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So Yesterday was the Mt. Dew Winter Tour Slope style Qualifiers. I showed up and the jumps were way bigger then anyone would have thought. Got straight to practice, nice and early 8am wooo, and tried to figure out the speed. Heres how the day broke down, first run I just planned on straight airing everything, but when I went into the second jump I apparently had way to much speed and ended up clearing the entire landing. Next run i droped in, spun the first jump straighted the second then went to straight the third and came up on the knuckle. Next run consisted of decking the first jump. As you can tell it started off pretty ruff. I took some more runs and finally got comfortable with spinning them all, even if it was just a 3 over the last. I scrapped my board and was ready for the runs. My first run I dropped in, stomped the first jump great, then through a real good 7 off the second jump which turned out to be way too huge and cleared the entire landing again. So first run is the throw out run, and second run needs to be the show stopper. With butterflys in the stomach I dropped in with one goal, to land on my feet and get through the whole run, gap lip went perfect, Cab 5 stomped, front 7 not perfect but too my feet and with what I thought was plenty of speed for the third. Figured i wouldnt have the speed to do the 9 I wanted so just threw the bs 7 landed it clean and went into the last rail front boarded and was done. what i wanted a landed run. i thought that it would be enough to put me in, but to my suprise it wasnt quite enough. I ended up taking 28th and I have to be happy with that I suppose. On to the next contest and on to the next day of shredding, knowing I need to step up my game a bit.
-Seth
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