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The first report of Japan's largest professional amateur open contest, a must-read for fans, with paid web content inserted for Japan's first core snowboarder to finally start!Read to the end!
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Japan's largest professional amateur open contest "Nippon Open".It is also famous for the participation of the world's top riders in the world every year.Great members were gathering this time as well.The representative is of course the Norwegian superstar "Terje HAAKONSEN".The biggest feature of this Nippon Open is that the world's top riders such as Terje HAAKONSEN and Japanese amateurs can also slide on the same pipe.For SBN, who supports all snowboarders who want to improve, this Nippon Open can be said to be one of the pinnacles of the tournament.Now, let's take a closer look at the hot two days of the first Nippon Open in the skiing Mecca Yuzawa / Ishiuchi area!
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This time SBN found a crazy foreign rider "Arvensen ESPEN" in practice.You can read his precious special interview, which is very famous in Europe but unknown in Japan, in the paid area!Now, if you want to know what he felt in Japan, click the "Paid page from here onwards" button below!
As you know, the snowboarding superstar "Terje HAAKONSEN".
This triple-over crail (?) Is a masterpiece ...
The report page from now on will be paid content, but the content and rider's photos are full of content!
The luxurious lineup is Terje HAAKONSEN / Daniel FRANCK / Shaun WHITE / Guillaum MORISSET / Stine BURN KJELDAAS / Katsuya Tahara / Shinsuke Goto / Keiko Yanagisawa.There is also an enlarged image → Click (43k)
The world's largest snowboard summer camp, the High Cascade Snowboard Camp (HCSC), is held every summer at Mount Hood, Oregon.The perfect super pipe, which is highly praised by the world's top riders, has been reproduced at the Ishiuchi Maruyama Ski Resort.The team of Igarin of Creek, who is hosting the gf camp that was involved in the launch of Planet and SBN, led by Pat Melendsky, who is of course making pipes, as well as Haika's pipes.He is a super celebrity who is also the general manager of the Japanese camp in Haika.
Most media were looking for Terje HAAKONSEN.We, the SBN interview team, were no exception, and when we were talking about having to chase after finding them, Terje HAAKONSEN suddenly appeared at the lift platform.I didn't have time to talk to him and went up quickly, but how lucky I was to be able to meet him on the Japanese slopes right from the X-trail at Tokyo Dome.
When I got on the lift to chase Terje HAAKONSEN, Pro Rosaki happened to get on the lift, so I asked him in detail about the situation of the pipe.It's pretty good.When I got off the lift and arrived at the super pipe where I was practicing publicly, I saw everyone flying with a perfect shape big pipe.I searched for Keir DILLON, which I was thinking of closing up on this page, but I can't find it.When I asked the Burton staff, unfortunately they returned to Japan.We are not in a hurry because of the scenario madness from the beginning (laughs, actually, it was quite rushed ...).Immediately pick up the players who stand out in the public practice. Two Salomon riders wearing Bonfire clothing, mixed with Burton Corps such as Terje HAAKONSEN, Shaun WHITE, and Mitsuhiko Yoshino, caught my eye.Their names are Arvesen ESPEN and Guillaum MORISSET.Especially Arvesen ESPEN __ (trick name? Maybe an upper deck like Rodeo 720) was eye-catching.The two of them were hiding in the gorgeous Burton Corps, but our eyes can't be fooled (laughs).
Japan's leading photographer “TAKI” and “Terje”
Immediately after the public practice was over, I went to the dormitory of the two and started negotiations for coverage.There, Arvesen ESPEN, the young Norwegian leader, was willing to get permission for a close interview.I couldn't do a close interview with Guillaum MORISSET, who won the US Open last year, due to time constraints, but I was able to talk for quite some time at the dormitory.Gorgeous Burton corps, last year's champion Rio, Takaharu Nakai, Takumi Suzuki, who are still active in the national team, Kazuhiro Kokubo who is still in the sixth grade but is participating in the professional game (Nakaichi's older sister is Yumero Narita in the national team (Active with), etc., this time there are lots of highlights.Rather, I honestly thought that such a great member met together.If Keir were here, it would have been the largest in the world.Oh, I missed it, but of course Daniel FRANCK was one of the highlights.
The qualifying will be divided into 4 heats for men's class and 2 heats for women's class, and 8 people each will advance to the next semi-final and will be able to play the dead heat in the final on the second day.
