Dub cork 7

BlakeLively

BlakeLively

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Just watched a kid (live feed) in the PPOS throw a Dub cork 7 double safety, and the announcers BARELY even mentioned it. The rest of his run was super solid as well, and I think he scored a 79, landing him in 6th place.

Since when are dub 7s a standard trick in comp skiing? The announcers didnt give a fuck about it. They showed 3 of his other tricks in the recap of his run, and not the dub 7.

 
yeaa I saw Hackel jus throw that dub 7 and it was so ill, an they didn't say anything about it.. I just have to watch all comps with the sound off cause I can't take the announcers.. Unless it's Lvv
 
announcers and other people who don't understand how hard that trick is wont acknowledge it. to them, a dub 10 or 12 is more impressive than a dub 7. and im not saying dub 10s or 12s are easy, but people just don't understand the technicality of a 7.
 
Do you understand how ridiculous that is that the announcers do not know the technicality of a trick for a sport that they are announcing? These people should be more or equally knowledgable about the sport than most people on this website. You think a football announcer would get away with not being knowledgable about every person playing on the field at that moment. This rationality is completely ridiculous to me. Pay people that actually know what is going on.
 
I think the real reason is that its just too complicated to explain in a quick sound bite to a non skier why it is harder. To a huge extent they gotta keep it simple so people can follow what's going on.

This is a contest where most spins without falling wins and you gotta grab or it doesn't count everybody got it great kthxbye.
 
Uh then don't? Just simple state it as a fact and then people can do their own research into why it's harder if they are that curious.
 
hackel has that trick more on lock then anyone. I really love dub 7s because everyone seems to do the trick a little bit differently. I have to say though Alex's is probably my favorite. such wide stance and the perfect kind of wobble!

He should have scored higher. Dont worry, if i know alex its not going to stop him from throwing it next comp!
 
I feel like a lot of announcers suck in sports like this. They may know the trick, but they dont really have time to explain the difficulty of these kinds of tricks to the general public. however they should at least mention it.

In gymnastics its the same way, the announcing sucks dick, but the guy who does the announcing was a gymnast for a long ass time, he just cant really explain certain tricks to the general public. it sucks but thats what happens when announcers try to dumb down things for the general public who have no idea whats going on.
 
if we were watching football or basketball or soccer or basically any other sport, the announcer wouldn't have to explain every fucking rule of the sport during the match.

Why should skiing be any different? Especially on webcasts, when basically the entire audience knows whats up. Announcers should focus on calling tricks correctly, especially with regards to natural/unnatural spinning directions, and not just calling every double off-axis spin a 'double cork', and not even bothering to tell the audience how much they spun, or whether it was a true double cork, or a double bio, or switch double rodeo, whatever. Surely it cannot be that hard to do this, I would imagine the vast majority of this sites members could do a better job calling tricks and commenting on cleanness of landings/style/grabs etc.

Step your game up announcers.
 
not at all. why would they need to explain why it's harder? If that was the real reason they would still get hyped over the trick and show it on replay, plus if they have time to replay 3 of his tricks from the run they have time to say "dub cork 7, very hard trick to do"
 
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