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Brodie Summers, New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) Australian Development Mogul Team athlete, skied immaculately to get on the podium and take out 2nd place on Day 1 Singles of the FIS Freestyle North American Cup Mogul Event at Apex Mountain, British Colombia, Canada.

The weather was in and out all day with fog, snow, sunshine and wind, but Summers remained unwaveringly focused. Summers looked good all day, from the first training run in the morning he was put down clean fast runs.

News South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) Brodie Summers records a 4th place and his best result in the first event of the 2013 FIS Freestyle North American Cup at Telluride, Colorado.

Summers put down a confident run in qualifying, earning him a 5th place and finals run. He captured the judges attention with a massive Loop Truck off the top air, clean turns through the middle and his trademark Cork 720 off the bottom air.

The Aspen Valley Moguls at Aspen Highlands was a beautiful three days of bump skiing down Thunderbowl run. As a junior event, only those born in 1994 or earlier were able to compete, but this did nothing to lower the standard of the competition, as many of the best skiers on the Rocky Mountain Circuit fall into this division! Once again, the event was well frequented by many teams around Colorado, as well as the eligible AUSMSA athletes.

The Rocky Mountain Division Freestyle Moguls Tour kicked off with a bang last weekend in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Ski Town USA played host to over 120 competitors over two days of bluebird competition. With athletes hailing from various clubs within Colorado, as well as representatives from the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS), The Mogul Skiing Academy (AUSMSA) and Team Buller Riders (TBR), it was always going to be a hotly contested event.

Day 2 of the US Freestyle Selections competition commenced on a beautiful bluebird Colorado day. The standard was just as impressive as day 1, with many high scores recorded, particularly in the finals. In a frantic day that involved a blackout to the whole of Copper, which eliminated the super finals from the schedule, the athletes did very well to put together solid runs. Troy Murphy took home the win in the male division, with Kelsey Albert taking the honours in the ladies division.

The Australia Freestyle Mogul Championships took place late last week on Toppa’s Dream at Perisher. It was a tough competition for the Australians as more than half the field were from International Countries, which included Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the USA.