We had Stylewars up here last week, for those of you that dont know what that is, its a massive international snowboard contest held here at Falls as part of the TTR world championships. A special and absolutely massive park gets built by our park groomers (my buddy Reuben) and its a massive party week sponsored by Cartlon Dry. Anyway, i was allowed to ride the course without competing which was super rad as only a couple of people were allowed to do that, usually you have to be a competitor to ride a course like that. The bottom jump in the course was probably about 75ft or so to the sweet spot in the landing....with a big gap to jump over as well. I was definitely super nervous about riding in the same park as the pro's that were here but my buddy Reubs (he built the park) let me follow him through the park and over the jumps to get my speed right.....then bailed on me. So i did 2 straight air laps over the 3 jumps and felt super comfortable straight away.....the jumps were built so nice....they inspired confidence immediately.....i went from being so nervous to SUPER stoked in 2 laps. So i tried a back 5 stale over the bottom gap jump and over rotated and nearly landed a 7, so i went back up and decided to just drop a back 7 anyway. So after a few goes i landed a few 7's over it. Straight up, it was the best day of my life. It was a huge moment for my snowboarding, and to do it at my home mountain was super epic as everyone was frothing with me. Really was the best day of my life. In this link, im riding in the black hoodie and camo pants at 3:34. Stoked
Stylewars 2012 from Rob Malone on Vimeo.
