Burton Raildays FULL REPORT
Know the Roppongi Hills Arena? You don’t? No worries, we didn’t neither before the Burton Raildays went down there in Japan. Over 3’000 spectators who came for best competitive urban snowboarding, a hard setup and some of the world’s gnarliest jibbers including Forest Bailey, Jonah Owen, Burton riders Ethan Deiss, Zak Hale and Mark Sollors, but also Euro rippers like Jamie Nicholls and Dominik Wagner is what this Asian Railjam event had to offer. Not enough? Okay, we put one on top and give you jib icon Jeremy Jones as a judge and a bigass prize purse, how is that feeling now? And the best thing to come for you people at home: You could follow the event live from B’s webcast!
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18 riders in total competed in a 45-minute jam session that was filled with plenty of action and non-stopping rain unfortunately, what couldn’t keep the riders from giving their very best steeze on the metal. Six riders moved on to the finals, where Jamie Nicholls (GBR), Forest Bailey (USA), Zak Hale (USA), Jonah Owen (USA), Brandon Hobush (USA) and Dominik Wagner (AUT) tried to bring it on to get payed. Overall each rider had three chances to pull off his best run in the finals, with the highest scoring run taking top honors of course.
Zak Hale knows rails like his pocket. Reason why he went on this run for gapping the whole thing | photo by : Blotto
In the end, it was Forest Bailey (USA) who won the entire event with his second run: starting on the closeout rail, 50-50 transfer to Lip-Slide on the down rail. Jamie Nicholls (GBR) came in 2nd place with his first run featuring a Cab 360 to SW 50-50 on the down rail. And there was Jonah Owen (USA) who claimed 3rd place on his third run on the closeout rail with a 50-50 to FS 360 Melon Grab to flat.
Forest Bailey on his victory, “I couldn’t be more happy. I broke my board in the quals, and the board I borrowed wasn’t my own, but I pulled through and made it all happen. It was a great time.”
Looking like a hell of a contest from Dean’s angle there, considering setup and overall location | photo by: Blotto
\\ 2012 Burton Rail Days Final Results:
1. Forest Bailey (USA) – $15,000
2. Jamie Nicholls (GBR) – $8,000
3. Jonah Owen (USA) – $4,000
4. Brandon Hobush
5. Dominik Wagner
6. Zak Hale
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..if you want to see the entire event of the webcast, click here!
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