Jon needs to throw a different trick

i was just glad it wasent a switch 1080 contest!

i wanted to see the DJ flip, bu thats just me

im sure he is more comfortable wiht it and if he thinks its enough to win there is no need to throw somwthing else

As a top level athlete you shouldn't just stay with what you know because it can get you third place.  You need to compete with yourself, to throw bigger and better tricks.  I understand the jump wasn't perfect.  I understand that he was trying to make an anti-repeat trick statement, but still you need to set the bar and challenge yourself with a new trick.  If every pro had said, im just gunna stick with straight airs because they win comps, we wouldn't have spins. 

Seriously, these athletes become so out of touch with the rest of the skiing population.  I appreciate the 5 but why not a zero or a 180?  Stay true.  Thats why everyone likes the young am's and lolo.

even gagnier didn't break out his roller blade grinds and stuck with an octo.

yeah i wanted him to throw his Dj flip

he should throw a triple kang..
that would be steez.

Ok you kind of contradict yourself here. First of all, straight airs don't win comps because there are more difficult tricks, similar to the fact that switch 1080's don't win all comps anymore because there are more difficult tricks such as the kangaroo flip. If every pro could do a kangaroo flip then that trick would be comparable with a straight air in your thought process. So, until the rest of the field catches up with Jon, there isn't much pressure to look beyond kangaroo flip, even though he is doing so.

And then stay true? Staying "true" at the x-games would be sick, but you most likely would not podium. However, if you throw kangaroo flips and do well at events like the x-games, then you can stay "true" in the backcountry and filming later in the season.

And then the comparison to gargnier seems irrelevant to me because hasn't he been snagging podiums with octograbs for at least a season?

I see no reason for Jon to take the Kangaroo flip out of his run lineup.

this is a fucking retarded post. The 5 was steezy, probably steezer than jons 180 or zero would have been. And what the hell are you talking about with rollerblade grinds in big air

eh no

Actually everyone in that comp threw the same trick they did all last year, but you are calling out Jon because he won.

no there callin him cause the kang flip which is retarded 10s are more common then kangs so y isnt anyone hating on 10s? its just newschoolers being dumb ass haters whats new?

yeah that pretty much sums it up.

HE SHOULD TRY IT SWITCH IN TO WATER RAMPS THIS SUMMER AND GET GOOD AT IT SO HE CAN KILL COMP NEXT YEAR AT EVERY BIG AIR COMP

i might have misinterperated this pst but he threw a cruton grabbing nose....not a liu kang

jea, he def does, why didnt he throw that 'hexo flip'?