i feel for Kleveland, thats tough. but those last 2 runs were ABSOLUTE TOP LEVEL. not only to steal first but to have the ability to keep calm and stomp to take it back??!? i wanna see next year already.
As a Canadian, I'm so proud of Mark McMorris. 3 Olympic bronze medals and now 22 X Games medals to go with it. He's earned that "Closer" nickname. Had me whooping and hollering in my living room. Congratulations, Mark!
The level this sport has come to is amazing! 900s and 1080s were top shelf and what these guys are doing now we could only see on PlayStation. It’s just epic!
Congrats to the top 3!!! Mark is a madman! Also one of the nicest and most humble dudes on the planet!!! One day Red will be able to get up there though, I believe in him for sure!!
@@zachnoetzel5028 I also feel that fact that X-games doesn’t limit the amount of riders per country and per event. Olympics has A LOT of pre-events after pre-pre-events over a 4 years long span. So in the end your o my fighting those that have been along that whole ride which severely limits the amounts of riders towards the actual Olympics. X-games is about who’s got the skills on that day to beat every other person present. The best person with the best skills on that weekend wins the gold.
I actually really likes Yiming Su's rail section. Specifically the thing he was doing on the first rail. Looks so cool! Not sure why that got no attention from the commentators
Also, not to be too much of a whiner, but Markus' 360 into a 50-50 is super impressive and they're just counting spins. So much more precise than landing boardslide or lip. And, Sven Thorgrens 50-50 transfer to lip (or board? I forget) is kind of wild too. It must be so easy to slip out trying to pull that transfer. I just don't get why commentators can't point out subtlties like these.
That rail butter is cute and smooth but it's not at the technical difficulty of any of the transfers or pullbacks or Red's boardslide through the elbow kink. Most of the riders in the field could probably stomp it first try. His other rails had messy exits and the slides weren't squared up. They've put a way bigger emphasis on jibbing than they used to so you can't just zeech into an early exit or scrub your landing and expect a 1620 to save you. I think it's tough for Craig to give an honest analysis of a weaker run like that without sounding like he's being too harsh (hung out with him a handful of times and he's genuinely the nicest guy, he just can't be mean).
The standard these guys have for themselves in unreal. At 12:30 Mark McMorris is legit bummed with such an amazing run because of one little bobble on a rail. Crazy
Woo Hoo ! Way to go ! Y’all are so awesome! Sending it! I’ve seen this (and the last few/so many years) a few times or so :) Always rooting for y’all athletes!
Sick event. Couple of things i think would make it even better: 1. Get rid of the time thing and just give everyone 4 runs as they get that many anyway. 2. Show us the score. Makes it more exciting when you can see how close the riders are to each other on points. 3. Speed was a big issue and a reason why many runs got thrown away. Getting rid of one jump would allow riders to get more speed and airtime to do bigger tricks. It would also mean you dont have to throw away a run because of a small misstake.
You couldn’t stomp those landings any better. What’s crazier is that mark and Cleve have tricks still in the bag. The fact mark came from the flats is just mental.
Sven with the quick revert.. negates the run yet I'm sitting here amazed cuz that looked awesome to me lol how can someone revert and keep that speed into the next jump is insane looked so smooth.
His last run definitely contested for 3rd , Shame to see ...he flipped 1620 whereas rooisland flat 16 ..rooisland killed rails more ..so tough but definitely 4th place , racism is apparent
Mark mcmorris said, wait a minute, this contest aint over yet. I got one more run. Unreal is right. That's why I always say it ain't over until it's over. Mark mcmorris turned on beast mode. Mark mcmorris's mother must be extremely happy because her son just won another x games GOLD!!!!!! I watched the last run 5 times.
@@AndreJHoward in your opinion who has better career or more prominent run of dominance? Shaun white or Mark McMorris? You have all those metals but gaps in between and not years of dominance winning every single competition and just being unstoppable versus longevity and more accolades over time, so who is your pick and why?
Speed was definitely an issue today. I’ve noticed it typically always on this slope type course though. X games should consider stretching the course out a tad bit. It’s always unfortunate to see a perfectly solid run not be able to be finished due to just not having enough speed.
@@nebula1919191 what are you talking about? Nobody say anything about making anything bigger. We are talking about separating the jumps more this way people don’t have as much issues with speed.
