With the cooperation of Washigatake Ski Area, who worked hard to create the slopestyle course during the bomb low pressure last week, the final professional race of this slopestyle event, which was co-sponsored with the JSBA All Japan Championship, is the wind. It was held in a clear sky with no clouds.
There are 3 sections, and after completing the 12m → 13m double step down kicker, you can choose between a section with a down rail on the out of the flat box and a section with a down rail on the out of the snow box.
Reading only the print may seem relatively easy in the three sections, but the distance between the sections is short and the course layout is very tight, especially for the kicker, the first one is the height of the lip from the previous day's All Japan Championship. A kicker that has a shape that can be launched upwards and can cause severe landing disturbance, and the second kicker that follows it has a beautiful lip that is different from the first one, but it is rounded to the lip. The impression is that it is a very delicate kicker that you have to take the first move of rotation firmly and take a step.
In addition, the landing cooled by radiative cooling was hard, and many players who had no edge on the board were forced to struggle in the spring, which would come off even if they landed.
With such an impression, 12 out of 10 finalists in this tournament, especially boys, were teenagers, and the activities of young players were shining.Meanwhile, players in their twenties are not defeated.
Yumaru Ogawa, who is a regular finalist who is doing very well this season and shows a stable slide, and Yuhito Yoshimoto, who has a remarkable jumping distance, and this season, he has a high degree of perfection. Kazuki Nakamura who showed us the SB900 also went to the final stage.
The final is a high-speed difficulty perfection game.
An aerial battle where 900 becomes the standard, 1080, and many tricks such as W cork are mixed.
I thought that the trick of Yutaro Miyazawa, who had decided the highest difficulty Backside W Cork 1080 of this tournament from the qualifying, was the victory, but I got a hand in the landing and won this smashing battle by the entry from Hokkaido. Hamada Kaito Pro.
From the first run with a high degree of perfection, the difficulty level was further increased, and the Cab 1 was made firmly from the Frontside 900, and even in the JIB section, it was tricky and decided to win.
The men's result is
3 Yu Ogawa
4 Atsuhiro Suzuki
6 Yutaro Miyazawa
While there were players who struggled because the girls couldn't match the landing of the kicker, the activities of young girls were also conspicuous.
However, the winner was Tokuko Suzuki, who is also the oldest female player in this tournament.
Of course, although it is a top ranker, the tricks are evolving every year and the Backside Cork 720 has been completed as the decisive skill of this season.
Putting this after Tokuko Flip (Back Flip tail grab), which is synonymous with her, JIB also won the championship with a dangerous slip.
Women's results
2 Yukiko Naito
Looking at the tournament from beginning to end, I tend to focus on kickers if there are only two kickers in these three sections and few sections, but the JIB section, which is also the final section, is neglected. I got the impression that the points of the players who were doing well were not extended.
The finalists also had a solid and tricky trick in the JIB section, and the JIB section wasn't a "kicker bonus" section, but a judge as one of the three sections. Therefore, the players who did the tricks without being careful until the end were highly evaluated.
No matter how difficult the tricks are, if you touch your hand at the landing or if the board flows even a little and it is disturbed, you will get a big deduction, so you tend to suppress the difficulty, but make it more complete. I think that glory is always waiting for the players who have performed the tricks of high difficulty.
I hope that both the athletes participating in the tournament and the athletes who will become professionals will take on the challenge without fear of aiming for the top.
Last but not least, the tournament organizers, the slope park digger who showed us the wonderful course and maintenance, and the Gifu Prefecture Washigatake Ski Area who provided the tournament course, thanked the ski resort for closing the words. I would like to change it.
