KANDATSU SLOPE

03/04/2016

15.16 PSA ASIA Snowboard Pro Tour round 8

March 2016, 3 (Thursday) PSA Pro Tour Round 3.

The freestyle event is a combination of kicker and jib items, which will be the third round following the half pipe held at the Aizu Kogen Nango Ski Resort in Fukushima Prefecture in early February and the straight jump held at the Meiho Ski Resort in Gifu Prefecture in late February. A slopestyle event was held at the Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture, where the course was slid and the ranking was decided.

MacEarth Resort Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort is a 3-minute drive from the Yuzawa Interchange on the Kan-Etsu Expressway, and a 10-minute free shuttle bus from Echigo Yuzawa Station, which is the departure and arrival station for the Shinkansen. A very well-conditioned ski resort.

The professional SlopeStyle event will be held this time using the course that has been developed as a video film brand "Scrober" park from this season at Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort.

The weather on the day of the event was sunny in the morning.It's a nice sunny day.However, the weather is a day when cloudy clouds cover the sky in the daytime, and sleet and snow flicker from time to time.

The temperature in the morning is around 0 degrees Celsius, which is not so severe, but the temperature is warm until the day before, and the snow quality is high, and if you maintain it with a snow-packed car, you can see many fine snow masses (so-called potatoes). While there were some places where the board would be taken off by gliding when stepping on, the park was maintained as expected, and the maintenance of the course and items was said to be beautiful.

The course layout has XNUMX sections.

First, the first section is a 6m side inner narrow BOX

The second section is a 10m kicker

The third section is 14m

The XNUMXth section is a side-in XNUMXm flat Rail or a XNUMXm side-in-down Rail

The 2th section is Step Rail (5mRail has XNUMX steps in a staircase), and the above XNUMX sections.

Since there are more jib in XNUMX sections and jib section in kicker XNUMX section, weights and judges' eyes are gathered in the jib, so it is not like the kicker flies firmly and throws the jib, but makes tricks even with jib items firmly It will be a course that divides the victory and defeat.

Among the participating players, Yutaro Miyazawa, who won the men's championship in the MBA held all week, Ken Otsuka in second place, Reira Iwabuchi, who also won the MBA women's championship, Masakaze Yoshida and Teru Ogawa on Yellow Eve. The names of young people reminiscent of the next generation are lined up.

Men 61 people (heats 1,2 and 24), Women 1 people (heat 2) qualifying to fight in a 2-run best point system, Men are the top 6 people from each heat AB and 2 people from the overall points of the heat, a total of 12 people × XNUMX heats A total of XNUMX people will win.

Men's qualifying heat 1, Kaito Shinmiyaji and Masakaze Yoshida from A, Ruki Tobita and Yutaro Miyazawa from B, and Yuhito Yoshimoto and Sota Umehara in overall points will advance to the final.

Ken Otsuka and Yuri Okubo from Burn's gradually loosening heat 2, Ken Otsuka and Yuri Okubo from A, Yahiro Waki and Keitaro Hiraoka from B, Konrat Yamamoto and Ryo Aizawa in overalls advance to the final.

As a summary of the men's qualifying, I don't feel like I'm attacking jib tricks, but I don't feel like I'm playing.With the impression that the tricks that can be done were definitely decided, and even the kicker decided and put together a run, the kicker also advanced the pieces to the final centering on the rider who combined with 720 from 900.
From amateurs, Kaito Shinmiyaji, Keitaro Hiraoka, and Konrat Yamamoto decided to advance to the final, putting pressure on the pros.

In the women's qualifying, 1 people from Heat 6AB only will go to the final.

From A, Kokomo Murase and Teru Ogawa, from B, Reira Iwabuchi, Asami Hirono, and overalls, Kanako Tanigami and Sayaka Nemoto, all professional players to the final.

As a summary of the women's qualifying, the jib tricks seemed to be suppressed in preparation for the final, and the kicker was also the third section. I was impressed.

First of all, the women's final.

Among the beautifully shed players, the one that left an impression on me was Kanako Tanigami.

The second run, which was greeted by the failure of the first run, entered from the back side nose slide, decided Backside 1 and Frontside 360, flowed the down rail neatly with the front side nose slide, and finished the step rail without danger and finished 720rd in the final result.

In addition, Kokomo Murase finished second with Cab540, Frontside720 from the backside board slide and 50-180out from the nose slide of the front lip.

And Reira Iwabuchi who decided Backside 540, Cab720 from the backside nose slide and 50-180 out from the switch nose slide decided the victory.

Yellow Eve's attention player, Teru Ogawa, is the kicker who decides the Backside 540 from the Cab 720, but he missed the podium by suppressing the difficulty of the jib.

Men's final.

The third place was Kaito Shinmiyaji, who achieved a revenge at the MBA and went up to the podium for the professional match this season.

The front side 270in-270out was decided smoothly, and the kicker connected the Switch Backside 900 to the Backside 900, the down rail also 270in, and the opocite 270out from the board slide, and the difficult jib trick was connected to achieve the XNUMXrd place prize.

Ken Otsuka, who won the podium in 2nd place in the MBA, came in XNUMXnd place.

If you think that you entered from Cab 270in, you won the second place brilliantly by deciding Backside 900 from Cab Double Cork 1260 of No Miss from qualifying and Backside 270in on the down rail.

And Ruki Tobita won the championship.

Cab270 from Cab900in, Backside1080 that turns smoothly with flat rotation, 180in-B360out with flat rail, 270out from backside tail slide with stability even with step rail, very smooth and rhythmic even if you look at the whole flow , Showed stable riding and won the championship.

Yutaro Miyazawa, who won the MBA all week, brought a routine that was definitely aiming for the victory in the final, but the failure in the kicker echoed and he could not get into the upper ranks and ended the fight.

In this tournament, the men's 12th place and the women's XNUMXth place will get the professional promotion right, so Kaito Shinmiyaji who came in XNUMXrd place, Konrat Yamamoto who came in XNUMXth place, and Keitaro Hiraoka who got XNUMXth place got the right to promote professionally. Have won.

Men Final Result

Win Ruki Tobita

2nd place Ken Otsuka

XNUMXrd place Ama Shinguji

XNUMXth place Axilla Yahiro

XNUMXth place Yamamoto Konrat

XNUMXth place Yuhito Ryomoto

Women Final Result

Win Reira Iwabuchi

2nd place Murase Kokomo

XNUMXrd place Kanako Tanigami