@@nebula1919191 the jumps were to close to where people were struggling to even make it to the landing. If you separate the jumps more we would have seen more people be able to complete a run rather than having to skip the jump due to issues with speed. If you think this means people would go too big that’s not an issue as they are professional athlete’s, they aren’t trying to cover shoot the landing they just want to make it to the landing. For argument sake, I was a professional for 2 years myself. I would rather over shoot a jump than too not make it, coming up short on a jump hurts far more than over shooting.
Congrats to Mark ! Congrats to Marcus (deserved 1st in my opinion) ! Pretty amazing that Yuki Kadono’s 2015 run at the US Open with back to back 16 (BS & SW BS) is barely matched today, 8 years later. Yuki, you are a legend !
mark rails are much more tech than kleveland, and kleveland spin both jump the same way which is worth less than both ways! yuki run was legendary back then, sure these guys could've went "bigger" but they seemed to be short on speed, looks like its windy to me
It's a little known knowledge tidbit, but a break in a bone can be an odd plus if it heals well in proper alignment and enough calcium is in the diet. The bone can in some cases come back even stronger than the original unbroken bone. It's only sprains and other injuries that damage the soft tissue like ligaments that can cause problems long term and reduce the ability of a person. Agreed that it's still impressive though. Psychologically, any injury like that tends to cause people to hold back afterwards.
Awesome event, but I'm really confused why x games is holding on to this jam format so much, the time aspect is completely irrelevant since they all get the same expected amount of runs. Just way less transparency in judging.
I would like everyone to know that I've been bingeing the X Games snowboard competitions and it finally convinced me to be stupid and buy a new Burton board. Broke but excited
I farkin hate the snow, and I'm not much of a fan of watching snow sports, but this might the most spectacular thing invented since the history of your planet. I couldn't get enough of it during the last Winter Olympics :😄
I kinda hate how the revert is an instant throw away. If you can still string together a solid run and keep speed despite a quick revert, it should be scored for what it was, not be so immediately negating everything else.
As a canadian i think Markus should’ve won this one, i don’t think the flow score should come into effect when there is literally 4 jumps and every rotation was made by both anyways. Mark takes rail section narrowly, Markus takes jump section by a larger margin due to first two jumps
That was the best slope style ending I could imagine. Props to mark for being an absolute unit.
i feel for Kleveland, thats tough. but those last 2 runs were ABSOLUTE TOP LEVEL. not only to steal first but to have the ability to keep calm and stomp to take it back??!? i wanna see next year already.
we’re in January bub.
new year.
i think you meant ta say see the new course for this season 😁😂😤😂🤙🏻
As a Canadian, I'm so proud of Mark McMorris. 3 Olympic bronze medals and now 22 X Games medals to go with it. He's earned that "Closer" nickname. Had me whooping and hollering in my living room. Congratulations, Mark!
The level this sport has come to is amazing! 900s and 1080s were top shelf and what these guys are doing now we could only see on PlayStation. It’s just epic!
1080s were once elite on the big air and now they’re getting to be standard fare with NO kicker at the knuckle huck…nuts
The shaping of jumps has played a huge part in progression. There didn’t used to be much technology/math involved in jump building.
it's the training that is different.
Congrats to the top 3!!! Mark is a madman! Also one of the nicest and most humble dudes on the planet!!! One day Red will be able to get up there though, I believe in him for sure!!
@@zachnoetzel5028 Speaking Facts!!! He did say in the video that this competition is just that hard to win.
@@zachnoetzel5028 I also feel that fact that X-games doesn’t limit the amount of riders per country and per event. Olympics has A LOT of pre-events after pre-pre-events over a 4 years long span. So in the end your o my fighting those that have been along that whole ride which severely limits the amounts of riders towards the actual Olympics.
X-games is about who’s got the skills on that day to beat every other person present. The best person with the best skills on that weekend wins the gold.
@@zachnoetzel5028 and that is exactly what makes X games the best, well maybe not the best, but it’s amazing in and of itself.
Go Sparky! Loved the exiting end, makes the win even better 👌👌👌 you're the best
Sean Fitzsimmons has some huge potential. If he can continue developing hes gonna be a big time threat
I'm always so impressed watching the guys follow the riders with a camera, sending these massive jumps and keeping a steady shot... 😳
There’s a gimbal on the camera
Actually jumped out my chair for Mark's last run. Absolutely bonkers!
