great mountains at 7 am
Event like the Redbull Linecatcher is the ultimate in our sport. The mix between freestyle skiing and the mountains is one of the kind and the hardest thing in skiing. For this kind of skiing the athlete needs to be in top shape, he needs to be aware of avalnches and risk with skiing in these terrains. It takes so much skills to bring all those tricks from park into big ountain area and get away with clean runs without big falls between rocks on a steep face. That is why top skiers from all over the world took place in Vars and offered the show to the public. Sage-Cattabriga Alonsa, Cr Johnson, Candide Thovex, Anthony Boronowski, Sean Pettit, Tim Durtchi, Richard Permin, Jp Auclair,...were just the few names of great riders...
Tanner Hall broke his tibias and both knees in the spring and after 5 surgeries he was judging in his words 'the best event in the season'
My team mate Cr Johnson shoved me what's up and at the end took 3rd place..Respect bredda!!!
After the first day of shreding 1m of new layer of powder on 2m of base and scooping the line for qualis, i was pretty much lost what to do and how to get down as big as i can or i can't. That is why it was really important for me to take photo of the face and figure out the way. On the photo everything looks so easy and small but when you are out there...different story
...going through my line over and over...
interviews were the event's dark side...when you are there you just want to ski...nothing else
minutes before the first quali drop...can you see the line from here? i guess so
hiking kept us warm from freezing...-22 degrees at 7 am
Qualifications were heavy. Such a good skiing on the Europa's highest level offered a great show to the public. 12 riders and almost 24 different lines were the point of redbull Linecatcher. We killed the face and had a smile on our faces whole day long. After qualifications only 2 spots were open for the finals. I couldn't better than Victor and Leo so i had to please myself with only side-watching the finals. In my opinion i did a good job. Did the double set cliff, some small jumps and 360 over the windlip in the first run and big 360 over the cliff and the big bottom cliff where i expected harder impact on landing. I am happy with this performance on my first ever freestyle/bc event and stoked to get back here next year!
Hucking the bottom cliff and landing it easy
