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Speaker 1: Games guru from the New Zealand Herald is Christopher Reeve. Hello, gooday,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? Mate? This thing I love about

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Speaker 1: this event. Every four years we get to hook into

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Speaker 1: some sports we otherwise wouldn't see or follow, and perhaps

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Speaker 1: this is one of them. Good place to start. What

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Speaker 1: is this big ear? What is Zoie doing? How's it work?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So thinking is sort of one of the one

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Speaker 2: of the more exciting snowboard events. I guess sa'd say. Basically,

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Speaker 2: they go down a long ramp, send it off a

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Speaker 2: program and basically it's one trick. So you basically just

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Speaker 2: have to do your biggest trick, score the highest points,

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Speaker 2: and it's sort of the scoring crowter area's difficulty of trick,

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Speaker 2: how clean they land, just how good the trick looks essentially,

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Speaker 2: And is.

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Speaker 1: It possible to get a perfect score?

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Speaker 2: You can? Yeah, so I think there's five judges and

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Speaker 2: you can get you can't get a perfect score, just

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Speaker 2: like anything we're judging. I think, you know, perfect tens

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Speaker 2: across the board. And in this event, you get three

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Speaker 2: runs and you basically take your if two scores, you

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Speaker 2: have to have one front side trick and one backside trick.

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Speaker 1: Oh what do you mean by front side and mix side?

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Speaker 2: So it's based on sort of what direction you're turning in,

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Speaker 2: whether you're turning right towards your foehand or your backhand.

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Speaker 2: So in Siri, we saw it in the men's event

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Speaker 2: the other day that you try and land just two

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Speaker 2: sort of keeper scores in your first two runs and

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Speaker 2: then you can have your third run for replacing whichever

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Speaker 2: one you need to. So that's kind of best case

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Speaker 2: scenario there.

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Speaker 1: Zoe has gone in top qualifier, she's middled the last

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Speaker 1: three times. Surely the hot favorite. Who's the big competition here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Mia Brooks is probably the ones to

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Speaker 2: look out for. She won X Games Big ear last

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Speaker 2: week week, so she's Yeah, she's one of these other

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Speaker 2: young sort of snowboarders coming through now who really pushing

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Speaker 2: the progression in the sport. As though he was sort

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Speaker 2: of well, I guess eight years ago now when she

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Speaker 2: was starting as to come through. It seems like a

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Speaker 2: little while ago for someone who's still just twenty four

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Speaker 2: years old.

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Speaker 1: But incredible, isn't it. Yes, Well, everybody in this New

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Speaker 1: Zealand contingent, we've got our largest different crew of there

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Speaker 1: of seventeen. They're all under the age of twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: It really is a young person's great games. Hey super quick.

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Speaker 1: Chris couldn't help. But notice when they introduce the athletes

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Speaker 1: on the TV, it shows their name, country, their age,

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Speaker 1: and then also their stance. Zoe was regular yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: many of the competitors were described as shaggy. What does

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Speaker 1: that mean?

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Speaker 2: Goofy? I think, oh right, yeah, what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: It's just the way they stand on the boards. Regular

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Speaker 2: stance would be sort of your your regular what I

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Speaker 2: would consider sort of right hand stance, so your left

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Speaker 2: foots forward on the board and your right foot at

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Speaker 2: the back, and goofy is just the other way.

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Speaker 1: Around, goofy, shaggy, cringe all could be used to describe

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Speaker 1: my stance, to be fair, But.

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Speaker 2: I shall in the club.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that he's going to nail it, and we

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Speaker 1: watch with bated breath from seveno thirty this morning,