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00:00Welcome back to the Bakira Barrett Pro by Movistar.
00:30Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Freeride Fiesta that is the Bakira Barrett Pro by Movistar.
00:44This, of course, is stop number one on the 2025 version of the Freeride World Tour.
00:49By Peak Performance, I'm Derek Fuse. I am joined by former Freeride World Tour competitor Hadley Hammer.
00:54Hadley, welcome to the show.
00:56Thank you. It's been 10 years since I started in my first gate, and it's great to be back, see new faces, new places.
01:03But the Freeride spirit is the same and alive and well.
01:06Big time. The spirit is buzzing. We're here in Spain for the first stop, kicking off the year, of course, in this magical place.
01:13And we have a brand new face here, the La Bamba face, deep in the Bakira Barrett Valley. This thing is badass.
01:20Yeah, the La Bamba face is awesome. It's a new venue for the Freeride World Tour.
01:24We're talking like starting at 2500 meters, nearly 500 meters down.
01:30You're testing the limits of your legs and your muscles on this one.
01:34Yeah, anything and everything. The full package of skills is going to be required.
01:43Snowboard men, of course, will be dropping first. Definitely some serious mountain skills required.
01:49Riding to the conditions is going to be the name of the game today.
01:55Oh, my God. Look at this backflip. Perfect control from Camille. I really like his riding.
02:05Big powder ramp on the way down. And Tilden throwing the 360 clean.
02:10The rookie blowing our minds up here on the top of La Bamba face. That was unbelievable.
02:17Judging pit as well down there in South America. Oh, that's a heartbreaker for the rookie.
02:25Cody Bramwell, the British rider. He said he's feeling really strong this year.
02:29And I think we're going to get some solid riding right off the top. Great speed control.
02:36Cody cooking with the huge transfer and just not quite able to hold on. A little bit of a hand check there.
02:46Now picking up a big handful of speed with a double backflip and not quite able to hold on.
02:52Cody Bramwell putting it on the line here as he threw a huge double backflip on that wind leg.
03:06Enzo Nilo, the next man in the gate. Perfect 360 at the top as he makes his way through. Another great 360.
03:16Locking down another 360. This guy cannot stop spinning.
03:20Coming into this wind feature with a backflip. Connects on that one. This is a hot run for Enzo Nilo.
03:27I think this is going to be a competition for experienced riders.
03:31The next man in the gate, Jon Pau. On course and starting off with a 360, Hadley.
03:36Oh, I love the tricks right out the gate.
03:39The gnarlier it gets, the better Jonathan's riding becomes.
03:45The next man in the gate is going to be none other than the German rider, Timmy Schroeder.
03:50This guy is just a ball of energy.
03:55Oh my god! Huge backflip right into that softer snow.
04:00Now he's controlling his board on his heel side edge and lining up with the wind.
04:05He's controlling his board on his heel side edge and lining up one more air right away.
04:10Again, this top section, it's going to come quick and you're going to want to hit as much as you can with the speed that you've got.
04:16Well, that is a strong strategy. Grabbing the judge's attention straight out of the start gate.
04:22Oh, picking up a nice feature there. Great little transfer. Perfect tranny at the end of that.
04:28And Tim Schroeder through the finish line.
04:33Pretty much the ultimate veteran. This next man out of the gate is your three-time Freeride World Tour champion.
04:44Yeah, perfect on this top clip. Oh, you're going to come in with a lot of speed and heat.
04:50And you'll see he's really good at controlling that speed and shutting it down when he needs to.
04:55White washing himself a little bit and throwing his first trick of the day.
05:00Yeah, Victor spinning right away, using that heel side edge to control and pop off this long feature.
05:07So, Victor already with three big features in and now just trying to slow down.
05:11Yeah, I mean it didn't take him too long. Here's another trick and already he's close to the bottom part of the features.
05:18He's doing quick, quick work of this venue. Yeah, and checking his takeoff.
05:23It's pretty rocky here. Navigates through this section.
05:26Oh, he's got great. He really just puts the board where he wants it and commits to that line.
05:35Victor De La Rue now into the wind lips with a backflip. Stomped!
05:39So, Victor now catching another air. He is just stacking up the line score.
