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The Other Press

April 8, 1980

 

World cup free style skiing

by Andrea Lloyd

The World Cup Freestyle
Championship at Whistler
(April 28-30) proved to be
an exciting display of tal-
ent, skill and guts. The
competitors and spectators
were psyched for the final
meet of the 1980 pro circuit.
It was an all or nothing
battle for the last shot at
becoming the World Cham-
nion Freestyler. Labatt’s
Breweries provided $30,000
in prize money, $1,500 of
which goes to the winner of
each event; balet, moguls
or aerials.

It was an -action-packed
weekend at the Labatt’s

World Freestyle Champion-
ship with Kelown’s Greg

Athans crowned the over-:

all champion, relieving
John Eaves of this three
year reign. Toronto’s Ste-
phanie Sloan clenched the
women’s freestyle title for
her second year in a row.
On Friday the pros dan-
ced their way down the
slopes in the balet competi-
tion. Spectators were enter-
tained by the variety of
steps, spins and jumps
performed by the competi-
tors to music. An amazing
display of grace and flexi-
bility gave Utah’s Jan
Bucher the title in the

women’s competition, fol-
lowed by Christine Rossi of
France and Hedy Garaham-
mer from Munich. Nev-
ada’s Ron Howard, previ-
ous World Balet Champion,
topped the men’s balet with
Earnst Garahammer § sec-
ond and Steve Rechtschaf-
fner, third.

The mogul competition,
scheduled to run on Satur.
day was cancelled due to
fog, snow, high winds and
overall poor visibility. It
was a great day though, for
those who like to take
advantage of uncluttered
lift lines and fresh Whistler
powder. As the day drew to

a close, the sky began
clearing promising perfect
conditions for the final day
of competition.
Beautiful skies,
sunshine and freshly fallen
snow brought thousands of
spectators to Whistler on
Sunday. The mogul com-
petition was run in the
morning with each competi-
tor given only one chance to
win. ‘‘“Mogul bashing”’ as it
is frequently termed, in-
volves the skier in a com-
bination of turns with speed
and airtime while demon-
strating good control. (Or
as much control as possible
with all that speed and air).

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Outstanding one-for-all
performances were. by
America’s first place fin-
isher Hilary English in a
close season battle against
second place finisher Kay
Kucera. Stephanie Sloan of
Toronto placed third. Out of
forty competitors, Sigi
Innauer of Austria captured
the men’s event, followed
by Franz Garahammer, of
the famed Munich family,
and Scott Brooksbank of the
U.S.

The aerial competition
run on Sunday afternoon is
perhaps the most exciting
event in freestyle competi-
tion. Breathtaking stunts of
somersaults with different
twists amazed the crowd
gathered around the base

of the jumping site. The

Canadians cleaned up in
this event with two mem-
bers of the acclaimed
“Quebec Air Force’’, Craig
Clow of Quebec City and
Jean Corriveau, _ placing
first and second respec-
tively. Grouse Mountain’s
own Rich Bowie placed
third, followed by other
Canadians Peter Judge and|_
Mike Nemesvery.

A spectacular jump by
Lauralee Bowie, another
member of the freestyle
family, clenched the
women’s aerial title with
Vancouver’s Renee Smith
placing second, followed by
Mary Bedder of the U.S.

Next year I’m sure we
can expect to see more
great performances by Can-
ada’s_ Freestyle Champ-
ions!

‘Avant garde!

Vancouver artist Mike
Dunn will demonstrate the
crafting of wooden musical
instruments Sunday, April
13, 2pm in the Surrey Art
Gallery. The workshop will
be of interest to musicians
and the general public a-
like. Admission is Free. -

The whole family will
enjoy learning. about var-
ious woods and the tools

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used to shape them, what
instruments look like at
different stages of cons-
truction and the basic prin-
ciples behind their func-
tioning. Those who wish to
try their hand will be given
opportunity to do so during
the workshop.

Musical instruments are
common objects whose ex-
istence most of us take for
granted. Yet, when you
pause to consider the sculp-
ted side of a guitar, for in-
stance, many questions
come to mind. Is it all one
piece? How could wood
possibly be bent that way?
What kind of wood is it?

Mike Dunn is an_ in-
strument maker and mus:
ician with Mystery Pacific
and was artist in residence i
and was artist in residence
in the B.C. Pavilion at the
World’s Fair in Spokane. )