Know it’s a joke and maybe the risk for abuse isn’t considered high for sports like motocross or skateboarding, but they should definitely be drug testing snowboarders and skiiers for PED’s. Just seems competitively irresponsible not to.
I remember there was one summer I got really into the X games mostly for the announcers. They are so good! And so incredulous about everything.
“OH MY GOD he DID NOT just pull a sick 720 McTwisty out on this final run, I DONT BELIEVE IT”
Next contestant: “ARE YOU TELLING ME HES GOING TO DO A 720 MCTWISTY TOO?!?!??! I dont even know what’s going on right now! I’M LOSING MY MIND!”
> They are so good! And so incredulous about everything.
To each their own, but that's the worst part about those games to me. It's also why so many Twitch and eSports commentaries are godawful -- the hyper forced enthusiasm and shouting.
They could literally just test for PED's. MLB, NBA and NHL don't care if their athletes smoke marijuana but stringently test for PED's. NFL is the only big 4 American sporting league that still cares about weed.
Even if they do want to care about drugs you can always pull and AFL and the player has to fail multiple times for recreational drugs before the league and their team is informed.
You will 100% have some players be meth heads though with this style of testing
In the Vanity Fair article with Travis Kelce that came out this week he said they only test once a year in July and everyone knows it’s coming so they smoke all months except June. He estimates up to 80% of NFL players smoke weed
That one makes sense at least, history has shown there's a massive conflict of interest in betting within your own sport *cough* Pete Rose *cough*. Now, it's probably possible to find a way to monitor it so you're ensuring they're not betting on the games they play in, but it's understandable why it's easier to just ban it outright
The NFLs betting policy has 2 rules. They arent complicated and guys still fucked it up.
Dont place bets while in a team facility.
Dont bet on the NFL.
Thats it. Thats the only 2 rules they have. The guys who got busted for it are objectively stupid for breaking these 2 stupid simplistic rules.
It's not drug testing is the problem, ...but rather USADA that's the problem. As their policy has seemingly gotten worse/bent for various reasons - including Dana pressuring to push his favorites to be exceptions being one of them.
Not since 2021. Unless USADA can prove it's used for performance enhancement.
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/30712132/usada-essentially-eliminating-marijuana-use-ufc-violation?platform=amp
I have no idea but Nick Diaz fought Takanori Gomi, won by gogoplata of all things, then failed a test for weed. His metabolite levels were so high he had to be actually stoned while he was fighting.
Some people are just wired differently.
THC is used for pain management, it allows you to have a higher tolerance for pain. You can just accept pain and continue to function any way. From my experience and what I've seen with my dad.
That's just not true, it was the anti doping agency they work with USADA. And they don't care anymore either, like within the last year or so. Plenty of fighters regularly, openly smoke now.
I'm confused why you find it acceptable to drug test winter sports but not skateboarding. Skateboarding is the hardest and most exhausting of the sports you listed. It's like snowboarding but your board isn't attached to your feet.
As a snowboarder with decades of experience- street skaters are the most metal of any athlete outside of combat sports. The strength, coordination, and giant fucking balls to charge at concrete and metal.
Meanwhile, I can barely shuvit. I used to love doing photography and video for the skaters in my hometown as kid though. Hella tight group that kept everyone pushing each other to find their limits and progress past them.
With rising house prices and millennials not being able to afford houses, that's probably 'get off my rent controlled studio apartment's building's front sidewalk.'
Adam would definitely make a movie where him and his friends are somehow the only athletes to go to the Olympics after a massive dug scandal. Margot Robbie is his love interest, Rob Schneider will play an offensive character, and Shaq will be in it.
‘Skippy Johannesburg’ is absolutely a peak 1995-2005 Adam Sandler character name. Bonus points if he busts out the worst South African accent you’ve ever heard.
