Frostgun Invitational
Feb 10th 2012The world’s best freeskiers will once again team up in Val Thorens, France on February 16th for the Frostgun Invitational big air competition!
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Frostgun Invitational
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Feb 18th 2012By: schmuck
Words by Anna Westerberg
Photos by Fabrice Wittner
Videos by Downdays.eu & Skiers.dk
Yesterday, some of the world's best freeskiers teamed up in Val Thorens, France for the Frostgun Invitational, which was a gold-level AFP event.
Henrik Harlaut
Russ Henshaw
This year's field of riders was stronger than ever, with two-time defending champion Russ Henshaw, X Games big air silver medalist Kai Mahler, Henrik Harlaut, PK Hunder and many others competing on the biggest jump of the season. The jump itself was 31 meters long with a height of 11 meters and a 17 meter long gap, so needless to say, the riders didn’t disappoint with the multitude of tricks they were throwing down on the massive jump.
PK Hunder
After postponing the competition for a day due to bad weather, the event began with qualifications under bluebird skies. The qualifying format gave the 20 riders three runs each with the best two counting (and two of their jumps had to have a different rotation, axis or take-off to count), after which only the top eight moved on to finals.
Gaute Silseth
Espen Bergh
Espen Bergh
In the finals, the format changed to a head-to-head knockout, where the riders had the liberty to perform any trick of their choice. After the quarter and semi-finals, where while Russ Henshaw ended up in third with a right side double cork 12 double grab (mute to japan) and Henrik Harlaut took fourth with a bio 12 blunt, the battle in the super final was between the two young Swiss stars, X Games big air silver medalist Kai Mahler and the up-and-coming Rico Schuler.
Russ Henshaw
Henrik Harlaut
In the end, Kai Mahler took home the highest score of the day with a huge left side double cork 12 shifty japan while Rico Schuler placed second with a left side double cork 16 tail to cap off another exciting edition of the Frostgun Invitational.
Rico Schuler
Kai Mahler
Results
1) Kai Mahler
2) Rico Schuler
3) Russ Henshaw
4) Henrik Harlaut
5) PK Hunder
6) Espen Bergh
7) Jonas Hunziker
8) Gaute Silseth
To see how this event affects the AFP rankings, go to afpworldtour.com.
Kai Mahler & Rico Schuler
Frostgun Invitational Finals by Downdays.eu & Skiers.dk
1) Kai Mahler
2) Rico Schuler
3) Russ Henshaw
4) Henrik Harlaut
5) PK Hunder
6) Espen Bergh
7) Jonas Hunziker
8) Gaute Silseth
To see how this event affects the AFP rankings, go to afpworldtour.com.
Kai Mahler & Rico Schuler
Frostgun Invitational Finals by Downdays.eu & Skiers.dk
Behind The Scenes at Frostgun with PK Hunder & Russ Henshaw
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Comments
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jump_jib_repeat$
Feb 18th 2012 at 1:52:00pm
Harlaut fkn money!
Gab.M
Feb 18th 2012 at 1:52:06pm
EDOLLOOOO 4 tha win
flyingbananas
Feb 18th 2012 at 2:04:40pm
sick
TheGnarwhal
Feb 18th 2012 at 2:06:11pm
harlaut so easy.. no poles nbd
snarfsnarf44
Feb 18th 2012 at 2:12:06pm
Nuts. That looked like such a sick comp.
Yossarian
Feb 18th 2012 at 2:25:55pm
sick
CKmediahouse
Feb 18th 2012 at 2:53:40pm
won with a revert?
backbarvey
Feb 18th 2012 at 3:14:30pm
Kai Mahler is a fucking beast. Only other person I've seen do shifties in dubs is Tom Wallisch.
p-fo
Feb 18th 2012 at 3:15:48pm
Henriks double bio is straight up next level. Too bad he didn't land it.
Corin
Feb 18th 2012 at 3:21:52pm
insane...
zSean
Feb 18th 2012 at 3:43:39pm
kai is on a whole other level
PON3$
Feb 18th 2012 at 4:47:14pm
Mahler is going places
FloatHigh
Feb 18th 2012 at 5:00:05pm
edollo holding that blunt
Dr.DRE
Feb 18th 2012 at 5:00:15pm
Was at Val Thorens a few days ago, conditions are mint! Nice words JS.
Silence$$
Feb 18th 2012 at 6:07:56pm
pretty stupid camera angles they had there
Steezyiott
Feb 18th 2012 at 6:15:17pm
^agreed It was hard to see over that massive jump
kyle_v
Feb 18th 2012 at 6:51:23pm
why dont contests make jumps big enough to tripple these days? it would make the competition much more exciting.
JTSFilm
Feb 18th 2012 at 7:07:07pm
yea espen!
ja.
Feb 18th 2012 at 7:23:45pm
Massive 9!
rudager$$
Feb 18th 2012 at 7:35:30pm
damn. Henrick's 12 was so sick.
Drail
Feb 18th 2012 at 7:41:51pm
holy fuck. I that dub from henrik is one of the few that has really blown me away. That was like 3 to bio 10. What the fuck.
chaitea
Feb 18th 2012 at 7:55:23pm
fuckin sick, wish Henrik would've landed that. Kai Mahler has so much style too. And holy shit Rico Schuler where did he come from
PrairieSteeze$
Feb 18th 2012 at 10:27:09pm
henshaw on the podium! yeah buddy
Stose$
Feb 19th 2012 at 2:50:25am
WHAT THE FUCK. i have never heard of rico schuler but that was one of the sickest tricks i have ever seen
Mew.
Feb 19th 2012 at 6:29:45pm
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