With a break in the cloudiness that had been Breckenridge for the last week, the sunshine popped out to welcome in the first Superpipe contest of the year. In the car ride up to the hill, the sun was just breaking through the icy crust that had formed overnight and everyone knew that it was time to turn it on.
"Look at that thing, it looks perfect! Let's do this!" said Shaun on the way up. "I can't wait!"
As practice got under way and the 12-person field saw what Shaun's run was looking like, they all stopped to take it in. Taking a note from his previous day's qualifying high score of a 96, he kicked off his Finals run with an insanely huge backside rode. Everyone stopped, hiking to watch as his practice run became perfected. The cards were down as the Finals got underway.
Shaun dropped into his first of two runs and everyone watched as he blasted out of his first hit in a huge backside rodeo. But he drifted a bit too far down the tranny, held the landing compression with some sort of Herculean strength that only he could, but his momentum was gone and the run was good but not perfect. Shaun wanted perfect.
Sitting atop the Superpipe waiting for the rest of the field to finish one by one the lead changed and soon enough it was Danny Davis sitting in first and Shaun White was the last one left to drop. Everyone knew that Shaun needed to be perfect...and he was. Blasting bigger than he had gone all day, Shaun settled the backside rodeo with flawless perfection, setting him up into a run that only he could put down. Backside rodeo, to backside 900 to frontisde 1080 to cab 1080 to huge frontside 540 stale to McTwist to end it.
It was a hell of a run, and it had been perfect. It was going to be close and when the scores came in, Shaun was just under Danny Davis by a few tenths of a point. But there was nothing else that could be done, Shaun stomped his run and came away from the weekend with a great finish and in even better shape for the overall title hunt, finishing 1st in Slopestyle and 2nd in Superpipe.
No doubt though Shaun will be looking for first come the Dew Tour's next stop in Mt. Snow, VT on Jan. 8-10.
As practice got under way and the 12-person field saw what Shaun's run was looking like, they all stopped to take it in. Taking a note from his previous day's qualifying high score of a 96, he kicked off his Finals run with an insanely huge backside rode. Everyone stopped, hiking to watch as his practice run became perfected. The cards were down as the Finals got underway.
Shaun dropped into his first of two runs and everyone watched as he blasted out of his first hit in a huge backside rodeo. But he drifted a bit too far down the tranny, held the landing compression with some sort of Herculean strength that only he could, but his momentum was gone and the run was good but not perfect. Shaun wanted perfect.
Sitting atop the Superpipe waiting for the rest of the field to finish one by one the lead changed and soon enough it was Danny Davis sitting in first and Shaun White was the last one left to drop. Everyone knew that Shaun needed to be perfect...and he was. Blasting bigger than he had gone all day, Shaun settled the backside rodeo with flawless perfection, setting him up into a run that only he could put down. Backside rodeo, to backside 900 to frontisde 1080 to cab 1080 to huge frontside 540 stale to McTwist to end it.
It was a hell of a run, and it had been perfect. It was going to be close and when the scores came in, Shaun was just under Danny Davis by a few tenths of a point. But there was nothing else that could be done, Shaun stomped his run and came away from the weekend with a great finish and in even better shape for the overall title hunt, finishing 1st in Slopestyle and 2nd in Superpipe.
No doubt though Shaun will be looking for first come the Dew Tour's next stop in Mt. Snow, VT on Jan. 8-10.
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