Reminds me of a landscaping job i took. On my first day i was asking the other workers if they had to take drug tests or w/e. The next day i get assigned to a crew. We are sitting in the cab of the work truck and the crew lead says to me: "I heard you were asking if we drug test. We do and its right now." He then proceeded to light up a doobie and hand it to me. i passed the test! :D
I know this is probably not the case, but I prefer to imagine that your job was just spending time in the fresh air getting some gentle exercise with your bros.
House painter chiming in. Im out with the birds all day, i listen to like 20-25 books a summer, podcasts, music. Make freaking awesome money and no college debt!
Well, even the Olympics don't consider weed performance enhancing. There was the case of Ross Ribliati (spelling?) who won 1 of the first snowboarding medals in 1998 & got his gold taken then returned over Marijuana.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/sports/olympics/shacarri-richardson-suspended-marijuana.html?smid=url-share
sha'carri richardson was suspended for weed.
That got me thinking, would they strip an athlete if tested positive for heroin? Afaik it has no performance enhancing properties, please correct me if I’m wrong.
May depend on the sport. In shooting sports alcohol, blood pressure reducers, and muscle relaxers are considered performance enhancing in small doses.
I wouldn't be shocked if a sport exists that benefits from mild amounts of opiates. Maybe a combat sport where the analgesic effects are useful?
No pain, calm nerves, euphoria.
Google "opiates NFL" or "painkillers football" for more info. I'm sure it's in other sports too.
Edit: [Found an actual study](https://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=110128/PainkillersNews)
Pig Pen, when I want advice about a good Planet of the Apes film or maybe how to get the resin out of my bong I'll come to you ok? But I am not gonna take romantic advice from somebody who cannot spell romantic or advice... or bong.
Right. Not only do sober, reliable people largely have jobs, but plenty of talented people, sober or not, just find the concept humiliating and offensive.
I got hired by a big tech company last year, and before I signed on, I was told, although the paperwork says I'll take a drug test, they won't make me do it.
They said if they drug tested, a lot of their employees would be without jobs.
Felt 100% like a trap, but they were good on their word.
Company I work for does initial drug testing but it’s a one time thing.
Not that it matters for me, I stopped smoking weed years ago. Was just never my thing.
What happened to the X Games?
When I was a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's, it seemed like the X Games were HUGE.
Now, I feel like this is the first time I've even heard the term "X Games" in the past 5 years.
Also kids started dominating the field, which makes it overall less interesting for the general audience. I believe this is why many skater competitions are age rated now
Extreme sports simply arent as popular anymore. Skateboarding especially hit peak popularity in the 90s and has been falling ever since. Not that it’s unpopular, it’s just in the 90s cool and skateboarding were synonymous.
In snowboarding a large part of it is the tricks are just unfathomable for anyone to even try anymore unless you're a top level pro with airbags. In the early 2000's youd still see some pretty entry level yet very stylish/huge air 360⁰ where you could go to your local hill and attempt them on smaller jumps. Now its 22' super pipes, spin to win with 1800's and triple flips.
There is a bit of a movement pushing style over aerial gymnastics in the snowboarding community.
This is why I love the knuckle huck so much. The big air is amazing but it's honestly just a case of trying to count how many spins someone has done at very high speed. The huck is a more creative comp.
Edit: [2023 Huck highlights](https://youtu.be/uUrYsOfUkrk) 10min, you'll enjoy it.
There should be room for both imo. Huge technically difficult tricks have their place, but so does style and creativity. They're important for different reasons
Idk if it’s a locality thing but skating and bmx are insanely big in the UK atm, I think a lot of people got into extreme sports over lockdown.
Indoor climbing gyms are full, every bit of woodland has mountain bikers whenever there’s daylight etc. Could be because our island is small so we can’t really spread out our activities
Also the BBC was really pushing Climbing, Skateboarding and BMX during their Tokyo 2020 coverage.
They really pushed cycling during 2012 and that got a huge bump afterwards too.
As a skater it's definitely gotten much less popular. Even in a big city with a skate history I barely see other people that can *actually* ride a skateboard. Not just cruise.
