Takeshi Yasutoko X games gold medalist for Sochi 2014

Ha! This is what Olympics will do to our sport - take people who arn't even skiers and start throwing them on skis in hope of making some cash of them. Isn't that what ruined aerials - they just started throwing washed up gymnasts on skis? This is fucking wack, people should start skiing for skiings sake, not for bronze silver or gold.
 
hmmm i have conflicting opinions of this being a skater and skier. I guess it's good that he's getting more exposure and has something else to do cause lets face it, rollerblading still isn't the coolest thing even in other parts of the world. it's better elsewhere than in america though. but putting random people into skiing isn't exactly cool either.

but where in the article does it say he'll be skiing? i don't seem to see it.
 
Not really a huge deal. It'll be good if he has some style and hopefully the judges won't admire his hucked tricks
 
It will be interesting to see how the transition from ski to skate goes for him. Kaya certainly has turned out to be both a technically strong and stylish slopestyle skier. It seems like the transition to pipe will be much harder as it requires so much stronger of a ski background. But it would be sick to see someone throw left and right dub flatspins in a pipe run.
 
well if he's good enough to do it and be successful at it then maybe "our sport" isn't as challenging as some people like to believe.
 
Well i've never had the chance to use a ski half pipe but I can do pipe on skates. not like double viking flips and such but I can spin and in mini ramps i can do flips but barely above the coping haha. haven't tried to do it in awhile cause it's easy to get hurt.

but going to skiing is weird cause instead of just going back and forth you have to go down the pipe as well.
 
this guy should have been skiing a long time ago...it sucks that the olympics are what motivated him to put on a pair of skis but whatever.
 
yea upon further review you didn't really have a point other than expressing your own personal requirements on why someone "should" ski, probably shouldn't have quoted something so worthless.
 
Ah yes, the classic "my opinion is right and yours is wrong." Should we even bother continuing on? Everyone knows what follows.. However, I do believe that I'm allowed to have an opinion. My concern is for the integrity of the sport while you're (probabaly) pumped on more exposure and people in the industry (you haven't given your opinion yet..) Both valid? Personally, I think so, but I would hate to see that exposure turn into people getting thrown onto skis, their eyes gleaming with gold medals.
 
If the guy knows how to ski, He'll be fine. He knows how to work a transition. If he knows how to hold an edge, he could probably boost a half pipe as well - if not better - than most of the skiers out there.
 
Where's Eito? Taig Kris? Spelling errors?

The first time I heard Daft Punk was when Taig Kris (or whatever it is) skated to it during the 97-98 X Games. Why would someone remember something like that? ARRRROUUUND THE WOOOOOORRLLLD

I think this is cool....has to be somewhat of a natural transition for the kid, assuming he's skied a handful of times. If he can find his edges before the games, that kid might whirlybird his ass into relevancy. His in line pipe runs were fliptastic spectacles.

Question: Were the Yasutoko brothers in a ski movie that came out in the last few years? I feel like they had a quick cameo, literally a few seconds, in a ski flick in a Japan segment. May have been Believe. Anyone?

Paging Asian Allen....Paging any and all Asians named Allen.
 
Let him do it, there is no way he'll be at the level of top pipe riders today with just 3 years training haha. And also, in 3 years halfpipe will be at an even higher level than it is now.
 
I don't think you can go from non skier to olympic halfpipe skier by 2014, regardless of how good your aerial skills are. i saw the chris haffey video, whatever he did some 5s in the park not that impressed. i just don't see this happening, i see no correlation between rollerblading abilities and skiing down a superpipe which requires really good edging ability, not to mention doing it switch
 
thats what I was thinking. I remember vert from the x games in like from like '95 to '04 (when they took inline out) and those guys were there usually. Now that I think of it, I don't even remember seeing park even broadcasted.
 
And this is why we were meant to be together.

Also, the cameo I was talking about was almost definitely in Believe, and doesn't show the bros actually skiing. It's like a three second portrait of two guys, one shorter than the other with glasses smiling. He looks EXACTLY like Takeshi...yes, there is a "they all look a like" joke in there somewhere, and a lesser man than myself may have taken the opp.

