Have you ever hit a kicker and thought, “wow, I bet that looked sick”, only to watch the footage that your buddy took from the side and realize you looked incredibly lame? Then you add some music to see if that helps, change it to vertical to see if would look alright on your story, and consider really hard if you still want to share it to Instagram. You want to look cool but, man, that video looks pretty darn mediocre. I’m sure plenty of us have been there, whether we like to admit it or not.

Austrian skier Dennis Ranalter has probably never been there, though. I’m willing to bet that when he hits a side kicker with his buddy on the camera, he knows it’s going to be wild.

Take his most recent Instagram post, for example. When Ranalter threw himself off this jump leading over a cat track, he probably knew it was going to be crazy. If I could do what he can do, I would be pretty confident in my ability to post cool s*#t on social media.

Some comments claim this video was taken at Alpendorf in Austria, but we can’t verify that 100%. Also, to the people who claim “this would never fly in the United States”, you’re spending your time at the wrong resorts. There are plenty of resorts that would love to have a professional skier swing by and rip out something like this. You’re just not a professional, or anywhere close to one, so they won’t let you build a jump on the side of a cat track.

If you happen to look at the comments on the video, you might notice some calling him out for doing this on a popular trail, or that it’s over a cat track. Most of those, if not all, are clearly a joke. If you think there’s something wrong with this clip, shame on you. This is sick and you know it.

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Image Credit: Dennis Ranalter via Instagram

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