Sam Reynolds has won, sticking a double back over the last jump!
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Sam Reynolds winning double flip, animated...
Results Top 51. Sam Reynolds 95.33
2. Martin Soderstrom 93.67
3. Antoine Bizet 91.00
4. Jakub Vencl 87.67
5. Teo Gustavson 76.00
Sam Reynolds, the winner. He was shocked... "I was angry after a low mark on my first run, so I did the double back, I thought I wouldn't make it, but I did..."
Conditions were cold, Icy, and yet the 4000 strong crowd were there to witness it go down, everyone thought it was Sam Pilgrim who would do it again, after some confident runs in practice and qualifying, but it wasn't, he cased a front flip on the first jump, Pilgrim commented "...I dont normally do front flips on the first jump...I'm glad Sam won it, I was pleased with 7th...(jokingly)." Sam proved to be a confident strong rider for the last few days, he has shown he is one of the ones to beat.
The conditions were tough, the extreme nature of the ice was mentioned by Mike Montgomery, "This is an extreme track, the conditions make it tough. I will be back next year though and I will be bring a few buddies with me."
Overall Ice, cold, very dark conditions and huge jumps made this a memorable event that probably will continue to set a few standards for other courses and comps to be judged by.
The crowd waits for the start...
Sam signs for a few fans on the way to the start.
Sam Pilgrim flipping out of the Jaws of a Monster!
Sam Reynolds
**double back**
Crowd goes wild: \o/ \o/ \o/
" You win some you lose some! Today I lost! I crashed an got 7th or something! Haha damn "
Congrats Sam Reynolds!)) Want to know what happened with Pilgrim(
the lower part of the course was not lit well, and too many flash guns (around 30 divide over 2 or 4 channels) so using remote flash in the actual competition was a nightmare as either you fired someone else's or they fired yours. Often meaning for the right moment you had no flash power as someone had just used your flash! Or when you fired you set a few other flashes off that over exposed the picture! Nightmare!!! Had to adapt a bit, so we got something. Looking around at other sites you can see no one actually seemed to show any photos from the actual final comp part of the top riders. It was a really difficult situation. If you look in some dragged shutter shots there are more than 10 exposures in .5 of a second, showing how many flashes were going off!
There was one guy with some mega flashes when he was blasting we were not, unless you want an over exposed pic. In my experience one of the hardest things i have shot. I think most MTB picture viewers don't realise that most of what the see day to day has been set up, bar UCI DH pics, you cant have top quality amazing artistic pictures in a comp with only 2 runs per rider at night. Night shooting is hard, no matter if you are the best or the worst shooter there. Looking at the situation I deemed it better to go for another approach, I was not there to please everyone, you cant. Overall though the few days shooting taking all shots together we got a good lot of shots that gives you all a good impression of the place.
Check out sam's New 2012 vid!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJIi83Wj5c&sns=em
pour Bartek obukowicz couldn`t jump so well becourse of his shoulder ;(
Here is a good report folks !
I'm curious for more photos for sure. I know some good photographers were there... so let's wait and see.