For those of you who don't know, the Absolut Park organizes a yearly contest called Spring Battle! Some of world’s best riders head down to Flachauwinkl to compete and to enjoy an epic week here on the mountain. I was stoked because Seppe was also coming down and I could finally shred with my brother again!
This year we had quite some Belgian riders competing in the Spring Battle. Bjorn Simons, Stef Van Deursen and Sebbe de Buck all entered in the quali's. All of them did some good riding but the level was really high from the start and only Sebbe made it through to semis!
Thursday was competitions day! As we were all getting a tan while enjoying the insanely high level of snowboarding the judges had the hard job of making a cut from 22 riders to 8 riders for the next round. Seppe and Sebbe where amongst the ones to progress to the finals! Here is the complete list of finalist who made it!
Antoine Truchon CAN
Torgeir Bergrem NOR
Lucien Koch SUI
Sebbe De Buck BEL
Billy Morgan GBR
Seppe Smits BEL
Roope Tonteri FIN
Clemens Schattschneider AUT
Each rider had to do 3 runs and afterwards had to choose which one was his favorite. That run would be used for the live judging show on Friday. We enjoyed the rest of the day with some more spring shredding and topped it off with the infamous riders party where all riders were presented with a free bottle of Absolut Wodka. On top of that we also celebrated Sebbe his Bday at midnight. What a party!
After a party like that, good thing no one needed to ride a competition on Friday! Plenty of time to sleep the hang over away! By the time we all woke up our mum was up for a snowboard lesson! So Seppe and I went up the slope and in no time she was shredding it!
Then it was time to end the week with the live judging and the after party!
Seppe ended up in third place with his perfect backside triple cork 1440! Clemens took 2nd place and Billy took the win with a triple 1620 ! Big up again for the great riding.
Even though we were still a bit tired from the night before we managed to have a good party to celebrate the great results!
A super sunny week with some serious high level snowboarding, sweet parties, awesome friends but most important my great family! Feeling very thankful!
This year we had quite some Belgian riders competing in the Spring Battle. Bjorn Simons, Stef Van Deursen and Sebbe de Buck all entered in the quali's. All of them did some good riding but the level was really high from the start and only Sebbe made it through to semis!
Thursday was competitions day! As we were all getting a tan while enjoying the insanely high level of snowboarding the judges had the hard job of making a cut from 22 riders to 8 riders for the next round. Seppe and Sebbe where amongst the ones to progress to the finals! Here is the complete list of finalist who made it!
Antoine Truchon CAN
Torgeir Bergrem NOR
Lucien Koch SUI
Sebbe De Buck BEL
Billy Morgan GBR
Seppe Smits BEL
Roope Tonteri FIN
Clemens Schattschneider AUT
Each rider had to do 3 runs and afterwards had to choose which one was his favorite. That run would be used for the live judging show on Friday. We enjoyed the rest of the day with some more spring shredding and topped it off with the infamous riders party where all riders were presented with a free bottle of Absolut Wodka. On top of that we also celebrated Sebbe his Bday at midnight. What a party!
After a party like that, good thing no one needed to ride a competition on Friday! Plenty of time to sleep the hang over away! By the time we all woke up our mum was up for a snowboard lesson! So Seppe and I went up the slope and in no time she was shredding it!
Then it was time to end the week with the live judging and the after party!
Seppe ended up in third place with his perfect backside triple cork 1440! Clemens took 2nd place and Billy took the win with a triple 1620 ! Big up again for the great riding.
Even though we were still a bit tired from the night before we managed to have a good party to celebrate the great results!
A super sunny week with some serious high level snowboarding, sweet parties, awesome friends but most important my great family! Feeling very thankful!