Luke Van Valin sucks at announcing

CB4TSBWhat I thought was funny was he called Gus a "multi-sport athlete" because he skis pipe and slope. Pretty sure they are both the same sport, skiing.

AndbrerTo think if he'd just said multi-discipline, he could have avoided being mocked on an internet forum.

KlausWould be tight if wallisch started to get into it like last year he did some x games stuff. But I actually really like van valin

wameronYou shut your mouth. LVV is the voice of freeskiing and if you are old enough to remember before he was the main announcer you'll know that he is miles ahead of what we used to have

.lenconThey called Quinn’s big spin out of the rail a 1090.

Theres no such thing as a 1090, there’s a 990 and an 1170.

Ryan5_MNThis might just be me but it annoys me when they use "cab" to describe tricks, since there technically isn't a skiing equivalent to it.

AndrewGravesSVPersonally I think LVV is the best we've got. Better than some sportscenter guy

juanborlandoyes, i am old enough. i dont care if hes better than someone; if you cant call the right tricks than you are bad at your job

KreechAnd it was neither of those. It was an 810

.lenconI thought he got all the way up to 990 after the first 810? Dang, I thought I counted right, but see, when he calls it a 1090 I get all confused.

AuschieYou did count right. It was a 990. If you want to watch it again the front page has that Armada Team Story with the Tanner GoPro follow footage.

First run was a front 810 where he lands forward. Next run he lands backwards from the extra 180 hence the front 990. Quinn also says “how did I even do that” right after.

Still dont understand how LVV gets it wrong and hen the other guy just repeats him saying wow a 1090.

KlausWould be tight if wallisch started to get into it like last year he did some x games stuff. But I actually really like van valin

W_bermanHaven't posted in years, but glad to see other people feel the same. shits embarrassing

TGraham9I agree with OP, i can hardly do a 270 out but I know for a fact that QWolf was way beyond a 630 on that last rail spin. Pretty embarrassing that a pro like LVV cant read these tricks better. Henriks triple was clearly a triple like idk maybe he spliffs it up too much

theabortionatorThe announcing was kind of crazy in some of those crashes.

Whats his name landed right on his head and they were like " I hope he's shaken not stirred" I was thinking "I hope he's fucking alright, jesus"

mr-mcsteezeDoes anybody know if the Nicky Keefer is ok? it looked like he got knocked out cold

mr-mcsteezeDoes anybody know if the Nicky Keefer is ok? it looked like he got knocked out cold

TGraham9I agree with OP, i can hardly do a 270 out but I know for a fact that QWolf was way beyond a 630 on that last rail spin. Pretty embarrassing that a pro like LVV cant read these tricks better. Henriks triple was clearly a triple like idk maybe he spliffs it up too much

souphave you guys ever tried that job? next time turn on dew tour and try and do commentary on a run where the skier is literally doing a new trick every 5-7 seconds. god forbid the camera angle changes, your brain barely has enough time to figure out the rotation direction, amount of spins, axis, and grab and make it interesting in the time it takes for a trick to be landed. Hes entertaining to listen to imagine a commentator, which ive had friends do, just calling out the tricks without any bit of "colour commentating". shoot me in the fucking head.

AndrewGravesSVPersonally I think LVV is the best we've got. Better than some sportscenter guy

.lenconIn his defense, those camera angles/camera men were not the best.

souphave you guys ever tried that job? next time turn on dew tour and try and do commentary on a run where the skier is literally doing a new trick every 5-7 seconds. god forbid the camera angle changes, your brain barely has enough time to figure out the rotation direction, amount of spins, axis, and grab and make it interesting in the time it takes for a trick to be landed. Hes entertaining to listen to imagine a commentator, which ive had friends do, just calling out the tricks without any bit of "colour commentating". shoot me in the fucking head.

DominatorJacquesWhoever should be entertaining and who cares exactly how many spins etc.
I couldn't call but a few "tricks", still some folks said they would like to listen to my stoke as stupid as I am.
So if the guy entertains, that should be enough.

SofaKingSickyou have low standards. LVV is a great color commentator but his play-by-play is lacking, which is surprising.

yes, i could very easily (correctly) call every trick in each person's run. and in any case where i wasn't sure i would know to not label it or id at least express my uncertainty on it rather than just calling it something wrong. even a "wow that trick was so technical i'm unsure what it was" is more constructive than that



no man this isn't some new concept, it's been done a trillion times. generally sports like football have two commentators, one who is the analytical expert and another who brings levity and "color" commentary. it's not a lot to ask for one of the people to be able to identify tricks correctly. LVV is great at the entertaining part of course

you have a personal bias that you don't particularly care "exactly how many spins etc" but that's really not material here... that's like some random football fan saying he doesn't really care about one of the commentators knowing the more detailed rules or something. it's 100% relevant and it's completely reasonable for the viewer to expect that level of expertise from a commentator

DominatorJacquesWell.....then they should hire you! Damn, you can call every trick? Wow, that is a skill. I say that honestly.

I will say again though, some folks don't care, or need to know the exact number of rotations etc. but It seems also that some would really like that.
And for sure we all have a bias one way or another. If we were all the same the world would be a boring place!