Congratulations Cam Zink, Mike Montgomery and Casey Groves, the podium finishers. Great job to all the riders and to those injured a fast recovery.
1: Cam Zink
2. Mike Montgomery
3. Casey Groves
4. Sam Dueck
Also a big shout out from pinkbike to Sam Dueck on 4th sport!Congratulations Cam Zink, Mike Montgomery and Casey Groves, the podium finishers. Great job to all the riders and to those injured a fast recovery.
1: Cam Zink
2. Mike Montgomery
3. Casey Groves
4. Sam Dueck
Also a big shout out from pinkbike to Sam Dueck on 4th sport!
Quick Run Recap:
Zink had the top run from the previous round therefore did the smart thing and cruised down with a safe victory run.
Mike Montgomery was on a winning run but went down.
Final run: 360 , tail, pendulum, flare, flip, flip, 360, tail whip of the tower massive crash.
Casey started awesome and was on a gold run until his chain broke.
Final run: 360 x, x, tail, 360, x up spin, 360 , super flip, chain ripped off , no chain wave of the final gap.
Sam Dueck, after crashing in his second run, took it easy and sat on his first run score.
Final run: back flip, straight,straight, superman back flip crash.
Kelly McGerry keeps his 83 from previous run
Final run: 360, back flip, 360, 360, xup, 360, flip, table, back flip.
Yeah Casey!
Brandon, Claw and Yannick suffered injuries and were not able to compete in the finals.
Brandon Semenuk suffered a neck/collar bone with back flip on last drop
Darren Berrecloth suffered an arm/wrist injury on last jump 360
Yannick went to hospital after a crash on an odd landing
Congratulations to all the riders and a fast recovery to the injured ones.
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" copy and pasted. Back fip should change that. Or not, fip sounds cooler.
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twitpic.com/2ew33f Claw screwed his hand up!
finally found the video
the bit u all want is about 3mins in
So for a slopestyle athlete to actually train successfully for an event such as this, they would need to 360 or tailwhip off +20 foot jumps on a semi-regular basis. The problem is that I doubt a lot of the riders actually train on obstacles like the ones featured in this comp and thus a lot of what they do/attempt in a comp they are not properly prepared for resulting in injuries.
In order for slopestyle to become a safer sport as a whole, the drops, wall rides, fruit bowls, ski jumps, need to become a normal occurrence at local parks and biking attractions. Right now the riders are just going out and killing themselves on a course designed to please the audience.
This isn't some sort of macho Latin contest. I know quite a few guys who compete now or in the past and it sucks to see friends get injured. Yes they are warriors but the question is whether you want to see them throwing down year-after-year-after-year. As it stands right now, the top guys aren't going to last one year if they keep destroying themselves. I don;t think anyone here is questioning their courage. Thoughtful comments so far in this thread
i am just confused right now & cant tell you if i liked the way how it all passed off.
but why oh why do they make it so anti climatic with the super final?
why not erase all the scores from the first 2 runs, and let the final 6 throw down in a one run showdown?
i don't get it.
but there wasn't a single one of my fantasy slopestyle team on the podium *
feels good seeing someone else on the podium.... it's a shame for Soderstrom who reallu hasn't had a good enough year for his uber-skills!!
brandon and claw crashed on the last gap...
brandon jumoed the backfip like 5 times perfectly during his last training session there(saw him waiting for the comp)..
and what claw did on the last feature in best trick we all know. in his run he just did a normal 3..
maybe just the nerves or just bad luck
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