My X Games rant

i'm glad there are some pissed off skiers on NS so far who think X Games has been as corny as i think it has been.

so here's my take on it:

the snowboard announcers make me want to puke. they're like, "Keir Dillon was at least 17 feet out, right?!" and then you see on the replay that Keir was actually like four feet higher than the cameraman's head who's standing on the deck of the pipe.

add that up, dipshits. maybe, uhhh, ten feet out?!

and, yes, big air is fuckin lame as hell. i only have props for Bushfield: at least he's trying something ridiculously difficult. and at least Jacob Wester is doing a new grab.

but if i see another switch, un-corked spin, i'll be even more depressed. whatever happened to progressing the sport: trying something new, exciting, unpredictable, spontaneous, original?!

seeing a cab 10 at a big air event is about as new as seeing a double twister spread from mogul skiing eight years ago.

skiers have been throwing absolutely perfect cab 10s for over three years now: go back to the 2003 US Open, and Mickael won it with the same trick. uhhh ... seen that already?! and go back to 2002, and Tanner took second to CR in the US Open big air with a cab rodeo 10, if my memory serves me correctly.

even though Bushfield's switch double back is lacking style and perfection - and same with Mike Wilson's double underflip - can't anybody else try to do something fucking rare, rather than something safe and something that's been done thousands of times like a cab 10?

and i don't give a shit how long any of them held their grab either. if you're doing a boring, predictable trick that's already been done a thousand times, i don't get excited. it's like taking a triple sow cow in figure skating and then saying, uhhhh, i think maybe i should now do my triple sow cow with even more style 'cause i can't think of anything else better. FUCKING LAME!

remember when X games was exciting? Candide and CR going retardedly high three years ago in pipe, making snowboarders take a second look at their own amplitude? and then two years ago with Crichton and Dumont taking it up a level with alley-oop flat 5s and cork 5s in the pipe that we're ridiculously huge during primetime SportCenter? that's when shit impressed me.

all i can say is that i hope skiers throw down in pipe tomorrow night, 'cause so far i've been really bummed ... and I have faith that Dumont, Tanner and Candide will.

and if another snowboard announcer sounds like he's faking an orgasm like a bad pornstar the next time we see anti autti throw back-to-back 1080s in the pipe, i'm just going to laugh. then i'm going to go to Taco Bell and buy a burrito because i've seen so many commercials for them throughout X Games broadcasting:

i guess that's all it is anyway; just another vehicle for marketing products to the masses without enough substance to get me pumped up about the actual sports.

--cody