Anna Martinez I 2024 Verbier Pro
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00:00 A former freeride junior world champion Anna Martinez riding out of Chamonix, France, 23 years old.
00:07 First season on the tour, she's so excited to be here.
00:10 And a true cheminade, she is a steep and fast rider and has been, yeah, had a really strong
00:17 career on the junior tour before qualifying for the world tour of the Challenger Series.
00:24 Yeah, and straight into the guts of it off the top out of start one.
00:29 Catching a quick feature directly out of the gate and now just into this extremely technical section.
00:36 With the camera view, you can see how much exposure and riding above these rocks kind of
00:41 popping out the side of that and smooth and clean now onto the heel side edge, zooming onto this lower section.
00:47 That was an impressive work that she did through there, through that technical section.
00:53 And she still needs to get some air time in her run. She's lining something up here.
00:58 Looking solid, controlling her speed because she's got more for us in the bottom here.
01:03 Yeah, and again, just putting herself above the exposure, not afraid to get amongst it as she's got
01:10 something lined up on the toe side edge, skipping over the first one, off the second one,
01:15 right away kind of taking it as a sideways then fall line double.
01:19 But so exposed and technical and not shying away from continuing to stack features.
01:26 Anna Martinez with a little bit of a butt check there off the heel side, but not much docking
01:32 fluidity there. She continues to make her way down the lower apron here on the petit bac
01:37 and now into this glorious powder field.
01:39 Cruising some powder turns there, looking for the win lip.
01:45 Quick method there.
01:52 And cruising down to the finish. Well, I think that was safe to say that was a pretty
01:56 chamonix style run, working her way through some really technical, steep sections
02:02 through rocks and exposure, catching some air time.
02:05 Yeah, and every single part of her line was above the biggest cliffs and the biggest rocks.
02:11 You know, when you were catching up to her, she had an interesting take on the freestyle.
02:15 Oh, we'll have a quick look back here before we dig into that.
02:19 So this is the top section of a run, just working your way with no hesitation through
02:25 that exposure, catching some air time there.
02:28 And you can see how steep it is when they're on a toe side turn and the hand is actually
02:33 brushing the slope. So sliding her way into that and then releasing the edge to the fall
02:38 line and popping off the second one. Technical moves there for Anna Martinez.
02:42 And right off the guts of that one. And then unfortunately, the board just bounced up a
02:47 little bit. I think that the hips are a bit behind the feet and it popped her down just
02:52 for a sec. She was able to bump right back up out of it. But yeah, she's interesting
02:56 take on freestyle riding has has Anna. Yeah, I mean, she certainly has some freestyle moves
03:01 in the park, but her take on free ride is pure free ride. So coming into second place,
03:06 there was sixty four point six seven.