Should ski cross be an alpine discipline?
Alpine program director and former Olympian Will Brandenburg has been working hard to encourage a transition.
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Interesting, would love to hear comments.
Wish we could brainstorm and test several alternative disciplines. It'd be great to figure out some new way to challenge all around skiers while hopefully minimizing the dangers of have four fast skiers jumping next to each other. Making the events easier and less expensive to host would also be important, something current ski cross fails at.
Also rule changes such as limiting the number of skis or even standardizing skis could possibly help make the sport more affordable and fair.
Frankly I think the sport is too rigid and conservative, perhaps a handicap system could be developed, maybe events could be simplified into hybrid turn or speed courses where the emphasis is on make clean carving turns and control over gorilla like brute force?
Post Covid the sport is going to take a hit regardless so it could also be an opportunity to make structural changes.
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