10 Questions With Danny Kass
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- September 04 2008
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Danny Kass. No introduction needed. We asked him ten simple little questions; he answered them.
Are halfpipes an endangered species?
Halfpipes are not an endangered species but you do have skiers trying to take part of snowboarding’s history. I only like watching 2-3 skiers ride the pipe: Tanner and the C crew. A few years ago it was all snowboard parks and now you have a parallel competition schedule. If we don’t fight for what we started, people will take it over.
What is your biggest challenge with Grenade?
Trying to find time for my personal life, which is somewhat non-existent at this point. But, hard work is rewarding to the soul.
Who is your favorite pipe rider of all time and why?
Daniel Franck, he had the dopest skate punk style in the pipe when I was a grom. He still can spank most kids on the tour including myself. If you watch Subjekt: Haakonsen you will understand that he brought the smooth corked frontside spins to our sport.
Do you believe in God?
I believe in a lot of things. Sometimes I want to and sometimes I don’t want to, but it is nice to think that your not alone in this world. I like to learn about all religions and take parts from each to learn from.
photo: Andy Wright
What is the greatest snowboard trip you’ve done and why?
The best snowboard trip… my first real one. It was New Zealand with the old Northwave/Drake team. Kleck-gnar put me on when I was living in New Jersey, in 9th grade and I flew all the way there alone with only a voice to match up. It was all time. The posse was Kevin Jones, Mikey Leblanc, Lukas Huffman, Whitey, Brian Thein, and a few others. It was my first ever team trip and it will always be in my mind. Thank you George for giving me some street credit. I got rookied for sure. Mike beat me up for years to come.
What can the Olympics learn from events like Grenade Games?
They can learn that snowboarding is not about steroids and schedules. The best events are jam format and the funnest events are the ones put on or organized by snowboarders, NOT SKIERS.
Do you ever ‘fan-out’?
Yes, I fan out. I have met some celebs before, but I really geek on some skaters and some heavy shredders like Jamie Lynn and Kevin Jones. I went to Norway just to see Terje with Kyle Clancy a few years ago and we geeked so hard.
What’s your plan for the Olympics in Whistler 2010?
I would like to start training this year as far as learning a new trick or combo and whooping some ass. I just want to stay healthy and focused on pipe for the next two seasons.
What has snowboarding taught you?
Relax and enjoy life. Don’t take anything for granted and don’t sleep your life away. Travel, get out of your town that you grew up in and move to a different city or place or state. Just live.
Have you ever taught anyone to snowboard?
I am a fatherly figure to some of our young shredders at Grenade, but it goes both ways. I help Louie Vito with his sticker jobs or planned runs and I helped Lucas Magoon get a car and how to ride some park, and these guys teach me stuff. The coolest thing for me has been riding with these kids and seeing snowboarding how they see it—as a fun thing to do, or a new way of jibbing.
The new Grenade movie The Boned Age premiers this Saturday night, September 6th at the Hard Rock Cafe in San Diego, CA. The whole Grenade crew follows this up with a cross-country premier tour coming to a town near you. For info, go to: grenadegloves.com
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September 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
ya kass atleast those skiers let snowboarding pipe into the olympics
September 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
jedrek twoj ziom haahahhaha;D
September 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
See Danny get gnarly in this Bud commercial:
http://liv2ride.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/danny-kass-budweiser-commercial/
September 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
haha that bud light commercial is good.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Have you considered going bald at all?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
it was better when they hated us.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:10 am
sick interview, stay true danny!
September 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Short and sweet.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Smoke some more dope hippie. This stoner is a positive role model for your sport. Maybe he should at least try some eye drops before his picture is plastered all over the front cover of transworld snowboarding!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Good work Danny. Favorite rider of all time!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Yeah Danny! Yeah Hor-Hey with the good eye!
September 6th, 2008 at 3:01 am
This is an interview!!!!!
Thank you transworld,I wish that italian media learn by you!
Thank you Danny Kass,please don’t stop.
