CRANKWORX CAIRNS SLOPESTYLE | WOMEN'S WINNING RUNS

Take a look at the podium runs from Crankworx Cairns Slopestyle as the women dropped into the FMB Diamond Level course for the first time ever.
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[@freshseeker]

good to see the ladies killing it. the future looks bright !

[@jonnypennell2428]

Awsome comp, so good to see. Seat grabs aint Toboggans tho lol😂

[@benedikt_vd4243]

What happened to Patricia?

[@simon123456654321]

running a nenduro bike on a slopestyle course, wild!

[@jasonmartin364]

not too much of a difference since most slopestyle is done with enduros instead of hardtails

[@jonnypennell2428]

Nope they are 26 inch, DJ or slopstyle specific, low travel, steeper head tupe, smaller wheelbase.....

[@jasonmartin364]

@@jonnypennell2428 sorry i meant for females, cause they need the extra pump the double suspension gives them

[@perbengtsson8170]

So, the female class of this sport is basically about cycling downhills without falling over. And this was the podium shown! Guess it's gonna take years before catching my interest for this...

[@jasonmartin364]

its cause males have more fast twitch muscles and with strength also involved we can get much better pumps resulting in better air and tricks.

[@perbengtsson8170]

@@jasonmartin364 Well, I think it’s much bigger than that. Culture not the least - growing up as boys, trying to be a daredevil, pushing limits whether climbing, jumping…and bicycling from an early age. With these girls in this competition it rather feels like somebody told them a couple of years ago - why don’t you try it out.
But whatever it all comes down to, I have never seen a bigger difference, in any sport, between male and female performance…

[@jasonmartin364]

@@perbengtsson8170 well i mean to a point i agree, but you also have to realize the women at these levels have been doing from a young age just like the men, its literally science, women dont have the fast twitch muscle to the level of men and withstrength difference men can easily outperform the women in these leagues.

[@perbengtsson8170]

@@jasonmartin364 But take away the bike and go to gymnastics - Simone Biles and all the way back to Nadia Comaneci or Olga Korbut are and were all as impressive in their performances as any top men gymnastic stars, lacking fast twitch muscles or not. Put the bike back in, as in the slopestyle we are discussing, and you are getting a difference in the level of performance so huge that it even becomes a different sport...

[@HIPP024]

​@@jasonmartin364there is barely any woman doing these sports so the odds that there is talent in that tiny pool is much lower