Martin Bender Ski Men Winning Run I 2025 Val Thorens Pro

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00:00He is one of the most excited skiers on in the entire the entire field

00:06He's only 20 years old, but he's skiing like he's been doing this for years

00:09Yeah

00:09As you said I think the level of this competition just will continue and continue continue to rise and we're really seeing

00:15Sort of pinnacle skiing all-around skiing

00:19Dropping out of start to heading towards these first cliff bands

00:23Setting himself up on top of this monstrous rock huge 360 a bit of a backslap

00:31But able to hold on and now he'll traverse across

00:34To this lower section of this race. Yeah that that that's a tricky feature

00:38You know, we could see it when we were scoping from the top

00:41It's a big rock the landing is pretty flat and the tide goes out on it quick

00:45So the further you go the worse it gets but because it's so steep and the face of the rock is so vertical

00:51It's it's really difficult not to go far

00:53So you did see there a little bit of a backslap from the Swiss rider

00:58But Bender now making his way across this powder field just again putting himself deep into the powder

01:04Before he gets in to the lower section the meat and potatoes of his run

01:08Bender is traversing quite far skiers left going for this first hit

01:15Oh

01:17From our time Bender now following Valley's track, but in the other direction with another big three the other way

01:22So spinning both directions there for Marta and Bender the slough pouring down and he is not done yet

01:28Oh, I'm dizzy. Just thinking about skiing

01:30I'm just thinking about skiing and I'm just thinking about skiing and I'm just thinking about skiing

01:34Not done yet. Oh, I'm dizzy. Just thinking about switching directions

01:41Well the young Swiss rider out of the Verbier freeride team

01:46showing exactly

01:48Why he was the junior world champion and earned his way pretty much directly out of juniors onto the freeride world tour

01:55Tricks all over the place in both directions Marta and Bender

02:00Incredible skiing there a little bit of an issue at the top. We'll see what the judges make of it

02:04I mean, it was a it was a solid backslap

02:06But the rest of his run certainly picking things back up on the old judges thermometer exactly

02:12This is such a he's such a consistent skier and I think to do well on the tour consistency is key again at six events

02:19You want to be pushing to your best, but you also want to make sure your best is

02:24Stompable each time. I mean just that first air and then this one almost getting the hand drag super corked out going right down

02:32To the bottom of the landing maybe a stage not even a stage two there just a little backseat

02:36And then this look how high up he goes Bender landing that landing was perfect

02:42perfectly powdery to

02:44This one is massive

02:46Yeah over that lower bench of rock way down getting bounced a little bit

02:51But he went so far and then popping this one into the channel

02:55Between the cliffs another one and actually making it into two there his angle a little bit skiers left

03:01So turning it into a double really really impressive scoping from the young Swiss rider only 20 years old

03:07It's so incredible the the sport pyramid

03:10You know these riders are they're coming up at 19 20 years old onto the tour with already so much competition savvy

03:17Yeah, you would assume they're in their 30s at this point with how much experience they have

03:31a

03:52Huge score for Martin Bender as he takes over the hot seat. He's got

03:58Maybe a Swiss football jersey

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