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Anonymous at Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:34:18 UTC No. 209466
Is Street Luge still a thing, or did it die out on December 31, 2009 when all the enthusiasts died of gravel rash?
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:33:37 UTC No. 209659
>>209466
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2
Last year's World Championships. Men's and women's finals. The whole thing seems pretty small-time. The women's race, in particular, gives one the impression that this might actually be their first race.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Sep 2024 12:36:20 UTC No. 209660
it's weird to think how diverse the X Games were at the beginning, with weird stuff like this and sky surfing.
Now it's basically just a lower profile version of the olympic skateboard and bmx competitions. They need to bring back aggressive inline and add scooters or it'll be dead within a few years.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Sep 2024 15:09:27 UTC No. 209668
>>209660
>They need to bring back aggressive inline and add scooters or it'll be dead within a few years.
Scooters would be interesting, but I disagree with bringing back inline. Inline simply isn't very well-suited to TV. All the various grind variations are impressive to those in-the-know, but to a normie it's
>he slid down a rail
>he slid down a rail with his legs crossed
>he slid down another rail
That said, though, the X Games' format is actually changing in 2026 to something akin to a year-round global tour, like F1.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Sep 2024 15:55:49 UTC No. 209672
>>209668
>Inline simply isn't very well-suited to TV.
the x games was created because standalone inline contests were getting such high ratings.
Inline competitions are way more about the airs/spins/grabs which look spectacular to normies, definitely more so than "board flips in an imperceptibly different way" in skateboarding.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Sep 2024 17:02:27 UTC No. 209680
>>209668
> akin to a year-round global tour, like F1
Except no one will go to or watch it. Why did it take until 2026 to realize that? Lmao. It’s too late
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Sep 2024 00:53:17 UTC No. 209724
>>209680
It was probably too late when the actual Olympics added skateboarding and all sorts of other X Games events.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 12:36:22 UTC No. 210185
>>209466
Nah