Last year's champion Jonas EMERY was 8th, which means that a new rider will appear again this year!Unfortunately, Akifumi Hiraoka did not reach the final in 9th place for Japanese players ...
Photo & Reported by KEISUKE-MAN
– SUPER FINAL –
A new rider is born from this tournament every year!
– JAPANESE RIDERS –
Japanese riders who have lived up the tournament over the past three times
Akifumi Hiraoka
Yuki Yamazaki
Narufumi BELL Yoshimura
– TOYOTA BIG AIR 2001 RESULT –
Winner for the Best Point Award
MORISSET Guillaum (CAN / SALOMON)
Best Point: 346
Japanese riders will be in the frame of the main race of this tournament.Yes, qualifying will be held. XNUMX riders have participated in the qualifying since the first tournament in XNUMX, aiming for one person.
After all, the faces that participated in the tournament were a little different from when I was completely immersed in the tournament, but I was very happy that there were people of the same age.I want you to continue to do your best.
I got this interview job from SBN, but I wrote a qualifying report at my own discretion, and I went to the person who personally checked the interview.
FIRST CHILDREN Kamikaze Captain Yuji Hara
Complete all-rounder Munehiro Horio
Interview
Keisuke Katayama Profile;
12 years of snowboarding After graduating from university, in 1991, influenced by the behavior of Masato Ogawa, he moved to Whistler, Canada.I was further influenced by Kousuke Ota, Shingo Takahashi, Goro Komatsu, Naoto Ogane, Masahiko Tabata and others I met there, and I completely fell in love with snowboarding.For many years after that, he continued to live mainly on snowboarding throughout the year, such as the United States at the beginning of the season, the post-return tournament, the United States in early spring, the Canadian summer camp in summer, and New Zealand.One season, he spends winter in Sapporo at the invitation of Hirosuke Ota.That year, I chose Sapporo Kokusai's waist pow over the Kanto tournament, and haven't participated in the tournament ever since.I couldn't forget the powder at that time and decided to move to Sapporo in 1999.In addition to his activities as a rider in Sapporo, he worked for a web design company as a salaryman, but unfortunately the company went bankrupt.Taking this opportunity, he told himself that "the free road is still right" and became independent, and recently established "HEADWAY CREATIONS". Perform WEB, GRAPHIC DESIGN, MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGN, CD-ROM AUTHORING, etc. by making full use of XNUMX Macintosh and XNUMX DOS / V.Also, in this term, we will release the original snowboard, MOONLIVE SNOWBOARDS, in limited production with our friends.
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This is the third time for TOYOTA BIG AIR to visit this Makomanai Open Stadium.Some of these straight jump contests are held at stadiums such as AIR & STYLE and at ski resorts such as US OPEN and VANS competitions, and they have gained citizenship anyway.This TOYOTA BIG AIR is getting more and more exciting year by year, and the number of spectators this time is XNUMX.In fact, my girlfriend's grandma was surprised to know this event.Now that the Olympic Games have become an official sport, snowboarding can be said to be a major sport.Well, aside from difficult stories, TOYOTA BIG AIR XNUMX and wonderful riders are all available.
Defending Champion Jonas Emery, last year's TOYOTA BIG AIR XNUMXnd place, AIR & STYLE XNUMXnd consecutive champion Stephen Gimple, Nagano Olympic Silver Medalist Daniel Franck, Mich Albin whose signature will be released from next term, Flat Spin Master Roger Helmstad Sen, Ingemar Buckman, etc. who shoots the skills of the expert, and from Japan, Akifumi Hiraoka, Yuki Yamazaki, Shigefumi Yoshimura, a total of XNUMX riders.eh? XNUMX people?Wasn't this tournament XNUMX people?That's right, it's a bit of a whitish phrase, but this tournament, the remaining one Japanese rider will be in the frame of the main race.Yes, qualifying will be held.
