{"id":2453400,"date":"2020-01-17T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-final\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:56:00","slug":"summit-snowboarder-red-gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-slopestyle-final-to-toutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/summit-snowboarder-red-gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-slopestyle-final-to-toutant\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit snowboarder Red Gerard runner-up in Laax Open slopestyle final to Toutant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7234042553191\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-319319-221\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-3-1024x693.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-3-1024x693.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-4-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img 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data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-6-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-6-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-7-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Laax Open | Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Laax Open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/LaaxOpen-SDN-011820-7-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-final\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-final\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">FRISCO \u2014 Red Gerard will ride into next week\u2019s X Games in Aspen snowboarding at his best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Friday in Switzerland, Gerard was the top-scoring American and the runner-up in the men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final at the Laax Open. Under clear skies and in ideal riding conditions, Gerard laced together the most inventive line through the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On his first and highest-scoring run, Gerard earned a score of 85.45 with a run through the course that consisted of a rock \u2018n roll, a backside nose-press 270, a cab-on backside 360 melon off of a rail feature, a frontside 1080, a backside 1260 with a melon grab, a switch backside 1440 with a mute grab and a cab-on to backside 720 off the butter knuckle feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gerard tried to up his score on his second run through the course but wasn\u2019t as clean with his line while riding through the softening snow later in the competition. That opened the door for Canadian star Sebastien \u201cSeb Toots\u201d Toutant to best Gerard with a score of 87.45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Toutant\u2019s run, which he pieced together after a hard crash in training, consisted of a 50\/50 stall to a frontside 270 out of a rail feature, a hardway switch backside 270 lipslide, a switch lipslide underflip off of a feature, a frontside double cork 900, a cab 1260 with a nose grab, a backside 1440 with a mute grab and a frontside double cork 1080 with a mute grab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other top American finishers at Friday\u2019s slopestyle competition included third-place finisher and rising Californian Judd Henkes (82.33), another rising teen star in Gerard\u2019s close friend and North Carolina native Luke Winkelmann (sixth, 75.00), Ryan Stassel (eighth, 56.13), Dusty Henricksen (ninth, 39.63) Lyon Farrell (11th, 28.56) and Michigan native and Silverthorne resident Kyle Mack (12th, 26.81).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After the competition, the first FIS snowboard slopestyle competition of the World Cup season, Gerard ranks in second place in the 2019-20 men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle season standings, with 800 points, only behind Toutant\u2019s 1,000 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for the overall park-and-pipe season standings \u2014 which combine results from slopestyle, halfpipe and big air competitions \u2014 Gerard\u2019s 800 points from Friday catapult him to fourth place with 1,880 total points, behind fellow Summit County snowboarder and two-time reigning park-and-pipe season champion Chris Corning (first, 3,250), Canadian teen phenom Nicolas LaFramboise (second, 2,316) and Australian halfpipe juggernaut Scotty James (2,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Thursday, another batch of Summit County residents and locals performed well in the Laax Open halfpipe semifinals. Steamboat Springs native and Breckenridge resident Taylor Gold soared to a third-place qualifying score of 84.00, only behind expected heavy-hitters in the dominant Australian champion James (92.50) and Japanese star Yuto Totsuka (84.50).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Behind Gold, Frisco resident Jason Wolle qualified in fifth place (78.50) and Dillon resident Chase Blackwell qualified through in ninth (74.25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The fifth-place score was huge for Wolle, who is on the U.S. Rookie Team and working to break into the highest-level of competitors. Wolle did so with a run that included a frontside 900 with a tail grab, a backside double Michalchuk with an Indy grab, a frontside double 1080 with an Indy grab, a cab double 1080 with a switch Indy grab and a crippler double nose grab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFor qualifiers, making sure I was well-rested was a big one for me, as well as taking training seriously and working closely with my coaches on a good game plan,\u201d Wolle said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Wolle, Blackwell and Gold will compete in Saturday\u2019s final round, which will take place at 9:30 a.m. mountain time Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:aolivero@summitdaily.com\">aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/gerard-runner-up-in-laax-open-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.Courtesy Laax Open Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.Courtesy Laax Open Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.Courtesy Laax Open Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World Cup snowboarding event.Courtesy Laax Open Photos from the 2020 Laax Open World [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 20:29:53","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}