Freestyle in the Olympics?

[oLi]

Finding the right judges would also be difficult because so many are good friends with eachother or enemies.
It's not like in some sports where none of the competitors have ever seen the judge before or anything like that. Having a non freestyler as a judge is out of the question, it'd be ridiculous. Just look at Red Bull in Vienna where Szymo who clearly by all means did a much better performance than his opponent and still didn't win. Freestyle in the Olympics is a dream for all of us I believe - what we need to do to make it happend is keep on freestyling, make videos and get more people to freestyle.

[el mafioso]

first time I've seen a post by Oli and actually agreed with it completely.. Good post, wise words

[BigMac]

in my opinion waiting for something to happen is never a good idea. I will look into it, i dont think it is too early for something like this to happen.

[G-Man]

Mac you have copied my idea, i posted this in the olymip section a few weeks back,  :boxing:, but its ok

[nedved]

nothing.
altho i personally dont think it wud work in olympics, cos fs and whose better has alot of opinionated base, and it varies between person to person.
some skill may be easy to one and hard for another person.
one style may look crap to one may look good to another.
whereas in olympic sports, most of them are u know whose won, done and dusted.
also i dont think personally it wud be a good step for fs. too commercial..more a keep it underground street thing for me..but thats mypersonal opinion

[vish22]

Olympics is more about indivisual performances in various conventional human skills(endurance,speed,accuracy,etc).Also,it gives a lotta scope for performance arts..So,there shouldnt be many reasons why freestyle football shouldnt make it to the Olympics sooner,rather than later.And I dont think these games should include a lotta team sports,but thats another topic altogether.

[BigMac]

Mac you have copied my idea, i posted this in the olymip section a few weeks back,  :boxing:, but its ok

sorry bro, i havent been here.

pete you put across good points with the whole opinion thing. Makes alot of sense.

[TF]

macca u are very similar to my mum in the way u think she was talking about how freestyle should be in the olympics
but i agreeeee with the other posts woukld be very hard to find un bias judges that know about freestyle

[Javi]

Don't want to be negative, but honestly I don't think freestyle will ever be in the Olympics, just because..
Every sport in the Olympics has an objective, or a goal you know, and Freestyle doesn't, it is a hobbie, not even a sport. You just do it for fun, you do it for yourself and to entretain people, it doesn't have an objective like the other sports..
I don't really know if you understand what I mean, but if you do, that's just my point of view; but yeah, nobody knows, maybe it will come in the next Olympics, or maybe not.
That's what I think ;)

[Sander]

javi i agree with some points of your post, but what is the goal of e.g. gymnastics or figure skating?

[BigMac]

yeah i suppose there is no clear way of winning, but in gymnastics it is based on individual performance. So in that respect it could qualify as an Olympic sport.

Ha, qualify as an Olympic sport speaking like i am sort of official here.  :biggrin:

[sputnik]

thisll never happen in time for London. the only reason something like BMXing can be in olympics is because its had years of legitimate and professionally done competitions, with an already strict and established points scoring system, worldwide recognition etc.

freestyle has none of this. it is very much an 'urban' urban sport, whereas skateboarding, bmxing have a proffessional side. freestyle is like freerunning/parkour. its still more of a hobby sport, than a pro sport, even if there are many 'pros' (in skill and in moneymaking) in there. how could it go into the olympics when we cant even judge which tricks are hardest, and who has good style. i know we could 'make it official', but appart from there being no legit freestyle organisation to propose it, it needs years of testing and trial of the new 'olympic's standard' of rules and comp settings, and theres no way that London 2012 could host freestyle. maybe 2016 if we get to work now...