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Slopestyle v. Pipe

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thebusiness19
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Which do you guys will think be more fun to watch this year? I understand that NS will probably say slopestyle, because 99% of all edits on NS are park edits. I probably would have agreed with you a year ago too, when Kevin Rolland was just dominating everything no question asked. While I would much rather watch a sick park edit, I think competing in pipe will be more interesting this year. In park there are only about three or four guys who seem to podium. Whereas in pipe, kids can come out of nowhere and podium (Noah Bowman, Silver at X, Wing Tai Barrymore Silver at Dew Tour) Every single kid who makes it to finals has a legit chance of being on the podium. Plus with Tanner back in the mix, we could possibly see that Simon v Tanner battle again. Henrik, as evidenced in EDS, has the skills to maybe make a showing as well and add a more stylish approach to the pipe. Kevin Rolland could come back with vengeance after a realtively dry season and try to do something ridiculous like a dub 14 or a triple or something in the pipe. Since the playing field is so even, I don't think that the pipe skiiers can rely as much on one run through the whole season as the slopestyle skiiers have (Wallisch pretty much took the year with dub 12 to back to back dub 10's) It could be a real dramatic year in the pipe. That's my opinion I am stoked to see what you guys think.
Sep 16 2012 7:05PM
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Miomo
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Pipe becuz uv shawn wite
Sep 16 2012 7:12PM
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thebusiness19
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if i had to chose a quote that embodies ns...
Sep 16 2012 7:14PM
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theabortionator
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Pipe because the flying potato will be doing cool tricks and stuff.

But really slopestyle always. Honestly even if there wasn't a contest I would enjoy just seeing the settup. I'm always seeing what other people are doing. Then it's nice to see how people end up using the features. And obviously I love to see people throwing down in slope.

Sep 16 2012 7:30PM
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fudgenuggets
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what is EDS? want to see harlaut ski pipe

Sep 16 2012 8:27PM
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Nate.Dog
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its the abbreviation for education of style
Sep 16 2012 8:44PM
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*laughterbang*
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actually I am really stoked on this now.

I want to ski pipe this season too, but I live in the east.
Sep 16 2012 8:49PM
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GavinW
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I prefer slope style. IMO it's more fun to watch
Sep 16 2012 9:15PM
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asfdfads
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slope style, i love seeing the different setups and watching athletes have creativity with their lines. at the same time, mad props to the pipe skiers who get 20+ feet over the deck. those guys kill it
Sep 16 2012 9:37PM
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CrotchKiller
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oh ya, makes sense
Sep 16 2012 9:45PM
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Brown_Bag
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Imo slope style, when the course is sick, but pipe is always super interesting and fun too see when new and diverse stuff is being thrown
Sep 16 2012 10:14PM
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roddy116
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wait guys, what if there was a slopestyle and then a pipe in the same run.
Sep 16 2012 10:17PM
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NinetyFour
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Holy shit. My mind is blown... Some contest should seriously consider this.
Sep 16 2012 11:21PM
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thebusiness19
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a year ago i made a thread suggesting something like this, it got pretty shot down
https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/680197/
Sep 17 2012 12:25AM
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250r
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well as far as the edges problems go like mentioned in that thread, they should just do it in the spring at somewhere like whistler or mammoth, so the pipe would be softer.
Sep 17 2012 1:45AM
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GrabsForFun
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I think pipecomps got a lot more interesting last year. Overall there were more diversity
Sep 17 2012 4:01AM
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FreezerKid
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always prefered slope and always will but really intrested to watch tanner this year and see what he has after years out, recon he may come back and dominate, would love to see the tanner simon battle again fosure
Sep 17 2012 6:37AM
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JsNeagle
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I remember a slope comp from 10+ years ago that had a downhill quarter pipe half way through the course.  You'd carve over and get one halfpipe hit in your run.  If I remember right there was a rail option too, but most people hit the 1/4
Sep 17 2012 7:18AM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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guys who ride halfpipe have huge balls for doing it. you don't realize how big a 22ft wall is until you actually go up to it, and then air 15ft-20ft out of it while spinning? like holy fuck.

