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finally got to watch one of these things, makes taking a nice day off a little easier.. highlights tatsuno racing down the venue, brayden brassie's amazing recovery, christian bouchers insanely aggressive line, jackie passo hitting a huge double smoother than 98% of the men, and jake cohen and dylan crossman's perfect runs. its too bad they don't do a best of two runs for super finals so competitors wouldn't have to play it as 'safe', i'm sure we'd see more aggressive lines and variety like christian bouchers.

YEAAHHHHHH good on Passo, that last two-stager was siiiiiiiiiick

Crossman yet again. Gawddamn.

East Coast represented.

And the winner is? Just got home...

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Crossman yet again. Gawddamn.

East Coast represented.

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He grew up skiing East coast... but now he belongs to us. We claim him as an Alta local now don't cha know.;)

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And the winner is? Just got home...

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Crossman takes it!

I believe Omeara is second, that's all I got.

just got home from skiing Coalpit - 5K vert, well over half of that 5K was sweet creamy pow.

Watching the women's super final right now. Men's coming up in a bit. Despite the spoiler, this is dang fun to watch.

Nothin like sittin in the sunshine, drinkin peeburs, watching the US Nat'ls. What a great effin day. I love Utah...and all my Utard friends.

Jackie sent it like a man, and won the sickbird to boot. Fuckin love that chick, she deserves it.

Looks like most of the frenchies sent it too, but had bad luck and ate it on the bottom airs. Way to giv'r shit though. Crabtree ended up third, Ashton 4 or 5th.

Girls were throwing down today, was really nice to see everyone push it. Whistler had a strong showing, better luck next time for Little C, Christian, Blazer, Max and Matty.. looks like PY did quite well though. This is my first year on the circuit, still learning lots. I learned to ski more conservatively in semi's, more fast/fluid and not take such big hits early on.

you'll be in there killing it next year

just got done watching Crossman's final run. Wow... Gotta love the 6pm rerun. This has been a fun weekend :)

What a fanfukkingtastic event!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tour at Snowbird shames anything Kirkwood ever did. The venues are much more visible, the crowds waaaay bigger - did I say the venues are just awesome???? - and the stoke factor AND the skiing were just off the charts.

I'll never miss another event here if at all possible. Such good times, soooo many maggots.
Best I've ever attended.

results?

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Originally Posted by powstash

just got home from skiing Coalpit - 5K vert, well over half of that 5K was sweet creamy pow.

Watching the women's super final right now. Men's coming up in a bit. Despite the spoiler, this is dang fun to watch.

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Sorry man.:o

Added a spoiler alert.

SO MUCH FRIKKIN FUN. Had a blast. Jackie Passo's double stager was freakin' RAAAAAAAAAD. really liked the super haulin' balls that one dude did where he blew up.... so close. got lots of great videos that i can't stop re-watching.

It was like watching the super bowl. I'm still stoked. Can we have one of these every weekend? :yourock: :yourock:

to whomever was in charge of the live broadcast today, thanks a lot it was great to watch. couple things for next year, the side angle that was constantly used for the blond rocks drop sucked, a few of times we got the head on angle which was much better. and as with all comp videos i've seen, the shots are often too tight. close ups are cool every now and then but a wider shot would be better in almost all instances, i wanna see where the rider has been and is going in the frame, see whats up ahead. on the bottom air i wanna see the take off and landing in the same frame.. tight shots are good for replays. just a suggestion, maybe its just me.. would also be cool to have a camera somewhere mid venue or above the main feature at the bottom shooting downhill like at the start.

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Originally Posted by splat

What a fanfukkingtastic event!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tour at Snowbird shames anything Kirkwood ever did. The venues are much more visible, the crowds waaaay bigger - did I say the venues are just awesome???? - and the stoke factor AND the skiing were just off the charts.

I'll never miss another event here if at all possible. Such good times, soooo many maggots.
Best I've ever attended.

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I miss being there for the Bird comp. Killer venues and the Finals on North Baldy kick ass.

-hijack-
Splat man- we were killn it with your man zeedash today at Alpy. when u gonna pay us a visit?

YEAH BRETT!!! WOOHOO!

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I miss being there for the Bird comp. Killer venues and the Finals on North Baldy kick ass.

-hijack-
Splat man- we were killn it with your man zeedash today at Alpy. when u gonna pay us a visit?

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Oh, God, Squirrel.......you know how it is. :frown:
Can you guys come to Schweitzer next week?

