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Reports from 2016 WSF and TTR Joint General Assembly: A New Direction For Snowboarding

Post author By Elisa
Post date June 27, 2016

At the annual WSF and TTR GA, held in Kleinarl, Austria, delegates from 22 Nations joined the two day long meetings, representing National Snowboard Associations, Riders, Event Organizers and Boardsports Media.

WSF And TTR Drive All Aspects Of Snowboarding Into Its Next Phase

The results of last months of workgroups and last days of joint sessions between WSF and TTR moves snowboarding forward in an unrivalled way. During their meetings, WSF and TTR agreed to collectively pave the way to create a new governing structure for International Snowboarding. The new organisation will serve Snowboarding on all levels, in a completely neutral way, smashing down walls that have built up over years adding to an already splintered landscape for competition snowboarding. The future will provide a transparent non-confrontational and unified sports system that will be extremely easy for the world to navigate.

With immediate effect, Nations Representatives, Event Organiser Representatives and a Rider Representative will develop necessary structural details under the leadership of TTR President Reto Lamm.

Working Groups and Consultants appointed during the GA contribute and oversee the developments, and reports will be provided to the public on a regular basis.

WCS GmbH, the joint company owned by WSF and TTR, will act as executional body for all commercial matters.

In the near future the final structure will be proposed that combines a global Snowboard Association and a company to serve the changed world of snowboarding.

The leverage on moving with the needs of the industry will have a huge impact on Snowboarding now and in the future.

“Adapting to the current needs of the riders, national associations and industry is our primary goal.” says Meinhard Trojer, President of WSF.

TTR President Reto Lamm concludes: “The way riders and organisers are included gives everyone a clear responsibility, and things will improve even more based on our new ideas.”

Developing Women Snowboarding As Core Competence

The WSF Education Committee held a workshop that gained valuable insights to progress female snowboarding. Results of the workshop will be analysed and published on the WSF website. “Leveraging existing synergies and looking at each host country individually will be key to our growth. The workshop was perceived with great interest, and challenges are ready to be turned into opportunities in Women Snowboarding.” says Miriam Deller who initiated WSF Pro Women within the Education Committee in 2015.

Market Development and Media Trends

Marco Sampaoli, WSF Vice President, provided an overview of the status of the European Winter Sports and Outdoor Market. Current trends imply that collaborations between resorts, tourism institutions, governments and sports federations become increasingly necessary. Looking at relevant data from snowboarding and related sports provided a vivid picture of the recent and coming developments. “More than ever, successful strategies will be based on a combination of deep knowledge of market trends and the ability to swiftly integrate them.’ comments Marco Sampaoli.

Election Results at WSF and TTR General Assemblies

The WSF Board 2016/17 consists of nine members:

President, Meinhard Trojer, Austria
Vice President, Marco Sampaoli, Italy
Vice President, Sacha Giger, Switzerland (newly appointed)
Treasurer, Shigeru Ishihara, Japan
Board Member, Robert Joncas, Canada
Board Member, Paul Krahulec, USA (newly elected)
Board Member, Miriam Deller, China (re-elected)
Board Member, Gian Luca Zanetti, Italy (re-elected)
TTR Representative, to be announced

Highly valued WSF Secretary Anna-Maria Strittmatter moves to a new position and remains a consultant for the World Snowboard Federation until a replacement will be announced.

TTR voted for a new structure for their Board:

President, Reto Lamm, Switzerland
Vice President Maria McNulty, USA
Executive Board Member, Eric Webster, USA
Executive Board Member, Rich Hegarty, Australia
Executive Board Member, Alexander Doerr, Germany
Board Member, Josef Harml, Austria
Board Member, Christian Scheidl, Austria
Board Member, Satu Jarvela, Finland
Board Member, Marc Bajona, Spain
Board Member, Martin Boettger, Germany
Board Member, Sandro Garcia Egoavil, Spain
WSF Representative, Meinhard Trojer, Austria

For updates and more informations:
www.worldsnowboardfederation.org
www.worldsnowboardtour.com

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Finals and crowning of the royal family at the 4th Tourstop of Zillertal Välley Rälley

