Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Winter X Games Top 10 Events

Winter X Games 12 is this weekend, so here's a guide to see the best events to watch:

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  1. Snowboard Slopestyle
    Easily the best event of the competition. Snowboarders down the hill one at a time and outside deceive stairs, rails and jumps.
  2. Speed snowmobiles and Style
    This is a new event this year, with the judges scoring snowmobilers 50% of the speed with which they complete the course and 50% on how you are looking to do so. The course was inspired by the Summer X Games Rally course, to go with two competitors at the same time. I am not quite sure how it's going to work, but I am waiting to see.
  3. Snowboard Superpipe
    One of the classic extreme sports events. I love the atmosphere under the lights, music blaring, fans in the upper right of action.
  4. Monoskier X
    This was a new event last year, but I missed seeing it. This year I definitely plan to try. In essence, Monoskier X is a competition for disabled athletes who use a single ski with a seat rigged. It seems impossible to turn, but somehow they do a slalom course on it.
  5. Snowboarding best trick
    Although never can remember what a taxi or half of the cabin is, and I can never tell if they change or if you just did a 720 or a 900, I still love this event.
  6. Skiing Slopestyle
    Like the snowboarding event, just not cool.
  7. Freestyle Snowmobile
    For pure madness, this takes the cake. It was wild seeing kids go to enormous setback on snowmobiles.
  8. Boarder X
    Boarder X is such a fun event that the stodgy Olympics picked it up. Who can forget Lindsay Jacobellis' crash on the final jump in Turin?
  9. Esquiador X
    Like Boarder X, but he sees a little more accidents because there are poles and skis all over the place.
  10. Skiing Superpipe
    The Superpipe on skis is always a bit awkward, but I think it is fun to watch.

Former events that never should have been cut

  1. Moto X Best Trick - I guess someone decided that this was too dangerous, but I always loved it.
  2. Ice Climbing - It was never really popular, but I always thought it was fun to see people fly to the leaves of pure ice.