Liam Rivera Snowboard Men Second Place Run - 2025 YETI Xtreme Verbier by Honda

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00:00Liam Rivera is competing at home he slept in his own bed last night he's got all the comforts but

00:06that comes with an added layer of pressure everyone in the streets going let's go Liam

00:10do it for the verbiage so he is dropping out of start three a completely different approach you

00:15can see how steep it is just the very heel side of the edge of his board getting bite in the snow

00:20and Liam Rivera going directly fall line huge right off the Hollywood cliff to be able to go

00:28into that with just two turns and then solidly land it like that just shows how good of a rider

00:34he is well and what a way to start a run you haven't really made a turn yet today and the

00:38first thing you do is fly off the one of the biggest cliffs on the entire back still hauling

00:45absolutely flying down Liam competing in his own backyard as he pumps a backflip off this lower

00:52feature and lands it oh the judges are gonna have their work cut out for them today this is what we

00:57wanted from the Yeti Extreme Verbier you can see his hands Liam is fired up he's got this long road

01:03he's still it feels like a million miles away from the finish but he is flying absolutely pumped

01:10adrenaline maxing he just took about 14 seconds to get from the fly on the wall position there on

01:17the back through the finish and a huge run from the local boys so these boys are bringing it to

01:22Victor he's gonna be up there thinking all right well if I want this title I'm gonna have to be

01:27incredible runs you can see the camaraderie these guys have you know the friendships build over the

01:34season they're excited for each other but they also want to beat each other this is so hard to

01:39comprehend two turns and you're jumping the biggest cliff on the venue you have to be fully believing

01:45in yourself picture perfect landing for Liam as well lining this one up all of those features

01:52are stacked up above multiple layers of cliffs and Liam lacing this backflip didn't even look

02:00like he left the snow there every part of that run was picture perfect Liam I mean he's just

02:07been building he had a tough start to the season he found himself before Georgia below the cut

02:12looking at a difficult situation and climbed his way back out gritty resilient performance there

02:17and then this one at home breathtaking riding from Liam Rivera yeah we really had the French

02:23dominating in the beginning and then Cody and Liam reminding them that you know we're still here

02:28and then Jon Pau just with the consistency always right off the top of the podium okay well the

02:34judges have their score in it's coming up and it goes to 90 90 points