00:00podium but we are just slightly over halfway and the next rider in the gate
00:04Noemi Aki, she is the current reigning freeride world tour champion. She is from
00:09right here in Val Terence. She is a Verbier Extreme winner and she is on
00:14course now. She is at home and let's see how this home advantage works to her. I'm
00:19sure she feels comfortable being here and you can see that already in this top
00:25section of the face making her way over to her first air with full commitment
00:30and looks like lining up a pretty big section of it. Noemi taking off landing
00:37beautifully getting control back that trademark edge-to-edge board control that
00:42Noemi Aki has as she navigates the upper section and another big piece below her
00:47and riding out nice little tail press there you can see she was fighting for
00:52balance but handling it like the champion that she is Noemi Aki wrapped up on top
00:58and now moving heel side so regular foot across this long traverse where she has
01:02much more terrain awaiting her. You know I imagine Noemi had quite the
01:06head game going into here. She wants to show off for her hometown crowd but in
01:11Spain she was you know a little bit lower down in fifth place and she wants to
01:15have that overall title for the second time in the year so she's got to balance
01:19the risk and reward that she's willing to take. How much is she going to push it
01:24and how much is she going to take a little bit of a safety line? Yeah not
01:28looking so safe so far but the execution picture perfect so far for Noemi Aki as
01:34she comes into this blind rollover this is where things start to get serious
01:37again as a massive chunk of terrain lurking below Noemi. She pops in there with
01:43no hesitation into a double and flashing that section. You know it's amazing Derek
01:49she goes into the air and when she lands it doesn't even look like she's left the
01:53ground with how much control she has in those outruns. Well really really stellar
01:58run so far from Noemi Aki as she gets into this technical section pointing the
02:03board into the fall line. Going out fast I don't know if you can hear but the crowd
02:08is just going wild here for their hometown hero. She's gonna feel good about this run
02:15for sure and into the Sun and into her friends and family waiting down below. Well
02:20the only one that was able to beat her last year was of course multi-time four
02:25time freeride world tour champion. You know Anna Martinez gave her quite the
02:33goal and yeah Marion Aki won last year but I think Noemi is here to say I can win
02:40here too. Yeah she was nearly unstoppable only her mentor taking her off the top
02:46step last year as we look back at the start of Noemi Aki's run. Just look at the
02:50start and the exposure right over a cliff band you'll see again here is that
02:55classic Naomi style strong fluid and so good on any sort of landing that she takes. Video
03:03judges bars absolutely pinned to the top. One of the things they look for Hadley is
03:08not skipping features. Did Noemi skip anything she could have hit on that run? I don't
03:12believe so. No skipping and just full gas no hesitation at all out of the young
03:17French rider. Yeah and then in this difficult technical lower section she puts
03:23the nose of the board into the fall line through that entire lower core and you
03:27can see the rocks just accelerating beside her. So catching up with Anna Martinez
03:32is sitting in the hot seat at the score up up up 84 points Noemi Aki into the hot
03:38seat listen to the crowd.
03:41Noemi Aki and
03:48nice.
03:50Noemi Aki.
03:52You just didn't want to break down the floor.
03:54Noemi.
03:56Noemi.
03:57Noemi.
03:58I'm sorry.
04:00I'm sorry.
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