Monday night was the third coldest temperature recorded in history with Charlottes Pass dropping to -20 degrees. So you can imagine how hard packed and firm conditions were on the Tuesday for the Big Air event up at Thredbo. Charles Beckinsale had constructed a 2 jump line consisting of a 20 foot jump to a 35 foot jump.
A healthy contingent of riders showed up including a crew from Falls Creek and even Mt Buller too. The Viccos were stoked to be able to session some decent jumps given there were none at their home resorts. Despite the firm conditions riders didn't hold back and an entertaining variety of tircks were thrown down. A few came unstuck with some heavy faceplants, shoulder dislocations and brusing being the order of the day.
In the end Jye Kearney won the Mens by the narrowest of margins from Ryan Tiene with Andy Lloyd in third place. Jess Rich took out the womens from Laura Williams and Saph Farrell. Billy Hayman won the groms from Ben Alexis and Elliot Fielder. Alex Fitch won the junior girls from Pride Hasler and Georgia Baff.
Next event is the boardercross on the 3rd of August. Watch for our big air edit up real soon.
Andy Lloyd
Ryan Tiene
Ben Fawcett
Cohen Davies
Ben Randall
Jackson Collings
Womens Winners
Mens Winners
Open Mens Snowboard - Top 15
122 Kearney Jye 53.3
103 Tiene Ryan 53.2
112 Lloyd Andy 49.4
104 Mates Ben 47.1
117 Burns Jeremy 46.3
73 Collings Jackson 37.9
114 Fawcett Ben 35.9
77 Griffiths Nick 33.1
99 Currie Jason 32.7
71 Randall Ben 31.9
108 Walsh Darragh 31.7
102 Tiene Dane 30.8
113 Davies Cohen 30.6
109 McCarthy Jake 30.4
91 Henshaw Trevor 29.3
101 Rosalky Mickey 23.4
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