Hello and welcome to coverage of the Lax Open 2021. My name is Tim Ward, we did get chance to sit down with the athletes before any people put on to chat about just how it is to be back competing in slow board slope style. It's been so long since I did my last World Cup in slope style and it's been a lot of waiting to finally be back in the start gate so I'm super excited. It feels good to be back together, awesome to see all the guys riding and everybody's happy to be on the mountain and just do what we love to do. Lax is definitely super important especially being Olympic qualifier so yeah it's definitely probably going to be the most important contest of the year. I am super happy to be back at Lax especially to compete here. The course is always so good and they make the jumps so perfect and it's actually one of the best courses I've written. We've got the men coming up for you very shortly but first it's business time. Let's kick things off with the women's Jamie Anderson. She's won it four times, can't you in it five. She had a crack in semi-final running. I've been so inspired with the younger generation and watching the insane level of progression but it also at times made me feel a little bit nervous like if I still have it but I've decided to just use all this new young energy to just ride with it and do my best and be inspired and also keep like leading my own path and doing things my own way. I'm going to be going to be the first place, more it's ball, the young Lax will dab us just across the valley. Again this is going to be his best result by fall. For me it's probably one of the first years where I kind of got like the skills I've been working on this summer to keep up with the riders I guess so this year was really important for me especially because we're at home. I really liked the course because it's just different. I mean the first obstacle is kind of tough because there's so many lines you can take so it's really unique. I've never seen a course like this but it's just so flowy and fun. Today it is all about the slope style finals. Here is your start list running in reverse order from which they qualified and this is a really strong field isn't it. Well Anna Gasser then first to drop here at the women's finals into the first of these features. Coming in switch, switch double. Yes really nice. Little one 18 to the suks back. Switch back. Get a decent score on the board. Right then you're reigning champion. You're reigning Olympic champion. Namaste Jamie Anderson. Switch double. It's a big trick now what she got. Just the front seven. Huge. Now could she get clean this up with a grab on the 540 for more points. Yes she has done it. An 84.35 now five times champion of the Lax Open. This morning when we got out here it was so hard to see just so flat and really scary and as the day went on we got some more contrast which felt really good but I don't even know what was going through my head. Go big, pop grab and smile. Thankfully the wind died down for the second run and I'm really happy that I could lend a run. It's not my best run. I couldn't show my best snow running today but I'm already excited for the next event and I hope it goes better there. There we go then ladies and gents. Strap yourselves in. It's the men's finals at the Lax Open 2021. So now we see how the men will handle these conditions. Marcus Cleveland just enjoy this ladies and gents. This is snowboarding right here. Big double crippler. Backside one, two, three, four and a half, 16, 20. Really clean, really stylish run. So Nicholas Matzen, the Swedish rider, currently leading and here he goes. Let's just see how he handles this. It's a little frontboard transition and then really nice and tech. Now Matzen with a switch, double and cranking out the 16. What a run. Oh, and then the backside rodeo out of the ladle. Goodness, me. Nicholas Matzen of Sweden takes the win here and becomes your Lax Open 2021 snowboard slopestyle champion. It's been a tough love with Lax Open before. I know it's six or seven years. I've never qualified and never put down my runs but this year to come here and put down a run after run and then end up on the top of the podium feels like a dream. It's going to be more fun to come back next year. Definitely the nerves were hitting when I was dropping for my first run and I just wanted to put one down to make sure everything was good and unfortunately went down on this respect 12 in my second run but I'm just happy. I definitely exceeded my expectations. Ended up third place which I'm really hyped about. First podiums, it's my accident so yeah, it couldn't be better. Super happy. It's a really good feeling just to be back on the podium just to know that I have the tricks that I need to get up there and also to keep my nerves calm when everything's going on so yeah feels good to be back for sure.