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00:00He is one of the most excited skiers on in the entire the entire field
00:06He's only 20 years old, but he's skiing like he's been doing this for years
00:09Yeah
00:09As you said I think the level of this competition just will continue and continue continue to rise and we're really seeing
00:15Sort of pinnacle skiing all-around skiing
00:19Dropping out of start to heading towards these first cliff bands
00:23Setting himself up on top of this monstrous rock huge 360 a bit of a backslap
00:31But able to hold on and now he'll traverse across
00:34To this lower section of this race. Yeah that that that's a tricky feature
00:38You know, we could see it when we were scoping from the top
00:41It's a big rock the landing is pretty flat and the tide goes out on it quick
00:45So the further you go the worse it gets but because it's so steep and the face of the rock is so vertical
00:51It's it's really difficult not to go far
00:53So you did see there a little bit of a backslap from the Swiss rider
00:58But Bender now making his way across this powder field just again putting himself deep into the powder
01:04Before he gets in to the lower section the meat and potatoes of his run
01:08Bender is traversing quite far skiers left going for this first hit
01:15Oh
01:17From our time Bender now following Valley's track, but in the other direction with another big three the other way
01:22So spinning both directions there for Marta and Bender the slough pouring down and he is not done yet
01:28Oh, I'm dizzy. Just thinking about skiing
01:30I'm just thinking about skiing and I'm just thinking about skiing and I'm just thinking about skiing
01:34Not done yet. Oh, I'm dizzy. Just thinking about switching directions
01:41Well the young Swiss rider out of the Verbier freeride team
01:46showing exactly
01:48Why he was the junior world champion and earned his way pretty much directly out of juniors onto the freeride world tour
01:55Tricks all over the place in both directions Marta and Bender
02:00Incredible skiing there a little bit of an issue at the top. We'll see what the judges make of it
02:04I mean, it was a it was a solid backslap
02:06But the rest of his run certainly picking things back up on the old judges thermometer exactly
02:12This is such a he's such a consistent skier and I think to do well on the tour consistency is key again at six events
02:19You want to be pushing to your best, but you also want to make sure your best is
02:24Stompable each time. I mean just that first air and then this one almost getting the hand drag super corked out going right down
02:32To the bottom of the landing maybe a stage not even a stage two there just a little backseat
02:36And then this look how high up he goes Bender landing that landing was perfect
02:42perfectly powdery to
02:44This one is massive
02:46Yeah over that lower bench of rock way down getting bounced a little bit
02:51But he went so far and then popping this one into the channel
02:55Between the cliffs another one and actually making it into two there his angle a little bit skiers left
03:01So turning it into a double really really impressive scoping from the young Swiss rider only 20 years old
03:07It's so incredible the the sport pyramid
03:10You know these riders are they're coming up at 19 20 years old onto the tour with already so much competition savvy
03:17Yeah, you would assume they're in their 30s at this point with how much experience they have
03:31a
03:52Huge score for Martin Bender as he takes over the hot seat. He's got
03:58Maybe a Swiss football jersey

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