SKI SLOPESTYLE: Russ Henshaw has been selected for his second Australian Winter Olympic Team in ski slopestyle, subject to medical clearance.

The 27-year-old injured his knee after recording his best result this season, with 16th at the Mammoth World Cup last weekend, but is selected on the 2018 Team with the aim he is given the ‘all clear’ from doctors prior to the Games.

Henshaw was Australia's only male competitor in ski slopestyle when the sport made its Olympic debut at the Sochi 2014 Games.

The then 23-year-old entered the Games under an injury cloud but easily qualified for the final. In his first run of the finals, Henshaw fell off the top rail and drifted offline on the second last jump. Despite the mix up, the run was clean, giving him his top score of 80.40, which saw him finish in eighth place.

Since his Olympic debut the Sydney-sider has won silver at the 2015 World Championships and bronze at the 2017 Seiser Alm World Cup.

He placed in the top 20 in all events during the 2016/17 World Cup season, ending with an impressive eighth place finish at the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

He had a slow start to the 2017/18 World Cup season, battling injury and illness, but returned to full health at the start of the year to record a 34th place at Snowmass before qualifying for his first final of the season at Mammoth Mountain, where he finished 16th.

Ski slopestyle will be held at Bokwang Snow Park on Day 9 of the Games (February 18). Find out more about freestyle skiing at the Games HERE.
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Georgia Thompson
olympics.com.au

Sochi Olympian Russ Henshaw had his first finals hit out for the season at the Mammoth Mountain World Cup over the weekend.
 
In a huge event with 63 competitors, the 27-year-old qualified fourth in his qualification heat with a top score of 84.66 to have a run in the top-16 final.
 
He unfortunately couldn’t complete his full run in the final, finishing in 16th place, which is a season’s best for Australia’s top slopestyle skier.
 
Canada’s Teal Harle won gold with a best run of 94.20, ahead of Swiss skier Andri Ragettli and fellow Canadian Evan McEachran.
 
Having overcome injury and illness that impacted his opening two World Cups, Henshaw went into the event feeling more confident than he had all season after he put down a solid run at last weekend’s Snowmass World Cup, where he finished 34th with a top score of 79.33.
 
The Sydney-sider made his Olympic debut at Sochi 2014 when the sport of Ski Slopestyle appeared in the Olympic program for the first time. He will be looking to improve on his 8th place finish from Sochi if he is selected in his second Winter Olympic Games Team for PyeongChang 2018.
 
His fellow Australian teammates Nic Stevens finished 41st at Mammoth with a top qualification score of 50.33.

Georgia Thompson
AOC
 

Slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw has received “a real confidence boost” after competing in Snowmass ahead of this week’s World Cup in Mammoth, California.
 
While Henshaw missed last weekend’s 16-man World Cup final after placing 34th in the qualification runs, he said that he was “stoked” to have finished the day with a best score of 79.33 after mixing things up in his second run.
 
“I landed everything and yeah, I don’t know, I took a bit of a chance with the rails at the top trying to be creative and I don’t think the judges really liked that but I was happy with it,” he said.
 
The Sochi Olympian said that ahead of the last qualifier for PyeongChang he is “feeling good”, especially after having what can only be described as a bumpy start to the season.
 
A back injury sustained at the season opener in Cardrona, New Zealand impeded the 2017 Slopestyle Skiing World Cup bronze medallist’s qualification round and saw him finish in 34th place.
 
Meanwhile in Font Romeu, France, a combination of poor conditions during training and a head cold then saw the 27-year-old finish in 55th place.
 
“Last two events I’ve had a bit of trouble – New Zealand I put out my back, unfortunately, which kind of sucked,” he said.
 
“And in Font Romeu I had a bit of a cold and I really didn’t like the course there.
 
“To put a run down [today], it’s good momentum going into Mammoth and fingers crossed for good weather there, because the last four years have been a little touch and go!”
 
Henshaw will be joined in Mammoth by fellow Aussies Nic Stevens and Ryley Lucas.
 
Stevens finished in 46th place in Snowmass after a best score of 69.00, while Lucas finished 58th on 43.66.
 
The next Slopestyle World Cup will take place at Mammoth Mountain, California from the 19-20 of January. For live results click HERE or follow OWIA on Twitter HERE or Facebook HERE.
 
