JOI: 2 days of sessioning is done

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One thing i did say is to wait to see the footage before everyone flips off at it. I also think i admitted that favre at least is at the forefront of style.

Does anyone remember the beginnings of freestyle? if anyone, these two do. the tricks thrown back then were far from stylish, at the beginning. Now, you have doubles which are in their infancy. Give them time if you don't like them now.

Aerials jumps are huge... in a straight up and down fashion. They've already completed a quarter flip by the time they leave the vert on the ramp, and they go what, 20 feet forwards? a little more?

They sure as heck aren't going over 78 feet, switch, with grabs... Who is it that said they aren't grabbing? mattmcginnis or some other dude with the same icon? Well, you're wrong.

Again, mega ramp skating didn't stop skateboarding, and you can't el camino a skateboard unless you're on one. This is a specific type of event, with tricks to match.
 
... and im sure that that has absolutely nothing to do with the crap lighting and poor video quality? Nothing?

Seriously, just chill out and wait for the real footage.
 
everyone thought it was gay when danny way set new world records for bomb drops and halfpipe airs? i sure as hell didnt call it gay, and im sure most pro skaters didnt either. and skateboarding didnt change? im pretty sure doing a 50-50 into the grand canyon is a change from a few years back, but i could be mistaken. Both sports are going off, progressing in new directions with new riders attempting new feats everyday and there are still the grassroots skaters/skiers who think the style is where its at. i happen to be one of those pple, but that doesnt mean im not stoked at the incredible progression going on in both sports
 
The mega ramp didnt change skateboarding because everyone that matttered didnt give a shit about it. Skiing basically has all of its icons out there throwing methods in full pads.

If the only discrepancies between JOI and aerials is switch skiing and grabs then there is clearly an issue here.

fuck it,

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The mega ramp didnt change skateboarding because everyone that matttered didnt give a shit about it. Skiing basically has all of its icons out there throwing methods in full pads.

If the only discrepancies between JOI and aerials is switch skiing and grabs then there is clearly an issue here.

fuck it,

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Im loving the response...

Seriously, why so uptight about the doubles... they don't look anything like aerials. Please, take a picture of Jon, doing a double:

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and now, a picture of a dude in aerials doing whatever:

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Yep... seems right about the same to me...

Oh, and look up ad hominem...

 
Anyone remember the first ever X-Games skier big air?

Cusson won it by doing the ugliest, hula hoop twist, pecil switch 7 of all time. But, at that time it was pushing the envelope of tricks that nobody had really tried before.

Over time skiers then figured out who to refine that trick and now switch 7 is considered to be a trick that is thrown by people who value style over hucking.

But it still needed someone to huck the first one just to figure out how to get it around. Without someone like JF stepping up and hucking one, we wouldn't see super stylish switch 7s today.

That's what all these guys are doing (although I don't mean to imply that they are hucking everything). They are getting the first versions of new tricks figured out. In time this might translate to people doing these tricks with the type of style that we now see in switch 7s.
 
point very well made. i think that everyone should read the above post and then think about what these tricks will look like next season or in the following seasons. its all in the name of progression and style will only follow
 
best post in the entire thread after reading every single post.

Lets keep in mind the majority of people on NS would have there knees buckle before they would even think about hitting this jump. It was made to perfection, I would love to see what My boy Steve Omishl could do on a jump like this...and if you think he doesn't know how to reach down and grab his skis your kidding yourself.

As for everything else about this thread, I'm pretty jealous of the fact I will never get to ride a super park feature of that quality, I had thought the sport had reached it's peak as far as progression was concerned, and it was time to bring everything back towards snowboarding style back country hits.

Lets face it, That in future competitions such as this, only the cream of the crop will be aloud to hit jumps of that size, and hopefully the insurance companies will stay out of it, and let skiing be the show it's meant to be.

If it continues like this, you will see two things happen, the few exceptionally talented skiers that progress to this level on there own, and the rich kids who when to summer camps every year...
 
man that jump looks fucking amazing.

Those first few tricks in the Freeskier.tv seg on day one are soooo smooth and stylie. Just perfection
 
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