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@scott-townes: eh its whatever, its a lil disingenuous to feign that we haven't seen preferences on either side of the convo regarding slopestyle so.. i guess don't act so surprised but also maybe don't pretend it's loaded with hot takes. it really isn't, we've all seen the true hot takes on pink bike. that was a medium take at worst. sometimes you just want to share your thoughts and not be a dick about it, perhaps spark some discussion. ive been on both sides of this fence, the semenuk era saw a lot of it, when barspins tails and corks started coming to rampage we saw a lot of it, its a never ending discussion sure. i just noticed during that comp i enjoyed watching emil more, that's all. suppose biking means different thinks to different people. my enjoyment/preference does not imply that the judging should somehow shift to trying to reward the entirely too-subjective 'flow or style' of a run. that would obviously never work out. and apologies if this feels like im diminishing godzieks dub at all, nah he deserved that. he had the better run. i personally wouldn't even have put emils that close to his if i was in the judge booth. the judging almost feels a little obscure in that sense. if truly weighted heavily towards tricks, the gap should be huge between 1 & 2

not a fan of the weird lil ramp features people were flaring/whipping/barspinning out of. but i guess if the riders like it thats cool, who am i to speak to it. godziek definitely squeezed quite a bit more in, and its long overdue he gets a win. i dont have any qualms with the judges top 2 here.. but damn that looked like.. i dunno.. some exhibition nitro circus shenanigans where people are just trying r. willy type stuff and if they dont land they eat it into an airbag. generally not my cup of tea, but congrats to him. dont want to be like "rip style 2024-2024" cause that's always been the corniest comment, but i largely enjoy seeing emils flow more then godzieks. that finesse is the kinda stuff u see people jamming with at dirtjump tracks, just like a cool amount of "wow that was real clean" mixed with some acrobatics on the bike.

this kid doing backflip triple bars wtf I’m trash

I was at a couple early joyrides. The course wasn’t even near the scale of todays. People were riding off logs and doing whips x ups and the occasional bar spin. The fact that these women are sending these courses today is kinda nuts. Most of us would break our face trying to hit some of these. Women’s snowboarding and skiing is a great example of where things can go if you just let them have their timeline to compete. There are girls doing batshit insane stuff in snowboard slope and pipe these days, like really high consequence rotational madness on huge senders.

prediction these tricks will be used and abused by many riders: cashrolls, cork 7's pinkbike comments to follow: emil is too repetitive

whipoff was originally like a renegade event its actually wild to me that theres prize money going on here now. my first crankworx was a bunch of dirty mountain bikin bastards sneaking off over to crabapple and running their own goofy event, it was like my favorite thing that happened the whole week. back when hecklers rock was full of insanity during DH too lol.

@Pinemtn: sick dad-on-facebook caliber reply

kind of a peak armchair pinkbike comment that really doesnt mean anything. kids in dirt jump circles who all participate in this sport arent ever really here making these kinds of comments, they're all at the jumps doing this stuff and celebrating emil along the way. i think semenuks just happy to be doing whatever semenuk wants to be doing on any given day. when he started exiting slopestyle he was hugely advocating for emil (i think it was one of the backwoods jam interviews) saying that kid is the future. even semenuks riding in a comp was a lot more stale than what he'd prefer to be throwing down in video parts, its a competition you're going to throw what scores well and try to win it. any jam type video ive seen of emil on socials looks like hes throwing down a different variety of stuff and having a more "creative" time flowing through courses. cant knock on him for doing what he needs to do to be at the top, the sport's evolved quite a bit since semenuk and brett were going head to head, and whether we enjoy it or not the stuff thats winning is celebrated among the athletes who are all throwing down in this sport. may not make sense or be as entertaining to us, but the people who are jumping around on slopestyle seem to appreciate it.

720 stitched is the most perfect looking slope bike ever. i remember seeing tomas genons up in whistler years ago when it was a prototype and i was like thats a cool hardtail WAIT

@yoimaninja: but how is doing twisters and cashrolls and cork 7's not spin to win? to me this is much more akin to the triple-corks that took over snowboarding in the last decade than emils bag is. no one else does the tricks in emils bag, while several riders do twisters and cashrolls and cork 7's now. if anything when someone does combos on rail features or air tricks in snowboard slopestyle, it's not scored as high as the bigger aerial tricks but people prefer seeing it on online discussions because they're steezier. my point being is this feels like backwards stance: emil's stuff IS the debatably steezier of the mix when it comes to tricks, whereas godziek and rogatkin are more akin to the "spin to win" "huck to win" that we see in snowboard slopestyle that people complain about online