So psyched and proud of Super C.

Tonight was Railjam at Nationals. As with the pipe, she came in completely intimidated by the size of the features. Didn’t even know what to think about the dog house.  The tube with two 90 degree turns?  no way.

Finally got to practice on them for 2 hours this afternoon.  Came out feeling good but didn’t seem super confident.  Couple of hours of homework and a quick dinner before back to the slopes for the comp.

As we’re heading back, she announces she’s going to hit the dog house.  The dog house is a steel A-frame that’s taller than she is.  the drop off the back end is at least 10′ to the landing zone.  But she’d going for it.

So the guys’ heat is first and we’re watching from inside the bar.  Watching many of them crash land from the dog house.

Then the women are up.  She does some nice spins on the boxes.  She hits the waterfall and the down-flat-down.  Then we see her lining up for the dog house.  I think only one other woman in the heat had hit it at this point.  She pushes off.  She’s going a little fast. She launches off the ramp and is sliding along the top rail.  And then she slips.  Falls forward and bashes her hip against the rail then crumples down the other side and lands upside down next to the dog house.  The entire crowd gasps.  I can barely breath.  Bob is gripping my shoulders.

And she jumps up, grabs her loose ski and runs back up for her next pass.

Her next pass she goes for the tube:  “disaster 2” (I learn later- disaster means she skipped the first part of the tube, jumped on to the middle.  then she slid the rail and came off with a spin in the air.)  Her coaches called it the best trick of the heat.  Immediately after Best Crash of the evening.

One of the other moms came over to tell us “your daughter’s a tough one”.

Again, she’s glowing.  Grinning for an hour and talking about what she wants to work on next.

Kaden told her she’s got it, she just needs more core strength to pull in her knees on the big lips.  Jamie and Evan both said they were super happy with how she stepped it up and went for it.  And got up and threw the best trick after her crash.  (Evan said won’t even have gone back up for another go after a fall like that.)

She got 4th.  which almost seems like an after thought right now.  Though she’s stoked about that too.

 

 

Oh- didn’t post yesterday.  She pulled in 5th in the Super Pipe.  She was disappointed.  But described it as “SOOOO much fun”.  I’m impressed- 3 days ago she’d never been in a pipe bigger than 15′.  Most of this season, Northstar’s pipe was 12′.  First time competing at Nationals and she gets 5th.