shandapanda

this snowboarder was on david letterman...he embraced the fact that he would NOT be a houshold name..EVER
and i was in the gaming store and we tried playing the game they made for the winter olympics..i can see that it is not gonna be a hit! that game sucks!!

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sports?... yawn.

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IamAlejo

Shaun White is like 18 or 19 years old, and has been a worldclass snowboarder and skateboarder since he was 15.

He's pretty incredible.

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Merkaba

NZ is going to win everything they enter. And then they'll wake up from a good night sleep.

We have a 16 year old girl going over for half pipe snowboarding. Thats pretty impressive in itself. No chance of showing up the Canadians or the Russians I would think though.

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Imonlydancing

I watched the skiing yesterday, the women. I got really into it. hahhh.

jibber

Yeah Jessica Heil!! Gold medal for canada in womens freestyle skiing!! her jumps weren't that impressive, but her tecnique and speed in the bumps were rediculous. She won with a 360 (penciled out, no style) and a nice backflip. Kari Traa fron norway got second, she had WAY better jumps, a pretty nice corked 3 (although no grab or anything) and a REALLY nice backflip, but she was slower coming down and her skiing wasn't as controlled as Heil's. yeah canada! The canadoan womens hockey slaughtered the russian's today, 12 - 0 for us. Last night the women beat italy 16 - 0. The canadian women are killing it in the olympics! Oh, and shaun white won gold in pipe. big surprise.

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adidasss

^^i can't see any of that.... they're only showing apline skiing here...

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you mean they're only showing ski racing and that's it? They should be showinf freestyle, it's mogul skiing with two jumps, and most of the time they do sh*tty unstylish jumps too. One girl did a REALLY nice 3 with a mute grab. Super smooth, nice sttyle in the air, but the judges arent looking for that at all. They should really just take the jumps out of the mogul competition and have a slopestyle or pipe event, because the majority of the freestyle skiers are rediculously good in the moguls (for which I give them HUGE amounts of respect), but as for jumps, they suck.

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adidasss

and now in english please? slopestyle, mogul, mute grab? wtf are you on about girl?

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moguls are the bumps created in snow with small spaces to navigate in between. here's a picture of a compeition freestyle course. Skiers have to race down the mogul field, and go off a jump (and do a trick), they land and then imediately enter the moguls again, which will lead to another jump, where the vast majority of skiers will do a trick of greater difficulty than the first jump. Then they ski down the rest of the mogul field. They are scored on speed, and tecnique in the moguls and on their jumps. here's a picture of a competition freestyle course. Notice the bumps in the course, those are moguls. On a regular ski hill run they'd be spaced much more sporatically, and they'd vary in size.


a slopestyle course is a competition course consisting of terrain park features. There are major slopestyle comps for both skiing and snowboarding, but so far neither are an olympic event (only half pipe for snowboarding).

A mute grab (for skiers anyways) is when you reach down and grab your ski in front of the toe piece of your bindings, but not the tip, that's a different grab. If you spin left, you'd grab your left ski with your right hand. If you spin right grab your right ski with your left hand.

Now, there's also reverse/leading/opposite mute grabs. They differ from a regular mute grab in that if you were spinning left you would grab your right ski with your left hand, so so the grab is done with the leading hand in the rotation, the opposite or reverse of a regular mute.

also, if you grab further up the front of the ski, it's called a critical. If you grab the actual tip of the ski, then it's a nose grab.

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