Nike ACG Team Rocks Winterjam
It was the Winterjam in Stockholm ( www.winterjam.se ) over the weekend and it was a great event for the Nike ACG team.
Friday was the big air ski event and we had a pretty good base of riders with Andreas, Rich, Roy, Martin and a new guy from Norway Thomas, who ripped and blew everyone away for his first big contest.
The event was called the ‘King of Style’ and the judges made it clear they were looking for style ahead of rotation.
Rich was determined from the start of the day and it showed in his face as you can tell!!
However you needed to be doing stylie 10’s to make the final. Even Jon Olssens double Lincoln Loop to switch (which has been perfected over summer in a water jump and he now puts down perfect every time) was not rated by the judges and he made the final only by a wildcard (home town favourite!!) entry.
Roy was bummed not to make the final but rode exceptional for his first major big air contest and has a big future no question.
Nike ended up with 4 of the final 8 qualified entries to the first final and after the first round of jumps we placed 1- 4. However, after the second jump, it was Andreas and Rich who made it to the ‘super-final’ with Sammy Carlson and Jon Olssen (who kept doing the same trick – not rated in the early rounds but with the TV cameras rolling for some reason it was getting points!) His entry edged out Martin to 5th so with good reason, Martin was pissed right off as he was riding amazing, going bigger than anyone all day and deserved to be in the final four.
Here's martin going massive as he was all day.
Our new rookie Thomas came 6th overall so before the super final Nike had a guaranteed 4 of the top 6th places.
In the super final, Rich and Andreas kept stomping everything and either could have won except for Sammy Carlson leaving his best amplitude and style to last and rinsing the final field on his last 2 jumps. 
We were all stoked for Rich especially as it was his best placing in a field of this calibre and will set him up for X Games entry and hopefully a bigger and better career from now on.
Results from King of Style 10:th of November
King of Style: SAMMY CARLSON
2:nd: Richard Permin
3:rd: Andreas Håtveit
4:th: Jon Olsson
5:th: Martin Mishof
6:th: Thomas Dölpads
7:th: Peter Olenick
8:th: Niklas Karlström
9:th: Charles Garnier
10th:Taisuke Kusunoki
Saturday was snowboarding big air and part of the Nokia FIS series. Nike ACG had Flo Mausser riding for the Austrian team. Again in the snowboarding, it was a world class field. Flo was riding in top form from the outset despite the crap weather...he just had to keep uping the ante as the riding from the rest of the field improved over the course of the day. But Flo was well up to the task stomping 9's and 10's in the final with perfect grabs and amplitude. At the end Flo finished forth in a field of over 80 of Europe and the worlds best.
Flo was stoked on his 4th. His next event is the Nokia big air in Paris early december.
1:st: PETEK MATEVZ
2:nd Peetu Piiroinen
3:rd Risto Mattila
4:th Florian Mausser
5:th Andreas Wiig
6:th Stefan Gimpl
7:th Giacomo Kratter
8:th Benedikt Nadig
Both events had pretty good after-parties. An amazingly high proportion of Swedish girls are stunners so the Nike team had a couple of great nights and look forward to heading back to next years event.
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