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00:00Toby gives all the credit for his skiing to his sister Addie Rafford who was on
00:05the Freeride World Tour for the last few years. Toby Rafford 4-ran last year in
00:11Verbier and absolutely got the whole crowd fired up and now on course here
00:16for his first Freeride World Tour run. Toby just oozes with style. The way that he
00:22plays with venues is completely different. A different playground for him.
00:27Well a huge flat three there and the landing letter-perfect. Toby Rafford
00:33keeping it moving, skipping over the rocks, styling it out with a big shifty
00:37and popping and playing. It just looks like a playground for Toby Rafford. He's
00:42such a smooth skier but as you said Hadley just oozing with style. Now
00:46roasting across here trying to get as much speed as he can to get up high. Toby
00:52Rafford making very short work of that upper section with that huge flat spin
00:56that was so perfect. We saw him do a double flat spin in one of the Challenger
01:01stops last year. This guy has one of the deepest bags of tricks in the freestyle
01:05game on the Freeride World Tour and we're already seeing that come into play.
01:09And you know as you said every time he's in the air whatever trick he does is
01:14gonna look really good and that's quite the technique. So a big air into the
01:20straight line cool wire now picking up a bunch of speed for this wind lip. Toby
01:24Rafford holding on to the speed with a double flat he connects with it. Oh my god
01:29Toby Rafford just putting on an air clinic here at the Freeride World Tour
01:35his very first run on the tour and he does that. Incredible. It looks like he
01:43can't believe it. Yes you can hear from all the riders his style really sets
01:50himself apart. Well Hadley run us through this replay from Toby. You can
01:57see the top quick precise and this is where we get the first hint that we're
02:00gonna see a stylish run. See those air and style bar pretty much maxed out.
02:05Getting the grab on that perfect landing in the fall line in the gnar. Skipping
02:12over these rocks and still able to pop the shifty. We saw even the smoothest
02:16men on skis Ben Richards struggled there and Toby Rafford flying out over
02:21the roller and then coming down setting this up this air a huge air into the
02:26cool wire. A setup move for what was to come next. Oh and we saw the first one on
02:32the top and then a double at the bottom. This guy can really do anything in the
02:37air. Holding watch the holding the grab through the first rotation all the way
02:42through the second rotation. Connecting at exactly the right time. Hard left
02:47footer to get away from the rocks and a huge celebration there with Ross Tester
02:51at the bottom as Toby Rafford absolutely blowing the doors off of La Bamba here.
02:57Incredible riding from Toby Rafford.
03:02All right here we go. Score drop in for Toby Rafford 91.33 just behind Ross.
03:13Even Ross can't believe that one. A huge score and moving himself into second
03:18where Ben Richards.