Grenade rules…
September 6th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Bushels of berries for Mr. Kass and Mr. Franck. Givem hell Danbo.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am
hey you are my favorite rider
September 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
“If we don’t fight for what we started, people will take it over.” so thats why a bunch of suits took over grenade and are getting involved with the UFC? thats even worse than skiing.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
not doing much fighting wearing nikes
September 8th, 2008 at 12:03 am
i think snowboarding is fuckin sick and i’m very familiar with the background of it. u guys did start pipe, but does that mean u cant fuckin share? i have mad respect for most snowboarders. all the ones that arent little bitches. dont be sad cause skiers go twice as big as u, kass.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:04 am
What an ignorant $#!+ disturber. With an inferiority complex.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Pretty sure no matter how good skiers get at pipe, everyone will always associate it with snowboarding. This interview was a trip to 1996… no one cares about your hate anymore.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
wow Danny Kass is an idiot…”Tanner and the C-Crew” obviously he hasn’t been watching skiers pipe in the last, oh, five years or more? he’s obviously just jealous of skiers boosting twice as big as him, but had to give props to Tanner because of his affiliation with Grenade. stupid prick.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
well that first picture explains all i need to know about grenade product, and the first response explains all i need to know about danny.
1. if it takes you a shirt, hoodie on top of that, and then a jacket to keep you warm, the jacket must suck a dick.
2. im not hating in snowboarding in general, i have revenge of the grenerds and i loved danny till now, but way to be a douche when it comes to skiing and snowboarding. you and burton need to get your egotistic heads out of eachothers snowboarding asses and realize it is for fun and its fun as shit to shred with other skiers and snowboarders alike. wtf is up with this segregation bullshit?
September 8th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
danny kass.. go fuckyourself… the hate on skiing for no reason is completely unnecessary.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hating on skiers was cool in the 80s, but it’s just not that interesting anymore. They’re not stealing our spotlight by throwing down in the pipe, they’re creating more half-pipes and pumping more money into terrain parks.
I could easily see this attitude 10-15 years ago, but seriously Danny? Hating on skiers is an old fad started and perpetuated by egotistical ski racers who didn’t give a fuck about snowboarding and thought we were a threat to their sport. Now you’re going to turn around and hate on pipe skiers trying to do the same thing as us and getting paid 1/10 of our salaries? That’s weak man. Congratulations for embracing the brainwashed overmarketed bullshit that the joey’s have been feeding us all these years.
Fuck you and your company, you don’t stand for anything meaningful.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Most of my good buddies that I ski with are snowboarders, we all have a mutual respect for eachother, I think snowboarding is sick and they all think skiing is also sick. So my question is, why the fuck do we have ignorant pricks like Danny Kass trying to ruin the good friendship made over the last 10 years between skiers and snowboarders? Both the sports feed off of eachother, if there was no skiing snowboarding may not exist and without snowboarding freestyle skiing wouldn’t be what it is today, im grateful for both, and so should everyone else. Don’t hate, appreciate… and fuck you danny kass, I used to think you were rad.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Pros and companies like you is what makes me sick about being a snowboarder. So what if skiing is becoming big? good for them. You want to set up this segregated apartheid shit just cause dicks like you don’t respect them?
ZOMG FUCK SKIEERS FIGHT FOR WHATS OURSSS
grow up man
September 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
YO BIG UPS TO ALL YOU SNOWBOARDERS THROWIN DOWN I THINK ALL YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN GIVEN US A LOT OF INFLUENCE OVER THE YEARS AND WIT THAT INFLUINCE WE HAVE CREATED A WHOLE LOT OF NEW STUFF AND EVEN INFLUENCED YOU GUYS AND I GOTTA THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE PUSH EACHOTHERS SPORTS AND WE DONT NEED NONE OF THIS HATE THAT YOU SEEM TO BE SPREADING DANNY. YOU KILL IT OUT THERE AND ITS NOT NECESSARY TO BE HATING ON OTHER SKIERS THAT REALLY DO KILL IT JUST BECAUSE SKIERS WERE ASSHOLES IN THE PAST.
BLESS UP AND PEACE TO BOARDERS AND SKIERS.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Way to go and be a douche Danny.. How bout you come back to reality where skiers and snowboarders happen to get along. The whole hate bullshit has been squashed for a while now get with it.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
what a donk… hahaha
September 8th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
hahaha and to think i was going to get a pair of the danny kass crowbars, LOL! i will never support this scum of a person.. you will never see me rocking any grenade anymore..
