Alrighty. This gentleman named John Branch just dropped an article on the NYTimes about the Winter Olys and how they’re getting more and more scary. He’s pretty much directly against the double cork. Check out this snippet from the NYT sharticle:
“After Pearce’s accident in snowboarding’s halfpipe and a succession of other head injuries, some have called for limits on tricks.
Such restraint is unlikely. Snowboarding is considered one of the great success stories of the Winter Games over the last 20 years, and the halfpipe has become a prime-time glamour event”…Read the full sharticle on the New York Times.
What is this BS with the media getting all pissy pants with people getting broke off? I’ll tell what the problem is. Snowboarding is new to the Olympics and mainstream/pop/the rest of the world. So when they see dudes blowing their faces off on halfpipe lips they tend to freak out.
Getting broke off is part of snowboarding. I’ve been watching people get destroyed for years. It’s AWESOME. Pretty much everyone of my friends has been broken. Blown ACL’s, shattered wrists, concussions, robotic teeth, shattered tib/fibs, you name it. Part of the program son.
I love that the media is blowing the injury thing out of proportion. The media doesn’t know snowboarding, doesn’t understand it and doesn’t care. The geeks at YoBeat said it best: “In a few weeks this will all be over and we can go back to being outcasts, right?”
Terje was right…
Meanwhile, they're stoked on Lindsay Vonn talmbout popping Favre-ian levels of pain pills and getting back out on her skis (she has a bikinivid too though, so I'm kinda with them)…
I've been telling you forever: capital-S Snowboarding's been deaded forever. Don't worry about it.
and, as Supreme Leader of The 30% Nation, I must add: I just ride around. I've suffered more injuries from sleeping than from snowboarding. Just ride around.
They are "Olympians"! Which used to mean something back in the day.. other than Curling…
Curling is the shit, dudes eat pizza and drink beer before they contest. No other athletes could keep up with the real life scenarios those dude compete through. I can hear all the pussy athletes saying that the pizza slowed them down or the beer threw off their chi, no complaints from the curlers.
I fucked up my neck washing my hair the other day. At least with snowboarding something exciting comes along with the injury.
limit on tricks? u gotta be kidding me. arnt the pipes 4 feet taller than used to be? will they continue to grow?
mean while georgian luger launches himself and sadly passes away. very unfortunate. i wonder if it was the turn that is said give lugers a 50/50 chance of making? crazy.
uh yeah. don’t think snowboarding will be getting too much grief now. Doods are going over ninety on basically nothing in an ice coffin. By the way…. I think they should limit tricks in snowboarding not because it is dangerous, but because (in my opinion) watching guys doing four helicopters whilst flipping twice actually looks pretty lame. Bring it back to big slow rotations with some style.
well, thats one way to seperate an ok four helicopter double twist from one that is superb. style is always in consideration.
come on guys yall know style has no place in the Olympics….Never has never will.. The next winter games White snake will be wearing a skin suit like 90% of all other winter olympiads just so he can go faster and fly higher to a triple Mac Twist.
drex you suck for setting up your site so you have to approve a comment before it post….HAMMOND!!!!!!!!!!
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Dat's my toof.
I got a toof like that too. thanks to beers/weed and the whistler skate park!!!!
Drex why dont u got the rogue wave from Maveriks up. Spectatars get broke off at a comp is always blogable in my book!!!!
ah man, i didn't see that till like a day later. that's ancient news in internet time.
so rad though. that clip where you see the chick not paying attention and just get blasted off her feet was sooo rad!