New leaders?No more Simon vs. Tanner

except tanner still slays harder than them, maybe. You just have to wait till x-games because tanner doesn't do any others, my bet is he will still win though, he was doing better stuff at x-games than anyone else the rest of the year.
 
tanner skiis pow all year while every other park skier is training, then tanner shows up to the x games and slays everything. its going to be this way untill he is done
 
Tanner skis pow during the year but he trains really hard to ski park/pipe during the summer at SNOWPARK NZ. I believe that Tanner and Simon will still be on top but this year but they won't be alone in their battle for the X Games gold. And as you said with Andreas, I have to agree that he is an excellent pipe skier, he's got the tricks but usually not quite enough amplitude.
 
i half agree jossi is killer

but dumont is still throwing down so hard it makes me cry of joy every time i watch him
 
halfpipe skiing is growing up, there's more people throwing down. There won't really ever be anyone who dominates the pipe scene to the extent that Simon and Tanner do.

Here's my list of people to watch from what I've seen this year (Minus the already stock names)

-Xavier Bertoni

-Kalle Leinonen

-AJ Kempainen

-Matt Hayward

-Justin Dorey

-David Wise

-Jossi Wells

-Tucker Perkins

 
Once Jossi's knee gets better, he will blow this year apart (back in NZ)...I'm going to say Jossi and Andreas will be the 2 best slope/pipe skiers in the world this time next year...I'm sure Simon will stay up there in pipe, but people will surely catch him
 
simon and tanner have owned x games pipe since i started paying any attention to it. it will be weird to have someone else win
 
Yeah i agree that jossi is gonna be up there but the truck drivers and unatty spins their throwing are gonna be around for awhile
 
its a half pipe, you cant just throw one big trick that only you can do, barely land it, and have an average run for the rest of it and expect to win, maybe in a quarterpipe comp that can work

 
umm, no, you're misinformed. tanner was at copper the first day they opened their pipe, and was there until breck opened their's. where he stayed except a few breaks, for urban ive heard, and he took that trip right before. he trains extremely hard, and is dedicated to progressing the sport.
 
the scarey thing for everyone else is that andreas hardly trained for pipe at all this year, since he was always at keystone slaying the jumps. if he worked at it he would dominate. and justin dorey is gonna be one of the heavy hitters soon too, since he goes huge, and unlike mr target spins both ways...and switch.
 
You've really never seen Simon spin both ways or have a sw hit in the pipe? You're wylin.
 
Only problem with this is they dont or at least Bobby doesnt ski as much pipe as he does slope. There are so many good kids in slopestyle that there just isn't the same kind of rivalries created in slopestyle as in pipe because every event the slopestyle podium changes. How many up and coming skiers do you see in pipe? Not as many, therefore guys like Hall and Dumont dont have the same # of people to compete with (in pipe). Bobby and Gus will both be at the top within a few years and will no doubt win a lot of events, its just too difficult to win xgames, or us open slopestyle multiple years.
 
i think that people are catching up to simon, it seems like is run has been close to the same the past 2 or 3 years. I think you can no longer rely on how big you go, but being technical and going big
 
jossi did kill it this season but i dont know. Tanner has been doing alot of backcountry stuff so maybe someone can come in and take it. Olenick has potential but it has not shown
 
catching up to simon? tanner is the only one people will ever have to catch up to in pipe, honestly, simon is dirt at pipe, he boosts so high, but his runs dont have enough variety, he rarely spins right, he does normaly have less hits in his runs too. Soo what, last year tanner and simon had there 12's this year a few more had 12s, what people need to focus on is variety, showing that you can kill every aspect of pipe, going as big on both walls, spinning both ways, throwing inverts, alley-opps, ect. something tanner has proven to do year efter year
 
I think if simon could do something with his first hit which is always huge, other than that truck which has been a main stay for what three years now? But if he could pull of a nice crowd pleaser compareable to a whiskey flip or atleast something inverted he will stay in the top another year. I give tanner another year forsure. But after that id look for the new guys to come in and kill and thoes two to become more of film skiers than comp skiers.
 
i agree. simons first hit needs to show something bigger than just his amp. i totally support simon more than tanner, but simon needs to just make his runs more technical and stop trying to impress the crows and start showing the judges what he can really do. he has the potential to do something huge on that first hit while hes boosting 25+ feet. he should throw a 12 in there or see if he can attemp a wisky cus a wisky that far out would be sick and he would have way more time than olenick to spot his landing and smooth it out. nuff said.
 
me and a buddy were somewhat talking about this. Too bad tanner doesnt throw down in slopestyle ne more. i never understood the whole simon vs tanner. Simon practices all year round in pipe. while as said earlier in this thread tanner is out shreddin poow lines. Tanner throws down so much harder. i mean huge spins both ways and switch hits. tanner will most likely be LEADER until he retires or ends his pipe career. nough said.
 
thats like saying why doesn't ferrari stop making sick cars when they could make awesome SUVs?

it's because he does it better than anyone else you dumb ho.
 
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