Secret Garden - Mark McMorris

Hey Rye. Good to see you too. Good how are you? These things are not meant for snowboarders. You want to just stand straight but you got to stand sideways and it's just pulling my groin. Cheers. Welcome to China. Always good when we see you Rene. You as well. You make our lives happier. It's pretty good. Takeoff's a little funky but it's like vroom and then kind of flattens out a bit but it's pretty nice first day. Like the angle is still steep but if you look at the takeoff the edge marks kind of just disappear. I don't know if it like drops in angle but it's like a different grade. Like you see the edges are just like non-existent in the last two feet but the belly and like the trajectory is great. It's just like if we can just try and work that more and more and more to like match each other because I feel like the two falls off. Yep. Day two of practice here in China. The first of two big errors. They've decided that qualification will be one out of two jumps opposed to two out of three like usual. Simplifies practice a little bit. You kind of just practice one trick but it also has to be the hardest trick you can do so yeah. Probably should do some 18s and 19s today or when I came here in 2010 I was maxing out at like a back 10 or back 12. Now you got to do like two 1080s in there so that's pretty chill. Just trying to earn my spot on the Canadian Olympic team currently and yeah it's not a sprint. It's a marathon. Want to peak at the right times. Want to do good in practice but you don't need to win practice. It's always good on an Olympic year to try and push yourself and just give her the best you can. Happy Movember. Mark should be dropping next. A little bit of slough kind of forming in the belly so it's going to slow him down a bit so it's reminding him to go a little faster. Muzzy made. What's that? Muzzy made. You just make sick edits of doing basic dude. I'm sure you've seen that. I haven't. Oh yeah. He's just like about like being a dude and having a beer. Oh I haven't seen that. I guarantee he's got a mustache. I bet you've stumbled across. Jaycee always brings him up. He used to just be a hockey player. Thoracic spine. Get older gets a little stiffer so you gotta work on it. Oh probably do this exercise like three times a day. A lot of stress and tension lives in your hips. A lot of our emotional trauma and trauma from the past and stress is built up in the hips. That's a crazy video. We got men's qualification heat one. This is Mark's heat. We're out in the secret garden in China which is we've never been here. It's kind of the middle of nowhere and that's where we're at. Should be a fun day. Feeling good. Speed's a little deceiving for sure. All the rides are kind of short. I think they're going in fast but they're not. Snow's a little grabby today. You know it's kind of started out in like 26. It's a fresh snow overnight but it'll get better as the day goes on. Go faster than you think you need. I know. It's so grippy and grabby the snow. Yeah. Right like so many rides would come like just clearing the knock. Kind of what you did there like just barely making it. You're not going to overshoot this jump today. Nope. So that's good. Good full turn on the back. Good spot. Yeah it's a good spot. Back 18. Yeah. Sounds good. Lots of speed and just use all the power you got in the takeoff. Yeah I like I definitely would have went even bigger if I did back 18. I like kind of absorbed it a bit because I but yeah that's a good speed. Give myself time to land. Yeah definitely do. I didn't even go for my trick. It was so headwindy I thought I wasn't even gonna make it over the jump but I ended up going fine. I need to know I got the time. Okay so this is my last. Oh my god I thought dude tripping dude I didn't even like I was just like I don't want to get played because I come up short but then I didn't even come up short. Mark drop. Thank you. You too. What's all good? Got another one? Oh you got another run here? What do you think I'm gonna do another 18? I'm gonna let a 19 fly? What do you think? I don't know what do you think? Well I can see kind of where everything shakes out. It's kind of more like how you feel if you feel like you have the power and everything for the 19 let it ride but if you don't think you got the power. That one I definitely had. Yeah like that's a 59 that's not gonna hold up for anything right so. No but I also just like didn't land it very good. No. Okay I should probably do a 19 if I had the power in the jump right? I think so. Yeah. Like do you think you can do it and you had the power like you're gonna stomp it so if you feel like you got on the takeoff say run the back 19. Yeah I do too. Okay yeah you're right on that third line which is like where the start of sweet spot is. Start? Right there. The end? Well that's where you want to get this 19 on you don't want to go there you don't want to go any higher than that. That's a good spot to land right there. No that's perfect. No I just disagree on start of the sweet spot. No it's good. All right run two back 19. Yeah like back 18 is probably not going to help my situation much huh and get an 80 maybe. Maybe an 80 if it's done really well but might get you on to where by the shakes up that you're like 10th to 15th in this and with other things there. Maybe. Let's say 25th to 30th to see depend how shakes up right. 250 points the width I already have so yeah. Mike if you know if you know you got the back 19 you're 100% confident with us to go with that. Well I guess I'm as confident as I am with the back 18. Perfect Run one marked at a back 18. We thought it was good from up here but he had to put his back hand down to keep him up. Unfortunately got him scored in the high 50s. It's not ideal. We talked about going back 19 second run. Man he had a great takeoff great snap and all the power. Got the back 19 to his feet. Unfortunately exploded on landing. He went some you lose some. Mark needed to go back 19 there. Unfortunately he's going to put it down. On to the next. Beijing. See you later. That's a wrap.