05:44Yeah, he's putting his mark on the canvas and through the finish line I think he's going to feel pretty good.
05:52Victor De La Rue, absolutely blazing trail down the La Bamba face and waiting for his scores.
06:00The number going up 83-3-3. Victor De La Rue taking the win for Snowboard Men at the Vaquira Barrette Pro.
06:08What a show we saw from Snowboard Men there as we take a look at our standings from today.
06:13We've got the champ Victor De La Rue sitting in number one.
06:16Tim Schroeder right behind him and Jonathan Penfield, the technician, enzyme scientist in third place.
06:28Welcome back to the Vaquira Barrette Pro by Movistar and we are ready to go now for Ski Men.
06:36We have the who's who up there on the summit ready to kick things off.
06:41I think we're in for a real ride and seeing what choice he makes today.
06:45Hand drag 360 into the central couloir.
06:49Martin Bender so smooth there as now he's just trying to hold on to his speed.
06:54Another big 360 bringing the freestyle has become his trademark.
07:02There's nothing that Chablot can't do and coming out with some crisp,
07:07There's nothing that Chablot can't do and coming out with some crisp jump turns.
07:12360 right off the top.
07:14Little bit of a backslap but he's able to bring the control with a little sliding 360 on the ground.
07:22And a huge 360 transfer.
07:31So Maxime Chablot with a hot start to his Freeride World Tour run here.
07:37Beautiful little stylish transfer and into the NAR this transfer.
07:54This double, triple stage clip right at the top losing a little bit of control in the outrun but able to pull it back together.
08:083, 2, 1, drop in.
08:11He makes his way down the venue and off to that big nose that we saw in the shadow line.
08:16Huge air, really the biggest you can take on the top.
08:19Big 360 for Marcus and a perfect landing.
08:23Arcing those turns now, Marcus Gogan putting the throttle down.
08:35Getting way over here with a transfer and another huge 3.
08:39Getting a tiny bit backseat and straight off another air.
08:42So Marcus absolutely cooking here.
08:45Huge front flip.
08:47We always either see a front or a back from a bell or sometimes both.
08:51I was waiting for this one to come.
08:58La Bamba Face is awesome.
09:00It's a new venue for the Freeride World Tour.
09:02We're testing the limits of your legs and your muscles on this one.
09:06Always fast and taking a way high takeoff.
09:09Oh, Tom Piper.
09:12Airbag deploying there.
09:14Oh, with the tomahawk you saw right before he took that second air that he had lost a little bit of edge control.
09:20And I think that set him off.
09:29He's got the head tap.
09:30He is okay.
09:38Oh, first one that we can see make a huge clip out of that top ridge line.
09:43Lining up quickly into the second air.
09:47Valet Rainer with a big 360 into the shade.
09:50Landing perfectly.
09:51He's got his speed under control, which has proved to be quite tricky in this section.
09:55Going side hill on that one.
09:57Real tricky.
09:58Now he just has to stay in the fall line to fly out of this couloir.
10:02Eye on the world champs for next year.
10:04He wants a long, solid career in competing.
10:07Oh, Valet Rainer just holding on.
10:11That clip pretty flat.
10:12We saw a couple other riders using that wind tenho.
10:15And Valet Rainer looks like that might have caused him a little bit of pain.
10:20Pretty flat and also after 500 meters of skiing, that will test the muscles.
10:30You can really see his technical riding with the way that he's able to put his skis where he wants.
10:35Oh, that needed exact precision, which is exactly what he did.
10:41Tans Marvell stacking up the features, taking that one in a slightly different direction.
10:46Backflipping, but coming unglued there.
10:52Tans Marvell skipping through the rocks to the bottom of this central couloir on the La Bamba face.
11:04The bag of tricks on this man is deep.
11:07Coming in here and a double backflip, laying it out and Timo stops it.
11:11Double backflip, that was sick.
11:13Rolling on down and Timo Rolshoven.
11:22You can tell he is happy with that as he moves through a little fist bump.
11:26Pretty casual dude is Timo, but that was outstanding.
11:31Wei Tian Ho riding for peak performance.
11:35I'm really excited to see him ride.
11:37What a beautiful technician.
