Top Ski Men Lines of the 2024 Season

Freeride World Tour

Relive the best lines from the 2024 Freeride World Tour by Peak Performance Season!

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00:00Welcome back. We are set to kick off with ski men.

00:06Peak performance and a Scott athlete, Carl Rignar Eriksson.

00:14Start to be coming in for the swede, making quick work through that technical section,

00:19lining up that double again, getting, gapping the whole thing actually.

00:24Huge air.

00:27Coming over that lip, let's see what he has lined up after.

00:31That was a massive way to start his run and a giant backflip from Carl.

00:41Making quick work, coming through the bottom hot.

00:43He is at the start gate, at the bottom.

00:46Classic Carl Rignar Eriksson skiing.

00:50Back up to the top.

00:56The Verbier rider, Martin Bender, 2022 junior world champion.

01:05So much air awareness, Derek.

01:07He goes so big when he goes.

01:09And here he is backflipping off of that wind lip stomping.

01:21And making his way down to this next section to line up this feature.

01:25360 stomped.

01:28Perfect landing there for Martin Bender.

01:31Now coming with a bundle of speed with a cork seven and stomping it.

01:41Getting on that left foot across.

01:43So he's still going to be able to get that final feature.

01:46Final feature, Martin Bender giving himself an absolute heater of a run.

02:05We are back up to the top.

02:06This is your reigning freeride world tour ski men's champion,

02:09Valley Rainer, Scott rider, peak performance rider.

02:17Austrian powerhouse out of start one.

02:20Coming through that technical section with so much speed.

02:23Shutting it down into a new air.

02:25And sending it off that middle bend and stomping it.

02:32Huge cliff in the middle from Valley.

02:35And a big 360 to connect right after.

02:38Holding on, staying in control.

02:41Hitting this, let's see, keeping it straight through this tight tree section.

02:45And pointing it, getting the extra points.

02:47Get out of there clean, holding on.

02:49Valley Rainer from the top to the bottom in probably about 15 seconds.

02:54Such incredible riding.

03:01Here at start gate we're going to be seeing Oscar Mandin.

03:04Oscar Mandin.

03:15Coming off that early entrance over this cliff.

03:17Stomping it over exposure.

03:19Holding on and boosting off this second bend.

03:21Bolting it, Oscar Mandin.

03:23Such a strong rider.

03:25Coming into this max hit 360.

03:27And a giant backflip.

03:28And holding on.

03:30Oh my god, Oscar Mandin.

03:35As he makes his way down this maze.

03:39It's been chopped up, catching the nose of that one.

03:41And now just putting it into the fall line to escape those trees that have taken down so many riders.

03:47Oscar Mandin over this bottom roll.

03:49And he's going to pin it through the finish line.

03:51Top to bottom.

03:53Absolutely flawless run there from Oscar Mandin.

03:57Last man in the ski men's field.

04:00This is Maxime Chablot.

04:02And these are going to be nervous moments.

04:16Taking a ton of speed for this first feature.

04:19With a big 360.

04:21Taking a ton of speed for this first feature.

04:24With a big 360.

04:26Nice clean landing now.

04:27The approach.

04:28We saw a double backflip from Chablot on run one.

04:31Will he repeat?

04:35He's tucking for double.

04:36Landing clean.

04:37Riding out strong.

04:46Staying on the high edge of the couloir.

04:48Chablot going for the early entrance into the couloir.

04:51For sure his mind is on this Cork 7.

04:54Is he going to be able to put it down?

04:55Is he going to be able to hold on to it?

04:57He throws it again off an even higher point.

04:59Bang!

05:00Bolt for Maxime Chablot.

05:15Laying out that backflip perfectly.

05:17Perfect landing.

05:18Just cruising through the bottom section there.

05:37First rider out of the gate.

05:38This man.

05:39Japanese rider Tenra Katsuno.

05:44Tenra Katsuno dropping in from start two.

05:48Tenra Katsuno.

05:58And popping into the fall line there for Tenra.

06:04Taking a feature that no one has yet and linking together.

06:07Clearing that rock in that landing.

06:09That was absolutely huge.

06:18Getting himself perfectly lined up.

06:21A quick 360.

06:23Almost looked like it didn't even affect his turn shape.

06:26And Tenra with a big backflip now.

06:28Stomping it clean.

06:34Well what a start from the young Japanese rookie.

06:47The technical ability of Christopher Tordell.

06:53Tordell dropping in from start one.

06:55Hooking over to the skier's left.

07:00With a bunch of speed and a 360 right off the bat.