 
Oh.....it was.

In-Line street got love, not as much as vert, but it did. Roadhouse Randy Spizer, Arlo Eisenberg, Jon Julio, etc. held it down.

Anyone remember the MTV XGames rip off? It was some kind of festival with live music, (311, Rage, etc.) and EXtreme sports? They made this cool street course that had all kinds of goofy gaps, and like mailbox grinds and shit. It was basically a precursor to how they have the warp tour set up now where there's dudes seshing a halfpipe while some shitty band plays.
 
i have no problem with this guy skiing halfpipe in the olympics, and frankly i dont understand why anyone would. I assume that this guy has been on skis before and he will probobly make the transition fairly well. he has lots of time to train as well. if this guy is able to throw those sick flat spins in a ski pipe then he will certainly progress our sport.
 
if Olympics didn't motivate people to try new sports we would never have had Cool Runnings

and just imagine the war famine and poverty a world without Cool Runnings would have....

that's just not a world i want to live in,

Lets think of this Asian skier the way we think of the Jamaican bobsled team.

SANKA YOU DEAD MON??

YAAAA MONNN

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he only skates pipe and can do dub flats so once he gets used to having skis on he'll throw down since landing will be so much easier
 
lol why wud anyone care if this guy competes? as if its gona take away from the sport.. and you cant blame him for competing, he s probly got the best chance from anyone from his country, so he might as well try. if he actually does win, he completely deserves it!! He s clearly gonna need to work super hard to compete with Torin and co.
 
it wouldnt happen. Aerial skiers basically go straight and land straight, so being a very good gymnast caters for the problem of being bad at skiing so they are able to get away with it to an extent. however for slopestyle you have to be able to ski switch and forward well, the jumps are not up and down like an aerials jumps is ( which could be compared to a trampoline) but long so its different, and most of all the amount of time it would take these gymnasts to acquire the rail skills of a pro would be so long it wouldnt be worth it. and in halfpipe you land and take of sideways and have to have very good edge control and balance on skis.

so no, it wont happen.
 
That's kind of the thing. Props for strapping on skis, but for what purpose, really? To enjoy skiing? To have fun? Or simply to compete for the Gold for his country?

The line is very vague.
 
well if the thrill you get from skiing lies in competing, who are we to say thats not the same justification as our love to lap the park or ski pow through the trees. You're statement rests on opinion just as much as his.
 
Yeah thats him. He's sponsored by K2 and has a lot of pictures of skiing on his wall, he has some other half pipe videos too.
 
That's as silly as them hipster kids who hate everything because it's popular.What difference does it make to our sport if some random egg-fwied-wice eating, rollerblader starts skiing? You're still going to be able to ski, so am I. New people will still start skiing for skiing's sake.

Besides, you're talking about one aspect of skiing, probably the smallest aswell. He'll never be able to ski big mountain, or maybe he will - anyone can learn to ski, stop trying to stop them.

So now say he does get gold in the pipe, he's one it. He deserves it. Sorry to crush your fantasy but it's skill that people are judged on, not how much 'soul' they have and how much they love the sport.

You may think that you're saving the 'soul' of skiing. But you're suppressing the progression of our sport.
 
i think kaya turski showed us that transitioning from being a pro rollerblader to pro freeskier is impossible...

OH WAIT
 
Stoked he is actually skiing. I want to see Eito Yasutoko do one of his super late California Roll flatspins on skis though!
 
yeah i saw that, i meant k2 quit. they made the varsity and then the black one and now that zamora is off i think they're one now. zamora sticks with the valo guys now apparently. there was some really dubstep edit with him in it.
 
Actually super stoked on this. He kills it in rollerblading, but its gona be really hard to take all his tricks to skis. Plus he knows nothing about grabs, style or anything about the sport for that matter. He'll probably be able to compete for japan but I doubt he'll be a threat to anyone.
 
wtf? haters?

This is epic! Hope he training like rocky balboa, cause he could bring some new cool stuff to the pipe! imagine a dub viking laid out with planks in the super pipe!

There's no way its something negative about this, rather posetiv!

 
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