Date: 25.08.2008

Revised on: 26.08.2008 10:57

By: Stylewars Media Management

Falls Creek, Australia - August 24th, 2008: A perfect day with sunny blue skies today at the Swatch TTR 4Star Stylewars meant the first day of competition at Australia’s most notorious snowboarding event went down like a bowl full of delicious poutine. The 45 invited riders from around the globe were annihilating the course with a level of snowboarding never before seen in Australia.

Ripping all day and finishing in number 1 and 2 spots respectively was the French Canadian connection (ie: Canadian Club) of Charles Reid (current World No. 16 on the Swatch TTR World Ranking List) and Matts Kulisek who were both sending and stomping their runs all day. Matts was unleashing huge frontside 7 to backside 7 combinations amoung some super smooth 900s. While Charles Reid was dropping insane frontside 1080’s and massive 90-foot corked frontside 360’s that had everyone scratching their heads.

Sitting in third is a very consistent New Zealand rider Jacob Koia (current World No. 26 on the TTR rankings) who looks poised to strike for the lead. NZ team captain Will Jackways had one of the most interesting lines of the day with a perfect 90 foot backside 900 melon followed by a method from the step-over kicker landing on the side of the landing 80-feet away, stomping a method perfectly amoungst the rubble and grooming debris.

The course is a 3 jump line that consists of a 15 foot flat cliff step-down, a 90 foot high speed step-down kicker and a 75 foot step up/over kicker.

Stylewars 2008 – the freestyle marathon continues tomorrow with sunny days again forecast and riders amping to step it up the rankings for a shot at the Grand Master Title.

For video footage of the days event check out the TTR video player.

 

Stylewars Presented by Oakley Top 20 after day 1 of 3.

 

1.      Charles Reid (CAN)      BURTON                              722
2.      Matts Kulisek (CAN)     APO                                    667
3.      Jacob Koia (NZ)         OAKLEY                                 618
4.      Torstein Horgmo (NOR)   DC/OAKLEY                     602
5.      Roland-Morley Brown (NZ) ELECTRIC/FORUM         595
6.      Ville Uotila (FIN)      ATOMIC                                  593
7.      Shayne Pospisil (USA)   BILLABONG                        570
8.      Stef Zeestraten (NZ)    K2/OAKLEY                         568
9.      Robbie Walker (AUS)     BILLABONG                        550
10.     Will Jackways (NZ)      BURTON/VOLCOM                529
11.     Mitch Allan (AUS)       BURTON/OAKLEY                   525
12.     Tore Holvik (NOR)       BATALEON                            505
13.     Clint Allan (AUS)       BILLABONG                             484
14.     Mario Kappeli (SUI)     FORUM                                 474
15.     Ryan Tiene (AUS)        DC/OAKLEY                           467
16.     Keiji Okamoto (JPN)     VOLKL/FLUX                         462
17.     Jye Kearney (AUS)       BURTON/OAKLEY                  395
18.     Nick Brown (NZ)         BURTON/RPM                         368
19.     Masaharu Nakao (JPN)    NP ATHLETICS/REVOLT     313
20.     Cohen Davies (AUS)      ROME                                  292

 

The 2008 Stylewars is presented by Oakley and is supported by Falls Creek Resort,  SilverSki Lodge, Corona, Red Bull, Volvo and New Era.

Event website: www.stylewars.com.au