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loganimlachthat front flip was ill
**This post was edited on Jan 22nd 2015 at 3:15:48pm
mik0tsiCan't believe i missed this?! How Antti Ollila did?
GrendelsTop 10 move to finals?
RubberSoulwhat did ________ do?
henrik
wallisch
goeper
gus
many thanks live feeders
casualActually appreciated Goepper's humility in the interview. He looked over confident hanging that trick out there, and ended up stalling the rotation, almost like he was trying to make it look really casual and easy for him. He pretty much owned it. And, he actually admitted that he felt a ton of pressure on him and that it affected him. Maybe this will be a turning point for him. Also, the arms crossed pouty face while still on the landing of the jump move is either slightly better or worse than the arms up and out in jubilance, mouth agape while still on the landing move, I'm not sure which.
Henrik out there boostin to the moon with some grown ass man landings. Bellemare was out of control with that 4 pretzel 4, even if rail spinoramas blow, it was ridiculous for the feature and how others were approaching it. ABM had the most unique and creative trick selection and was underscored. Oscar Wester was underscored. Bringing up the puppies at this point is...depressing, regardless of the intended audience of the broadcast. LVV is the man, and does a really phenomenal job of making some tech aspects or more visually subtle things and making them relatable to the uninitiated, even if he has to sacrifice at times a lil bit of accuracy (rodeo vs. cork, kind of half true statement but would be visually distinguishable for novice). Mcrae Williams looks really, really angry. I get it, it's a bummer, but he should take a page out of Wallisch's playbook for keeping it in perspective. Judging overall was pretty strange, but it's clear they're holding out on scores in anticipation of triples getting tossed.
I hope finals sees everyone really pull out the stops. I don't remember seeing so much "strategy" and caginess in terms of what tricks people are throwing or not throwing 5 years ago. Just an interesting change, and definitely a reflection of the seriousifying of skiing. I hope we still always see characters like Henrik and Wallisch who seem to have a smile on their faces and enjoy what they're doing regardless of how successful they are on any given day.
DeebieSkeebiesit was good seeing wally dickin' around at the top. just goes to show where his head is at. just out there to have some fun and put together a clean line.
RubberSoulwhat did ________ do?
henrik
wallisch
goeper
gus
many thanks live feeders
ChunterHere are the full results in case it wasn't posted earlier.
DeebieSkeebiesHenrik had some great shit on the wallride and rail features, slayed the jumps, and went into outerspace on his last hit.
Wallisch murdered the rail section. absolutely slayed it. Clean jumps. Just an overall perfect slope run from him.
Goepper was doing well up until the last hit, he was "too excited" as he put it in his post-run interview
and then the sign took gus out.
casualHenrik: Wallride, mellowish, but clean. Tweak safety 450 onto the third rail to sw. sw rt dub 9, ridiculous big and stylish nose dub 12 blunt, and a sw left dub 12 I think but maybe 9...I was too mystified by how fucking big it was and how he kind of compressed from damn near landing flat but he powered through it to notice what he actually did. He stalled out the rotation and splayed the safety out so far it was like in slow motion.
wallisch: 2 pretz 2 down donkey, left lip 450 on to down to switch, to sw 4 on the gap down to left dub 12, to those two jumps he's done for 4 years, and it was all really fucking clean and Wallischian.
Goepper: sort of mirrored wallride tricks, I wanna say he hit them both switch? I'm blanking on his rails kind of. He did a sw dub 9 and a couple dub 12s, all basically flawlessly until the last rt dub 12 I think mute to japan where he sort of stalled the last 180 and kind of didn't get fully back on axis and ended up laying it down on his hip which let Gus sneak into the finals. Had Goepper landed clean, he would've been top 5-6 no doubt.
ChunterWhat happened to Jossi Wells? Didn't even get a shot?
Grendelshttp://xgames.espn.go.com/events/2015/aspen/results/400608545/men-ski-slopestyle
a little easier to look at
FreeskiThe603Love seeing T-Wall qualify first. Feels like a blast to the past and its awesome to see him still killing it. Gonna really be pulling for him to take the gold