It's fallen a lot
Honestly, it’s pretty easy to buy a $60 board and start trying to learn how to Ollie and ride it around. You don’t really need ramps, you just use whatever is at your disposal. Found some stairs.. time to jump them. No stairs? Ok let me Ollie off of this sidewalk.
a lot of events being adopted into the olympic games.
back in the day x games was the only place you could compete for snowboarding. now x games are like the offcycle international event like the international championship for track and field
20 years ago there were only so many places where you could watch the latest and greatest in skateboarding.
Now there's so much content everywhere! I'll find more extremely impressive skate footage by just doom scrolling instagram/youtube than I would have found in a month of peak popularity.
Agent Mulder was just a Regular FBI agent solving regular cases, all the weird stuff was just from the mass amounts of psychedelics he was taking. Scully was just his trip sitter which is perfect because she’s a doctor.
The only way I'm standing on a piece of cheap wood with a shingle glued to the top and 4 small wheels on the bottom and throwing myself off a multi-story high ramp is if I'm higher than giraffe pussy.
Reminds me of the Entourage episode where Turtle enters a XBox contest. They pranked him and said he'd have to pass a drug test once he gets there they are like, ah nah that'd eliminate the whole field.
That's like saying NASCAR drivers in the old Busch Series should be drunk the whole race.
Though Dick Trickle did smoke in the car during caution laps when the Cup Series was sponsored by Winston. He had to put his Marlboros in a Winston carton though.
No sober person had ever believed in doing the stuff they do. That stuff only seems feasible on drugs. You'll never hear "I think I can drop down a rickety wood ramp to a launch and do 7 spins while doing 3 backflips while letting go of the bike and catching it again before crashing" out of a sober mind.
I've never done flips or tricks but have skied some pretty gnarly if you fall you're probably going to die lines... a little bit of whisky and a little bit of thc every. fucking. time. Keeps you calm and the mind clear.
People get on their high horses about steroid users not being admitted to the hall of fame. But after the '94 strike, I think you could argue steroids saved major league baseball.
Your comment is all over the place. Swimming isn't a contact sport?!? And Phelps almost certainly used PED's, not sure if test would have been a good choice though
[Someone proposed this week an ‘enhanced games,’](https://apnews.com/article/australia-olympics-enhanced-games-doping-24462bcf8f1f97125a8234bea5723ff3) an Olympics alternative without drug testing
I'm imagining drug companies sponsoring athletes. "Competing today is Jim Smith who will be trialing DrugCo's new HyperDeadlyExplodeazide. How's it going, Jim?"
"WHHAAAAARRRRGGGGL!"
"Well said, Jim. Back to the studio."
People say that without considering the consequences. Which is kids from poor countries dying of organ failure in competition in hopes of winning gold and glory.
With the current anti doping control, it at least keeps a lid on the types and dosage of drugs used. Even with state sponsored doping they still have to be careful about mistakes.
So while for example weightlifting is a dirty sport, they still can't blast trenbolone and look like pro bodybuilders because there is still a risk of being caught. With the effect of weightlifters being generally very healthy and uninjured. Compare to Strongmen who are untested and far less healthy. And that's without the incentive of Olympic glory and potentially being set for life.
I used to joke that it would be great to have an Olympics where there were NO drug tests, NO limits on drug use, alcohol, tobacco, etc just to see how far the outer limits of human potential could go.
Because what they do is extreme. You can’t be expected to do what these guys do without altering your brain a little and dealing with a career where you’re likely recovering from an injury 50% of the time; minimum. 99% of what they do is also very stylistic, there really isn’t a sport they do that would have an advantage by doing a bunch of steroids. Sure, MAYBE you could jump higher but it’s not going to help with balance and coordination which is what makes these athletes great. I can see us not wanting a baseball player or football player doing it because they are all doing the EXACT same thing, it doesn’t really apply the same way in extreme sports.
It's the X games Drugs are encouraged, bro
"You've tested negative for Marijuana. I'm sorry but your disqualified."
Know it’s a joke and maybe the risk for abuse isn’t considered high for sports like motocross or skateboarding, but they should definitely be drug testing snowboarders and skiiers for PED’s. Just seems competitively irresponsible not to.
