Why is aerials a thing

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Samskiman

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Why is aerials a thing when slopestyle and big air and freeskiing exists? Im from Sweden and i dont think anybody does it here but ive seen aerial comps and where is it popular and how does it exists when the more newschool freestyle exits. I dont want to hate on aerial skiers just asking
 
why is aerials with grabs a thing?

Freestyle Skiing is Now limited to single cork (switch)1080. reverts, butters, shifties, doubles grabs... with or without poles.

Anything beyond this is aerials in race boots, FIS sanctioned.

/rant

**This post was edited on Jan 1st 2024 at 12:21:34pm
 
freeskiing is like the skiing version of tricks, but these tricks already existed in gymnastics, it makes sense that these tricks would have been adapted for skiing before skiing would have developed it's own style. i think your question should be: why are aerials still a thing? in which case i don't know because they are kinda lame.
 
agreed^ but the main point is that freestyle should NOT be jocking gymanstics/aerials.

The biggest factor of freestyle skiing, WAS that Anyone can compete. Back in the day, freestyle thrived because any kid could learn to ski and jam a rail. When the ski schools started training kids to do doubles, it took away from the natural rhythm of the growing sport. yes, jon olsson was like bleach water on a blossoming house plant. FIS can have whatever has been created, they can make rules all they want for trained competitive skiing, aerials, gates, moguls (which im still waiting for one of you kiddos to stick a cork9, and ride out the last 5 moguls switch....)

Keep It Freestyle.
 
topic:Samskiman said:
Why is aerials a thing when slopestyle and big air and freeskiing exists? Im from Sweden and i dont think anybody does it here but ive seen aerial comps and where is it popular and how does it exists when the more newschool freestyle exits. I dont want to hate on aerial skiers just asking
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cause it’s cool
 
aerials is dominated by gymnasts, really has nothing to do with skiing, they just happen to have skis on their feet for the landing.
 
i mean aerial comps have been around for much longer than slope style. i think eliminating aerials would then bring an influx of ‘comp jocks’ to slope and could alter the format and scoring of slope style for better or worse but probably worse.

here’s a question: would aerials be sick if we just put them in some harlaut pants?? lol. get them boys kited up
 
Put them in line miners and anytides. They already ride with the Durham arms sticking straight out

14576816:partyandBS said:
here’s a question: would aerials be sick if we just put them in some harlaut pants?? lol. get them boys kited up
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14576786:.nasty said:
aerials is dominated by gymnasts, really has nothing to do with skiing, they just happen to have skis on their feet for the landing.
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Or when FIS manages a sport. Aerials used to be cool
 
In theory it’s a pretty cool idea. Who can do the most, cleanest flips and spins off a crazy huge jump.

idk how many people ever tried to practice a back full or any of the stuff they do on a trampoline or whatever but timing up the spins with the flips, not breaking form, staying ON axis etc is pretty difficult.

I think the main issue is that it just got really stale to your average skier/viewer. Like the difference between 1st place and 10th place is imperceptible to the average viewer, and the progression from year to year is so stagnate that it’s like you’re just watching robots going through the motions. Kind of like what you’re getting in slope and pipe
 
14576816:partyandBS said:
i mean aerial comps have been around for much longer than slope style. i think eliminating aerials would then bring an influx of ‘comp jocks’ to slope and could alter the format and scoring of slope style for better or worse but probably worse.

here’s a question: would aerials be sick if we just put them in some harlaut pants?? lol. get them boys kited up
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Yes i know its older but it doesnt seem big not in the nordics atleast but i wonder more why still do it when freestyle skiing is so much more evolved
 
14576846:Samskiman said:
Yes i know its older but it doesnt seem big not in the nordics atleast but i wonder more why still do it when freestyle skiing is so much more evolved
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any current "freestyle big air" skier, is part of a clique that trains at the Olympic aerial training pools... they are laughed at by the FIS sanctioned perfection of executing triples and quads.

These trained skiers (tomwallisch, kenworthy, bobby brown) that are afraid of the aerial kicker, made up some bullshit copycat sport and are ripping off both freestyle skiing and FIS aerials!

This exclusivity has created a downfall in both skiing and snowboarding.

Its never too late to bring back "Freestyle"

/rant
 
14576831:freestyler540 said:
Or when FIS manages a sport. Aerials used to be cool
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I mean I'm no FIS fan, but when it's chinese gymnasts doing tricks literally no one else can, there's not much that can be done to help the sport.
 
14576982:.nasty said:
I mean I'm no FIS fan, but when it's chinese gymnasts doing tricks literally no one else can, there's not much that can be done to help the sport.
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Id argue the fact that when a style sport becomes nothing more than a box to tick for judging, you will get an overemphasis on box ticking. Then the sport becomes a shell of what it stood for.

Look at big air… its getting pretty close to aerials these days. Triple cork 16? What about double full, tripple full, double full minus the grabs.
 
topic:Samskiman said:
Why is aerials a thing when slopestyle and big air and freeskiing exists? Im from Sweden and i dont think anybody does it here but ive seen aerial comps and where is it popular and how does it exists when the more newschool freestyle exits. I dont want to hate on aerial skiers just asking
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gymnast decided to put on some skis and boom there you have it: aerials
 
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