Jon Olsen Olympic GS 2014???

i actually respect the man for it. hes rich as fuck, yet he doesnt let it go to his head, he just skis for the sport of it and just so happens to make money doing it because he kicks the ass.
 
I would like to see Bode make a similar bet... X Games (or something) top 10 in XX years. Talent on skis is talent.

--rick
 
I spotted him at the Beaver Creek WC race with full on race skis. Also overheard a "higher up" with Head state that he's switching back to racing. It kind of makes sense if you win everything.
 
the title of this thread pisses me off constantly. haha

where is NS spell check when you need it. i hope he does it, wins it, then quits it. racing is still gaper.

DONT GET ME WRONG. a skier like Jon going to racing, and kicking ass, then coming back to free sking would be DOPE AS FUCK!
 
Daron Rahlves did. Olympics, FIS world cup tour, and then onto the x games. Did pretty good till Puckett put him in place. Both those fuckers are fast
 
racing is incredibly hard to do well. Definitely not gaper, and I have full respect for anyone who makes the high-level teams.

But the douchebag kids who just go fast and have little or no control and think they're really good and/or act like little jerkoffs I have no respect for. That's why I quit racing.
 
yup. thats what i meant in a nutshell, plus racing gives you a solid technical grounding for big/all mtn ripping. racing is definately not gaper, there are just a few that let the side down so-to-speak. there again, look at freeskiing and the same can be said...
 
I doubt he is underestimating those guys when he used to race himself, and when his brother is on the team. He knows what it takes...
 
watching the blog, oscar is doing it as well and he rips a gs course too. i gotta say, this is a real breath of fresh air, but i find it really confusing. Jon says something like "there's a race in a couple of weeks" which sounds to me like he plans on entering. i was under the impression he would continue freeskiing then train racing on the side with a view to competing after his freeski comp carreer winds down. Now it sounds like the other way round, because no way can he compete effectively in both in the same season...

unless everyone has missed the point entirely and there are two jon olssons or that he isn't actually a human (like some kind of superior mutant species)...
 
I don't think that would be cool at all there's a time and place for everything. Do you think it would be cool if Alberta Tomba entered a slopestyle and flew down the course avoiding the features?
 
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i dont think many of the people on here have enough respect for high level racing

dont get me wrong ive met plenty of prick racers but ive also met plenty of prick park skiers and boarders too.

"I AM A SKIER" not a racer, not a park rat, and not a groomer cruiser, but a SKIER!

I started skiing late(14) and i started racing. the 3 years i spent racing taught me so much about the fundamentals of how to ski... im 18 now and done racing, i found out i enjoy skiing park more than racing (im not very good but im out their to push myself and have FUN!)
 
if he did it he'd get made props all around. but he has to kang flip the finish. they'll put a massive booter at the end just for him, but all the other racers have to hit it too.
 
i think race culture is dumb. i think having a race background definitely builds a good foundation for technique and skill on skis but i think racers and their culture is gay as fuck. I think tight fitting spyder gear that costs $900 is gay. I think the pompous attitude that racers have is wicked gay too. I hate fischer bindings, full head helmets, gordini goggles, barilla and other pasta sponsored events, and gs suits.

Don't get me wrong, the good racers i still have respect for, especially bode miller because he doesnt have that kind of pompous attitude. But like the racing kids at mountains still scream gaper.

In my opinion its a lot easier for a really good freestyler to become a good racer than it is for a really good racer to become a good free styler.
 
I saw the video by his skiing now he doesn't have a chance, not in fucking hell. But 6 years is a long time if he trains seriously he might be able to pull it off
 
im not calling you out or anything but i dont think many of you guys realize the difficulty in racing and how technical it is.

i think the opposite, that a good racer can become a good freestyler much easier. just look at how many racers went to freestyle. how many freestylers went to racing? racing also definitely provides a good foundation for skiing in general, everywhere, all over the mountain.
 
i think the fact that freestylers dont go to racing is a result of the culture difference; most freestylers view racing as gay and i think a lot of racers, after accomplishing goals, want to start "looking cool" and dressing warm i guess, i dunno.

Dont get me wrong, racing is definitely hard and techinical but i think freestyle overall is a lot harder to pick up and become a really good pro at. I think this is just because of all the various disciplines you have to be good at in freestyle to be good in freestyle so to speak. For example, you got rails, jumps/pipe, cliffs, and pow. Every major pro is good in all 4 of those categories. Jon calls himself bad at rails but he can lip 270 pretzel 270 out both ways onto a kinked rail. Hes decent at urban too. In racing, its more or less right vs left turns.

