First Look at Sochi Slope Course

I hope that once the snowboarders are done with the course they can fine the jumps better for a skiers typical speed and poppy-ness.

Seems like they have flattened out the takeoffs a bit, which a lot of snowboarders prefer.
 
Werd:

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These kickers are fucking colossal, and I love every bit of it.

That said, I would never straight air any of those in a million years.
 
Also with the discussion on the bad pictures coming out and wondering if that was the spot they were all shooting from
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Not sure if they can shoot from other spots but seems to be a ton of people right in that spot on the deck where those other shots were coming from. Hopefully that's not the designated area though.
 
It's great. New sport introduced to the Olympics? Lets just talk about sick people, tree hugging, and other dumb shit instead of explaining whats going on.
 
When does this god-awful women's snowboard slopestyle qualifying end? If I wanted to see 360's I'd watch kids at my local park ski.
 
Are the men on tonight? I've seen enough of the same run.

I like the format though.

2 commercial breaks, 3 mini documentaries about their home life, 2 or 3 random tangents about nothing, 2 interviews at the bottom about nothing, and 1 maybe 2 womens qualifying runs.

SICK!
 
nbc fluff stories about shaun white despite him not even being in this event. not trying to be too negative, its just funny
 
Why are these retarded announcers not calling the tricks... Seriously i have not heard the word cork said in the past 30 minutes.... Calling a 1080 a flatspin.. who are they
 
nah, i just don't think its relevant enough to the general public to go into too much depth. but calling an upright spin a flatspin and something blatantly a rodeo a cork grind my gears a little bit. I really hope vanvalin is in it for skiing, he is right?
 
They were during the men's qualifiers, but they messed up three times in a row and so they probably pulled it. Plus it's not really necessary Imo
 
hopefully all of the negativity coming out of the snowboarders doen't negatively impact this in the future...
 
I don't understand what all the fuss is about from boarders...

Why are they the ones that hate the course so much when some of the top skiers in slope are like "They're huge but they're safe! Lots of fun!" I don't understand what is so different between boarders and skiers that boarders can't handle the jumps. It's like 2 or 3 very vocal athletes that are saying it's sooooo dangerous.

Since when were pro athletes afraid of progression? The jumps are big and yeah they're pretty stepdown-ish but does that really make them so dangerous that they NEED to be changed?

I don't get it.
 
I find it amazing how many people were bitching a week ago about how little snow there was and how shitty the conditions were. You DON'T build a course that F-ing huge with no snow. Geez. Now they are complaining about safety. People are dumb. I have a feeling the same applies to all the western "media" bashing on the facilities, accommodations and venues.
 
Shit, shit, shit. I just realized that the live stream fro ski slope probably isn't going to have LVV considering Todd Richards is covering the NBC feed for snowboarding and some rando that doesn't know what's going on if calling the live extra stream...
 
yeah who knows about the live stream.. i dont get why people care so much isnt the point to watch?
 
Seriously. There's no tracks down that shit, tons in the bowl below, but nothing off the top. I hope some of these skiers start exploring the mountains after their events are done. Ski trip to Sushi anyone?
 
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