Women's Slope Discussion

[grambo]

CBC announcers are decent, the one guy knows all the grabs, unnatural spins, dubs etc. Is it Craig McMorris?

 

[level_juan]

exactly what i was thinking. "she lands reverse and gets the ski grab... and look another reverse!"

 

[B.Fantana]

ya cbc is doing a great job at online coverage overall I'm pretty impressed

 

[pow_pow~]

if they are run by the ioc they should have sport specific announcers.. its a bit of a joke.

i thought different broadcasters had their own announcers on the live streams.

 

[Avifarer]

dara howell is so fit

 

[Turner.]

Dara Howell throwing down, hell yes

 

[saskskier]

Dara. Easily the best run so far. Dat bow and arrow grab...

 

[grambo]

WOW that 540 bow and arrow by Dara Howell. Style for days, TJ would be proud.

 

[ashamedkrew]

Howell's run is $$$

The announcer definitely knows how to do "the switch", except he prefers "the reverse"

 

[icon1234]

Sun is peaking!!!

I honestly can't tell if the girls just really suck at rails or these rails are just extremely sketchy..

 

[saskskier]

Pretty sure IOC is running all the webcast footage, but each network supplies it's own announcers.

 

[pow_pow~]

"some nice steeze on that reverse somersault"

 

[p-fo]

I legit might have to mute it. At least the runs so far are pretty good.

But I also got my first real look at the jumps. I actually think they look better than a lot of slope jumps. Big, yeah, but they look pretty well made. Tables with long landings...

 

[pow_pow~]

thats what i thought, but obviously not. im getting this announcer in australia. so its just a generic one

 

[saskskier]

NO POLES!!

 

[K-Dot.]

Does it matter which jumps they use? Will they get scored less for going on the smaller ones?

 

[Aahlnas]

Who was that? Sw9 tail and 9 truck, FS and BS 450 off.

 

[ashamedkrew]

Zimmerman goes down on her easiest rail hit

 

[will_powder]

That was sketchy as all hell from Lisa and was still 4 times as good as everyone else

 

[Turner.]

Lisa Zimmerman's run was textbook freeskiing.

 

[Afterbang.no]

reading that Christopher Frankum, that has seen the training, said Tiril probably would have won. and Lisa has not done a dub 12 there, also she hucked that dub on a jump half as big, I don't believe she would stick it.Some 9's and 10's might happen, they will not look pretty... Rooting for Lisa anyway!

 

[saskskier]

Maybe each network has a choice? CBC announcers are calling everything properly (as far as I can tell so far). Do you have a link to the Aussie feed?

 

[ski_powpow]

Lisa is going ham, so fuckin sick to see her trying big tricks.

 

[pow_pow~]

http://tenplay.com.au/sport/sochi-2014/live-stream-sochi-1

yeah i watched snowboarding on cbc but today its really laggy

 

[404404]

Love the commentary.

Also who the fuck is Skyler Wilder, and Jason Stahi? Why are they experts? Get me on that.

I know its qualifiers but strait slides?

 

[joelski]

Anyone know Lisa's score

 

[t_rob]

20ish. She fell on the second jump.

 

[icon1234]

Damn that girl was impressive.

Pretty disappointed in the US girls rails, didn't even try anything for keri and devin.

 

[Tree60]

I'm actually kinda enjoying these huge floaty tricks, even if they aren't as styly as the men would be.

 

[pow_pow~]

sorry but why is that japanese girl even at the olympics????

find a gymnast and give her a couple of months ski training and she'd be better than her, and most others competing today.

 

[ashamedkrew]

"Through the section of tubes and walls"

The Japanese girl really doesn't look like she deserves to be an Olympic skier

 

[t_rob]

Thank god that girl fell. I was scared to watch her on the jumps.

Using that 3rd feature as a jump is bullshit.

 

[icon1234]

That girl from Japan shouldn't be skiing this course...

 

[Avifarer]

that was sick. wall ride and zero spin hahahha yes

 

[dross250]

that zero spin from kim... WOW.. She is sucha boss. Go Canada! our ladies are killing it

 

[Pitolairas]

ZERO SPIN OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! YEAH KIM!!!

 

[will_powder]

KIM!

 

[grambo]

ZERO the last jump in the Olympics, what you know about that.

 

[DERS.]

zero spin. fuck yes

 

[ashamedkrew]

100 FOOT ZERO SPIN!

 

[icon1234]

holy fuck a zero spin in the olympics! I don't think I would ever see that in my life.

 

[ski_powpow]

MASSIVE ZERO

 

[Aahlnas]

KISS THE RAIL!!!!!!

 

[icon1234]

so embarrassing

 

[grambo]

Only problem with CBC stream is commercials at random intervals. Come on guys, time them with breaks in the competition.

 

[ashamedkrew]

Flatspin = "Reverse Somersault with a Corkscrew"

 

[pow_pow~]

american 16 year old is prettyyy goood

 

[cheaaaaaa]

announcing is about as on point as team japan

 

[Avifarer]

these cbc announcers arent that bad. the ones for the ladies snowboard were atrocious, i was actually getting mad.

 

[KLovelace]

these randoms (japan, paraguay?, russia) are pretty painful to watch