but yeah the closest pipe to me is a 3 hour drive so it's just rails and jumps for me.
Sep 17 2012 7:46AM
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drumbumocdp
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After trying to ski a 22 foot pipe, i realized how crazy those guys are. Id hit a slopestyle course for say dew tour and x games, granted i wouldnt do anything crazy, but i would never be able to get 20 feet out of a superpipe. Its just insane
Sep 17 2012 1:26PM
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SpaghettiWizard
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Slopestyle but like everyone else is saying pipe is fucking scary. I Gave up 2 years ago but now both places near me took away their pipes so I wouldn't have had much of a choice anyways
Sep 17 2012 1:32PM
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theabortionator
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If all you rode is pipe you'd prolly say the opposite. Pipe is dying out to an extent. I wish it wasn't because I used to love it. Now places that actually have pipes just aren't that many. Seems all the time mountains are getting rid of there's. At one point everyone was building a pipe. Now the focus is on parks and I get it because nobody hits the pipes anyways. Why spend a bunch of money on it for it to sit there have have 100 people come through and sort of kind of ride it, maybe one person that boosts a little bit.
Sep 17 2012 3:25PM
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a_burger
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I personally prefer slope comps but I think it will be interesting to see how Tanner and Simon will do.
Sep 17 2012 3:33PM
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Holte
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It's probably that i'm a lot better at jumping and sliding rails than skiing pipe, but the most mind-blowing skiing I've seen in person has been in a pipe. Watching a legit pipe comp from the deck is way more fun than slope.
Sep 17 2012 4:00PM
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jwv
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This is very true, but I think it wouldn't be if more mountains started building smaller pipes. More people would be able to get into it without having to go balls to the wall their first try. Read this article: http://www.powdermag.com/stories/return-12-foot-pipe/ and see what you think. Realistically though, I prefer watching a slopestyle comp because of the varying setups, instead of seeing that same 22' halfpipe every comp.
Sep 17 2012 4:56PM
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ParryWithAnEh
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I like both equally. I like slopestyle for the creativity and some awesome tricks but I love pipe when you have guys just doing plenty of double, flying high and just stomping all their tricks one after the other. Both are amazing in their own way.
Sep 17 2012 5:33PM
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Funnel
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I have trouble watching pipe. I enjoy watching slope though. In all honesty, watching comps doesn't always do it for me.
Sep 17 2012 6:19PM
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jerm
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there have been a few euro snowboard comps that have had a halfpipe in the middle of the slope course. I think it was the oniell evolution a while back. and sometimes ive seen a qp running down the fall line of a slopestyle course so people can do one hit as part of the slope course.
Sep 17 2012 6:36PM
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theabortionator
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Idk if they need to take it all the way down to 13 but it would be nice to see a 14ish pipe here and there. Most mountains that had 12-14 foot pipes had the old pipe dragons that just died out. Those things got beat to hell clawing through ice constantly and most mountains don't have the money to put into them, or don't want to waste the money.

I remember when pipes didn't have to be all serious. Some of the ones on the east coast started out as a bunch of berms in a row for a few years until they got the pipe dragon and did the dirt work. Labradors pipe about 12 years ago had all kinds of weird boxes on the walls to to jib at one point. I remember even seeing ski patrollers in there filming. I think that was the first time I saw somebody throw a cork in real life.


I miss the days of dicking around in the old pipe size. When I hit mount snow I'll take 4 or 5 laps through the pipe generally. Seems like nobody else is ever hitting it. A few people that just turn on the walls and then maybe 2 people all day that really try to boost it. The thing is built beautifully and it just sits there. I def see what the guy in the article was talking about.


Who knows though. It could be that a lot of kids would rather ride the regular parks. I'm sure a 12 or 14 footer would get a lot more traffic, but it would suck if it just sat there.
Sep 17 2012 6:36PM
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Blynch2
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YES
Sep 17 2012 7:03PM
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Furrer92
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In person I'd much rather go see pipe since you can watch their entire run, but I'd say slopestyle for in TV since you get to see everything regardless.
Sep 17 2012 7:30PM
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theabortionator
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It's still cool as fuck to see them on the screens coming down and then all the sudden launch into real life off the bottom booter.

Seeing I think it was sammy carlson get destroyed by the mountain dew sign or something on the landing of the last jump at the msnow dew tour in 08 was pretty wild.
Sep 17 2012 8:16PM
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Furrer92
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true enough, I'd really enjoy going to see a major live event either way
Sep 21 2012 11:40AM
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250r
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before whistler got the 22 foot pipe they had like a 16-17 foot pipe. That thing was great for learning stuff in, i think 14 is still a bit too small, but although theyre pretty close in size it would be really nice to have the 16 and 22 so you could progress from one to the other
Sep 21 2012 4:34PM
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Clark_Griswold
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Last year our pipe was turned into a "jib trench" with just two big monster truck tires at the end of the left wall, A propane tank in the middle at the top of the left wall and a small C rail at the very beginning. the right wall just had one small entrance jump which 99% of people just hit and rode the top of the wall.
Sep 21 2012 6:43PM
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TripleBlack
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Halfpipe skiing's a dying art... at least where I ski - It's not really an accessible sport for most people anymore without the smaller halfpipes. I know if my hill still had its pipe, I'd be hitting it every day, but most mountains don't want to spend money building and maintaining pipes anymore (aside from competition venues with 22' superpipes). It's really going to hurt the sport of pipe skiing if it becomes a show of "stunts" that nobody can relate to.

Sep 22 2012 8:53PM
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NinetyFour
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I SUPPORT THE SMALL PIPE RE-BIRTH MOVEMENT

Seriously, I would NEVER ride a huge 22 foot pipe. That's just it, I don't have the balls. A smaller style OG pipe would be the tits.

The beginning of this video says it all. That looks like a pissload of fun to ride IMO.


Sep 22 2012 9:39PM
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EARL
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No, not at all. 22ft. pipes are SO much less scary and way easier to ski than 18ft pipes. Because the walls are bigger, it makes for more transition which means that the vert part of the wall is much longer. You also have a much bigger area of transition to land in which makes it easier to keep your speed up and is a lot more forgiving on your body.
Sep 23 2012 2:29AM
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BaileyB
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slopestyle
Sep 23 2012 2:36AM
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NinetyFour
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I see what you mean. I'm thinking more so like a 14 foot pipe though. Just a really small guy.
Sep 23 2012 3:02AM
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sebdollo
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Slope man
Sep 23 2012 6:29AM
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