Action from Crankworx Colorado’s 2008 slopestyle competition in Winter Park, CO.

Filmed and edited by Noah Sears of Western Slopestyle Productions (HTTP://westernslopestyle.blogspot.com/)

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Over the Edge Sports - Fruita, CO
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After I got home from New Hampshire I left the next day for crankworx Colorado. Greg Watts and I flew to Denver where my versus teammate Wade picked us up from the airport. We spent the first night in Denver at Wades place. Wednesday morning we drove from Denver up to winter park for the first day of practice. Once we got there we checked out the course. The start of the course was the same as last year with a lot of new stuff in between. This year the end was an elevated quarter pipe that you stepped onto aired out and then stepped off. The course flowed a lot better this year. The next day we had another two-hour practice and then it went straight into the big air comp. For the big air comp we sessioned the four pack of dirt jumps in the middle and the step down to quarter. They where giving two best trick awards, one for the top and one for the bottom. Up top Greg killed it, he stomped a flip double bar spin and a flip whip. On the lower section Cam landed the first ever flip superman off a step down. In the lower section I landed a flip table then I tail whipped over the channel on the quarter to a three off the deck so red bull decided to give me an award for best red bull line on the lower section. The next day was the big show. We started out with practice where I took one of the hardest falls I have had in awhile. I went to tail whip the channel on the quarter and I missed my pedals and fell off the elevated quarter to my head and then my back. I decided to still and ride and after my first run I was sitting in first place until Cam McCaul came down and bumped me into second, then right after Brandon Semenuk came down bumping both Cam and I into second and third. We were the last three to go since we qualified top three. We all had one more run left so we went back up to try and better our runs. I cleaned the run I wanted putting me back into first place. Then Cam came down putting together a nasty run but I still barely held onto first. The last rider to drop was Brandon. He put together one of the best runs I’ve ever seen bumping me back into second. So the final results were 1^st Brandon Semenuk 2^nd ME 3^rd Cam McCaul 4^th Cam Zink 5^th Jamie Goldman 6^th Tyler McCaul 7^th Kelly Mcgerry and 8^th place went to Gregg Watts. After the slopestyle they had an after party for everyone in the village. The next day we got our stuff together and drove down to Denver to catch our flight. Next week I’m headed up to Whistler for Crankworx. I’ll post some more pics while I’m up there. -later

Jason Sessums is competing at the first CrankWorx on American soil.

Versus Cycles is proud to say we have a sponsored rider in Hawaii! Jason Sussums is a Freerider and Downhiller from Hawaii, and this July he will be flying to Colorado for the upcoming CrankWorx event. CrankWorx Colorado looks to be one of the hottest events this year, with all the big names and media attention that the original gets, but this time on American soil. Jason has recently taken delivery of a new Blitz II frame, and will be throwing it down with the big boys at what is one of the hardest, yet most crowd-thrilling shows that Mountain Biking has to offer.

CrankWorx Colorado is being held July 5th-7th.

See the latest in the Hawaiian Freeride video series, the Vish Files.

(Versus HQ, CA 2007-06-17)