Photos: David Malacrida
The first ever Sosh Big Air event went off in Annecy this afternoon.
Those tricks came with a set score for perfect execution and then deductions for imperfections.
Certainly a first in our little sector of skiing, but how did it work?
Well, it was interesting for sure.
And there were some insane highlight moments, not least Henrik’s incarnation of Pep’s 0 in semis.
Jossi was one of the guys to score four 0s.
In the finals speed was better, we had a lot more highlights and a lot fewer lowlights.
The finals were actually a pretty good watch, even a refreshing change perhaps.
But the commentators were constantly asking ‘was that the way he was supposed to do that trick’.
The skiers were choosing set tricks from a list with set grabs and set scores.
Luca Schuler even picked up a single pole so he could do the poleplant cork 7.
That seems deeply at odds with the pursuit of freedom in skiing the early pioneers abandoned aerials for.
Shoutout Lolo Favre for keeping it real in the commentary with the history lessons and correcting trick calls.
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