Jacob Wester

Slopestyle preliminations are officially over, and after a hectic morning I am back at the riders lounge, icing my heel that I managed to bruise even more on the solid concrete landings out there. The course, that has been under heavy discussion for the last few days due to the 6 (small) jumps, lack of rails, lack of speed and whatnot, actually turned out to work OK today, except for a few speed issues during the second run. After the 2 runs and the mandatory result complaints (well deserved, for once), the top spot was not surprisingly given to Bobby Brown after the most technichal run I’ve ever seen laid down, followed by Tom Wallisch who looked as smooth as ever, Elias Ambühl who got some redemption after a ridiculous under-score in his first run, and little E’Dollo aka Henrik Harlaut who claimed 1st place for quite some time after his first run, with so many blunt grabs he inspired me to throw a zerospin blunt in my second run.

the rest:

5. Jossi Wells

6. Andreas Håtveit

7. Alex Schlopy

8. TJ Schiller.

Yours truly ended up in 17th (not last!) after skiing very, very mellow due to the bruised heel. Got some nice little 7s and 9s in there though and it was definitely fun to ski without any pressure since as late as this morning I was thinking of pulling out of the comp.

Hanging out with LVV after my second run.

Dang, you machine you. Bobby, the best slopestyle skier in the game.

Going to go get seriously f-ed up now so expect a big blog post summary tomorrow after the slopestyle finals!

Jacob

~ by jacobwester on March 11, 2010.