Same here 😅
but it was NOT better than Marcus run as a whole
Mark is a legend!!!! 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Being from Regina, Saskatchewan, you don't get much to snowboard around here. So proud and such an inspiration to many. Congratulations!
I actually really likes Yiming Su's rail section. Specifically the thing he was doing on the first rail. Looks so cool! Not sure why that got no attention from the commentators
Also, not to be too much of a whiner, but Markus' 360 into a 50-50 is super impressive and they're just counting spins. So much more precise than landing boardslide or lip. And, Sven Thorgrens 50-50 transfer to lip (or board? I forget) is kind of wild too. It must be so easy to slip out trying to pull that transfer. I just don't get why commentators can't point out subtlties like these.
@@peterbull3955 fully agree, the two specific tricks you pointed out i was also particularly impressed by
Agreed idk why Su got such low ranking
It seems the rail section gets overlooked a lot in general
That rail butter is cute and smooth but it's not at the technical difficulty of any of the transfers or pullbacks or Red's boardslide through the elbow kink. Most of the riders in the field could probably stomp it first try. His other rails had messy exits and the slides weren't squared up. They've put a way bigger emphasis on jibbing than they used to so you can't just zeech into an early exit or scrub your landing and expect a 1620 to save you. I think it's tough for Craig to give an honest analysis of a weaker run like that without sounding like he's being too harsh (hung out with him a handful of times and he's genuinely the nicest guy, he just can't be mean).
Been watching Markus for years because I could never find a good goofy rider. Proud of that dude
right.. Travis Rice plays golf.
Utter cringe statement. Sage Kotsenburg is goofy as well.
The silence during Mark's last run just tells how great he is and how everyone was just so into the run
absolutely stomping that last run. well deserved win
The standard these guys have for themselves in unreal. At 12:30 Mark McMorris is legit bummed with such an amazing run because of one little bobble on a rail. Crazy
Wow ... takes first, loses it to Markus who killed it! Then the legend walks off with a banger of a run and wins. What a comp.
Woo Hoo ! Way to go ! Y’all are so awesome! Sending it!
I’ve seen this (and the last few/so many years) a few times or so :) Always rooting for y’all athletes!
Congratulations Mark! The nicest guy ever and now also the most medals!
Spoiler alert?
@@ryanettinger5067 Watch the comp before you read comments! lol
Sick event.
Couple of things i think would make it even better:
1. Get rid of the time thing and just give everyone 4 runs as they get that many anyway.
2. Show us the score. Makes it more exciting when you can see how close the riders are to each other on points.
3. Speed was a big issue and a reason why many runs got thrown away. Getting rid of one jump would allow riders to get more speed and airtime to do bigger tricks. It would also mean you dont have to throw away a run because of a small misstake.
Keep up all that u are doing. Just great. Even though i cant getaway this season i still enjoy your content.
You couldn’t stomp those landings any better. What’s crazier is that mark and Cleve have tricks still in the bag. The fact mark came from the flats is just mental.
Jesus !! What a freaking 4th run final🤯Amazing! Congrats to our old Canadian top level💪
3:31 that's a craaaaazy move, that way his rotation speed shifts as he spins
Dusty has the best style
What a fabulous sport! Such respect to these athletes 👏👏 , they make difficult moves look seamless 👍
Congratulation Mark òn your GOLD Hurrah!!!
Sven with the quick revert.. negates the run yet I'm sitting here amazed cuz that looked awesome to me lol how can someone revert and keep that speed into the next jump is insane looked so smooth.
I am still shaking and quivering from mark Mcmorries last run. That was the craziest thing i have experienced in ex games history
очень крутая заруба, очень много эмоций! вот это крутые и райдеры и соревнования! даже не зная английского все ровно очень круто смотреть на это
Yiming Su is insane on rails idk what Craig is talking about.
Ya and how did he not score higher on his last run? It was flawless
i wouldnt say hes insane hes pretty mid field with rails
It doesn’t make sense how he wasn’t in the top 6 after his last run. Only thing wrong the judges did this year which is honestly surprising.
