The Big Air final at the 2013 O’Neill Evolution exploded into something that will go down as a watershed moment in snowboarding history. 15-year-old Sports Syndicate snowboarder Kyle Mack, scored a world first by putting down the first contest-landed frontside triple rodeo. If you haven’t heard the name Kyle Mack before, hear it here, and hear it now. The 15-year-old uber-ripper-in-waiting dropped into his second of three runs only to suffer the worst slam of the contest following a failed attempt at the unprecedented frontside triple rodeo. Mack picked himself up from his horror slam and dropped into this third and final run. Stomping a never-seen-before-in-contest triple rodeo 1440 indy, and went on to backside lipslide and frontside noseslide to fakie the rail section. Nervous moments ensued before the judges returned a 95.00 points score, which awarded Mack a solid second place finish. The results also saw Kyle Mack move into second in the Overall rankings.
Also in the Men's Superpipe final, it was again left to 15-year old wunderkind, Kyle Mack, to shake up the podium positions in the last run of the event, with a super-technical run that included a frontside 900 mute, and frontside 1080 tail to cab 720 mute Kyle climbed into another 2nd place finish for the 2013 event.
