Competing in what has been described as the most dynamic and challenging terrain in snowboard competition history, Wanaka’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has been named the world’s best all-mountain freestyle rider with a win at the the YETI Natural Selection Revelstoke (Canada). 

The competition was a series of head to head match-ups on challenging terrain in order to earn points toward the overall title.

“I haven't ridden a lot of pillows in my life, so to come here and ride this definitely was a learning curve and I'm super stoked,” Zoi said.

“I feel like I pushed myself and everyone rode some insanely sick lines.”

Zoi was up against Hailey Langland (USA) in the semi-finals, taking the win and advancing to the finals against Big Mountain shredder Elena Hight (USA).  

“I knew Elena was going to do some crazy lines, so I wanted to stick to what I knew and go where the take-offs were to spin off and try to find little pillow lines that were still untracked and soft and make it to the bottom in one piece,” Zoi said.

She did just that, dropping a backflip and hunting down airs as she attacked the now-familiar technical terrain to earn a 79.2, the second-highest score of the day after her 80 in semi-finals, which also earned her the Run Of The Day.  

“I feel super honoured and privileged to be able to compete in this competition because it's the best backcountry riders in the world, riding the best snow in the most psycho terrain,” she said.

“Coming from a slopestyle and big air background, it's so different but kind of the same in the sense where you're just trying to ride your best and perform on the day.”  

This win marks Zoi’s 24th consecutive podium finish.

PHOTOS: Tom Monterosso / Natural Selection Tour