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  1. 03-04-2013, 12:48 PM #1
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    The most awesome thing.

    Let me start by saying that if I had been video taping this event - I would already be a youtube millionaire. I was not video taping though, so I'm left with my only real recourse - words and MS Paint.

    Let me also state that I am regularly the guy winging off of traverses, into trees, one footing it off logs and am GENERALLY no stranger to making an ass of myself. But this was something special.



    A beautiful sunny day at the base of A-Basin, the crowds are out in force, including this dude... our hero. He's rocking a headband, a jacket that would have been most likely considered a native indian style hunting jacket, jeans and an intro package rental ski setup. Pretty typical actually.



    As I'm standing next to my 7 year old I have my full attention diverted as I see him pull every park kids favorite LOOK AT ME move, clearly over estimating the DIN setting on his rentals where he rests for all of about 2 seconds.



    I can only describe the sound as GUN SHOT - like in it's rapid fire 1, 2 cadence and the loudness as both skis simultaneously eject him.



    Like a bow that has been pulled tight and then released - the skis literally fly off his feet leaving him suspended like Wile E. Coyote with his hands seemingly unable to let go of his poles.



    To say that time dilated would be an understatement. I think everybody watching became so mentally focused that we actually warped space time and slowed the following 1/2 second into something like 4 seconds. Each second, his face took more of a prominent role in the landing position of his body. It was magnificent.



    In the last split second, time sped up again and his entire body collapsed - his hands never even coming close to aiding in breaking the fall.

    I think I felt the same thing that bystanders in Dealey Plaza might have felt after seeing JFK shot in front of them - a mixture of shock and awe. Something so horrible and yet unable to look away.

    "SWEET JESUS, DID YOU SEE THAT!?" I demanded of my son.

    "Yeah, what was he DOING?"


    ...

    "That my boy was magic."
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  2. 03-04-2013, 02:18 PM #2
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    Awesome. Pure awesome.
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  3. 03-04-2013, 02:22 PM #3
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    Ahhahahaha I'm cracking up at my desk. MS paint is gold.
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  4. 03-04-2013, 02:23 PM #4
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    If you went and bought a go pro right now you'd never again see anything that spectacular. And, we'd never have the chance to enjoy you're artistic talents again.

    Was he smoking a spliff or a Marlboro?
    ...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...

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  5. 03-04-2013, 02:27 PM #5
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    you're right. this is awesome.
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  6. 03-04-2013, 02:29 PM #6
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    So was it a failed backscratcher, or was he doing the classic ski ballet move? The pic makes it look like he was in the air, since the ground reappears on landing.

    Either way, just awesome.
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    Awesome story and drawings!
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  8. 03-04-2013, 02:34 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by warthog View Post
    So was it a failed backscratcher, or was he doing the classic ski ballet move? The pic makes it look like he was in the air, since the ground reappears on landing.

    Either way, just awesome.
    Sitting on his tips 20 feet from the lift line.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Willie View Post
    If you went and bought a go pro right now you'd never again see anything that spectacular. And, we'd never have the chance to enjoy you're artistic talents again.

    Was he smoking a spliff or a Marlboro?
    Marlboro, no question.
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  9. 03-04-2013, 02:39 PM #9
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    Actually laughing over here!

    The diagrams are better then any video could want to be.

    I heard this yesterday, it seems apt:

    "You Only YOLO Once!"
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  10. 03-04-2013, 02:54 PM #10
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    that was even better than an actual video

    really as good as it gets, even in this forum of awesome

    what did he say to his crowd of admirers?
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  11. 03-04-2013, 05:24 PM #11
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    was he ok?
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  12. 03-04-2013, 05:26 PM #12
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    oh to have been there and to have seen that
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  13. 03-04-2013, 05:28 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by flowing alpy View Post
    was he ok?
    Yeah, he got up and dusted his head band off. He didn't try it again.

    Quote Originally Posted by ate'em View Post
    what did he say to his crowd of admirers?
    The silence said it all.
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  14. 03-04-2013, 05:28 PM #14
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    Outstanding. I would like to subscribe to your animated newsletter!
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  15. 03-04-2013, 08:51 PM #15
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    Nice! Well documented sir!
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  16. 03-05-2013, 05:53 AM #16
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    your digital drawing skilz are awesome
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    i laffed. looks like a euro!
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    Thank.......you.....very......much
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  19. 03-05-2013, 08:22 AM #19
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    Outstanding reportage, Pulitzer Prize nominee right there.
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  20. 03-05-2013, 01:25 PM #20
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    That was great. You should have put "TR" in your thread title because I think it was worthy.
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  21. 03-05-2013, 02:28 PM #21
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    At a minimum a Caldacott award. Maybe get a guest animation gig with Seth McFarland. Too funny.
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