Poor Henshaw

His rails. My coach judged all of the Dew tour stops and a bunch of other comps this year and thats what he had to say.
 
well that is the thing, I would probably score him pretty well. I haven't seen every run in its entirety, so I can't say he should have placed. Just seems like he get penalized for an intangible of fluidity?
 
He does poorly because he barely clears the jumps. At the Breck Dew Tours he does well with a lack of doubles because he goes huge. If he went bigger on the jumps he would do so much better.
 
regarding the JOI results, watch how he sets his triple, and then watch Bobby Brown. not that i have any right to tell pros how to do triples, but Henshaw seems to throw his triple too early and miss the pop. Bobby nails the pop and that's why his triple looks so sick.
 
exactly, i heard they judge amplitude in freeskiing comps, and russ although he can do some triple cork 14s, cant seem to POP and i guess that counts
 
Keep in mind guys that this is a dude that had ACL surgery not even 10 months ago.

He's obviously not going to be sending stuff to the bottom of the landings, which is unfortunate for him as yeh it doesn't exactly help his judging situation, but man it's just crazy how well he's skiing post opp, as far as I know no one in the history of skiing has ever made a come back that strong from ACL surgery.

Keep it up Russ! you're still one of the best in the world WITH a handicap haha
 
Russ Henshaw has some of the smoothest fucking landings I have ever seen, he goes big, holds onto his grabs for forever, and is ALWAYS robbed with the judging. I don't know what it is, maybe it's his very "textbook", "technical" style, but the judges either hate him, or just aren't paying attention. Everything he does is perfect, sure it's not the most creative, steezed out style ever, but (let's be honest here) that's not what judges are really looking for in a comp. Regardless, everything he does looks effortless. I don't get how he always gets the shaft at every comp.

Sidenote: Fuck, I need to go to sleep.
 
Yes, but depending on the execution and timing of the pop, you are sent different ways. If you pop certain ways, you can go very, very far, but will not travel too high. And the same vice versa.

Regardless, I give mad props to Russ. Coming off an ACL surgery and doing something that is so demanding on your body. The guy is crazy.
 
Actually Andreas Håtveit was the first one, go watch PBP Reasons from 2008 ! He had both ways sw tens and double cork tens on lock !
 
When I watched russ at X games he landed pretty short on the first jump but it was easily the smoothest I'd seen.
 
I thought Andreas only had a rightside kang in Reasons with left dub 10s. First unnatural dub corks came at joss 2010. I stand corrected though
 
J WEINSTOCK, have you seen an unnatty dub 14 before today? I doubt it, lots of 10s and 12s every comp, yes. Just another little bit of progression
 
Nah just rewatched reasons and EDIAS to be sure. The both way dub tens were in reasons and kangs in EDIAS. Andreas was way ahead of all others for sure, just always wondered why he didn't bring the dubs to the slopegame earlier when he was the only one doing both ways
 
Russ doesn't take jumps deep and his rail skills are pretty marginal for a big shot slope skier. I got nothing against him though- he seems like a good guy with his head in the right place. I hope he wins some big events next season.
 
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