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Freestyle ski and board session
This week Val d'Isere played host to the International
freestyle ski and snowboarding community at the XBox Big Day Out.
The week started with an amatuer skier and boardercross (on the
Val snow park) which saw 120 local seasonnaires battle it out in
blizzard conditions.The winners were:
Female Boarders: 1) Monika
Herbke 2) Anouk Buchen 3) Morgan Gautier
Male Boarders: 1) David Griffith 2) Nico Stanford
3) Clark Murray
Female Skier: 1) Naomi Edmonson 2) Pippa Lorrains
3) Sana Jonsen
Male Skier: Sune Thomsen 2) Alex (Muscles) Stead
3) Mark Beattie
The rest of the event
took place at the bottom of the infamous Face de Bellevarde. Gumby
and his head shaper Graham Mcvoy built an 18 meter table top which
went into a huge quarter pipe and a wall ride. Alongside the jump
were a series of kinked rails which kept the local jibbers happy
all week.
  
British riders
turn out in force
There was a good turn out by the British riders including Danny
Wheeler, Ryan Davies, and Natives own Pat Sharples who was along
for a jolly with his team Oakley. The week ended with a night times
finals. Despite very cold and snowy conditions a 3000 strong crowd
turned out to watch the riders throw themselves off the kicker into
the night sky.
Music from Kiss Fm's
DJ Shortee Blitz kept everyone moving although as with most of these
events it did seem to drag on and a number of the crowd headed back
into the warm before the night had finished. An after party at Dicks
Tea Bar saw Shortee Blitz joined by MC Mystro and the human beatbox
legend Killer Kella. The night went off big time fuelled by vodka
and hip- hop beats (a frighteningly good combination) with pro riders
and seasonnaires getting as messed up as each other. Congratulations
should go out to the everyone involved for a great week out in Val.
Good luck Hamish
Best wishes to Hamish Duncan who broke his 12 and 13th vertebrae
over the weekend. So far his nerve damage seems to be very limited
- he can feel his legs fine and has had an operation to remove a
bit of bone that was pushing into his spinal cord.
[Source: Marmotte Times & Soulsports]
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