07:03And a trademark Tordell turn to control the speed.

07:07Speed.

07:08Tordell absolutely flying now as he comes into the exposure.

07:11There's no easy way out of here.

07:13Right off the heart of it.

07:15Christopher Tordell.

07:20There's not much below him that's not huge.

07:23Tordell lining up a big dog here.

07:25Getting transition.

07:27And sticking it.

07:31Tordell finding the exact right speed.

07:34And laying out a backflip.

07:36Bringing it around.

07:37Christopher Tordell.

07:39Well he got a wild card back onto the tour.

07:42And he has proven once again.

07:46Straight back up to the top.

07:48Finn Billis.

07:52Dropping in and heading off down towards the looker's right of the venue.

07:57A super spicy entrance.

07:59Looking really confident as he skis down the ridge.

08:09Pull back the camera view.

08:11You can see what he's traversing above.

08:14Airing off that little blade feature with a nice turn.

08:17The slough ripping down.

08:19As Finn Billis just into the heart of the Bechdel Ross.

08:29And that's a scary place to make some turns.

08:31Because it's all exposed.

08:32You can't really see from the wide angle.

08:34But there's a huge cliff that runs all the way across that.

08:36There she blows.

08:38Coming in on the Hollywood.

08:40Huge 360.

08:42That is, Andrew, you just said a world's first.

08:45Finn Billis tossing a 360 off the Hollywood.

08:48And landing absolutely perfectly.

08:58Taking that one super deep.

09:00Carrying so much speed here.

09:01Another three.

09:03Cross court.

09:04So smooth from Finn Billis.

09:06Wow.

09:07Well, Finn Billis coming from that slope style background.

09:10But he's got a whole bunch of free ride experience.

09:13And he just put it all to use on the Bechdel.

09:17An incredible display of skiing there for Finn.

09:22Kiwi athlete, Ben Richards.

09:32So heading over into the right side of the face.

09:36360 on top of the Hausl.

09:38And going huge.

09:40Wow.

09:41Well, Ben Richards going full fall line.

09:44Full throttle.

09:45This is what he is known for.

09:46He skis so fast.

09:48And yet so fluid and clean.

09:49Another big 360 there.

09:51Not even the hint of a speed check.

09:52Flying over all of that.

09:54Onto the downhill ski.

09:55Ben Richards into the low section now.

09:58Another huge cross court three.

10:02Now let's see if Ben Richards changes his line from run number one.

10:07It looks like he's going to a little bit flying off that section.

10:11And now just electing to go full fall line.

10:15Fastest run of the day by a wide margin for Ben Richards.

10:20Incredible skiing for the Kiwi athlete.

10:25So sick.

10:26Yeah, G.

10:27Crushed it, man.

10:29Crushed it, man.

10:30This is where title intentions are starting to be in play.

10:35Marcus Goguen.

10:46Working his way down to the looker's right of the venue.

10:50Opting for the spicy drop in here through this enormous exposure.

10:56Backing himself to lay some turns above all those rocks.

11:04Heading over above the Hollywood.

11:12360.

11:13Stop.

11:26As Marcus Goguen coming in and making his way on top of another chunky set of features.

11:34So here we go.

11:35This is into the McIntosh nose zone.

11:37Made famous by Ian McIntosh.

11:39You hit the nose on the left there.

11:41But Marcus has something else planned here.

11:43Setting up.

11:44Making a turn.

11:45And then he wants to double here.

11:47Bouncing and stopping.

11:49Marcus Goguen with a brand new line on the Vecna Ross.

11:53And the absolutely enormous triple.

12:02Unbelievable line there.

12:04That was so much bigger than it looked.

12:07Holy guacamole.

12:10The judges got their work cut out for them.

12:12The second block of that triple is dead vertical.

12:16And you carry so far out with how steep it is.

12:24And we go straight back up to the top.

12:26Max Hitzig.

12:30Hitzig.

12:31On course.

12:32Backflipping out of the start gate.

12:34Oh my god.

12:42And another feature.

12:43Huge 360.

12:44Oh he's on fire.

12:46Well what are they feeding this guy?

12:49Max Hitzig.

12:50Max Hitzig.

12:51And going off the nose of this one.

12:53Another backflip.

12:54A totally different direction with another huge backflip.

12:57And straight lining out the bottom.

13:00So strong through that chunder.

13:02Holding on to it.

13:07And going right off the nose of this one.

13:09Down into the flats.

13:11And Hulk sticking that.

13:13I mean this guy is just, he's a machine.

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