The past month has been very successful for the Nysef Freeride Team as they returned to Lake Placid from the past Revolution Tour. Despite some powder on the first day and a ridiculous amount of rain from the third day until their depature day a lot of hard work and good results came out of this trip.
First to compete was NSA senior John Wilkins who finally made it through his first Rev tour without an injury making him unable to compete. Wilkins learned his first dub rodeo 900 (double backflip with a 180 degree turn) in his 3rd/last practice run before his competition, then put it into his runs to get 17th place out of the 70-80 people competing only a few spots away from making it into finals. Wilkins also competed in Boardercross coming in 32nd place after doing a rodeo, switch 720, and riding the majority of the coarse switch.
Stephanie Lawee who was competing with a hurt shoulder still managed to kill the competition. Lawee managed to leave with an impressive 4th place in Slopestyle, and in Halfpipe. She then decided to compete in Skiercross even though she wasn’t signed up for this event and came out in 2nd.
Matt Brady, a new addition to the NSA freeride team joined the group for his first Rev tour. Brady competed in Skiercross and unfortunately placed 9th, one spot from making it to finals after his time trial run, but still skied very well.
K.C. Brousseau went to Rev tour to compete in all three diciplins, (Slopestyle, Halfpipe, and Skiercross) but ran into some problems with his toe. Unfortunatly K.C. had to spend his evenings draining his toe by stabbing a needle under his toe nail and squeezing out the extra blood. Thanks to this K.C. was forced to pull from Slopestyle, and Halfpipe. On the day of the Skiercross race K.C. sucked it up and crammed his foot into his ski boot just long enough for him to compete.
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