actually Mike his age had nothing to do with getting 2nd at Crystal, the judges were just retarded in general. They scored for example Ethans run with a fall, equal to Tyler perfect run. They were just drunk, and thought backflips were cool apparently. They did not know he was 12, and they never announced it.
As for slow motion, whats the point... to make it look better than it actualy was? Slow motion is highly over used in video, i think at least.
I skied with some midgets at Copper, one is 11 throwin D 7's and greasing some crazy rails. Goes off in the pipe too. Big flairs. I think its cause little kids don't have any balls to worry about and their bones are flexible.