Dr. Steven Swanson

Rider Type:
NASA Astronaut
Favorite Tricks:
5 Flips In A Row Without Touching Space Station Walls
Best Trick:
Spacewalking (EVA)
New Tricks Learned At The Water Ramps:
N/A
Favorite Place To Ski Outside Of Idaho:
Steamboat, Colorado
Favorite Phrase:
N/A
New Things To Work On For This Year:
Training For STS-119
Experience:
STS-117 - June 2007
     • 13 Hours and 45 Minutes of EVA in 2 Spacewalks
     • 14 Days in Space

Ben Moxham
Rider Type:
Free Skier
Favorite Tricks:
Switch 1080 mute, switch 720s, and bio 900s
Best Trick:
Switch 1260 mute
New Tricks Learned At The Water Ramps:
Switch double rodeo 1080, kangaroo flip, double back flip
Favorite Place To Ski Outside Of Idaho:
Brighton, Utah
Favorite Phrase:
Super Sick
New Things To Work On For This Year:
A variety of switch up grabs spinning forward or switch spinning. (Switch up grab meaning you grab and then switch to a different grab while still in the air) Also want to work on getting all four 1080s spinning both ways forward and switch. Double flips will be a huge accomplishment for this winter. I want to get them down at least before I go to the US Freeskiing Open. That way I'll have a better chance of getting into the finals and hopefully placing in the top 20. I also really want to spend some time in the half pipe training on getting my airs higher out of the pipe, learning more spins and flip tricks in the pipe and creating a solid run to bring to the competition. Rails I want to learn more pretzel variations(pretzel meaning spinning onto a rail on way and spinning of the rail the opposite way) and also spinning more on and off a rail.
Experience:
2nd place, USASA Open men at Nationals. Held at Northstar, CA
1st place, Schweitzer stomp games, Pro class men
2nd place, Tamarack ID, Usasa slopestyle Open men class
2nd place, Tamarack ID, Usasa slopestyle Open men class
2nd place, Tamarack ID, Usasa slopestyle Open men class
1st place, Tamarack ID, Idaho winter games superpipe