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OWIA
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Slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw has missed out on this weekend’s 16-man World Cup final at Snowmass, Colorado after placing 34th in Thursday’s qualification runs.
 
Nevertheless, the Sochi Olympian remains positive as he now prepares for the next World Cup at Mammoth Mountain, California saying that Snowmass has given him “a real confidence boost”.
 
The 27-year-old said that he was “stoked” to have finished the day with a best score of 79.33 following his second run.
 
“I landed everything and yeah, I don’t know, I took a bit of a chance with the rails at the top trying to be creative and I don’t think the judges really liked that bit I was happy with it,” he said.
 
“I put together a run in training that I was super stoked on and then had a little bobble on the first run, the speed kind of changed coming into the second bump and I went smaller than I thought I was going to, so [I] missed my grab and the score reflected that.”
 
The 2017 Slopestyle Skiing World Cup bronze medallist hasn’t had an ideal start to the season after sustaining a back injury at the first World Cup in Cardrona, New Zealand which impeded his qualification round.
 
In Font Romeu, France, a combination of poor conditions during training and a head cold then saw Henshaw finish in 55th place.
 
“[I’m] feeling good, this was a real confidence boost,” he said.
 
“Last two events I’ve had a bit of trouble – New Zealand I put out my back, unfortunately, which kind of sucked and in Font Romeu I had a bit of a cold and I really didn’t like the course there.”
 
Fellow Aussies Nic Stevens and Ryley Lucas were also on the Slopestyle course on Thursday with Stevens finishing the day in 46th place and Lucas 58th.
 
The next Slopestyle World Cup will take place at Mammoth Mountain, California from the 19-20 of January.
 
For live results click HERE or follow OWIA on Twitter HERE or Facebook HERE.
 
David Barden
OWIA
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Sochi Olympian and 2017 Slopestyle Skiing World Cup bronze medallist Russ Henshaw hits the hill this week in Font Romeu, France for the season’s first World Cup and Olympic qualifier.
 
Many of the world’s best riders will compete from December 19 to 23 at the French ski resort in the to qualify into PyeongChang.
 
Slopestyle requires a series of acrobatic and aerial tricks on a specially constructed track not dissimilar to skateboard rails. The sport ‘with no rules’ is one of the most popular disciplines and debuted in Sochi in 2014, where Henshaw placed eighth.
 
In early 20107, Henshaw - from Jindabyne, captured a World Cup bronze medal at Seiser Alm in Italy after recovering from a brutal 2015/16 when he sustained a shoulder injury.
 
In the run-up to PyeongChang Henshaw is reporting that he is in good shape and looking forward to the start of his competitive season.
 
“I'm feeling really good and had an amazing time preparing in Laax (Switzerland). I got quite a few days on the jumps and also had the bonus of skiing a lot of powder so it all worked out great,” Henshaw said this week as he arrived in Font Romeu.
 
With each course specially constructed, he is eager to test out this year’s track.

“I haven't seen anything to do with the course yet. Hopefully it is all good and the weather cooperates this year,” he said.
 
Official training gets underway today and Men’s qualification begins at 7.25pm (AEDT) on Thursday, 21 December with finals on Saturday, 23 December from 10.47pm (AEDT).
 
You can follow the live scoring HERE, check for updates on OWIA Twitter HERE or tune into Eurosport from 10.30pm (AEDT) on Saturday night. Check the Eurosport Slopestyle Skiing broadcast schedule HERE
 

The first Slopestyle World Cup for the season in Cardrona, New Zealand finished in frustration for OWIA skier Russ Henshaw and snowboarder Jess Rich.

Having overcome multiple serious injuries from past seasons, Henshaw was fit and ready to go until he arrived in New Zealand where he sustained a back strain, which impeded his qualification round, ending out of the finals and placing 34th overall. Other Australian’s results were Nic Stevens in 50th and Ryley Lucas in 59th place.

Henshaw has since returned to his home base in Jinadyne and says he is already well on the mend.

"My back feels a lot better. I had two days skiing since being back from New Zealand and it feels a lot better than when I was there!" he said today.

In the Ladies Snowboard Slopestyle competed this weekend, Jess Rich was unfortunately unable to start either of the two qualification runs. 16-year-old Junior World Champion Tess Coady placed ninth in her qualifying heat and did not make the final ten.

