Canada’s Maxence Parrot and Japan’s Miyabi Onitsuka claimed top honours in men’s and women’s Big Air competition respective at the Ticket to Ride (TTR) 6Star O’Neill Evolution that went down in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday, January 19.
Young American rider Kyle Mack finished third, while Norwegian Emil Ulsletten rounded out the podium in men’s super final.
The women’s final super final saw Austrian’s Christine Szumovski and America’s Celia Miller finish below Onitsuka in second and third place respectively to complete the podium.
The latest TTR 6Star big air event delivered all the excitement and adrenaline-pumping action that was promised, with both the male and female riders putting their exquisite skills and creativity on display while defying gravity.
In the four-man men’s Big Air final, Parrot did not waste any time to raise the intensity as he dropped a huge back-side triple cork 1440 mute spin in his first run.
This, however, was neither the first, nor the first attempt of a triple that he made. He was seen practicing the trick earlier in the week and went on to put the result of his training in front of the massive crowd during his third run, when he landed the
trick even cleaner than Run 1. He paired it up with a board-slide and back-slide lip-slide in the rail section of the course, thus putting a decisive 96.8 on the score-board.
"I'm feeling amazing. That's definitely the biggest run I've ever had in my life and that's definitely also the most amazing triple I've done in my life, so I couldn't be more happy right now," Parrot said during his post-final interview.
The 15-year-old Mack clinched second place with a score of 95.00, while Ulsletten finished third after registering 84.40 as his best-run score.
The women’s super-final that went down before the men took on the field was not any less electrifying, with all four finalists putting on a memorable show for the snowboarding fans.
The 14-year-old Onitsuka proved wiser beyond years as she stamped her authority in the battle for the top spot on the podium with a 80.20-point run that comprised of a front-side 360 front-side grab over the Big Air jump and then landed a lip-slide on the
big stair set’s down-rail before punctuating the run with a front-side board-slide down the hand-rail on the smaller stair set.
Szumovski, who had to settle for second place with her best-run score of 66.60, had nothing but appreciation for the way the young Japanese performed at such an event.
"I'm so stoked on her: she's such a champion," second place's Szumovski said about Onitsuka. "She's a cutie and she's killing it."
A best-run score of 62.20 allowed Miller to secure the last-remaining spot on the podium.
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