2012 O’NEILL EVOLUTION
We hope you are as stoked as we are about the contest season to start now and so we are about the first news about the 2012 O’Neill Evolution, at Jacobshorn in Davos, Switzerland, which will be going down from January 2nd – 7th 2012.
“The O’Neill Evolution is by far one of my favourite events of the year,” said Seb Toots, last year’s Evolution Big Air winner.
“The Big Air last year was easily the most progressive and innovative we have seen in ages and the final is one I am going to remember forever – for the standard and quality of tricks and the excitement of how close the competition was,” said Seb.
“We were really pushing boundaries and pushing into new levels of the sport,” he said. “I am expecting the same again this year.”
What about the shapers?
Max Henault alongside shapers, Schneestern will once again build this year’s Big Air (TTR 6 Star) with a creative rail set-up at the bottom, which counts highly towards the final run score.
This innovative nature of the competition reflects the core spirit of O’Neill. Fitting then, that the O’Neill Evolution 2012 marks the start of the O’Neill 60th anniversary year- celebrating 60 years of progression and innovation since founder Jack O’Neill invented the wetsuit in 1952.
“Last year we really worked with the riders to give them a safe but challenging platform where they could really push the limits,” said Max Henault. “The athletes had a lot of practice on the jump to make sure they were comfortable with the steep take off. This year we want to continue that and even step it up a level,” he said. “We are doing all we can to promote triple corks from the boys. It’s going to be exciting.”
Canadian rider Seb Toots, one of the few riders pulling out triple corks at the moment on contests, is just one of the big names, who will make the trip out to the Swiss Alps searching for a piece of the $125,000 prize money as well getting some nice and worthful TTR World Ranking points.
As characterises the O’Neill Evolution, the evening finals will be played out under the spotlight in front of the crowds gathered to watch some of the top names in their sport battle it out.
The contest will be streamed live, so that you can watch it from your home desk. All you’ve got to do for that is going to http://www.oneill.com/evolution/live .
For all further upcoming news on the event, stay tuned on ShredOn Magazine.
