Christopher Reive - Big Air

Luke caught up with Winter Games guru Chris Reive from NZHerald to ask what Zoi faced in the Big Air final this morning 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Games guru from the New Zealand Herald is Christopher Reeve. Hello, gooday,
how are you good? Mate? This thing I love about
this event. Every four years we get to hook into
some sports we otherwise wouldn't see or follow, and perhaps
this is one of them. Good place to start. What
is this big ear? What is Zoie doing? How's it work?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah? So thinking is sort of one of the one
of the more exciting snowboard events. I guess sa'd say. Basically,
they go down a long ramp, send it off a
program and basically it's one trick. So you basically just
have to do your biggest trick, score the highest points,

(00:40):
and it's sort of the scoring crowter area's difficulty of trick,
how clean they land, just how good the trick looks essentially,
And is.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It possible to get a perfect score?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You can? Yeah, so I think there's five judges and
you can get you can't get a perfect score, just
like anything we're judging. I think, you know, perfect tens
across the board. And in this event, you get three
runs and you basically take your if two scores, you
have to have one front side trick and one backside trick.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh what do you mean by front side and mix side?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
So it's based on sort of what direction you're turning in,
whether you're turning right towards your foehand or your backhand.
So in Siri, we saw it in the men's event
the other day that you try and land just two
sort of keeper scores in your first two runs and
then you can have your third run for replacing whichever

(01:39):
one you need to. So that's kind of best case
scenario there.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Zoe has gone in top qualifier, she's middled the last
three times. Surely the hot favorite. Who's the big competition here?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I think Mia Brooks is probably the ones to
look out for. She won X Games Big ear last
week week, so she's Yeah, she's one of these other
young sort of snowboarders coming through now who really pushing
the progression in the sport. As though he was sort
of well, I guess eight years ago now when she

(02:12):
was starting as to come through. It seems like a
little while ago for someone who's still just twenty four
years old.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
But incredible, isn't it. Yes, Well, everybody in this New
Zealand contingent, we've got our largest different crew of there
of seventeen. They're all under the age of twenty seven.
It really is a young person's great games. Hey super quick.
Chris couldn't help. But notice when they introduce the athletes
on the TV, it shows their name, country, their age,

(02:39):
and then also their stance. Zoe was regular yesterday, but
many of the competitors were described as shaggy. What does
that mean?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Goofy? I think, oh right, yeah, what does that mean?
It's just the way they stand on the boards. Regular
stance would be sort of your your regular what I
would consider sort of right hand stance, so your left
foots forward on the board and your right foot at
the back, and goofy is just the other way.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Around, goofy, shaggy, cringe all could be used to describe
my stance, to be fair, But.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I shall in the club.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I'm sure that he's going to nail it, and we
watch with bated breath from seveno thirty this morning,