Retrospective: 10 Years of Crankworx Whistler

 little know fact: cameras were made of play doh until 2009.

 So stoked on how much our sport has progressed in the past decade: the riders, bikes, tricks, courses, crowds etc. etc. This has to be the best sporting community out there!

 Crankworx Trivia!!! Name the Slopestyle winners!!

www.sporcle.com/games/acas/Crankworx

 3:02 in the 2004 video was gold haha!!

 @lostlunchbox cameras are actually made from potatoes. It is only our potato technology that has progressed. (Imgur joke)

 The guys in the early years were so creative with their lines!

 Not only have the cameras improved, but the websites that host videos have as well.

 I can't believe Lacondeguy's double back in 2008 wasn't in there. That was the craziest trick landed still for years later

 Who was that at the end? I need another angle!

 Think it was Kyle Strait?

 This was Timo Pritzel

 Yeah Timo tried jumping over the whole thing, ended up in the hospital, haha. Strait was the one that did the backflip on, tailwhip off.

Anyone remember how big that teeter-totter drop was before they shortened it for the comp? It would have been the most insane feature ever... even though the shortened version was still insane.

 It was not strait, that was paul b

 I dont think Paul Basagotia was around till he won in 2005?

I remember watching the drop in episode where they went for crankworx, seeing dylan tremblay and kinrade and the boys riding the trails and the park. So cool looking how far the filming, riding, bikes, and course have come in ten short year. Demonstrates just how progressive the sport is!

 It was Timo Pritzel gaping the finish feature at the end of the video. He shattered both legs (or ankles, can't remember) on the landing.

@Scott-townes, I remember that Teeter.. all the pro's were bailing off it, or too scared to try it before they shortened it if I recall. SUPER gnarly.

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWq81o3PA6E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 Nope, they're right... it was Paul B, on a borrowed bike no less! I'm a moron for forgetting that one...

 I remember this was me and my husbands first trip to Whistler and we were just walking around in the evening after riding all day and stumbled onto the slope style comp and had some of the best seats in the house for this! I remember saying to him, "can you imagine if someone tries to gap the last stunt?" Shortly after, our eyes bugged out of our skulls as our jaws dropped when Timo tried the unimaginable. In 2004 that was absolutely HUGE! It still is, but then it was game changing. Paul B did win, in a white t shirt, a borrowed bike and a dirt lid, while everyone else was full face, full armour. After this, the Whistler scene blew up!

  Yes that stunt was pretty crazy...happy I walked away with "only" a broken Foot&Ligaments...

 www.pinkbike.com/photo/3552452

 Hahaha, that's an amazing picture.

 yeah sure, but at the same time it also shows how hard work slopestylers nowadays and how much flow they can put in their run on such an incredible event, that shatter every rider as soon as they make a little mistake...

 I also liked when some of the features in the boneyard were rideable by mere mortals. It was fun to head into the boneyard to finish a run with the wall ride and the box.

 NWD 8 is still one of the newer ones to me- NWD1 is where it's at!! Ha ha

 He had a kid and had to get a job unfortunately.

 That monster energy drop in 2010 was insane. I stood under it just before the contest and my heart started pounding scared for the riders.