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olympic snowboarding, halfpipe finals - unreal

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fakiedropdude
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weeeeeeeiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrddddd. i logged on as fakiedropdude and was somehow transformed into moreno. i posted that olympic snowboarding thing.


i now see that snowboarders are on a totally different level than skiers. incredibly huge and smooth. good tweaks and huge, huge, huge.
they did some sketchy 10:s though, some jumps would have been better with a lower spin.

so how do you all think snowboarding works with FIS rules?
they have defined style in a way as in moguls. height, standard airs, rotation, overall impression.
cuz a fast 1080 scores really good even if it doesn´t look the best. but i guess overall point takes care of that. it seemed to work really well except for some weird points.

i liked the japanese guy, 17, he went so unbelievably freakin huge and smooth on his flips. kinda weird that his standard airs were a bit sketchy then.

definitely one of the most wicked comps i´ve seen, i am so impressed.






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Feb 11 2002 4:57PM
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skodeo7
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dude that was just the qualifiying

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Feb 11 2002 5:02PM
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fakiedropdude
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i wasn´t born yesterday. it was the finals.

magnus sterner didn´t do to good unfortuneately.



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Feb 11 2002 5:08PM
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skodeo7
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dude where are you from? in vermont they were just showing the qualifier round.

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Feb 11 2002 5:11PM
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fakiedropdude
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sweden.

good i didn´t post the results :)




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Feb 11 2002 5:20PM
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nipe
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yea those guys were going huuuuge..
what the heck are skiers afraid of? the bigger you go on a pipe like that the more time you have to think about landing


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Feb 11 2002 5:22PM
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skodeo7
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hahaha good call fakie...I was like what the hell are you talking about it was the qualifier, haha, your time is way ahead; that explains it...

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Feb 11 2002 5:27PM
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Dfresh
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what, the judgin sucsk totally dude, horrible, never ever would i like to compete with that system,each country had a a different aspect to judge, it sucked man, three categories was liek air, aplitude and rotation, and then overall impression, i thought it sucked, for any competition they should just rate the run, eg. that run was rad, he deserves 1st, or oh he threw come cool tricks but he lacked style, lets give him second, not the he got 8.901837562 on amplitude, and 3.498398129871 on rotation, screw that, it just my opinion though
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Feb 11 2002 5:39PM
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fakiedropdude
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yeah but how do you judge freeSTYLE?

yeah sure some points were way wrong but overall i think actually the best runs got the best score and it was fair.

has anyone ever been happy with the judging in a newschool/snowboard comp?



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Feb 11 2002 5:44PM
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fakiedropdude
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and if you don´t have points it´s pretty hard to compare number 5 to number 6...





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Feb 11 2002 5:51PM
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skodeo7
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(in the qualifier) I thought it was great how all the judges gave ross (or some other american) all like 9.whatevers and the japanese judge was giving like 4.5s and stuff...wierd

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Feb 11 2002 6:07PM
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fakiedropdude
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the japan judge was extremely japanese in the finals...




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Feb 11 2002 6:21PM
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sirjibsalot
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yeah man i just watched it must say that was some pretty rad riding they did....the judges score like shit though.....i hate them
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Feb 11 2002 8:27PM
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Dspin900
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seriously...they go freakin huge

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Feb 11 2002 8:56PM
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Here's some pics from it







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Feb 11 2002 9:13PM
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Drail
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I'm watching it right now and Ross Powers is going huge.

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Feb 11 2002 9:27PM
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Drail
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ok, i take that back - that japanise dude is going huge.

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Feb 11 2002 9:30PM
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Drail
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funny observation - the boarders arn't wearing helmets. Anyone else find it odd that the IOC doesn't make them wear helmets?

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Feb 11 2002 9:35PM
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Freestyla_01
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another observation.
american channel. every american rider is shown 3 runs. 2 runs from other countries. this was over like 45 mins.
americans never show any other countries in the olympics. mostly just them.
CBC olympic coverage is best.
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Feb 12 2002 12:24AM
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Big_Willy
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Freestyla-they show the favorites, in pipe the favorites were the americans, and yes even if the americans arent the best they will obviously show their run or whatever because thats what americans want to see, just like Id want to see vinnie no matter how many times he crashes or what his score is, NBC just knows this and they try and give you what you want. They changed it up considerably from the last olympics, a lot of that backround story shit is left out and its more event heavy.

As for what I think about judging, look at my article. Basically tho I think it was good, I mean xgames judges judge the same way, FIS style just breaks it down easier. Like the xgames judges will say, man that run was sick, huge smooth 7 but the 1080 was kinda sketch so he'll be second. FIS judging- 8amplitude, 9 rotation, 7.5 overall impression (style) which puts him in second. So you see the same end result occurs, and style is definitely taken into consideration. If you spin like a ballerina but its sketchy then yeah maybe youll get a good rotation score but the impression score will bring you back down.



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Feb 12 2002 12:51AM
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maxcox9
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why did that german(?) dude just ride trough the pipe??? I soo didn't get it


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Feb 12 2002 6:23AM
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fakiedropdude
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he was hurt in the qualifier. he is leading the world cup. they just let him hear the audience cheering at him.



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Feb 12 2002 7:07AM
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quebecfreestyler
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Damn Im wanna be as smooth as danny kass and do a skiing version of the switch kass roll 9000 with pinsky sauce and extra cheese.
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Feb 12 2002 12:16PM
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ickyy
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did anyone notice trevor andrew give the crowd a thumbs up on his fronts side air in his last run in the finals that was kinda cool and ross and the japanese dude did go huge. I thought is was a good event overall. You just gotta not worry bout who wins and enjoy the riding. danny kass was ripping dude that kassaroll was tick.



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Feb 12 2002 1:36PM
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