Dumont Got Robbed at Ski Tour

Word, although this event brings up an interesting question.....

I think everyone who saw it agrees that he absolutely killed it and I don't think the result will be questioned (for once).

But, since no event would be complete without a hearty judging debate on NS immediately afterward, let's talk about the following concept......

Should a skier be able to get a near perfect pipe score when they spin the same way every hit (everything was spun to the left), or, should you have to spin both ways to get that kind of score?

Just asking because for quite some time now, pipe skiers have been really working hard on learning both left and right spins, but maybe it is not so necessary for success? What do people think?

 
right now it doesn't matter but later on i defenitely think that spinning both ways will be crucial to winning
 
Spinning both ways should certainly help your score. It helped the creator of this thread get fourth place. But if your all left side run in flawless--which Dumon't absolutely was--it should not make a difference. Perhaps if he had spun both ways, he woulda gotten even closer to 100. :-)
 
Yea simmers is df right. Simon got robbed. His run was worth at least a 116.

Hey are you still selling the Dumont poster?
 
i didn't even know the ski tour was at aspen at first until I saw simon and a couple other pros ski by the lift line and go up while I was still waiting for it to open. It was a pretty sweet day, got to ski some powder in the morning, then watched the ski tour and simon absolutely kill it.
 
i am selling a dumont poster. it is on ebay right now. you all should check it out. also, spinning both ways didn't help me at all. i don't think the judges even noticed it.
 
ya but at X simon went left 12, to alley oop 7 to switch 7 and he still didn't get the win. he did both sides both wys
 
Its an interesting debate, no switch hits, no unnatural spinning from all I've heard. Yet his amplitude is nuts and if he stuck it all clean its something very few can do, I'm just wondering where it goes from there.
 
umm from what i hear the pipe at snowmass was only long enough for 4 hits, so it would be only 4 tens.
 
ummm the kid said "ALL four tens" as if to mean "all the possible variations of a ten." regardless of the length of the pipe in aspen, there are 8 ways you can do a straight ten in a halfpipe.
 
ohh got it...just thought he was referring to "as many tens as one could throw in a pipe run" = a ten on every hit = 4 tens. my bad.
 
im debunking simon dumont right now. he is crazy overrated.

there is no doubt that doing a 12 and 10 back to back takes mad skill

i couldnt do it, thats for sure.

but he NEVER grabs. he grabs on his first hit and then doesnt even make an effort to grab while hes doing an iron cross and spinning like a ballerina.

im not afraid to say it. it looks like shit. he needs to concentrate on not just hucking his junk and more on a solid run with grabbing.
 
like i dont want to bring up x-games or anything but as it was said simon grabs first hit then doesnt grab basically the rest of the run and at least tanner pretty much grabbed or made the attempt to grab even though he missed on the last hit he tried
 
Dumont is getting better every event, especially his left wall hits. But you need to spin both ways, grab the shit out of every hit, switch it up and stomp to get a score that big.

Ski Tour judges should chill out. What's with Pete getting 5th on a washed double back slap??? Makes pipe skiing look bad!

Drop the high and low scores judges...
 
as a judge, i wouldn't just be throwing 97.5's out there on ppl's 1st run. even if it was dumont. it doesn't give you much room to go up from there, they were basically saying he won from the start.
 
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