Shayne Pospisil, Elena Height, and Tim Humphreys take home the top spots at the Paul Mitchell Progression Session in Breckenridge Colorado during the 2007 Breck Grand Prix of Snowboarding.
The Paul Mitchell Expression session was basically a
pipe jam with 2 obstacles set up on the deck. You will see those
obstacles later. It was really a good time and all the riders seemed to
enjoy it. Awards were given out for best overall and best trick. The
format was simple – 60 minute jam with awards given for overall
performance and best trick. The Best trick meant on an obstacle, I told
Keir Dillon it looked kind of like the West Coast Invitational at
Mammoth only 60 degrees cooler he said “yea but this pipe is perfect”.
The vibe was like an anti contest, just the best pipe riders hiking the
pipe. In fact they kept shredding after the contest was over.
 Here is the start list for the Paul Mitchell Expression session
You might remember Trevor Jacobs – he won the 15 and under PBRJ rail
jam last weekend in Mammoth. Well, he almost made the pipe finals in
the Grand Prix and ruled the pipe obstacles with tricks like frontside
50/50 to alley oop revert out. In fact I would say Trevor was in the
top 5 for best trick.
Shayne Pospisil Harrison Gray from Canada gets his crail on.
Andreas Wiig surveys the Plexiglas wall ride.
Andreas follows up his survey with a Layback re-vert.
Crispin Lipscomb – to tail. Crispin later went on to do a 540 to tail
Louie, Louie Vito with a tail tap on obstacle #2, the round bar.
Tim Humphries won best trick for his Miller Flip on the Plexiglas wall ride.
My personal favorite trick of the night – Andrecht on the bar by Thomas Harstad.
Danny Davis tailslides
Jeremy Thompson again – Indy air Luke Mitrani Chad Otterstrom back lips the plexi. Chad was on fucking fire all night
but kind of kept slamming all hard, Andy Finch style, and was later
seen in the VIP area drinking beer 
Mason Aguirre was also ripping. Mason opted out of the pipe competition
earlier in the day saying he had not ridden enough recently but did
ride in the expression session and busted tricks like this stale
Thomas Harstad again with a nose bonk to reverse front 180 in
Mason with a nose bonk.
Michael Goldschmidt goes front 5 to tail. He missed the tail bonk but got second in the overall jam The highlight of the night was when Luke Mitrani and Danny Davis did a
doubles run and they both did the same tricks all the way down the
pipe. Dual crails.
The temperature may have been below zero but the action was hot – dual
front 5’s. After the buzzer was over, the riders kept riding and the
drinkers kept drinking…good night!
Results
Men
1 Shayne Pospisil
2 Michael Goldschmidt
3 Danny Davis
Women
1 Elena Height
2 Dominique Valee
3 Mercedes Nichol
Best Trick
Tim Humphreys – Miller Flip on Plexi extension
Thursday, December 20th 2007 @ 04:08 PM.
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