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Jon Olsson extreme skiing
Ok, What can i say about the guy, who has 10 Winter X-Games medals. Jon Olsson is a legend of winter extreme sports, and a hero of X-Games. His skiing is much more than just skiing , just take a look at that list:
- 2008 X-Games, Big Air, Aspen, USA
- 2007 Icer Air, Big Air, San Francisco, USA
- 2007 Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
- 2007 US Freeskiing Open, Slope Style, Copper Mountain, USA
- 2006 Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air, Åre, Sweden
- 2006 Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
- 2005 World Superpipe Champion, Park City, USA
- 2004 Scandinavian Championships, Big Mountain, Riksgränsen, Sweden
- 2004 Nokia Totally Board, Big Air, Greece
- 2004 Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
- 2003 Rip Curl, Total, Saas Fee, Switzerland
- 2003 Rip Curl, Big Air, Saas Fee, Switzerland
- 2003 Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
- 2003 Ski and Rock, Slopestyle, Sälen, Sweden
- 2003 Red Bull Big Air, Åre, Sweden
- 2003 Air we go, Big Air, Oslo, Norway
Do you know what is it? Jon Olsson is the gold winner of all this competitions and contests!
And here are his other achievments:
- 2005 4th Jon Olsson Invitational
- 2005 3rd X-Games, Superpipe
- 2005 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle
- 2005 3rd US Freeskiing Open, Slopestyle
- 2005 5th US Freeskiing Open, Big Air
- 2004 2nd Rip Curl, Slopestyle
- 2004 3rd Rip Curl, Halfpipe
- 2004 3rd US Freeskiing Open, Big Air
- 2004 2nd X-Games, Superpipe
- 2004 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle
- 2003 2nd Cape TownTotally Board
- 2003 3rd Rip Curl, Halfpipe
- 2003 2nd Rip Curl, Slopestyle
- 2003 2nd King of the Globe
- 2003 2nd Freestyle.ch
- 2003 2nd US Freeskiing Open
- 2003 4th US Freeskiing Open
- 2003 3rd X-Games, Superpipe
- 2003 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle
Just take a look at this video, here is his gold run on the pipe, on winter X-Games 2004:
Jon Olsson is inventor of some new, extreme freestyle double flips, that are two separate flips in one air, such as D-spin 720 into a flatspin 540 (DJ Flip), switch double rodeo 1080 (Hexo Flip), and the most amazing one a double flatspin 900 (Kangaroo Flip). Here is the video of his Kangaroo flip:
Not a long time ago, it was allready year 2008, Jon Olsson with S.Dumont and Schiller involved in a complete new open freeskiing content. The name was.. mm something like Winter American Open, a ok here it is the North American Open at Breckenridge. In this event there is a new format of qualifing. Every rider has as many runs as he manage to do through a daylight to show himself in front of the judges. When a rider hears the “bib”, he is qualified for the next level.
Here some more great moves from Jon in this video, just perfect flips, grinds and everything else:
Go Olsson! Go Jon!!!
1 comment June 26, 2008
Awesome trials team
Found some guys, that totally knocking me off, with their trial drops, and hops. And these ones making even more beautiful drops than guys in the other vids in my trials category.
btw the first jump over the fence, landing on the front wheel, is my favorite one!
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