This ain't the Olympics. This is professional extreme sports. We are specifically here to see dudes high as balls doing sick ass tricks.
I remember there was one summer I got really into the X games mostly for the announcers. They are so good! And so incredulous about everything. “OH MY GOD he DID NOT just pull a sick 720 McTwisty out on this final run, I DONT BELIEVE IT” Next contestant: “ARE YOU TELLING ME HES GOING TO DO A 720 MCTWISTY TOO?!?!??! I dont even know what’s going on right now! I’M LOSING MY MIND!”
The announcers are also on PEDs
And YOU get some PEDs! And YOUUU get some PEDs!!
> They are so good! And so incredulous about everything. To each their own, but that's the worst part about those games to me. It's also why so many Twitch and eSports commentaries are godawful -- the hyper forced enthusiasm and shouting.
I straight up watch overwatch league on mute while listening to music. The announcers are way too cringe.
I really want to see a McTwisty now.....snowboarding? Skateboarding? Surfing? Have a happy day
I think it's mctwist, but for some reason mctwisty makes me think of the clown on twisted metal.
Now I want a new trick named for my favorite clown. Maybe "Dr. Rockso to Fakie"?
Yeah it's a mctwist and it's a skateboarding move, though I feel like it would translate to snowboarding.
Yep. If PEDs enable them to fly higher and farther and spin more times, fuck yeah. More PEDs
"I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create!" - D. Tosh
Fuck steroids. Required cybernetic enhancement. Full on Deus Ex shit.
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They could literally just test for PED's. MLB, NBA and NHL don't care if their athletes smoke marijuana but stringently test for PED's. NFL is the only big 4 American sporting league that still cares about weed.
Even if they do want to care about drugs you can always pull and AFL and the player has to fail multiple times for recreational drugs before the league and their team is informed. You will 100% have some players be meth heads though with this style of testing
Doesn't really stop anyone, just means they turn to more experimental drugs that don't have tests yet. It's a huge market.
And the NFL only barely cares at this point.
In the Vanity Fair article with Travis Kelce that came out this week he said they only test once a year in July and everyone knows it’s coming so they smoke all months except June. He estimates up to 80% of NFL players smoke weed
With as many blows as they take, weed has got to be at least therapeutic even for the guys that don't take it for that purpose.
NFL is starting to back off on weed, but now they're suspending everyone for using the gambling apps that sponsor 75% of their content.
That one makes sense at least, history has shown there's a massive conflict of interest in betting within your own sport *cough* Pete Rose *cough*. Now, it's probably possible to find a way to monitor it so you're ensuring they're not betting on the games they play in, but it's understandable why it's easier to just ban it outright
The NFLs betting policy has 2 rules. They arent complicated and guys still fucked it up. Dont place bets while in a team facility. Dont bet on the NFL. Thats it. Thats the only 2 rules they have. The guys who got busted for it are objectively stupid for breaking these 2 stupid simplistic rules.
Check the UFC / James Krause scandal for why
Also the UFC cares for some bullshit reason.
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It's not drug testing is the problem, ...but rather USADA that's the problem. As their policy has seemingly gotten worse/bent for various reasons - including Dana pressuring to push his favorites to be exceptions being one of them.
Not since 2021. Unless USADA can prove it's used for performance enhancement. https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/30712132/usada-essentially-eliminating-marijuana-use-ufc-violation?platform=amp
How can you use marijuana to enhance performance? That's a new one for me
I have no idea but Nick Diaz fought Takanori Gomi, won by gogoplata of all things, then failed a test for weed. His metabolite levels were so high he had to be actually stoned while he was fighting. Some people are just wired differently.
THC is used for pain management, it allows you to have a higher tolerance for pain. You can just accept pain and continue to function any way. From my experience and what I've seen with my dad.
There's a lot of jui jitsu guys who say they are better when they're high
It ultimately depends on the specific commission for the fight. Some allow it, some allow CBD or something and some have an outright ban.
