It feels redundant to comment on how high riders were getting out of the pipe on Saturday -- since every single rider was boosting -- but Sochi Olympic silver medalist Taku Hiraoka really did impress with massive technical airs, like a frontside double cork with a stalefish to melon grab, landed perfectly. Besides coming away with the second-place spot at the Burton U. David who? We know, we had to look it up, too. Though Switzerland's David Habletzel went to the Sochi Olympics this year and finished an impressive fifth, he is new to pro-level podiums.
And then third place just happened. I'm so stoked. This was the best pipe I've ever ridden. This season young gun Ben Ferguson came from never having landed on a pro-level podium before, to becoming one of the most exciting riders to watch in a halfpipe. With stylish tricks like his massive first-hit double crippler, frontside 7 nose grab and alley-oop tuck knee, Ferguson is definitely a new crowd and rider favorite. Expect great things from this guy. Answer: when they sanction it.
Poaching the pipe in between runs is a long-standing tradition at the U. But there was a time when a poach was more akin to streaking the quad, whereas this current form is more like a halftime entertainment show. Kelly Clark's list of accolades is so long even she must have a hard time keeping track of them all.
Her win Saturday at the Burton U. Open was her seventh, which gives her the record for the most U. Open titles held by any snowboarder, male or female. Clark crushed it on her first run, throwing a massive on her first hit and following it with the biggest airs of the women's contest the rest of the way down.
There was speculation as to whether she would be throw her Cab 10 -- which would have her ending her contest season as the only woman to get two s in a contest run. It looked like she was going to throw it on the last hit of her victory lap, but, "I just ran out of pipe," explained Clark. Queralt Castellet is known to go big in the pipe, but doesn't always put down her runs clean.
In competition she's a bit of a loose cannon, which makes her fun to watch but doesn't always land her on the top of podiums. That changed Saturday at the Open, however. Queralt struggled through practice and switched up her run right before finals. She won with a trick combination she'd never done before, and rode to second place with technical tricks like a first-hit and spins that were huge and smooth.
I was really looking forward to finishing the season with a fun event. Fourteen-year-old sensation Chloe Kim blew minds Saturday when she started her technical, stylish run with a switch method, and ended it with a switch frontside air. Asked whether switch method innovator Danny Davis was her inspiration, Kim answered, "I guess it could be a Danny thing. The girl was sending it, riding switch for months. That's where it came from, I think. Jake Burton spent the day hanging in the sun at the bottom of the halfpipe, giving out hugs and smiles to all the competitors.
It must feel pretty amazing to watch a contest you started 32 years ago living on and showing no signs of slowing down.
Congrats, Torstein! While Torstein takes it to the public park, every kid who witnesses this feat immediately wishes they could ride like him, and when it comes to popularity, envy is a huge factor. By signing up you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. A true legend, Jason "J2" Rasmus turned his persona into a professional X Games Aspen Returns Jan.
X Games Aspen Is Back! Highlight Reel: X Games Aspen Best of Skateboarding: X Games Best of Moto X: X Games Highlight Reel: X Games Real Street Teen queen Chloe Kim, still just 19 years old, already owns 5 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, from 7 X Games SuperPipe starts, a podium-perfection streak record among all X Games snowboarders. In October she announced she's taking the season off from competition to focus on her studies as a freshman at Princeton: if she were to compete in Aspen in January she could tie Shaun White and Nyjah Huston for most X Games gold earned as a teenager, before she turns 20 in April.
Everyone is eager to see her become the first woman to land a double cork in competition: she has landed several in practice sessions. Jamie Anderson is yin and yang personified, known for literal tree-hugging and yoga vibes and also as one of the fiercest competitors X Games has ever seen.
She has scars to show for it: she's been taking big risks and heavy slams in the effort to push women's progression and stay ahead of younger riders, and she smashed her face up attempting a frontside at X Games Aspen With 16 X Games medals -- 5 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze in Slopestyle, and 2 bronze in Big Air -- she owns the most Snowboard medals 16 of any woman in X Games history and sits at 3 for most medals among all snowboarders, behind Shaun White 18 and Mark McMorris Don't miss her backcountry film, "Unconditional.
In one of the greatest comeback stories of all time, Max Parrot returned to the top of the Big Air podium at X Games Norway just two months after completing an aggressive six-month chemotherapy treatment plan for the Hodgkin lymphoma cancer he was diagnosed with in December He already had a reputation as the hardest-working guy in the game before all that, and now owns the most Snowboard Big Air gold 5 and most Snowboard Big Air medals 8.
One more win and he could crack the top-5 for most gold of all X Games snowboarders. Bet on it: he now owns 5 gold, 3 silver from his 9 Big Air starts plus 1 gold, 1 silver in Slopestyle , and says X Games Aspen is favorite stomping ground. Kelly Clark's retirement from competition at X Games Aspen was a tear-jerker for the ages, after setting the standard in SuperPipe competition for nearly two decades.
With 7 gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze, she owns the second most Snowboard gold and second most Snowboard medals of any woman at X Games and is at 4 on both lists among all snowboarders, male or female.
The first to bring s to Women's SuperPipe, she also deserves credit for paving the way for the future: she was an early supporter of a young Chloe Kim via her Kelly Clark Foundation. Pay attention to her second act: she spent slashing pow, filming in the backcountry, and hitting up surf spots around the world. Mark McMorris was the first to land a proper triple cork at X Games, stomping a backside triple cork at X Games Aspen to usher in a new era of Big Air progression.
Bet on him to tie that record and establish a new standard in he's one of the most reliable medal miners in the game, with 17 medals from 22 X Games competition starts across Slopestyle 5 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze and Big Air 3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze.
He could be competing in as many as four disciplines at X Games Aspen The numbers don't lie: Lindsey Jacobellis won an astonishing 10 gold medals racing in Snowboarder X between and , putting her at 2 behind Shaun White for most X Games Snowboard gold.
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