Future of Olympic Halfpipe

reeski

reeski

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Haven't posted or been on here in a long time but was thinking about the future of Halfpipe skiing and thought the only place that would know is here. So here it goes, how will halfpipe tricks evolve in 2050 olympics? How much crazier can these guys/girls get? Sorry if people already posted this.
 
Pipes will just keep getting bigger and skiers will go bigger. Triples and shit, There's also a huge amount of doubles people have yet to do
 
Just gotta say, Gus Kenworthy's run in xgames was so clean. Pissed me off when he didn't podium. Also Mike Riddle's switch alleyoop dub was unreal. So stoked that Danny Davis won though. I hope to just see super sick tricks in pipe mixed with the standard dub cork rather than left and right double corks. Just my two cents.
 
theres gonna be some point in history where freeskiing becomes like most normal sports. at some point progression has to stop. take skateboarding for example, pretty much all of the tricks have been done and its all about who does it best in the most creative way on the coolest features. Its still gonna be sick but progression ends somewhere
 
It's all on borrowed time.

Moguls were added to the Olympics in 1992. It peaked with the god damn dinner roll, and has been overlooked ever since. I mean, give it credit, 1998 was a big year, but it hasn't been relevant for over a decade. Besides, why destroy your knees? Longevity? No.

Aerials became an Olympic sport in '94, and it has zero relevance (not that it had much to begin with). Even the Chinese are trying to buy medals by throwing gymnasts at aerials. Longevity? No.

I wrote a high school paper eleven years ago about why pipe skiing should be an Olympic event, and I still believe it should be. But it can't be denied that it is going the way of most sports - it will become so specialized that only a tiny handful of the skiing world will actually be able to compete. It is fine for now, but can it last another decade? Two decades? Really hard to say.

 
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