Theres just so much to learn in freestyle from like 50 different jump tricks with some insanely hard ones like dj flips and kangaroo flips and 720 twin nose to like 50 different rail tricks with pretzels and all. Racing you just practice more or less the same stuff over and over again. Granted every course is different, but every rail is different too and so is every jump.

Plus the consequences in high level freestyle of failure are greater than racing. A 60mph crash in a race sounds scary but they wear some sort of padding in their gs suits and the new spyder ones have d3o in them. Plus theyre more or less skidding down the hill, not really taking a full force stopped g-force inducing impact. Its not like theyre crashing 60-70mph into a wall, they kind of slow the intesity of a crash. On the other hand, tanner hall and simon dumonts falls kind of represent just how dangerous freestyle really is.
 
douchebag I corrected myself like 2 seconds after I posted this thread once I read what i had written. I was just a little excited...that's all, ha ha...
 
dude, you realise racing is a sport not a lifestyle thing like freeskiing? its not like they choose to wear catsuit because they think it looks cool. you think ice hockey players wear pads because it makes them look cool? no, its function. you just can't compare racing with freeskiing, its a whole different concept, you can't apply the same rules.

fischer bindings (tyrolia) are some of the best you can buy- i have mojo 15s on my prophets, they're bomber as hell. don't know why you'd hate on them...

also,you underestimate how hard racing is too- have you any idea how much force you are applying to your body at 70mph around a super-g bend on blue ice? i don't either, but its a fucking lot! its not just a question of turning left and right, there is so much technique and strength needed to be successful.

thats all :)
 
i know some ppl think the gs suits are mad gay but a lot of the top level racers and race academy kids show them off. a lot of racers think they are in fact cool and wear those gay snow shorts things and the spyder fleeces over them and display the legs as a sign of awesomeness.

I didnt underestimate the sport i said it was techinical, all im saying is freestyle is a lot harder which it is. Theres huge mental blocks in freestyle plus the fact that a lot of tricks ie 360 swup and double flips are infinitely harder than racing. not to mention in racing there is one goal: go faster than everyone else. In freestyle you have to keep innovating to keep winning and thats harder.
 
i know exactly what im talking about im saying these ppl strut around in them thinking theyre the shit. once again seeing as how you ppl dont read, im not saying racing isnt technical or w/e im saying freestyle is def harder and more dangerous and more techinically advanced, and thus racers should not strut around thinking theyre the shit over everyone else. I dont vouch for anyone feeling superior on a mountain, but at the least it certainly shouldnt be the racers. I remember once i slipped out on a C rail and a racer was like hows that rail taste? and once i was sitting eating lunch hearing racers go whats so good about twin tips anyway. theyre pretty much all gay except for the good ones, the ones that appreciate freestyle, and girls.
 
in powder mag there was a thing on it. apparently he put on gs skis and did the course and his time was better than everyone but one other guy on the swedish team. i wouldnt underestimate him.
 
quite. couldn't have said it better myself.

you can't compare racing and freeskiing jumeister, so don't try, one is not easier or harder than the other- they're totally different. and stop generalising all the participants of a huge sport just because you don't get on with the ones at your hill.

you sound like a skier hating on snowboarding a few years back. so shhhhh, k?
 
for all u talking about jon skiing it switch... wasnt pep talkin awhile back about mounting up some race skis backwards to ski switch nasty??? he could jus do tht haha and bomb the whole thing switch
 
ok so here what i think.

1. He's jon olsson, pratically a god on ski's, he'll deffinatly make it and succeed.

2. From what i have noticed most of the best freestyle skiers were racers at one point.

3. The basis of younger kids who become park rats can get good at the park pretty fast, but then they lack alot of important skills in skiing that you get from racing. I raced from when i was 8-12, then i decided that freeriding was really cool and i talked to my parents about it. They were both D-1 college racers and wanted me to be the same... But when they saw that I enjoyed other aspects of skiing more than just gates they let me explore. (now i ended up breaking my colar bone when i was 13 skiing so i couldnt really start then.) When i got back on skis i was still at so much of a higher level than my two buds that never took lessons or raced because their parrents thought that it was better just to ski. Last year i finally started really doing ALL park and back country, and i progressed alot. I think that it was easier for me from my background in racing than my other friends.

4. I still love going through the gates every once in a while. I mean, who doesnt occasionally just wanna go fast?
 
i totally agree with the racing before freestyling. or atleast just skiing for most of your childhood before freestyling. that way you master the basics and it makes freestyle a lot easier for you.
 
I think both racing and moguls give you a strong skiing technique which gives you an edge when doing park & pipe. I was talking to a medic at the olympic training center who said that the injuries for freestyle are the same as for downhill. Both can be very dangerous. Well enough of that. Jon rocks and has the talent and drive for any aspect of skiing. Plus his website is hilarious.
 
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