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X games big air

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Hornbeck
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I could be wrong but is X games big air going to be fun to watch? I am not hating on any of the athletes or their tricks. I am just watching from the outside. I see the list of athletes and already suspect that it is going to be a double flip contest. Are people going to be stoked when everyone's doing similar tricks? I feel like people may loose intrest. I know I can't watch a big air contest anymore. I understand you have to do the trick that wins but something needs to change.

After this year what is going to happen? Do we really want to see triples or spins over 1440?

X games rollerblade vert was going crazy at one point and just died. Was it because the same 10 people were in it every year and doing simliar tricks?

Jan 11 2010 8:40AM
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finnafuckyobitch
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It would be sick and entertaining to have the riders be:
Delorme throwing a no-grab switch 10 shifty
Vanular throwing a nose butter cork 9
T-wall, Andreas, Sammy C. and Henrik throwing dub 12's, with different grabs of course
Dumont throwing a dub front superman
Casabon throwin that sw. 10 shifty
Turpin doing a tripple flat
Laurent doing a sw. 7 screamin seamin
Nick Martini throwing a screamin seamin flatspin
Hornbeck throwin rightside rodeo 7
That imo would be the coolest most fun big air comp to watch. T'would be sick, unfortunatley wouldnt happen
Jan 26 2010 8:04PM
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petesguitar1
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It does look sick when guys are doing dubs, but also can get a bit stale when everyone is trying to do the same thing. Personally I love slopestyle, and hope that one day they will make like a mega-slopestyle that is really long with heaps of hits and rails and possibly natural terrain thrown in.
Jan 26 2010 8:17PM
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mattwalker
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bobby did dub switch misty 12 today. so there is something new...
Jan 26 2010 10:16PM
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Alp1ne
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Dayum son thats crazy
Jan 26 2010 10:19PM
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.Duncan.
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This!!

Jan 26 2010 10:26PM
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Broseph_Stalin
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thats sick
Jan 26 2010 10:27PM
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Keith_M
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the problem is all in the judging. we need a change in format for that. give style and creativity the same amount of weight as technicality. Nah mean?
Jan 27 2010 12:26AM
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Sun_Ra
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Seems like we might not see Jon "Super duper cooler than the others" trick.

And props to Bobby B for innovating !
Jan 27 2010 12:30AM
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Keyjibbs
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holy fuck that landing does look flat as shit. I wouldn't want to hit that either.
Jan 27 2010 1:05AM
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pasen
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@hornbeck;
It will be a lot more fun to watch the x-games big air than seeing you guys doing switch ups to hip hop music in some shitty edit on youtube...
Jan 27 2010 10:14AM
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Nicko1981
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It's not Twitter, you don't need to use @.
Jan 27 2010 10:30AM
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chardi
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"i came up to the jump and was like, wow i feel really tired, so when i went for a double i thought i was gonna die... then i landed it so its all good." - Jon Olsson

God Damn it he's so good!

Jan 27 2010 11:24AM
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kyle-decker
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When you man enough to not stand behind an alias you need to post under your real name, post your location, and hopefully your within driving distance of la familia.
Jan 27 2010 11:42AM
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J-Dunn
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Thata what i thinks so kool bouot freeskiing. U got people who shred rails and park and people who rip backcountry and people who bring unique styles and people who do it all. Everybody is different and brings a different aspect to the sport. I respect every part of freeskiing there is. Well except ski blading!
Jan 27 2010 10:59PM
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f.ray
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lol!
Jan 30 2010 11:33AM
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FUUUCK
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Jan 30 2010 11:55AM
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M+M
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not hating here, but if ANYONE other than hornbeck made this thread, their asshole would be ripped open by now, NS is just a huge dick sucking web site, this thread couldnt have been proven any more wrong, big air went off with the craziest dubs ever, yet everyone here is saying "oh hornbeck your SO right!", i understand wat he is saying, but big air is the biggest thing skiing has to its name right now i would say, which is awesome for skiing!
Jan 30 2010 12:17PM
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MrLarsen
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Well if you look at when the posts were made you'll see most where made before the comp went down, and I doubt a lot of people even imagined it would go down the way it did.. Kinda waiting for hornbeck to get back in on this thread..
Jan 30 2010 12:21PM
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TheButterHashira
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Yeah but its not like someone said "looks like mike hornbeck was dead wrong" instead he took a jab at hornbecks edits which are way cooler than anything 99% of newschoolers could ever make.
Jan 30 2010 12:26PM
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faux_real
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this dude needs to come out of the closet and claim his prize
Jan 30 2010 12:26PM
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clint
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hahahaha

Fuck you. You obviously know what style is ya bitch
Jan 30 2010 12:28PM
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Gharf
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lol :D

no one who seriously like skiing can hate on hornbeck.
such an innovative skier.
Jan 30 2010 1:10PM
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reBlocke
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The format was really good.  They should do that at other contests. 