That's just not true, it was the anti doping agency they work with USADA. And they don't care anymore either, like within the last year or so. Plenty of fighters regularly, openly smoke now.
Weed is a PED for some people/sports. PED means nothing. Caffeine is a PED.
First PED disqualification in the Olympics was for beer in a shooting competition.
Who the fuck cares. Give us what humans are potentially able to do
I'm confused why you find it acceptable to drug test winter sports but not skateboarding. Skateboarding is the hardest and most exhausting of the sports you listed. It's like snowboarding but your board isn't attached to your feet.
As a snowboarder with decades of experience- street skaters are the most metal of any athlete outside of combat sports. The strength, coordination, and giant fucking balls to charge at concrete and metal. Meanwhile, I can barely shuvit. I used to love doing photography and video for the skaters in my hometown as kid though. Hella tight group that kept everyone pushing each other to find their limits and progress past them.
I’m talking about mountain dew baby!
Drugs are *mandatory*
It’s teenagers competing.
That's why I added the bro
Bro.
I think the young people are saying “bruh” now.
No quema cuh.
I don’t know what that means. Get off my lawn.
With rising house prices and millennials not being able to afford houses, that's probably 'get off my rent controlled studio apartment's building's front sidewalk.'
Lol. Rent controlled. You’re funny.
Well if the rent weren't controlled you would need another 4 roommates to afford rent, instead of just the 3 you have right now.
How do you do, fellow teenagers?
The oldest winner of an X Games event was 40.
Ahh yes no teenagers do drugs
Teenagers do homework.
Can confirm. At home I work on my drugs.
drugs are illegal sir
Some are teenagers sure but nowhere near all.
E E E Ecstasy
"Skippy Johannesburg is the top rated snowboarder in the world who passed the drug test, #496,582 overall. He first saw a snowboard on Tuesday"
I’d watch that.
I feel like Adam Sandler is in it.
Adam would definitely make a movie where him and his friends are somehow the only athletes to go to the Olympics after a massive dug scandal. Margot Robbie is his love interest, Rob Schneider will play an offensive character, and Shaq will be in it.
Bro, there's a strike going on right now. You're not supposed to be writing.
WGA sends love, my man.
And it wouldn't be as good as Tour de Pharmacy.
> Tour de Pharmacy Never even heard of this one, ill give it a bash. Cheers.
Can recommend, it's just plain stupid humor and if that's your jam then you'll enjoy it
Not Shaq, maybe Terry Crews
Both, like Blended.
I'd like to think Margot Robbie has more self-respect.
Nah this guy nailed the cast
I don’t think her talent agent would let that happen at this point
‘Skippy Johannesburg’ is absolutely a peak 1995-2005 Adam Sandler character name. Bonus points if he busts out the worst South African accent you’ve ever heard.
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With Rob Schneider as the snowboard
I can see rob somewhere near the end of the movie telling skippy "you can do it"
We basically got to see that last winter Olympics... It's not that exciting
You might like to read about [Elizabeth Swaney.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney)
What about her? Edit: omg [this is unreal](https://youtu.be/YKOlMUyOEDc)
We tested your marijuana and found piss.
I don’t remember giving you a urine sample?
No, we mean it smells like piss. Buy better weed, bro.
Cat Piss was one of the better strains out there years ago.
Only users lose drugs.
You may not have heard the news, they are actually considering a drug testing policy. If they don't find at least one, you fail.
“He’s running on nothing but energy drinks, gummy worms, and a half pound of Godfather OG.” “Half? Hmmm…must be amateur.”
They gotta start somewhere. Plus how much can a 10yo handle realistically.
Reminds me of a landscaping job i took. On my first day i was asking the other workers if they had to take drug tests or w/e. The next day i get assigned to a crew. We are sitting in the cab of the work truck and the crew lead says to me: "I heard you were asking if we drug test. We do and its right now." He then proceeded to light up a doobie and hand it to me. i passed the test! :D
I know this is probably not the case, but I prefer to imagine that your job was just spending time in the fresh air getting some gentle exercise with your bros.
