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After watching and participating in rail jams, im dissapointed in what is being done on rails now. Last year it was spin to win, basically whoever could do a 630 on would win. Now spin to win has taken another turn, where its just a huge string of kids doing 270 on switch ups 270 off. I have to admit this looked cool at first, when Sammy Carlson was doing it in his windells edit on ns a few years back before he was famous, but now its kinda boring to see over and over again. I'd like to see it get more creative, with some 50-50's, tailpresses, nosepresses, one footers, and such. I'd also like to see more varied grinding in slopestyle comps.
yea a lot of em do,, the biggest problem is everybody is afaid they will look "uncool" if they try them. and how will anybody ever make them look good if they dont try em.And presses are already here.
do you mean from comps or from terrain parks?
people will always love rails. it adds a new element to skiing.
a new challenge.
comps will always be around with rails... rail jams will still be around too.
but it wont be about one rail anymore.
someday it will be multiple rails, and they will be judged on variety.
rails are the way a ski resort can say they have a terrain park. its you want to be creative.. grab your skis when you slide it.. or slide a pole along for a 3point slide.. haa
I think nose/tail presses are sick but there isnt a whole lot else you can do with them. Maybee if you tried for a long time you could get 270 on nose press but it would never be consistent enough to throw in competitions. And that's why most comps suck and why Eric Pollard and pretty much everyone else who doesnt compete hates them
I like spinning, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in the other direction. Sometimes one way, and then right after that, the other way. One after the other.
i think judges need to give better points for orignaility, i want to see some true butters to nollies on some rails and pretezels are always sick, if we dont reward individuality, just spin to win, rails will never progress
dude i think that you need to watch that video over again. there was a lot of creative stuff done on those rails: the shift over the kink, the amazing prezals, and some sick press. it wasn't just the same shit over and over. Bons did a good job in not repeating any tricks. More cool tricks they did: lip 270 on, 360 switch up, lip to nose press, 270 on to sit down thing, etc... Next time watch the video before you say it's the same shit over and over again