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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Max Hitzig in the gate.
00:11 - Dropping in from start one.
00:15 Checking out his first little bit of air time there.
00:20 He's getting cut up, but that is no problem
00:22 for a seasoned skier like himself.
00:26 Taking that one pretty deep.
00:28 He's just so strong, you hardly ever even see his legs bend.
00:32 Perfect connection with the transition there
00:34 as he comes into this section
00:35 that's seen a little bit of action.
00:37 Going across, following that one track
00:39 and that landing nice and smooth for Hitzig.
00:42 - Lining up another huge air here.
00:45 Taking it deep.
00:48 - And-- - Four point landing.
00:49 - Perfect connection there for Hitzig
00:51 as we've come to expect.
00:53 And he's still gonna get this with a huge 360
00:56 and Max Hitzig stomps it.
00:58 Finding a way to get across to that way skier's left band.
01:03 Getting the Cossack in at the bottom.
01:07 Hitzig untroubled by gravity or impact
01:11 or physics or anything.
01:12 The free ride robot we've been calling him
01:14 because he just exudes perfection
01:17 every single time he drops in.
01:19 He is elated to be done
01:21 and at the bottom with a run like that.
01:25 So Max Hitzig wearing that fire bib
01:28 showing he is the leader on the tour on course now.
01:31 - Technical riding.
01:35 Coming off this tricky section,
01:37 making it look like nothing through those rocks.
01:39 Just lily padding.
01:41 And a huge three off the shoulder and stomping it.
01:44 - Oh, Hitzig!
01:54 - Max Hitzig showing his strength again in kicking horse.
01:59 Look at how solid of a rider he is.
02:01 It's like it's absolutely nothing.
02:03 Quick work through the bottom.
02:04 Straight lining out, getting out of the trees.
02:07 What a performance from the German Max Hitzig.
02:10 - He is just delivering electric moments.
02:23 Holding down the top spot.
02:25 Hitzig on course, back flipping out of the start gate.
02:28 - Oh my God.
02:30 Holds on to it.
02:33 Derek out the gates with a classic Hitzig back flip
02:38 and another feature, huge 360.
02:41 Oh, he's on fire.
02:42 - Well, what are they feeding this guy?
02:45 Max Hitzig and going off the nose of this one.
02:50 - Another back flip.
02:51 - Another direction with another huge back flip.
02:54 - And straight lining out the bottom.
02:57 So strong through that chunder.
02:59 - And going right off the nose of this one,
03:04 down into the flat.
03:06 - And Holt sticking that.
03:08 - I mean, this guy is just, he's-
03:10 - He's a machine.
03:12 (crowd cheering)
03:15 - Heading back into the same zone.
03:33 Working his way into the couloir.
03:36 And finding that takeoff.
03:40 - For another massive three.
03:42 Perfect landing.
03:44 - Yeah, maybe a tiny bit shorter,
03:46 catching just a bit of the knuckle,
03:47 but Max is so strong.
03:49 And now moving through, floating a back flip
03:54 off the wind lip, pinned into the fall line.
03:57 Max Hitzig now has cleaned things up hugely
04:00 after his first run.
04:02 Collecting a ton of speed into this section.
04:04 Lofty back flip for Hitzig.
04:06 - Unbelievable stuff.
04:08 - Hitzig now coming into this lower section,
04:10 opting out from that one,
04:12 popping over the glide crack with a bunch of speed,
04:16 long low angle air,
04:18 and a beautiful, beautiful answer to run number two.
04:22 - That's a world champion right there.
04:28 (crowd cheering)
04:29 So sick, man.
04:31 - And it's on.
04:32 Max Hitzig is at the top.
04:34 - Two, one, quad burn.
04:36 - He's going to try and enter into the central couloir
04:43 from this spicy little corridor.
04:46 - Yeah, and opening up that entrance for the day,
04:48 the judges are going to love that.
04:49 Entering right where a band and Finn entered.
04:52 And yeah, here we go.
04:54 - Taking an air huge above all this exposure below him.
04:59 Unbelievable.
05:00 - And now Max coming down above the Hollywood,
05:03 lining it up, getting his last vision,
05:06 and pumping off the Hollywood cliff with a perfect landing.
05:09 - Big 360 there.
05:16 Looks like a clean landing.
05:18 We didn't quite catch it, but he's riding out strong.
05:20 - And one more feature last for him
05:24 to make his statement here.
05:25 And going way bigger than everyone else.
05:28 Oh, with a little bit of a backslap.
05:31 We've got a man in the hot seat with a 96.
05:33 The drama building here.
05:36 It's in the judges' hands.
05:37 Both the event and the world title,
05:40 all just electrified by the show we have seen today
05:44 in the Yeti Extreme Verbiate.
05:46 Here we go.
05:48 The score is coming in for Hitzig.
05:50 It goes a 94, six, seven.
05:53 Max Hitzig.
05:55 - Say hello to the new world champ, baby.
05:58 I'm so excited, man.
05:59 One and two right there.
06:01 Like I said, that's the future.
06:03 Those are the two of the best kids
06:05 I've ever seen come and do this.
06:06 - Max Hitzig, our brand new freeride world champion.
06:12 What a run, what a season.
06:15 (dramatic music)
06:18 (dramatic music)
06:21 (dramatic music)
06:23 (static)