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Local talents strut their stuff in famous Freeway park at Breckenridge
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Adam
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quarterpipe on his way to winning the Spring Massive slopestyle event
on Peak 8 Saturday.
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By DEVON O’NEIL
summit daily news
April 14, 2007
BRECKENRIDGE — The annual Spring Massive freestyle
competitions at Breckenridge are considered launching pad events, good
ways to get noticed.
After taking third at last year’s Massive
slopestyle contest, Everly Gohman took the whole “getting noticed”
thing a step further on Saturday. The 20-year-old Breck local
catapulted off the third and final hit of the famous Freeway Terrain
Park into a double backflip — and stuck the landing.
Nobody in the crowd seemed to know what to say. The announcers said it was the first they’d ever heard of at this event.
Afterward,
in typical fashion for a park that houses too much talent for industry
sponsors ever to cover entirely, Gohman explained his stunning display.
“I
just learned it not too long ago — I just tried it one day and I landed
it, and I’ve been doing ’em ever since,” said the Minnesota native,
whose winter generally consists of “scraping by, just trying to ski as
much pow as I can.”
“It’s just pretty scary when you go into the second flip,” he said.
Gohman’s
daring maneuver epitomized the Spring Massive tradition, wherein
no-name locals as well as bigger-name pros compete side by side for a
three-day purse of $10,300. The vibe stays low-key. Risks are taken.
Sometimes they pay off.
More than anything, though, the
slopestyle and superpipe (which is set for today) competitions offer
every skier and rider an opportunity to exhibit what they’ve worked on
all season.
For some that can be a simple 360. For others, it
might be a switch 1080, like that which Breck Freeride Team skier Adam
Delorme landed to highlight a seemless second run, the only trip
through the park good enough to trump Gohman’s.
Here’s how he
described the $600 winning run: “I came into the top rail, regular on,
blindside two-seven up, to switch, came into jump one switch, did a
switch corked seven with a high safety on the right ski, coming into
two did a switch 10, leaning safety, and off three I’m trying this new
trick, it’s a cork zero spin, trying to get a little corked with it,
grabbing up high safety on the left ski as well. Then came down on the
quarterpipe and just tried to go big.”
The 23-year-old
Fat-ypus-sponsored skier succeeded, too, soaring at least a dozen feet
off the lip where others struggled to even clear it.
Gohman took second followed by Luke Nutting in third.
On
the snowboard side, a local 18-year-old, Breck’s Madison Ellsworth,
strung together a clean, balanced run that was just enough to top Eric
Willett’s effort.
Ellsworth, a Copper Freeride Team member and
winner of this year’s Aspen Open slopestyle crown, attributed his
triumphant run to his ability to stay focused. Despite overshooting his
first landing off the big jump line, he still put together a clean
repertoire of tricks that included a backside 720 off the final kicker.
“I
got a little mixed up, actually,” said Ellsworth, who is getting his
GED instead of finishing high school to give him more time on the snow.
“I wasn’t really supposed to do the run that I did, but it turned out
fine.”
Yet another local teenage ripper and Breck Freeride Team
member, Colby Adams, emerged victorious in the women’s ski division,
with Breck’s Keri Herman and Jenn Hirsch rounding out that podium.
In
the women’s snowboard category, 22-year-old Czech Republic native and
current Evergreen resident Eva Cameron won the $300 victor’s check,
despite an ominous beginning to her day.
“I was so hungover in
the morning that I could not even get nervous,” the four-time Czech
slopestyle national champ said. “My only worry was to keep my stomach
calm.”
Brodie Waring and Tori Koski took second and third in that division, respectively.
In all, 80 athletes competed, some as young as 11 and 12.
