Today was the official opening of the 2010 FIS Freestyle/Snowboard Junior World Championships here in Wanaka. This afternoon we atteneded the official proceedings including: a march through the town of Wanaka [which was pretty crazy, the police closed roads and there were people in town cheering on all the competitors]; a traditional Maori welcoming peformed by the local primary school; and the usual speeches from big wigs that make events like this one possible.
We are competing on Tuesday, and possibly on Wednesday [depending on finals qualification] at Cadrona. Until then we will be practicing either at Cardrona or Snow Park.
Here are a couple of photo's from this afternoon.
Sam put up a pretty cool post about today with more photos @
samuelmurphy.comJW
