Video: Top 3 Slopestyle Runs from Crankworx Rotorua 2024
 | Massive props to Robin Goomes, Harriet (Haz) Burbidge-Smith, and Caroline Buchanan for absolutely stomping their runs and making history as the first women to hit the podium in the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza in Crankworx Rotorua! |
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I always think of that year as the year slope style parted from freeride. It was the year where Paul Bass flip whipped on Cam Zincs bike and said “I’d like to thank my sponsors but I dont really have any sponsors” That statement birthed a new segment of riding.
The other podium finishers that year were (free rider) Timo “I’ll just clear the course in one jump” Pritzel and at the time DH racer now turned free rider Kyle Straight.
If you think about the support, sponsors, money, and competitive camaraderie the boys have benefited from since then…. I’d like to think we’ll see a flip-whip from the girls within a year and who knows what they’ll be doing in 20 years.
It’s so great having something like this for the younger girls to look up to. Keep the sport growing.
Yet, if you watch their winning runs today you'd be very hard pressed to grant them a top 6, let alone a podium. This is what progression thru competition is all about.
Regarding the show these women put, the only disappointment is having to wait until 2024 to make this process start. I guarantee soon enough one girl is going to do a flipwhip, then they'll step-up, then another will 360 to barspin, and then and then...
Don’t be a jerk!