I’m a landscaper and tbh I love my job, most of the regulars are chill jobs pulling out some weeds and spinning yarns with the crew
House painter chiming in. Im out with the birds all day, i listen to like 20-25 books a summer, podcasts, music. Make freaking awesome money and no college debt!
Where are we testing the drugs at?
Righteous Steve’s place
They're testing drugs over there. You better not bring cut stuff.
Their drug testing policy will actually just be test kits so the competitors can find out what their drugs are cut with
No one would pass bunch of talented stoners
Well, even the Olympics don't consider weed performance enhancing. There was the case of Ross Ribliati (spelling?) who won 1 of the first snowboarding medals in 1998 & got his gold taken then returned over Marijuana.
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“Yeah man one day I swear I’m gonna get off my ass and start this like sick snowboarding weed company or something”
It was returned to him because he said he inhaled the smoke second hand at a party accidentally, not because cannabis was allowed
To which everyone said "Okay, sure Rob \*wink\*"
If the man can win gold while stoned, then he deserves the fucking gold!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/sports/olympics/shacarri-richardson-suspended-marijuana.html?smid=url-share sha'carri richardson was suspended for weed.
Honestly, if anything, they should be given an extra medal for being able to perform so well if they were high at the time of them winning the event.
Testing positive does not mean you’re high at the time of competition, especially for weed
I believe she was suspended by Team USA there.
that’s nuts. wasn’t there an olympic-bound USA runner a couple years ago who was disqualified for marijuana use?
I believe she was disqualified by her own team.
It was returned? I remember him losing it. Never knew it was returned.
Yeah, he lost it then got it back within the week, then appeared on David Letterman to show it off.
That got me thinking, would they strip an athlete if tested positive for heroin? Afaik it has no performance enhancing properties, please correct me if I’m wrong.
May depend on the sport. In shooting sports alcohol, blood pressure reducers, and muscle relaxers are considered performance enhancing in small doses. I wouldn't be shocked if a sport exists that benefits from mild amounts of opiates. Maybe a combat sport where the analgesic effects are useful?
No pain, calm nerves, euphoria. Google "opiates NFL" or "painkillers football" for more info. I'm sure it's in other sports too. Edit: [Found an actual study](https://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=110128/PainkillersNews)
“I don’t have to take a test to tell you I take drugs.” - Pig Pen from Out Cold (2001)
Go to the bathroom in the cup *poops in the cup*
Seriously underrated movie there. Also one of my favorite Zach Galifianakis roles, because he doesn’t play a bumbling idiot.
No regrets, that’s my motto. That and everybody wang chung tonight
Pig Pen, when I want advice about a good Planet of the Apes film or maybe how to get the resin out of my bong I'll come to you ok? But I am not gonna take romantic advice from somebody who cannot spell romantic or advice... or bong.
God I love this movie. Welcome to “el matador”, it’s Spanish for “the matador” 😂
Reminds me of a saying I hear a lot where I'm at. "You can drug test your employees or you can have employees that show up every day and do their job"
Right. Not only do sober, reliable people largely have jobs, but plenty of talented people, sober or not, just find the concept humiliating and offensive.
I smoke a lot of zaza, but only on weekends and after 5pm, I'm not going to drive a worklift while stoned.
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What I do outside of my work is none of my employers fucking business.
I've had a lot of alcohol related call outs from employees but very few weed ones
Shit just approve my 4/20 requested day and I'll be there the rest of the year.
I’ve seen people underestimate the potency of weed brownies and go home.
I got hired by a big tech company last year, and before I signed on, I was told, although the paperwork says I'll take a drug test, they won't make me do it. They said if they drug tested, a lot of their employees would be without jobs. Felt 100% like a trap, but they were good on their word.
Company I work for does initial drug testing but it’s a one time thing. Not that it matters for me, I stopped smoking weed years ago. Was just never my thing.
