Today saw an interesting opening to the Freeride World Tour today in Hakuba, Japan.
Today, however, it was the skiers throwing down in the air who reaped the rewards.
Drew Tabke, Mickael Bimboes, and Aymar Navarro all fit into that category today.
Mickael, in particular, had a lot of success last season charging unreasonably fast down faces.
He did the same today and you could argue he deserved more today based on that history.
But both socred less well in the bottom half of the venue.
It was Markus Eder who set the bar early on and he held on to his lead throughout.
Highlight of the day for me for sure.