September 8th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
NS TO THE RESCUE!!!!11!!!!
Yous better not be dissing skiing or NS will burn a cross onto your lawn
September 8th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
your supposed to layer to be able to keep the appropriate temperature. :D:D:D
September 8th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
yea fight the power danny! while you get paid by nike and oakley…
September 8th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I can see grenade sales decreasing exponentially this year. I’m going to tell everyone I know to stop buying grenade.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I will also be telling people to no longer purchase Grenade products as I will be boycotting it. This was a bad move for Grenade. Why does Oakley sponsor this douche bag fuck-ass.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Boycott Grenade. And get the bottle of urine off from around your neck.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Real quick, I’ve skied all my life. One of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in person was; watching Terje Haakonsen (sp?) boost out of the pipe. As much as I would like to send my grenade gloves thru my bosses woodchipper tommorow I won’t. What was said was unecessary. However two wrongs don’t make a right. When I think of grenade I’ll just think of all their other riders who hopefully don’t have the same view as Danny. Also when I think of snowboarding, I’ll think of some of the great ones from now on.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am
yeah man. this guy’s a freaking jerk and always has been. I’m glad transworld put this interview up so other people start to realize it haha.I guess Danny never considered he’s doing the same thing to skiers that they did to us 10 years ago. what a dumb ass
September 9th, 2008 at 12:11 am
oh, and I definitely respect him for pushing snowboarding to where it is now, and killing it in every aspect, and building himself up from nothing to something big, and being very successful. But there has go to be more to it than that… You have to back it up with some class and respect
September 9th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Nice Danny… way to spread the hate and re-kindle the hate between snowboarders and skiers.
You’re no better than the old farts that didn’t allow snowboarders on the hill.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Sellout hypocrits much?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Nice Danny… way to spread the hate and re-kindle the hate between snowboarders and skiers.
You’re no better than the old farts that didn’t allow snowboarders on the hill.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Are Barbers endangered species too? Or are nappy locks essential to knuckle dragging?
September 9th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Here are my thoughts:
1) Are halfpipes an endangered species?
DK: Halfpipes are not an endangered species but you do have skiers
trying to take part of snowboarding’s history. I only like watching
2-3 skiers ride the pipe: Tanner and the C crew. A few years ago it
was all snowboard parks and now you have a parallel competition
schedule. If we don’t fight for what we started, people will take it
over.
- Wow. Where to start? Skiers trying to take part of snowboarding’s
history? 2-3 skiers in the pipe? Fighting for what ‘we’ started? Holy
smokes! Is Danny Kass smoking crack?
That’s an interesting rhetorical approach for a snowboarder. I’d
really like to ask Mr. Kass who, he believes, owns the patent on the
halfpipe? I’m fairly sure it was started by skateboarders trying to
mimic surfing a wave. I’m also pretty sure they’re not calling out
BMXers, inline skaters, and most recently motocrossers for “trying to
take part of their history.”
Snowboarders were ridiculed for so long, I can imagine there’s still
some resentment towards skiing but it surprises me Danny Kass can hate
on the few skiers that have always laughed at the overblown, false,
and very media created, ’skiers vs snowboarders’ rift. Freeskiers have
always welcomed the snowboarding community with open arms. Freeskiers
weren’t the ones banning snowboarders from mountains. We don’t want to
‘take over’ snowboarding. We’re happy being skiers and we’re more than
happy to share the spotlight with snowboarders.
Also, I’d like Danny Kass to know that while giving props to Tanner
and the C Crew is appreciated, anyone that spends a day near a skiing
halfpipe competition knows there are way more than ‘2-3 skiers’ that
are killing it in the pipe and if I’m not mistaken, I believe they’re
going bigger than snowboarders…
…but that’s not what this is about, right Danny?
By the way, I only like watching Shawn White in the halfpipe.
(Kidding, but doesn’t this statement practically mirror Danny’s?)
2) What can the Olympics learn from events like Grenade Games?
DK: They can learn that snowboarding is not about steroids and
schedules. The best events are jam format and the funnest events are
the ones put on or organized by snowboarders, NOT SKIERS.
- Wow, again. Maybe Mr. Kass should be a little clearer in his answer.
