The ULTIMATE RUN from Markus Eder on the Freeride World Tour I Xtreme Verbier 2018

Markus Eder on course and he is with his young age already a legend of the sport. Coming from freestyle, getting into backcountry freestyle and now big mountain riding. He has been filming with Matchstick Productions, a major ski film production out of the US of A for 5 years and producing some amazing segments every year. And now he's back on the Freeride World Tour. So what would you say Markus Eder has got to do in this run if he wants to get in that number one spot? Has he got to look to his freestyle skills and throw a few tricks in there? Or has he got to go full big mountain, big line, a lot of speed and a few big drops? I think both can work. He has it both dialed in. Look at the technical section he's going into. This is so steep and he has the tricks in his bag. He has butter sevens of cliffs and if we see some of that excellence of tricks of big cliffs of him, he has a chance to go for the big title of today. That was a mega line traversing into the next chute. Already a shifty over that beautiful side hit of the Hollywood. And here we have 360 on that section. There it is showing a bit of a freestyle. He's lining up. Butter three. He's claiming it already. The technical skill to butter off a cliff like that is insane, isn't it? We don't see that normally on the Freeride World Tour, do we? That is a bit of a new one. This is the first time I've ever seen a butter three off a cliff. And he cannot believe it himself because it's so technical. It's the first try. The visual inspection from the opposite side of the mountain. The other guys can't believe it too. And the steepness of the riding on top of there. That is what it takes to take the win today. And I'm just looking forward to the score. Look at the aerostyle and technique. The 360 opening it up. He can't believe it. When he landed the butter 360, his arms went instantly in the air celebration. And then on the run out went to, I can't believe I just did that. And now he looks like a man in shock. So if that's not first place, I will eat my hat. Of course my job is also to pick things apart. The 360 landing was not the cleanest. But at the butter three, what a move. Second place is not enough. Oh my god, how close. 87.67 Well, let's have a look at the replay. Look, this is the butter seven. Here we have him. Sorry, butter three. Sticked a little Duffy in the air. He was so stoked.