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Jon Olsson + X-games =

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JWoods
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A big air jump that doesn't suck. Why can't they just hire who ever the hell designs and makes the JOI jump every year so that they actually have a sick ass jump that people can THROW DOWN on?
Apr 6 2012 9:44PM
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LittleFoot
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Really? The whole point of the comp is that Jon wanted to make his own jump. I'm pretty sure he's actually asked xgames to build their jumps in the past but they didn't want to.
Apr 6 2012 9:47PM
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BWalmer
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Contract with STP...That is most likely the biggest problem.
Apr 6 2012 9:49PM
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JWoods
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Yeah i just wasn't sure if he still did it or not due to his busy racing schedule and such. Xgames is lame though
Apr 6 2012 9:49PM
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LittleFoot
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Yeah it sort of sucks that it's the biggest event of the year and the riders have to put up with mediocrity.
Apr 6 2012 9:58PM
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.nasty
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seriously. boarder's could barely get a dub around on the shitty jump they built this year.
Apr 6 2012 11:13PM
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CrotchKiller
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wut
Apr 6 2012 11:16PM
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.nasty
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might've been one of the dew tours I can't remember.
Apr 6 2012 11:22PM
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jblaski
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what does an oil company have to do with the x-games?
Apr 6 2012 11:24PM
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Tent
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Ya I'm quite positive triples were done by snowboarders on the X big air jump...
Apr 6 2012 11:24PM
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.nasty
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yeah you're right. I just remember it being a night time jump, idk which event it was. but it was pretty sad to say the least
Apr 6 2012 11:25PM
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CrotchKiller
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regardless the X-games big air jump blew a cock, ill totally agree with you on that
Apr 6 2012 11:31PM
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BWalmer
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Yeah, I think you're mistaken...Horgmo and McMorris both did triples on the big air jump.

The problem is STP builds a long, flat jump step-over with very little pop for their "big air" jumps, where as for JOI it's a shorter (but still big) true table with a ton of pop. Snowboarders can naturally get more pop (which is why a lot of them really enjoy urban rails with a flat takeoff, i.e. no lip), so they're able to get triples around on those kinds of jumps (plus they're triples are basically 3 backflips and a 180).

It's also interesting to notice how the skiers preferred the slopestyle jumps to the big air jumps (those jumps had more pop...the 3rd jumps was similar to the JOI jump, just more cut out), while the snowboards had a terrible time with the slopestyle jumps (eliminations was basically decided by whoever could make it down the whole course), but were able to throw down a bit better on the big air jump.
Apr 6 2012 11:31PM
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BWalmer
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haha...sorry...SPT (Snow Park Technologies)...I keep messing up that abbreviation.
Apr 6 2012 11:32PM
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snowswinger
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I think Jon did design and help build the Xgames big air jump once, the year he won it with the Kangaroo circa 2008?
Apr 6 2012 11:43PM
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james6345789
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STOP THE DAMN JOI THREADS ALREADY
Apr 7 2012 12:34AM
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Dr.Gnar
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Sigh...if they made the jump bigger, with more hang time, there would be more future spins, and subsequently more crying my the preteens. Catch 22.
Apr 7 2012 12:36AM
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squibble
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for the record, who coined the term "future spin"?
Apr 7 2012 1:12AM
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LittleFoot
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JOI is going on now and it's pretty much the end of ski season. what else do you want to talk about
Apr 7 2012 1:18AM
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DERS.
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i made this thread a week ago. gtfo bitchhhh!
Apr 7 2012 3:30AM
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Alex_G
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3=============Dont care
Apr 7 2012 4:22AM
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THUGwife
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its funny how much x wanted triples. talk all week of it. on and on.
joi just standardly delivering
Apr 7 2012 7:42AM
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ForeverYung
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4bi9
Apr 7 2012 9:58AM
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joshua
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Professor Stepp to be exact.
Apr 7 2012 10:51AM
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JWoods
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Stept*
Apr 7 2012 11:20AM
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