11:40Making quick, precise work through that rocky section.
11:46You can hear the snow, super tricky.
11:49Bang, bang, bang.
11:50Wei Tian through there.
11:52He's got such quick feet.
11:55He's so strong and so precise.
11:57Now fighting for it.
11:58Lofting a huge three into the canyon there.
12:01Maybe a tiny backslap.
12:03Kind of lost him in the shadows.
12:05But Wei Tian wasting no time using every little bit of this terrain.
12:09Showing off that technique.
12:12Ben Richards.
12:13This man took the freeride world by storm last year.
12:16Taking the win in Feverbrinn with one of the smoothest runs we've ever seen.
12:20Ben Richards now on course.
12:22Ah, perfect setup.
12:24This is New Zealand style skiing.
12:26He's really good at mixed variable terrain.
12:29He's got the speed, he's got the power.
12:31He's got the speed, he's got the power.
12:33He's got the speed, he's got the power.
12:35He's got the speed, he's got the power.
12:37He's got the speed, he's got the power.
12:39Mixed variable terrain.
12:43Beautiful big 360 off of that second cliff.
12:46And into the shadow line he goes.
12:48Let's see what he does with this transfer.
12:52Ben Richards rarely ever takes his skis out of the fall line.
12:56Never slows down.
12:57You know I used to say that Andrew Pollard had taken on the mantle of Drew Tabkey
13:01for the smoothest man on skis.
13:03And that is proof as he goes straight off the nose.
13:06So Ben Richards with a whole bunch of speed
13:09as he's now coming down into this wind lip section.
13:13Perfect 360 taking that torch of smoothness
13:16and taking the torch of being the only Kiwi on the tour this year.
13:19Well the Kiwis always producing some of the best freeriders on the planet.
13:24And Ben Richards showing that heritage there as he flies through the finish line.
13:32Going back up to the top.
13:33We have an exciting rookie waiting to drop in here.
13:37Toby Rafford.
13:40Oozes with style.
13:42The way that he plays with venues is completely different.
13:45A different playground for him.
13:47Well a huge flat three there and the landing letter perfect.
13:52Toby Rafford keeping it moving.
13:54Skipping over the rocks.
13:55Styling it out with a big shifty.
13:57And popping and playing.
13:59It just looks like a playground for Toby Rafford.
14:02He's such a smooth skier.
14:03But as you said Hadley just oozing with style.
14:06Now roasting across here.
14:13Every time he's in the air
14:15whatever trick he does is going to look really good.
14:18And that's quite the technique.
14:20Toby Rafford holding on to the speed with a double flat.
14:24He connects with it.
14:25Oh my god.
14:26Toby Rafford just putting on an air clinic here
14:30at the Freeride World Tour.
14:32His very first run on the tour.
14:34And he does that.
14:36Incredible.
14:40It looks like he can't believe it.
14:50Alright back to the top.
14:51And another wild card.
14:52Ross Tester back in the start gate.
14:55Oh what fun.
14:58Huge backflip to the start.
15:00Great, great control as he shuts it down in that snow.
15:04I think he'll quickly be lining himself up for another transfer.
15:08Huge 360.
15:10Beautiful skiing.
15:11I mean he's got the whole package.
15:14Big tricks.
15:15Great technical riding.
15:26Onto the lower middle section of this face.
15:31So technical in here.
15:32Airing into the chute.
15:34Going out of sight.
15:35We're going to see in a second.
15:36He has stuck it.
15:37So Ross picking up speed.
15:38Now into the wind lip.
15:41Oh just enormous.
15:43This man travels with hot sauce.
15:45Ross Tester with a blazing run.
15:48That was electric from top to bottom.
15:51Just really such a nice skier to watch.
15:54Hi mom, hi dad.
15:55Utah friends, Utah friends.
16:01Well thank you for skiing Ross because that was electric at 92.67.
16:08Thank you brother.
16:10And what a show we just had from Ski Bend as this is where we ended up.
16:14We've got Ross Tester smiling and happy in first place.
16:17Toby Radford with the oozing run behind him.
16:21And Ben Richards rounds it out with third.
16:24Valley out of Austria coming in fourth.
16:26And Timo with fifth place.