Perhaps he means FIS, when referring to skiers in his answer. Events
like the Orage Masters to JOSS to smaller events like 382’s Battle My
Crew are fun and (gasp) organized by skiers. I’m baffled that words
like this can come out of a snowboarder’s mouth in 2008.
Danny Kass is an out of touch, ass backwards thinking individual. He
may be a great snowboarder but the bus stops there.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:20 am
“Halfpipes are not an endangered species but you do have skiers trying to take part of snowboarding’s history.”
That’s like saying that letting snowboards on the mountain at all is trying to take part of skiing’s history. Ignorant fuck. Snowboarding and skiing are so similar- whats the point in this immature bullshit.
“If we don’t fight for what we started, people will take it over.”
What? Who is going to take it over? You already sold out.. so obviously you’re not worried about your company. Who are these “people”.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I will also be telling people to no longer purchase Grenade products as I will be boycotting it. This was a bad move for Grenade. Why does Oakley sponsor this douche bag fuck-ass.
Frensh traduction:
Bravo, il vient de nous prouvez que c’est vraiment un attardé. Quelqu’un faite des T-shirts DK sux ballz
September 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Are you fucking kidding me, any comment in that interview I took as a complete joke. I feel like your company is the most illegitamate company out there. When you are trying to represent a company such as yours with such a name you don’t cross swords..But I am sure you do that in the bedroom anyway you asshole…Skiing has progressed 10 fold since c-crew and you need to open your eyes and see what we have brought to half pipe…Wait who boosts higher in pipe…just wondering, you can answer to your self you arrogant bastard…Now shut the fuck up, skiing is much more progressive than snowboarding will ever be and your so called sport of snowboarding is just put a hiatus to the history that skiing has made since the early 1900s in america newb….Now get out Danny Kass you are a disgrace to all winter sports and misrepresent anything that people on snow live for. QUIT LIFE
September 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Is this TW smow or TW ski - true boarders r for boadring and don’t give a crap about 2plankers. So I guess you can’t destroy it on the mountain so you destroy it on the web -
September 9th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Oh… and that shot with the eye as the landing is the sickest thing ever.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Fuck Danny Kass! He is a worthless piece of shit who is embarrassed that the level of halfpipe skiing is much higher than that of half pipe snowboarding, and the fact that he has to attack the skiing community because he can’t keep up with it is a disgrace and simply shows what kind of pussy bitch he really is.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
go ahead and don’t give a fuck, but dont talk shit u little bitch. o, and by the way, i’d destroy you in all aspects of life, including snowboarding.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Think u been hittn that vat of seaman around ya neck lil to hard faaggot
September 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
haha, NS just owned
that is pretty weak to say about skiing asshole
September 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Yeah man this isnt a contest to fight for pipe. You need to check out way more skiers rather than just bash them right away. No need for the hate, just like Mr. Bishop said
September 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
bahahahahaa sounds like kass is a lil jealous that he and his sport starting the pipe scene and skiers have blown by him and destroyed his 15ft airs
September 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
http://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/pictures/id/210458/
September 9th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
http://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/380925/
September 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
i would have to agree wiht most of these people that you need to look around you and realize your completely wrong kass… skiers are killing it theres no denying it anyone..
September 9th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
danny, do you carry around a flask of your own urine around your neck at all times? Way to make yourself and all the companies you ride for look unprofessional and just plain dumb. Oh noes! da skEEers iz tryun 2 st33le owr pa55t!! …should have quit after the kasserole…
September 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
http://newschoolers.com/web/content/pictures/id/210476/
September 9th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Yeah Danny, way to stir up the old ski vs. board hate,
this isn’t the 90’s anymore, there’s nothing to “fight” for.
Skiers are killing it in the pipe, you can’t deny it. Stop your bitching, you only look like an idiot.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
you know, with everything thats already been said above, i only have three things to say
Fuck Danny Kass
Fuck Grenade
Go Snowboarding
September 9th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Slow clap…wow rogge
you really are a journalist
im getting those kegs tomoro
September 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I don’t hate on snowboarders and most of them are super chill. Together we have progressed our sports so much more then either skiing or snowboarding could have alone. So not to hate on snowboarders as a whole but Danny Kass is an ass.
