Budapest Fridge

Last Wednesday i started right after work up to Budapest and after 800km and almost 12 hours drive (including some stops and sleep :) I finally got there!

after a couple of hours of sleep

sky's burning

awesome buildings everywhere at Budapest

powerlunch before starting the Qualli

The jump was actually pretty big for a In-City Big Air and the speed was good too. At the training day we had some problems with the compression in the landing. No way to land switch and if somebody landed a little backseat there was no way to make the compression without crashing. I hit the fens two times pretty hard. Fortunately they where padded a lot!

But at the second day the shapers made more snow so they smoothed out the transition and everything was perfect and the Qualli was on! I screwed up and lost the grab at my first run but the second one was good and I qualified ninth with a switch bio 9 truckdriver. My team & roommate Mr. Unlucky Klaus Finne stomped almost every dub cork 12 at the training and crashed two times at the Qualli... Russ Henshaw did dope switch dub 9s and Niklas Ericson's flat 10 was stomped as f***.

shaping it perfect before the finals start

After a long night and a little rain a lot of snow was gone... Before the Training started, all riders where shoveling snow in the landing and the shapers went to the icehall to get busses of snow. And at the end it was good enough for doing two practice jumps and two final jumps. I did switch dub 10 at my first run but it was pretty unstylish and sketchy so I decided to do switch bio 10 blunt and got 6th! Super stoked on that!

1) Elias Ambuhl (dub10 Mute-nose over tweaked, BIG!!!!)


2) Pk Hunder (Dub Cork 10 Mute Nose Poke Massive!)


3) JF Houle (Dub 12 Tail BIG!)


4) Russ Henshaw (Switch dub 9 mute) 


5) Jacob Wester (Dub 10 mute)


6) Markus Eder (Switch Bio 10 tail)


7) Niklas Erikson (Dub cork 10 mute)


8) Jon Olsson (Dub cork 10 safety)


9) Paddy Graham (Dub 10 mute) 


10) Antti Ollila (Dub Cork 10)


And the Finals where awesome! After a biiig crash on his first run, PK stomped a huge dub cork 10 stiffy mute. And Elias topped it with an overtweaked dub 10 bottom landing. JF had the chance to win with his dub 12 blunt but unfortunately he crashed in the transition so he got 3th.

Here's Jakob Westers Video of the Finals:

Budapest is awesome and I hope that I can come back next Year! TJEEEEEEEAH




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