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Roxy Chicken Jam Europe 2007

Everything’s prepared for the biggest snowboard contest for girls only! The Roxy Park at Kitzsteinhorn glacier is open and a lot of riders have already confirmed their participation in the Roxy Chicken Jam 2007. The list shows: the world’s best female snowboarders will meet at the 5th Roxy Chicken Jam Europe from December 14 to 16 2007. At the Roxy Park, they will fight for a € 30,000 prize-money and loads of points for the Swatch Ticket To Ride Women’s World Snowboard Tour (WTTR). For the spectators, even more is offered – expect a test centre with Roxy and Quiksilver boards and the première of the “Labor of Love” movie!

Cheryl Maas (NED) and Jamie Anderson (USA), the winners of the previous two Roxy Chicken Jams will also take part in the fifth edition of this SIX(6) STAR WTTR event. Furthermore, the winner of the TTR tour 2006/07 Torah Bright (AUS), the third of the Olympics Torino 2006 Kjersti Buaas (NOR) and the fifth of the TTR tour 2007 Sina Candrian (SUI) have confirmed to come to Kitzsteinhorn. Plus, there’s Ursina Haller from Switzerland and Germany’s best slopestyle riders Silvia Mittermueller and Conny Bleicher. Austria will be represented by locals Lisa Filzmoser and Kathrin Gappmayr while Margot Rozies will come from France and Tania Detomas from Italy. US riders Kimmy Fasani, Erin Comstock and Alexis Waite will fly over from the States. Altogether, 25 invited riders plus five qualified will start at the Roxy Chicken Jam main session on Saturday, December 15. The eight best of these 30 participants will attend the super finals on Saturday afternoon.

Valuable points for the WTTR ranking
The victory at the Roxy Chicken Jam has become even more valuable as the overall winner of the WTTR 2007/08 will get a US

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TTR 6 Star Events 0708

TTR announce it’s main events for next season: 6 event at 6 star level.

The TTR General Assembly in May decided to cap the premium FIVE(5) and SIX(6) STAR event tiers on the 07/08 TTR World Snowboard Tour to consolidate the considerable progress made over the course of last season. This decision ruled that a maximum of six events at the SIX(6) STAR tier and ten events at the FIVE(5) STAR tier will be accredited for the upcoming 07/08 season. This, combined with the largest number of high value event properties applying to join the Tour on all levels, has made the difficult application process careful and considered. Following lengthy deliberation, the TTR Board is pleased to announce the official Men’s 07/08 TTR World Snowboard Tour SIX(6) STAR Calendar.

The accreditation process reviewed event applications evaluating major factors such as past performance, riding infrastructure, communication, event organization, TV product, rider participation, geographical balance, media services, judging and riding formats – amongst others. Each event on the SIX(6) STAR tier also guarantees to secure a minimum of

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BEO definitive program

Follows all info about the Burton European Open 2007, planned in Laax (Sui).

SLOPESTYLE CONTEST MOVES FORWARD

Innsbruck/AUT (November 17, 2006) The final program of the Burton European Open 2007 (BEO) is fixed: for the third time the international Snowboard scene is gathering for Europe’s biggest Snowboard event in the Swiss Freestyle mecca Laax. The days from January 20 – 27, 2007 are offering a week full of action and entertainment. A week with stars and starlets. A week full of highlights.

The BEO 2007 – this year with the theme „Mexico“ – is kicking off with the Slopestyle competition. Two days of Junior events follow. The last event is the Halfpipe competition. The organizers are expecting up to 500 riders, for women and men there will be equal prize-money which totals up to US

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BEO07 press release

Here some info about the Burton European Open, 6Star TTR event that will accour next january in Laax, Swiss.

BURTON AND LAAX ARE GEARING UP FOR THE 2007 BURTON EUROPEAN OPEN

Innsbruck, AUT (September 5, 2006) The Burton European Open, the second event in this year’s Burton Global Open Series Presented by Motorola, will take place in Laax, Switzerland from January 20-27, 2007. The highlight of the European snowboard competition scene, the Burton European Open is the only event on the continent open to all riders, drawing more than 500 riders to compete in halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines.

The BEO unites kids, up-and-coming rookies and the world’s best riders in a week-long event that kicks off with the Junior competitions on January 20 & 21 where young riders 16-years-old and under will have the chance to impress the crowds and judges with their skills. Later in the week, women and men will battle for equal prize money of over

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USA Nationals Champs 06

Final event of the american snowboard calendar was in North Star at the beginning of april 06. In Lake Tahoe, California, more than 1400 riders (and other 3.000 people like friends, relatives and media) join the USASA Nationals: 5 different disciplines and more than 10 age group to realize the biggest snowboard event of the world.



Some pics from the half pipe junior competition

The organization was very good, with a program that consist every day of different age competition in different tracks, so everybody can run every discipline. Giant and double slalom, half pipe, boardercross and slope style. Every evening there were the daily prize giving in the center of NorthStar: in 6 day, more than 400 medals where assigned in front of thousand of passionate riders.



Freestyle is for everybody: junior, kids and, no question, adaptive too!

To join the USASA National, is necessary to run before one of the 38 USA Series, arriving in the top 3 of one category. Riders from other country can join the competition in the “Open Class”. It’s of course an impressive event with riders from 6 to 60 years of age, and a good riding level in the most interesting categories (beetwen the 14 and 30 years and the open class). There was also an adaptive category and i think this is the only snowboard competition in the world with this.


Many riders still love racing format!

The general prize money of the competition was about 10.000