COW DAY report

COW DAY was held with a 20m class kicker and a high-level JIB section while big contests such as SLOPE STYLE and AIR MIX were postponed this season. Big names such as Yuki Kadono and Keita Inamura participated in the invited riders in the JUMP category, and Atsushi Hasegawa and Kou Seki participated in the JIB category. Report on the tournament held at Hakuba 47.

COW DAY was held on April 4nd and 2rd. Qualifying on the 3nd. The final on the 2rd with invited riders.Riders have entered this contest one after another because there are few big contests to be held in Japan this season. Six JUMPs and six JIBs each won the high-level battle on the 3nd and advanced to the main battle.

The 47m class monster kicker made for COW DAY was completed in the main park of the Hakuba20 ski resort.JUMP section is held during the day.Qualifying is a method in which points are scored on the average of 4 out of 3 slips. Top riders including Hayato Sumino, who is also a medalist of X Games & US OPEN and whose ability is recognized from all over the world, Tomoki Wakita who is attracting attention as a follower of that Yuuki, Yo Tanaka & Keita Inamura of HYWOD, Toshiki Yamane who came from Hokkaido We were competing.Most of the riders who have won from the qualifying are sponsor riders.The riders who have won because the spins such as double cork and 1080 have jumped out from the qualifying are also quite talented.Furthermore, it was decided that Taku Hiraoka would participate in the war at the last minute.
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The judges were Sho Hansai, Takato Taniguchi, and Atsushi Ishikawa.The riders who have won from the qualifying are almost in their early 3s and young teenage riders.Those who are accustomed to jumping in qualifying can freely control the difficult BS double cork 20.The difference between the oldest CVB Arai and the youngest Rikuto Ohashi is more than 10 years.They also compete in the same field.Hayato Sumino, who participated in the main race, has an outstanding sense of stability.Toshiki Yamane is FS1080 with style, and Yo Tanaka is FS20 without toe.It shows a cool spin seasoned with its own style while rotating at high speed.Taku Hiraoka is a train with Yuya Akada.Make up at the very short distance BS900 that I showed on the way.It's breathtaking.I was enjoying the tournament to the fullest.Of the 900 qualifiers, 180 can win the semi-final.

The semi-final is a style game, and the game depends on which one makes the cool style.Style battles by top riders entertain the spectators.Toshiki's stabbed SWBS540 and Yuki's FS360 stalefish.It was a spectacular battle that expressed the cool style of my dreams.Tweak, BS180, rodeo and all of them make a voice like Yeah.Among them, eight riders advanced to the final because of the jumping, stabbing, and make-up rate.
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Eight people who advanced to the final were Hayato Sumino, Tomoki Wakita, Masaki Wakita, Yahiro Waki, Toshiki Yamane, Yosuke Akiyama, Rikuto Ohashi, and Kite Jinguji.The final is a one-on-one knockout battle.
The opponents are Yosuke Akiyama vs Tomoki Wakita, Rikuto Ohashi vs Masaki Wakita, Toshiki Yamane vs Yahiro Waki, Yuuki Sumino vs Kite Jinguji.Yosuke and Tomoki in the first match face off 540.
Yosuke made a styled BS rodeo 540 indy, while Tomoki made a SWBS540 melancholy.Tomoki wins.
Ohashi Rikuto vs Masaki Wakita is a BS double cork 1080 showdown.I made both of them, but Ohashi Rikuto won in terms of perfection and jumping.
Toshiki Yamane vs Yahiro Waki ​​is a tweak style game.Yahiro Waki ​​wins with a sense of stability and a tall tweak.
And Hayato Sumino vs Jinguji Kite, Yuki made a super BIG tweak over K points and won.
It was Masaki Wakita who advanced the piece to the spar final in each one as a repechage.While other riders struggled to land, they made BS Double Cork 1 and won.
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The Super Final will be contested by Hayato Sumino, Tomoki Wakita, Masaki Wakita, Rikuto Ohashi, and Yahiro Wakita.
The riders who pushed to the maximum will double cork and increase the number of revolutions up to 1260. Adoption of two best runs. The second Yuki makes a blown-out SWBS2.The chasing Tomoki pushed to triple cork but drove on landing.After all the man Yuki who has it at the end.He won the championship for the second time in a row.

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Hakuba47, where the sun has fallen, the special JIB section created at the entrance of the parking lot is the stage of the COW DAY jib section.
The jib section has riders who pull the street scene from Yuki who won the jump to Atsushi Hasegawa and Kou Seki.A high-level jam session was held from the qualifying.There are three items: a simple long down rail, a thick round rail that is far away by transfer, and a double down rail.A flat rail that can be transferred is also placed in the center.The rider's sense shines as to how to capture it.
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What stood out from the qualifying was the ride of Hayato Sumino, and the hard tricks such as jumping, jib, and 270in were made lightly.You Tanaka, attacking the rails with a lot of power like a tank.Yuya Akada and Ryusei Takahashi attack with astringent tricks such as the nose manual.Each captures the jib in their own style.

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The final is a pretty intense jam session.Takuji Oishi and Kazuya Saito, also known as Mr. Saito, are highly evaluated by the judges. Everyone makes 270in as a matter of course.Yuya Akada makes 450 outs from the transfer and makes the venue boil.Mr. Saito's squeezing is also excellent.The outs are perfectly matched with the style that is narrowed down. The MC's "Saito-san!" Voice definitely locked the venue.Yo Tanaka attacked too much on the way and had a terrible crash, but the steel body is invincible.I was riding around with transfers such as Hardway 270in.It was Yuki who earned more coins than anyone else.Transfer from flat to down rail, Yuki has a sense of stability.Even if it's a difficult trick, it won't be moss.He always made difficult tricks and earned coins.As a result, Yuki, who earned overwhelming coins, followed the jump and won the jib.The best trick was won by Ryusei Takahashi, who made a fierce trick called BS180inCAB360out in the double down rail that he tried many times with the last one.And although it wasn't planned, it was Yo Tanaka who won the best push award of the special award because of his aggressiveness.

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This season was the only place where top domestic riders gathered for both jumps and jib.It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most spectacular tournament this season.Further rise of young riders in jumps.At the jib, I was able to see the skill of the street riders seen live.In both cases, the audience was able to see the rider's serious slip at a close distance.I would like to look forward to next year's tournament because it is an important tournament that supports the freestyle scene in Japan.
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result

JUMP

1st YUKI KADONO ¥ 700,000
2nd RIKUTO OHASHI ¥ 100,000
3rd YAHIRO WAKI ¥ 50,000
4th TOMOKI WAKITA
5th MASAKI WAKITA
Super Final: 2 out of 1 best run adopted

JIB

1st YUKI KADONO 69coin WINNER ¥ 100,000
2nd ISAO SEKI 38coin
3rd TAKUJI OISHI 31coin
4th RYUSEI TAKAHASHI 30coin BEST TRICK (BS180inCAB360out) BEST TRICK ¥ 25,000
5th YUYA AKADA 29coin
6th REO TAKAHASHI 28coin
7th KAZUYA SAITO 27coin
8th TAKERU OTSUKA 25coin
9th YOH TANAKA 18coin BEST PUSH ¥ 25,000
10th ATSUSHI HASEGAWA 17coin
11th KEITA INAMURA
Super Final: Coin (equivalent to ¥ 1,000)

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