I love this thing. It's like like a National Goegraphic special on little SoCal white kid stoners. And NBC's doing a pretty good job covering it--to my admittedly highly untrained eyes. (Also: I don't have cable, where I gather that they showed much more coverage.) I base this largely on the fact that they took five minutes out of today's programming to show the aborted run by the dude whose belt snapped three seconds in, then proceeded to make fun of him for another five minutes. (Actual times may vary.) Anyone who spends that long on someone's pants falling down in public is jake in my book. As long as that someone is not me.
Mostly, I love the language. The AST Dew Tour's official site assures me that Pierre-Luc Gagnon "mix[ed] in extremely technical tricks like a fakie shove-it to frontside lipslide." Don't I know it! And Andy Macdonald was "hucking a big backside 540, sticking a frontside rodeo 540." Say it slow, baby!
But the very best thing: Summertime means Shaun White wears fewer clothes. OKAY BY ME.
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It'sAllAboutTheGiants
, Aug 19 2007 06:53 PM
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#1
Posted Aug 19, 2007 @ 6:53 PM
#2
Posted Aug 19, 2007 @ 10:18 PM
I love Shaun White. That is all.
#3
Posted Aug 21, 2007 @ 9:40 PM
Well, yeah.
Dude's so amazing. He's one of those athletes that so good at what he does that even a total noobie like me can see how much better he is than everyone else around him. And he does it so effortlessly that I'm left wondering why everyone else doesn't just do it that well. I gotta go to the inevitable Michael Jordan for my analogy here -- MJ, Tiger, Federer, and so forth. Just so good that an average excellent is kinda pitiful.
What's cool about that kind of athlete, who's a bigger draw than the sport itself, is that it gets people like me watching -- and now I'm all about Dave Mirra 'n' stuff. (Okay, he's the only other one I remember other than Ryan Sheckler who creeps me out. He looks like a Simpsons character come to life. (And for you 18th birthday we're getting you... a brand new chin! By which we mean any chin at all. At. All.)) And the pink bikes in the BMX Something Something that look like the GBC but with fewer drunkards! As far as I know!
Yeah, I have a long ways to go before I'm what you could call a fan, but I'm getting there. Props to NBC to putting it on the TV so's I can get there. Eventually.
Dude's so amazing. He's one of those athletes that so good at what he does that even a total noobie like me can see how much better he is than everyone else around him. And he does it so effortlessly that I'm left wondering why everyone else doesn't just do it that well. I gotta go to the inevitable Michael Jordan for my analogy here -- MJ, Tiger, Federer, and so forth. Just so good that an average excellent is kinda pitiful.
What's cool about that kind of athlete, who's a bigger draw than the sport itself, is that it gets people like me watching -- and now I'm all about Dave Mirra 'n' stuff. (Okay, he's the only other one I remember other than Ryan Sheckler who creeps me out. He looks like a Simpsons character come to life. (And for you 18th birthday we're getting you... a brand new chin! By which we mean any chin at all. At. All.)) And the pink bikes in the BMX Something Something that look like the GBC but with fewer drunkards! As far as I know!
Yeah, I have a long ways to go before I'm what you could call a fan, but I'm getting there. Props to NBC to putting it on the TV so's I can get there. Eventually.
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