Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

Myself and thomas Doelplads travelled over to the states on sunday for the x-games, we were meeting up with Mirjam in Breck to get over our jet lag then heading over to Aspen on monday for the first halfpipe training session in the evening.

 Gary and Andreas were already over here and ready to go, both totally stoked with the shape of the pipe, it looks wicked - photos to follow, I kept forgeting to take my camera, will defo get some shots tomorrow. 

On Tuesday Mirjam and Andreas were involved in some superpipe training and Thomas and I headed up to Snowmass so he could get a warm up on some kickers. We then headed over to catch the training and Tanner and Simon were killing it as usual and Andreas was being silly technical. Mirjam was stoked by the end of the night as she was landing her unnatural 5's so her run was coming together.

Today Thomas and Andreas had slopestyle training and cautiously tested out the course. It is different to last year with a lot of speed, there is an A-Frame box, then an up box to large gap then onto 4 kickers, the last being a big step down. It took most of the day for the guys to get the speed right but there were smiles all round and with the comp not being until Sunday there is lots of time to practice. Gary was doing well in the pipe with some big airs and landing his cab 10's although he took a bit of a hit on his knee at the end of the session trying the FS10's but with no training tomorrow and a day off he reckons he will be fine for the next training session.

Well that is about it up till now, there is the guys ski superpipe qualis tonight so we are heading over to check out how Andreas gets on, will let you know tomorrow.

cheers

Graham