One week before his 19th birthday, young Andreu Lacondeguy landed a huge backflip on a snow ramp before a crowd of 7,000 at the Snowboard Big Air World Cup in Graz, Austria. The slippery snow surface in combination with the high speed and the distance of the jump may have seemed quite daring, but the biggest worries for the Spaniard were the cold weather. "I didn’t expect that it would be that cold, I should have taken some more warm clothes with me," said Lacondeguy.
After the quarterfinals of the Snowboard Big Air World Cup on Saturday, Andreu Lacondeguy rolled down the steep snowbank and pulled a textbook backflip across a 60-foot gap before delicately touching down on the snow landing.
Andreu had this to say about the event: ”I was a little bit nervous on the start. I never rode snowboard jumps before and I was not really sure, if it would work out. I just did one practice jump yesterday. Today I just flipped it and I landed it clean and perfect. That was the first event of the year for me and I did my biggest backflip ever. That is just amazing for me!"
Photo by Sebastian Romero
Big thanks go to Andreu’s sponsors: Red Bull, Kona, O`Neal, Marzocchi und Adidas Eyewear.
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