If you were watching the Winter X Games in Aspen this last week, you might have noticed some of our boots on the podium. We had a total of 5 team riders up there!
Ski Slopestyle:
1. Tom Wallisch – Gold
Women’s Slopestyle
1. Kaya Turski – Gold
2. Anna Segal – Bronze
Big Air:
1. Kai Mahler – Silver
Women’s Superpipe:
1. Brita Sigourney – Bronze
After being undefeated in the Dew Tour this year so far, surprise surprise, Tom Wallisch won Gold at the Winter X Games in Aspen. Word is that X Games officials had to check to make sure Tom wasn’t a robot of slopestyle destruction. Turns out he’s human and has rubber knees.
Instead of writing about how ridiculous his run was and how he’s getting into uncharted territory in dominating slope this year, we just compiled as many Tom Wallisch videos we could find that are new this week. Enjoy!
Gold Medal Run
Gold Medal Recap
Backflip Practice Run
Double Backflip “cross the sky oh my gaaah”
Informing the Masses
The original Hot Dogger.
Ski Boot Features:
Original 3-Meat Design
Medium #6 Premium Beef Frank tongue for maximized flavor
Whole Wheat Bun Bootboard absorbs messes
Stadium Brat Buckles for lightweight on-the-go eating
Classic Yellow Mustard Cables
Although it looks like I’m ready for this ski season, a long day on the slopes sure makes me hungry…and I’d rather have a boot that I wasn’t tempted to eat!
With four jumps and three urban rail features, the men’s freeski slope finals at Breckenridge offered up a challenging course that saw a lot of the top guys struggling to get in a clean first run.
Alexis Godbout hurt himself at the second stop of the Dew Tour last year, but you could tell his injury was behind him with the way he was skiing here in Breckenridge.
“I lost a lot of weight so it’s easier on the body,” Godbout said. “I worked out all summer really hard, rode the bike and everything. So I’m feeling confident and strong and happy.”
He took over the lead in his first run with a score in the 80s, and he was able to improve upon his results and score 87.00 on his next run.
On the higher scoring run, Godbout started with a 2 on disaster 2 out, switch 4 on the rails, a stylish wall ride and he delivered on the last two jumps with a switch misty 9 right dub to a flat 9 dub Japan.
That held on until 17-year-old Nick Goepper dropped in.
His run went like this: switch 2 on blind 2 out on the down rail, to rodeo onto the down box, switch right double 9, into left double cork 10, into back 810 out of the up-rail, into switch left double cork 9, right double cork 12.
That run was a game-changer, and he quickly jumped into first at the time with his score of 88.00. The score held on Tom Wallisch dropped in for his final run. He was low in the ranks after falling on the first run, but he used the disadvantage as motivation.
“I like landing the first one, a little bit of pressure off,” Wallisch said. “But that pressure gets your heart going and the adrenaline is good.”
He delivered on his second with 270 pretzel 270 off into a blind 3 switch-up, switch right 9 high mute, double cork 10 high mute, blind 450 off the wall ride, finishing with back-to-back switch left to switch right double cork 10 Japan grabs.
He was rewarded with a score of 92.75 from the judges, bumping Goepper into second and Godbout finished third.
“The tricks are so crazy nowadays,” Wallisch said. “Everyone’s got a whole bag of double flips. I think it’s going to come down to a lot of technical rails and really clean grabs and clean landings. It’s not really easy to distinguish yourself from the rest of the field because everyone is doing really difficult runs.”
Wallisch has the overall lead heading into next month’s Pantech Invitational in Killington, Vermont. But if today was any indication of the season ahead, there will be a lot of talented guys looking to overtake him.
from allisports.com
WATCH TOM’S WINNING RUN ON HIS HOT DOGGERS HERE:
For 22 years Chip Clouse has been teaching people how to ski on Raichle Flexon Comp boots. For his belief and commitment to this design, we think it’s time for an upgrade! Now Chip will only have to break out those old Flexons on Retro day. Check out his entry!
Remember if you think you deserve boots more than Chip Clouse (winner above), then show us why and submit your own entry at Teton Gravity.
After a quick storm dropped a foot of fresh on the Wasatch mountains a couple buddies and I loaded up the powder skis and boards to try and get our fix. We decided on the famous Grizzly Gulch and it didn’t dissapoint. We took a couple laps off Twin Lakes Pass and then climbed back up and skied Grizzly Gulch down to the parking lot. Other than the couple of hidden rocks the snow was stable, soft, and deep enough to feel like we were skiing pow again. Another storm is forecasted for Thanksgiving night…
It’s impossible not to take pictures of Superior. Black and white too, just like Jordan…
Full Tilt Team member, Meathead Films Skier and Vermont Local Dan Marion knows a thing about comfortable ski boots. For him, Ski Rack is his go-to place to get his brand new Classics properly fitted. Check for your local dealer to find out where to find your boot and where to get them properly fitted.
Pond skims are not for the faint of heart. Generally they always end with an abrupt and awkward fall to either frigid water, side netting or in the case of our Show Us Your Boots October winner, face to hard ground. Hayley Fedorek from Monroeville PA had the cajones to ignore the many brutal falls that went before her and go full speed into the 7 Springs pond, only to slam her face into the lip at the end.
Luckily she was ok but her boots have never really recovered from the traumatic and somewhat embarrassing moment, now she’ll have some boots that aren’t waterlogged.
Remember if you think you deserve boots more than Hayley (winner above), then show us why and submit your own entry at Teton Gravity.
Not only did our September Boot Winner want some Full Tilts so bad he duct taped his foot to his skis, he then had to remove most of his leg hair as a result! Ouch!
Remember if you think you deserve boots more than Carter Larscheid (winner above), then show us why and submit your own entry at Teton Gravity.
What could already be considered a full house, Full Tilt would like to welcome Spencer Milbocker to our team! We think his smooth style and technical rail skill will fit perfect with our extensive freestyle team. Spencer Milbocker’s reputation as a hard charging park kid has certainly grown since coming out of Bittersweet MI and is now blowing up big time at while in Breckenridge. Welcome Spencer!
Birthplace: Allegan, MI
Home Resort: Bittersweet, MI
Winter Home: Breck
Riding Since: 4 years old
