Freeride World Tour

[oftpiste]

Yup.

[teamdirt]

Rumor mill- Fiberbrunn is pissed Verbier steals all the attention even though Fiberbrunn pays just as much if not more to host.....That is why they came to the resolution to host 2 runs at Fiberbrunn this year....Politics runs deep in everything....

[telefreewasatch]

i try to understand the problem why people here dont like the flippy spinny stuff.
i think it is very entertaining.
i guess i have the same problem with snowboarding.
i dont like the look of modern day snowboard riding. the tricks are amazing but with the rockered short boards the turns look like crap
also the way the riders balance there boards in pow is meehhh.

in the old days with body hight boards turns where big and smooth, nowadays snbd pow turns look more like a steep skier doing jumpturns in a tight coulouir.
that is also my problem with natural selection. it is powder park riding and the turns are not like in the old days.
i guess a 15 year old would see it different, those old days with straight airs and this turns on opioids or something blabalbalba

Trix are for kids.

[teamdirt]

Trix are for kids.

Turdell who is by-far the best skier on the tour can barely qualify these days because he makes his skiing and lines look to unaggressive and easy to the regular spectator.....lol what a joke.....the others flail a 3 here, flail a 3 there huck a chuck and cat air to land and you win....Craig Murray is one of the few that are stylish but he needs to put the line to stomp these days....not sure why everyone is so stoked about boosting big airs off mini nugets in unexposed terrain....Freeride world tour used to be about the big dawgs shredding lines in exposed terrain that dropped our jaws...now its a slopestyle course a short distance from the terrain park.....can't wait to see the new tour rookies not knowing why ski poles are of use.....

[subtle plague]

If they throw a Trick in a cool line, count me in. If they just connect the lame and easy bumps, im out. Im all for launching the Hollywood cliff in verb with a flip.
I liked Palms line in kh because he had the tricks and skied the only interesting terrain Feature.

[roQer]

Turdell who is by-far the best skier on the tour can barely qualify these days because he makes his skiing and lines look to unaggressive and easy to the regular spectator.....lol what a joke.....the others flail a 3 here, flail a 3 there huck a chuck and cat air to land and you win....Craig Murray is one of the few that are stylish but he needs to put the line to stomp these days....not sure why everyone is so stoked about boosting big airs off mini nugets in unexposed terrain....Freeride world tour used to be about the big dawgs shredding lines in exposed terrain that dropped our jaws...now its a slopestyle course a short distance from the terrain park.....can't wait to see the new tour rookies not knowing why ski poles are of use.....

Turdell skis very stylish and smooth but he’s definitely not „by-far“ the best skier on the tour.
It’s like saying Soul 7 is by-far the best freeride ski around which we all known but which is kinda simplistic and naive statement applied to a competitive environment at the highest level. It’s not my intention to compare Turdell to a Soul 7, though.

[Angle Parking]

If they just connect the lame and easy bumps, im out.
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I hear you. Many of the cross court tricks seem pretty gratuitous and lame to me. But stuff like Gorak's fall line backie to cap off an already killer run at the Bec in 2019.. .. that's another story.

[powdork]

Turdell who is by-far the best skier on the tour can barely qualify these days because he makes his skiing and lines look to unaggressive and easy to the regular spectator.....lol what a joke.....the others flail a 3 here, flail a 3 there huck a chuck and cat air to land and you win....Craig Murray is one of the few that are stylish but he needs to put the line to stomp these days....not sure why everyone is so stoked about boosting big airs off mini nugets in unexposed terrain....Freeride world tour used to be about the big dawgs shredding lines in exposed terrain that dropped our jaws...now its a slopestyle course a short distance from the terrain park.....can't wait to see the new tour rookies not knowing why ski poles are of use.....

in the first place, he is ranked 4th. That's hardly barely qualifying. The only reason there was drama was that he basically fell in Ordino-Arcalis. Only problem I have with Turdell is that his lines lack originality. He is almost always the smoothest guy on the most popular line (although that's partly due to the swedes all skiing the same lines).

[TahoeJ]

Hasn’t Turdell finished in the top 3 four of the last 5-6 years and won the overall twice? Seems like he’s doing better than “barely qualifying.”

