White and O’Brien Win Dew Tour Slopestyle
lgallagher
- December 19 2008
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Shaun White & Spencer O’Brien Win Dew Slopestyle
(December 19, 2008) Yesterdays sideways blizzard cleared out today just in time for the first ever Winter Dew Tour Slopestyle finals. There were no complaints from the riders about this course—the triple set of jumps were big and lofty and very watchable from the top and bottom.
In the men’s division, Andreas Wiig was still coming back from a rolled ankle so he took it easy, opening up a usually reserved podium space for the rest of the field. Mikkel Bang stepped up and consistently flowed with great style and was a crowd favorite all day, and Janne Korpe beat out the rest of the heavy pack for third with tight, dizzying spins down the course. Shaun White was comboing up 10s and 9s all day, but in classic Shaun style, pulled out his ace card in the final round on the last jump—switch back 12 for first. Daniel Ek’s double backside rodeo 10 on the last hit was a notable highlight as well.
The girls were hitting the same exact course as the guys—no ladies tees here, which made the women’s event one of the best contests on record. These jumps were massive stepdowns, the first jumps of the season for some riders, and they didn’t even flinch. Spencer O’Brien showed her competitive side—when it got to the finals and she saw her chance at first slipping away with Jenny Jones in first and Bev Vuilleumier in second, Spencer just sent it going back 3 to a clean, stylish back five over the big kicker. Jenny wins for consistency, stomping her run, a front 3 to back 3 to front 5 all through practice, qualifiers, and finals, while Bev went front 3 to back 3 to a surprise 7 and put it down for a fresh face on the women’s slopestyle podium.
Dew Tour Slopestyle Winners
1. Shaun White
2. Mikkel Bang
3. Janne Korpe
1. Spencer O’Brein
2. Jenny Jones
3. Bev Vuilleumier
Spencer O’Brien. Switch Backside 180.
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December 20th, 2008 at 3:00 am
is this a spin to win tour or a style and snowboarding tour?
December 20th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I like your style Liam
December 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
not a single shot of a rail in this
December 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
spin to win for the mens
style and snowboarding for the womens
December 20th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
what the hell kind of gloves was the third place girl wearing?
boxing gloves?
December 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Wow, girls suck! I can’t believe at some contests they get paid the same amount and that announcers say “she better than most of the guys.” These girls wouldn’t even place in AM contests if they were dudes.
December 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Horendous video, not the tricks but the layout of the content that was presented. This venue had everything needed to produce an extremely solid edit, but this was far below sub-par.
December 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
yea there was are u blind? there was like a whole 5 seconds of rail
December 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
WTF is with all the hucking? It looks like shit. Fuck these kind of contests.
December 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Yup!
December 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
i was thinking the same thing, i was like damn if i was a girl id be killing them, they blow so bad
equal rights in snowboarding has no place, there shouldnt be a boys event and a girls event, just 1 event and therefore guys can have more spots bc the girls suck, bs 3, fs 3—i can do those tricks off rails, losers
December 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
this could be going off well but they picked the wrong monutain to do it at, breck sucks. I live and work here and im so burned out on the area, the mountain operations departments are all so messed up and backwords. On to the cunts thing i don’t think even half the cunts that are sponsored should be at all, they just get hooked up cause they are cunts. hahahahahaha
December 21st, 2008 at 11:17 am
spinning like a damn top is so played out and wack.. where is the style, i hate how comps came down to who spins the most, its not even good looking.
December 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I got too dizzy watchin’ all those ass-turkeys spin around like that. Then I fell out of my chair and pooped on myself, hahah!
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
From all the shit talking on these forums… I wonder if the people doing all the lame talking even snowboard?
December 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
yeah that would make alot of sense, just leave girls out of the snowboard scene. its obvious guys are better than girls, they are at most sports. il-legitimate kids like yourself would cry about it. maybe when you graduate from high school you might understand. you sir, are a weak minded individual who may never get to experience a girls fun parts with such a biased perspective on gender
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
you are a d-bag, i’d like to see you hit that 80 foot jump.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:17 am
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