Russia Review & Results

Heyy guys,

sitting in the plane again to fly home to Germany after long trip to the States and Russia… so happy to be home soon.

EVENT: NISSAN RUSSIAN ADVENTURE 2011, NICOLAS HALE-WOODS, RIDER: SAM SMOOTHY - NZL, RIDER: SAMUEL ANTHAMATTEN - SUI, RIDER: SEBASTIAN  HANNEMANN  - GER, STYLE: LIFESTYLE > STYLE
Freeride World Tour 2011 - Six locations around the world, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, Engadin St Moritz, Sochi, Kirkwood, Fieberbrunn and Verbier have been selected for the 4th edition of the Freeride World Tour.
The planet's top freeride skiers and snowboarders, men and women travel around the world to prove their skills on some of the most challenging faces.
www.freerideworldtour.com

I finished the comp on the 7th place, again a really good result. But compared to my run I’m really not happy with my judging. Now the third time after Kirkwood Day 2 & Sochi Day 1. Thats really annoying at the moment. I had a super fluid run, one of the fastest, clean landings not even a backseated one, a technical part at the top no one skied… and u have to know that they told us, that they are especially looking at clean landings and safety, cause the level got a bit dangerous the last time. But there are guys in front of me with backslaped landings, almost crashed… I’v seen all the runs, cause i was the second skier goin’ down and saw my run on video… and thats really frustrating to see. And there are other riders who had really good runs and didnt make it into the top 10…

You know, the judges have a hard job and they did a good job in the past, but at the moment no one really knows what they want to see…

Anyways, I’m 11th in the World Ranking right now havin’ an eye at the top 10 ;)

By the way, Samuel won the comp in front of Aurelien and Stefan Häusl… who had the best run of the day in my opinion!

I’ll upload my helmet cam run these days…

And it looks like i’m gettin’ my BMW X1 tomorrow whoop whoop :)

So far,

Take care,

B