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September 9th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
wow, man. danny kass is so old school!
also fuck you danny kass
September 9th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Detonate
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September 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Congratulations danny on stooping back down to the level of the assholes that were so backwards they hated on snowboarding. You expect all ski resorts to allow snowboarding, pulling shit like this is precisely the way not to do that. I ride with a kid who snowboards every day, and we get along great. I get stoked watching his movies, he gets stoked watching mine. Then you come along and try to create this rift again. I can safely say i will never buy another grenade product again, nor your pro model goggle.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Check danny’s new feature film:
http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dannykassmovieposteryo0.jpg
September 10th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Exclusiv pic, Danny and Montoya madness…have fun danny, we know u like the old corn!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:12 am
http://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/381124/
September 10th, 2008 at 7:12 am
http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/cache/images/1221025816-627862-571×845-1221025682Danny_Kass_Movie_Poster.jpg
September 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
true boarders realize without skiing snowboarding wouldn’t exist. true boarders will be influence both by other boarders and by other skiers. fuck danny kass, he’s too ignorant to be a true boarder.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
It’s fucking Ridiculous. If I was a snowboarder I would feel embarassed right now. Someone who is in the spotlight all the time, going back 10 years and bringing back the most ridiculous argument/accusations.
It’s like saying “Skiing was first, so snowboarders can’t ride big mountain, make turns, or ride out of the park….. because they’d be stealing what skiers started.”
Grow up, Fuck Grenade, and I hope it fails.
And I noticed the only snowboarders that “hate” skiers are the weekend warriors who still think it’s cool, or who think it makes them trendy.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I am a bitch
September 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
http://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/pictures/id/210682/
September 11th, 2008 at 12:04 am
HEY DANNY
DO A DOUBLE FLIP IN THE PIPE LIKE SEVERAL SKIERS ARE DOING NOW OR MAYBE A 12 THEN MAYBE YOU WILL EARN THE RIGHT TO HATE ON SKIING.
I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS PLEASE.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:14 am
If all the skiers on this SNOWBOARDING website were to get together, maybe they could help change the perception that skiers are douches, make small turns, and look like roller bladers in the halfpipe?
Doubt it.
It must suck to make 1/5th the money as a pro snowboarder, eh skiers?
September 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
getting paid 1/10 the salary? haha bullshit, have you ever heard of jon olsen? the guy bought a fucking castle in europe to party at, and has a ski rack on his lambo. he makes multiple millions of dollars per year, also, Tanner hall bought a multi million dollar house and a cat skiing resort so he and his buddies can go ski endless pow whenever they want.
otherwise, i agree with you
September 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
i think people should stop picking on dk cuz he was obvisly soooo baked for this interview
September 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
i have nothing against skiers whatsoever, but i think every skier that got butthurt over this is sounding really, really dumb and immature. go ahead and look back at what you wrote, and then think about how much of a difference its really making. i would like to thank all of the skiers who dont give a shit. world peace.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
why rekindle it? stupid hippy.
it was better when you hated us.
you are a shredidict arnold, looser.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
this isn’t tennis you moran
September 11th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
you haven’t influenced us at all dipshit, do you see us sticking our ass out when we go backward and poking each other with poles while we clunk around it stupid boots? you guys still eat up all the shit we did 5 years ago, soon all you dorks will be poleless because you figured out it looks marginally better. keep on biting our stayle and wearing our clothes and riding the terrain parks we developed.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
no suits took over grenade. they hired ONE guy. idiots. ans mma is cooler than skiing.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
dont you think it wouldve been much easier if danny actually thought of what he was about to say before talking shit? clearly, almost 95% of the snowboarders here know that the skiers on here are right, considering the fact that only about 4 snowboarders tried to back this guy up and also considering the fact that we havent heard a response from danny himself yet
September 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
its funny seeing all you piss your pants when you missed the ENTIRE point. he is just talking aout not letting big ski organizations run our contests. it saddens me all you dorks are ready to “boycott” one of the only true rider owned companies for some skiers sakes. get a grip all you fools.
thanks danny
September 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
blah blah blah, so much typing with so little point and yet missing the point at the same time.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:21 am
rider owned? are you nuts? Danny Kass is a super sellout, and laughing all the way to the bank with his ridiculous buddy Dingo.
