00:00You see your friends down at the bottom, and they're all giving each other hugs and props.
00:03So in the start gate right now, 19-year-old Kea Chrétien.
00:08And ladies and gentlemen, this is not just any 19-year-old.
00:11This is a three-time freeway junior world champion.
00:14A very special rider to me.
00:17Also, his sister just competed in the freeway junior world championships,
00:20and he walked over to the far Lucas ride.
00:22He's going to start his ride from there, going right into the NAR,
00:26hopping over some cliffs.
00:28I have a huge exposure. Look, he's like above a 10, 12-meter cliff,
00:32and all the sloughs going down.
00:33He has to navigate to find a landing down there.
00:36And he does find a clean landing.
00:37Puts the board to slow down, but clean for Kea Chrétien in the top part,
00:41washing himself out, totally white-roaming himself.
00:44That's way too fast for me, but I hope he can hold it together.
00:48And he could almost, but that landing seemed to be a bit too flat, too.
00:52I don't know. Kea, what the hell?
00:54Right from the start, like absolutely just super four-line.
00:59No hesitations.
01:01Board pointing down.
01:03It's like true four-line, just going for it.
01:06Holy, I couldn't even, I was like, my heart was in my throat for that whole run.
01:11Obviously, there's a reason why he's junior's world champion.
01:14Exactly. He's one of those riders who has the ability to keep that tension,
01:18that momentum going among judges, backliters, and for us as well.
01:22Do you, is it dare I say it's first place?
01:24Just the only bad choice to me was to jump off the cliff with a flat,
01:28and look at that.
01:29So much technique necessary.
01:32And that was maybe not the smartest.
01:34He came a bit short, and either he was looking for the training,
01:38Damn, he even got like a great power turn in there.
01:42Woo, that was high-intensity, electrifying run.
01:46Electrifying, that's the only word I can say for that.
01:49Great work from Kea Crittin.
01:5119 years old with a 69.5.
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