Superfinals results from USFreeskiing.com:

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Subaru US Freeskiing Nationals - Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort - 3.22.08

FINAL RESULTS - North Baldy

Women Name Bib Country Home Resort Total Run 1 & 2 Run 3 Final Results

1 Jaclyn Passo 25 USA Squaw Valley 65.69 38.75 104.44
2 Crystal Wright 55 USA Jackson Hole 67 36.13 103.13
3 Jess McMillan 16 USA Jackson Hole 68.19 34.5 102.69
4 Emily Teague 89 USA Telluride/Aspen 68.75 33.75 102.5
5 Jen Ashton 35 CAN Whistler/Blackcomb 67.38 35 102.38
6 Alaina Huestis 50 USA Snowbird 69.5 32.25 101.75
7 Crystal-Rose Lee 31 CAN Whistler/Blackcomb 66.25 34.13 100.38
8 Colby Adams 82 USA Breckenridge 65.38 30.5 95.88

Mens Name Bib Country Home Resort Total Run 1&2 Run 3 Final Results

1 Dylan Crossman 94 USA Alta 80.53 42.75 123.28
2 Kevin O'Meara 90 USA Squaw Valley 80 39.5 119.5
3 Brett Crabtree 11 CAN Blackcomb 75.75 39.38 115.13
4 Brady Smedrud 48 USA Snowbird 73.25 40.75 114
5 Brayden Brassey 68 USA Park City 75.38 37.5 112.88
6 Jake Cohn 52 USA Telluride/Whistler 75.75 37 112.75
7 Daimon Bushi 45 USA Snowbird 75.63 36.63 112.25
8 Lars Chickering-Ayers 62 USA Mad River Glen 72.38 37.63 110
9 Mike Vaughan 44 USA Alpine Meadows 70.25 36.75 107
10 Pierre-Yves Leblanc 60 CAN Whistler 69 37.88 106.88
11 Rob Greener 91 USA Alta/Bird 69.13 36.75 105.88
12 Joel Jacques 9 CAN Whistler/Blackcomb 70.25 35.5 105.75
13 Julien Lopez 13 FRA La Plagne 68.63 35.13 103.75
14 Max Arsenault 73 USA Blackcomb 75.25 20.88 96.13
15 Cliff Bennett 63 USA Snowbird 72.63 21.63 94.25
16 Aaron Hunt 84 USA Snowbasin 68.88 20.5 89.38
17 Jack Nelson 10 USA Alta 68.81 15 83.81
18 Nick Greener 51 USA Bogus Basin 71.38 0 71.38

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PSA: the superfinals coverage will be up on usfreeskiing.com late tonight for 24/7/365 viewing.

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I'd like to send a special shoutout to E MOTHERFUCKIN EVIL E for totally putting together some sweet coverage.

And whoever went to the midslope camera to catch Gold tomahawking by: nice timing.

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thanks for the props, but the real props should go to adam comey from MSI whose brain came up with the live webcast.... and btw.... that was me who filmed the starfish of the century. that happened about 10 feet away from me :fmicon:

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Nothin like sittin in the sunshine, drinkin peeburs, watching the US Nat'ls. What a great effin day. I love Utah...and all my Utard friends.

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it was awesome. the lady getting hit in the face with the firecracker was a bit much (i happened to look over and see it happen, her hair looked like it was smoldering for a bit), but the mayhem only added to the experience.

the skiing was outrageous. i liked the double that lars chickering-ayers did off to skier's right.

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Originally Posted by splat

What a fanfukkingtastic event!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tour at Snowbird shames anything Kirkwood ever did. The venues are much more visible, the crowds waaaay bigger - did I say the venues are just awesome???? - and the stoke factor AND the skiing were just off the charts

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I can't argue about the crowds, and i definitely won't argue that Kirkwood does a better job of marketing, but IMO the cirque is a much better venue. the only thing that makes it a little harder to see is that it is bigger.
watch last years winning runs (not superfinals) here. Absolutely flying from top to bottom it took Garbiel over 1:50 to finish his run. Crossmans only took 1:20. Snowbird is a smaller venue, and certainly no more technical than the cirque.
Garbiels run
the cirque, contest would be going on next week
this pic is from 05, and doesn't include the lower 1/3
http://www.aboutlaketahoe.com/ski_re...ue-3-21-05.jpg

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thanks for the props, but the real props should go to adam comey from MSI whose brain came up with the live webcast.... and btw.... that was me who filmed the starfish of the century. that happened about 10 feet away from me :fmicon:

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well props regardless. And props for the starfish shot it was freaky.

just watched the 2 Superfinals vids over lunch.
thanks a ton MSI or whomever for putting these together.
really enjoyed watching Crabtree's and Dylan's runs.