Yes, he is rather an embarrassment to snowboarding now, but he made some very smart moves and began his own company a few years ago. Showed a lot of athletes that there is an alternative way to do it other than being a corporate puppet. That was a valuable thing. And he was an effortlessly natural rider. But, these days he seems to be a sorta pathetic stoner guy who still has skills but is surrounded by sycophants and chasing the media fame flame, and that is sad.
And this silly skier vs snowboarder debate is beyond absurd, I can’t believe I just added to it! There is room for everyone on the mountain, stop being so reactionary and just enjoy life.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Dude, you don’t realize that the guy you quoted was Tanner Hall. Yeah, the same guy danny himself said he liked skiing pipe. So, shut the fuck up.
And i was thinking about buying gernade gloves, but i think i’ll pass now.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:36 am
when the snow falls and you are riding/skiing the slopes, no one will care about anything.
September 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Dudes you guys are wasting your time. Snowboarders hardly ever look at these forums, only like 3 non NS people have posted comments. I can guarantee you that Kass hasn’t looked or would have cared. he’s got things to do. Like smoke rock he’s a crazy mother f#$@er for sure. Unlike you newschool forum bitches who spend at least 3 hours a day surfing the forums most people have better things to do.
September 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
mr bishop your getting way too fucking but hurt over this, he said one comment and you want to start this whole big deal over it, i read what you said about on new schoolers, why you trying to take everything out on transworld and all snowboarders, your the reason most snowboarders and skiiers dont get along, you get wayy too into this kinda shit, telling people to post shit on transworld and make photoshop pictures of danny, get a fucking life and get off your computer, i honestly dont have a problem with skiiers, i think tanner hall is a douche bag and fake and trys way too hard but im not gunna talk shit about skiiers just cause i dont like that one, which is exactly what your trying to do cause danny kass made one comment, get a fucking life, your no better then him by the things youve said, people trip way too hard about the bullshit part of skiing and snowboarding, who said what, whos wearing what, who gives a fuck, lets just snowboard and ski and have fun, fuck
September 14th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Danny Kass is to Snowboarding what DMX is to Rap
September 16th, 2008 at 8:54 am
It must suck snowboarding only for the money
September 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
danny kass is the most ignorent, stupid, hypocritical peice of shit i have ever seen. grenade is in the shitter, im telling every one grenade sucks and not to buy it, im going to go egg the grenade place in portland. so fuck you kass quit hating on skiers
September 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
“i think tanner hall is a douche bag and fake and trys way too hard but im not gunna talk shit about skiiers just cause i dont like that one”
What you just said is exactly what were doing. We are hating on Danny Kass just as you are hating on Tanner (one might argue we have a more valid reason). No where in anything did we, or say we were going to attack snowboarding as a whole. Your comment is the same as our doing on a slightly smaller and more diguided way.
September 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hahahha
September 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
zaden ziom.. narciarzyki musza byc i beda bo sa fajni!
September 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
danny is a terd.im not gonna lie. it used to be snowboarding was the hip cool thing. and skiing was always folloing it and copying trends in snowboarding. BUT the tides have changed and skiing is past it and constantly accereating past it slowly. snowboarding might not copy skiing trends.but skiing is out there really far now and more and more people are learning what its really about.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
how is it not rider owned? the kass brothers still own it. goofball.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
anybody trying to verbally battle a NS-er, don’t waist your time they will shred your mind off.
and secondly my point is very simple and lies in the ever capable hands of johnny (tsunami) and team pup-n-suds.
nuff said!
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
D Kass, you sir, are really as backwards.
Do you have a brain? Your logic is completely flawed. I recommend going to take a logic, or ethics class and you will instantly realize after the first couple weeks of classes how stupid you sound!
Grenade? Now boycotted by a huge industry.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
dawg, waist and waste are two completely different words.
i read this whole clusterfuck of whiny assholes and i sincerely wish i could get my time back. this isn’t civil rights, it’s a fucking sport. if you’re seriously offended by what this KID had to say in an internet interview then you need to get a life. we’re not dealing with don immus here so chill the fuck out.
lames.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Danny Kass can say what ever he wants about skiers. He’s earned it. The “skiers” organizing the Olympics certainly haven’t done mogul skiing any favors, so it’s hard not to see his point there.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:29 am
So, no offense to the skiers who have posted. Some have been articulate arguments, and some just foolish banter.
