2018 Olympics thoughts and predictions

DIRTYBUBBLERegardless of your opinion on comp skiing, I would argue that the Olympics are very beneficial to freeskiing.

-While corporate brands will flood the sponsorship scene momentarily, this at least means more exposure, money, etc will be made available to boost our sport.

-More exposure means more new skiers. And this could possibly mean more NS'ers to pull us out of this current active membership decline.

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grantwhittyHopefully they can find a park crew that actually knows how to make a slopestyle course. Sochi's jumps were wack.

**This post was edited on Jul 19th 2017 at 9:35:13am

eheathThere is more money in the sport, but its not distributed to anyone but the large ski brands and maybe a handful of skiers, this isnt beneficial for anyone but them. As for more NS traffic, sure but the xgames does the same thing for us every year, but I know that in 2014 we had a huge spike in traffic, so it is a good thing for NS but i doubt it will help "change" anything.

The olympics haven't really done anything positive for skiing IMO, people focusing on competition has increased dramatically, kids just want coaches now so they can do the ussa/usasa contests. Its great to see more kids involved in comp skiing, but its effecting skiing overall. We need more focus and more money in things like SLVSH, ski movies/ski content, newschoolers (lol), smaller invite contests (khai, kimbo, JOSS/JOI) before we can really say the olympics helped skiing, until then its still a circle jerk of corporations using skiing as another device to make more money.

SofaKingSickFirst off, at least just watch the last two clips in this video...you will not be sorry
http://unofficialnetworks.com/2017/07/18/video-u-s-snowboarding-team-summer-training-mammoth/

Anyway, this got me hyped for next year's Olympics. It sure was a controversial event in 2014, but I think we can all at least agree some sick shit went down, for example, Henrik harlaut sending a nose butter trip 16 halfway to Ukraine

So what are your thoughts on the 2018 skiing? Has it grown on you? Who/what kind of run will win?

SlunkyLmao i just wanna see someone quad

Park_RangerTo each their own. I'd prefer to see someone flow through that course like it was made of butter

SlunkyYeah haha, I don't think we'll see a quad at Olympics, there isn't even big air

Park_RangerI guarantee that someone would throw a quad if they had jumps the size of the ones in Sochi.

SlunkyMaybe, but it would have to be clean enough to ride into the next feature

SlunkyLmao i just wanna see someone quad

SlunkyYeah haha, I don't think we'll see a quad at Olympics, there isn't even big air

Park_RangerI guarantee that someone would throw a quad if they had jumps the size of the ones in Sochi.

FinbawwrActual skiing aside is anyone aware how fucked having the Olympics in Korea is? Firstly the area receives fuck all snow, its all man made. Secondly in order to make the Olympic venue they destroyed an entire forest and finally think of the fuel being burnt getting to Korea when the majority of athletes come from Europe and the Americas. Like seriously surely the winter Olympics would be trying to tackle climate change so people can continue to ski and do what they love rather than fuel it. In my opinion none of the athletes should turn in order to protest against this so our children can enjoy can enjoy winter as well. Rant over.

a_burgerlol korea gets tons of natural snow

FinbawwrActual skiing aside is anyone aware how fucked having the Olympics in Korea is? Firstly the area receives fuck all snow, its all man made. Secondly in order to make the Olympic venue they destroyed an entire forest and finally think of the fuel being burnt getting to Korea when the majority of athletes come from Europe and the Americas. Like seriously surely the winter Olympics would be trying to tackle climate change so people can continue to ski and do what they love rather than fuel it. In my opinion none of the athletes should turn in order to protest against this so our children can enjoy can enjoy winter as well. Rant over.

gak98Maggie Voisin will take the womens slope Gus or henny for mens pipe Torin or Wise will take it

Deepskiermad hyped for pipe, doubt David will take it, IMO he is on his way out, pretty old now, would love to see Torin lock it down, but a lot of good riders out there too early to say. Would be fucking hilarious to see woodsy throw a quad. I think the Olympics are very beneficial to our sport regardless of what eheath says, exposure is just publicity for more skiers, more money etc.

jwillyword, I think it's a pretty bs assumption that the majority of new skiers will be all constantly training for comps and buying only the big ski company products.

DIRTYBUBBLERegardless of your opinion on comp skiing, I would argue that the Olympics are very beneficial to freeskiing.

-While corporate brands will flood the sponsorship scene momentarily, this at least means more exposure, money, etc will be made available to boost our sport.

-More exposure means more new skiers. And this could possibly mean more NS'ers to pull us out of this current active membership decline.

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JibberinoLike Eheath said, all this money you're talking about does not benefit skiing in a broader sense. It will end with a few brands and a few skiers, thats it. Olympics does not really do anything for freestyle skiing, apart from benefit from it's "coolness" factor and rising demographic.

On another note, Schneestern is building the course. They built X Games Norway, Nine Royals, and the leading Europe autumn training grounds at Prime Sessions, so they will most definitely come up with something legit!

jwillyword, I think it's a pretty bs assumption that the majority of new skiers will be all constantly training for comps and buying only the big ski company products.

kamiYou need a rising demographic to bring money into anything in this day and age and the olympics will help boost the demographic. The Xgames do help boost it as well but the olympics are a worldwide phenomenon that everyone gets into to root for their country or their favorite athletes.

JibberinoThe Olympics may help boost the freestyle skiing demographic, but that doesn't even come close to make up for all the sovereignty that skiing gives up to the FIS and IOC. Why should we help old corrupt men get even richer than they already are.

Murphy802ALEX HACKEL MUST GO

a_burgerhe and jake mageu are on the rookie team for the U.S.

eheathThere is more money in the sport, but its not distributed to anyone but the large ski brands and maybe a handful of skiers, this isnt beneficial for anyone but them. As for more NS traffic, sure but the xgames does the same thing for us every year, but I know that in 2014 we had a huge spike in traffic, so it is a good thing for NS but i doubt it will help "change" anything.

The olympics haven't really done anything positive for skiing IMO, people focusing on competition has increased dramatically, kids just want coaches now so they can do the ussa/usasa contests. Its great to see more kids involved in comp skiing, but its effecting skiing overall. We need more focus and more money in things like SLVSH, ski movies/ski content, newschoolers (lol), smaller invite contests (khai, kimbo, JOSS/JOI) before we can really say the olympics helped skiing, until then its still a circle jerk of corporations using skiing as another device to make more money.