Forest Bailey wins Snowboard Street

Bailey lead after Round 1, making it into the five-man final with Paul, Visconti, Ethan Deiss, and Phil Jacques. His 270 to frontside on the cargo container was a highlight of the competition, and his win was doubly impressive becuase he missed practice on Wednesday and showed up on course just one hour before Thursday's elimination round. For the past two weeks he's been busy riding powder at Mount Baker in Washington.

"It was probably one of the best rail set-ups I've ever ridden," Bailey said. "It was mellow, not super gnarly or super scary, just really fun so everyone could throw down their best tricks. It was weird coming from Baker, where no one was around, to this kind of crowd. Everyone was killing it. It was a great contest."

Mark Kohlman/ESPNForest Bailey had a dream performance Thursday in the Snowboard Street final.

Paul had the most surprising tricks of the day, with a 270 on the Jersey barrier to 450 out and a gap to 50-50 on the down-flat ledge feature to wildcat backflip out. As the last seconds of the finals jam session wound down, he stepped it up with a Cab 180 to 50-50 on the ledge to backside rodeo out.

"I have a trampoline and when I wake up every morning I just backflip over and over again," Paul explained, after the competition.

Visconti spent most of the finals jam terrorizing the rails with tricks like a switch hardway frontside 270 on the down rail, a 270 onto a curved C-rail, and frontside 50-50 to 180 out on the cargo container.

"Forest's style is unmatched and it was rad just to watch him out there snowboarding today," Visconti said. "Yesterday, while we were all out here in practice, Forest was out getting after it in the powder. He's a true snowboarder and he deserved the win today."

Check out full results from the Snowboard Street finals.

Colin Bane writes for ESPN.com Action Sports.

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