Tom Wallisch has done a triple.
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infedel_one
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end of the world last bitch.
hot.pocket
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You are on point today.
Downtofilm
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Care to explain?
I think they're sick if done right. To be honest all the triples that I have seen have been super sick and grabbed the whole way through.
I think you're just trying to be "that guy" and fit in with the rest of the crowd.
I think they're sick if done right. To be honest all the triples that I have seen have been super sick and grabbed the whole way through.
I think you're just trying to be "that guy" and fit in with the rest of the crowd.
TACO-DOG.exe
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i bet he's going to make it look crazy stylish too.
edai
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Fair enough, I'd love to explain.
My first point, triples are an unnecessary additions to our sport. Aside from a select group of athletes, most riders don't have the ability to perform them on standard park jumps.
(Bobby Brown's Triple vs. Dane Tudor's)
This forces event organizers to systematically increase jump size. The human body is an amazing thing, but at the rate these jumps will grow, throughout big-air and slopestyle events, the athletes bodies will begin to break down. However strong you may be, no rider can sustain constant 90 FT. landings without needing serious knee, back, and foot surgery. This will inevitably shorten the competition span of most riders competing in Slope and Big Air.
Next, they just don't look good. I can deal with 1080s, I can deal with 1440s, hell I can deal with 1880s. The spinning doesn't bother me, it's the flipping that does. Personally I thought Torin's Sw 18 was sick!
(And quite the feat considering his age)
But, when a rider is flipping multiple times, doing all sorts of rotations with the same standard safety/mute combo all the time, it annoys me.
Personally, Blunt 1620 > Triple Cork 1620.
Last, I think triples further advance the idea freestyle skiing is a spectacle. It happened with mogul skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, and even surfing. This idea is entirely my opinion, but I absolutely resent the idea of our sport becoming what we would call "popular." Sure, more money in the industry is great, but I will rue the day a family sits in their living room and says "Wow look at that cool trick," while Bobby Brown flies across the X-Games big air jump doing a triple 18. I want our sport to stay pure, to stay how it was 5 years ago, when everybody knew everybody, and everybody knew which end was up. Nobody that wanted the money knew about it, FD and their shenanigans would've been welcomed with open arms, and Tanner Hall was the face of all things holy and sacred.
Anyways, that's what I think. Please share your thoughts as well, I'm always open to new ideas.
My first point, triples are an unnecessary additions to our sport. Aside from a select group of athletes, most riders don't have the ability to perform them on standard park jumps.
(Bobby Brown's Triple vs. Dane Tudor's)
This forces event organizers to systematically increase jump size. The human body is an amazing thing, but at the rate these jumps will grow, throughout big-air and slopestyle events, the athletes bodies will begin to break down. However strong you may be, no rider can sustain constant 90 FT. landings without needing serious knee, back, and foot surgery. This will inevitably shorten the competition span of most riders competing in Slope and Big Air.
Next, they just don't look good. I can deal with 1080s, I can deal with 1440s, hell I can deal with 1880s. The spinning doesn't bother me, it's the flipping that does. Personally I thought Torin's Sw 18 was sick!
(And quite the feat considering his age)
But, when a rider is flipping multiple times, doing all sorts of rotations with the same standard safety/mute combo all the time, it annoys me.
Personally, Blunt 1620 > Triple Cork 1620.
Last, I think triples further advance the idea freestyle skiing is a spectacle. It happened with mogul skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, and even surfing. This idea is entirely my opinion, but I absolutely resent the idea of our sport becoming what we would call "popular." Sure, more money in the industry is great, but I will rue the day a family sits in their living room and says "Wow look at that cool trick," while Bobby Brown flies across the X-Games big air jump doing a triple 18. I want our sport to stay pure, to stay how it was 5 years ago, when everybody knew everybody, and everybody knew which end was up. Nobody that wanted the money knew about it, FD and their shenanigans would've been welcomed with open arms, and Tanner Hall was the face of all things holy and sacred.
Anyways, that's what I think. Please share your thoughts as well, I'm always open to new ideas.
hot.pocket
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I don't like you, and thus everybody else doesn't like you. This is due to the fact that I am the best skier on the mountain and people want to be just like me.
ReelTeamSix
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+k for sure... what an essay- those english majors who work down at the starbucks will be proud
Dr.Newschoolers
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its on like donkey kong
TheDavisMobile
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Time to see how many wallisch dick riders now switch their position on hating triples....
easy.steezy
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Spinning is just as much a spectacle as flipping, it's just in your opinion that spinning looks better. I'm sure that Bobby doing a triple 16 would wow people just as much as Torin doing doing a switch 18.
Non-skiers are clueless, the x games has been and always will be a spectacle for non-skiers who watch espn. All Mike Douglas did this year was fantasize about a triple being thrown, he mentioned it every 10 seconds, along with Hatveit having a park in his backyard.
But the wonderful thing about freeskiing is that it will always be free. You can hate on triples for whatever good reason you like, but I doubt that pros throwing them will effect you in anyway, you can still go out and shred and do whatever the fuck you'd like.
