Relive the best lines from the 2024 Freeride World Tour by Peak Performance Season!
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00:00Welcome back. We are set to kick off with ski men.
00:06Peak performance and a Scott athlete, Carl Rignar Eriksson.
00:14Start to be coming in for the swede, making quick work through that technical section,
00:19lining up that double again, getting, gapping the whole thing actually.
00:24Huge air.
00:27Coming over that lip, let's see what he has lined up after.
00:31That was a massive way to start his run and a giant backflip from Carl.
00:41Making quick work, coming through the bottom hot.
00:43He is at the start gate, at the bottom.
00:46Classic Carl Rignar Eriksson skiing.
00:50Back up to the top.
00:56The Verbier rider, Martin Bender, 2022 junior world champion.
01:05So much air awareness, Derek.
01:07He goes so big when he goes.
01:09And here he is backflipping off of that wind lip stomping.
01:21And making his way down to this next section to line up this feature.
01:25360 stomped.
01:28Perfect landing there for Martin Bender.
01:31Now coming with a bundle of speed with a cork seven and stomping it.
01:41Getting on that left foot across.
01:43So he's still going to be able to get that final feature.
01:46Final feature, Martin Bender giving himself an absolute heater of a run.
02:05We are back up to the top.
02:06This is your reigning freeride world tour ski men's champion,
02:09Valley Rainer, Scott rider, peak performance rider.
02:17Austrian powerhouse out of start one.
02:20Coming through that technical section with so much speed.
02:23Shutting it down into a new air.
02:25And sending it off that middle bend and stomping it.
02:32Huge cliff in the middle from Valley.
02:35And a big 360 to connect right after.
02:38Holding on, staying in control.
02:41Hitting this, let's see, keeping it straight through this tight tree section.
02:45And pointing it, getting the extra points.
02:47Get out of there clean, holding on.
02:49Valley Rainer from the top to the bottom in probably about 15 seconds.
02:54Such incredible riding.
03:01Here at start gate we're going to be seeing Oscar Mandin.
03:04Oscar Mandin.
03:15Coming off that early entrance over this cliff.
03:17Stomping it over exposure.
03:19Holding on and boosting off this second bend.
03:21Bolting it, Oscar Mandin.
03:23Such a strong rider.
03:25Coming into this max hit 360.
03:27And a giant backflip.
03:28And holding on.
03:30Oh my god, Oscar Mandin.
03:35As he makes his way down this maze.
03:39It's been chopped up, catching the nose of that one.
03:41And now just putting it into the fall line to escape those trees that have taken down so many riders.
03:47Oscar Mandin over this bottom roll.
03:49And he's going to pin it through the finish line.
03:51Top to bottom.
03:53Absolutely flawless run there from Oscar Mandin.
03:57Last man in the ski men's field.
04:00This is Maxime Chablot.
04:02And these are going to be nervous moments.
04:16Taking a ton of speed for this first feature.
04:19With a big 360.
04:21Taking a ton of speed for this first feature.
04:24With a big 360.
04:26Nice clean landing now.
04:27The approach.
04:28We saw a double backflip from Chablot on run one.
04:31Will he repeat?
04:35He's tucking for double.
04:36Landing clean.
04:37Riding out strong.
04:46Staying on the high edge of the couloir.
04:48Chablot going for the early entrance into the couloir.
04:51For sure his mind is on this Cork 7.
04:54Is he going to be able to put it down?
04:55Is he going to be able to hold on to it?
04:57He throws it again off an even higher point.
04:59Bang!
05:00Bolt for Maxime Chablot.
05:15Laying out that backflip perfectly.
05:17Perfect landing.
05:18Just cruising through the bottom section there.
05:37First rider out of the gate.
05:38This man.
05:39Japanese rider Tenra Katsuno.
05:44Tenra Katsuno dropping in from start two.
05:48Tenra Katsuno.
05:58And popping into the fall line there for Tenra.
06:04Taking a feature that no one has yet and linking together.
06:07Clearing that rock in that landing.
06:09That was absolutely huge.
06:18Getting himself perfectly lined up.
06:21A quick 360.
06:23Almost looked like it didn't even affect his turn shape.
06:26And Tenra with a big backflip now.
06:28Stomping it clean.
06:34Well what a start from the young Japanese rookie.
06:47The technical ability of Christopher Tordell.
06:53Tordell dropping in from start one.
06:55Hooking over to the skier's left.
07:00With a bunch of speed and a 360 right off the bat.
