Weekly edit from Bear Mountain. This week featuring Jake Schaible, Kody Williams, Denis Leontyev, Keoni Kaimuloa, Bob Abrams, and Brett Wilkinson.
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The tricks that are commonplace in a given slopestyle contest have shifted greatly in the past 365 days. Only a year ago, spectators lined the bottom of the slope course at X Games Aspen wondering if the triplecork would make an appearance in the event at all, and the complete transition of this multi-axis trick from big air one-hitter to one in a succession in slope marked a new level of progression in men’s competition snowboarding. Flash forward twelve months and the triple cork is ubiquitous in high level events and in today’s men’s slopestyle finals at X Games Aspen 2014, the winner wasn’t walking onto the podium without one.
There is no arguing that the amount talent in the field of competitors at the top of the SPT-built X Games slopestyle course was monumental … Pictures and more
The made for TV spectacle that is the X Games Big Air once again set a new standard for flipping and spinning on a grand scale. On the evening of Friday January 24th, 2014 style and spin to win sensibilities collided as Halldor Helgason, Torgier Bergrem, Seppe Smits, Sage Kotsenberg, Torstein Horgmo, Yuki Kadono, Sebastien Toutant, Maxence Parrot, and others chucked their meat across the low atmosphere above Aspen to see who would earn the most coveted title in the world of big air. While some went home stoked, others were verbally distraught at what they saw.
You’ve seen him at the top of Olympic podiums, on the cover of Rolling Stone, attached to the arms of starlets, making cameos in Hollywood flicks, flying twenty feet above the deck of the Winter X Games halfpipe in the tightest pants ever, getting arrested on the TMZ homepage, hawking gum on network TV, being featured on 60 Minutes, driving a Lamborghini, headlining Lollapalooza, and dropping into a vert ramp inside the Staples Center, and yet you’ve never seen Shaun White like this. Here, Shaun White peels away the layers of celebrity, Gore-Tex, and misconceptions for a frank conversation that has been 27 years in the making. This is Shaun White, uncorked and on the record … More