XNUMX riders have participated in the qualifying since the first tournament in XNUMX, aiming for one person.It's been a while since I've seen the tournament itself, where Japanese riders participate, including straight jumps and half pipes, as the tournament is far away from things.After all, the faces that participated in the tournament were a little different from when I was completely immersed in the tournament, but I was very happy that there were people of the same age.I want you to continue to do your best.
This time I got the job of this interview from SBN, but I wrote the qualifying report at my own discretion and went to the person who was checking the interview personally, of course I will write the report of the main race but I want to see the main race It might be better to have people look at other sites or magazines, but it would be a problem if other places also featured qualifying.
By the way, let's go, there is such a tournament, of course, a public practice.Even though it is open to the public, it is not open to the audience, but in the open practice, "No, who are you?" Or "Who will definitely come this time!", So I decided to decide which rider to check. Was there.And public practice began.
However, everyone is refreshing.If that's the case, it would be a problem if you tried it for a while, but it seems that everyone can only fly to the point where the landing burn begins, or it seems that they can't fly.I can't do technical skills because the flight distance is strict, XNUMX or XNUMX even if I fly straight with a pawn or turn, and the backside area where the height is hard to come out seems to be strict.It's strange, isn't the wax right?Is it a lamp design mistake?It seems that the headwind is amazing.Not so much as you can see below, but the starting point XNUMX meters above the ground will be quite different, and there are no tall buildings around this stadium, so it looks pretty amazing. "I can't do this." "I can't reach it." The atmosphere was wrapped in the rider, and the public practice was over in no time.In the end, I couldn't make a judgment like "Who will definitely come this time!"
And next is the public practice of the main battle participants, everyone will fly enough if they think that it will be impossible, I thought that the main battle corps is different, but the way of starting is a little different.I held the gates on both sides with my hands and started with a reaction like the start of slalom.I see, the main battle corps.
The public practice of the qualifying on the day before the actual performance will be decided by the bump of the day tomorrow, not the practice.
At last, the attention qualifying will start.The entrance gate was also opened, and the customers were running vigorously, and the momentum of taking the front of us disappeared in the blink of an eye. Seventeen riders gradually gathered together with only one frame.It seems that each rider does not seem to be very tense, such as imagery and concentration.The atmosphere changed when I thought, everyone had a board and went up to the start gate.
In this qualifying round, the total points of the two games will be used to compete.In other words, if you don't make both of them, you can't go up to the main race. Even if one is good, if the other is bad, it will be useless.Of course, even if you reach a little, you will be deducted.
From the start, the audience started with great excitement.The spectators are excited about the tricks that are played one after another, whether they decide or make a mistake.As an aside, the people in Hokkaido are very excited, and even if they go to live concerts, the excitement is more intense than in other areas.It's really Hokkaido.
By the way, the top of the first run was BURTON Haku Suzuki, and the switch front XNUMX melancholy was decided to be a pacific, XNUMX points, and the height was quite high.Next was SIMS Takuya Yamamura, who also had a switch front XNUMX melancholy, a long grab time and clean make-up, XNUMX points.This difference may be a subtle taste of the judges, but they were both perfectly good. XNUMXrd place is Keisukeman check YONEX Teruhiko Ando, also switch front XNUMX indie, it took quite a while, but it seems that he has started a little, XNUMX points. XNUMXth place is a vacuum Gotch, backside XNUMX Indy with XNUMX points.
Check other Keisukeman, Yuji Hara is front side corkscrew XNUMX Indy, unfortunately he missed the landing.Another, Munehiro Horio, is a backside rodeo XNUMX stalefish, and unfortunately he also missed the landing.
