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Watts and Groves take Crankworx Best Trick |
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Written by SuperHuman
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
Greg Watts and Casey Groves hucked for glory and scored some cash!
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| Watts and Groves. Drinks are on these guys!
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Andrew Taylor's pedal get caught in the chairlift cables*
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| Justin Wyper: Another victim of the cables.*
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Casey Groves
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Andrew Taylor
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Cam McCaul
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| When in doubt, air it out. Watts goes huge |
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Watts celebrates
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| * Getting caught in the cables was a joke. No one really ran into cables. |
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The VW Trick Showdown was a winner-take-all, rider-judged event
based on two 45 minute sessions on two features within the Boneyard
Slopestyle course. The top rider from each session took home $3,000 for
best trick. To add to the prize purse, the announcers had $2,000 worth
of fifty dollar bills to divide between the riders who laid it all on
the line during the event.
Casey Groves of Kelowna, BC took session one and $3,000 for
stomping an amazing Quadruple Pendulum and snagged an extra $350 of
cold hard cash in the grab for his relentless effort. I've never won
cash before," said Groves. "The jump in session one was perfect, John
Cowan did an amazing job building this course."
To take top spot in the second session, Greg Watts of Santa Cruz,
CA executed one of the most incredible Step-Down Flipwhips ever seen in
competition. Watts walked away with $3,000 for winning session two and
$300 in the cash grab. "Everything in Whistler rules," said Watts.
Ò"his festival is made up of the best things in life and everyone here
threw down today."
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