With the weather playing with us here in Crans-Montana at the Champs Open by Rip Curl obliging the organisation to postpone the finals until sunday - make sure to watch it LIVE -, let’s look back at the innovative contest which took place on thursday evening in New York City: the Red Bull Snowscrapers.
16 of the world’s best snowboarders took to the immense drop-in that stood nine stories tall in New York City’s East River Park, hitting the 80-foot-long hip jump. Shayne Pospisil took a surprise win and 50 000$! Shayne defeated Torstein Horgmo in the final round, stomping a solid backside 900. In the earlier rounds Torstein had defeated Shaun White and Travis Rice, while Shayne went past Terje and Scotty Lago. Terje Haakonsen walked away from a one-footed method air to earn Best Trick. Respect!
Red Bull came up with a mega-project to bring snowboarding to NYC but it probably didn’t work the way they wanted. All the riders suffered from speed problems and didn’t fly as much as they’d liked. Not as epic as it was expected to be but we can trust Red Bull to improve for the second run.
Click for a short video with the highlights of the event, while we watch the snow fall.
