BallOfSpray

A new slalom course was put in and an all new jump ramp build by Gav McMillan, Waldie Priekulis, Rowdy Kitchen, the Martins, the Christies, the Collicoats, TC and Baldwin Boats. Thanks to them Bridgewater now has arguably the best jump ramp in Australia, and this was backed up with many people beating their PBs last weekend.

 

It was a hot weekend and with the sun out all weekend it made it even more inviting for skiing. The first round of jump started on the Friday, there may have been a few sore heads from Australia Day celebrations the previous day. Local skier Anthea Collicoat jumped a PB of 27.5m (90ft), not soon after older sister Olivia (who wasn’t going to let her sister beat her) took a late one and went 29.9m (98ft). Unfortunately Olivia pushed the envelope a bit too far going even later on her last jump sending her out the back. Moments earlier Kayla Harward passed up a little bit too late sending her over the jump without the handle and into the reeds just metres from the bank.

 

German Chiara Bonnemann cleaned up in the under 17s with an overall score of (1@12, 4880, 35.5m). The biggest jump of the tournament went to open mens jumper Gav McMillan, on the last jump of the tournament he kicked a 52.8m(173ft) everyone at the ‘Late Cut Bar’ was cheering him on for every metre of that one. The Adams family took home three golds. Willy winning under 21 men with a best score of 2@12m, dad John winning over 45 slalom with a best score of 2@11.25m and Nick winning open mens with 4@11.25m. Josh Briant tricked a PB of 9990, although he wasn’t too happy after saying it’s the most frustrating PB ever (being just 10 points from a 5 figure run)

 

Full results can been found on the Tournament skiing section of www.awwf.com.au