Non-skiers are clueless, the x games has been and always will be a spectacle for non-skiers who watch espn. All Mike Douglas did this year was fantasize about a triple being thrown, he mentioned it every 10 seconds, along with Hatveit having a park in his backyard.
But the wonderful thing about freeskiing is that it will always be free. You can hate on triples for whatever good reason you like, but I doubt that pros throwing them will effect you in anyway, you can still go out and shred and do whatever the fuck you'd like.
None of that really makes triples stupid though which was what you originally claimed.
It's a detailed explanation of why you personally don't like them but that's the beauty of skiing - people are doing lots of different things with it and the differnt aspects all appeal to different people.
A lot of skiers would rather see rather see triples than 1800s, some would rather see huge urban features than big jumps. To say they're unnecessary just doesn't make sense to me. Skiers can do whatever they want - that is how the sport has evolved beyond the mute 3s and 7s that used to feature in ski movies.
Your argument about most riders not having the ability to perform them on standard park jumps doesn't make sense either - most skiers don't have access to the Alaskan spine faces big mountain pros are pushing themselves on or the huge rail features you see other skiers hitting it movies - it's those sort of things that seperate the best from the rest and that thousands of people pay to see in movies. As for the toll on the body that's just an argument about progression, not triples per se. The bottom line is that jumps and features get bigger in any sport like this no matter what tricks are being thrown.
As for the industry staying pure a similar argument could be made about the industry at just about any time - things always change and some people will always hark back to the 'good old days'. That's just the way it is and I don't see how some pros throwing triples really comes into it any more than myriad other developments within the sport. Regarding it being a spectacle that is also ineveitable. You could argue the olympics will have a far bigger say in that than what trick a particular pro is throwing though - after all the laymen can't really tell the difference between a triple whatever and other flippy spinny shit as Dumont's double front win proved years ago.
Anyway props to Wallisch, I think it's sick he's thrown one even if I would watch Lolo throwing some crazy 5 every time.
It's a detailed explanation of why you personally don't like them but that's the beauty of skiing - people are doing lots of different things with it and the differnt aspects all appeal to different people.
A lot of skiers would rather see rather see triples than 1800s, some would rather see huge urban features than big jumps. To say they're unnecessary just doesn't make sense to me. Skiers can do whatever they want - that is how the sport has evolved beyond the mute 3s and 7s that used to feature in ski movies.
Your argument about most riders not having the ability to perform them on standard park jumps doesn't make sense either - most skiers don't have access to the Alaskan spine faces big mountain pros are pushing themselves on or the huge rail features you see other skiers hitting it movies - it's those sort of things that seperate the best from the rest and that thousands of people pay to see in movies. As for the toll on the body that's just an argument about progression, not triples per se. The bottom line is that jumps and features get bigger in any sport like this no matter what tricks are being thrown.
As for the industry staying pure a similar argument could be made about the industry at just about any time - things always change and some people will always hark back to the 'good old days'. That's just the way it is and I don't see how some pros throwing triples really comes into it any more than myriad other developments within the sport. Regarding it being a spectacle that is also ineveitable. You could argue the olympics will have a far bigger say in that than what trick a particular pro is throwing though - after all the laymen can't really tell the difference between a triple whatever and other flippy spinny shit as Dumont's double front win proved years ago.
Anyway props to Wallisch, I think it's sick he's thrown one even if I would watch Lolo throwing some crazy 5 every time.
I.Am.Lorde.
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OMG Tom Wallisch? OMG triples? OMG im twelve and I have a boner!
Flying~Squirrel
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stop being such a pussy and hit the big jumps you fucker
ForeverYung
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TOM WALISH.
Flying~Squirrel
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a) i always thought triples were cool
b) i love tom wallisch and if he asked me for gay sex i would submit and commit
c) my last name is davis
b) i love tom wallisch and if he asked me for gay sex i would submit and commit
c) my last name is davis
This is a factual claim, but unless some "governing organization" moves in and starts to restrict the sport, athletes are going to push themselves harder and harder. It's just the nature of extreme sports.
If we start restricting the sport, how long do you think it will take before someone pulls a Shane McConkey. I can see it now... X-Games bans any spins over dub 12... What's this? Tom Wallisch appears to be dropping in naked! OH MY, A TRIPLE CORK WITH A PERFECTLY EXECUTED COCK GRAB!! Looks like he's gonna be banned from competition for life.
And... then the disgruntled riders will go and start a new sport.
Pretty sure they already made a movie based on this plot... Like a lion? Something like that? I dunno. I was pretty drunk when I watched it.
If we start restricting the sport, how long do you think it will take before someone pulls a Shane McConkey. I can see it now... X-Games bans any spins over dub 12... What's this? Tom Wallisch appears to be dropping in naked! OH MY, A TRIPLE CORK WITH A PERFECTLY EXECUTED COCK GRAB!! Looks like he's gonna be banned from competition for life.
And... then the disgruntled riders will go and start a new sport.
Pretty sure they already made a movie based on this plot... Like a lion? Something like that? I dunno. I was pretty drunk when I watched it.