Against the world’s best slopestyle pros, in front of 20,000 action-starved fans, California-based Greg Watts lays down a dream run and wins the slopestyle crown-jewel, the Monster Energy Slopestyle at Whistler’s Crankworx.

“At first glance the course looked mediocre because some of the stunts looked a little sketchy,” said Watts. “But once people started riding everything seemed to flow together pretty good and it was shaping up to be a good slopestyle comp.”And flow together is just what Watts did – on his second run he rolled out of the gate and into a 360 tail-whip, followed by a Superman seatgrab, a backflip onto the Giro trailer with a 360 exit, a tail-whip off the Kona wall and straight into a Truck Driver (360 bar spin) from the SRAM bridge, into another bar spin off the Race Face jump, a flip-whip on the VW dirt jump and a finally a backflip from the giant Kokanee booter and into the finish line. A truly impressive line-up of tricks but what put Greg clearly ahead was that he stomped everything like Obama on the mic – not even a slight un-balanced landing. The format for this year’s event was the best score of two runs and a final Superfinal run on the impressive Boneyard course. After the dust settled, Watts scored 96 and a walked with a $15,000 cheque, just ahead of Whistler’s Brandon Semenuk and Sweden’s Martin Soderstrom.

“My run in the finals was basically my dream run. I had previously landed all the tricks I did, but linking them up back to back like that in front of all of those people at the biggest comp of the year was a dream come true,” recounts Watts, “it was the last comp of the year so I just decided to go for broke and it couldn’t have gone any better for me. I definitely accomplished one of my major life.

And to celebrate Greg’s win for a limited time only, spend $100 at the Sombrio store and we’ll through in a FREE Crankworx T-Shirt! Sorry Canadian orders only…



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