 Hello and welcome to all of the very best coverage from the 18th edition of the Lax Open. My name is Tim Ward, and I'm very excited to bring you all of the best action. Let's talk about the half pipe then. Here we go. Crystal glow will be decided. We've got the world's very best in town, riding the world's very best pipe. We also have Jenny Jones out there. Jenny, how is it going? Looks like it is a great forecast for the whole event and the athletes are already up there riding the half pipe, getting their training in. I'm really excited for this event. Can't wait for it to kick off. I am stoked to be here and watch some world-class snowboarding. Let's take a look at the pipe itself. It's always a work of art here in Lax. The epicenter of freestyle in Europe. And once again this year, it's a beauty, isn't it? It's beautiful. I mean, to have this weather and the conditions we have here and to be back in Lax just doing our thing is just amazing. I'm so happy to be back in Lax. It's my favorite place and kind of my home away from home. So happy to be back riding in the sunshine and my favorite half pipe. Everybody put the really hard trick during the competition, so it's definitely exciting. This season has been really good to me. First one, I won in Copper and second one, Mademois and this is my third competition. And last season I missed all the competitions because of COVID, so it's really excited to be back and back to the competition and with all the amazing girls. Talk about the winner from the semi-finals, qualifying in first place. When she's on fire, no one's going to beat Chloe Kim. My second run, I went Air Front 7, Cab 9, Switchback 7, McTwist. Yeah, everything went really well. I'm excited. I'm happy now, but I want to make it switch back 12 in the first hit. This is crazy, but I want to make it top of the clock this competition. Really looking forward to being in the mix of a final again. It's a really good competition this year. It's a really good challenge and honestly, I'm really looking forward to being a part of that mix and I'll let the rest just happen. Put down the run I was planning on today and yeah, just happy. I kind of used it as a data build for Saturday evening and it executed well, so feeling good moving forward. Women's snowboard half-pipe finals then eight women, eight of the very best women. It's the best of two runs and that really just helps to breed the progression to put down your best run. I've just been watching the men and women warm up and the standard is so high. Chloe Kim, no surprises there. She is looking strong, but the one I'm intrigued about is Suu Tom Kai because she is in with a chance for that crystal globe. Stay with us, it's about to start. Really nice, big hits coming in now. Huge front side 540, great grab on that. Tail grab for Quiro. Keep your eyes on this, Mitsukiyono then. Second in lax here last year. Massive 900. The big switch 1080. I'm really happy to run my Cap 1080. That was my first run, Cap 1080. So I'm so excited. Massive backside air into the front side 1080. Look at the size of it. It feels so good. I think like when you go a certain height you don't know where you're going to land so it's always kind of a mental battle and I'm just so happy I was able to land my first run. And then your podium, Quiro Castellet from Mitsukiyono and Chloe Kim taking top spot. It's time now for the men to take their first runs in this half pipe here in Lax. All chasing Australia's Scotty James a man that has won here countless times. Mr. Snowboarding himself. Sean White. Is this the double 1260? It should be. Yes it is. Well held and then a frontside 12. The goal is to come here and earn that spot for China and I did that so I'm so happy. Come on, Yanshira. Massive backside 900. It is textbook perfect. Into the frontside double cork 1440. Double 1080. Into a 1260 and here's the huge alley-oop. Today was just really it worked out really well and came up here and was really surprised of how good the half pipe was today. Like really I came up and was like okay the snow condition was perfect. The half pipe was perfectly shaped and I felt really amazing and then I knew okay today could be the day where I can push the limits. What has Ayumu Hirano got? The content was really good and I was able to decide on the first one and the pipe was good so it felt really good. And Ayumu Hirano is your champion here. What an incredible final. The atmosphere here is absolutely electric. Chloe Kim her fourth win at the Lax Open. It's absolutely amazing. And then Shu Zhong Kai she wins the Crystal Globe and oh my gosh Ayumu. What was that all about? Absolutely amazing riding. Back to back 14s the crowd were going nuts and he's a Crystal Globe winner as well. Look at this, look at this crowd out here. Give us a cheer. Kind of wish I sent it a little bit more but that's alright. Give us a cheer and I'll come back with more tricks and more comfortability so it's all good.