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Usual Bec lines
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FRENCHIE'S!!! That run is legendary. And what a finishing move!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNKgyo_o-_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNKgyo_o-_s
How's the snowpack after this most recent storm? Will it still look that way after control work? Looks absolutely stacked.
Sik pic bob
Crazy compared to what Nendaz looked like a few weks ago.
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Pushed back to Tuesday now. The Instagram stories are great though, looks like these guys and girls are having a blast. Surfing day looked fun
seemed a bit staged and markety to have them all there in their bibs for the photo face check. And they seemed freezing for the surfing venue
https://www.freerideworldtour.com/ne...er-update-feed
The competition will be closed to the public but can be watched LIVE exclusively on Red Bull TV
Rooting for anyone except Mr. Pollard would be unconscionable for me. Love his style.
Face got pummeled by the wind today. Real shame...
It was definitely having it's way with the face when the athletes were checking it out yesterday but it still looked good. The insta stories are gone though so it's at least a day since then so who knows now.
just checked the forcast
https://www.bergfex.com/verbier/wetter/prognose/#day1
force 6 & 7
so top speeds around 40 miles per hour north east ..... that doesnt sound good at all
wind all day today and wind tomorrow again..... : (
Comp moved to Petit Bec. Damn!
Insta stories made the snow conditions on the Bec look fairly shitty after the wind. Orange sand was once again poking through. They had Rausis take a lap down the Petit Bec and snow there looked decent. Seems like it'll still be a good show.
"You can only catch it on Redbull TV"..
Does that mean it won't be streaming or replayed on the FWT site / youtubes like the others have?
Man what a bummer it looked so fat just a few days ago. Were they waiting for stability or for weekend Red Bull viewers?
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With the shorter venue and the small field it would have been cool for them to make it two runs.
If i hear cheeky again. WTF
they are putting on a better show on the petite bec that I thought. Really loving the event.
really good interview with the winner
Was that Aurélien that was in the finish to meet Reine when he came in? Crazy how Reine ist still competing at top level. Xavier was pretty good as co host. Funny to hear him talk about his little brother.
Turdell is just a great skier. Reine and Aymar were clearly the riders favorites. Awesome run and result from Elisabeth Gerritzen. If only Reine had held on to the backflip at the bottom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwaB7_qrHk
You can see the old Sahara sand/ice patches around the cliffs. It seems they thought it’s was just too dangerous to have the riders launching onto those landings
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This double was pure insanity. Very happy to see Navarro on the podium. How the f.ck can Bec be skied so smoothly like by Turdell? What a crazy show!
Unofficial Sickbird:
Imo has to be either Aymar or Reine.
Flip a coin
Heartbreaking that Reine couldn't stick that backie.
But Navarro's double (and Reine's), and Turdell's otherworldly control and smoothness, were something else.
Yeah, all three of those were awesome. Would have been really interesting to see how the judging shook out of Reine had stuck the backflip. He was cleaner through the double than Aymar, but didn't look like he was going 8,000 mph in quite the same way that Aymar did.
Or if Leo had stuck his line.
Not that anybody from FWT is going to read this, but I really, really wish that FWT would make the judging of ski woman more consistent. It is all over the place as is, much more so than in ski men.
The ski woman field is getting really strong and quite competetive, yet both individual results as well as the overall are massively influenced by inconsistent judging wrt what constitutes a hand drag, a back slap and so on and the ensuing scoring, with the added bonus of low risk low tech freestyle moves (aka tiny, whipped around 360s) scoring big. Sure, it is easy to criticize from afar, but I just don't get some of the judging over the last two seasons in this field. Like at all.
Judging from how some of the competitors react when they get their scores it kinda seems like they do not either.
I dunno - it really, really detracts from what in all other ways is a very well run competition.
If anyone from the FWT is reading this, i would love to have camera viewing options for each rider, ie be able to switch cameras on the fly when watching a stream. switch between a wide shot where we can see most of the face in frame, what's below them, where they're going, etc.. or just watch the helicopter close ups, or just watch the follow drone, or watch their gopro. click and switch view
personally i really really dislike the way the FWT edits their shots, it's almost always a bunch of close up helicopter shots that are way too tight, and often at some weird angle that makes the whole thing look like a blue cruiser. park a tripod at the top of gentianes and give us a nice wide shot of these crazy lines that show them for what they really are.
If only Reine hadn't blown that backflip at the end!!!
He and Aymar were just nuts. Lots of great skiing though.
I sometimes think Turdell suffers from the same thing Joel Parkinson sometimes suffered from in surfing, in that he makes things which are very difficult look easy and casual.
Totally agree on the Joel Parko comparison. When someones technique is perfect, it can look too easy.
Finally watched some more runs. Agree on Leo Slemett being a contender for the win had he stuck it. Very impressive coming back from a serious injury that quickly.
And how fcuken ridiculous was Blake Marshall's 720?!?
Still, my faves were Reine and Aymar. Those doubles...