WOMEN Slopestyle has ZERO chance to make it into the Olympics

even so not hating on girls but like a 9 is not a hard enough trick to be showcased as professional on a global scale. not hating on girls but they need some time to get better. i don't care if they don't progress within competitions in our sport - that is their prerogative. but if they are claiming to represent are sport and be the highest caliber athlete in it than they need to pick up the slack. i'd like to see a female pro that's not kaya cause she rips and comment saying why they deserve a sport in the olympics with tricks that are far below the AM level in male park skiing.

i wish it could be scientifically proven why girls suck at park skiing.

female pro skiers are at most as good as the average "best kid" at any local mountain. Most pro women are worse imo...

This is why women's freeskiing will always be 10-12 years behind. When i can claim that as an 18 year old college student who doesn't get to ski nearly as much as i would like that i could have easily podiumed at the women's x-games slope, i can confidently say that the level the sport is on is pretty embarrassing. on that note, it would be awesome if i could disguise myself as a girl and run train on every comp i could find. unfortunately i dont have the most feminine attributes.

It isn't unique to this thread, but it is totally obvious.

5 years ago was the 2005-2006 season... and yes, most of the pros could do ALL that in edits that season, not sure what movies/edits/comps you were watching.

And today, girls are still winning comps with 540s. Expectations are rising - at a snail's pace compared to guys. It's a HUGE disparity compared to other sports. Like I said above, girl aerialists compete with TRIPLES.

And, if they are on the slopes and training so hard, why is there so little to show for it?

I hope you aren't responding to me directly and trying to insist I'm "hating". I'm purely connecting dots to my opinions... I don't have any hate for girl skiers in general, I ski with my girlfriend all the time and we have a blast... but even she sits down in front of the TV for women's events in the xgames and questions why it's televised.

same at my house!

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TREADMILL

this

All your credibility just flew out the window, darling.

If girls are in the Olympics they should ski nude. I'd watch then.

then and only then

I laughed for ten minutes after reading this post. just thought you should know

well well well, AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA you got that wrong

women's freeskiing sucks, let's just get rid of em

This goes to show that newschoolers were as retarted back then as they are now

TwinipzThis goes to show that newschoolers were as retarted back then as they are now

If you're going to call the the entire Newschoolers member base retarded, at least spell it right.

PS. You're a Newschooler as well. Therefore by your logic, you are also a retard.

less women athletes on the scene, versus there being a high grade number of injuries or coming back from injuries?

i don't think it has to do with not pushing hard enough. some of the women who have pushed hard enough, like everyone said, have been injured, or even passed away. and there are tons of guys who get injured in sports all around. it's the name of the game, you play to play, but you can get hurt.

let's add a little bit of fruit to this. what's the actual ratio of men athletes competing versus women? give the scene a few years and this all might change. let's just face the reality, women have always skied, but less women skied, and even skied to compete, and more girls today are getting involved in sports in general. it is behind, and it's hard to advance something when you keep getting stopped in your tracks.

there's the whole debate on body types/size/weight versus the modules presented to men vs women. then there's a debate about how women are more easily injured, blah blah blah.

i don't see much sponsorship, and i don't see much support. i see girls who pride themselves on sexuality instead of their accomplishments on this website and everywhere else. and that's the most frustrating. and it's not a whole 'i'm inadequate and have low self esteem issue.' it's just facts ; sex has a place, and it doesn't need to be an attention grabber to gain support from a community. if you want to be heard, make fucking noise, piss someone off if you have to, support your scene, and stop objectifying it.

i say this time and time again, women snowboarders seem to support their sport/gender way more. more womens edits, more women crews, more women everything. brands, products, companies, pros, whatever. what are we waiting for? where are the women ski edits? where are the movies? other than every single female skier that has done a movie just about herself.

is that the problem? each female athlete is a lone wolf?

above all, i'm tired of this multi-versatile women thing. i'm a lady and an athlete. twinkle twinkle. i wear dresses all summer, and i don't fucking care about how dainty you are. fuck gender roles, and show me how you ride.

/rant.

Jesus there are way too many internet assholes in this thread...

lol lets all point and laugh at OP.

In a way a agree with this but also i think in a few years that the level of girls skiing will sky rocket. And it is going to be opposite for the guys skiing,the men are progressing at such a fast rate that they are going to hit a wall and not going to be able to progress as fast as they are now. The same thing is happening in the Olympics for summer sports such as the 100m sprint.

I was actually impressed by the women. Especially the rail game the last couple years. I remember when women were entering slope contests at the fucking xgames and skipping the rails. Girls were doing 450 disasters, pretzels all kinds of stuff.

Are their tricks up to what the men are doing now? of course not but they're actually looking pretty good and honestly doing stuff that's as good as the men were doing a couple years ago. It's getting there but I feel like once there is that core group across the board it will progress faster and be sustainable.

I wish there were more girls in the parks. I've ridden with some that lay the guys to shame but there just aren't many girls out there.

Even outside of any contest shredding it would be cool to see more girls embrace park skiing and just come on in and have fun.

fredmrossThey're all too busy with hair and make up

Actually enjoyed this bump. Inb4 some fucking retard doesn't notice the date

fredmrossThey're all too busy with hair and make up

Oddly enough you sort of hit on something here. Extreme sports is not something little girls are encouraged to do. Hair and make up on the other hand is.

I'm amazed that anyone here expects women's slopestyle to be anywhere near mens when there simply just aren't any women skiing park. On an average park day for me, I see zero other women skiers, and maybe occasionally I'll see a snowboarder. How the hell do expect to get a good competitor pool when there is no pool to begin with?

The flannel cup at Steven's had one female competitor for skiing so she just won by default...

Until we encourage more girls to break out of societal norms, this isn't going to change anytime soon.