![]() “Growing up hitting smaller jumps, smaller rails, on a 400-foot-hill in the Midwest, when I get the chance to go on something massive I’ll take it every single time,” Goepper said with a laugh. But the 100 acres of skiable area is where Goepper cut his teeth as a young skier, starting out at five years old and competing by age 11.Īlways drawn to going big and fast, Goepper landed his first double backflip by the age of 13.Īnd while the Midwest did for Goepper what it does for many professional freestyle skiers-forces them to hone their style early and excel at rails and other street-style features, Goepper’s professional career has seen him chase every kind of feature he didn’t have available to him growing up in Indiana. Growing up in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, his home mountain, Perfect North Slopes, features a top elevation of 800 feet and 400 vertical feet. Goepper’s rails prowess and creative flair are by design. “It kind if reiterated to me to do what you’re good at and have fun doing it and that will usually take you the farthest,” Goepper said. ![]() The judges’ rewarding Goepper for making creative use of the course validated his approach. They were just super challenging and fun.” “On the course in Beijing, there were two features in particular-the house with the rail on top, what we were calling the ‘shred shed,’ and the quarterpipe second jump feature-that were features I would love to ride in a regular park everyday. “My strategy was doing the kind of skiing that was the most genuine to me and fun to me, but make it technical and difficult so you get the points,” Goepper told me by phone after returning home from the Games. It was a risk, but it paid off with his top score of 90.01.Īnd Goepper was the only skier in the field to take advantage of the quarterpipe takeoff on the second jump, with a left double cork 1440, leading to his score of 86.48 on his second run. Hall wowed with his signature right double cork 1080 pretzel 180 on the third jump-a trick that requires him to “rewind” his 1080 spin back to a 900. (Photo by Wang Haofei/Xinhua via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images photos after the freestyle skiing men's freeski slopestyle final of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. Alexander Hall C, Nicholas Goepper L of the United States and Jesper Tjader of Sweden pose for. ![]()
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