Seppe Smits 3rd place at Spring Battle 2016

https://www.worldsnowboardtour.com For seven days, nearly 100 snowboarders and freeskiers tried to film their best run at Absolut Park Flachauwinkl and win their share of the 60.000 US-Dollars of prize money. During the last two days, the riders could even step up the trick level on the challenging and creative slopestyle course thanks to perfect conditions. The snowboarders Billy Morgan and Jess Rich as well as freeskier Alex Hall finally won their categories. The British triple cork machine Billy Morgan Billy Morgan beat his competitors with a cab 270/270 out at the rail followed by a fs 540 melon, a cab double cork 900 double mute at the quarter as well as a fs double cork 10 tailgrab and a bs triple cork 1440 nosegrab at the kickers. The US-American Alex Hall showed a sick run with a switch right-on pretzel at the rail, a switch up to flatspin 720 out at the quarter, a leftside 9 reverse tail as well as a switch right double cork 10 safety and a switch left double cork 14 safety at the kickers. Jess Rich from Australia convinced the judges with a switch fs blunt 270 at the rail, a cab 180 bs Miller at the knuckle, a bs 180 tailgrab at the quarter, and a switch bs 540 Melon to bs 720 Indy at the kickers. For the second time, the Spring Battle combined a unique slopestyle setup with the innovative contest format of a follow cam jam session. This means that riders can team up, film each other?s runs during jam sessions of four hours as often as they like, and each hand in the best run for judging at the end of the week.