Park City World Champs!

Hey Guys,

as you may know, the first ever slopestyle world championships are held in Park City, Utha right now!

Sebi Geiger, Flo Geyer, Beni Meyer, Caja Schöpf, Lena Stoffel and myself where chosen to represent germany over here in the USA by taking part in the slopestyle comp!

After a long and pretty boring flight we finally arrived in Salt Lake city, rented a car and drove down to Park City!

The course is pretty cool , really nice rail features on the top and then 3big jumps with icy and flat landings!

Flo and Sebi enjoying some good american fast food

rail features on the top of the slopestyle

from left to right: downbox, down rail, double kinked box, double kinked rail

into and pyramid rail/wallride feature or a high rail into a

gap to down box or and up rail into a

bonk or an butterbox followed by the 3 main jumps

bottom jumps

It was quite hard to get the speed dialed for the jumps, I could not get enough speed to hit the first jumps switch, the second one was the best one and then u had to take a sharp left turn into the bottom booter!

I had to go with an more or less easy run, because I got some speed problems and was not able to lay down my run I was original planning to do!

So I did rightside nosebutter 2 in to switch on the downrail into sw left 2 in blind 2 out on the high rail into a rightside blind 630out of the up rail to right 180 up the butter box to sw left 1 out of it into a left misty 9 mute to sw left 9 nose into a right cork 9 blunt on the bottom jump!

I landed everything well so I was pretty stoked on my run even I had to change up things a little bit from what I had planned in the beginning!

Ended up in 19th place, which is not super good but pretty ok when you consider that a lot of people got injured in training or during the comp, because of the speed issues!

Get well Andy, who came short on the bottom feature and had to get flown out to hospital via helicopter....hope to shred with you soon!

Qualification results, top 10 advanced to finals

In the end Alex Schlopy won it all in a nerve cracking final!

The FIS hosted a pretty decent first Slopestyle event, even the did not consider where to seat the judges until the day of qualifications...everything was broadcasted via cameras, so they did not really see the run in real...just on a screen like everybody else...which was weird but worked out pretty good!

Otherwhise the slopestyle course was really good, especially the rail features, the only problems where the speed and the flat concrete landings....

I´m pretty happy to got the opportunity to be part of this comp and will try to get better in the future for sure!

Today I´ve been skiing the Canyons resort together with Andy Parry, Will Wesson and Shane McFalls,

filmed a little bit with them for the next Traveling Circus episode which was great!

I´ve never been to the Canyons before and they got by far the longest park lap I´ve ever skied, soooo sick and exausting ;)

 top of the park with and elbow rail and a straight box

followed by an double kinked box or an down rail

into a up box or rail into a gap to rail and a straight up rail

 followed by 5 small jumps

into more rail features like a quad kink rail and more

 after that there was a down rail into 4 main jumps into a stall thing and a big as wall ride and 3 more rail features 

after that u hopped on the lift and got back at where u started...sooooo good!

 Will, Shane, Andy and Eric

So stoked to see you guys again and thx for the good Taco place ;) always a pleasure to shred with u!

 view over Park City from the top of the Canyons

transfer gondola from the parking spot to the main gondola...weird thing...haha

So that basically was my USA trip for this season, hope to come back soon and shred some more!

Tomorrow we will head back home and go to Ispo on sunday and monday before heading out to film some more backcountry for Aestivation which is going to be sweet!

Can´t wait to get back home and get some good austrian and german food again ;) yam yam!

Cheers Roy