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The Freestyle Rundown - May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020·Ski Cross
© GEPA Pictures/Daniel Goetzhaber

While we are a little late getting this baby together today, but we are indeed back with another installment of your weekly Wednesday round-up of news and good content from the past seven-ish days here in the Rundown.

First things first, today we went live with the latest in our #ClassicsLive series, where we're opening up the video vaults, looking back to some epic competitions in FIS Freestyle history and allowing you the fans to vote for which one you would like to see in it's entirity on our YouTube page.

This week's vote pits the Tignes 2016 haflpipe World Cup finals against the La Plagne 2011 competition, and you can head HERE to learn more and cast your vote now.

For this week’s #ClassicsLive vote we look to the halfpipe, with two historic competitions from the FIS Freeski vaults for you to choose from. Will it be La Plagne, 2011, which saw the last World Cup win by the late, great Sarah Burke, and the first World Cup win for a then 15-year-old @torinyw? Or will it be Tignes 2016, when @kevin_rolland went off in front of a wild French crowd to take the victory and his second career crystal globe? Hit the link in bio to head over to the website and make your selection… #fisfreestyle #fisfreeski #halfpipe #ClassicsLive

In other news-y stuff this week, a whole stack of team announcements came through over the past few days, with the USA anouncing their nominations for their 2020/21 freeski squad and for their freestyle team, the Canadians announcing their freestyle team, Austria their ski cross and freeski teams, and the whole freestyle/freeski squad from top to bottom announced by the French.

The U.S. Freeski Team halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air nominations for the 2020-21 season are in, with 25 pro-level and 15 rookie freeski athletes! 🙌 Hit the link in our bio or head to our live Instagram story to watch the nominations with @maggie_voisin and @mrdavidwise.

Speaking of the US team, they took the time yesterday to acknowledge frontline healthcare workers on International Nurses Day, in a nice gesture towards some of the most important people on earth as we make our way through the continuing coronavirus situation...

To all the brave, hardworking nurses and other frontline healthcare heroes. Today, and every day, we are cheering for you. 👏 Thank you, from U.S. Ski & Snowboard. #OneTeam #InternationalNursesDay #thankyounurses

Speaking of nice gestures, shout out to Henrik Harlaut for giving us all a little moment of bliss with this perfect, steezy, slushy alley-oop 5. Henrik could post a video brushing his teeth at this point and we'd all just like "thank you, Dollo," but this is better. Beauty.

Spring skii 😎🙌 📹: @_42mm_

What else is good this week...oh, how about Lukas Muellauer guinnea-pigging the insane motobooter at the Audi Nines last year? The reaction from the gang at the top of the drop-in says it all...

Throwing it back to that day when I got the opportunity to be the first to check in the launchpad at @audinines 🙏🥰

Meanwhile, Muellauer's Austrian amigo Marco Ladner dropped a nice little season-edit over the weekend. We also can't wait to be back on skis, Marco, but clips like this are helping us all get through it...🙌

Even if the season had a quick end, I wanna say THANK YOU to everyone who made it still a special one !🖤 cant wait to be back on skis !!! 🎿 #ski #forever #love #mountains #videography #tricks #travel #sport #snow #motivation

After being held up in the confusion of the early ending to the season, the slopestyle globes finally reached the hands of the Swiss team, with Andri Ragettli receiving his over the weekend and Sarah Hoefflin set to get hers sometime next week. Andri's globe is the fourth of his career - more than any other freeskier in World Cup history - and he pulled his whole sizeable stack of World Cup hardware off the trophy shelf for a photo op...

So thankful and proud!🏆🙏 Hard work and dedication brought me here!🔮 Always believe in your dreams!😈💯 #CrystalGlobe #Globe #Happy #Thankful #HardWork #Dedication #Overall 📸 @gianragettli

Alright, switching gears to ski cross, where Canada's Brittany Phelan took some time off from rehabbing her knee to post this sweet training clip from earlier in the season. There aren't many people on earth who are gonna outrun men's SX crystal globe winner Kevin Drury when he's got a full head of steam, but Britt gives it a good go here...

The last day of pre season training this year, I bet @drury.kc a chocolate bar he couldn’t pass me if he gave me a bit of a head start 😂. I don’t feel so bad now as he then went on to win the World Cup overall for the season! Watching old videos like this really make me smile! Can’t wait to get back skiing and get redemption 😂. #AlwaysGoodtimes

Speaking of rehab, Andrea Limbacher has an...interesting...weight lifting set-up back home in Saint Wolfgang as she too works to get back in shape following a knee injury. This is def one way of putting your ski gear to good use while in lockdown...

🐝creativity is the key🐝 . . #homegym #heustadl #workforit #workout #staystrong #stayhome #rehab #improvisation #creativity #skiing #skicross . . @energieagsportfamilie @polizei_im_bild @bauerfeindsports @bauerfeindmedical @fischerski @audi_aut @komperdell_official @uvexwintersports @ski_austria_skicross @fisfreestyle

You know the old saying "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade"? Well it appears that the Finnish version of that is, "If life hands you a garbage dump, make a terrain park!"

Something in the water over there....'DUMP2' is LIVE on Newschoolers ft. Finland's own @joel.kristian @juho.romakkaniemi @vesavahlqvist #newschoolers #dumptruck #literallyatrashpile #junkyarddog

Some super fun stuff here, as the prodigy Henry Sildaru and the legend Candide Thovex chase each other around in Balme...

Alright, now, first up in the "Wait, what just happened?" department is this clip of renowned Internet-breaker Fabian Boesch stomping a backflip...on a slackline.

Took a break from social media the past couple of weeks... but now I'm back with some backyard slackline action!😊 #imback 🎥: @iamalessiiaa

Next up is Kazakh moguls star Yulia Galysheva and a friend defying the laws of physics in a way that we still can't quite wrap our heads around...

Тренды тик-тока с @khrustaleva.yelena 🤪 Крышка дома поехала у обеих 😂😂 . . #yukaproduction #галышеваюля #nofilter #almaty #nocomment #gopro #полезныйзавтрак #2020 #moguls #победанадсобой #redbull #самоизоляция #сидимдома #карантин @olympickz #pilates

And finally we've got Sebastian Schjerve putting together this hypercombo at his backyard dryslope high-performance jib training facility...

Felt good🎯 #SSBE4

Finally, a little inspiration and a little warning to send you into the back half of the week, with 2019/20 aerials crystal globe winner Laura Peel bringing the inspo with this highlights package from last season...

Dreams > Fear

And finally a clip that serves as a warning to keep up your social distancing, lest you get a little too close to your buddy and end up in what could be an extremely uncomfortable situation for everyone involved...😬

Ripping it with the pals 🤘//@pknorvell @nationallisac @turbo_dieshall

Ok! Thanks for reading, stay safe, enjoy the rest of the week, and GO VOTE for your favourite Classics Live competition now!

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