Cover photo: Bucholz/FIS
It was sick to see a FIS Big Air go down on a real mountain.
That’s almost a ridiculous statement to have to make but mostly it’s scaffolding and ice these days.
- Poles should be mandatory for comps.
Rules are generally best avoided, but in this case, it’s actually defining outcomes on occasion.
- Cindy, tindy, etc are not real grabs.
They are just an inability to grab the ski accurately.
To me, they should be scored more like a tickled grab than docked 1 or 2 points.
The severity of slight errors and the resulting scores don’t always seem to match up.
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Edit:
*I spoke with the judges on the phone briefly after the event.
Keep an eye on social media to form your own opinion.
Sarah Hoefflin backed her up with a dope switch right dub 10 mute for 84.5.
Only 76 but it’s the first time we’ve seen that from her.
Bounced right back up from a beastly hit too.
Run 2:
Grace Henderson stomped her left dub 10 safety the second time of asking.
Nice work judges on that one.
She took home an 87 for her efforts and, of course, provisional first.
Kirsty stomped the dub 14 this time around, super clean, and was justly rewarded with a 94.
Olivia Asselin went switch left dub 10 mute but landed just a smidge sketch, enough for 85.5 though.
Kirsty Muir went switch misty 9 tail but unfortunately missed the grab.
Tess Ledeux couldn’t back up her huge 2nd run score either, backslapping on a right dub 10.
That left Megan Oldham with a victory lap and a deserved win.
Massive 3 was steeze too.
Maybe he got docked because he came up a bit short?
Birk went loco as always, switch left triple 1980 mute.
Stomped and tweaked too.
Oliwer Magnusson put down a dub 18 blunt but dropped his grab early and got punished for it.
Good enough for 95 and second place after run 1.
AHall was the first to bring out the pullback with a right dub 10 pullback to 9.
He did it super proper though, unlike most of the ‘pretzels’ you see.
He only scored a 64.5 though… maybe the grab wasn’t the most defined?
Seemed very underscored regardless.
Sebastian Scherve went forward dub bio 18 mute, super clean but again no poles.
Jesper stomped a dub 19 of his own (lead tail, tickled) but 76.75… Jesper points.
Birk put down a ‘safety trick’ with a dub bio 18 mute for the lead.
He got a 91 for it (two points more than Sebastian) for some reason.
Hunter Henderson put down a clean, capped dub 16 tail to go provisionally third.
Lukas Muellauer managed to squeak round a dub 19 to bump him immediately with an 82.
But it wasn’t perfect.
Alex Hall suffered the same fate a second time round, but he did boot grab this second time.
Tim Sivignon put down a switch dub misty 18 mute, slightly loose on the landing but scored 89.25.
He dropped a forward dub bio 19 mute anyway, he’s a psycho and definitely deserved to win.