16:28So a bunch of veterans, some world champions bookended by two rookies.
16:52The ski women are ready to go.
16:54It is time for the ladies to shine on this face.
16:59Lena Kohler on the face.
17:00She's coming in.
17:01She's making clear concise turns in that top.
17:07Oh and Lena coming apart.
17:09A big tumble.
17:14Lily Bradley injured last year and Lily back on the tour.
17:18Ski fast, have fun.
17:20That is their mantra and they are putting it to work.
17:25Lily getting a little bit caught up in that weird snow.
17:28A huge backflip.
17:29Hold on Lily.
17:32Not able to hold it on.
17:34You can see that real compression and thick snow just ate her ski at the bottom of it.
17:39But beautiful laid out backflip.
17:45Chloe riding at a Telluride, Colorado.
17:48She is a technician.
17:51As Chloe Hare now making her way through an extremely technical section.
17:55Getting up and over those rocks and now making her way into the central couloir.
18:05This is really complex terrain.
18:07First time that Chloe has done visual inspection knowing exactly where she's going.
18:12That was an incredible line selection.
18:16Scott Rider, Molly Armanino.
18:19Wildcard back on to the tour.
18:21Aggressive, fast, technical and bold.
18:25Those are the highlights of Molly Armanino's style.
18:28As now letting off the brakes a little bit.
18:32Onto the throttle.
18:33The snow getting trickier and trickier as we move through the day.
18:36And the shade moves across this face.
18:38Molly Armanino now exiting the couloir with an air.
18:43Molly into the straight line and out.
18:51Right back up to the top.
18:53An extremely exciting wildcard here.
18:56The world champion Elizabeth Gerritsen riding out of Verbier.
19:00And we'll see how that veteran status really helps her navigate this top section.
19:05Elizabeth is just so comfortable in gnarly terrain.
19:09She has such great style on her skis.
19:122021 world champ for a reason.
19:17Into this rider's right section.
19:19Finding features all the way through.
19:21Kind of maxing out the potential that she has in this section.
19:25Continuing through and probably going to make a bit of a double out of this.
19:32Same place that we saw Tom get taken down.
19:35Wow.
19:36And she's waving right away.
19:39Well it looks like the speed is getting harder and harder to manage on that side of the face.
19:47It's so scary.
19:49We have your three time freeride world champion.
19:54Look at how steep this is.
19:56You can see the snow just pouring down the face off her skis.
20:00So you've got to be able to stay under control.
20:05Zuzana Vytek, the Polish rider.
20:07She's been on the freeride world tours.
20:09Riding for Scott.
20:10Had a win in Verbier to start the season.
20:13And then second in Verbier to finish the season.
20:15So the steeper and gnarlier the better for Zuza.
20:24Seeing where she is orienting herself a little bit on the top end portion of the terrain.
20:29And taking a way over into the Navarro territory.
20:34Now at the top of this big couloir.
20:36Looks like she's got something lined up over on the rider's left side.
20:40She does popping off in the steeps.
20:42That is so committed to take a big air like that right at the top of a huge couloir.
20:47And going where not so smart to use as many of the terrain features as you can.
20:51Especially for these really technical high speed big air riders.
20:56It just shows that there's so many ways to do this right off the top of that.
21:00Had to split her feet to avoid that rock.
21:04Great riding by the rider out of Poland.
21:07Into the finish line.
21:09Into the sun.
21:10Down to all of her friends.
21:15In the field Astrid Szeluz riding out of La Clusaz.
21:19Runner up last year.
21:20She wants a title this year.
21:22And let's see how she fares here on the La Bamba face.
21:25Straight on to the face.
21:26I think smart taking a new entrance in.
21:29Hopefully finding some good snow.
21:32A little hung up there but managing to stay on her feet.
21:36Regrouping as she comes into the same air we saw Lilihe holding on.
21:40Using the fall line.
21:42Needs to slow down a little bit but able to.
21:44I mean Astrid is so strong.
21:46Laying out a backflip and perfect execution.
21:50I guess once you do two, one is probably pretty simple for you.
21:54I'm just so much more happy to be back.
21:57And I know that's where I belong.
22:00I need to be here skiing and having fun on my skis.
