A question of style

Online_Ninja

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ok here it is...

do you think that in a big air competition, that a REALLY dope 180 should be able to beat a cab 10 blunt?

i think it should, if the 180 is just that sick.
 
still havnt seen that 180 in skiing that benedek threw, to turn snowboarding comps in the direction they are at now. it should just come down to absolute style.
 
In a couple insances I think it can, laurants would have if he stuck it imo, but that's only because everyone was throwing 10's.
 
if your skilled enough to throw a switch 10, im pretty sure theres going to be some style in it

it should def. beat a 180, because theres not much you can do with a 180(not to put down a sick 180)
 
I don't know man...I've seen plenty of switch 10s that were landed, but looked nothing but hucked.
 
no you fucking retard. anyone can do 180's and make it look stylie. i mean youre not even spinning. just cause you cant do cab 10 blunts and think you should win every single pro comp with your "floaty 180s".... shutup
 
Yea dude that is a great point. Style should definitely have some bearing. But also, on the other hand, it is a BIG AIR competition. Meaning: GO BIG. I think this confusion is why big air skiing basically is dead. It is just to hard to judge.
 
yea i agree with that, but im talking about if it were a big comp witha big jump, theres probably gonna be some room for style
 
I have always liked anything slow, smooth and stylish. I think it takes just as much skill to toss a huge 180 or a zero as hucking a 1080. It is hard to find what equals what. that is the problem with a judged sport, it is opinion. that is why moguls took such a hit in the late 90's because of the idea that one trick should score so much and look like so. I wish there was some way to make a larger 180, 360, 540, or simple misty or something score well with the judges. but the crowds at comps always go nuts when someone spins a 1080 and is kinda of quiet when someone spins a 180. shit my opinion is unorganized but i really like the idea behind your thread...
 
maybe not 180...but i do think lower spins should be scored higher...jut imagine..slooow switch cork 5 true nose...or switch 10 blunts. nd besides switch 10s are played
 
competitions like big air or slopestyle shood all be about the styliest tricks thrown not the so called "most technical" so if it was a reeeeeely sic' 180 i think it shood beat a fakie 10 if its not perfect, but like cork 3's and stuff shood be beating hucked fakie tens all the time but it just seems like things arent reely goin that way as far as judging goes at the moment but i think the k2 back nine comp will be the first of this kind to ever hit skiing, style over technical difficulty
 
I totally agree with this guy. Doing good 180s takes very little skill in comparison to a cab 10 blunt. The only way i could imagine a 180 beating anything bigger than a 360 is if the skier took his skis off in mid air and yelled out "MONSTER TRICK!" super loud.
 
one more thing, big air comps are almost just a show now that a resort puts on for its tourists and the contestants are becoming entertainers like circus freaks..just a thought so judging does'nt mean shit
 
if the sw 10 blunt was ugly as fuck than the super steezy 180 would beat it but it is a sw blunt 10. the sw blunt 10 would win in my book, as long as it had a ounce of style.
 
I was thinking about this the other day... I wish comps varied from comp to comp, and on the day of, the judges told the riders what they were looking for. This would remove the cab 10 winning every single comp, as some competitions would focus more on tech-rail stuff, others on fluidity, others on amplitude, etc. So like, one weekend the judges are all "we want to see you kids huck your meat, then stomp it" while the next being "we want to see you kids ski as stylishly as you can", and maybe even another (which would be so sick to watch mind you) "we want you kids to show us what we didn't think was possible, it's time to get creative." This would remove any confusion and controversary as to why X beat X... (Just a thought.)
 
My two main points on this issue:

1) If cab 10's win every time, we should just start being aerialists.

2) A 180 won the USOpen snowboard big air a few years ago. IT was just that sick.

No matter how well you do a 10, there's absolutely no way it can be as stylish as a slow rotation. Style just scores no points in skiing comps.
 
Anyone see the "corked" 180? That was pretty stylie. But I can't really justify giving a 180 a better score than a 1080. I mean I can do a 180. (not with smooth style tho but still, I can't even do half a 10)
 
I think a 180 beating a 10 is a little extreme, unless the 10 is really shitty and hucked. That said, I think slower, smaller rotations loaded with style almost always look better than 10s. Tech should count for something, but style needs to start having a larger impact on scores.
 
there can be alot more wow factor with a smooth and styled 180 than with a hucked 10...and you have to respect it, so yea a 180 could beat a 10 in my opinion
 
Wwell the way benedek does his 2 bs 180 is more like a 180 one way stop rotate body completly to the other direction, (180 the other way) then cgoing back at normal 180. without waving ANDgoing just as big as it was humanly possible.
 
i think a sick zero would be sweet to see, like pep in 1242, or one of the phils i forget, i wanna say larose, but their zeros are sick
 
Larent Favre, end of story.

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