Tech or style?

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Yo you know what? FUCK THIS. No jokes on this issue.

I mean seriously.... I think that the Tech or Style argument should go on forever and ever until the people in this sport finally get out of the god damn aerials days and wake the fuck up.

Style currently is fucking dead in skiing. FINE - the quadruple 2700 spins are grabbed all the way through. Yes I get it.

HOWEVER - the best 540 you've ever seen will never, ever, ever, ever be as hucked-looking as a freaking double-flipping whirlybird spin.

We have racing and aerials in our blood, and I think that as a sport we can't get rid of it.

So FUCK tech... style all the way.
 
my thoughts exactly.... its so much cooler than shit that you can barely see happening because its too fast!
 
You know everyone always fucking says this... then spin to win always wins.

I remember once when I was working at High North, I asked (I think it was) Peter O. and Colby W. why they didn't bother with style in contests. One of them said:

"Well... when there is fucking TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on the line... you do what you know the judges will score high. I mean shit man... that's your livelihood."

Fair enough.

I guess style is for *some* video parts.

 
style all the way if there was no style and everybody was just trying to go the biggest it would practically all look the same!
 
im gonna respectfully disagree with what you wrote above. pretty positive that theres more style in skiing these days all around than there ever was. Also I think that all the doubles are combining style and tech which is absolutely sick, and most pro's these days do not make doubles look hucked at all. given not all doubles look good I totally agree and they do get boring as fuck but they're by no means hucked or look like they are.

My answer to this would be ; like everything in life there needs to be a good balance. too much of one thing and it looks like gay ass 70's shit and too much of the other and you end up having a "steezy" 540 fest. (540's are cool and all but they'd get boring after like 2 mins :P)

also just so i dont take shit too seriously.....penguins.

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and my favorite bird of all time:

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style for daze. that's the future of skiing, people taking their own approach to riding and creating new tricks or making old tricks look original because of some fresh swag

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yeah im for style then tech, and i wont think its cool unless its got style, so i think that a styled out sw butter dub 12 blunt would be cooler than a cork 9 tail (in both cases they were afterbanged so hard that my head exploded, and on massive jumps). cool opinion bro
 
at the same time? on ns? preposterous, but really i've seen some legit steez big tricks, perfect exampleharlaut 2008 windells level 1 cab 14, shit was bomb yo
 
style for sure, i understand how professional skiers cant make money winning competitions with style tricks and how they must preform using tech tricks. But style will always be number one in my books, especially in any film segment. For example ive never seen phil casabon do a double but he still comes out with some of the best film segments of the year because he is so damn stylish, as well as people like henrik harlaut or p-white and names like that. It is for this reason that I love the level 1 movies so much, because they always put a focus on the style of skiing and not just the huge park jump perfect for doing triples on, they have the better LOOKING jump that skiers can do more stylish and creative tricks on instead of just getting super tech to a point where it looks bad.

As far as doubles go, doubles have all the potentail to be stylish if they are done in a stylish manner, for example a switch double rodeo ten which a shifty after the second flip and a gnarly safety grab will always look insanely stylish to me, but a triple cork 14 with high mute held the entire time (even though it is far more difficult) will never gain the same amount of respect from me.

 
Listen... on all other points in your post I totally agree... however, there is a flaw in logic with the part of it quoted here.

Though I agree that all of the current doubles are STYLISH (In that they are as stylish as a double could be) and they are no means hucked...

I simply argue that style can be much better expressed in THE corked 540 of all time. It will always be a more fluid, smooth and beautiful movement than the double flip.

I think the funniest part of the style vs. tech argument comes from the Xbox game, Amped 2.

Amped 2 had an uncanny ability to score style based on the fluidity of your trick. Big spins could not score as many points as super duper smooth ones.

For anyone who has played it, in my mind this game has the judging of our sport more down than anyone else on this planet.

 
People are always going to do bigger, crazier, more hucked tricks. That's not just an aerialist mentality - those people legitimately enjoy that. Other people enjoy doing the slowest most styled out slides and spins they can. That's part of what's awesome about skiing - being able to choose. I like style too, but I'm not against dubs and triples.

There's really no reason to have to choose one over the other and say it's inherently better. That's like saying that skiing park is better than touring BC, or arcing spring slush turns. It's all really fucking fun.

Sure, I would rather ski deep BC zones than a hard park, but that doesn't mean I don't love park. And I prefer style over triples, but that doesn't mean I'm going to choose sides and say that big spins aren't valid.
 
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