ATTN all skiers and boarders

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The IOC has officially announced that Boarder-X (Skier-X??) will be a medal event at the 2006 games.

I am soo happy

[irbodden]

uhm.... Boarder X?

Don't they already have half pipe stuff? And the gold metal placer tested positive for pot? I remember a great SNL skit on that...

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You've never heard of boardercross???
Yes halfpipe was already in the olympics as is GS. The pot smoking gold medalist was in the GS.

[irbodden]

Bordercross? Explain?

Is it like Snowcross for us snowmobilers?

[Fred]

its a stupid event where a few skiers/boarders race the same course at the same time... its a great way to seriously injure yourself, but its popular to watch on TV...

Giant Slalom and half pipe are way cooler IMO... they should have a Skiing half pipe event... that's where the real skill is.

---Fred

[EsPo]

Originally posted by Fred
they should have a Skiing half pipe event... that's where the real skill is.

---Fred

IMO boarder x is the most safe way to compete! would you rather launch yourself 10 feet in the air off of a 20 foot pipe wall then come down and smash your face cause you flatlanded, or maybe get tangled up with another skier/boarder and take a bit of a fall.. you even have a chance to rebound from this fall.

one of the mtns ive been to dont even allow the skiers in the parks!

nobody had said anything bad against skiers/snowboarders until you came into this thread. your the kind of person who ruins the entire idea of snowboarding/skiing. to have a good time, rather than fight..

[irbodden]

Originally posted by EsPo

IMO boarder x is the most safe way to compete! would you rather launch yourself 10 feet in the air off of a 20 foot pipe wall then come down and smash your face cause you flatlanded, or maybe get tangled up with another skier/boarder and take a bit of a fall.. you even have a chance to rebound from this fall.

one of the mtns ive been to dont even allow the skiers in the parks!

nobody had said anything bad against skiers/snowboarders until you came into this thread. your the kind of person who ruins the entire idea of snowboarding/skiing. to have a good time, rather than fight..

uhm... where did he bash snowboarders? He simply said he didn't like XCross but prefered pipe/Salomn. How would you tangle up with someone in the pipe? Isn't it only one person in it at the time during comp?

[EsPo]

Originally posted by EsPo

IMO boarder x is the most safe way to compete! would you rather launch yourself 10 feet in the air off of a 20 foot pipe wall then come down and smash your face cause you flatlanded, or maybe get tangled up with another skier/boarder and take a bit of a fall.. you even have a chance to rebound from this fall.

my bad.. the second part.. after i said "or maybe ...." was supposed to be aimed at Boarder x

Originally posted by Fred
... they should have a Skiing half pipe event... that's where the real skill is.

---Fred

thats where he bashed boarders (from the way i read it anyway)

[irbodden]

Originally posted by EsPo
thats where he bashed boarders (from the way i read it anyway)

Did you see the ""

[paintbattler]

u know Emagster? he is probably the top 15 in the country for his age

he has won everything around here and up northwest..im proud because he is my cousin!!

[PolishSausage]

I'd love to see Skiing 1/2 Pipe in the Olympics..

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What does Emagster compete in, and what age bracket?

[RetroEclipseMan]

I dunno, boardX is pretty cool and I actually went up to Alpental for the last couple seasons to practice when they got the boarderX course set up but I think I'd rather see Slopestyle in the Olympics rather than BoarderX. I actually heard that they were contemplating putting a Big Air event into the olympics.

[Fred]

Originally posted by EsPo
nobody had said anything bad against skiers/snowboarders until you came into this thread. your the kind of person who ruins the entire idea of snowboarding/skiing. to have a good time, rather than fight..

Originally posted by Fred

smilies set the tone, don't read into it so much.

Most everywhere I have been, which is a pretty long list, never have any trouble with freestyle skiers dropping into the pipes and terrain parks.

I still think the skier/boarder cross event is stupid, it was invented for TV ratings, just like the downhill bmx thing where so many people got hurt...

On the other hand, I love watching the snowboard slalom events too, those things take a lot of skill to ride well.

Edit: Added: Oh, and I did mean to infer a jab that Freestyle skiing in the halfpipe is indeed harder than boarding in a halfpipe, and requires more skill.

[EsPo]

ok, ive got one last question...ill leave after this. is it normal to stick your toungue out at somebody like so after making a sarcastic comment?