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FYI... http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Sports/Live_Streaming/1248955900/ID=1762236167

Absolutely, right on.

Right now, the latest rumour for the next Olympic skiing sports are Team Alpine, Women's Ski Jumping, and Ski-X. Half Pipe is a distant fourth. FIS is full of alpine-biased dinosaurs that need to be convinced otherwise and have their closed minds opened. One of the best ways of doing this is...

If anyone knows anyone at NBC who has some lobbying ability to sway the dinosaurs at FIS, then that would go a long way.....

Parallel grab.

Because it's fun as hell. Also, it's not THAT bad on the knees.

If you haven't seen those tricks, then you obviously haven't been watching mogul events lately. Bump skiers are throwing lots of different grabs and have been for years. As for straight 3s, 99.9% of the people on this site could not do them as big or on a mogul course like the World Cuppers...

Well that was a pretty damn ignorant post.

No, he's actually right. Unnatural stuff belongs in slopestyle and the pipe. Big air is a one-hit, top trick competition. Rex Thomas in the 2003 WSI big air somehow made it to the finals doing an "unnatural" cork 9 (not even fakie). The problem was that for Rex to do a cork spin, it was...

Works for me.

Sorry, but I disagree with all of that. I would agree that our sport is supposed to be subjective, but there are many aspects of our sport, and subjectivity is appropriate in varying degrees with respect to each of those aspects. For example, style is very important for photo and video shoots...

I disagree. I welcome the fakie 1080. I welcome the fakie 1440 even more (Schiller's US Open big air trick was one of the -- if not THE -- sickest things ever pulled on skis). To say a fakie 10 would never be more stylie than a fakie 3 is a purely subjective comment that does not change a...

Let me put it this way... Switch, by definition and in other sports, is used to described something as UNNATURAL. The reason people call or describe things as switch or unnatural, is because when you watch the trick, you don't know whether it's that person's natural or unnatural version. One...

I would diagree that snowboarding HP has fully exploited the potential of terrain parks. If we had BOTH skiing and snowboarding in the Olympics with a HP event, then there would be that many more groms at the grassroots level participating in pipe and park. Resorts will have to expand their...

I think that's a good idea, Kasanovah. Anyone remember when Rex got top 3 at the WSI big a few years back? He proclaimed that he was doing an unnatural cork 9. He said that because he was spinning in his "unnatural" direction. Only problem was that was his most comfortable direction for...

The problem with "leftside" and "rightside" is it just indicates the direction of spin, not whether it was natural or unnatural. There are lots of people out there who spin darkside as their natural. It's pointless to call something a "rightside 540" if that skier spins to the right naturally...

Thank you, kamikaze. I think you've hit the issue on the head. I would agree that it's very unlikely that all of a sudden skiers will change their lingo to use "fakie" and drop "switch". I just wanted to put the straight facts out there for people to think about. Only time will tell as to...

"Leftside" and "rightside" are definitely NOT a good trend...

In my opinion, to say skiing backwards = switch is wrong. It always has been and always will be. This issue has been debated for many years, beginning on the old FREEZE and PBP forums. No one ever agreed on what to call backwards skiing. Likely, no one ever will. Either way, it's skiing's...

First, we are all VERY fortunate to have a site like newschoolers.com. Many thanks go out to Harvey, Doug, Chris et al. for their hard work. This place is amazing. However, while I do appreciate the need to try and keep this site on a certain "core" track by being selective about who does and...