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1975 footage of first Quadruple Backflip on record

post #1 of 14
5/22/12 at 8:53am
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Can our retro geeks name the gear?  popcorn.gif

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post #2 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:10am

His ski pants were Obermeyer!

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post #3 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:25am
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BTW, I want those ski pants

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post #4 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:33am

"Steve was presented with an award from Labatt's Brewing Plant" Skiers are easy...just give us a beer and we're all good. beercheer.gif

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post #5 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:38am
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Originally Posted by SkiNurse View Post

"Steve was presented with an award from Labatt's Brewing Plant" Skiers are easy...just give us a beer and we're all good. beercheer.gif

And according to the PBR crew, it doesn't even have to be good beer!beercheer.gif

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post #6 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:42am

that is unbelievably cool - great find! I stumbled across the link on Twitter and just blissfully spent 5 minutes with my jaw on my desk haha. 

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post #7 of 14
5/22/12 at 10:44am
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Dan I bet you could do it!

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post #8 of 14
5/24/12 at 9:54am

Damn impressive. Camerman clearly not used to such height and distance on a jump, he barely keeps him in frame.

I'd love to see this in a good print transfer.

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post #9 of 14
5/24/12 at 11:10am
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Damn impressive. Camerman clearly not used to such height and distance on a jump, he barely keeps him in frame.

I'd love to see this in a good print transfer.

Me too Tog, but its pretty darn cool that they dug this footage out, eh?

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post #10 of 14
5/24/12 at 11:16am

Could be O'neill neoprene ski pants (blue ones at about :56).  Sideburns at 1:14

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post #11 of 14
5/24/12 at 11:39am

Here's what it looks like with three twists.. IMO the pinnacle of old school freestyle skiing was 1982-83 ish.  After this the aerialists were more and more gymnasts that didn't actually ski other events or ski at all.  Slopestyle and big air seems to be headed back in the right direction though.  They just need to add bumps to X-Games and it will be the steez again. 

 

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post #12 of 14
5/24/12 at 3:51pm

I thought i saw some Nordica banana boots in the vid. I use to sell them in the early 70's. And Steve may have been wearing Jet Sticks as the back of his boots seem to go very high up the calf.

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post #13 of 14
5/24/12 at 5:35pm

I watched it once and then when I went back and tried to play it again later it said: "This video is private."

 

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post #14 of 14
5/24/12 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by gregmerz View Post

Could be O'neill neoprene ski pants (blue ones at about :56).  Sideburns at 1:14


Dude's got some awesome choppers LOL!

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