Has the Olympics been detrimental to freestyle skiing and snowboarding?

skiing was pretty dam fucked tho

I don't think the general public gives two shits about the judging. They are busy watching ice dance twizzling.

GRaboneSnowFrom the ladies slopestyle snowboard to the inconsistent judging. I don't reckon this Olympics has helped push our disciplines to the next level in the eyes of the general public. What do you think?

I think you're being dramatic, and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter.

As if worldwide coverage of our sport would be somehow detrimental. Judging aside the Olympics have been pretty exciting, I'm certainly bummed about how it panned out for some of the riders, but fuck, when I got into skiing back in 2010 and started watching slopestyle in 2011-2012 all everybody was doing were dub cork 10s or 12s with the occasional switch dub rodeo thrown in. I never would have dreamed of seeing misties, bios, flatspins, rodeos, and corks all thrown down my the top competitors. Not to mention back to back tripples, crazy grab combos, and such innovative courses. With riders like Woodsy, ABM, Henrik, Jesper, and so many others, competitions are only getting more fun to watch and they are even forcing more traditional comp skiers to evolve and get more creative.

chicknfriedsteakAs if worldwide coverage of our sport would be somehow detrimental. Judging aside the Olympics have been pretty exciting, I'm certainly bummed about how it panned out for some of the riders, but fuck, when I got into skiing back in 2010 and started watching slopestyle in 2011-2012 all everybody was doing were dub cork 10s or 12s with the occasional switch dub rodeo thrown in. I never would have dreamed of seeing misties, bios, flatspins, rodeos, and corks all thrown down my the top competitors. Not to mention back to back tripples, crazy grab combos, and such innovative courses. With riders like Woodsy, ABM, Henrik, Jesper, and so many others, competitions are only getting more fun to watch and they are even forcing more traditional comp skiers to evolve and get more creative.

Very well said, at least there was variety between riders, everyone threw down, there was creativity in the rail section, sick dubs/trips with grab combos. Judges did the best they could given the amount of time they had to make those decisions, thats just the nature of comp skiing

Coming from someone who started Freeskiing in the late 90s early 2000s- Yes it has been completely detrimental to the sport.

i think in the end the judging doesnt impact much the perception of the main public as 99% of them didnt even watch the comp

+ in the news (in quebec at least) the reporting is pretty small and clueless. ABM won a medal and he had a 15sec airtime on TV baiscally only talking about his "story" and they showed nothing about the actual sport except sometimes a shot of his final jump.



My point is for sports like slopestyle, mainstream media doesnt care about showing the actual sport, all they care about is the personal story that everyone can relate to

BrotherhoodFilmsi think in the end the judging doesnt impact much the perception of the main public as 99% of them didnt even watch the comp

+ in the news (in quebec at least) the reporting is pretty small and clueless. ABM won a medal and he had a 15sec airtime on TV baiscally only talking about his "story" and they showed nothing about the actual sport except sometimes a shot of his final jump.



My point is for sports like slopestyle, mainstream media doesnt care about showing the actual sport, all they care about is the personal story that everyone can relate to

Fucking hell the exact same thing happened in Australia when Scotty James was pushing for gold in snowboard pipe.
The fucking news reporters have told us where he lives like 20 times.
The flag bearer from Warrandyte takes bronze!
Oh yeah did you know thats he's from Warrandyte??

I think men's snowboarding halfpipe was INCREDIBLE. So, definitely helpful to them. Same with women's snowboard halfpipe. Chloe Kim is obviously a star, and her gold-medal run was bonkers.

I think men's ski slopestyle was ok. Obviously, I wish Harlaut and McCrae made finals, and I wish Gus landed a run, but it wasn't horrible.

I do expect men's ski halfpipe to be absolutely BONKERS.

Elizabeth Swaney..

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bobsElizabeth Swaney..

**This post was edited on Feb 20th 2018 at 12:11:30am

I heard somewhere that Russian collusion had something to with her actual run not being televised.