What's it gonna take to get this thing on the TV? Props to all involved in the webcast, but this should totally be going off on someone's channel? I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I really don't understand the barriers to that. Comments? Vs., are you listening?

looks like they had some coverage on Versus channel last year: http://usfreeskiing.com/news.html?id=121

Would be nice to air it live on TV, or same day, but maybe getting stats from these webcasts will help make that a reality?

back when jeep was a sponsor they had aired parts from the amstel light freeskiing championships during one of their jeep world of adventure series (scroll down for the trailer) on NBC. even features a mag.

Jeep is title sponsor for the 48straight SX and HP tour now.. we get coverage on CBS, it's not live but it's about a week or so after the event. The overall winners get 2 year leases on jeeps too.

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I can't argue about the crowds, and i definitely won't argue that Kirkwood does a better job of marketing, but IMO the cirque is a much better venue. the only thing that makes it a little harder to see is that it is bigger.
watch last years winning runs (not superfinals) here. Absolutely flying from top to bottom it took Garbiel over 1:50 to finish his run. Crossmans only took 1:20. Snowbird is a smaller venue, and certainly no more technical than the cirque.

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I knew that comment might strike a parochial nerve with some who reside in the splendor of the wood. But I feel the venues are so much more in your face at the Bird. Good views, just like the Cirque, good feature selections on the lines, etc, etc.....but on the last day at the Bird, the action happened so fukkin up-close, it was off the hook.

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..but on the last day at the Bird, the action happened so fukkin up-close, it was off the hook.

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What action? Claire stripping down and polishing off the handle of tequila? The pink one-piece snow bunnies? "MAKE OUT!" "TAKE YOUR FUCKING CLOTHES OFF ALREADY!" Or the father trying to beat guys down with a shovel for throwing snowballs?


Oh yeaaaah, there was some skiing in there somewhere too.

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Originally Posted by Evil E

thanks for the props, but the real props should go to adam comey from MSI whose brain came up with the live webcast.... and btw.... that was me who filmed the starfish of the century. that happened about 10 feet away from me :fmicon:

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Well done, Evil E. Any reason the emcees didn't give the shoutout out to the mags I requested (or did they???)

How long will you play it on the site?
I really want to send links to some people to watch it, but I've been traveling without email.


edit: ithink the pronmonster is eating this laptop

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What action? Claire stripping down and polishing off the handle of tequila? The pink one-piece snow bunnies? "MAKE OUT!" "TAKE YOUR FUCKING CLOTHES OFF ALREADY!" Or the father trying to beat guys down with a shovel for throwing snowballs?


Oh yeaaaah, there was some skiing in there somewhere too.

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Whenever you can watch a chick strip and polish of a bottle of tequila, a woman get torched by a firecraker, speed kite skiers, pink bunnies and people jumping off rocks all at once, it will inevitably be defined as ACTION.

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Originally Posted by splat

I knew that comment might strike a parochial nerve with some who reside in the splendor of the wood. But I feel the venues are so much more in your face at the Bird. Good views, just like the Cirque, good feature selections on the lines, etc, etc.....but on the last day at the Bird, the action happened so fukkin up-close, it was off the hook.

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it does seem like the cirque is top loaded with gnar whereas n. baldy's ampitheatre is right in front of the crowd.

regarding the videos, great job!
i too would like to see less zoom.

and in case any of the powers that be are listening, i dug the commercials, and certainly don't mind them being inserted to vids like this if that's what it takes make it a success.

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regarding the videos, great job!
i too would like to see less zoom.

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ok, now i retract both of those statements. those were shitty videos if they don't include the chick stripping. and if they do, we need more zoom.

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Whenever you can watch a chick strip and polish of a bottle of tequila, a woman get torched by a firecraker, speed kite skiers, pink bunnies and people jumping off rocks all at once, it will inevitably be defined as ACTION.

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Completely agree although I don't know how the fack I missed the chic stripping. Damn fun time, I can't believe this is the first one comp I've caught this season...never again.

Good meeting you Splat(although it's a little foggy), lots of PBR & whiskey in the sun will do that I guess. I do recall coming away from the conversation knowing I needed a pair of 183's.