{"id":803984,"date":"2020-02-08T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378731"},"modified":"2020-02-08T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:41:56","slug":"red-gerard-wins-dew-tour-slopestyle-with-best-friend-brock-crouch-by-his-side-in-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/red-gerard-wins-dew-tour-slopestyle-with-best-friend-brock-crouch-by-his-side-in-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Gerard wins Dew Tour slopestyle with best friend Brock Crouch by his side in second"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red Gerard takes gold in the men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final with a 97.33 on Saturday, Feb. 8, day three of the Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2013 Two years after Brock Crouch nearly died in an avalanche in Whistler, British Columbia, he and one of his best friends he\u2019s known for a dozen years \u2014 Red Gerard \u2014 had their moment together at the top of the podium at Saturday\u2019s Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/p>\n

Just two nights ago, Crouch said he and Gerard talked about how crazy it would be if they ever got on the same podium together. After Red won the Dew Tour men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle competition with a score of 97.33 \u2014 besting Crouch\u2019s 95.66 at the last minute \u2014 Crouch reflected on how surreal the experience was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think it was going to happen (today) and to have this experience is something I can\u2019t even express,\u201d Crouch said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy. \u2026 I\u2019m honestly speechless. When I say \u2018I\u2019m speechless,\u2019 I\u2019ve never really felt like this before. It\u2019s crazy to think where I was two years ago not even being able to walk.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

Gerard, with his mom, dad, brothers, sisters and the rest of his fun-loving family there to watch him, ended each round of runs at Saturday\u2019s competition with the best score. After his first run in the first round, Gerard\u2019s family and friends erupted in applause when he landed a frontside 1080-degree rotation with a tail grab, a backside 1260 and a switch backside 1080. Under sunny skies after more than 3 feet of powder fell at Copper Friday, the Gerards used their snowboards to dig out packed-powder benches to sit on to watch the contest and cheer on Red, Crouch and their other best friend Luke Winkelmann of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

As the competition progressed, one rider after another in the loaded field of international stars put down strong runs despite the slowness of the course due to the packed powder. In the end, seven riders finished with scores in the 90s, including Canadian star Mark McMorris (90.33), American Judd Henkes (90.66), Sweden\u2019s Sven Thorgren (93.33), and Finland\u2019s Rene Rinnekangas (93.66). At one point or another during Saturday\u2019s rapid-fire round, all of them looked like they could end up on the podium.<\/p>\n

But it was Red\u2019s best friend Brock who gave him the best run for the top spot. Crouch did so with a second run through the course that included a 50-50 backside 360 out of one rail feature and into a slide on the Woodward Copper wall ride. Crouch then executed a 50-50 frontside 360 with a melon grab out of the canon rail and into the jumps portion. On the jumps, Crouch set himself up for the final money-booter jump with a frontside 900 tail grab and a switch frontside double-cork 1260.<\/p>\n

Going into the third and final jump, Crouch remembered how his coach told him at the top of the course that if he hadn\u2019t fallen by the end, to try a backside triple-cork 1440. The big trick is one many riders struggled to get around Saturday, but Crouch stomped it to earn first. Before he even received his final score his good friend and Red\u2019s older brother and fillmmaker Malachi told him \u201cDude, you\u2019re bumping the kid, let\u2019s go,\u201d referring to Red\u2019s hold on first.<\/p>\n

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Brock Crouch takes the silver in men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final with a score of 95.66 on Saturday, Feb. 8, day three of the Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In many ways, Crouch feels like a member of the Gerard family, as Malachi shoots his video parts in general and, on Saturday, the Gerards congratulated him after he received the first-place score.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are literally family,\u201d Crouch said.<\/p>\n

Crouch also landed that best run of his life on Saturday after ripping through bottomless powder at Copper Mountain on Friday he described as \u201cpossibly the deepest powder\u201d he\u2019d ever ridden on a resort<\/a>. The pow day before the contest, though, left him sore, especially after he and Red shredded powder in Japan just last week.<\/p>\n

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As for Red, he won the contest on a second run that included a backside alley oop 360 on the redirect hip feature to start the course before executing a noseslide pretzel on the next rail. Red then rode the next rail switch into a backside 270 that he brought back the hard way off the rail before landing a switch backside 360 out of the butter pad into a switch boardslide underflip 450 out of the canon rail.<\/p>\n

Transitioning from the rails to jumps, Red kept great speed to land a frontside 1080 with a tail grab into a backside double-cork 1260. Then, on the money booter, Red landed a switch backside triple-cork 1440, surfing the back of his board to hold on. Red was then mobbed in the bottom of the corral by Finland\u2019s Rene Rinnekangas, Winkelmann and Crouch, who tackled him to the ground while he was still on his board. Red\u2019s family and friends soon followed.<\/p>\n

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Red Gerard hugs family and friends after winning Saturday\u2019s Dew Tour men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle competition at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

When the powder dust settled, Crouch looked into Malachi\u2019s camera and, with a smile, said, \u201cThat was insane, just like that, I\u2019m out of first.\u201d The judges agreed a couple minutes later when Red\u2019s 97.33 flashed on the screen. Red then dodged a strong run by Norwegian star and defending Dew Tour champ Stale Sandbech, who took third with a 94.00 run.<\/p>\n

From there, the celebration was on. As the Ohio native accepted his first-place trophy, one of Red\u2019s family members screamed \u201crush the field.\u201d The Gerards are avid fans of the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians, and they were all \u2014 including mother Jen and father Conrad \u2014 there on the packed-powder podium at Copper to take in Red and Brock\u2019s moment together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really insane,\u201d Red said. \u201cTo be honest, after that avalanche and all that, I really didn\u2019t know if he was going to be coming back to slopestyle and competing again. And for him to come back two years later now and to be riding like he never left is really something cool. And, again, I really didn\u2019t think it was going to happen and to have this experience is something I can\u2019t even express.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Red Gerard rides the shoulders of Norwegian star Stale Sandbech after Gerard won Saturday\u2019s Dew Tour men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle competition at Saturday\u2019s Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Red Gerard takes gold in the men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final with a 97.33 on Saturday, Feb. 8, day three of the Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2013 Two years after Brock Crouch nearly died in an avalanche in Whistler, British Columbia, he and one of his best friends he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 07:19:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803986,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803984\/revisions\/803986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}