The 2000 US Open Snowboard Championships
Our not-so-comprehensive coverage
Big Air
March 17, 2000
The big air might have been held on St. Patrick's Day, but there was not nearly as much green beer circulating as you'd expect. This was thanks in part to nazi-like checking of backpacks for cans, bottles and anything that might contain alcohol. Without the crowd in their usual liquored glory, the big air was rather calm. The crowd's lack of enthusiasm could also have been cause by the extreme cold, which is pretty much guaranteed by a night big air contest.
 Here's a Mikey Leblanc fact that not too many people know, he's from Maine. He was stoked to be home this weekend and visit with his parents. Photo: Brooke Geery |
If there's one thing I learn at these events, it is if you've been to one big air contest this year, you've been to them all. Friday night was a series of backside 900's and flip tricks from the guys, and backside 360's and backflips from the girls. Jaime Macleod has finally remembered how to put her feet down after backside 360's, and for that walked away with first place. Tara Dakides had to settle for a meeger second, and Jessica Dalpiaz was able to walk away with third for grabbing indy.
Jussi Oksanen did a 900, and it might have even been switch, either way he won, and finally got the respect he deserved from the big air judges. Jason Borgstede also got his high score with a 900, since his next two attempts at the Borgaerial were not particularly sucessful. In third was New Hampshire boy and SMS studen Scotty Arnold, with a backside 540.
I don't have much else to say about the big air, after all, I was pretty much frozen for the whole evening, and it's not a time I wish to think much more about.
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