proved he was the 80's Freestyle King. This jump sparked a new generation of freestyle skiing that moved on to a new frontier of out-of-bounds skiing and mindboggling urban style skateboarder rail runs. In the 80's Frank Bare was the king of freestyle ski jumps. But frank was no young blood dare devil, he had been a top gymnast for years.
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