Replay: Slopestyle - Crankworx Cairns 2023

 Agree. Sorry but how ever tech that run was Emil didn’t deserve top spot

 Most of all it's how he wins only doing 3's. Sure they're way more tech but surely a winning run should have at least one 7/frontflip imo

 You are 100% right!

 Obviously- he was best

 Idk man, how many of the other riders were doing opposite tricks? Try doing some opposite stuff and see how “dialed” you can make it look. I think that’s the big deal with Emil, he has his tricks down to where they look boring and slow.

 @abueno: they might be difficult, albeit even that is ourely subjective, but the tricks Emil is doing are far lower risk and less spectacular, also repeating the same trick twice in different directions is still the same trick at the end of the day, it makes the runs look samey and less spectacular. Godziak and some of the other boys are killing it only to lose to Emils runs with bars, 3's and whips all the way down, even a standard table top trick on one feature.

 The interesting thing about slopestyle is that its not really a money maker other than view count based advertising or in person ticket sales. Nobody is really buying these bikes in masse, and very very few people are actually doing any of these tricks that these guys are throwing off stuff that big and spending money on equipment to do so. I dunno, but its like it almost doesn't matter who wins, because the goal is really just to put on a show.

 @ctd07: Bro what are you talking about emils runs are much high risk than most other riders. If you didn't notice most riders jumped over the box doing a flip or a front which is much lower risk than doing a 360 over that feature. while most riders were flipping it he quad-trucked it. I don't think you understand the technicality of doing a quad truck over an on-off box. Im sorry but emil deserved the run for sure

 @Rafmiller: lol so cash rolls and frontys are lower risk than 360's, where you can see your spin progression and pull the bail trigger at any time without landing on your head... I'll be sure to make a mental note of that

 @ctd07: let me explain ben t did a fronty tuck over the on off box while emil did a quad truck over it. Emil will automatically get more points because it a more technical combo. quad truck is a quintuple combo while fronty tuck is only a combo. a fronty tuck also only has one axis because it's a front flip but a quad truck has two axis's. so yeah it's more risky

 Terrible would be an improvement!

 The commentator dude even said he thought Emil did a quadruple bar but he wasn't sure because the camera changed!

 @barp: he did do a quad truck over the first

 @Rafmiller: Yup, but it wasn't clear when watching the live feed because they switched cameras while he was mid-air.

 Every single camera seemed badly placed. Every big jump was split into two cameras, so that we never kept the flow of a single trick. Crazy!

 @barp it’s like when your a kid and you hurt yourself in the park and you run home… he’s probably still running now

 @enduroNZ: According to his Insta, he ran all the way to the hospital with a badly broken arm :-(

 ur bike is sooo clean

 I don't care which way the nimbly bimbly kiddo spins. The more time he spins the more I cheer.

 He should do a somersault.

 Ah, but you see the geezers have been around long enough to have personal experience of entire fields of human endeavor, as diverse as BMX flatland and String Theory, disappearing up their own intellectual backsides. At best the public loses interest and at worst, say urban planning, it actively damages civilization. This is the danger of giving high scores to things the public can't see. At very least it places a burden on the event to have the cameras and commentators set up to be able to clearly explain what is going on. I think we can say this event had fine commentary and not great camera angles.

 @ilike01: dude it isssss

 McCaul destroyed his leg

 I like Rob and in dh his commentating is awesome but he hasn’t got a clue when it comes to slopestyle. He says some pretty naive things

 @enduroNZ: I can't be too upset about it; he's filling in for Cam McCaul who broke his leg at a particularly bad time.

 @enduroNZ: I thought Rob provided a fine platform for Allan Cooke, who is a proper expert, to do his part well. This was the best slopestyle commentary since Matt Jones at District Ride.

 I really enjoyed his commentary, hard gig to be thrown into with Cam being injured, counting bar spins while spinning hectically in the air knowing if rotations are opposite or natural takes years to refine.

 @Number29: I really liked Rob's commentary. He has that excitement of someone that isn't used to what he is seeing. He was genuinely blown away by Bringer's double flip.

 @barp: ah I didn’t release that, fair enough

 It was definitely the best part! It softened the blow of Emil beating Brandon’s win numbers.

 The lower dirt bowl section seems hard yo keep speed, Tom Isted was detailing it in his course preview youtube video

 Those stepdowns lined up even worse for the last jump than the already questionable sharkfins, no wonder no one bothered to use them

 I got motion sickness just from the camera work.