X Games Big Air 2018

Somebody will do a legitimate future spin, meaning rotation degrees>2018.

Also so what's the deal with this you must spin one left trick and one right trick? Interesting, but, kinda odd.

**This post was edited on Jan 27th 2018 at 2:29:14pm
 
13884587:DrZoidberg said:
Somebody will do a legitimate future spin, meaning rotation degrees>2018.

Also so what's the deal with this you must spin one left trick and one right trick? Interesting, but, kinda odd.

**This post was edited on Jan 27th 2018 at 2:29:14pm
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First I've heard of this, weird
 
13884618:SofaKingSick said:
First I've heard of this, weird
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I think it's great, pushes the skiers to do more creative stylish spins both ways vs just chucking.

Speaking of, Fabian landed a few trip 19s in practice....
 
The straight up 8 man final is kind of an interesting format. I suppose it will condense things a little bit and make for an overall more action packed viewing experience. Its just weird to see so few names in the field, and surprising to see no Americans. Digging the new format tho, should mix up the competition and it'll be impossible for someone to win with two similar tricks like Bobby in 2012.

I'm predicting that Dollo is gunna get buck wild with Red and Meth at their concert, smoke a phatty Ticallionstallion blizzunt and hopefully bust a switch quad to Shaolin hahah. Either way should be a good show!
 
Is anyone who is watching this legally actually seeing skiing? All streams are fuckin basketball
 
No it's still basketball because, as usual, they make 19.5 seconds last like 10 minutes. Like it's taken them a few minutes to knock 0.4 seconds off the clock.
 
13884722:steezy.stew said:
Seriously how long can they actually drag out the last minute of game play lmao
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Right? There was 2.5 minutes left at roughly 9pm. It’s now 15 minutes later and there is still 20 seconds. Let’s fuckin goooooo.
 
So do they stop hitting the jump while we're in commercials or are we going to return with 1 jump left for everybody?

Also Woodsy's trip octo was insane.

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This comp is not what's it was 5 years back. No suspense or thinking of the next trick that's new. Same spins. Same people. Yawn...
 
13884744:SkiBum. said:
This comp is not what's it was 5 years back. No suspense or thinking of the next trick that's new. Same spins. Same people. Yawn...
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Yeah kind of. The tricks were nuts but it was more suspenseful when people didn't start with triples.

Here comes a good henrik speech.
 
13884744:SkiBum. said:
This comp is not what's it was 5 years back. No suspense or thinking of the next trick that's new. Same spins. Same people. Yawn...
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I kinda agree. When it was insane if people threw dub 10 and 12 was the best, and everybody was throwing cork 10s until one guy threw a dub then the whole field just went nuts. And the first year (last year, right?) when triples were thrown. Now the first trick was a triple.
 
Where did Øystein get a 45? We saw a switch dub 14 tail to tail for 35 and a cab dub 14 safety to 35, but after the second run his score jumped from 70 to 80, did they do a run between? I dont understand.
 
13884748:DrZoidberg said:
I kinda agree. When it was insane if people threw dub 10 and 12 was the best, and everybody was throwing cork 10s until one guy threw a dub then the whole field just went nuts. And the first year (last year, right?) when triples were thrown. Now the first trick was a triple.
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Henrik won with the nose butter triple two or three years ago. Jon started throwing dubs in 06? 07? I remember when the switch right 10 mute was the go to trick for everyone.
 
13884753:ben_southworth said:
Why didn't Woodsy try to improve his left (or was it right?) side score on the last jump??
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He probably forgot lol. That's possibly why henrik said what he did, because he though Woodsy should have won but they didn't count his score cause it was a spin direction he already had.
 
13884755:Lemuel said:
Henrik won with the nose butter triple two or three years ago. Jon started throwing dubs in 06? 07? I remember when the switch right 10 mute was the go to trick for everyone.
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The nosebutter Trip 16 was in 2013, 5 years ago
 
13884752:jeppesolberg said:
Where did Øystein get a 45? We saw a switch dub 14 tail to tail for 35 and a cab dub 14 safety to 35, but after the second run his score jumped from 70 to 80, did they do a run between? I dont understand.
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I think the dub 14 tail to tail was scored incorrectly, 35 instead of 45 at the start and it was changed after the first run. I was wondering what happened there too..
 