"Unfortunately I was injured during training due to course conditions," Rich said. "I will be off snow for a couple of weeks, but nothing too serious."

The Snowboard Halfpipe NZ World Cup qualification gets underway this Friday with finals on Saturday. Scheduled to compete are Emily Arthur, Holly Crawford, Kent Callister and Nate Johnstone.
 

Decorated slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw is leading a winter sport that has become very attractive to young Aussies.

Heading towards his second Olympic Winter Games, Henshaw understands the lure of slopestyle, whether it be on skis or snowboard.

“You can do stuff with your friends. They see what you’re trying and they want to have a crack at the trick too,” he explains.

As a natural buddy to skateboarding, Australian snow resorts have cottoned on and many offer ‘terrain parks’ equipped with a mixture of jumps and rail features that test the skill of those daring enough to have a go.

Better still, Slopestyle is doubly attractive because it’s a sport with no rules. It’s a matter of competitors putting down a clean run from start to finish with the highest level of tricks they can muster.

27-year-old Henshaw began his skiing career as an Alpine skier winning the Under-12 slalom title before trying out the free-skiing terrain in Thredbo. By fifteen he had joined the European circuit and hasn’t looked back since.

His career has included a World Championship silver and bronze, an XGames podium and four World Cup medals but it is a second Olympics that is a driving goal.

Slopestyle debuted as an Olympic sport in 2014 at Sochi where Russ Henshaw placed 8th, nursing a torn ACL.

During the 2016/17 season he took the bronze medal at the Seiser Alm Italian World Cup and finished 8th in the World Championships.

“My main goal is to stay healthy. Last season I came home achieving what I wanted to achieve – and that was to be injury free.”

After a sluggish start to the Australian snow season, Henshaw is relishing the current conditions on the NSW snow fields from his home base in Jindabyne, getting in as much training as he possibly can ahead of the first World Cup in New Zealand in early September.

“POW days are the best days,” he commented on Instagram last week.

“When it’s good weather, I will be up early for coffee and breakfast before the first lift and train until 1pm. Then it’s the gym, recovery and start it all again,” Henshaw said of his current daily routine.

After the World Cup in New Zealand Henshaw will compete in two more of the World Cups during the coming season to qualify inside the top thirty for PyeongChang next February.

“I’m feeling pretty confident (of qualiyfing). My absolute main goal is to stay healthy,” he reiterated. “I will be doing everything in my power to go into PyeongChang healthy and ready to go.”

Henshaw will head to his Switzerland training base in October before contesting two more World Cups in North America later in the year.

Russ Henshaw and Ryley Lucas will form Australia’s two-man Ski Slopestyle contingent at the 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships.
 
The pair come into the season’s ultimate event having contested each of the five rounds of the 2016/17 Ski Slopestyle World Cup.
 
Henshaw is on the comeback from injury and is happy with his form. He skied with confidence at the Silvaplana World Cup in Switzerland and finished fifth in his heat. His season best performance came at the Seiser Alm World Cup in Italy where he won bronze.
 
The Sochi Olympian says his World Championships campaign will also benefit from two days of on-snow training at Switzerland’s Laax ski-resort.
 
“You only need one or two good days and everything comes back, it’s all muscle memory, Henshaw said.
 
“I ended up doing a bunch of tricks there that I was happy with so I’m feeling good coming into this event, if I didn’t have those two days I’d be a bit stressed,” he said. 
 
Henshaw already has bronze (2011) and silver (2015) World Championships medals, the latter was won within a year of knee surgery to repair two torn ACLs.
 
“Where I’m at right now I feel my body’s back to what it was before all that stuff started happening and I feel like I’m skiing like myself,” he said.
 
“I know I’ve got a lot more to offer and I just need the time on snow to work through it,” Henshaw said. 
 
21-year old Ryley Lucas made his World Cup debut in 2016 and comes into these World Championships with a full World Cup season under his belt.  He will be looking to finish the season on a high and make a strong World Championships debut.
 
UPDATE FRIDAY PM SPAIN TIME: Ski Slopestyle qualifying has been cancelled Friday due to the conditions. Further updates from officials are being awaited. Final events will be lived streamed at: https://www.skiandsnowboard.org.au/2017-snowboard--freestyle-world-champs/
 

NSWIS Park & Pipe skier Russ Henshaw, has narrowly missed out on advancing through to the finals at the World Cup event in Silvaplana, Switzerland.

