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00:00 On his feet still means a lot in a small season.
00:03 For sure, for sure. Back up to the top, Timmy Schroeder
00:06 riding out of Innsbruck. He's a staple in the Innsbruck freeride scene.
00:10 This man, another one who's coming back from injury. He's got a ton of metal in his body
00:15 but it didn't look to slow him down at all as he finished on the podium in his
00:18 very first freeride world tour event
00:20 and he is now on course here at Kicking Horse.
00:22 Out of start two again, the top of the venue
00:25 working his way down the ridge as we just saw from JP
00:29 going all the way off to that nub.
00:32 Looks like he's going to be taking quite a different line. We have seen a huge three and stomping it.
00:37 Milking that fresh line in the pow.
00:41 The judges are going to love to see that. Super creative.
00:43 High speed there for Timmy Schroeder
00:46 as he's taking a completely different approach than the rest of the riders.
00:49 And another untapped feature.
00:51 Tim Schroeder fighting for balance there. He has got it solid on his board.
00:55 And he's just getting a fresh pow run here too.
00:58 He doesn't have to worry about any tracks.
01:00 Now he's navigating this tree maze on the bottom right of the venue.
01:04 This is where it's going to get really tricky for riders.
01:05 Let's see how he handles that huge pow slash. Just loving it.
01:09 I love to see that.
01:11 Getting the extra air and the bonus points at the bottom.
01:14 Finding his way through the maze. Look at that footwork through the trees.
01:18 Down through the wind buff section. Creative, fresh, new line.
01:21 The judges love watching something new.
01:23 Yeah, you can clearly see there as he hit the line where the wind has had an effect on the snow.
01:29 The board bouncing around but not causing him any grief.
01:33 As Timmy Schroeder across the line.
01:35 Definitely, oh, looks like he caught a tree there on his pants.
01:38 A little bit of a new vent there on his pants.
01:42 That's tough on a -20 day at Kicking Horse.
01:44 Oh wow, right through into the base layer.
01:47 I hope he's okay here, but he's walking fine. All smiles.
01:51 We didn't even pick that up. Somewhere along the way a tree reached out and wanted a piece of Timmy Schroeder's pants.
01:57 Well, that's what you get when you're greatness after that run in Verbier and that awesome creative line that we just saw.
02:02 And stomping that three like it was nothing.
02:06 When you're going to do a trick, you have to do it perfectly. That's kind of the rule here.
02:10 They don't want any mistakes if you're going to max out a feature. And holding it there through the crust.
02:14 So one thing that I'm curious about this line, Timmy really saw it at the top,
02:18 but this gully down below didn't offer a lot of options for features for him to really kind of send it and cap the runoff with an exclamation point.
02:28 Victor absolutely loving it there. You can see on the line tracker that lower section in the gully,
02:33 there's not a lot of meat on that bone.
02:35 So it'll be interesting to see what the judges do with the line score there for Timmy.
02:40 Oh yeah, that's a good cut to the leg.
02:43 Through the base layer, so exposed skin out here at Kicking Horse. That's going to be chilly for Timmy Schroeder.
02:50 But let's see what the judges thought of that new fresh creative line.
02:53 You know, you can't understate those, especially on a day like today on these smaller venues that are a little more compact.
02:59 It can be quite huge for the line score.
03:02 And that's the king score that they're going to base everything off of at the end of the day.
03:06 Still excited.
03:10 See you out in Georgia.
03:12 Well, I just love the energy of the riders when they're in the finish line.
03:17 The job's done and they are just kind of, it's the equal parts relief and stoke.
03:23 I was going to strip naked later, but I didn't have to do it now instead.
03:29 All right, score coming in for Schroeder, an 80.67.
03:33 The judges loving what they saw from Timmy Schroeder.
03:37 Like you said, Tom, that creative approach and that huge cross-court 360 at the top, getting the judges fired up.