World freestyle championships

This week, Park City is hosting the 2019 world freestyle championships. Am I excited about it? Not particularly!

Over the years, I have found to distance myself from jumps and moguls, plus I was never a fan of boarder- or ski-cross, even less of slope-side. Why? Because this doesn't represent the kind of ski I practice and love.

I see it more as a commercial as well as an entertaining perversion of the sport, instead of a healthy representation of what regular people can expect to accomplish themselves.

Sure, I'm in awe when I see these guys twisting and turning while they're catching some big air, but my admiration stops there.

Now, in contrast to that viewpoint, why do I still enjoy watching alpine ski racing when given a chance? Simply because I ran through gates, both in slalom and GS when I was young and still can relate to it.

I would much more like watching a so-called extreme skiing competition, but those aren't too popular and receive almost no media coverage, too bad, because this is the closest form of skiing most of us will ever experience!

Now, with all this said, will I watch the Park City world championships? No, I'll go skiing instead.