With competitors divided up into four separate heats, with the top four athletes advancing through to the final, Henshaw produced two consistent runs, scoring 83.33 in the first run and 80 points in his second.

With Henshaw's first run score of 83.33 counting in the best of two format, he fell agonisingly close with just one point separating the fourth and fifth place skiers.

Henshaw had to settle for fifth in his heat, and an overall placing of 18th.

After the event, Henshaw was u-beat despite his near finals miss.

"Four go through to finals from each heat, I got 5th in my heat."

"Super frustrating but really happy with how I'm skiing!"

In the final, victory went to Canadian Teal Harle with American's McRae Williams and Gus Kenworthy in second and tird place.

Silvaplana was the final stop on the World Cup circuit, with Henshaw finishing the season ranked eighth in the World.

The next event for Henshaw will be at the FIS Freestyle World Championships taking place next in Sierra Nevada, Spain, from March 17-19.

Image courtesy Russ Henshaw Instagram

Just two weeks after claiming his third World Cup medal of his career, Russ Henshaw has qualified for another slopestyle skiing final this morning in Quebec City, Canada.

His podium finish in Seiser Alm, Italy, which earned him a bronze medal, marked a big success in his return from repeat injuries over the last four years.

Now, after illness kept him out of competition in Mammoth, USA, the Australian has shown he knows how to bounce back well, delivering an 84.66 in his 2nd Run to qualify for the 16-man final out of Heat 2.

The fourth World Cup course of the season has been designed to highlight the best of the extraordinary skills shown by some of the best skiers in the world.

Three kickers in a row, each gradually building in size, open the run with skiers then taking on three simultaneous rail sections, offering many different trick options for riders to showcase their best tricks.

Henshaw will be back on the course for the finals on Monday morning at 4am (AEDT) in his bid for more silverware in 2017.​ 

Weather has played havoc at the US Snowboard and Freeskiing Grand Prix event in Mammoth Mountain, CA, USA, with events shortened or cancelled completely.
 
The US Grand Prix also doubles as a FIS World Cup event counting towards Olympic qualification. Unfortunately, wild weather featuring high winds and snow forced the cancellation of the men’s Slopestyle Skiing event which was to feature Russ Henshaw and Ryley Lucas. The extremely heavy conditions led to the men’s Snowboard Halfpipe and Slopestyle qualification rounds to be abandoned.
 
In total, four top ten performances where achieved by the Australian athletes across three different disciplines.
 
The highlight of the event was 16-year-old NSWIS Snowboarder Tess Coady placing sixth in the slopestyle final in her first ever World Cup. Jess Rich was unable to advance to the eight woman final, finishing in 21st place.
 
VIS 2017 X-Games Gold Medallist Scotty James was the leading Australian male in the men’s Snowboard Halfpipe, finishing in sixth place. NSWIS riders Kent Callister and Nathan Johnstone also had good runs in the difficult conditions placing eighth and eleventh respectively.
 
In the women’s Snowboard Halfpipe, Holly Crawford made a positive start to her first event of the season finishing in eighth place, just missing advancing to the final by two places. Emily Arthur was also in action with a 14th place qualification performance.
 
The Snowboard Halfpipe athletes now head to PyeongChang, Korea, for the Olympic Test Event World Cup, with the Slopestyle Snowboarders and Skiers off to World Cup events in Quebec City, Canada.

IMAGE: Tess Coady in nicer weather conditions at Mammoth at the start of the week! © Tess Coady Instagram

Russ Henshaw has claimed the third World Cup medal of his career, delivering bronze at the World Cup slopestyle ski event in Seiser Alm, Italy.
 
The podium finish marks his return to better form, having recovered from four years of continuing injury. Understandably Henshaw is “stoked” to be back on the podium.
 
“I feel like I’m back to myself. This medal is a hurdle - having spent time in rehab and training”
 
“To get back on the podium is a dream. I’m stoked. The hard work was worthwhile. I did a lot of road biking which gave me time to think,” Henshaw said.  
 
Following his bronze medal run, the NSWIS skier high-tailed it to Munich to make it onto an early morning flight for the next World Cup in Mammoth, USA, but took the time to share a ‘rail by rail’ account of his event.
 