Well, the first heat.Top Japanese riders such as Nagano Olympic gold medalist Gian SIMMEN, Xaver HOFFMAN, and luxury foreign players such as Terje HAAKONSEN, including Norifumi Rosaki, Ryuji Ogawa, and Kazuhiro Sone, competed for eight slots.Everyone said that the pipe was "a battle with a tremendous G" and that there was no place to go unnoticed even for a moment.As a result, they heated up in the order in which they completed their routines to the end without failing.From this heat, Xaver HOFFMAN, Terje HAAKONSEN, Gian SIMMEN, Norifumi Rosaki, Quentin ROBBINS, Masaru Kazama, Ryuji Ogawa and Kento Shibuya went up to the semifinal.
The second heat is Arvesen ESPEN, Katsuya Tahara, Guillaum MORISSET, Takumi Suzuki, Heikki SORSA, Shinsuke Goto, Kenji Ishikawa, Goripon, Deshi Omori, Hayato Totani, Kazuhiro Kunimo. It became a ward. SBN's attention ESPEN failed the first time, but he made a routine to hold down the second time and was up in 1rd place after Rio.It was impressive that this heat was heated up by Takumi Suzuki, who is the number one expectation of young Burton, Kazuhiro Kunimo, a super elementary school student, and Kazuhiro Kunimo, who were both high-ranked and routine mothers.In the end, Guillaum MORISSET, Katsuya Tahara, Arvesen ESPEN, Heikki SORSA, Takumi Suzuki, Kazuhiro Kunimo, Tristan PICOT, and Goripon, who passed the 2st place, heated up.
The third heat was a hot battle between Japanese players such as Mitsuhiko Yoshino, Osamu Ohira, Daisuke Takeno, Takashi Nishida, Katsura Sudo, Takamasa Kato, Satoshi Shimada and Masakazu Fukuyama. The player who definitely finished the routine is up here as well. Frederik KALBERMATTEN, Osamu Ohira, Dani COSTANDACHE, Takashi Nishida, Dylan BUTT, Daisuke Takeno, Nicolas MUELLER, Mitsuhiko Yoshino have heated up.
The fourth heat at the end of the men's class. At the end, it was a heat that felt like the Star Corps was rushing. It was nice to be sunny in the morning, but the weather suddenly changed after noon. It was a fierce battle with wind, snow, and gas coming out. In the battle between height and perfection, this heat-up was the difference between how much tension was controlled and how the routine was continued until the end. I'm not the only one who feels that the results show some strength in the game and the strength of luck. Daniel FRUNCK, WHITE, Marcel HITZ, Takaharu Nakai, Klas VANGEN, Mathieu JUSTAFRE, Keijiro Kasahara and Hajime Ishibashi have advanced to the semifinals.
Due to bad weather in the women's class, the second heat was postponed to the next day!The first heat of the women's class managed to finish in the stormy weather, but the second heat was postponed the next day.It may have been postponed in consideration of the safety of the players due to the snowstorm and the late time.Nagano Olympic gold medalist Stine BURN KJELDAAS, Dorian VIDAL, Michiyo Hashimoto, Christel THORESEN have uploaded.
It seems that most of the Burton team's foreign riders dominated the podium of the past Nippon Open. That was the birth of the first Japanese winner last year. The first Japanese winner in the world's top-level tournament was Katsuya Tahara, also known as Rio. He suddenly became one of the top riders in the world representing Japan. The semi-finals are Rio aiming for the second consecutive victory, Japanese who are very active in the FIS tournament, Takashi Nishida, Takaharu Nakai, Takumi Suzuki, Arvesen ESPEN who won the previous FIS pipe, Guillaum MORISSET who won the US Open last year, Nagano It was a dead heat by 24 people including Olympic gold medalist Gian SIMMEN, silver medalist Daniel FRANCK, US Burton expected boy Shaun WHITE, and Terje HAAKONSEN.
As in the qualifying, the semi-final was held in a judge system where the best ride of the two was the point and the ranking was decided.The player who decided the double over big air at the first backside lip earned a fairly high score.I read the situation of Lip and calculated various routines such as spin system, flip system, compound system and so on at that place.After all, at this level, it seems that the bargaining that can not be understood only by appearance is done from the assembly of the routine.We probably have an immeasurable battle there.
What impressed me especially in the semi-final was Takaharu Nakai's second or third big sugar flip and the fourth upper deck that he had made, and then made a new 2-degree landing. Transcendental trick to do (upper deck 3?). What kind of trick is that, Nakai-kun? It's not a wet cat, and it's amazing that it makes another turn after turning around. It was very stylish without the athletic atmosphere that is often found in the round and round style, and it may be a new trend in the future. In addition, although the height was not so high, I am looking forward to the future considering that I am an elementary school student, and it is as tall and stylish as Kokubo Kokubo and Takaharu Nakai, a super junior who has a recovery ability like a cat that can never go crazy. Routine Takumi Suzuki could see the bright future of the Japanese snowboarding world. It's really amazing, isn't it? They seem to spend most of their training outside the national team camp with the Rios. No, I'm sure because I asked them. Politeness and enthusiastic practice may be cultivated from such a place. It's Rio Juku (laughs). and,
In the semi-final, Gian SIMMEN, Xaver HOFFMAN, and Daniel FRANCK were in 4th place in that order, with Rio in a position to aim for the podium.
