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FollowUs.tv ep2 Dew Tour in Breckenridge

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Feb 2010 - 9.3K views

Here we are, the season of competition has started in Breckenridge with the famous Dew Tour... We trained for 10 days in Copper's 22 feet tall pipe and now, we are in Breckenridge, with a smaller pipe of 18 feet. It is very hard to get use to this new pipe and not to fall on the flat... We noticed a huge evolution as soon as the qualifiers started: Most of the runs are more technical than the best runs of last year's X Games... But no worries, Thomas Krief is 7th, Xavier Bertoni is 2nd and I am 3rd. The finals are surprising, especially because on the first runs, only 3 riders stomped all their tricks! On my second run, I was torn apart between giving the best of myself or playing it cool because of the sequence of events... And I picked the wrong option (the safe one) and finished 4th. Xavier did a very clean run bu had a little fright on his flat 3 and finished 3rd. Thomas Krief, who did not land his runs as he wished, showed us that he was one of the best pipe riders in the world and he is only 16 years old... Bonus: The video of the double cork mute of Kevin last week in Breckenridge.

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FollowUs.tv Ep3 ParkCity & DewTour Snowbasin

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Feb 2010 - 8.1K views

We are lucky because except from AJ Kamppainen, Shaun White, and his direct opponent for the Olympics Danny Davis, the pipe is empty. Kevin improves his unatural double, meanwhile I work on my flat 3, Switch 1000. Second stop is Snowbasin, a small resort an hour away from Park City. There is a very tiny pipe (17 feet) but it is well shaped. The slopestyle is not really impressive too: 3 rails and 3 small kickers. And the lifter takes ages to go up! So we all do the same, we go up by walking! We all get use to it and it is good for the planet ! Simon Dumont is at his best and we can see it during the trainings. Jossi Wells is doing one run in the pipe and one in the slopestyle, one right after the other without resting... How does he do that? For the qualifiers, Kevin takes the second place right after Justin Dorey whose run is clean and technical. The finals start with 2 hours of traning (that is when we stopped being eco-friendly and used the skidoo...) Peter Olenick is impressive with his Alleyoop flat 5... It smells like double here !! Indeed few runs later he tries the double and crashes on the coping... He got back on his feet and stomped it during the finals... How does he do that? Kevin falls in his first run on his unat double. During his last run, he is not spinning far enough on his unat double and lands it on the ass. For my part, I crashed my double during the trainings and I can't finish my run. Jossi stomped a beautiful run and wins the pipe. Follows Simon and Peter. How do they... 3rd and last stop: Aspen is where we're heading now, to go visit the big XGames' pipe. We have a lot of work to do...

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