Slopestyle Skiing is a sport where rails really aren’t rails as the casual observer might know them and every World Cup course has different set features for the skier to navigate.
 
The Seiser Alm course in Italy course was set with six features. The skiers have two runs in World Cup events with the best score of the two counted. Russ’s medal came off his first run, which scored  83.40.
 
“In the first feature, the stair set had three rails. I hit the middle down rail with an ‘unnatural lip slide 270’,” Russ said. “That was my only bobble in the whole run – the rest of the run was smooth.”
 
For the uninitiated, the remaining five features went thus;
 
“The second was a ‘backside 450 off the pole jam’ which worked out fine, then another down rail I hit with a switch tails 270.”
 
“For the fourth, I did a ‘left double cork 1260 with a tail grab’ – and it was a leading tail grab.”
 
“The last two features were a ‘switch double cork 900 (with a double Japan grab) and finally a ‘right side double cork 1260 with a mute grab’.”
 
Interestingly, after a few viewings of these lengthily-named manoeuvers, a casual observer is able to see the difference.
 
“Some moves I don’t understand myself,” Russ admitted. “The sport is advancing terribly fast and there is so much that hasn’t, as yet, been done.”
 
“It’s a sport that has no boundaries, is very free and liberating.”
 
“For this World Cup, I’d say that my run was complex from top to bottom, rather than one stand-out feature, and that delivered a bronze.”     
 
“In Slopestyle there are no rules about what you can or cannot do. There are tricks I’m thinking about and want time to train for but I don’t want to risk chucking myself at one trick.”
 
“Then there’s Korea to think about,” Henshaw said about the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games.

OWIA/NSWIS slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw has made an impressive start to the World Cup event in Seiser Alm, Italy, qualifying through to the final in second place overnight.
 
Competing in heat number two, Henshaw produced two well executed, consistent runs, with his first scoring 88.66 points and then improved in the second run with a score of 90.
 
The format for the event saw the top four ranked athletes from three heats progress straight through to the final, with scores from the best of two runs counting. Henshaw’s highest scoring second run (90 points), saw him advance with the second best score in his heat.
 
After qualifying, Henshaw was pleased with his performance.
 
“Pretty stoked on my skiing, glad I scored so high with my safety run.”
 
“I am looking forward to finals on Saturday.”
 
Also in action for Australia was NSWIS athlete Ryley Lucas in 51st place.
 
The final is scheduled to take place Saturday night at 9:43pm AEST.

IMAGE: Russ Henshaw giving us a unique point of view flying high above Seiser Alm © Russ Henshaw Instagram

He may have missed qualifying for the final, but tonight's opening World Cup of the Slopestyle Skiing season was about far much more than that for Russ Henshaw. 

Proud and relieved at completing his first competition in over a year, Henshaw scored 80.20 points in his second run at Font Romeu, France,  to sit in 18th spot overall out of a massive field of nearly 80 riders.

After a difficult run of injuries and rehabilitation, Renshaw was philosophical about his performance, regardless of missing a finals place by a mere two spots.
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“I am just so stoked to be fit, healthy and back on the snow,” he said.

“Being the first event I’ve done in a year, it’s given me good momentum going into the next one and a lot of confidence on the snow which is important.”

“I was really happy with my second run and thought I was a little under rewarded but at the end of the day that’s what happens in a judged sport and I’m just wrapped with how I skied.”

It’s a brilliant return for the Russ, who will now focus on his preparation for a busy schedule with another six World Cup events before the end of March.

Skiing: It may be a dangerous sport, but nothing will stop slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw from competing at the first major event of the new year.

With the Northern Hemisphere World Cup season kicking off this weekend in Font Romeu, France, Henshaw is eager to get back into international competition. This World Cup marks the Sochi 2014 Olympian’s first competition in almost a year, after a difficult run of injuries and rehabilitation.

However, despite a less than optimal lead up to the occasion due to weather conditions at a training camp in Austria, the Sydney-born skier isn’t fazed about his returning event.

“I haven’t competed in almost a year now which has been pretty crazy and unfortunate because of the injuries that I’ve had,” Henshaw said.
“But I feel refreshed and ready to go. “It will be interesting to see how I go with the jumps in Font Romeu, but saying that I have done a few jumps here [in Austria] and it doesn’t feel like I’ve had a day off snow.

