So last week, the comp team headed off to Vermont for the first major snowboard comp of the season, the Revolution Tour. Vermont was an interesting trip!
We had bad luck from the moment we landed at the airport. The rental car people told us they were all out of cars. Finally when we found a car, our GPS lead us half way to Canada because it wasn’t mapping properly. We eventually worked it out and got there albeit over a few hours later.
First day of training we arrived on the course to find two nicely built jumps and a jib line of 3 rails with two different options. The course was riding well and every one was putting their comp runs together nicely. Everyone was super happy… until Iver, unfortunately decided to stay out for an extra run just before lunch and crashed heavily on his head.
Unfortunately for Iver, this would result in a minor head, neck and lung injury that would put him in an ambulance and at the local hospital 45 minutes away. This disappointingly put him out of the competition and off riding for a few days.
On comp day the weather was challenging and the speed kept changing. It was hard to link the right speed between all the features. Michaela was up first and landed some new tech rail tricks she has been working on which would give her the 3rd highest rail score for the day, unfortunately she came unstuck on her back 3”s by overshooting which she has on lock and did not make it through to the finals but finished 8th.
Tim was up next and was also struggling with his speed on his stock B720, unfortunately he didn’t put his run of back to back 720′s down first try so we had to switch his run from b720 to a b360 to Fs 720. He landed this cleanly but was disappointed not to land his first run of back to back 720′s to add his 9 in on the second. Tim finished a respectable 30th out of 70 riders.
Nick was up last and was on fire in training, recovering from his shoulder injury and carrying an niggling ongoing shin injury he was pushing through the pain and landing his back to back 720s and 9′s but unfortunately in his judged runs he over shoot both of his fs7 on the first feature which would also put him out of any finals contention and now needing at least a week off snow.
Besides all the niggling injuries training is going smoothly at home every one is now focussing on the Gatorade event at Keystone this Saturday.
Congratulations to Lauren Staveley who made finals in slopestyle and came 8th in the halfpipe.