[TAFKALVS]

this discussion is the same like the newschoolers competetion threads....


balbalbalb got robbed

why the judges count a 2880 futurespine highe then swith nosebutter 0spin nograb

why the judges ...... that henricks of axis bio rotation way harder then ablbala


if you want to see this real bigmountain riding in good conditions go and watch stoke the fire

it is the same here same complaint as the kids on ns : )

I would guess if any TGR mag skied at the rate of speed through the terrain that the FWT athletes do, and threw a 50ft corked out 720 off a 15' high natural windlip on a 45° slope, and then straightlined it to the bottom of the run, they'd call it big mountain charging.

Reality is these guys are charging, possibly going faster and bigger than FWT comps in the past. It just looks less like they aren't "charging" because skis have changed and allow for a more relaxed style.

I do think the venues could use improvement. The venues often seem to be a one-hit wonder, especially outside the Alps. This results in people needlessly traversing to find features. I'd like to see faces with more vertical, and more features top to bottom. I think the ideal venue should start out technical up top, with multiple big mountain style line possibilities, leading in to a mellower runout with lots of playful cliff features. Then to truly be a winner you'd need to have the skills for the top part of the face, and still be able to throw a trick or two at the bottom. That aligns with modern skiing IMHO.

[teamdirt]

I guess I’m guilty of wanting to see some skiing....at this point the NS argument doesn’t work because it’s the same argument the FWT judges are discussing.

[teamdirt]

This next comp should be interesting as the format has it designed to trick away till your broken.....

Your best run counts of 2....

If they counted both runs it wouldn’t push the trix as much....

Hopefully this format doesn’t increase injuries and demote safety to achieve the “WoW” the tour wants...

[jmedslc]

Trix are for kids.

Rode up w a couple touron qualifiers from dee-range-oh yesterday and my only significant takeaway was that they come from a gov funded U in Colorado and drive all around the west in a 2WD van with precious cargo, hoping and praying that their van makes it to their destination.

[Dantheman]

Hasn’t Turdell finished in the top 3 four of the last 5-6 years and won the overall twice? Seems like he’s doing better than “barely qualifying.”

Seriously. Won Verbier last year IIRC.

I would guess if any TGR mag skied at the rate of speed through the terrain that the FWT athletes do, and threw a 50ft corked out 720 off a 15' high natural windlip on a 45° slope, and then straightlined it to the bottom of the run, they'd call it big mountain charging.

Seriously.

[powdork]

I would guess if any TGR mag skied at the rate of speed through the terrain that the FWT athletes do, and threw a 50ft corked out 720 off a 15' high natural windlip on a 45° slope, and then straightlined it to the bottom of the run, they'd call it big mountain charging.

The whole slope from top to bottom was 38 degrees and that 5' windlip was in a mellow spot, crosscourt. It was slopestyle. And the worst kind of fast-spinny slopestyle.
Put it this way. If you're going to do a double back or a 720 it doesn't have to be twice as far but it should be significantly further to advance the 'fluidity' and 'air and style' scores. I'm not against tricks. I just think fast spins for the sake of more rotations look awkward and take the sport in the wrong direction.

[powdork]

I believe the nendaz 4* is streaming in 5 minutes. The 4* events can be more entertaining than the tour if the venue is good, and it looks pretty solid from the screenshot

[gaijin]

Thanks for that. I’m a big fan of the Nendaz event. Stoked for my Saturday night!


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[gaijin]

Alright, Hitzig is dope. His K2s are dope.

Nendaz is always a comp that separates athletes.


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[Clownshoe]

Great venue and great riding. Thanks for the link

[baron]

watched some mens runs yesterday- Fun Stuff that triple was sick!

amazing how many riders ate it on the last cliff/no injuries from what I saw so far.XD...a little reminder these guys make the sport look way easier than it is in reality

that venue would be off the hook with a huge base of snow coverage

[powdork]

actually it's much less interesting with a deep base. the winning run from 2018

[Angle Parking]

actually it's much less interesting with a deep base. the winning run from 2018

Bimboes is such a charger. Glad he retired after the Verbier straight line though. What was he going to do after something like that?

Really like that venue.

[weibo]

The latest announcements make no sense to me. Fiebebrunn is after the cut off and part of the "Finals" how can you throw in a wildcard who has not competed yet this year? What happens if the finish anywhere but last and take points away from anyone that earned their spot and cause them to miss out on a final podium?

[TahoeJ]

Not the first time they’ve done this. I mean, whatever. Please just tell me it’s Markus Eder again?

[weibo]

It is not. Hank Bilious' younger brother Finn on the ski side. He was in slope and big air in the Olympics which should really impress the TGR crowd. On the Snowboard side it's a fairly local pro, I don't follow that side enough to comment (even here).