“I feel fit; I’ve been doing a lot of road biking so my legs feel really strong.”

Growing up in Jindabyne in southern New South Wales, Henshaw was raised on the ski slopes and begun competing at just six years-old. Starting out as a race skier, Henshaw then made the switch to freestyle skiing when he started “having more fun jumping off things.”

“I found myself, on the way down to the [race] course, taking all the side carts and detours for the jumps and cliffs. My mind wasn’t in racing anymore,” said the 26-year-old.

By the time Henshaw was 14, he was solely focused on slope and big air. However, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the dual World Championship medallist, who is no stranger to injury. He tore his ACL in 2011, and in order to speed up his recovery, his father donated part of his hamstring.

Less than two year later, fresh off a silver medal at the Copper Mountain World Cup, Henshaw tore the same ACL but opted for rehabilitation instead of surgery with the Olympics just 12 months away.

This gamble ultimately paid off as Henshaw made his Olympic debut at Sochi in Russia, entering the history books as Australia's sole male competitor in the debut event of Ski Slopestyle.

Despite his rocky run into the Games, Henshaw bounced back, easily qualifying for the final. Knowing he needed to pull off a triple cork to be in medal contention, Henshaw gave it everything he had but ran out of room on the landing to score 28.80, finishing eighth behind American Trio Joss Christensen (95.80), Gus Kenworthy (93.60), and Nick Goepper (92.40).

​Despite countless injuries, Henshaw has never thought twice about his sporting career choice.

“At the end of the day, what we do is a dangerous sport. “You can try and be as careful as you can and take the most precautions that you can… If you crash, sometimes you get away with it and sometimes you don’t.”

“But this is what I love doing, so I just want to keep doing it.”

The 2015 FIS World Championship silver medallist is now working towards qualifying for his second Olympic Games, he says staying relaxed and cool is the way to get there.

“I just need to keep calm and collected and not get too wound up in all the media hype. “I need to make sure I’m having fun; that’s the biggest thing. When I ride well I’m usually having a good time, so just make sure I’m having fun with it.”

Traveling through America and Europe with his fiancé Laura helps keep Henshaw’s head in the game.
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“I am lucky enough that I have my fiancé with me and she handles all the bookings, flights, accommodation and the logistics side of things so I can just focus on skiing."

“It is hard being away from my family, but at the end of the day this is what I love doing and I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

Following this weekend’s competition, Henshaw is down to compete at another six World Cup events before the end of March, before returning to Australia for a small break.

Georgia Thompson
olympics.com.au

OWIA/NSWIS slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw has finished fourth in the Men’s World Cup/Grand Prix Slopestyle Skiing event at Mammoth Mountain, California.

Henshaw was in third place at the completion of the first run, and looked set for a podium finish until Oystein Braaten of Norway, on the very last run of the finals, scored an 86.40.

This was enough to relegate Henshaw to fourth, with a best score of 85.60.

The event was finally able to get underway after less than ideal conditions over the past few days, which resulted in postponements.
 
Slopestyle Snowboard
Competing in the Women’s Slopestyle World Cup event, seventeen year old NSWIS athlete Mahalah Mullins set a new personal best in finishing ninth.

Mullins has been training in Colorado as she continues her preparations ahead of next month’s Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, and her ninth placing at Mammoth is an ideal tune-up.

In the men’s event, NSWIS athlete Angus Waddington finished in 31st place.

IMAGE: The slopestyle course @ Mammoth © Russ Henshaw Instagram

The first event of the northern hemisphere winter has taken place for the OWIA Park & Pipe athletes, with the Dew Tour competition taking place in Breckenridge, CO, USA.

The highest placing athlete was OWIA/VIS Halfpipe Snowboarder Scotty James, who finished in 13th place after the semi-final, which advanced James to the last chance qualification round. In the last chance round, James finished eighth, unfortunately missing out on the final.

Also in action in the men's Halfpipe Snowboard were OWIA/NSWIS riders Nathan Johnstone in 23rd and Kent Callister in 29th.

Competing in the Slopestyle, OWIA/NSWIS skier Russ Henshaw finished 26th, with SSA/NSWIS Snowboard Slopestyle athlete Jess Rich finishing in 15th place.

IMAGE: Scotty James boosting out of the Breckenridge halfpipe © Scotty James Instagram