Slope Style with only rails?

or favour any fourteen year old kid with a backyard set up who can't actually ski. Kinda like you.
 
you guys are saying stuff like it's easy to be good at rails. I think it would be cool and would encourage people to come up with more unique tricks. Cause face it, there's only o many ways you can be different in the air, but if you set up lots of different rails/objects, then you could get creative.

 
double post but has there ever been any urban comps? it would be kind of like an IMYTA, which was a rollerblading comp back in the day. But you could just have people pull up to a spot and slay it.
 
youd HAVE to get permits and things though, with the amount of material etc you need to set one up. rollerblades you can just roll up and hit it. skis, not so much.
 
Not really.

The rail work in X-Games and Dew Tour was shoddy at best. At euro X, everyone was doing the same disaster 2s and 4s onto the FD, or pretzels on the flat box, then either pretzels or flips off the shark tail.

Competitive rail skiing outside rail jams has been consistently underwhelming.

As someone who skis 95% rails and jibs, I would love to see a rail garden slopestyle. It would progress the sport a lot more, bring a lot of creativity, and maybe stop the whole spin to win/ doubles onslaught, which I hate.

My formative skiing years were spent watching 4bi9 destroying rails, and that's what got me stoked on skiing. Not doubles.

So yes, I would LOVE to see a rail-only slopestyle.

inb4 hate.
 
I think it'd make for a nice format for a railjam.
BUT....THREADJACK!

I'd rather see a slopestyle contest that is much more progressive with a true diversity of features. I'd like a course to have small jumps (or jump...as in one of them), rails, an urban stairset/ledge, wall ride, a tap/stall feature, a roller/knuckle, a butter pad, boxes, some kind of gap, a quarter pipe, a hip, etc.
My biggest gripe with slope courses is that there is truly only 1 "line". Sure, there's usually a box option alongside a rail feature and a lot of courses feature jumps with two different takeoffs...but at the start gate, all the competitors know that the podium runs will be pretty much identical save how many degrees of spin they contained.
What makes "street" comps (skate, bmx, inline) so compelling and exciting is that riders all approach the course in distinctive ways and choose vastly different lines based on their own ideas about flow, rhythm, and capitalizing on their strengths. Basically, choosing a line, and being creative is ESSENTIAL to winning a street event. Obviously, skiing is a downhill sport and creating a course with a multitude of options is limited relative to other action sports where turning around and rehitting features is an option. But, in principle, it's possible to design a course with this idea in mind.
Bringing this sort of creative element to ski slope events and forcing riders to make choices as opposed to just tucking into the next kicker after barely touching down on a "cannon box" (ugh.), would make for much more enjoyable contests for everyone involved—other than gapers who are only interested in flips done over big jumps at high speeds.
How cool would it be to see riders like Max Hill, Brady Perron,and Phil Casabon dominate a competition scene?
Scoring would probably be a bit (read: a loooot) more subjective, but maybe any sort of pathetic attempt to "quantify" tricks relative to one another could be thrown out the window, and scoring would be based solely on overall impression....maybe even rider judged?
P.S.
Yes, OP is retarded.
 
haha the RodeoFest ''slopestyle run'' consisted of a flat-down box, an up-down box and a down-flat rail. does that count?
 
This.

Sorry to keep having a go at Euro-X, but the line choice was so standard. Obviously the FD at the top was going to be a bigger point scorer than the flat box, and most people chose to use it, unless they were putting down safe runs.

And the only trick that I enjoyed watching on it was Jossi's deadlung 2-On

In the mid section, where there was jump option next to a rail option, not a single skier took the rail option.

Lets cut the number of jumps in half, increase the number of rails, and make the judges realise that the shit B-Dog, Delorme, Hornbeck, Andy & Will and Allen Lam, etc are doing on rails is technically very difficult, and more aesthetically pleasing that a fucking double cork 12 High mute.
 
the problem lies in that technical rails dont really lead to a "good" contest. its a LOT harder to get consistent tricks on a dfd or something along those lines, and i have a feeling it would come down to the three dudes that could put together clean runs, rather than actual competition. while the course at xgames euro may have been cookie cutter, i thought it was pretty rad that ANY of the top 6 could have taken it. rather than contests where it really comes down to simply "can you make it to the bottom"
 
Some should figure out a way to keep skiers moving, like maybe have a conveyor belt at the end of a short run to make a skiing event almost interior like being in a skatepark. That way the runs could keep going. Although that would present a whole new set of problems...
 
ok i agree with the post that it would become a just make it down run rather than a technically amazing run. but i would like to see guys like Lj, Walker, Compton and Casabon really Blow up an event
 
Snowboarding has the Empire shakedown which is almost like what you're talking about.It's a horizontal course so everyone can see everything and it has I think one jump and mostly rails. definitely look it up it's sick.
 
i think the jib academy that just went down was similar to this, i remember hearing that they had jumps in the middle and on either side two completely different lines of rails, and i completely agree with you
 
Rails to riches bitches, a slope run with a flat down and up flat down railbow cannon box maybe and option for an S at the bottom
 
I actually think it'd be kinda cool to have a comp where it would only be rails and boxes. It does exist, but msot of them only have 3 rails, how about a comp with a long line of rails. i think itd be cool!
 
my home hills comp gave you the choice of a 5 rails in a row, or a single jump hit run. I kind of got screwed over because my rail game isn't at what my jump game is. But they judges also favoured the rails because it was more hits...
 
I really like that idea how big was the jump. this would be great change of pace, over the weekend at my home mountain a kid won a big air with a huge 360 broke my heart
 
at 7 springs last weekend a girl won next years ace of spades boots by straight airing a 65 foot jump and falling on half of her runs.

 
I'm with this. Comps are definitely favored towards the jump focused guys who are consistently working on the same tricks. I liked the idea at Euro X with more jumps, forcing riders to vary their tricks but it wasn't much of a 'slopestyle' comp, more of a bmx dirt style jump line comp.

A comp consisting of a lot less jumps, as mentioned before, one or two - then a variety of different hits allowing riders to show off all aspects of skiing (rails, 1/4, wallrides, bonks, transfers etc)

 
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