I’ve really wanted to check out the surfing comp but there’s been absolutely nothing on iplayer that I’ve seen. Anyone managed to catch any on there (not got disco+)?
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What? That’s ridiculous. Shows how out of place skateboarding really is or how progressive it is amongst the Olympics.
Skaters will be out having street skates across France , beers etc before the closing ceremony .
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The drunk clip of Yuto is old. It predates the 2021 Olympics.
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A couple of things on this.
Think about doing a ratty bs nollie 360 where you pivot the last bit of the turn on your back truck. For me, that’s how I’d start to think about doing Yuto’s trick (not that I ever could do it). Putting it into blunt behind you seems to work with the spin, and you get a bit of leeway (see Yuto slightly hitting his truck and getting away with it).
Jagger’s seems more awkward to me. You have to really pop over the hubba whilst winding away from it. It feels more alley-oop in a way.
But all this is moot. Jagger’s trick was not clean and a bit of a booger slide. Was that enough to justify a 2 point difference? Possibly.
I almost feel like the momentum of the competition forces the judges to give ever-higher scores for good tricks. If Nyjah had landed the nollie heel noseblunt three tries later, would he also have scored higher?
But I am glad Yuto won, in the end.
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Yeah it’s odd. The women’s highlights are up on iplayer now. So maybe later today or tomorrow? BBC are blowing it this Olympics. Tuning out of the finals after the first runs then no highlights yet!?
Everyone is slamming in the BMX.
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BMXing has gotten like snowboarding.
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Contest BMX has - street BMX is still amazing.
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How the fuck have I not seen that, need to give some props to the boys down the park on Thursday!
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Silver
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Silver is rad!
Churchill the BMX expert?
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The Olympics turned competitive snowboarding into just spinning a lot. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t still backwoods, park and halfpipe stylers out there.
The WSL turned surfing into a multimillion dollar competitive, conformative industry. There are still plenty of free surfers killing it and it hasn’t actually changed the activity in itself.
As pointed out BMX comps are pretty spinneroony oriented. There’re still a bunch of riders smashing trails/ dirt, vert, flatground, parks and street.
Competitive skateboarding is likely to turn into a bunch of shite over time. Difficult shite mind you - see 10 year olds spinning back to back 900 variations - but shite nonetheless. Thing is though, it’s not going to matter a jot to the vast majority of skateboarders. In just the same way that Snow, Surf, BMX comps don’t really reflect the true nature of those activities or mean shit to the majority of people who do those things.
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Obviously it’s a thing, and it means a tiny minority of skateboarders are getting paid, but these two words next to each other still look really silly to me.
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Silver, get in!
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The same can be said about Jagger’s trick.
Whatever…
Yeah it definitely felt like they possibly judged this whole thing with their emotions as the atmosphere gradually got hotter (no pun intended).
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Marc wasn’t commentating BmX (or not the stuff I watched). It was Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood.
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He was doing the piece to camera from the course (well talking to the people in the studio) straight after the finals, discussing all the talking points that had just gone down.
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Fair. I only watched the highlights
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I thought the freestyle BMX was fucking insane. You have to be nuts to do it.
I would’ve liked to see some rails for grinds or something because it did get a bit samey.
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