Fun Watching Olympic Slopestyle

[efbride]

Our boys are bring home gold, silver and bronze from Sochi in ski slopestyle. Haven't seen runs but followed thread on new schoolers. Judging ? Show supposedly off the charts and should set stick and ball sport straight..

[Vt-Freeheel]

Fuck You Asseater, thanks for the spoiler, eat a rancid bag of dicks and die!

[Tye 1on]

Edited title. C'mon people, we know threads will have details but don't fkn put them in the title...

[ak_powder_monkey]

Judging was not very good... I think 3 of the judges weren't even slopestyle judges. They also valued stomping the shit out of the landing more than anything else...

Henrick's Nose Butter Triple Cork 1660 was messed up huge... I though Goepper's run was cleaner and bigger than Joss's

And whoever NBC hired to do the live extra commentary was just god awful. Unless skiing switch is now called reverse, and a D Spin is called a barrel roll.

[gramboh]

Watched most of qualifications and woke up again to watch finals. Judging was decent, the right guys made it to finals and Joss and Gus put down probably the best runs. I might have put Andreas in front of Goepper due to 12's both ways, but Goepper did do the genie grab and stomp a triple. Harlaut looked too sloppy on his landings and his stupid pants falling down didn't help haha.

CBC commentating was bang on as usual, LOL @ stupid NBC.

[AlexC]

I like CBC's team. They had the one guy who didn't know a thing, so he could ask the dumb questions like "what does scrubbing mean?" for the audience at home, while the other guy knew the difference between all the different grabs and what not. I haven't watched the finals yet, but the qualifying round was fun.

[Adamantium]

Watched most of qualifications and woke up again to watch finals. Judging was decent, the right guys made it to finals and Joss and Gus put down probably the best runs. I might have put Andreas in front of Goepper due to 12's both ways, but Goepper did do the genie grab and stomp a triple. Harlaut looked too sloppy on his landings and his stupid pants falling down didn't help haha.

CBC commentating was bang on as usual, LOL @ stupid NBC.

The ONLY problem with Henrik's second run was a less-than-perfect last landing. He stomped everything else, and the nose-butter triple was huge. He probably should have been on the podium but the judges were really harsh on perfect landings all day. Here's a NS link to his final run.

edit: for context, here's the other run replay's I've been able to find so far:

Joss
Kenworthy

[I've seen black diamonds!]

These guys a pulling shit that appears so utterly impossible to me, that I have no sense of whose run was more impossible. Looking forward to watching the finals in its entirety tonight and forming strong uninformed opinions.

And holy shit, that Henrik guy should get bonus points for being the size of Martin Short and skiing in clothes big enough for Chris Farley.

[wicked_sick]

I really enjoy watching this, but I can't believe it's an Olympic sport.

[skiATL]

I stayed up all night watching it. It was sick. Henrik had the best run, but it wasn't clean. He still got robbed though. he should have been around 4th. Hatveit's run was scored way too high. His reaction to his score was hilarious. I still love Hatveit though.

[cuseo]

I wonder if anybody could explain why a thread about Shaun White (not a pussy) can get bumped incessantly with drivel and then this stuff gets dustbinned.

This stuff is outrageous. ALL these guys are doing superhuman shit and making it look cake.
Three things I find awesome/amusing...
1) Nobody's got shit to say about Goepper's no-poles because he stomped the piss out of everything. Poles = Optional, end of discussion.
2) Those groms from Newschoolers that you used to make fun of just swept the Olympics. Welcome to the future.
3) Pants CAN be too big, it's true.

Shoutout to Gus, way to show strong for Scentennial State.

[TBS]

I wonder if anybody could explain why a thread about Shaun White (not a pussy) can get bumped incessantly with drivel and then this stuff gets dustbinned.

Maybe because there is already an Olympics thread where this kind of stuff gets discussed?

[cuseo]

noted...

In my defense, I was bumping an existing thread and was speaking generally on the event on not the specifics. I think a historical podium sweep by Americans in Russia is worth a few seconds of reading and maybe a minute or two of appreciation, in the general forum. Much respect, TBS, but I stand by my comments and their placement.

[1080Rider]

1) Nobody's got shit to say about Goepper's no-poles because he stomped the piss out of everything. Poles = Optional, end of discussion.

Ummm, no. He looks like shit. He should just throw on a snowboard and get it over with. I think anyone on SKIS w/out poles should be judged down 2 or 3 points.

[Canada1]

REally enjoyed as a spectator.

Hinrick is almost coherent now. Drug testing is a positive for the sport.