Stoked to finally see boot grabs get deductions. I think oyster’s blunt to blunt being scored high was completely justified over the samsung kid doing a ballerina maneuver to boot grab
 
13884755:Lemuel said:
Henrik won with the nose butter triple two or three years ago. Jon started throwing dubs in 06? 07? I remember when the switch right 10 mute was the go to trick for everyone.
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Henriks nosebutter triple 16 win was actually 5 years ago (2013), time flies
 
13884771:Lenzo said:
Henriks nosebutter triple 16 win was actually 5 years ago (2013), time flies
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Holy shit...

Also the year tom did the right side 14 and didnt even podium because everyone was doing sick shit (that i dont remeber) was the best year.
 
13884755:Lemuel said:
Henrik won with the nose butter triple two or three years ago. Jon started throwing dubs in 06? 07? I remember when the switch right 10 mute was the go to trick for everyone.
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I just searched 2008 and found him doing a switch dub 9 and a switch 10 so that sounds about right. It was when they had you ride through that like channel gap to get to the jump. And I just searched 2011 and they mention Bobby Brown and "might do a triple" in the same sentence. So basically this proves that I have no concept of time. Found the clip where Jacob Wester ripped his ski off, slammed hard and broke his pole.

Not that what happened tonight wasn't ridiculous. I mean, triple 1980... If you told me that in 2008 I'd have said it's not possible. It just felt like each guy had his own agenda regardless of what the others did, although I think the format causes this. I liked when they had heats of like 4 guys or whatever, then the best two would advance to the final. It was way longer, which is probably why the changed it, and that had more of when one guy does something crazy then everybody starts pulling out their best stuff and NBDs. Props to Henrik for calling them out.

Edit: Also it's insane we've reached the point where we're talking about boot grabs or not on triple corks. But I guess that's where it's gotta go now, and at that level it shouldn't fly if you have Oystein doing tail to tail and Woodsy's octo. Woodsy is chronically underscored if you ask me, whether it's slope, big air or pipe, which I think he did but I don't even remember anymore.

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-Really stoked that Henrik won. I wish Khai would have made the podium, his skiing was really clean tonight.

-The triple 1980 and triple 1800, though not my steeze of choice, were insane in there own right.

-Henrik's speech was on point. Old format was way better. Deeper field is obviously more entertaining and it brings out a bigger bag of tricks.

-A couple of those kids should not have been in that comp. Instead it should have been Alex Hall, Vinnie $, Gus, idk lots of dudes
 
13884787:Park_Ranger said:
-Really stoked that Henrik won. I wish Khai would have made the podium, his skiing was really clean tonight.

-The triple 1980 and triple 1800, though not my steeze of choice, were insane in there own right.

-Henrik's speech was on point. Old format was way better. Deeper field is obviously more entertaining and it brings out a bigger bag of tricks.

-A couple of those kids should not have been in that comp. Instead it should have been Alex Hall, Vinnie $, Gus, idk lots of dudes
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I was real confused on the field, where were a bunch of those guys? Wondering if they're making sure they don't get hurt for the olympics. Big Air obviously has a pretty high risk factor
 
13884791:ben_southworth said:
I was real confused on the field, where were a bunch of those guys? Wondering if they're making sure they don't get hurt for the olympics. Big Air obviously has a pretty high risk factor
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Another thing that I noticed is that there were not only no big crashes, there weren't really any crashes in general. Dudes have gotten seriously broken off in years past.
 
13884791:ben_southworth said:
I was real confused on the field, where were a bunch of those guys? Wondering if they're making sure they don't get hurt for the olympics. Big Air obviously has a pretty high risk factor
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Agree with all of this. Always hyped to see henny on top. The guy in the factions definitely did not belong in that comp.
 
Henrik reminding me of the first generation of new school skiing while also murdering that jump and winning AND calling x games out was amazing.
 
Do you think Oystein will win slopestyle tomorrow if he puts those 14s back to back? He's the defending champion so...
 
13884752:jeppesolberg said:
Where did Øystein get a 45? We saw a switch dub 14 tail to tail for 35 and a cab dub 14 safety to 35, but after the second run his score jumped from 70 to 80, did they do a run between? I dont understand.
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Still have no idea how he got a 45 when I swear it was a 35.... shouldn’t even be on the podium
 
Here's a quick recap of the event,

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/891779/2018-X-Games-Big-Air-Condensed--1min13-sec-[/video]
 
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