12 January 2010

We were at the O'neill Evolution 2010 in Davos and here is our report with photos and videos for the Halfpipe and the Slopestyle.

SLOPESTYLE

Elias Elhardt, who finished 8th for the slopestyle.

The last event of the O'neill Evolution was the slopestyle. Marko Grilc won, just few weeks after his victory at the Air & Style, with a solid run with his head upside down 5 times in 3 tricks! The second place is quite a surprise... Indeed, we had never heard of Ville Paumola, but then everything came clear: he is finnish. It is the "finnish magic", they surely have secret training camps in the woods or magic goblins bending over there cradles to turn them into snowboard champions... Who knows ! Peetu Piiroinen takes the 3rd place of the O'neill Evolution and the 1rst place of the TTR ranking! ( Which is a very provisional ranking until the last competition).


RESULTS
1 Marko Grilc SLO 93.50
2 Ville Paumola FIN 90.00
3 Peetu Piiroinen FIN 89.67
4 Seppe Smits BEL 89.50
5 Sondre Tiller NOR 85.50
6 Eric Willett USA 80.33
7 Elias Elhardt GER 77.83
8 Stale Sandbech NOR 76.33
9 Torgeir Bergrem NOR 76.00
10 Sean Ryan USA 74.00
11 Mathieu Schaer SUI 68.50
12 Kevin Backstrom SWE 62.83

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HALFPIPE

$15,000 in the pocket is what the winner of the halfpipe would go back home with. Some big names were here: Iouri Podlachtikov, Markus Keller, Peetu Piiroinen ([spoiler alert] I just gave you the podium in the right order...) But we thought we might have more of them "snowboard celebrities" on a 6 TTR star event... That's the Olympics' bad ! Bouhouhh !

In the superfinals Ipod, aka Iour Podlachtikov, wins with... a double cork. it's halfpiping hard for the German Swiss and the Scandinavians! It goes very high, it spins fast... Even when they land on the flat they stand still on their concrete legs ! Impressive !

It is our first time in a halfpipe contest and we understand why it is the only competition to be in the Olympics commity's favors... It is all very rigorous, runs and tricks are regulated... The sooner the Olympics are over the better, so we can send all these very good riders in deep snowed forests hoping they will be back with sick footage! ( While we are talking Danny Davis is killing it at the other side of the planet, watch here. If the FIS was not imposing a straight jump I wonder how his run would look like...)


RESULTS

1 Iouri Podladtchikov SUI 91.33

2 Markus Keller SUI 88.83

3 Peetu Piiroinen FIN 84.83

4 Markus Malin FIN 82.00

5 Ilkka-Eemeli Laari FIN 80.83

6 Christian Haller SUI 80.50

7 Stale Sandbech NOR 80.17

8 Masakaze Yoshida JPN 80.00

9 Fredrik Austbo NOR 76.67

10 Kosuke Hosokawa JPN 73.67

11 Gian Simmen SUI 72.50

12 Roger Kleivdal NOR 70.67

13 Risto Mattila FIN 67.33

14 Per Iver Grimsrud NOR 62.67

15 Seppe Smits BEL 60.50

16 Dan Wakeham GBR 56.67