I thought the right people ended up in the right places. If the Fin ended up on the podium, it would have been wrong, but they fixed that in the end. The gold medalists dad painted a house I lived in when I first moved here. He was the sort of guy that is fun to have a beer with. I never connected the dots on that until last night.

[El Chupacabra]

Ummm, no. He looks like shit. He should just throw on a snowboard and get it over with. I think anyone on SKIS w/out poles should be judged down 2 or 3 points.

For stuff like this slopestyle competition, what's the point of poles? (serious question)

[406]

Joss
Kenworthy

Thanks for the links to the final runs. I turned off the TV after getting mad at NBC for interrupting slopestyle with mens ice dancing.

Anyone have a link to Goepper run?

edit found all 3 runs on nbc site, but warning they have spoilers for todays events on the page:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/thr...s?ctx=team-usa

[406]

For stuff like this slopestyle competition, what's the point of poles? (serious question)

Personally, I think it just looks better when they have poles and adds additional challenge.

Perhaps I'm biased, but the ski slope style seemed much more impressive than snowboard slope style.

[1080Rider]

For stuff like this slopestyle competition, what's the point of poles? (serious question)

Have you seen the poleless guys at the top of the hill. They're wallowing around and it looks as dumb as the mad walrus the snowboarders do. The reason we use poles is to get around on the flat. It's as much a part of skiing as boots and bindings.

[El Chupacabra]

Have you seen the poleless guys at the top of the hill. They're wallowing around and it looks as dumb as the mad walrus the snowboarders do. The reason we use poles is to get around on the flat. It's as much a part of skiing as boots and bindings.

In the slopestyle comp, it doesn't seem like the skiers need the poles to help get up to speed at the start of their run. (Contrast to the downhill skiers, who skate and pole to get moving a little bit faster.)

[efbride]

I think lack of poles hurt Nick in Style points. Their short poles are basically useless as we think of poles as part of skiing, but I do think that they use them for balance and style points. I think the judges did a good job.
Ski slopestyle had no drama, just amazing feats by our Athletes. These guys deserve all the attention they are going to receive and they have squashed the tomato legend and started their own. Freeskiers !
I try and explain to my ski friends that these kids go into jumps faster than I will ever go and they are going backwards. They then do these double, triple, flip twisty things flying 100 feet through the air and land like its just a bump in their run.

[1080Rider]

In the slopestyle comp, it doesn't seem like the skiers need the poles to help get up to speed at the start of their run. (Contrast to the downhill skiers, who skate and pole to get moving a little bit faster.)

Sure, but this is also a controlled run. Should they start riding 120 cm skis because then they can do a 2160? At some point, moving away from the sport in a traditional sense turns it into something else. They may not "need" poles in a slopestyle run but if you go skiing, it's ridiculous to think you'd leave the poles at home. IMO they should "look" like they're actually able to ski the whole hill, not just the "park."

[systemoverblow'd]

Sure, but this is also a controlled run. Should they start riding 120 cm skis because then they can do a 2160? At some point, moving away from the sport in a traditional sense turns it into something else.

You mean like riding freakishly wide skis almost like strapping two skinny snowboards to their feet? Yeah, that totally ruined skiing and changed it to something else in a negative way.

I agree they look like dipshits without poles though. The only thing it is changing is my immediate knowledge that the person without poles is a douchebag without talking to them. Unless they are a little kid learning, but they're probably still douchebags too

[1080Rider]

You mean like riding freakishly wide skis almost like strapping two skinny snowboards to their feet? Yeah, that totally ruined skiing and changed it to something else in a negative way.

Not really like that at all. Wider skis enable skiers to float higher on deep snow- they serve a purpose. Going poleless does not serve a purpose in my mind. If his "purpose" is to make his tricks easier, then I say his scores should reflect the fact that his tricks are not as technical as the other skiers in the competition.

And really- smaller skis serve a purpose but the douchebags that competed on those got laughed out of comps until they started riding real skis (see, mike nick).

[systemoverblow'd]

Not really like that at all. Wider skis enable skiers to float higher on deep snow- they serve a purpose. Going poleless does not serve a purpose in my mind. If his "purpose" is to make his tricks easier, then I say his scores should reflect the fact that his tricks are not as technical as the other skiers in the competition.

And really- smaller skis serve a purpose but the douchebags that competed on those got laughed out of comps until they started riding real skis (see, mike nick).

So fat skis serve a purpose so they don't fit your argument. Shorter skis can serve a purpose but does fit your argument. You can't have it both ways. They either BOTH "moving away from the sport in a traditional sense turns it into something else" or neither. So either I'm right and you're wrong or it's a stupid argument. I'll let you decide which it is.

And you can't say how he would have performed/scored with poles. It's just not possible.