Im in Boulder right now at Willis and Clarke's place, im staying here for the night because tomorrow im going home. I am relly looking forward to coming home, can't belive it's christmas eve in 2 days. I have absolutely no christmasspirit at all.
So, comming home to Norwegian food, friends, family and my home resort is going to be awesome. Breck and Keystone may have the best parks in the world, but there's nothing like skiing in your home resort.
We had Slope finals two days ago for the Dew tour. We've been very unfortunate with the weather during this whole comp, and yesterday was no exception. windy, snowy and very very very cold. I had my camera with me, but it was way to cold for me to take off my glove and take pics.
to sum of the Event:
1. Bobby Brown
2. Jossi Wells
3. Henrik Harlaut
4. Me
Now im going to say what I think about that. And it's important that you all know that I was not completely happy with my run and I didn't expect to get any better than that. So I just going to say what I mean.
Allright, there's 4 thinks you shouldn't do and should do in a slopestyle run.
You should show that you can spin both ways.
You can't have any NOGRABS.
You can't have any handdrags or backseatlandings.
and you shouldn't revert, reverting isen't the worst thing you can do but it should hurt your score a littlebit.
sooo, since Bobby did 3 out of 4, in my mind Jossi should have won by far. that's my opinion, you can dissagree as much as you want, but im gonna explain how I look at it.
First rail:
Bobby: 450, that's probably the most basic ''hard trick'' you can do on a kinkbox
Jossi: sw 630, Much harder than a 450 on 270 out.
first jump:
Bobby: sw misty 10, very nice
Jossi: cab 10, not completely perfect, but it's a very hard trick.
Second jump:
Bobby: sw double knee grab, on www.jon-olsson.com can you see that he's not even trying to grab at all. He's clearly just hucking a dub.
Jossi: sw 10 japan, a nice sw 10 japan.
Third jump:
Bobby: Kangerooooo, very nice.
Jossi: sw 9, very nice.
Last Rail:
Bobby: misty 5 out.
Jossi: 630 out.
I thought we had come to a point in skiing that we had to have an unnatural spin in a run, and I definitely thought that No grabs were completely unacceptable.
In my eyes it is unaccepteable. You shouldn't even be near the podium with a run without a unnatural spin and a nograb trick.
Jossi should have won.
see you in Norway
I think that you're right PK :)
SvarSlettBoth Jossi and Bobby did super good.
Sure, Bobby did a Kangaroo and a dub,with no grab,
But Jossi did 630 on the rails and did really clean sweet tricks on the kickers, so he should have taken the win :)
I`m looking forward to see you back home! :-) I think your christmasspirit will come when you return, mum has done a great job decorated for christmas. I was in Hafjell yesterday, the conditions is very good! Have a nice flight back home, see you soon! :-)
SvarSletthey pk how long are you going to stay in hafjell :) im going to be there until jan. 4 so it would be sick if i got to see my favorite freeskier...
SvarSlettthe general public doesn't recognize left and right spins and grabs but is superstoked on backflips and such. Get used to it or join FIS aerials.
SvarSlett^Response to dude above.. And What the f*** does the knowledge of the general public have to do with the judging?? Score is given by judges that DO HAVE the knowledge to give a fair score based on the riding itself, and not the "wow-factor".
SvarSlettObligatorisk felt kan ikke stå tomt
SvarSlett...
SvarSlettReally PK?
Really?
Are there now rules for slopestyle comps, where your run must include certain things, and other things categorically exclude you from podium position? How about we just give up and turn this into aerials part deux, now with rail tricks. No-grab tricks mean only one thing: you may have just foregone an opportunity to add something that could've made your trick more interesting and technical. They do not mean, all of a sudden, that what you just did sucked. That's been true since Tanner's 3 in 1242, at least, if not before. This isn't to say the judges didn't get it wrong, it's almost always arguable that they did. But saying "this is what you need to do in a skiing comp to win" is far more unacceptable than a no-grab double. You would've done better to say he should've lost points because it was hucked. Moreover, many of us are pretty sick of sw10-to-win by now... that was 2004, this is not. Not to hate on Jossi's run at all, just pointing out that you can find fault with what either of them did and the outcome is going to vary with even the most informed viewer.
This blog entry was the freeskiing equivalent of "he bent his knees on that dspin, that's going to cost him a few points for sure."
-JDM
word up nigh!
SvarSlettjossi burde ha vunnet!
I totally agree with u PK... doubles came too soon in the freeski scene..
SvarSlett"You shouldn't even be near the podium with a run without a unnatural spin and a nograb trick. "
SvarSlettDo you see unnat rotations in henrik's run too? , and what about his 720 without holding the grab?