'16/'17 Revolution Tour @ Copper brings elevated competition

Author: Tim Remick

Insane level of competition raises the bar high for The '16/'17 Revolution Tour...

The first stop of the 2017 Revolution tour kicked off this past weekend here in Snowy Colorado with by far the most competitive field to date. For snowboarding, along with the standard list of eager upstarts stood an insane array of international names including Olympic gold medalist Iouri Podladtchikov. For the skiers, riders like FIS World Champ Mike Riddle stood atop as our 5 Monster Army Athletes tried their best to stand on the podium. This is an Olympic qualifying year, so everyone is coming out "guns blazing" to get those all so important FIS points. However this years Revolution Tour is going to be a whole new ballgame.

We want to congratulate all of our Monster Army athletes for there intense dedication and relentless drive to get after it this early, and against this stacked of a field. With a total of 13 athletes between mens and womens ski and snowboard, Monster Army athletes continued to show the world that they are here and on a mission. Our snowboard riders braving this first event of the season included Rakai Tait, Ian Kalapos, Zoe Kalapos, Lucas Foster, and Windham Miller. And on the Ski side we had a total of 8 athletes in contention: Cameron Brodreck, Birk Irving, Dylan Ladd, Jaxin Hoerter, Sam Ward, and for Women: Abigale Hanson, Svea Irving, and Sierra Bowman. With only 1 day of pipe training this season for all of our riders, its easy to congratulate them all for putting down there runs and making it as far as they did!