{"id":273706,"date":"2021-10-03T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=273706"},"modified":"2021-10-03T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:27:06","slug":"emil-johansson-wins-5th-consecutive-crankworx-slopestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/emil-johansson-wins-5th-consecutive-crankworx-slopestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Emil Johansson Wins 5th Consecutive Crankworx Slopestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

SILVERSTAR MOUNTAIN RESORT, BC, October 2, 2021\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 August 17, 2019, Emil Johansson won his first Slopestyle competition at Crankworx. Two years and four Slopestyle World Championship competitions later, he hasn\u2019t stopped. His win today in the Title Slopestyle presented by CLIF at SilverStar Bike Park, the closing event of Crankworx B.C., marks his fifth win in a row at the highest level of Slopestyle mountain biking.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt amazing to pull that run off and to get some of the tricks in which I had never been able to do in a contest run before,\u201d said the Swede, who pulled off three first-ever tricks in a comp: a switch truck to down whip off a step down, a switch three dub whip, and a truck to double down whip.<\/p>\n

Of the latter he said: \u201cI didn\u2019t do it in practice. I\u2019ve never done it to dirt before. So this was the first time I\u2019ve ever done it to dirt, so I thought it was the right time to bring it out. I was a bit nervous about it. Tried to talk myself out of it, but I ended up doing it and I made it happen, so it feels good\u2026You can\u2019t take that for granted. To be able to pull it off when it really matters is tricky, and to do it and get all the way down the hill feels amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old\u2019s first run scored at 95, a score that held through the second runs.<\/p>\n

The arena in which Johansson claimed his victory was an all-new course to the Crankworx World Tour circuit. Designed by Slopestyle legend Brett Rheeder, whose home mountain is SilverStar, and built by famed rider, dirt shaper and innovator Matt MacDuff, the course garnered rave reviews from the discipline\u2019s top riders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the course is absolutely amazing,\u201d said Johansson. \u201cIt has a bit of everything. Really playful, fun to ride. It\u2019s still big enough to be gnarly, but it\u2019s definitely different compared to something at The Boneyard in Whistler.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was super nice,\u201d echoed his Red Bull teammate David Godziek. \u201cThe features were on point\u2026It was probably the best course I\u2019ve ever ridden at Crankworx.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis course wasn\u2019t designed to have the biggest, gnarliest features,\u201d Rheeder had explained during construction. \u201cIt was designed to have features more similar in size to what riders actually practice on at home. Features that allow the rider to focus on their runs, rather than the course itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The course features eight trick options on six features:<\/p>\n