It was a tough sell for Dew Tour this year with World Championships happening simultaneously in Georgia. That meant lots of the athletes were already out in Bakurani, or on their way, but with Brendan Mackay, David Wise, Aaron Blunck and Alex Ferreira dropping it's not like too many of the podium threats were absent. Conditions were absolutely perfect in Copper, sunny skies, and low winds and the riders were sending in what made for a stellar finals day. 7 riders took to the pipe, 4 runs each and it was cool to see an almost jam session style pipe event.
Run 1:
The show started with a massive dub flat to the deck on the final hit for Matt Labaugh, no idea how he skied away just fine but mega props for taking that hit. Hunter Hess stomped a 16. Aaron Blunck put down his crazy switch to switch dub, but nobody really managed a clean run until David Wise, the penultimate rider. Fresh off the back of a 5th X Games gold, he nailed his run, which featured both ways dub 12s grabbed super proper (blunt was capped) and a smooth switch dub 10 too.
Run 2:
Ben Harrington had a really cool on-axis 12 in his run but let go of some grabs a bit early. Hunter Hess' 1080 true nose is still one of the best-looking pipe tricks, but he was done score-wise after a second hit bobble. Brendan Mackay cleaned up his run, switch dub 10 was a thing of beauty, spun like a switch dub 9 on a jump. Aaron Blunck cleaned it up a bit too, and his down pipe dub 9 was much better, but he tickled the grab on his last hit dub 12. Enough for provisional second though. Alex Ferreira put down probably the most technical run of the day so far, the right dub 12 mute to left dub 14 was sick, but a slight (tiny) shuffle on the landing of the 14 hurt the amplitude of his next hit, and his score as a result.
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Full replay:
[VIDEO]1065207[/VIDEO]
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Run 1:
The show started with a massive dub flat to the deck on the final hit for Matt Labaugh, no idea how he skied away just fine but mega props for taking that hit. Hunter Hess stomped a 16. Aaron Blunck put down his crazy switch to switch dub, but nobody really managed a clean run until David Wise, the penultimate rider. Fresh off the back of a 5th X Games gold, he nailed his run, which featured both ways dub 12s grabbed super proper (blunt was capped) and a smooth switch dub 10 too.
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Run 2:
Ben Harrington had a really cool on-axis 12 in his run but let go of some grabs a bit early. Hunter Hess' 1080 true nose is still one of the best-looking pipe tricks, but he was done score-wise after a second hit bobble. Brendan Mackay cleaned up his run, switch dub 10 was a thing of beauty, spun like a switch dub 9 on a jump. Aaron Blunck cleaned it up a bit too, and his down pipe dub 9 was much better, but he tickled the grab on his last hit dub 12. Enough for provisional second though. Alex Ferreira put down probably the most technical run of the day so far, the right dub 12 mute to left dub 14 was sick, but a slight (tiny) shuffle on the landing of the 14 hurt the amplitude of his next hit, and his score as a result.
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Full replay:
[VIDEO]1065207[/VIDEO]
