Sick of the mountains
When you grow up skiing all your life in Denver, as many natives have, you get your fill of the local resorts. Sure, they’re awesome, by far the best skiing in the United States but what do you do when you have been to Breckenridge and Aspen hundreds of times or seen what all the buzz is about Vail more times than you can count? Well some of the more adventurous skiers turn to what is known as urban skiing. We have to warn you that it’s not for the faint of heart but if you’re brave enough, it’s pretty freaking awesome.
Skiing in the city
Urban skiing is hitting the streets of your local neighborhood, or anybody’s neighborhood, with your skis. The growing popularity of this activity could be thanks in large part to YouTube. Do a search there and you will find hours of awesome urban skiing videos. There are several different mountains that have built rails or other elements to try your tricks on but it’s just not the same as what you can find in urban skiing. Urban skiing offers skiers the chance to go down rails, stairs, downhill streets, medians or absolutely anything that they think they can clear. Normally the more extreme the skiing looks in a video, the better the chance of the video going viral are. Skiers also make these urban skiing videos and photo shoots in an attempt to get published in professional skiing publications. The criteria for professional publications and YouTube videos are the same; if it looks too easy, nobody will want to watch it.
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The Sports Archives – Women Do Have A Place In Sports Broadcasting!
A Man’s World
Little wonder than women have found it so hard to break through both in football and football journalism. This is a world which is dominated by men and many of them clearly still believe that the females of the species are incapable of understanding 22 men kicking a ball around a bit of grass. Just look at the comments of Andy Gray and Richard Keys in that infamous commentary when they were criticising female referee’s assistant Sian Massey. They had thought that their microphones were switched off but that doesn’t excuse the sentiment.
The joke that women cannot understand the offside rule is a rather old one but clearly hasn’t had its day. As it turned out Massey’s decision had been right and the two broadcasters were fired but you have to know there are plenty of men in the business who think the same way.
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