Replying to Olympic Sports
I was just thinking the other day, the olympics only actually have two freestyle events: mogals and aerials. I like mogals, so I think they're cool, but I don't really believe aerials is truely skiing.
But anyways... I was looking at the types of events and there are well, freestyle, then alpine(racing), and ski jumping. Then there's pipe for boarding. But I thought, if people are watching all of these other ski events like racing, and ski jumping, doesn't it give us newschoolers kind of like a bad image? I'm not saying racing is bad or anything, it's just if you tell someone you ski, they'd automatically think your some kind of spandex wearing gate hitter. I'm not trying to diss racing or anything. I just think there should be so many more events in the olympics. It's not really fair they stick to all these traditional things for skiing, then give boarders pipe.
If all the newschool stuff was in the olympics, like big air, slopestyle and pipe, people all around the world would be like, wow, they can do that? I kind of think a lot of people aren't familure with skiers being able to hit jumps switch, or do rails. And what's up with snowboarding just having pipe? I thought that was kind of funny seeing as they would choose to include pipe in the olympics, but no park or slopestyle.
Even for summer olympics, there should be so many more sports included. Like, street and pipe skating, aggressive inline, mountain biking, surfing, ludging. Just so much more. This is just what I think.
What do all of you other newschool skier think about having/not having stuff like park and pipe for us in the olympics? I just think it will open the eyes to so many more people that don't even know what a twintip is. I believe it would do sooooo much for the sport.
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