On line the first official test for the World Rookie Rank, developed by WSF in association with the Swatch TTR World Pro Tour as a qualifing criteria to enter the Protest World Rookie Finals 2009. The World Rookie Rank is a classification for under 18’s only and it is developed by World Snowboard Federation in…
Snowboard indutries will celebrate the World Snowboard Day organizing events world wide on december 21st. Burton announce to join it and check out the press release distributed few days ago from K2 and Ride Snowboards. K2 Snowboarding and Ride Snowboards will be celebrating World Snowboard Day together with the whole world. The most sacred holiday…
WSF and the Swatch TTR Tour have renewed their successful alliance in order to continue establishing a progressive environment for competitive snowboarding around the world. Under this agreement, the two organizations have decided to extend their cooperation and work closer together to produce a fair and transparent competition and ranking structure to benefit the sport….
Preparations on the ninth year of the biggest snowboard event in Slovakia Sony Ericsson Snowboard Fest have already began and we would like to share the hot news with you all. Soil foundations – what else shall we wish for! The most joyful news is that the owners of SKI Drienica brought in the slope…
For the fifth year, EuroSIMA (the European Boardsports Industry Manufacturers Association) and the EuroSIMA Cluster, launch the EuroSIMA Innovation Competition under the topic of “the accesories”. Open to creative inventive persons and designers, the Innovation Competition aims to develop and promote technological and ecological innovations in the boardsports sector. Two prizes will be awarded: The…
WSF launch its own rankings system to support the national snowboard association in the managment of the national ranks for every discliplines. Features about athlets bio, results and full ranks of every event are now avaible on line in the beta version: testing operation are developed with competition coming from 5 nations. Check some of…
More and more people experience the Bagjump-thrill of trying high level tricks on the snowboard without getting hurt. So did Stefan Gimpl and hiscrew the Leo.Gang to try new tricks and practice for the upcoming competitions and the Bagjump will be featured during the upcoming Volkl World Rookie Fest in Ischgl, Austria. Everyone was stoked…
A groundbraking news for the World Rookie Fests 2008 is the new cooperation with the famouse Pirate Movie Production which will invite the World Rookie Champion 2008 in Canada during summer 08, to shot some footage for future films and video projects. To introduce this European based film production company we interviewed Basti Balser, the…
Snowsport GB, the national governing body for skiing and snowboarding in Great Britain, are extremely excited to announce The British Snowboard Teams for the 2007-2008 season. 31 elite UK athletes make up the five British Snowboard Teams, the British World Cup Snowboardcross Team, British World Cup Halfpipe Team, British Freestyle Team, British Snowboardcross Team and…
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from a special Santa Claus… Henry Jackson in Kaprun Merry Christmas from WSF