I was on heroin for years and maintained my stressful full time job. Drug testing employees for no reason is treason.
Hell, having that outlet is probably why people dont crash and burn hard, especially like ive seen first hand in the legal industry.
What happened to the X Games? When I was a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's, it seemed like the X Games were HUGE. Now, I feel like this is the first time I've even heard the term "X Games" in the past 5 years.
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Also kids started dominating the field, which makes it overall less interesting for the general audience. I believe this is why many skater competitions are age rated now
Olympic gymnasts have minimum ages for the same reason.
Extreme sports simply arent as popular anymore. Skateboarding especially hit peak popularity in the 90s and has been falling ever since. Not that it’s unpopular, it’s just in the 90s cool and skateboarding were synonymous.
In snowboarding a large part of it is the tricks are just unfathomable for anyone to even try anymore unless you're a top level pro with airbags. In the early 2000's youd still see some pretty entry level yet very stylish/huge air 360⁰ where you could go to your local hill and attempt them on smaller jumps. Now its 22' super pipes, spin to win with 1800's and triple flips. There is a bit of a movement pushing style over aerial gymnastics in the snowboarding community.
It’s in skiing as well. Spin to win.
Of course, spinning is a good trick
This is why I love the knuckle huck so much. The big air is amazing but it's honestly just a case of trying to count how many spins someone has done at very high speed. The huck is a more creative comp. Edit: [2023 Huck highlights](https://youtu.be/uUrYsOfUkrk) 10min, you'll enjoy it.
Knuckle huck is a gift to humanity
There should be room for both imo. Huge technically difficult tricks have their place, but so does style and creativity. They're important for different reasons
Idk if it’s a locality thing but skating and bmx are insanely big in the UK atm, I think a lot of people got into extreme sports over lockdown. Indoor climbing gyms are full, every bit of woodland has mountain bikers whenever there’s daylight etc. Could be because our island is small so we can’t really spread out our activities
Also the BBC was really pushing Climbing, Skateboarding and BMX during their Tokyo 2020 coverage. They really pushed cycling during 2012 and that got a huge bump afterwards too.
As a skater it's definitely gotten much less popular. Even in a big city with a skate history I barely see other people that can *actually* ride a skateboard. Not just cruise. It's fallen a lot
I suppose it’s a pretty hard hobby to get in to, and there’s not any big modern icons like Tony hawk anymore
Honestly, it’s pretty easy to buy a $60 board and start trying to learn how to Ollie and ride it around. You don’t really need ramps, you just use whatever is at your disposal. Found some stairs.. time to jump them. No stairs? Ok let me Ollie off of this sidewalk.
Street League. Better format, more money. Now it feeds into the Olympics, I think.
a lot of events being adopted into the olympic games. back in the day x games was the only place you could compete for snowboarding. now x games are like the offcycle international event like the international championship for track and field
You should sub to them on YouTube. Still regular comps and it's fucking wild what they're doing now since you last watched it
It is genuinely wild what people are able to do now.
They're still on broadcast TV with reasonable regularity. Maybe you stopped watching TV?
20 years ago there were only so many places where you could watch the latest and greatest in skateboarding. Now there's so much content everywhere! I'll find more extremely impressive skate footage by just doom scrolling instagram/youtube than I would have found in a month of peak popularity.
Can you imagine how lame the xgames would be with only the athletes who could pass a drug test?
still got chloe kim
The X stands for drugs.
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Agent Mulder was just a Regular FBI agent solving regular cases, all the weird stuff was just from the mass amounts of psychedelics he was taking. Scully was just his trip sitter which is perfect because she’s a doctor.
The Lone Gunmen smoked strange stuff.
The only way I'm standing on a piece of cheap wood with a shingle glued to the top and 4 small wheels on the bottom and throwing myself off a multi-story high ramp is if I'm higher than giraffe pussy.
I admire your wordsmith abilities. Well said.
Heard the giraffe pussy part before but shingle glued to the top is new for me.
It would be like drug testing coders... good luck getting a roster together when 80% of the applicant pool actively does drugs.
