YES ! And Televise that live on espn or something, after all the exposure and air time skiing got from dew tour on espn this year, a superpark special would be a no brainer.
Why,...
I was lucky enough to get into skiing the year all this started with the air force, phillou, tanner, shane, etc so I'm proud to say Ive been in the game or appreciating it since day 1.
Superpark was legendary in my mind. I wanted to be fearless like those guys. At least i Thought they were fearless, I know better know, but that just gives you even More respect. Nowadays there are way more venues to show off the sport so Superpark doesn't have the same necessity it did then, but there should be a be all end all session of all sessions where ONLY the hall of famers or certain future hall of famers can participate. Not that new blood wouldn't razzle and dazzle, but it should be something that only the time tested elite can make it to. A real pure blood competition worth striving for and dreaming about. X-Games is cool, but fuck FIS, with all the rules there's pros and cons.
And to be honest, if Superpark came back the way i see it, it may still be cooler to make it to the x-games, but as a skier and among other skiers, it would be waaay cooler to one day make it to superpark.
Superpark gave me dreams as a kid, gave me ambition. Without it what would there have been... an elusive highlight clip somewhere deep on espn.xgames.com... anyone old enough knows what im talkin about...
Superpark done right would be phenomenal. Do lifestyle pieces on each participant, air the big names and list all of them online. That way people just getting into the sport will feel they "know" someone. It's always way more fun to cheer or root for a team or athlete you know a lot about, whether you pay attention to every stat, or follow sportsdesk, or read online articles... the more you know the more affinity you have with that team or athlete. There are no new Sport icons right now... and I don't mean nobody is worthy... there certainly are... I mean, think back to the day... think early Tannner, early Shane, early Douglas... Skiing was personified by these guys, Skiing was Shane, Tanner and Mike (among others) and they were skiing, and you knew who they were, their personalities, etc etc. It made skiing our sport instead of a sport. Only person doing it on a big enough level today, that's new, is maybe B Brown, unless there are others. Maybe Wallisch is still trying? I haven't followed this year. But regardless, it doesn't compare to what they did with the guys 10 years ago.
Think about watching UFC... if you know the fighters story his recent fights and history versus when you don't know the fighter at all... totally different experience. Seeing Mike, tanner, or Shane jam today (rip Shane), would be like watching Tito, Couture, GSP, or Silva fight... Seeing absolute phenoms like casabon, henrik, bobby, torin, etc etc, compete today, for the average sports lover that knows next to nothing about skiing,... is like nothing more than watching a good fight between two guys in the UFC you've never heard of.
Superpark needs to come back, unapologetically, and nothing less than the years #1 jam, and "to-be-place", in order to make icons of today to go with the legends it made from yesterday = long live skiing... and general fuckin awesomeness.
