FISE Slopestyle 2011 Qualifying results

Jun 4, 2011

by Ian Hylands

Photos by MTBlabel.com

6PM PST - I just spoke to my man Vincent who's watching the hockey game with Gully right now, currently it's raining but hopefully conditions improve. Riders are stoked on the course and ready to throw down tomorrow. Check out the live webcast on MTBLabel at 9AM CET in the morning.

Bienvenido Aguado flips over the mega at FISE, this is the start of the slopestyle course

After todays qualifying round at the FISE Slopestyle event in Montpellier France, the following riders will advance to the final tomorrow.

1. Lance McDermott (Adiridas team)
2. Sam Reynolds (DMR)
3. Sam Pilgrim (NS Bikes)
4. Yannick Granieri (DaKine)
5. Mehdi Gany
6. Louis Reboul (Young talent Co. Winner of the 2010 Expert Fise Experience Tour)
7. Ray Samson (DMR)
8. Léo Delfour- barsacq
9. Xavi Pasa Monte
10. Thomas Genon
11. Brown Daryl
12. Geoff Gulevitch
13. Romain Baghue
14. Aguado Alba Bienvenido
15. Blake Samson
16. Ramon Hunziken

With rain in the forecast finals may not happen, in that case these will become the final results.

Yannick Granieri with his trademark 360 style

Geoff Gulevich at FISE

There were a few standouts at FISE today. First of all, Bienvenido Aguado threw a sick 360 double whip during the Best Trick Contest. Even if it took a few tries to land it, it was quite impressive.
The French weren't to be outdone though. Yannick Graniéri performed great front flip during slopestyle qualifications and really did his best during the Best Trick Contest with a flip superman and a 360 double whip. Léo Delfour tried several times to throw a 720, but never landed it.
Mehdi Gani performed a triple whip in the Best Trick.

thanks to our friends at Big Bike for the video:

FISE Montpellier 2011 - Qualifs pro from Big Bike Magazine on Vimeo.

Check back for photos and full results from the main event tomorrow if it happens...

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30 Comments

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wwright FL (Jun 4, 2011 at 17:50)

not the biggest fan of the music choice

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scrippsranchDJ (Jun 5, 2011 at 4:59)

Yea Rebecca Black - Friday would be so much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

leon-forfar (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:28)

says in the write up "Mehdi Gani performed a triple whip in the Best Trick, first time that it's been done in a contest. Congrats Mehdi! " soderstrom did it clean in rocket air a while back

IanHylands (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:43)

yeah I got that from FISE and didn't really check it, thanks for noticing that!

Caiokv FL (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:01)

Music sucked a lot, but who cares, look at those jumps!

farmageddon (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:13)

anybody know where i can buy the plastic sheeting used on that big landing???

transitionrob (Jun 5, 2011 at 3:22)

Looks like an awesome course. Is this a silver event in FMB? Shame there aren't more big names. Still, could be an great final with the huge starting booter and the massive step up.

love2freeride (Jun 4, 2011 at 21:52)

Watching game with Gully WOO go nucks!

paulclarke (Jun 5, 2011 at 8:40)

Late night but worth it im guessin!!! Half way there!

JaykyD123 (Jun 5, 2011 at 2:54)

Music just doesn't suit it at all :/ and is sh*t

Rideuse67 (Jun 5, 2011 at 0:29)

Good to see that McDermott still got it. He deserves this first place in Quali after the injuries he went through !

romkaind (Jun 5, 2011 at 16:38)

A slopestyle event where everybody riding hardtails, that strange. Where all the 4 inch fs bikes go, and how manufacturers will sell them now...)

teammat (Jun 4, 2011 at 22:13)

nucks are all over this sh#t! lets hope the brits bring home the gold too

ballabika (Jun 4, 2011 at 17:24)

ya Lance! pops outta no where lol

goober6801 (Jun 4, 2011 at 21:25)

Great pics sick vid and happy birthday Ian take the day off and have a few cocktails!!! great job!!!

IanHylands (Jun 4, 2011 at 21:26)

thanks!!!

goober6801 (Jun 4, 2011 at 21:53)

welcome have a great day!

winko (Jun 5, 2011 at 0:48)

Looks like such an sick event, it should have gold FMBA mark so more riders would come.

spudlord (Jun 5, 2011 at 4:17)

good to see some brits gettin the top three

lux-freerider (Jun 5, 2011 at 12:06)

woah another triple whip ?! Congrats to Lance as well !

arsenal39 (Jun 5, 2011 at 11:04)

adiridas ?

Wheelie43 (Jun 5, 2011 at 19:12)

those jumps are huge!!!!

bikinbeast (Jun 4, 2011 at 17:36)

Tag, you're still it.

IanHylands (Jun 4, 2011 at 17:41)

no idea what you're on about dude, wasn't aware I was playing a game of tag?

nobodyhasthisname (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:11)

LOL

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devan-porter (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:46)

pinkbike should upgrade there video player instead of using vimeo. vimeo is the highdefinition video websight and pinkbike is the slow low quality video sight. why not make its player better and make pinkbike the ultimate sight.

sick videos its good to see that there is people better than the american and canadian spotlight pros.

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IanHylands (Jun 4, 2011 at 18:49)

Sure, if you want to contribute another $500,000 or more per year to cover the added bandwidth costs of adding HD video. Just saying...

scott-townes (Jun 4, 2011 at 19:06)

Nooo way, there's nothing wrong with embedding vimeo videos.... I actually prefer it. freeskier.com has their own player and they still embed vimeo/youtube. It's just much easier for everyone plus the number of views can easily be tracked as well.

nouser (Jun 5, 2011 at 2:58)

embedding the video from vimeo is letting you watch a good video in high quality......so what's the problem exactly?

j-maul (Jun 5, 2011 at 3:20)

As long as you get to see the video I don't care where its come from. Your right about other nations killing it other than America/Canada, noticeably the three brits in the top three