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CalvinStork
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So i was realy bored last night and i was watching the womens moguls. This one girl did a layed out backflip on the first just and then went for a mute 3 on the second but missed the grab. The commentators were talking and on said,

"She will get credit for attempting the grab. Just to put it into context, the grab is harder than the backflip".......

WTF??? since when is a simple grab harder than a backflip iinto a mogul feild??

cant wait for them to see slopestyle
Feb 7 2014 9:38AM
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suup
Posts: 1485 - Karma: 4,367
in snowboarding slope they explained a flatspin as "spinning with his board parallel to the ground" and they usually just said "they have allot of air time to do these acrobatic menuvers" and the guys had no clue about rails...
Feb 7 2014 9:45AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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ha, i caught that as well. made me wtf.
Feb 7 2014 10:11AM
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John18_6
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I bet they'll say Henrik will lose points for his butters because he's spinning early and cheating.
Feb 7 2014 10:18AM
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sNaubi
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This.....
Feb 7 2014 11:51AM
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ButteredToast.
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could it be because it's qualifiers?

Will it not improve for finals? Seems dumb not to have someone well versed in the event they're fucking talking about on air
Feb 7 2014 2:02PM
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theBearJew
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Last night was shit with announcers. I watched all of slopestyle and heard them say cork once. Pretty much every run went like this,

"Well hes very clean on the rail section"
"Now onto the jumps"
"Well that's alot of airtime these riders are getting"
"And that's a full run"
Feb 7 2014 2:46PM
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ButteredToast.
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"Wow he's really snowboarding!"
Feb 7 2014 2:54PM
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Deforestation
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When the women snowboard slopestyle was going on the announcer said "wow thats a great clean 540, and I'll tell you, these flatspins are way harder than any flips because its just so difficult to keep your board parallell to the ground" -.-
Feb 7 2014 2:56PM
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eheath
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Discussion #440,523,243 about contest announcers...


give it a break guys jesus
Feb 7 2014 2:59PM
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j.saaaarela
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A 360 with a grab has a higher DD than a backflip:

http://www.fis-ski.com/mm/Document/documentlibrary/FreestyleSkiing/04/40/27/MogulAirDegreeofDifficultyChart_December2013_English.pdf

So there's that.
Feb 7 2014 3:01PM
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Rosstafarian
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OP that commentator was Jonny Moseley. Dude's a legend, he can say whatever the fuck he wants
Feb 7 2014 3:02PM
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lukemeahan.
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It's the olympics I get that, but I am not looking forward to the commentators on the tricks and the judging...
Feb 7 2014 4:04PM
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