However, in the final, he decided to ride Rio's heart, and at that point he had jumped to the top. It was decided to cancel due to poor visibility and condition due to heavy snowstorm and gas in the middle of the first run.At that point, the tournament was completed up to the semi-final, and the results of the semi-final became the result as it was. I can't forget the regrettable appearance of Rio who missed the podium in 1th place.This unyielding spirit, which is regrettable with the whole body, will create tomorrow's athletes.
In the second heat of the women's class that remained, Quirich LISA, Tanja BAUMGARTNER, Daniela ROTH, etc. went up and Stine BURN KJ ELDAAS, who finished first in the semi-final with overwhelming height, won the championship.
For a while after the Nippon Open was held, the venue was the Oze Tokura Ski Resort, which is the headquarter of Burton Snowboards. It was held in Happoone last year, and finally the full-scale Pro-Am Open was opened to the ski mecca. It seems that the fact that large ski resorts have all worked to attract snowboarders due to the decrease in the ski population seems to be a distant cause, but this time the large ski resort "Ishiuchi Maruyama" in the Yuzawa / Ishiuchi area was selected as the stage for the Nippon Open. It was decided to be. Take it to the super pipe of Haika Camp, which boasts the perfect shape.
This time, I had two interests before the tournament.First of all, whether Terje HAAKONSEN will participate, and second, how close Japanese young people are to the world level.As expected, it was proved here.
Until now, the rise of the junior class has been limited to only a few gifted children.However, the sport of snowboarding has become commonplace, and most of the junior high and high schools in snowy countries have developed snowboarding clubs.The junior class has become thicker and the level has risen dramatically, centered on the children of parents who started skiing in the early days of snowboarding.Now that most of the slopes have permanent halfpipes and parks, children are naturally flying and roaming kickers.Regardless of the situation around Snowboard Junior, the ordinary junior high school, high school, and high school students around us are now becoming as amazing as the gymnastics world of Japan a long time ago.That was proved at this Nippon Open.Only juniors wearing Burton boards, but the Murasaki team Yumero Narita (brother and Domu are FIS junior teams), Takumi Suzuki, and Kazuhiro Kunimo have already reached high levels in both height and routine. ..I think the amount of practice is not hamper.And all of them who participated this time were snowboarding very happily.I'll do it because it's fun, and I don't want to lose to anyone.This scheme must have been decided beautifully.Takaharu Nakai and Fumiyuki Murakami (XNUMXrd younger brother of Daisuke Murakami) also participated in the race, showing the high level of the Sapporo Junior Corps.As for foreign players, there were some players who had heard about it, and most of them were unchecked this time.Most media have been chasing Daniel FRANCK and Terje HAAKONSEN hard.That's not to say, but I dared to look at Arvesen ESPEN and Guillaum MORISSET, which aren't famous in Japan at all, but are getting a lot of attention in Europe and America.
When Daniel FRANCK, who is now a super celebrity, first came to Mount Hood (the mecca of snowboard summer camps in Oregon, USA), he wasn't even looked at by the Japanese media at all.I found a rider who was enthusiastic about practicing and was quietly paying attention to the newcomer who was doing something strange in Hood for the first time.When I watched it closely, I slid with a fakie all day long.I caught him and heard his name.That was Daniel FRUNCK.It's been a long time ago, but he remembered the short interview at that time, and when he first came to the Nippon Open, he kindly responded to the interview.Right now, I don't like interviews competing for XNUMX and XNUMX in the industry, but .It is said that it is Arvesen ESPEN that Daniel FRANCK raises like a disciple.Daniel FRANCK and Arvesen ESPEN were working together during this close interview.In the next room, Guillaum MORISSET was sleepy and trained until late at night and came back, but the good guy is slipping more than anyone else.But where did you slip?There was always an amateur era for those who had risen like that.How we can spend our time in an amateur era is partly responsible for how we respond to the media.
It's been a long time since I created the first snowboard how-to book in Japan, "Snowboard Handbook" and "Burton Snowboard World" (both released by Art Newspaper, published by Kaze Shobo). One of the people who read it and grew up was Takuya Tsukada, the founder of this SBN Studio Japanaho. Tsukada says, "I want to spotlight all snowboarders who haven't sprouted yet with this SBN." I sympathize with this word and feel that I can share this sport that I love and love together, and I would like to dedicate this report to all of our members. (YOSHIZO) 
