(Updated Sunday 16th August 2009)
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Big Air as the name suggests is an event which features skiers and boarders getting huge air. That's what more than 50 freeriders produced for an appreciative audience (resort guests) as they participated in the annual event which this year was held in the popular Ruined Castle Terrain Park
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After the qualifying sessions in the morning it got serious in the afternoon when the skiers and boarders displayed their respective manoeuvres. There are only two jumps which count (scored by a panel of invited judges) from
the top eight boarders and skiers who had made it into the final round.
Local favorites included several members of Falls Creek park crew such as Jason Currie and Jeremy Burns (who gained the highest score of 12.7 in the snowboard section of the competition) who were amongst the highest scored skiers in the first round of the final of the Big Air comp.
However, it was some interstate and previous winners of the Big Air event, Jono Lipzker and Mikey Rosalky who took home the major prize in their respective disciplines.
Lipzker was scored the same (14.7) as Jodan Cook and Jesse Houghton by two very experienced judges Tom Costa and Shaun Van Putten in the first jump of the 'money' round. In the second round Lipzker nailed his Switch 720 Nose Grab jump and achieved an unbeatable score of 15.9 points to win the first prize.
In the boarding division it was a tight contest between Rosalky, Currie and Burns. The two invited judges Sean Oakley and Jamie Grundy awarded the highest score of the first jumo to the park crew member Jeremy Burns but unfortunately he couldn't match his first jump in the last scored attempt and only got 7.9 points for a Front side 720 Stale.
Jason Currie was consistent as always but could not match the Front Side 720 carried out by Rosalky which was awarded 12.2 points and gave him a total of 24.1 points overall - just one point ahead of Currie's combined score of 23.1 points.
The outcome of the annual Air and Style's Big Air was once again deemed to be a success by the participants who made the journey to Falls Creek to take part in an iconic freeride event.
Presentations were held at The Frying Pan Inn followed by a Dragon-sponsored after party with Melbourne MC Surreal.
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Big Air Ski Results 2009
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Big Air Snowboard Results 2009
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Picture of Mathew "Matto" Smith taken by Matt Hull.
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