Ban on halfpipe

emopoppins

emopoppins

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yea halfpipe is sweet with people going so high and stuff. but do we really want fuckin olympic halfpipe. i have a lot of respect for people who can ski it, and a lot of the people, like tanner have mad steeze in a lot of different places, but a sw. 10 in the pipe not grabbed isn't gonna stand.

so i dont want to ban halfpipe, i just want people to realize that this isnt' an olympic sport. we aren't fuckin tony hawk X-treme. mega sponsors are cool, but do we really want 10 year old kids going daddy buy me a pair of twin tips so i can be like Simon Dumont. why look like a fag in the air when you dont have too.
 
Because a switch 10 not grabbed in the air has no sexual preference. I don't see how doing a switch 10 can make you look like a "fag". Go do some switch 10's in the pipe them make a thread. I agree that I don't like when things get corporate, and people do it because it's "cool" but skiing pipe is getting big..... I say we see where it goes.
 
no, it deserves to be an olympic sport. if it gets more exposure, then that means more money for the atheletes and thats a good thing. sure there are some negatives that go with a sport reaching the mainstream but the benefits far outweigh the negatives
 
but if they have pipe, why can't we have something more legit. slopestyle perhaps. there is some good that could come from this, but negative media exposure and meeting the president (circa 2002 SLC games) is that really where we are going as a sport.

they sell burton in mall stores now. that was a result of olympic. how about everyone running around in line shirts (most likely the company of choice) saying i ski LINE.

thats what i'm really concerned about. i dont think this will happen though, its just i'm concerned about it possibly happening
 
The problem with slopestyle is that the course can't be the same for every olympic, whereas for pipe they just have a regulation size and it's all the same.
 
ya slopestyle will never happen cause to them its like aerials or mogul skiing except with less skill. this is "freestyle" skiing and there is no way a "freestyle" can get into the olympics unless its more managed like pipe.
 
your concerned about our sport becoming more legit? skiing halfpipe has risen to a level that is respected by anyone and deserves a place in the olympics. slopestyle is long ways away from being in the olympics, if ever.
 
jsut like day tickets in colorado cost $80+ because the sport is getting so poular, i mean its good but its getting a lil excessive, and the parks are getting crowded
 
the anti-halfpipe people need to see the bigger picture. until this year, halfpipe skiing was behind as far as skiing subdisciplines go. the fact that dumont doesn't grab his alley-oop 9 or 10 is proof of that. alley-oop tricks in the pipe have been been neglected, and just now we're starting to see them go past 7 in competition. the grabs will follow--on alley-oop 10s, cab 10s, and 12s. then halfpipe skiing will be really sick. without this year's big purses, halfpipe skiing would not be getting to where it needs to be.
 
for being so stupid, you shouldn't even be able to have an opinion on this topic. your making it seem in your statement, that skiers don't ever grab in the pipe?
 
id much rather see slopestyle, but right now the only chance we have is getting pipe in the olympics
 
ya and another reason slopestyle isn't going to be in the olympics is that'd be one more venue on top of the pipe they're making for the snowboarders that they'd have to make.

For people who are curious about why skiing pipe still hasn't been accepted I've heard it's cause there are too many other skiing events and they don't want to have to invite a whole new set of athletes, that they'd have to put up in hotels and stuff. If ariels or something where eliminated then pipe could easily get it's place. Not saying they should eliminate ariels cause if they did the sport would die, it's nothing without the olympics
 
you realize that Burton supplied the USA team uniforms? that's why? Line doesn't make outerwear.  
 
i dont give a shit if the pros make more money. honestly.

"more exposure to the sport" = more fuckin people in the already crowded parks. progression will happen on its own, we dont need the olympics.
 
if snowboarding is in the olympics for pipe, skiing should be in for pipe. Especially since skiers go bigger and throw more tech runs.
 
i agree, but it will never happen because it would be too hard to standardize the course. olympic sports are supposed to be timeless. slopestyle courses change too much and have too many different features.
 
day tickets back east cost + $80 (and have cost that much for some time) for so much less mountain, so i'm not sure what your point is...
 
i wouldnt want slopestyle in the olympics, at least for halfpipe you can picture generally what is in the course, slopestyle can be anything and thats the way it should be
 
Sure it's sad in a way that skiing IS going the way of big money and the Olympics when it's been such a core sport for a small number of commited people. However the more people that get into our sport, the better people will become and with popularity comes more good ski industry jobs for us washed up park skiers. The goal should absolutely be to get as many people involved and skiing as possible. Terje keep it real by holding back from the Olympics but his sport was already booming out of control, a level that we are not yet at.
 
Hmmm... so if you don't think Halfpipe skiing isn't an Olympic Sport, take a look at some of the "sports" that are in the olypmics now for example, Rythmic Dancing... come on halfpipe skiing is way more of a sport than a lot of the crap that is in the olympics. Theres a bunch of events that they don't televise because they're so rediculous and unpopular.
 
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