Red Bull SKiLLS remains firmly in Swiss hands. After having been hosted for the third time, there are still no names of foreign riders to be found on the list of winners. Mauro Caviezel and Denise Feierabend made it on the top of the podium.
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Just as Red Gerard says, a bit of overcast weather doesn’t stop these young snowboarders from tearing up the park during The Launch 2014. They still have “the best time ever.” And shortly after the day began, the sun broke through the clouds for a bluebird day of spring snowboarding at Seven Springs in Pennsylvania. Day 3 of The Launch was heavy. with Red, Brock Crouch, Reid Smith and Kyle Kennedy lapping the park like it was their own personal playground. Which, we guess, it was. During midday, the jumps were sessioned with Taylor Gold, Nik Baden, Brandon Davis, Sam Taxwood, Hans Mindnich, and Ben Ferguson leading the charge, and as the sun set, some of the best transition tricksters under the age of 21, including Seamus O’Connor, Spencer Whiting, Nils Mindnich dropped into the hip for a day ender that will go down in The Launch record books.
“Just how different are skiers and snowboarders?” muses a press release from consumer research group Exponential Interactive.
What follows is a fairly arbitrary, not tremendously believable insight into what apparently makes skiers tick and snowboarders tock. For example, skiers are into reality TV shows like Big Brother and X Factor, whereas boarders prefer US programmes like The Big Bang Theory and Law & Order.
The thesis, created using the anonymous online analysis of more than 20 million … More