07:03And a trademark Tordell turn to control the speed.
07:07Speed.
07:08Tordell absolutely flying now as he comes into the exposure.
07:11There's no easy way out of here.
07:13Right off the heart of it.
07:15Christopher Tordell.
07:20There's not much below him that's not huge.
07:23Tordell lining up a big dog here.
07:25Getting transition.
07:27And sticking it.
07:31Tordell finding the exact right speed.
07:34And laying out a backflip.
07:36Bringing it around.
07:37Christopher Tordell.
07:39Well he got a wild card back onto the tour.
07:42And he has proven once again.
07:46Straight back up to the top.
07:48Finn Billis.
07:52Dropping in and heading off down towards the looker's right of the venue.
07:57A super spicy entrance.
07:59Looking really confident as he skis down the ridge.
08:09Pull back the camera view.
08:11You can see what he's traversing above.
08:14Airing off that little blade feature with a nice turn.
08:17The slough ripping down.
08:19As Finn Billis just into the heart of the Bechdel Ross.
08:29And that's a scary place to make some turns.
08:31Because it's all exposed.
08:32You can't really see from the wide angle.
08:34But there's a huge cliff that runs all the way across that.
08:36There she blows.
08:38Coming in on the Hollywood.
08:40Huge 360.
08:42That is, Andrew, you just said a world's first.
08:45Finn Billis tossing a 360 off the Hollywood.
08:48And landing absolutely perfectly.
08:58Taking that one super deep.
09:00Carrying so much speed here.
09:01Another three.
09:03Cross court.
09:04So smooth from Finn Billis.
09:06Wow.
09:07Well, Finn Billis coming from that slope style background.
09:10But he's got a whole bunch of free ride experience.
09:13And he just put it all to use on the Bechdel.
09:17An incredible display of skiing there for Finn.
09:22Kiwi athlete, Ben Richards.
09:32So heading over into the right side of the face.
09:36360 on top of the Hausl.
09:38And going huge.
09:40Wow.
09:41Well, Ben Richards going full fall line.
09:44Full throttle.
09:45This is what he is known for.
09:46He skis so fast.
09:48And yet so fluid and clean.
09:49Another big 360 there.
09:51Not even the hint of a speed check.
09:52Flying over all of that.
09:54Onto the downhill ski.
09:55Ben Richards into the low section now.
09:58Another huge cross court three.
10:02Now let's see if Ben Richards changes his line from run number one.
10:07It looks like he's going to a little bit flying off that section.
10:11And now just electing to go full fall line.
10:15Fastest run of the day by a wide margin for Ben Richards.
10:20Incredible skiing for the Kiwi athlete.
10:25So sick.
10:26Yeah, G.
10:27Crushed it, man.
10:29Crushed it, man.
10:30This is where title intentions are starting to be in play.
10:35Marcus Goguen.
10:46Working his way down to the looker's right of the venue.
10:50Opting for the spicy drop in here through this enormous exposure.
10:56Backing himself to lay some turns above all those rocks.
11:04Heading over above the Hollywood.
11:12360.
11:13Stop.
11:26As Marcus Goguen coming in and making his way on top of another chunky set of features.
11:34So here we go.
11:35This is into the McIntosh nose zone.
11:37Made famous by Ian McIntosh.
11:39You hit the nose on the left there.
11:41But Marcus has something else planned here.
11:43Setting up.
11:44Making a turn.
11:45And then he wants to double here.
11:47Bouncing and stopping.
11:49Marcus Goguen with a brand new line on the Vecna Ross.
11:53And the absolutely enormous triple.
12:02Unbelievable line there.
12:04That was so much bigger than it looked.
12:07Holy guacamole.
12:10The judges got their work cut out for them.
12:12The second block of that triple is dead vertical.
12:16And you carry so far out with how steep it is.
12:24And we go straight back up to the top.
12:26Max Hitzig.
12:30Hitzig.
12:31On course.
12:32Backflipping out of the start gate.
12:34Oh my god.
12:42And another feature.
12:43Huge 360.
12:44Oh he's on fire.
12:46Well what are they feeding this guy?
12:49Max Hitzig.
12:50Max Hitzig.
12:51And going off the nose of this one.
12:53Another backflip.
12:54A totally different direction with another huge backflip.
12:57And straight lining out the bottom.
13:00So strong through that chunder.
13:02Holding on to it.
13:07And going right off the nose of this one.
13:09Down into the flats.
13:11And Hulk sticking that.
13:13I mean this guy is just, he's a machine.