Two completely different directions

I agree here. I remember when I first saw some of Gus's edits. He had the ugliest style I have ever seen. I hated it.

If you compare his KoS with his earlier edits, he has come a LONG way with his style. It's not too forced, and it looks good. It's not loose and gangster, it's more aggressive, but still looks VERY in-control.

I like his style now
 
but his double cork 16... gross. TJ did it and didn't open up and go all crazy or hand drag or nothing. Gus has wild style
 
Personally I like it more when they're really throwing down than when they try to be all cool and steezy, which they're good at, but the whole image around it annoys me like fuck.

Like in the B&E 4, where at 0:50 this one guy does some bird-wings with his hands? Wtf...that's so not gangster. Of course they're sick skiers and I sure have respect for them, but the whole 4xl-hype is pissing me off - badly.

 
I agree, it seems that he's switched his style a lot. Back when things were bad, he tried to afterbang super, super hard, and it just looked awful and forced, much like Tom Warnick's used to. Now he has a very smooth, controlled style, clean as opposed to exaggerated.
 
i believe you mean homsexual and heterosexual. I would say smooth lines, big air, lots o' spin and a touch of rails is sweet. I find the gangster approach not only poorly suited to the format of comps now but i also find there is too much dancing around like a leprechaun to be skiing.

Personal opinion and choice. not hatin. just making discussion.
 
I'm 26, I don't hate Gus, I didn't say he doesn't have air sense or even good air sense...he has amazing air sense. I was refuting ONE PERSON'S claim that he has the "best" air sense which is a ridiculous and entirely unprovable statement.
In the Gus KOS style, I even said that his dub grabs on both the kang and the cork 9 were dope, so suck a dick.

All you little stooges who can't read, let alone refute shit that I say, need to fall way the fuck back.
Fuck.
 
P.S.
I have no "cred" to speak of—particularly, when talking about something as fucking subjective as "style".
Newsflash: No one else has any "cred" either, regardless of what color their name is, how many posts they have, how long they've been on ns, or any other totally irrelevant "credential" you can point at.
The bottom line is that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and at the very least, even if you disagree with me 100% of the time, I express mine clearly and explicitly.
 
No matter how much you want a guy like phil to win a comp guys like bobby and russ will beat him every time unless he gets some bigger tricks that's just how it is.

However i think if Henrik can get a bit more of a right game he could win some big comps.
 
This pretty much...

And the word 'stoked' should really be banned. Everyone's just always stoked on fucking EVERYTHING...
 
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i think they will stop doing crazy bigger tricks and focus more in the style i also think X games will always like it is right now but with bigger jomps to do some tripples..
 
Does anyone else HATE that feet-ridiculously-close-together style that henrik and friends had in the B&E edit?

That bothers me so much for some reason
 
you don't like parallel turns with edge control and nice form? Maybe I'm old school but I grew up taking LESSONS where you learn to SKI, and this is one of the first principals.

I gguess you can ski like a pizza wedging 5 year old forever if you'd like but don't expect to get better
 
I don't wanna sound like a tom Wallisch fan boy but.....to me tom is the perfect balance between style and clean big tricks
 
I can ski fine. I don't slide my turns, and I can make deep carves.

The whole thing with people landing looking like their knees and feet tied together just bothers me for some reason. I think a switch landing with your feet a little less than shoulder width apart with feet staggered looks better.

Tom Wall = Yes.

Phil Casabon = Yes.

Idk what it is about the style in the B&E show that bothers me, but it does.
 
I can see what you mean with some of them, I think it just looks awkward on a couple of those shots, but if you watch delorme's part in eye trip he has a similar style with very parallel skis on alot of his tricks, and I think it looks so sick.It just makes it look like he has so much more control in the air
 
I'm with you. Ahmet does the same thing.
Like it's been said...I'm also old school, from the era of straight skis and determining someone's skill based on their ability to "parallel". I think it looks like they're on fucking monoskis....which is obviously dope.
 
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