Greatest Snowboarding Run Ever
Hi! As you may have noticed in the January Calendar of your most recent issue of OWL, it is Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month. Seems like a good time to revisit our long-running series of greatest sporting highlights ever, no? (Click here to check out the “Sports!” category of the OWL blog for past highlights.)
Anyway, check out the best snowboarding run I could find on YouTube (note: please don’t try this at home, on your home mountain, or, you know, anywhere else at all — it’s only for pros!):
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_29sPEMc0]
Wow! That’s all kinds of impressive — it’s creative, athletic, etc. — and it resulted in the highest score for a halfpipe snowboarding run of all time: 48.4 (out of a possible 50). I don’t know how many hours it took Shaun White to learn all that stuff, but here is my best guess: a million. A million hours! (Right?)
What do you think, OWL readers? If you don’t snowboard yet, does this highlight make you want to learn? Let me know in the comments below!
Craig, owlblog@owlkids.com
P.S. Is it me, or is everyone else missing the Olympics, too? Last year at this time we were three weeks away from opening ceremonies and the anticipation was mounting. This year at this time we’re more than three years away from the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sigh.
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That is sooooooooooooooooooo cool!
Thanks, Nicole! Sorry about the video not showing up on the blog, by the way. Turns out the Olympic committee doesn’t let other websites post their material. But you can see it on YouTube by clicking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_29sPEMc0
Yeah Craig I noticed that.It is pretty cool, though.
kool
KOOLNESS
whoops…it said it twice
I saw this Live….It was AMAZING!!!!
I was waching when this happend, On T.V., not live. He’s probably the best American olympic athlete. I learned to snowboard this winter, I’m pretty good but I deffinetly not do those jumps. He goes so high!
I wish I could see it…but I’ll go look on Youtube. And Craig, I am missing the O’s. They were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool!!!! Thanks for the P.S. on the O’s Craig!!!
I miss the Olympics SOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!
snowboardings awesome and some much fun:)
I went snowboarding with my school today and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun exept it was my first time and I fell down a lot! 🙂
I can ski really well, but I’ve only been snowboarding 4 or 5 times… I definitely want 2 keep it up, tho!!
THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOO AWESOMELY COOOOOOOOOOL ! ! ! ! !