Vail Session Steel & Sky Rail Jam

By
Sat, Jan 13 2007 3:00 am | Comments What a cool setup. The Vail Session rail session was a snowy skatepark complete with a plastic C-bowl, big old ledges, and a QP complete with coping. Riders with a skate background definitely had an advantage. Take young Ellery Hollingsworth, the fifteen year old Burton rider is also a solid skater. No surprise that she was able to maximize the trannies and link up sick runs. She went ahead and threw a beefy backside five on the QP and followed it with a 50-50 frontboard down the box. Other standout women were Jamie Anderson, who’s currently on a roll leading the TTR standings. Jamie was throwing Mctwists on the quarter and mobbing boardslides through the bowl. Kimmy Fasani and Marie-France both threw nice handplants, and other smooth moves too. Silvia Mitermuller blasted a frontside five over the gap, landing herself in the top three.

On the men’s side of things, the standouts were Lucas Magoon Son, Chas Guldemond, Danny Davis, and Jonas Carlsson. The trick of the night was Lucas Magoon’s gap to 50-50 backside one out on the Dragon ledge. He’d previously gapped to straight 50-50, followed by a nice tailblock on the quarter, to a frontboard 270 out on the down box. Nice use of the course by Magoon. Kevin Pierce McTwisted into a shared 2nd place. Noticeably, and questionably absent from the standings was Chas Guldemond who powered through a McTwist on the QP to a bombdrop 270 off the dragon ledge … and he was the only rider to really clean up the down flat down rail with a 50-50, frontboard to fakie. Danny Davis was pushing Haakonflips and backside 9s, local favorite Andrew Stewart snuck in a nollie frontflip after getting beasted in the qualifiers, or as Dingo put it, “getting hit by a Mack Truck. Jonas Carlsson melted a high-speed gap-to frontboard up to the top portion of kinked rail to 450 out, which really pleased the huge crowd. Lot’s of riders rode away thousands of dollars richer even without placing thanks to the unique ‘winner every fifteen minutes for the hour session’ format. A 41,500 dollar chunk of cash was doled out tonight. Stay tuned for the Saturday night men’s slopestyle—we saw Kass and Wiig warming up today.

Malay Best Trick
Leanne Pelosi
Lucas Magoon

Women’s Steel & Sky Results
1. Ellery Hollingsworth
2. Jamie Anderson
3. Silvia Mittermuller

Men’s Steel & Sky Results
1. Lucas Magoon
2. TJ Schneider, Kevin Pearce, Pat Milbery

Tune in to NBC Saturday, January 20 at 2:00 (EST) for a one-hour special of The Honda Session at Vail.