STOP THE FLAIR

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faux_real

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It's 2007 and pro skiers are still doing flairs in their halfpipe runs. You don't see tricks from the late 90's in slopestyle. Why does that shit fly in halfpipe? If you need more flair, hang a bandana out of your pocket, or wear a fanny pack for Christ's sake.
 
Because a flair 25 feet out is still sick. And it seems like lately there has been a fine line between flatspin 5's, cork 5's, flairs.

And there have been more and more old school tricks in slopestyle runs as of late. Double back flips? Switch double backflips? People were doing that shit back in 99.
 
Why the fuck do you care? Go do a 20-25ft flair and tell me again that they shouldn't "fly".
 
STOP THE CRYING!

If you don't like flairs, then don't do them.

If Candide likes to do them 20 feet out with a couple of grabs on the way around, then who the hell are you to tell him to stop?

 
you're right about the fine line. i don't think what dumont is doing 20 ft. out is a flair. i would say cork 5. the flair i have in mind is tanner's filler trick on the left wall, where it's more of a loop.
 
yeha seriously if you could do a flair even half as high as the pros do, you might have a little respect for flairs. they're nasty.
 
Spins only is a little repetative. They need some kind of flip trick to mix it up, and flares fit the bill. Besides, at least when Candide is doing them, they look amazing.
 
wow, why the fuck do you care. maybe the pros who throw flairs do it because they CAN(unlike you, i'm sure) and maybe they LIKE flairs you ever heard of that? last time i checked skiing is for fun
 
I'm not a fan of flairs myself, but thats not to say there not hard. but when peeps do back to back flairs its kind of lame back to back 5's or 9's would be sicker.
 
word its def ugly but I agree with the statement that its good to set up for a bigger tricks. everyone throws flairs because they can do em high outta the pipe and gain amp while it still being a flippy grabber trick
 
skiing is not for fun when there is $25,000 on the line. at that point, it's about doing the hardest, styliest tricks. the flair is the easiest, most primitive halfpipe trick in the book. look at kent kreitler in Performers or the credits of Decade (is that the snowbord video he hits the QP in?).

what trick does he do? a flair.

 
Ok, here's an idea for you:

Call up Candide and tell him what an idiot he is for doing a trick that everyone thinks looks great (his flair double true tail). Let him know that in your opinion, he is ruining the sport.

In fact, maybe he should hire you to be his personal coach because you obviously are the person who should be determining what tricks pro skiers do in their runs.

 
that's a great idea. in fact, why don't you film me doing it and we'll make a documentary style ski movie and call it "idea 2" of "the other idea."

actually, i admit that candide's flair is an exception, in the same way that his d-spin is an exception--it never gets old.
 
I guess in your ideal 'cool skier world' you are only allowed to do new tricks....so no flairs.

Well while we are at it, lets question mute grabs, rockets, backflips, frontflips, 3s, 5s, 7s, 9s, safteys, japans,....you get the point.

Who cares if a trick is new, if it is done clean and big, it is timeless.
 
i'm not talking about an "ideal cool skier world," i'm talking about competitions that are supposed to showcase the cutting edge in ski tricks, not the timeless classics. if you look at slopestyle comps, you don't see the equivalent of a flair, or a lot of the tricks you mentioned. so, why does tanner hall get away with doing flairs in his gold medal runs?
 
because hes basically doing it to get more speed for his next trick, its like saying why did laurent favre do a 180 grab in the xgames?
 
because nobody else is doing anything better...?

and what are you talking about "you dont see that in slopestyle?" you see switch 5s, switch 7s, 9s, simon did a double front at x. How many pros have been able to do a mute 9 for years? Still see plenty of those...
 
was there a switch 5 in any of the top 3 runs at the x-games slopestyle? no. and are any of those tricks you mentioned as old and easy as the flair? no.

 
dude a 20ft out of the pipe flair, pretty tricky. and also good for gaining speed for next hit. if they were trying to switch 10 every hit, by the time they got to the end theyd barely be boosting 20cm!
 
faux_real

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Feb 28 2007

4:45:46

It's 2007 and pro skiers are still doing flairs in their halfpipe runs. You don't see tricks from the late 90's in slopestyle. Why does that shit fly in halfpipe? If you need more flair, hang a bandana out of your pocket, or wear a fanny pack for Christ's sake.

STOP POSTING
 
Wow dude...I'm pretty fucking sure Sammy won the Silver, might wanna check his run again...

Who cares if its fucking old, mute grabs are old. It still takes skill to make it look good. Switch 5s and even a regular 5 in the pipe with a grab is just as easy as a flair.
 
he tu sais quoi espece de connard tu parle d'un tricks que tout le monde fait mais alors dans ce cas dis aussi a tout le monde d'arreter de faire des rodeos et des rotation droite!!!

et apres la facon dont je m'habille ne regarde que moi alors va biente faire encule mais bin vu que tu parle francais et que tu sais que je ride avec un bandana sur la gueule tu dois me voir rider donc la prochaine fois que tu me vois on parlera maisje pense que tu a pas de couille et que tu a une grande gueule et que tu va en reste la cache derriere ton pseudo comme une petite tapette
 
hahaha faux_real, la il t'as vraiment dresser laurent. bien fait! de toute facon, ce mec il parle comme si il pouvait les faire, style, jaimerai bien te voir skiier fauxreal. cest sur que tu t'es vraiment fait baiser qund un mec pro vient de defoncer la geule sur le net.
 
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