Dear Interweb,

I am here in Aspen once again for the Winter X Games Experience. In terms of half pipe ski events, nothing currently rivals the X-Games for bright lights, famous athletes, pressure, significance and prize money. This year is my 2nd time here and I am looking to improve on last year’s experience: I fell both my runs on my easiest trick, rightside 540 and ended up 10th out of 12. I was so relieved that it was over, as I had felt nauseous for a month leading up to the event, that at the time, I didn’t even mind my result. 

Last night was the first training session in the pipe. It is 22 feet big this year, compared to 18 last year, and it has been extended by 50 feet. Our team had been training in Park City, which is also 22 feet,

Yesterday at the X pipe, compliments of Freeskier

and therefore didn’t struggle with the adjustment as much as the athletes that had never skied a pipe that a large. The female event is Friday night so I still have a lot of training time to get my tricks down. The snowboard athletes were training as well, which is always a pleasure to watch. As female skiing is always compared to female snowboarding, I like to observe their riding for inspiration. I think the biggest difference between the disciplines is the depth of the field. In female skiing, there is realistically one girl who will win if she puts down her best run and 5 or 6 who could be on the podium. Comparatively, there are 5-6 girls who could win in snowboarding with 10-12 on the podium.

Stay Tuned! Rossignol will be doing edits everyday. Here is the link for the edit yesterday that starred the French rider Kevier Roltoni a.k.a Xavier Bertoni & Kevin Rolland:

http://www.zapiks.com/x-games-xiii-xavier-kevin.html

Sincerely RozG