Mark McMorris took 1st place at the FIS World Cup slopstyle event in Calgary yesterday, bringing home $11G’s for his results. Mark put down a clean first run that was untouchable by the rest of the competitors. Nice work Mark! Contest details can be found here.
This is sure to boost Mark’s confidence as he preps for the Canadian Open next week in Calgary. Big thanks to Adam Burwell from Burwell Productions for snapping the photo.
Loads of attention has been focused on the technical and dangerous tricks in snowboarding. Much was probably garnered from the unfortunate fate of Kevin Pearce in a qualifying run at the Copper Mountain Grand Prix. Many people have posted opinions and of course the media have chimed in too.
Class Five Super Turbo Team rider Mark McMorris gives his perspective in this video clip from Freecaster.
Here is our buddy Connor ripping up some inanimate objects. He has an old school Electro Lab in his quiver. Keep your eyes peeled for that optical zebra base. Dan Zimmerman rides on the Solid Boardshop Team with Kurtis Rothecker who is a member of the one and only Class Five Super Turbo Team.
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Class Five rider Mark McMorris rode well in the Quebec City World Cup Big Air. After the first two runs Mark was sitting in 1st place overall landing a clean double cork 1080. Unfortunately Mark came up a little short on his last run (back seven) and landed a little high on the knuckle. The final results put Mark into 8th place overall, an impressive showing for the youngster at this big event.
The video below shows some highlights from the big air portion. As you can tell they managed to pull in a serious crowd, lights and cameras were blazing! Mark is wearing a blue jacket with red pants and there is a shot of his double cork near the end of the video.
Mark is in Calgary getting ready for the World Cup event being held there later this week.
Class Five rider Mark McMorris is competing in the FIS World Cup Big Air in Quebec City tomorrow. The contest is sure to draw a crowd as it is located right in the heart of Quebec City. Check the setup below, they stuffed that beast right between two interchanges!
No doubt that run-in could be a little sketchy but I think Mark will have it dialed! All the contest details can be found here. Good luck Mark!!!
Our long time friend and photographer Kiriako Iatridis has opened up his own photography and art direction business. Kiri has been shooting photos for Class Five since the beginning and he continually amazes. Everyone at Class Five is stoked for Kiri and wishes him all the best in his new venture. As always, we’ll continue using Kiri’s amazing services.
To see some of Kiri’s work check the photos below, look around this site and visit www.kiriako.ca.
Well, Mark rode well at the open but it wasn’t enough to get him through to the finals. We are pretty stoked that Mark was able to ride his way through pre-qualifiers and qualifiers to get to the semi-finals. Look forward to seeing you back in Canada Mark.
Class Five rider Mark McMorris has qualified his way through to the slopestyle semi-finals of the European Open. There will be a live webcast of the slopestyle semi-finals starting at 7:45am MST Wednesday morning (tomorrow) on the European Open website. Check out the live webcast tomorrow to watch Mark do his thing!
Here is a video shot by team O’Neill earlier this year on a trip to Colorado. It features Class Five rider Mark McMorris killing it! Enjoy.
The finals at the O’Neill evolution in Davos, Switzerland just finished up and Class Five rider Mark McMorris finished a respectable 13th place in the slopestyle.
Mark rode his way through the semi-finals earlier today qualifying for the finals in 9th place. In the final event Mark had trouble with his first two runs before putting it together on his last run landing a cab 9 and a double cork 1080. The competition was tight and this run eventually put Mark into 13th place in the final listings.
This finish earns Mark 593.79 TTR points moving him into 54th place on the world TTR rankings. Mark will be heading off to Laax, Swizerland to compete in the European Open next week. We’ll keep you up to date on Mark’s travels and progress.
Congrats Mark!
The O’Neil Evolution is a TTR 6 star event.