Although that must have been harder on the judges.  They messed up pretty bad giving Bobby a perfect score so early.
Jan 30 2010 1:17PM
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jerad
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yeah a bunch of scrawny white skier kids who think they're black might show up.
Jan 30 2010 1:21PM
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Br3dacru5t
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i don't know what you guys are talking about. last nights big air was so sick. Bbrown with the switch double misty 1440? schiller with the 1620 with a grab? and Elias,,, that crazy fucker and his switch dub 1440... ridiculous and raising the bar every year.
Jan 30 2010 1:30PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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So, does anyone know why PK backed out of the comp? Hopefully not something injury related.
Jan 30 2010 1:35PM
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highindasky55
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so i can understand why this thread was made in the first place... being that it was the xgames and text to win is cool for them. But damn everything about this big air, the comp format, the skiers, the jump being pretty sick (smooth move Jon you fucked up)... it all came together into one of the most progressive 20 minute blocks of skiing that has ever happened.

Mad props to Brown and Schiller, gonna have to rethink the whole sport after that.
Jan 30 2010 1:40PM
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MrLarsen
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From PK's blog:
[quote]And I don´t mean me not blogging for like a month, event though I am truely sorry for that.
I don´t know what it is but when im not skiing I just stop blogging as well. but im gonna try to get a grip now.

Allright, quik recap of what I´ve done since my last post. I went back home for Christmas. We had some snow issues so the park got up pretty late and when it got up it wasen´t built till it´s fullest potential. Allthough I didn´t do that much skiing during christmas I did manage to sprain my ankle. It got so much better so fast so I thought it was one of those one week injuries, so I packed my bags and headed over to Colorado. after almost a month in the US and 2 days on skis I can see now that it wasen´t.

Now Im in Aspen for the X-games, and what I mean by the headline for this post is that it happened a lot since I got hurt.
So much sick skiing going on. and since I´ve had like 3 good days of skiing the last 10 months (I actually counted the months today) all the guys are a little out of my league right now. And my ankle is´nt really a 100% yet, it hurt´s a bit when I do rails and big sw spins. But im glad to be here, meeting all the guys that I haven´t seen for almost a year and just having a great time.

Tomorrow is qualifyers and I think I did one trick today at practice that im planing of doing in my run, so I Can´t really see me coming near of qualifying. But the moral about this story is to have a super fun time, all the time - quote Eric Cartman.

Last I wan´t to give a shout out to Bobby Brown. dub cork 12 to sw dub misty 12. sickest thing I´ve ever seen. clearly a favorite with Andreas and Tom

Peace out![/quote]
Jan 30 2010 1:45PM
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K_Day
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watch yourself
Jan 30 2010 1:54PM
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ike.
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ya dude it would happen: u just described JOSS
Jan 30 2010 1:58PM
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A.0.spin
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There is nothing wrong with skiers being able to do those tricks. but at the same time I would have been sooooo much more stoked if someone just did the most massive zero spin ever or wallisch did one of those layed out wierd corked out 540's he was doin in Tight! But I think the biggest indicator that there is something a little bit flawed about the progression of the sport is that, my buddies who I was watchin the big air comp with said:

"man this much spinning just gets old"

in fact they were more impressed with bobbies backflip and with good reason. I know they were having fun and there is nothing wrong with ginormous spins in fact most of them look pretty steez but its not good when judges judge based on spin count and holding a grab. a.0.spin ftw
Jan 30 2010 1:59PM
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Krongos
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i've known bernie for a long time and this is the first nice thing i've heard him say.
Jan 30 2010 2:27PM
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J-Dunn
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So i didn't think that I was a fan and I hated big air comps on tv in the past but damn it was kick ass this year. So much intovation! Go X for the sweet jam style set up! But how bout a multi feature set up rail jam? You know like the ones that P-Rod dominates at Summer X.
Feb 16 2010 1:41AM
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Ian.Ham
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I dont know how many of you have actually done a double cork but I can tell you it is one of the coolest feelings ever.  It feels so sick to be able to do such a crazy trick and land it.  Because one of the best parts about skiing is progressing yourself.  Think how stoked you were when you first landed a k-fed.  Or a cork 7, it is like that but on another level.  I can do steezy ass cork 9 blunts and stomp every time.  But it isnt nearly as gratifying as landing a dub cork 1440.  People will continue to do big tricks because it is boring to do 540's and 720's forever no matter how steezy they are.
Feb 16 2010 1:58AM
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