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Well there are laces, so we know it’s not a freeride team with Finley K.

Those might be incongruent choices. The brands I would pick to run/stock a shop and the brands that I like or connect with most aren’t the same. Especially depending on location or target market. Transition would be a company I like and would consider bringing into a shop. Devinci and Knolly are companies I like, but would NOT bring into...

Based on the broadcast explanation of the judging, Rampage is similar (and presumably influenced) by judging from these freeride snow comps. However, I don’t think it’s as refined. Back in the day on the Freeskiing World Tour, your line choice was scored first (1-10 scale). Then the other categories were (fluidity, amplitude, control, technique if I remember correctly) were scored...

I think it would just leave time for people to invest in activities or ‘work’ on things that genuinely interest them and not just labor to survive. People would be free to pursue art, music, build and create physical things. It think it would make the world better (given time). I would love to get into fine woodworking. I don’t...

Genuine question, do we actually want or need this version of the sport to be ‘cool’ to a mass market? Why do all industries in alternative and action sports chase approval from the general public so much? They are niche sports and likely always will be, I don’t think it’s bad to acknowledge these limitations. To that end, I agree...

I think it’s much like @kokokorokokoko stated a bit back. At the Isle of Mann or big mountain skiing, people have a long history of dying in pursuit of the limit. The risks aren’t theoretical, they are explicit and proven and collectively we’ve agreed to accept the costs. At Rampage, no one has died yet, but we all feel like...

Jeff is a much better writer than myself and articulates stuff so well. Thanks! I do want to come back to the snow sports analogy to try to understand my feelings (and many others based on comments) around current versions of Rampage. In snow, Kevin Pearce (snowboarder 2009) suffered a life altering TBI and Sarah Burke (skier 2012) ultimately died...

First and above all else, my thoughts are with Adolf and his family. That was the most grotesque crash I have ever seen. Background: I competed on the Freeskiing World Tour from 2001-2009. In the span from ~03 to 2011, three individuals died competing including one person in Alaska at an event that I was at, waiting up top to...

Deathgrip 2?

I’m sorry, but Daprela doesn’t ‘deserve’ anything. Racing at a World Cup level is a privilege not a right. It’s beyond just being fast, you also need to have certain aspects of professionalism and be enjoyable to be around. Regardless of what actually happened in the ‘incident’, his continued behavior in the aftermath is uncouth and any team should be...