Continue to start from the lowest of the second and first points.This qualifying round will use a total of two points.Therefore, the rider who missed the first one is quite painful.However, Mr. Horio decided that such a thing was not good, and he decided the backside rodeo XNUMX stale fish that I made a mistake earlier, XNUMX points.The audience responded to that and the supermarket was excited.And Yuji also did the perfect make-up of the front side corkscrew XNUMX Indy that I missed the first one, XNUMX points.And attention, I want to give more points than before in order to beat Teru Ando, who finished XNUMXrd in the first qualifying run, and Haku Suzuki, who finished XNUMXst.He is not the kind of man who prays for the failure of the other two and goes on to win.I thought it must be a big move.As expected, the switch was good enough, but I made a mistake at the railroad crossing.It was a failure to lose balance, but the height may have been number one, and I thought it would be true that even if the balance was lost that much, it would fall off the board firmly.After that, Takuya Yamamura and Haku Suzuki will face each other.Takuya Yamamura The second one was also a switch front side XNUMX melancholy, and with a super long grab just before landing, the landing was perfect, XNUMX points, and of course it jumped to the top.And Haku Suzuki, the last rider in qualifying, was the only one to hit the XNUMX-point range in the first run. If you give the same points as the first run, you will be ranked XNUMXst and will participate in the main race.After all switch entry, I thought that it would come with the same technique, switch front side XNUMX, a series of movements in the air is perfect, but the board turned around after landing.How much will this be a deduction?The points are XNUMX points.After all the judge looks closely.As a result, Takuya Yamamura, who had two perfect switches XNUMX in a row, was able to pass the qualifying.He may not be so well known yet, I'm sorry I didn't know much about it, and it will become a BIG NAME in the future. Takuya Yamamura of SIMS, I have to interview next time.
Take a break at TINA's live concert before the main race.Take a break or this is another super excitement.Thank you for a good live in this cold weather! !!Good, TINA.These events often include live performances, so it's really a good deal.
By the way, the main battle was held by XNUMX people.I will report the result suddenly, but it seems that the winner was Salomon's Giome Morissette and the US OPEN halfpipe, but it is not well known in Japan yet.Even so, the number of XNUMX points is just a great word.The switch backside XNUMX has a perfect landing distance and height.Looking at the whole race, the technique was amazing. XNUMXnd place Roger Helmstadsen's front side XNUMX, XNUMXrd place Stephen Gimple's switch front side XNUMX, and Daniel Franck's backside XNUMX, Jonas Emery's chimpanzee were really overwhelmed.It was a terrifying level of battle.Personally, I was numb to the backside XNUMX melancholy of Yukame Yamazaki.It seems that he flew the most in the main race, but it is unavoidable that he cannot win with Back One.However, it burned into my mind.That kind of prize money is irreplaceable, that back one is Yukame-kun.
Recently a member of Norinori's FIRST CHIDREN.It appears every year in the video produced by Vacuum Yasu, and he handles not only straight jumps but also rails and pipes.I don't have much image of a pipe, but this Yuji has also become a professional in the SHINWA CUP halfpipe last season.I think many people are impressed by the pictures of the rails of the transformer.I've been checking him for about three or four years.At that time, I visited Whistler every summer and saw him at that time.That was before Yasu (vacuum), Kampei (RICE), Fukuyama-kun (infinity) and Gotchi (vacuum) became professionals without sponsorship.Yuji wasn't very noticeable among them at the time, but I thought they would definitely become famous, but to be honest, I didn't think that everyone would be a major player.But the betrayal is as good as it gets.I casually interviewed Yuji.
I think he is a complete all-rounder. About four years ago, when I was managing a park and pipes at a ski resort called Takai Fuji in Kitashiga Kogen, Nagano Prefecture, Yoshi (Salomon), Junya (Robinson) and Horio-kun were in the magazine. I came to shoot.Everyone was happy to fly the huge kicker produced by our Takai Fuji staff, and Mr. Horio had been making front side 720 and 900 from that time.At that time, I was already a professional, that is, the pipe is good.About two years later, I happened to be together for a long-term powder shooting at a ski resort called Okutadami Maruyama in Niigata, and raised a huge powder to draw a technical line. When I received the press documents for TOYOTA BIG AIR, I found his name and decided to interview him for a long time.Again, I did a casual interview.
