The 2010 Superpipe

wow candide's shot in the pipe is rediculous

^^^^^^^^This is to tride.

I didn't really like your arguments because you mentions 3 of the top boarders who get more amplitude. When I think of "skiers going bigger than snowboarders", I'm not thinking just amplitude. I have seen in many snowboard pipe runs a straight air(shaun white winning runs). If a skier did a straight air in their run, I couldn't see them making the podium(there are exceptions but not many). Also hitting a wall switch is completely different and more difficult than snowboarders hitting switch.

i dont know why halfpipe is bigger than slopesyle with the pros.. To me slopestyle is such a better comp.

^i think it's because pipe is easier to judge

it would be sick if pipe skiing was in the olympics but only if the judging system is not fucked up and if there are announcers that know what they are talking about

Lisko HEISKANEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jossi wells was uber sick

im cold

^^^^To Nifty:

The reason snowboarders do straight airs is not because they can't do tech tricks all the way down, it's because they consider straight airs as one important part of a complete pipe run. It's a style thing. Personally I like it.

Skiing just seems to have more of a spin to win mentality, as evidenced by people like yourself who consider a run weak if it contains something like a straight air (which is only about style), instead of big tricks all the way down.

I wish skiers could put a huge stylish straight air in a run and still be judged well. But I also think we need longer pipes for that to work.

But anyways, my point was simply that skiing and snowboarding halfpipe both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I don't think it is accurate to say that either one "dominates" the other.

Nifty, in pipe contests the riders are judged on their straight airs. You need a mix of spin, invert and straight airs combined with consistent amplitude, style and no hand touch to throw down a winning run. So that is why you see winning runs with straight airs.

In regards to hitting the wall switch, well that's really apples to oranges. Switch is more difficult for a skier than switch is for a snowboarder, but higher speeds are easier to maintain and manage on skis than on a snowboard. More speed equals more amplitude. So you see you can't compare the technical aspects on which is more difficult when it comes to deciding who goes bigger and who doesn't. Either you do, or you don't.

well, i suppose it is Iisko Heiskanen in that pic, last time i use old NS articles for sources!

THERE IS NO REASON SKIING SHOULDNT BE INCLUDED IN 2010. LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN.

^good article and pictures

and yeah i saw snowboarders doing straight airs in comps and never knew that they are basically mandatory for snowboarders to win and keep style in the run, i like it

sick

my vote: Skier: Iisko Heiskanen

Event: Euro Open 2007

Photographer: CKO

i don't understand straight-airs. if you're going to be that high in the air, you may as well do something impressive, instead of just flashing gang signs or whatever it is that makes straight-airs so 'stylish.'

jea man that would be sooo sick,freestyle would blow up everywhere. its already starting to get big,a little while ago it becamse an oficial ncaa sport so if this could happen it would be major.and why did they let snowbaorders in and not skiers?that kinda threw me off

^o man you need to learn what style is before making a comment like that. straight airs in pipes can look so stylie if you dont wave your arms and you put the steeze in your movments. its hard to go big and straight in a pipe and keep it on point, where as when your spining, at least with me, the style isnt being thought about as much as the spin and landing itself. thats why big slow spins(or no spins) contain style, because the style is what your trying to control, instead of the spin.

is jen riding chronics in that picture?

^i still prefer slow spins to no spins, if style's what you're aiming for. that's just me, i guess. i always thought straight-airs allowed for as much style as a ski jumper, because they don't wave around. i suppose they don't "put the steeze in their movements" though.

i personally believe that i'd rather see somebody put effort into pulling a sick spin that you wouldn't see everyday, and throw some steeze into those movements.