{"id":2453724,"date":"2020-01-25T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T06:20:00","slug":"x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games Day 3 notebook: Father of knuckle huck set to soar at X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-319834-983\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1024x768.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen TImes | X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen TImes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1024x768.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News | Max Parrot wins gold in X Games Aspen\u2019s men\u2019s snowboard big air final on Saturday at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Max Parrot wins gold in X Games Aspen\u2019s men\u2019s snowboard big air final on Saturday at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen.<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Max Parrot wins gold in X Games Aspen\u2019s men\u2019s snowboard big air final on Saturday at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Knuck king Kleveland ready for huck<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s time for the man who, in many ways, inspired the knuckle huck competition to actually compete in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Last January, X Games Aspen debuted a new competition: snowboard knuckle huck. X Games brought the fun-loving contest into its fold after Norweigan star Marcus Kleveland\u2019s videos of himself hucking tricks off knuckles went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The knuckle huck competition has riders drop into the big air ramp before snowboarding around the actual big air jump. They do this to launch off of the roll-over, or \u201cknuckle,\u201d of the big air course before landing in the normal big air landing zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But a broken knee cap suffered at Dew Tour in December 2018 forced him out of last January\u2019s X Games, so Kleveland didn\u2019t get a chance to take on the contest he helped inspire. He wrote on his Instagram account Thursday, though, that he\u2019ll compete in this year\u2019s knuckle huck, scheduled for Sunday at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBeen having a lot of fun riding the slopestyle practice,\u201d Kleveland said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve decided to skip out due to not having enough time on big jumps. Just wanna feel 100% when the time is right. Still gonna do the Knuckle Huck though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In essence, what the knuckle huck competition provides is an outlet for snowboarders to showcase atypical creativity, style and skill off the knuckle. That\u2019s because launching off the knuckle provides for different moves than the normal big air jump. In essence, knuckle huck moves are not as massive or powerful as the big air moves, which require snowboarders to launch high into the night sky. Rather, tricks off the knuckle are lower in amplitude yet, in a lot of ways, more aesthetically-pleasing to both the casual viewer and an avid snowboarder, alike. And in a sign that the competition has been a success, this year X Games added a ski knuckle huck competition, which rookie Colby Stevenson of Utah won Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2013 Antonio Olivero, Summit Daily<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">NEW, IMPROVED?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Rounding out this year\u2019s run at new events to keep things fresh is the men\u2019s snowboard rail jam Sunday at the top of the slopestyle course. A field of eight will be going off the three features at the top of the course in a 20-minute session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other new events seemed to gain crowd support, including Friday night\u2019s superpipe session event where Steamboat Springs rider Taylor Gold finally got to the top of the X Games podium. The ski knuckle huck, which came after the snowboard knuckle debut in 2019, got the Thursday crowd riled up with 20-year-old X Games rookie Colby Stevenson beating out fan favorite Henrik Harlaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFor the skiers it\u2019s a niche little category that\u2019s cool,\u201d Aspen\u2019s Torin Yater-Wallace said of the knuckle huck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Anyone miss the Harley-Davidson snow hill climb up the superpipe this year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 David Krause, Aspen Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-day-3-notebook-father-of-knuckle-huck-set-to-soar-at-x-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.Austin Colbert\/The Aspen TImes Max Parrot wins gold in X Games Aspen\u2019s men\u2019s snowboard big air final on Saturday at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News Show CaptionsHide Captions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:01:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}