I agree. Idk why the announcers were hating on him so much. Seems biased
His last run definitely contested for 3rd , Shame to see ...he flipped 1620 whereas rooisland flat 16 ..rooisland killed rails more ..so tough but definitely
4th place , racism is apparent
Mark mcmorris said, wait a minute, this contest aint over yet. I got one more run. Unreal is right.
That's why I always say it ain't over until it's over.
Mark mcmorris turned on beast mode.
Mark mcmorris's mother must be extremely happy because her son just won another x games GOLD!!!!!!
I watched the last run 5 times.
He sstomped that. The way he performs under presssure is unreal. 22 freaking medals.
11 Gold, 8 Silver and 3 Bronze.... just wow
@@AndreJHoward in your opinion who has better career or more prominent run of dominance? Shaun white or Mark McMorris? You have all those metals but gaps in between and not years of dominance winning every single competition and just being unstoppable versus longevity and more accolades over time, so who is your pick and why?
For starters, Mark doesn't grab boot...
I've seen this film many times. It's really wonderful.
You can tell Craig is the older brother when he calls Mark - the winningest rider and oldest rider in the field - a "young kid from Saskatchewan" lol
Speed was definitely an issue today. I’ve noticed it typically always on this slope type course though. X games should consider stretching the course out a tad bit. It’s always unfortunate to see a perfectly solid run not be able to be finished due to just not having enough speed.
Nah dude. They can't make them go bigger and bigger until they start breaking bones and such. Remember Jake Brown?
@@nebula1919191 what are you talking about? Nobody say anything about making anything bigger. We are talking about separating the jumps more this way people don’t have as much issues with speed.
@Caden Michnal What, make it easier? Then they have to go bigger to impress the judges. Forgive I thought that was implied.
@@nebula1919191 the jumps were to close to where people were struggling to even make it to the landing. If you separate the jumps more we would have seen more people be able to complete a run rather than having to skip the jump due to issues with speed. If you think this means people would go too big that’s not an issue as they are professional athlete’s, they aren’t trying to cover shoot the landing they just want to make it to the landing. For argument sake, I was a professional for 2 years myself. I would rather over shoot a jump than too not make it, coming up short on a jump hurts far more than over shooting.
@@zachnoetzel5028 Make snowboarding safe again!
Mark mcmorris is at a whole new level
Super clutch ending. The Closer!
Shoutout @GimbleGod for bringing us the crispy shots
Riktigt nice!
Very well Mark .. wonderfull job!!
The Inn at Aspen has some good BBQ. Stayed there a few times.
cant wait for this film to come out
Judd Henkens comeback in the 2nd run was so cool tho, from dead last to first
"we call him the closer" legendary
Congrats to Mark ! Congrats to Marcus (deserved 1st in my opinion) !
Pretty amazing that Yuki Kadono’s 2015 run at the US Open with back to back 16 (BS & SW BS) is barely matched today, 8 years later.
Yuki, you are a legend !
I mean switch back 16 vs regular, idk pretty close could go both ways
mark rails are much more tech than kleveland, and kleveland spin both jump the same way which is worth less than both ways!
yuki run was legendary back then, sure these guys could've went "bigger" but they seemed to be short on speed, looks like its windy to me
i mean mcmorris run was much cleaner and arguably more difficult
Absolute boss last round! Massive ending
6:50 can we not put an ad in the middle of the run? i don’t wanna look at a jeep i wanna watch snowboarding.
I love the Video!!!
Still can't believe mark mcmorris broke his femur a couple years ago and came back to be the most decorated.
It's a little known knowledge tidbit, but a break in a bone can be an odd plus if it heals well in proper alignment and enough calcium is in the diet. The bone can in some cases come back even stronger than the original unbroken bone. It's only sprains and other injuries that damage the soft tissue like ligaments that can cause problems long term and reduce the ability of a person. Agreed that it's still impressive though. Psychologically, any injury like that tends to cause people to hold back afterwards.
@@Itsallsotiresome Thats super interesting. I think I am going to go break my legs now.
@@jackmurphy1081 lol (for anyone not fluent in English or the nuance of context, he's being appreciative of the information and facetiously jesting)
These guys are insane. Canada represent!
Probably Mark's last gold, the kids are catching him. Sweet win this time though. Congrats to him!
sure, that's his last gold. Mark the machine is clutch for days
What kid is catching him? He's still beating their asses every year with not a drop off in skill level in sight.