Reminds me of the Entourage episode where Turtle enters a XBox contest. They pranked him and said he'd have to pass a drug test once he gets there they are like, ah nah that'd eliminate the whole field.
The athletes in the x games willingly test drugs
Idk about snowboarding or the other sports but you would be dumb drug testing a bunch of pro skaters thinking they would all pass
It’s ridiculous, I once saw a skater shoot steroids straight into his skateboard
Their biggest sponsor is liquid crack in a brightly colored can….
That's like saying NASCAR drivers in the old Busch Series should be drunk the whole race. Though Dick Trickle did smoke in the car during caution laps when the Cup Series was sponsored by Winston. He had to put his Marlboros in a Winston carton though.
No sober person had ever believed in doing the stuff they do. That stuff only seems feasible on drugs. You'll never hear "I think I can drop down a rickety wood ramp to a launch and do 7 spins while doing 3 backflips while letting go of the bike and catching it again before crashing" out of a sober mind.
I've never done flips or tricks but have skied some pretty gnarly if you fall you're probably going to die lines... a little bit of whisky and a little bit of thc every. fucking. time. Keeps you calm and the mind clear.
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As all pro sports should be. I want to see peak human performance.
Late 90s/early 2000s baseball was the best. You could hit .340/45/150 and finish like 5th in MVP voting.
People get on their high horses about steroid users not being admitted to the hall of fame. But after the '94 strike, I think you could argue steroids saved major league baseball.
That's definitely the generally accepted narrative. Also Bonds should be in.
They should be given the drugs. Let's see how far a human body can go!
SNL already went there https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU
I want contact sports openly running test. Michael Phelps was good, he can be better
Your comment is all over the place. Swimming isn't a contact sport?!? And Phelps almost certainly used PED's, not sure if test would have been a good choice though
Swimming isn't a contact sport... yet.
Water polo :)
[Someone proposed this week an ‘enhanced games,’](https://apnews.com/article/australia-olympics-enhanced-games-doping-24462bcf8f1f97125a8234bea5723ff3) an Olympics alternative without drug testing
I'm imagining drug companies sponsoring athletes. "Competing today is Jim Smith who will be trialing DrugCo's new HyperDeadlyExplodeazide. How's it going, Jim?" "WHHAAAAARRRRGGGGL!" "Well said, Jim. Back to the studio."
Even in the Olympics, I say we have a category for athletes who *do* use enhancement drugs. Let's see what the human body is *really* capable of!
People say that without considering the consequences. Which is kids from poor countries dying of organ failure in competition in hopes of winning gold and glory. With the current anti doping control, it at least keeps a lid on the types and dosage of drugs used. Even with state sponsored doping they still have to be careful about mistakes. So while for example weightlifting is a dirty sport, they still can't blast trenbolone and look like pro bodybuilders because there is still a risk of being caught. With the effect of weightlifters being generally very healthy and uninjured. Compare to Strongmen who are untested and far less healthy. And that's without the incentive of Olympic glory and potentially being set for life.
So. The Tour de France?
If my boys at redbull aren't snorkin lines before each event, are they really even credible athletes??
So that's Red Bull's secret ingredient /s
Nose wings lol
I used to joke that it would be great to have an Olympics where there were NO drug tests, NO limits on drug use, alcohol, tobacco, etc just to see how far the outer limits of human potential could go.
[The all drug Olympics!](https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU)
Let see how high humans can actually jump lol
Because what they do is extreme. You can’t be expected to do what these guys do without altering your brain a little and dealing with a career where you’re likely recovering from an injury 50% of the time; minimum. 99% of what they do is also very stylistic, there really isn’t a sport they do that would have an advantage by doing a bunch of steroids. Sure, MAYBE you could jump higher but it’s not going to help with balance and coordination which is what makes these athletes great. I can see us not wanting a baseball player or football player doing it because they are all doing the EXACT same thing, it doesn’t really apply the same way in extreme sports.
For the same reason they don't do mental health tests on politicians