Last weekend a helicopter crashed into ВВЦ park in downtown Moscow. A bunch of snowboarders eager to get their jib on rounded up and sessioned the propeller. OK, that's actually not the truth. The marketing wizards over at Nike released this funny commercial (below) showing Denis Leontyev boardsliding a chopper while Kobe Bryant watched perplexed on his iPad. They decided to then have an invitational Heli Park jam with a mock chopper amongst other stuff to jib on hosted and judged by Denis Leontyev. They wanted to emphasize #playrussian and motivate the people that just because you live in nation that gets cold and snowy as all hell you should still go out and play. In -20 temps at the aeronautics part of the park Russia's best jibbers came out to do battle. Check the video recap by 360flip and enjoy some dope shots of some of the best in this rising new scene in a nation that holds massive potential.
RESULTS:
1st Place: Artem Smolin
2nd Place: Mihail Il'in
3rd Place: Maxim Kruglov & Nikolai Grinjov