@@exorder2005 Marcus Kleveland
@@jamescorbett5729 Yeah sure, guy's really good, but I just saw Mark win another gold over him, so call me when he reaches 11. Peace.
Epic gold for him but couldn’t agree more
Awesome event, but I'm really confused why x games is holding on to this jam format so much, the time aspect is completely irrelevant since they all get the same expected amount of runs. Just way less transparency in judging.
Crazy how absolute silent it got for McMorris' run. Epic.
Wish they’d show scores per jump like another competition did a few years back. Makes it much more exciting.
WoW Top Parkour super hard Tricks that was unbeliveable🎉❤ i love IT
Good for you mark so awesome
Yo these guys are the one the best snowboarding ever is like we are watching Shaun white
Shout to the Oregon homie. Your dope out there 🤙🏾
Those last two runs were crazy mark and Marcus yltsi
I would like everyone to know that I've been bingeing the X Games snowboard competitions and it finally convinced me to be stupid and buy a new Burton board. Broke but excited
12:00 this is sick!!
What's the song at @49:50?
The advertising for the X games is rough. I wish I caught this live but didn't even know it was happening
Mark McMorris really holding it down for us older snowboarders, jfc
Speechless to all riders!!!!
Every year you think they can't keep progressing and not loose some of that style and every year being stoked and dead wrong! 👏 Solid judging
They're crazy good.
I farkin hate the snow, and I'm not much of a fan of watching snow sports, but this might the most spectacular thing invented since the history of your planet. I couldn't get enough of it during the last Winter Olympics :😄
my left ear loved this video
9:36 smooth.
Judd’s front 12 is nasty 😮
15:13 so clean !!
does anyone know how big these jumps are
Congrats to a legend Marc McMorris well deserved and amazing job go celebrate and enjoy your self with you brother and family
the reverberations of that one rail are gnarly
Yes!!! 🙌🏻
Kleaveland win!! i think.....
it's so crazy level!! top5 every body winner!!
What is the point of the clock?
In my opinion, Yiming su deserves to be first or second because his jumps are phenomenal.
What is the song they use?
That's sick
dear god someone grind off the blue jeep, i KNOW one of you could do it
very nice
only 4 min in and im loving it !
Drinks a Redbull sponsored by Monster, at a Monster sponsored event. hmm 4:16
Believe it or not I think that’s a Dasani Water can
@@scottyharrisonn OPEN YOUR EYES...
UNLESS YOUR PART OF MONSTER LOL
thought the same 🤣🤣
That kid Fitzsimons gonna be real good in a couple years
Where can I watch X games live usually?
TH-cam and twitch
I kinda hate how the revert is an instant throw away. If you can still string together a solid run and keep speed despite a quick revert, it should be scored for what it was, not be so immediately negating everything else.
alter spätestens beim zweiten dude hatte ich so bock mir ein snowboard zu holen
Awesome final runs
MUCHO ESTIIIILO!!!!
Imagine if men's ski slopestyle had this weather...
And Marcus Klevland was the Creator of Snowboard eaaaaaaaa: zy: no doubt. WAOWWWWW: 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🤙🤙
Is it over😢
Great fight untill the endless run. McMorris top!!!
❤❤❤ Marcus kleveland! ❤️❤️❤️
just wow that was crazy
As a canadian i think Markus should’ve won this one, i don’t think the flow score should come into effect when there is literally 4 jumps and every rotation was made by both anyways. Mark takes rail section narrowly, Markus takes jump section by a larger margin due to first two jumps
🤣
Let’s gooooo 🔥
Kleveland in Gold. Better Rail section and flatspin 16. But it is a close call and x Games judging is pro Mark i think.
thought this at first but rewatched and mcmorris jump section was literally perfect
Yes sw bs is the hardest Spin. Klev dit a bs 12 on the shark. What we can say...a great Final. This is what we want. Close call.
rail section would be tied almost and mark had better jumps actually
@@LostTemplate no shot, Marcus's two first jumps in that last run were far better than marks, annd Marcus's rail section was more creative
@@oldben1800 nah you wrong bro
i love how the announcer "predicts" the next feature, when hes given a list they are gonna try and hit during their set.