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Is tom wallisch treated differently?

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BASEDRILEY
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getting higher scores than other people would for the same tricks?


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Mar 4 2012 6:03PM
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Posts: 2345 - Karma: 2,104
As in the Shaun White of skiing?
Mar 4 2012 6:05PM
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hot.pocket
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Came in here to say the same thing.
Mar 4 2012 6:05PM
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cheener12
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I mean, he's got ok style..............
Mar 4 2012 6:09PM
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FerrisBueller
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the reason he scores so high is that his landings are 95% of the time flawless and grabs are always held longest and tweaked maximum
Mar 4 2012 6:13PM
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stickski
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He does the same tricks better so he gets a better score..
Mar 4 2012 6:24PM
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alden.
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the way it should be
Mar 4 2012 6:26PM
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bobs
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this
Mar 4 2012 6:27PM
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ajax
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He still should have won, but the judging was downright embarrassing.
Mar 4 2012 6:27PM
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SteveStepp
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Style is the deciding factor for sure. He's impossibly smooth with all his tricks and landings, the judges know this.
Mar 4 2012 6:32PM
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207
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he doesn't do future spins so he is treated differently. He also bangs the shit out of everything and doesn't huck like bobby brown and goepper.
Mar 4 2012 6:33PM
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MaryO
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Yep, and hes treated with the respect he's earned. Next stop.....Euro X!
Mar 4 2012 6:34PM
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Billiards.
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Grand Prix results?
Mar 4 2012 6:48PM
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kvan
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I wouldnt say they "huck" themselves.. Their style just isnt as distinct as Wallisch
Mar 4 2012 6:48PM
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BWalmer
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Tom Wallisch's style doesn't translate fully on TV/Internet...it's ridiculous how smooth it is in person, a whole nother level. Plus, he might do the same tricks...but so is EVERYONE else...Tom just does them bigger, smoother, and lands them flawlessly. He earns those high scores.
Mar 4 2012 7:01PM
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SKI.ING
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All there is to say really. And to the people saying he's the shaun white of skiing, I think that idea is pretty flawed as well.
Mar 4 2012 7:06PM
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.peter
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obviously not geoper won at the dew tour and barely landed his last trick.
Mar 4 2012 7:15PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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none of my friends ski or snowboard and even they noticed how much easier he makes everything look. primarily the landings
Mar 4 2012 7:52PM
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TheScratch
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haha lost
Mar 4 2012 8:21PM
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SpookyCat
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If hes being treated the same way i was treated on the set of 13 Going On 30, then he's very special
Mar 4 2012 8:45PM
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acc
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Mar 4 2012 8:54PM
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Mykel
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Who the fuck is Tom Wallisch?
Mar 4 2012 9:26PM
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Karma_Police
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Hucked?  Goeppers landings at x were almost as clean if not cleaner in some instances than toms.
Mar 4 2012 9:29PM
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saskskierftw
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Exactly
Mar 4 2012 9:37PM
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thedawg
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this...i was watching xgames with my non-skiier/boarder friends and they could see the distinct difference in the way wallisch skis and the way everyone else does...
Mar 4 2012 9:52PM
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Ronix
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yup
Mar 5 2012 1:24AM
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A-Bois
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Well said
Mar 12 2012 9:02AM
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L.G.P.
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tom wallisch is skiing, hes the most known and nevermind his insanely sick style
Mar 12 2012 9:46AM
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bdowning
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His jumps are just as smooth as the next guy but his rail game is what really seperates him from the competition.
Mar 12 2012 9:53AM
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Karma_Police
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We're all entitled to our on opinions, even when they're wrong.
Mar 12 2012 11:29AM
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PJS.
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no, he's just fucking jesus.
Mar 12 2012 11:33AM
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p-fo
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Pretty much. Something I've noticed is that he has an incredible ability to do tricks in both directions without sacrificing any style whatsoever. He gets high scores because he's really fucking talented.
Mar 12 2012 12:19PM
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.Jacob
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And he played clarinet in the 4th grade.
Mar 12 2012 12:26PM
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N.L.
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if someone posts a video of a new trick, it wont be cool until twall does it,

alot of you dont remember the first person to post video of pretzels, but i assure you it wasnt the pretzelman
Mar 12 2012 12:31PM
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Alex_G
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ya but goepper didnt' do the fattest blind 4 in all of contest history. wallisch did. thats why he won so quit your bitching.
Mar 12 2012 12:32PM
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NToTheZ
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Wallisch wasn't even that big last year. This year was like his debut in my opinion when everyone starts to notice him and he kills it no doubt in my mind but he's not a stuck up fashion queen like Shaun White. So, i don't see how you can compare him to Shaun white.
Mar 12 2012 12:43PM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
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that's just beautiful
Mar 12 2012 12:46PM
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PBraunstein
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irrelevant post is the most irrelevant.   
Mar 12 2012 12:52PM
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WI_Personallty
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shaun white scores higher because he's shaun white. tom wallisch scores high because he has so much control and he's tom wallisch
Mar 12 2012 12:54PM
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CashmereCat
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I don't think the Tammy Whamstick hype train is quite at the level of Shaun Whites
Mar 12 2012 12:54PM
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rwoods2013
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His style is a lot smoother than that of others and he stomps his tricks and brings his hands right up to his sides all of those small things add up to a better score.
Mar 12 2012 1:06PM
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Tikayt
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Ones who deny he's gotta a special s'thing that most skiers don't have are just blind. However T'wall isn't alone in the game and their are SO MANY who just push the sport so far !

Also, people who say T'Wall=skiing, I think they should first know what skiing is all about. FOr those who still don't know and would like to know, I suggest you watch All.I.CAN, it's a good movie.
Mar 12 2012 1:08PM
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WI_Personallty
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I love the creativity part in the movie with jf destroying the skis on that amazing urban run
Mar 12 2012 1:18PM
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xkuza
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Boss is treated like a boss.
Mar 12 2012 1:33PM
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Karma_Police
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And now you have 10/10
Mar 12 2012 1:42PM
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Dr.Gonzo
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naw, wallisch was better than anyone else out there this year, he deserved everything he won.
Mar 12 2012 1:56PM
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hemlockjibber8
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ummmmm, do you mean JP? ...like JP Auclair? Look him up, you would probably recognize him.
Mar 12 2012 2:25PM
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CrotchKiller
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he caters to a whole different audience as well. My parents liked his run the most in X games because he looks the "smoothest"
Mar 12 2012 2:33PM
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I_Am_Mod
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as mentioned, his style is super smooth ...

i'm not really all that much of a follower of the freeski competitions, so i usually don't recognize people by outerwear or anything, but just by the smoothness of the tricks, i can recognize wallisch 9 out of 10...
Mar 12 2012 2:50PM
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danbrown
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aint preferential treatment when youre better than everyone else. thats facts
Mar 12 2012 2:52PM
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kebbek
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Check out at 0:17. I can't even understand...
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Mar 12 2012 3:07PM
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