Once again snowboarding has been the catalyst for popularity for skiing*. Skiing was taking a shit in the 80′s till punk snowboarders came along and injected some excitement. Then freestyle skiing went ape-shit in the mid 90′s copying snowboarding. Now snowboarding has paved the way for a new skiing Olympic event–Halfpipe.
Last week, the International Ski Federation unanimously approved support of Skiing Halfipe in the Olympics. All that needs to go down now is the International Olympic Committee’s formal approval. I predict they will approve Men and Womens Skiing Halfpipe. They’d be $tupid not too.
Honestly, i’d rather watch skier halfpipe than shred halfipipe (assuming it actually gets air time). One thing’s for sure–skiiers blow the doors off snowboarders with height and whirly-spins even if they do weird grabs. And holy shit do they wreck! Jesus it looks bad…
I wonder if Skiing will develop some kooked out halfpipe monkey like snowboarding has. I sure hope so.
*Disclaimer: To all my skiier friends. Thank you for having a sense of humor and not punching me in the stomach next time you see me in a bar.
P.S. The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is located in southern Russia, on the Black Sea. Sochi sits at about the same latitude as Jackson Hole. Hopefully global warming doesn’t kick them in their Russian nuts. Here’s some interesting climate info on wikipedia.
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$mart dollar $ign placement, but you'd rather watch $kier halfpipe than $hred halfpipe? like, wtf mate. $eriou$ly. $ucker. Why don't you ju$t go $urfing, $ally??
fine. i will go surfing.
Its a short drive to the mountains. You can be in warm weather the drive quickly to snow. It definately will be interesting to see what the pack will be like.
from wiki on Sochi winter games:
"The Olympic Village is being built over the mass graves of the victims of the Circassian Genocide. To Circassians, the Sochi Olympics of 2014 symbolizes the virtual erasing of this atrocity as it will be on the 150th commemorative year of the Circassian Genocide. For them, choosing Sochi as the site of the Winter Olympics at such a time represents the perpetual celebration of Imperial Russia’s oppression and systematic murder of the Circassian People."
that's why you should never F with Russians.
they roofless.
Looking forward to Bob Costa's describing un-natural spinning.
agreed. ski ditch is way better than sideways ditch rider… skiers pretty much blow knucklers out of the frozen snow in all of these olympic type events…. baddest olympic event is the downhill (i think anyway) no way anyone on a sideways deck could keep up with a deuce boarder… looking forward to the carnage of the youth.
You want to talk about exciting crashes…I used to live in Vail and everyday would take the chair up over the downhill racing training course for US Ski Team for disabled people. When there was a good crash it was spectacular. Artifical limbs all over the place. They were fucking hardcore bunch of skiers.