//76// New Zealand Open / Underground Teaser

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Welcome to shralp! Epiosde 76 August 26th, 2007 and this is the New Zealand Open. What you see is the Slopestyle Semi-Finals. Snow was perfect, visibility was perfect but massive winds made it impossible holding the finals. Mason Aguirre won the semis, so he took out the men’s title. His winning run included a boardslide followed by a tailslide 270 off the high bar into a backside 7, followed by a frontside 9, finishing with a frontside boardslide. German Alessandro Boyens introduced a new trick, the Alessandro flip, during his run. The backside flat spin 360 into an inverted front flip earned him second place.

Weather continued to be nasty and the halfpipe comp had to be postponed to Sunday. Mitch Brown liked this. He is the first New Zealander to take out the halfpipe title in the history of the competition. He was the highest scoring rider in the semi-finals. Going into the finals, his first run was not up to his previous standard, putting him in seventh place. In his second run, the weather set in, again, with wind and poor visibility but when others were giving up, he kept going, moving up into third. Saving the best until last it was his final run that put him into first place. Featuring a frontside 900, followed by backside 540, frontside 1080, Haakon flip, frontside air backside 900 to an Allyoop inverted 540.

The contest ended Sunday evening with a Quaterpipe invitational.

Time for a new teaser. This is one is more underground than professional. A video put together by Austrian Snowboarding crew. Homoality. If you have some teasers or videos for shralp!, shoot us an e-mail at post at shralp.com. Thats it for this episode. Next one will be out on September 9th.