00:00Full bag that this guy brings to the game.
00:02I'm not sure where he's managed to learn it
00:04because Ireland's not famous for having big snowy mountains.
00:06So to have solid freestyle elements,
00:08to have had the time to learn to apply that
00:11in technical big mountain terrain,
00:12to understand how to read a line.
00:14Super impressive that Keelan Benning is able to open up.
00:17Was that switch?
00:18Was it 360s?
00:19Nice.
00:20And then the biggest method grab of the day then.
00:24Absolutely.
00:25It's so nice to really see the bottom of the board
00:29horizontal, perpendicular to the ground.
00:32And I mentioned a very freestyle setup on one ride in snowboard.
00:35The far opposite seems to be true for Keelan, isn't it?
00:37He's pretty heavily mounted over the rear of that snowboard,
00:40very short tail behind him that's very rocked anyway.
00:43So it looks really easy for him to keep the nose of the board out of the snow,
00:48which we've seen a few people front punching
00:49in heavier bits of landing terrain so far.
00:52So maybe that's to Keelan's benefit.
00:54Well, he's got a 360 already in,
00:57and I wonder if he's got something more for us at the bottom
01:00because that would make a big difference
01:01to have two big tricks.
01:03Just uncovering a couple of rocks in the open field there,
01:05lining up onto the bigger bag
01:07where Gaben Buzan also did the backflip.
01:09Not quite as big as we saw from Arvid Gustafsson
01:11on the same cliff.
01:14I mean, still sending it.
01:16But still beautiful, yeah.
01:16And he doesn't need any more than this
01:18because he knows that he's got it at the very top,
01:20and he is already making the difference.
01:23Keelan playing it so strategically
01:25and so beautifully.
01:26Yeah, and now finishing with the same two cliffs as Gaben Buzan.
01:29It's the same run plus that frontside 360 at the top.
01:32Maybe it's a touch more fluid.
01:34So he's still in the question around the top four anyway.
01:37100%.
01:37And that, as you said, might well have been him
01:39just winding the difficulty back a little bit,
01:41taking an easy one
01:42because he knows he just needs sort of one more top five finish,
01:45and he might well be booking his place for the tour anyway.
01:48Very, very true, because, well, bear in mind,
01:51if Keelan is first, he's definitely getting closer
01:56to have throughout World War 2027 chances.
02:10There's that frontside three at the top.
02:12Yeah, really, really nice.
02:13The method was perfect.
02:14So tweaked, so big on that,
02:16and I love the style in the landing.
02:19Yeah, altogether, I think this has to be above Gaben Buzan,
02:24doesn't it?
02:24Maybe it's just like half an inch smaller on that bottom cliff,
02:27but it really isn't significant,
02:29and the rest of the run is the same,
02:30plus that 360 plus.
02:32A hint of fluidity.
02:33He's going into first place.
02:3488.
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