Could a park skier win an Aerials medal?

ashamedkrew

ashamedkrew

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Can someone who knows more about this than me help flesh this out?

Now that big air competitions are being won with double/triple/quadruple flipping four/five/six rotation *grabbed* tricks, couldn't someone like Birk Ruud or Alex Hall just practice for a month and clean house on an Aerials competition?

I'd like to understand why I might be wrong because if I'm not, it really seems like aerials are not just ugly but now obsolete when compared to a modern big air competition.
 
aerials dont consider off axis rotations.

i dont think those skiers would do as well in aerials as they do in big air after only 1 month of training.
 
If someone like ahall spent the next 4 years training aerials, he could probably make the team but he wouldn't beat the top dogs, spinning aerials off of a nearly vertical jump is much different than park skiing.
 
14397263:eheath said:
If someone like ahall spent the next 4 years training aerials, he could probably make the team but he wouldn't beat the top dogs, spinning aerials off of a nearly vertical jump is much different than park skiing.
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would it be easier for ahall to learn to jump aerials or for an aerials competitor to learn to do a switch triple 18? I know that I'm biased toward park skiing but it seems like the former would be more likely.
 
14397272:ashamedkrew said:
would it be easier for ahall to learn to jump aerials or for an aerials competitor to learn to do a switch triple 18? I know that I'm biased toward park skiing but it seems like the former would be more likely.
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depends on the aerialist, some literally can't ski so they'd prob struggle, some are like Dylan Ferguson and can throw down hard in the park still.
 
I think moguls to slope/big air or vice versa is much more likely. You question is more like comparing diving to swimming.
 
I’m pretty sure the air awareness could allow a park skier to be a high level arial skier but I doubt it would be enough to podium. Traditional gymnasts or divers would probably do better
 
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