What Tom Wallisch is doing this year on the Freeskiing slopestyle scene is ridiculous. Gold in X Games, Silver in Euro X Games, a near sweep in the Dew Tour to take the overall winner, took first in the War of Rails competition at Bear Mountain and placed first at the US Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain.
Ladies and gentlemen we give you the Winter of Wallisch!
War of Rails
Dew Tour Highlights
X Games Highlights
Euro X Games
US Grand Prix video coming soon!
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
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
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:
Park City local ripper and member of the 4bi9 Crew, John Kutcher is now the newest member of the Full Tilt family. John has a super smooth style and fits in perfect with our extensive freestyle team. Make sure to check out John as well other FT riders such as Tom Wallisch, Collin Collins & Dylan Furgeson in 4bi9′s upcoming film ‘Begging for Change‘, which surely will not disappoint.
Here’s a Quick Lowdown on John:
Name: John Michael Kutcher
Birthday: December 2, 1988
Home Mountain: Park City Mountain Resort
Where you ride now: Park City Mountain ResortSLC Streets, The Wasatch
Whats so great about your mountain? It’s Park City! No matter what time of day, you can roll up to the mountain solo and within one run be cruising with a good crew of friends. Positive Vibes. People tend to think the scene at PC can be too intense, but thats only if you let it be.
Favorite thing you enjoy doing on skis? Hot Laps at PC with a good crew, then the next day getting puked on and skiing pow in the CC’s
If you could spend a week skiing anywhere, where would it be? Skiing pow in Japan is on my list
Why do you ski so much? Skiing is the most fun thing to do and by far the best stress reliever. Once you get up on the snow, nothing else matters. My head gets clear and I am able to just be there without worrying about anything else.
John Kutcher from Evan Heath on Vimeo.
While filming with Teton Gravity for their latest project ‘One For The Road‘, Full Tilt’s own Tom Wallisch played guinea pig up for an impressive 100ft gap up at Baldface Lodge. Sporting his matching North Face & Hot Dogger kit, Tom makes the gap and we’re sure an epic session ensued.
Check it out and make sure to keep posted for new episodes of ‘One For The Road’.
Well it’s been a great season and if you’ve been watching ‘Wednesdays with Wallisch‘ you know that Tom has enjoyed it as well. Luckily for him, he’s not done skiing and will continue on to Sun Valley for a park shoot and I’m sure will be up at Hood doin’ his thang.
So enjoy Episodes 23 – 26 cause they are your last weekly updates on Tom Wallnuts. The next time you’ll see him on video will probably be in a packed venue watching a ridiculously awesome segment!
SEASON FINALE!!!
Thanks to Scott for bringing Tom’s life to the interwebs every week!
Wednesdays always seem to fly bye because there’s always so much to do mid-week. Well if you’re busy like us you might have missed some of the latest ‘Wednesdays with Wallisch’. So to save yourself some time and watch episodes 20 through 22 in one place. See Tom Wallisch doing what he does including international travel, Euro X-Games, and some East Coast shreddin’ in Maine.
Enjoy!
Here is your most recent helping of ‘Wednesdays with Wallisch’. Watch him do his thang and make sure you’re all up to date with Tom Walnuts.
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
BRAND NEW
Episode 19
If you’re not all caught up on your ‘Wednesdays with Wallisch’, you better check some reruns. In order to figure out which is the sickest episode, you better sit down, study and watch because class is in session!
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
