h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Quite simply the best snowboarder in the world. Tournaments in snowboarding break down into two types - the ones where he wins, and the ones where he doesn't turn up. It's pretty much that simple. He takes complex technical tricks that other people struggle to land, and makes it look like there was nothing else he *could* have done. Where a professional, technical rider will drive hard and leap four or five metres out of a quarter pipe and aggressively grab the board and stomp a landing, Haakonsen seems to glide in, float an easy seven metres up, casually reach down and stroke his board and return to earth like a dandelion seed.

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