But, at the end of the day, you do know that you are on the Transworld Snowboarding site don’t you? If you were really so passionate about skiing, wouldn’t you be posting on some skier site?
It just seems ironic, to be a skier bitching about snowboarding, on a snowboarding site.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:33 am
you have donkey on the brain…take some personal time with your donkey, and write back later.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:36 am
“folloing” = following
“accereating” (haha) = accelerating
“skiing is out there really far now” = no one really cares
September 30th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Get over it. It’s only an opinion, just like what all of you are posting. So heres my opinion. The fued between snowboarders and skiers wouldn’t exist if they all didn’t get so fucking butthurt about it. Screw what other people think and just have fun doing what you love. Isn’t that what its all about? Yeah so what if people make a living off of it but they all started out as no ones doing it for fun. And 95% of the posts are from skiers, go on a skiing website if you don’t like what a SNOWBOARDER has to say. And all of you idiots hating on Danny Kass, why did you read the interview in the first place? You obviously cared enough about him and his opinions to read it. And if you read it just to rag on him later you need to get a fucking life or atleast a hobby.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Oh yeah if you don’t like his products then don’t buy them. It’s not like he’s forcing them upon you like you’re trying to force your boycott on your friends. I’m sure he couldn’t care less if you bought them or not. Oh no his sales are going down. Yeah by a fraction. It’s not where he makes all his money.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Almost everyone of you is a complete idiot. Boycotting Grenade? Haven’t you people heard of opinions. Basically what he said is that on snow halfpipe was were freestyle snowboarding came from, it is where most of our roots are. He’s saying that since less people are riding pipe these days that the skiers are taking it over, how many of you can even air out of a pipe? He didn’t say to go and beat the shit out of someone because they ski. I agree that competitions run by skiers are retarded, we know our sport much better than them. When Grenade was started it was hardly a business, they just made gloves. The team members would pack the boxes, make the stickers and send them out.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
guys guys guys…you’re forgetting the skier chicks. you can’t hate them when they’re all dressed up in tight clothes and shit lmao
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Danny Kass was hanging out with Kristi leskinen in mammoth last year. I saw them a few places and she is very much a SKIER. Talk about a hypocrite.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
and in “hanging out” I mean dating people!!!! He took her to eat a few places……..she ended up blowing him off but yea she is a skier!
November 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Its like everyone that is posting on this site is an idiot. Grenade makes some amazing gear. There is no doubt to that. So any attempted boycott is dumb, whoever said the sales will decrease is dumb, and whoever said that skiers and boarders get along is dumb. If you don’t buy the gloves, someone who recognizes a quality product will. You think whatever company you buy from is going to be as legit as you think? That the president of that company loves you and all you stand for? Danny is speaking his opinion because that “history” everyone on here talks about, well he was part of that history so of course he still sees the beef. I shred with a few skiers, but that doesn’t mean that when I’m with my board crew, even with our skiing friends, we don’t have mix ups with other skiers. Think logic people. And as far as the stoner comment, maybe he has naturally red eyes. Even if he is a stoner, I know for a fact that he shreds way harder than the kid that said that comment because he’s the one with the olympic medal and his own company!!
Do your thing Danny. Because its YOUR thing, not all these haters.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Really BigBusiness?
Logic or ethics class? The composure of that whole comment is messed up. It starts out with you saying “as backwards.” Really bro?
Maybe you should take some classes and realize how stupid you sound.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:10 am
this is fun
November 16th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
LOL that guy has no idea that hes talking to Tanner
November 25th, 2008 at 11:15 am
skiiers are lame, Danny is amazing. I can’t wait to rock your world.
