Video: Emil Johansson's Record Breaking Slopestyle Run

 you're not the only one....announcers resorted to giggling b/c it could not be processed fast enough. I have no idea what I just saw, but it was amazing...I can appreciate that.

 All I can think about is this:

youtu.be/xfnnGSkJ-2U

 @SATN-XC: its Cam McCaul! Notable laugh and voice haha

 @Reno233: thanks, that commentator guy made my day !!

 @Reno233: Flippy three four five f*ck YES!

OzzyMan never misses

 @DroppingThreeTwoOne: Nothing but love for Cam McCaul. He deserves a full-length documentary. The guy has made mtb an infinitely better place.

 @BenPea: Cam makes the world a better place !

 mans living in decsenders

 He’s actually a Boston Dynamics robot programmed with the original Tony Hawk Pro Skater physics engine that Redbull created just to keep Semenuk on his toes and video parts rolling out.

 Not the only one, I would rather watch Tim Bringer, Lemoine, Rogatkin or Paulson put down a run any day of the week... I get that what Emil does is technically difficult, but the overscoring of repeated tricks being done opposite seems to be stifling variety in the sport, basically you only need to learn 360's, tailwhips and barspins to win. Emil's complete run, bar the front flip, consisted entirely of nothing other than 360 tailwhip and barspin combos, unbelievable how he is winning without taking the more extreme risks involved with double backflips and 1080's, cashrolls etc. The scoring needs to change fast!

 Yeah, I love seeing some tricks above a 360 rotation Szymon's flip superman was awesome to see

 Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking this. Super smooth run though.

 @ctd07: I'm sorry to say dude but his run is one of the best runs in history Emil has changed the sport in so many ways. Just because you like watching people do big spins and stuff doesn't even compare to Emil doing world's firsts in his runs. Emil has put in a huge amount of effort to learn these new tricks. He's also doing so many of his tricks opposite doing tricks opposite is way harder than you may think. He definitely deserves the win more than anything. So the scoring doesn't need to change because he's being scored by riders themselves. The scoring doesn't need to change you just have to accept that he's putting his everything on the line.

 @Rafmiller: Maybe so but it was still pretty boring to watch. Congrats to him on the accomplishment, I'm not diminishing the difficulty of it, but that was probably the most meh first place run I've watched for an event that's centered around tricks. The second and third runs were far more exciting of runs, and if there's no excitement in watching the tricks being performed and only the judging it based on "difficultly" then why watch it? At that point I can just go to watching calligraphy competitions, where you can praise yourself for being so educated on how difficult it was rather than experience the evocative passion of the sport.

 @ctd07: I agree, his run was unbelievable, but yeah, it was variations of spins, tailwhips, and barspin aside from one jump. Maybe two as the windshield wiper tailwhip thing is probably greater than just a variation on a tailwhips, but still.

How can the scoring be changed to liven up slopestyle? I'm not sure. Perhaps a rule that on only two or three jumps (per run) will oppo tricks be scored higher that the same trick done in natural direction. I do think having more emphasis on variety of tricks and trick types should be used in scoring. I thought Lemoine's manual to drop should have been judged higher, that was great. idk, being a judge would be very hard. Anyone else have ideas for improving the scoring criteria?

 This is the exact same thing that people were complaining about in Semenuk and Rheeder’s runs 5 years ago, so I don’t know where you’re coming from with this.

I think I prefer big spin tricks too, but anyone who says either style is boring is an abject moron.

 @thedeathstar: the definition of an abject moron is someone who calls others a moron because they don't like their opinion. It's a bit of an irony thing.

 @nickfranko: I’ll have to take your word for it. I’m sure that’s true since you’ve never said anything else stupid before.

 @thedeathstar: Glad you understand.

 @nickfranko: I wouldn't say it was boring to watch as a slopestyle rider myself I think it was insane to watch seeing as the fact that he did two tricks that were invented by him. Saying that you would rather watch the second and third run is fine that's your opinion but if you are a slopestyle rider you would see the enjoyment of watching Emil pull this run. Like what @thedeathstar was saying Semenuk and Rheeder were getting these sorts of comments back then. The scoring is not rigged or anything he's just a bloody good rider.

 @kcy4130: My guy opposite tricks are way harder than regular it's a shame seeing people diss such a good run.

 @Rafmiller: What tricks did ge invent? just because you do a new variation of a trick doesn't mean you invented it.

 @calebscott: Alright mate I'd like to see you do these tricks.

 i get you. only posers use go pros.

 @AlejoBeletadpQ: GoPosr

 @Sobi07: nah, I could see all his barspin 360's just fine.

 I think the hip hit might have been an Opposite 360 opposite bar to opposite downside whip, but I'm not really sure which way his natural barspin is vs. opposite. I would really hate to commentate his runs.

 yo, if you could straight air all the jumps and simply say the name of these tricks in succession i would be equally impressed.

 @danielfloyd: the thing is with any type of 360 downside tailwhip is one of the option will be an opposite or and the other a regular so basically it will either be a opposite 360 and a regular tailwhip or a regular 360 and an opposite tailwhip,

 @danielfloyd: Cam McCaul makes it look easy, as does Emil compared to other competitors. He’s at Semenuk level, or beyond on the trick side. BTW: I’m only a casual Slope Style viewer. Can’t even spell Semenuk. I’m a racer at heart and have a hard time relating to what these slope style guys do except watch in awe.

 Dude doesn’t seem to have an oppo

 Backflips score lower then 360s

 finally

 flips score lower then 3s

 @Rafmiller: truth, it's a fact 360's hatfer than flips.

 @naptime: Yea they are it took me a few weeks to learn 360 and still to this day I have problems with them. It took me a day to learn flips but they were way scarier to learn.

 @Rafmiller: Variety should play a factor in scoring.

 It's only the best slopestyle run until his next run.

 Cashrolls are fkng ugly

 Interesting. Even in the mid-nineties, I always considered jumping and getting loose more “mtb” than xc or something boring like that.
Seems like the bike industry finally realized disposable income and riding skill have an inverse relationship, so everybody is now riding expensive 37lb 29’ers and focussing more on accessorizing than scaring themselves. This does not seem very mtb to me.

 Was Aaron Gwins chainless world cup victory "not mountain biking" because he could've achieved the same with pegs? No.

Are we unnecessarily trying to gatekeep what is and isn't "rEaL" mountain biking? ALWAYS.

 Watch the 2nd place run, plenty of pedaling to make up speed. Just because mtb to most means dirt roadie doesn't mean people can get rad too.

 @L0rdTom: probably the only course on the DH circuit that could be won without pedaling. It was badass, and a badass fluke. I have done plenty of chainless races, and they are super fun and take skill. One thing all bikes have in common is a set of pedals at the end of cranks that are connected to and driving the rear wheel. If your not using those things your not even biking, let alone mountain biking. All that my own opinion and can be thrown in the trash. However, I stand by my position of subjective panel scoring and record breaking- they don't go together.

 @jfog52: the piece about subjective scoring is a fair argument, I don't agree with it but I can see your point however you definitely don't have to pedal for it to be mountain biking.

I can go and hit many downhill trails and cruise down without putting in a single crank.
Even if I am getting pedals in down part of the track, does that mean the for the parts I'm not pedalling then it's not mountain biking?

By definition, dirt jumping & slopestyle are mountain biking. Just because it doesn't need to have regular pedalling doesn't change this fact. If Emil had pedalled between each jump by your logic that means it suddenly becomes mountain biking? Crazy

 not to slope riders