it's now super cool to wear a baseball hat (snap back) with a balaclava and sunglasses. no matter how retarded it makes you look, or how far from functional it is.
Also I forgot to mention, this is a little known fact but you know how Jon Ollson used to have (and presumably still does have) sweet ass cars? Today's superstars have rocket cars. They try to keep it on the down low though cause rocket fuel ain't cheap and more and more people are all "environmental."
sean petit, bobby brown is still the best park skier, thall is coming back to comps this year, there is no more line elizabeth, hellbents are still the same, gus kenworthy did a dub off a box, a few triple corks have been done, gopro, for some reason safari hats are cool, tall tees are going away, park rats started wearing outerwear. that's basically all
stalefish = right hand reaching past blunt to outside edge (sort of tindy position) of left ski, or vice versa.
lobster = one of the names given for the "method" grab or tweaked safety that's really popular and alternatively, the name of the dub Henrik's doing (lobster flip) where it looks like a flat 3-5 into a weird belly down, head down towards the landing sort of bioish flattish mind fuck.
trannies = a near 90 degree meeting of a wall or other surface meeting the ground where someone basically angles skis and body to ride the wall surface to the ground and shifts weight and ski position to "absorb" the transition to the ground. Sometimes there's a built up little pile of snow that makes the angle a bit less harsh. It's also anytime someone finds a way to transfer downward momentum to the horizontal, such as in hitting a jump and landing on the side of the landing, or hitting a rail and instead of landing to flat, landing on a sloping surface. Basically, you know it when you see it, and if you watch any movies with urban from this year, you saw it.
redirects = a wallride where instead of hitting it parallel, or with a takeoff that launches parallel to the wall or surface, the takeoff sends you directly into the wall (stept and B&E also like big ass redwoods) and you rideaway back towards the direction you took off from. So, instead of basically doing a "sideways wall grind" like wallrides of yesteryear, it's like slamming into a wall and absorbing the impact with lower body and ski bases and traveling back the way you came from.