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 am
Everyone has gotten so into bashing each other now that they have forgotten why this argument started. Danny made the statement(s), skiers fired back (with legit arguments), snowboarders cannot come up with legit arguments back besides “skiers are lame” and i corrected that spelling from the above illiterate and that skiers are “on par with wakeboarding and rollerblading”. What is that even supposed to mean. Like Rogge said, DK is soo far up his own ass that he doesnt even know which way is up, this could have to do with the fact that 95% of his brain is fried. As I was saying, when it comes to thrashing the freeskiers..dont, the freeskiing community does not bash you unless you bash them. Get over the 80’s hate and get with the times. Skiing is going to be stepping up beyond your wildest dreams..o and so will snowboarding..both together. Snowboarding started park/pipe a decade ago but now you have Simon Dumont (skier) breaking the quarterpipe record and SKIERS like Jon Olsson starting the doubles which snowboarding is taking a liking to. Everyone needs to open their eyes and see that they are feeding off of eachother. They both exist together and will progress with eachother and any skier/snowboarder who still holds a grudge to the other needs to get a life because almost every one of them was too young to be cought up in the hate when it actually WAS going on. Even so, time heals all wounds and wouldnt everyone agree that 10 years can solve a small dispute that has been resolved that long ago. This guy thinks so!
January 19th, 2009 at 6:17 am
KASS FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 28th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Kass sounds like a boner in parts of that interview. Not that he cares. He can do as he pleases, but his attitude that comes across in that interview, is pretty passe.
The earth shattering genius displayed in some responses above, to his half-baked answers, really says it all though. It’s too bad really. People get thier panties in a wad over the smallest things. Even Kass, apparently. For years the skiing world was a collective douchebag towards snowboarders…this is true. But that was 20 years ago. They couldnt ride anywhere and were outcasted all the time. I remember it well because I am a geezer (by young guys standards) and I was there. I thought the sport of mountain riding, was over itself by now, and that people just loved riding, however many sticks are involved. Each owes much to the other anyway.
This is 10 minutes of my life I’ll not get back now. My own fault for reading it all and responding, though. Serves me right.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
DANNY KASS LIKES IT IN THE ASSSSSSSS and is absurdly ignant
NSNSNSNSNSNS
February 15th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
OVERREACTION?? Dan the Man “hates” on skiers twice, and his second mention simply says that he thinks the most fun events are jam events set up by snowboarders, not skiers. This makes perfect sense, a jam session developed by a skier would be missing the key component of first hand experience. Who wouldn’t want to ride a park designed specifically for their interests over a shared park, ski or snowboard oriented. Secondly, the intentions of his statements was to take pride in his sport and to commit to what he believes in, i find it hard to believe he was taking a deliberate shot at skiiers. Both sports have athletes that perform at amazing levels, displaying tricks and skills incomprehensible to the normal person, Danny is just stating his claim in the snow world. On the other hand, respect warrants respect, and anger is to be expected but why continue the circle over one ignorant statement? Perhaps progressing the sport of sking to newer greater heights will be more of a statement of legitability than spewing sauce over others.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Skiers GTFO and go to your own site. How would you feel if a bunch of house moms got on Maxim, Stuff or FHM forums and started complaining about the scantily clad women. I mean seriously, this is Danny Kass, this isn’t a new attitude for him. Of course most of you wouldn’t know that and go straight for the judgment.
Ride hard. Support Grenade. Fight the power.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Hell yeah! Danny’s boss! Keepin’ it real.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Fuck yeah, Slates! Danny stay true man. And all you haters, get over yourselves. I see beef between skiiers and boarders still, and eventhough there is usually a pretty good relationship between them shit can get mixed up. In my experience Skiiers think they own the mountain, cause their sport was first. Screw that. And Grenade is wicked. They have some awesome quality gear, and I rock it all the time. I totally agree with everything Slates said too. Anyway, keep Rockin’ Danny. You’re the man.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Fuck you. Danny Kass owns you, he’s just sticking to history he played a part in. Skiiers used to be arrogant assholes, and a lot of them still are. You’re in a fucking different generation then Danny, and a lot of things are different. Generations of skiiers now have learned from the older genrations mistakes, and most of the old fuckers are just adjusting to snowboarding because its way more popular than skiing. Its a marketing haven. Skiiers and Snowboarders can get along, but that doesn’t mean people cant have their opinions. In Danny Kass’s day snowboarders were completely hated against, and that hate that skiiers gave him is just a mirror effect. Danny Kass is boss, and is a great boader. Mad props. Grenade is also wicked, they make some great gear.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:22 am
i only have one comment…i shred with boarders but if a skier or boarder snakes my line im gonna be pissed. It doesnt take one or two planks to make you a douche bag.
Props to everyone who goes out there to have a good time a learn new shit
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