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Why are the jumps on FIS slopestyle aspen so small and shitty?

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dolanslebensraum
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Every mens competitor seems to be trying to cram in huge rotations off of jumps that are way smaller than the jumps from xgames slope. Why didnt FIS hire the same park builders that xgames used? Did they design the course to be more friendly to the style free female competitors?

either way, the jump section fucking sucks.
Mar 13 2021 8:40PM
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WoFlowz
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I also have those questions and why did they knock over the shark fins they were in the aspen open I think
Mar 13 2021 8:42PM
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dolanslebensraum
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WoFlowzI also have those questions and why did they knock over the shark fins they were in the aspen open I think

Yea idk. The course just seemed so fucking anemic.
Mar 13 2021 8:45PM
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jompcock
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I've heard x games puts the jumps close together to make the course more difficult. My guess is that FIS screamed liability?
Mar 13 2021 9:46PM
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asparagus
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WoFlowzI also have those questions and why did they knock over the shark fins they were in the aspen open I think


Because interesting features doesn’t sound very fis
Mar 13 2021 10:09PM
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theabortionator
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jompcockI've heard x games puts the jumps close together to make the course more difficult. My guess is that FIS screamed liability?


The trail that that slope is on is super flat until the feature above the jumps that goes by the trees. That's why they have a huge drop in ramp for x every year. There's no spot above those trees you could put a jump. When it's a 3 jump line it works well especislly if the snow is good. They've cramned 4 jump lines in and it's a bit tight, especially with the size of the jumps these days.

Usually the knuckles from x would be more straight forward to build on but with the weird transition features this year they would have had to move a bunch of snow around and get the knuckles set.

Also i only watched like one run. Waiting to find a link to watch it if anyone has one.

But basically xgames is from when you uave enough speed for jump 1 till you're coming into the corral. They could push something furthur down but it seems to work best with a 3 jump.
Mar 14 2021 1:53AM
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