As one of the first mega-kickers that the snowboard world had ever seen, the original Hemsedal kicker built for the Absinthe crew in 2002 genuinely changed the direction of snowboarding. Back in ’02 there weren’t Prinoth Bison X Cats  or Pistenbully 600s designed especially for shaping, kickers were a brute force kinda gig.

Whilst now days, a jump of this size is pretty much the norm for some resorts at the end of each season, back in 2002 snowparks were lucky to have a shovel. So to have a massive step down of this size, that worked pretty much perfectly was a huge leap forward in the progression of snowboarding.