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You're lazy
"Well, it's not like we didn't see this coming. But it still must be mentioned: tonight's Ski Big Air, with 100 percent fan voting, was debatable. The event should have probably have been over after the first bracket of competition, in which PK Hunder threw both a double cork 1260 and a double cork 1080 against ... actually, it doesn't matter who it was against. You can count on one hand the number of skiers on the planet who can throw either of those tricks, and PK wasn't skiing against any of them.
But Hunder drew Simon Dumont, who is arguably the most high-profile skier on the planet, and in a contest where name recognition counts 100 times against each notch of technical difficulty, it was really no contest at all. People who think about things like voting have a term for this: the Tyranny Of The Majority. Tonight, the Tyrants wielded cell phones and browsers to deny one of the most exciting young skiers in the game what would have been the biggest win of his career.
It needs to be noted that Dumont had no illusions about what happened. He threw double superman frontflips because they're fun and he knew it would please the crowd (they carried him to the win over Jon Olsson in the final bracket). When Keir Dillon asked him about the win in the finish area, he made it clear that he thought PK was the winner. More importantly, he's donating the lion's share of his winnings to a very worthy cause. If nothing else, Winter X crowned a gracious champion tonight.—"
I'm disapointed that simon actually threw the double front flips AGAIN.
I tought that over the years we, freeskiers, had made it clear that straight up double flips were not that cool and that we didnt want the sport to go that way. I'm kinda sad that last night the winner was the one who went for the most simple tricks of them all.
If you are goint to be the one that represent freeskiing in front of the public eyes like and x-game winner is you might as well show what the sport is about. Even if it means not doing the crowd pleasing trick when you know it dosnt represent where you want skiing to go.
All of that being said, Giving out the money to help Riley is a true noble act and that's pretty much the only thing that should remain from the 2009 skiing x-games big air. That and the formidable display of skiing by the ones who showed the world what skiing had became when it comes to pure technicality in skiing.
I just felt like I watch watching the Shrab brother coming back and winning x-games big air, wich is scaring me to say the least.
I dont hate on Dumont, he's a really good skier.
I'm just disapointed that he went for the mass media pleaser when he could have stepped it up and done something else like he could have done.
That being said as I told I my previous post, I believe the other rider in the contest Stepped it up HUGE and threw down some of the best stuff I've ever seen them do.
Jacobs kang flip was the smoothest I've ever seee
Jon switch doubles high saftey were picture perfect and he stomped the crap out of them
and PK..... well there are no words for describing how ridiculous the kid is when it comes to style and technicality.
the only thing I saw that dissapointed me is the fact that there was a straight up double front flip that was thrown in the mix while being serious about it. Sure it might be fun but those are the kind of tricks that should be done as a joke if you do them in a contest, just like the good old backflip. Maybe that's what Dumont was doing and then my whole point have no sense at all. I just doubt t was the case.
Call me an idiot, say I should only care about my own thing, I dont mind. I'm not haitng I just explain my opinion.
Hate is a bigwordthat some of you dont seem to understand.
thanks, I was thinking about my whole argument while i was driving to the grocery and I came to the same conclusion.
Definatly not.
If you look at the date the post you quoted was made, it was between big air and slopestyle. So he was talking about what hapened in big air.
The way they showcased sking slopestyle was definatly predictable, only showing a few select riders and not showing some of the guys that killed it.
Kinda flet like watching half of a football game and trying to figure what happened in the other half from seing the scores.
Judges did a good job this year event tho i tought they scored TJ'sd run a tad too high since he hit the small side of the booter. Still think he deserved to win but definatly not by a 2 point margin over sammy and Colby.
as much as we may like to think that the xgames is a venue for progression and all things extreme, the reality of the situation is that it is still a competition where a win can make or hugely advance someone's career.
simon was not the most progressive/technical/steezy guy in the contest, but he "played the game" the best by figuring out what trick would be most appealing to the judges (in this case anyone with a tv and a cell phone)
in any type of competition if you want to win, you need to impress the judges first and foremost, and simon did that. it is his job to do that, and his sponsers expect him to be able to know that.
an xgames win on a double front with a supe thrown in is much better for his big time sponsors (and as a result simon) and so he did the dfs and won because it is his job to win the major competitions. by winning them and raising his profile in and out of the ski industry, he canl continue to progress the sport in other ways like with his qp record last season.
that being said, if this was a big air that was not judged by the fans in a textvote, i don't think his trick would have won at all, but i also don't think he would have thrown it. simon just figured out the voting demo's idea of a winning trick better than the other riders.
and ced, where's the love for the schrab brothers? wisco represent!
