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Post subject: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
 Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 01:22 AM
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| What do you think are the Pros & Cons of having slopestyle in the next Winter Olympics? |
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 02:47 AM
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Well it aint going to happen for the next winter olympics theyve already set the sports for it.
But in the future i think it would provide a much better view of snowboarding as a whole. I watched the snowboard slalom at the olympics and personally feel that is not what snowboarding is about. |
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 05:56 AM
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cons:- in my (strong) opinion the last thing snowboarding needs is another event in the 5 ring circus
the FIS & Olympic Committee have already got their noses shoved too far into the ass of Snowboarding.
The last thing we need to stiffle creativity of slopestyle course and riders is to come up with Olympic Standard courses and a circuit of slopestyle comps that riders are forced to compete in to "qualify"
the IOC don't get snowboarders, most individual FIS "ski" organisations still don't get snowboarding...look at the issues with Japanese baggy clothes and the Lago gets his bronze kissed fiasco
The only reason the IOC want snowboarding is for the ratings and the money, to prop up their collapsing empire of outdated events and hand on heart gushings of patriotic support.
Snowboarding is not a Team sport, the US of A didn't win the Olympic Halfpipe Gold..Shaun White did... the IOC treat the companies who have built snowboarding (the manufacturers and sponsors) like crap, they make them all take down any mention of the "olympians" during the event as they haven't paid for advertisements....
haven't paid??? they've been paying since the days when you f*&kwits where shouting ban this killer craze and refusing to let snowboarders use the same mountains.
Pro's.... er no...it escapes me at the minute  |
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 08:09 AM
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| Bang on Branny. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 09:07 AM
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Branny wrote:
Pro's.... er no...it escapes me at the minute
Too right, slopestyle would be horrible to watch at an olympic level. Should all be about style not technique....hence the style bit in the title.
The IOC measure speed and distance and technique, they just don't know what to do with style...hence Kokubo debacle...that boy had style for miles plus the mother funking amplitude  |
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Branny
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 09:11 AM
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oh... and i'm hoping this is the type of thing the BSA will be asking it's members to help decide the future of UK snowboarding and how it fits into the world snowboarding stage.
not just siding up with the ski club and the olympic commision and it's wishes, the BSA was always an ISF organisation and it'll be nice to see the new organisation looking at some of the original values, and if that still fits with the FIS & the IOC
obviously i may be completely of point and still stuck in the 90's |
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 10:09 AM
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The only positive i can think of is that it might increase our chances of winnig a medal through Jenny Jones.
But I agree that it would lead to standardised courses and watered down runs.
You should be able to qualify for the olympics through ttr and they should encourage progression and innovation. Judges should be actual snowboarders with knowledge about what they are witnessing. But i don't think any of this is going to happen anytime soon. |
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:35 AM
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I'm all for it, if the chance of Jenny getting a gold for Britain is there....
However, there was a similar thread on Gone Boarding and although it's being considered it most likely couldn't even come in the running until the 2018 games. It has to run as an FIS World Cup event for four years before it is eligible. |
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Branny
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Post subject: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:48 AM
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why R1ch??
Jenny's got 2 X games Golds back to back and the UK media couldn't give a sh1t... what difference does it make if it's olympics??
what benefit to snowboarding will having slopestyle in the olympics bring?? |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:59 AM
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Branny wrote:
why R1ch??
Jenny's got 2 X games Golds back to back and the UK media couldn't give a sh1t... what difference does it make if it's olympics??
what benefit to snowboarding will having slopestyle in the olympics bring??
Whilst I agree that slopestyle wouldn't fit into the Olympics, I think that the mainstream media has never, and probably never will care about the X games - I can't remember seeing any coverage anywhere other than the Channel 5 shows over here.
If you look at the number of photos of Shaun White in all the mainstream media over here after the Olympics you can see it would make a huge difference publicity wise.
It would of course be stupid and hugely patronising coverage, but I'm sure it would bring in the sponsors for someone like Jenny Jones, tho obviously I guess in 8 years time she won't be competing any more.
Regardless, I tend to be with Branny on this. I don't think it should be in the Olympics. It'd take away the individuality of slopestyle courses if they had to be olympic standard - identikit courses across the world. And the runs would no doubt go the same route as the pipe - no double corks, no points!
You notice it at the X games as well that there's little individuality in the runs. I wish more people would try tech stuff on the rails - its called slopestyle, but most of the time it comes down to the two or three booters at the bottom of the course rather than anything else! |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 12:10 PM
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| Yeah that annoys me about big slopestyle comps too. Oh yay another boardslide to fakie... |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 03:02 PM
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Branny wrote:
why R1ch??
Jenny's got 2 X games Golds back to back and the UK media couldn't give a sh1t... what difference does it make if it's olympics??
what benefit to snowboarding will having slopestyle in the olympics bring??
If a UK rider wins a Gold, a lot more money will be put into Snowboarding in the UK.
Just look at the huge boost to Cycling after the last Olympics. It's also early days at the moment, but after Amy Williams win, you can guarantee that she and other Lugers are going to get more funding. |
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 03:49 PM
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| As Stu said ages ago, the earliest Slopestyle can possibly be in the Olympics is 2018.......by which time Jenn will be nearly 40.......and long retired.... |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Slopestyle event in the next Olympics?
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 04:24 PM
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yellowlala wrote:
Branny wrote:
Pro's.... er no...it escapes me at the minute
Too right, slopestyle would be horrible to watch at an olympic level. Should all be about style not technique....hence the style bit in the title.
not technique? you have to have good technique to have any kind of style...duh
im sure you meant its all about style not spinning to win or something like that...but no technique = bad style
I think its semi cool actually having snowboarding on UK tv so is all good me thinks...it gets a tonne of kids intrested in taking it up and its better than watching another episode of top gear on dave, just don't pay too much attention to Claire Balding, what a doosh... |
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 04:24 PM
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