Highlights from both the mens and womens freeski slopestyle finals at the 2012 Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge, Colorado. Featuring Tom Wallisch, Russ Henshaw, Kaya Turski, and more.
The Women’s Freeski Slopestyle Final broke in the last day of the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships at Breckenridge, Colorado, and with light snowfall mixed with broken sunshine it was a perfect day for competition finals.
Following a fierce semi-final from the day before, the best six scores advanced skiers into this winner-take-all final for the 2012 Dew Cup, and every women on the slope through everything they had in an effort to take the title.
Third place qualifier, Kaya Turski, nailed her first run of the final that carried her through the rest of the competition. Turski’s first and best run included a switch on front swap on the rainbow box, lipslide to fakie on the next rail, to switch unnatural 360 over the first jump, to switch 540 over the next jump, then 270 onto the next rainbow box, then she wrapped up her run with a 540 then a switch 720 over the final two jumps.
Following the 31-man semi-final, only the top twelve were allowed to return to throw it all on the line for their chance at taking the 2012 Dew Cup.
As first place qualifier James Woods, aka Woodsy, rode through his final run, he seemed to put down everything he wished, but as he approached the final jump he decided to ride to the side in order to save himself from a possible windy wreck and let this event go to the Aussie, Russ Henshaw, who scored a whopping 84.50 on his first run.
Henshaw’s best run included a 270 lipslide on the first down feature, a 270 onto the wallride, double cork 1080, right 900, switch 270 onto the rainbow, switch double cork 900 into a right double cork 1260.