2021 Freeride World Tour

TheDoughAbidesNavarros line was wild and incredible to watch but easily replicable as shown by Reine, he also practically stopped when he got to the traverse and didn’t throw any tricks. Not to take anything away from the size of his balls but he followed a well tracked traverse and then pointed it down a massive easy to spot double. Turdells run was much more fluid and far more difficult to pull off in terms of finding that air that no one else had hit without any hesitation. You can bitch all you want about how throwing in a windlip backie is just an extra credit token that shouldn’t have given turdell the win. But as shown by reine (again) it was a risky move that could’ve gone wrong. turdell was rightfully rewarded for successfully adding it to his line. Don’t worry Navarro isn’t going anywhere and neither is his style of riding given the level of attention he’s getting.

You say easily replicable, but I don't think there are too many skiers on the tour even who could pull that off, it just so happened that Aymar and Reine picked the same line.

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That’s neat!

highpeakI think you make some very fair points. Would disagree on fluidity though, Navarro probably had the quickest line of the day. Nothing more fluid than straightlining half the face, although Turdell is still fluid per usual. Overall, Navarro and Turdell each had two main hits. Navarro with the double and Turdell with the cliff he opened and the backie. I'd argue the double wins both from size, risk, and how much faster Navarro went. Ik Turdell had another decent cliff up top, but I'd assume the backie helped his score more. Agree to disagree I guess, Turdell's run was insane dont get me wrong.

Also, I wasn't bitching, just think it's fair to say tricks seem to be favored over technicality in recent years. Sometimes that's fair, sometimes I think it's too skewed. And not worried bout Navarro going anywhere but thanks for the reassurance :)

Actually Aymar said in past interviews that he was pretty much done with the FWT and wanted to focus on his ski mountaineering and extreme lines side more, although after a season where he got close to a top 3-5 finish had he gotten the win in austria he might change his mind. We'll see :)

**This post was edited on Mar 27th 2021 at 3:40:47pm