Why is shaun white not at x games 2012

Shaun White has some weird styles and together with his hair I almost thought I was looking at young Axl Rose bombing down the pipe. No matter how good you are and how much style you have… to me today top pushing the envelope snowboard tricks look ugly. Even when Shaun White makes them.

I am not saying today top snowboarders lack style…hell no. But even the most stylish snowboarder performing a double something… they look more and more like they are performing some gymnastic elements and less and less like they are snowboarding. And snowboarding is not gymnastics. Tags from the story. Leave a comment Cancel comment.

Anderson is one Winter X Games medal shy of the record 20 held by Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris and two golds shy of the female record held by American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis. American men won snowboard slopestyle Dusty Henricksen and ski slopestyle Nick Goepper.

Henricksen, a year-old X Games rookie, became the first U. Previously, his biggest title was the Youth Winter Olympics. He beat a field that included Olympic champion Red Gerard seventh on Sunday. It lacked five-time X Games champ McMorris, who missed X Games for the first time since his debut due to a positive coronavirus test. Goepper, an Olympic silver and bronze medalist, earned his fourth X Games ski slopestyle title and first since a three-peat from The biennial world championships set for China in February were canceled, but could be rescheduled.

The Burton U. And right now, I feel great," he said. I've got my tricks down. I'm just doing what I've been doing for the past 15 years. Bucky Lasek, last year's bronze medalist and a top Skateboard Vert competitor since , said that White's absence "doesn't change things.

Just because one guy doesn't show up doesn't mean the contest is going to be easier. Every skater still has to skate at the very top of his own personal level.

Even with White sitting this one out, the highest levels of the discipline's veteran contingent will be put to the test. Mitchie Brusco, 15, is in the lineup, with a decade of halfpipe riding under his belt. Fans will also look to highly progressive skateboarding from Brazil's Pedro Barros, 17, and Southern California prodigy Alex Perelson, 21, who's been called the new face of Vert. Check out the full tune-in schedule here.

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