Not really. I haven't seen it live yet but I'm sure it was sick. My thing is that all we ever hear about is style and how skiing should just be style and not hucked spins or flips. In my opinion, a switch double back is hard as hell but has no style whatsoever. For anyone who has been around the scene long enough, you might remember ths Scharab (sp?) brothers. These guys were pure huckers, throwing double backs, triple backs, double back 180's and so on. Super hucked and 0 style. Stuff real simlar to a switch double back but like 4 or 5 years ago. Very few people on here respected them and said that was what was wrong with skiing. Now just because Bushfield goes out and throws one in a comp where everyone else was throwing switch 1080's, everyone say's he should of won. Yes, he was different, but if this comp or the next turns into a switch double back competition, I think we are gonna be getting away from style that we all so dearly want. So, I guess what I want to say is that, I'm sure Bushfield's trick was hot cause everyone was bored of switch 1080's, but it definately wasn't stylie or deserving of a top 5 finish. I respect Rory tons cause he tried it, but it definatley shouldn't be as respected as any of the super clean and tech switch 1080's that were thrown, even if he woulda landed it. Like I said, this is my impression from write ups on the x-games since I haven't seen it yet.
Another thing is that switch double backs aren't new at all. A long time ago (again 4 or 5 years ago, which is long in newschoolers.com time) I remeber some one posted a link of some finnish guys doing switch double backs and 1440's. Again, sick as hell, no style.
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