Competion Vs. Video Segments

Wow I agree with him completely haha. I always feel weird watching x-games and seeing all the so called "professional" skiers and then I watch someone's segment from a movie and there so much better.
 
Clayton is one of the best things happening in skiing right now. Well spoken, educated, knows a ton about skating and snowboarding and does a great job of bringing those influences into skiing. And he also kills it on skis
 
I totally agree with this, totally. I'm gonna talk in the past because it no longer occurs nowadays but I just have a point which IMO and backed with facts that competition wasn't only about "robotic-moves-pleasing-judges". In the time when in Xgames you had Candide, Tanner, Dumon, Olenick, Olson etc, that was the place where the sport was progressing parkwise. Sure you had park segments, but compared to today, movies weren't as influencial as today and weren't searching yet for originality, cinematography efforts.

I mean, I might be wrong, but that's how I see it. S0 yeah, today competition is what this article says, but my word is that it hasn't always been like this.
 
I remember Henrik doing that bio 14, probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen happen in a comp.The announcers didn't have a clue what he did either, they kind of just ignored it and moved on.
 
Competitions are still sick, but I do agree the the push for straight tech progression over style has gotten a little strong. Thing is, we need people to go huck themselves and land these tricks the first time. Then there will come variations with better style. Seems like how it always works.

What I wish is that the big competitions were more about style and creativity. Like Woodsy's run at Euro X: he did some nasty shit that I'd never see before, like the lead safety dub cork 10, but got shafted because he didn't spin and flip quite as much as Bobby or Tom. I don't think it's the athletes so much as the judging or competition format. Perhaps having a multi-run format like King of Style, where one run is tech, and the other is style, with limits on spin or flip in the style part.

Just an idea.
 
I completely agree if the judges like it people will do it, also what if instead of a style and tech run one jumps would have to be style based e.g max spin of 720 and 1 flip and the rider would chose the jump they wanted. I know if this was introduced I would be waiting just to see what people's style trick
 
I personally think both are good. I remember being a little kid and getting so fired up about watching skiing, whether it was racing or big mountain or moguls. I was just so psyched to go skiing... I guess I just like skiing in general to much to care about comps vs movie segments. Watching the Dew Tour yesterday was sick. Checking out Sunny, just as sick. Am I getting old?
 
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