STYLEWARS WARM UP DAY -– ANDY FINCH LAUNCHES 50 METERS (165 FEET)

August 27, 2007 - Falls Creek Australia and the warm up day of the three star WORLD TOUR TTR event Stylewars and most riders were arriving today but a handful of them arrived last night and sessioned the park today.

By midday riders were practicing for speed to hit the huge jump, which had a knuckle distance of 36.5 meters (120 feet). No one wanted to step to the jump until Andy Finch rocked up had one practice run for speed and then headed full tilt into the beast.

“I decided during the second run in to the kicker to just go for it. I had to hit it today, I couldn’t sit there with such a huge kicker and not hit it all day, you never know in Australia, tomorrow the weather may come in and we might never hit it.” Andy said.

On his first hit Andy launched a straight air that measured 50 metres (159 feet), to the sweet spot of the landing.

On the second hit at full speed he caught an edge on the slushy take off and was ejected from the 6 meter (18 foot) high take off ramp to total flat half way to the landing, flat on his back. Astoundingly he was ok. “My edges just sunk in during take off, it felt like my nose just buckled at the speeds”, Andy explained.

A salt session ensued and Andy stepped back to it, Andy describes, “It was so fast that the wind in the air makes such a huge difference, like if you did an indy and boned the nose the wind can grab you and tip you over the front. So I was trying a few backside 180’s and really leaning into the wind in the air.”

Stylewars officially starts tomorrow with the first of three days.

Stay tuned at
www.stylewars.com.au

Riders List.
1 Jacob Koia New Zealand
2 Robert Morley Brown New Zealand
3 Stephan Zeestraten New Zealand
4 Quentin Robbins New Zealand
5 Will Jackways New Zealand
6 Nick Gregory Australia
7 Ryan Tiene Australia
8 Robbie Walker Australia
9 Mitch Allan Australia
10 Clint Allan Australia
11 Russ Holt Australia
12 Gus Australia
13 Charles Beckinsale Australia
14 Mikey Williams Australia
15 Max Cookes Australia
16 Nathan Johnston Australia
17 Andy Finch United States
18 Dustin Craven United States
19 Sammy leubke United States
20 Logan Short Canada
21 Torstein Horgmo Norway
22 Jonas Carlson Sweden
23 Chas Guldemond United States
24 Shayne Pospisil United States
25 Jaakko Ruha Finland
26 Japanese dude Japan
27 Toni-Markus Turunen Finland
28 Rudi Kroll Austria
29 Kimmy Fasani United States
30 Priscilla Levac Canada
31 Marc Andre Tarde Canada
32 Stefan Gasser Switzerland
32 Luke Mitrani United States
33 Wyatt Caldwell United States