22:03So in a way I'm relieved I can really be here 100%.
22:08So yeah I'm feeling just really, really happy.
22:12We have our 2023 Freeride World Tour Champion.
22:16Peak performance rider Justine Dufour Lapointe.
22:19She's a two-time Olympic medalist.
22:22Making great work out of these top sections.
22:24Again controlled turns.
22:26Controlling her speed.
22:28She knows how to move on her skis.
22:31Yeah she's gained comfort in the big terrain.
22:34Popping in and out there.
22:36So catching two airs for the price of one.
22:40Got a couple of wind lips down here.
22:42Catching speed.
22:43Oh my god a huge backflip for Justine.
22:46And stomping it.
22:48Getting her pole back into her hand.
22:50That was enormous.
22:53Justine Dufour Lapointe.
22:55Lacing the La Bamba face.
22:57Showing what's possible here.
23:00This is a girl that believes in herself.
23:02And you can really see it in her riding.
23:11So the score coming up.
23:12Bang into the 80s.
23:14And Justine Dufour Lapointe.
23:16Canadian ski royalty into the hot seat.
23:21Alright well we are going to take a look here
23:23at the final standings in ski women Hadley.
23:26We've got Justine on the top.
23:28She said she's very content.
23:30Very happy.
23:31Astrid right behind her.
23:33Zuzanna Vitek with great technical skiing.
23:36And Chloe the rookie number four.
23:38Followed by Ariana Tricomi back on the tour.
23:46Welcome back to the Freeride World Tour.
23:49We are into our final category of the day.
23:52It's the snowboard women.
23:56Oh no.
23:57Not able to hold it after that first entrance cliff.
24:05Airing into the core.
24:07A good start to properly get things moving now
24:10for Erin Sauve.
24:11She's so strong over her board.
24:13Snow conditions are tricky so we'll see.
24:15Finding new takeoffs and really probably searching
24:18for some good soft landings that aren't too chewed up.
24:21Yeah and already looking way more comfortable
24:24over her board.
24:29In this terrain and it's just really,
24:31really challenging with the snow.
24:33Yeah.
24:34Mikayla right off the nose of that one
24:36and bolts directly over top of the board.
24:38Now kind of letting off the reins a little bit.
24:41Picking up some speed.
24:44All right.
24:45Back up we go.
24:46Audrey Hebert winning the Challenger Series.
24:51Getting herself above a serious chunk of terrain
24:55and once again using that heelside edge to slow down.
25:02And Audrey now into the steep part of the couloir.
25:04It ramps back up again quickly.
25:06The intensity popping off of that feature.
25:09Slowing down powerfully.
25:12Anna Martinez riding out of Chamonix.
25:15Came out of Bordercross as a kid
25:17and then introduced to Freeride and loved it.
25:22And Anna popping another feature up top.
25:25This couloir is getting more and more difficult to ride.
25:30Anna Martinez now entering the lower section
25:33of the La Bamba face.
25:34She has stacked this run with her.
25:37Back up we got a rookie here.
25:39Ready to go for France.
25:43Comfortable in the air.
25:44Comfortable in this kind of terrain as well.
25:46And you know I think sometimes the freestyle riders
25:49are a bit under.
25:50Whoa a 360 in the middle of the face.
25:53Some slopestyle athletes I think are a bit underappreciated
25:56for how good they are on their edges and how technical.
25:59Catching a nice 360 in the middle of the face.
26:02A bit underappreciated for how good they are on their edges
26:05and how technical.
26:06Catching another one there.
26:10Strong run from the young French rookie Noemi Aki.
26:14Just trying to catch her breath now here in Spain
26:17as the judges have spoken.
26:19The score coming in and it's up at 76.
26:22The rookie into first.
26:25A huge hug for her good friend Anna Martinez
26:28as Noemi Aki moving herself into the hot seat
26:32after her first ever Freeride World Tour run.
26:35As she has just realized a dream.
26:38Her first start in a Freeride World Tour comp
26:40and she wins it.
26:42That is a content happy French smile right there.
26:46Again you see Noemi Aki taking the top right behind her.
26:50Her great friend another French rider Anna Martinez in second
26:54and Audrey Hebert in third.
26:58♪♪