Post author By Elisa
Post date April 14, 2016

Tons of titles, medals and trophees were up for grabs at the fourth and final Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride Snowboards tourstop on April 2nd and 3rd 2016 at the Betterpark Hintertux. Beside the tourstop podiums, the overall tour winners and thus the royal Zillertal Välley Rälley family 2016, got crowned at Hintertux Glacier that weekend. Due to challenging conditions with strong winds and flat lights the Ästhetiker decided to change the formate from slopestyle to rail jam. Almost 80 competitors and teams of all nations were battling it out in the finals, showing off with their best tricks on the jib line. At the end of the day, a lot of smiling faces were sharing podiums. The recap video covers all the action: https://vimeo.com/161467190

On April 2nd, 2016, the Betterpark Hintertux just opened the doors for the spring season with the Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride coaching and training day. While the Ästhetiker coaches Steve Gruber, Friedl Kolar and Klaus Hofmeister were shredding around the easy, medium and jib lines all day long with up-and-coming talents, men were already warming up for the final contest on the pro line. For the perfect end of the day, the tourism association Tux Finkenberg sponsored free goulash soup and drinks for everyone. Around 80 riders were gathering in Hintertux for the final competition on Sunday. Because of wind and flat lights, the Ästhetiker replaced the slopestyle by a rail jam formate.

Riders of all categories moved on to the jib lines to show off with their best tricks one more time and collect points in the World Snowboard Tour ranking. Heli Bockhorni (GER) and Niklas Huber (GER) could handle the conditions best and both took victory in the super grom category, while Annika Morgan (GER) and Gabe Adams (GBR) made it to the top spot in the groms class. Gabe also hit the jackpot as the “most impressive grom of the day.” Tereza Sebkova (CZE) and Chandler Hunt (USA) were the winners of the rookie class and Tereza Cermakova (CZE) won the gold medal in the women´s category. Austrian coach and jib master Felix Widnig could not be beaten on the rails and got first in the men´s contest. Ukrainian rail machine Kirill Milutyn won the Vans Best Trick Award with a stylish FS blunt sex change and took home a complete streetwear outfit voucher. After the winners of the day, the overall tour winners and thus official Zillertal Välley Rälley royal family 2016, got crowned in Hintertux. Previous year´s Princess, Evy Poppe (BEL) managed to defend her title and become Princess of the Välley 2016 (super grom girls).

Niklas Huber (GER) was on top of the super grom boys ranking and became Prince of the Välley. Marie Kreisingerova (CZE) and Niclas Bothe (GER) were crowned Dutchess and Duke of the Välley for their first places in the groms category. Adela Kreisingerova (CZE) and Jan Rovenksy (CZE) were the Baroness and Baron as leaders of the rookie class. Djoelie Ectors (BEL) is the name of the new Queen of the Välley (women). With Roli Tschoder (AUT) and Patrick Fankhauser (AUT) two friends are sharing the lead of the overall men´s ranking and consequently the throne and crown of the actual King of the Välley 2016. Adela Kreisingerova (CZE) and Jan Rovensky (CZE) both further won a wildcard for the World Rookie Finals, that will be kicking off right after the Välley Rälley finals. Sarah Moser, Marketing Manager of Hintertux Glacier: ”The finals of this year´s Zillertal Välley Rälley have been at the same time a first performance test for the new setup at Betterpark Hintertux, which started into the spring season that weekend.

The great number of participants on the coaching and contest day were checking out the brand-new park setup and despite persisting south winds, everybody was content. Again, it has been a great weekend with a great bunch of young and motivated snowboarders and we are looking forward to the 4th Välley Rälley series in 2016/2017.” From now on, the XXL setup of the Betterpark Hintertux will be open maintained on a daily basis.

All info and updates are available at www.hintertuxergletscher.at and www.betterpark.at. Thanks to the partners of the 4th tourstop: Zillertal.at, Ride Snowboards, Vans, Red Bull, Hintertux Glacier, Tourism Association Tux Finkenberg, N.ASA, Greenroom Mayrhofen, Black Eye, Dana Beanies All info, images and rankings can be found at www.valleyralley.at

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Snowboard Germany’s Girls Shred Session with Silli at Vans Penken Park x WSF Pro Women

Post author By Elisa
Post date April 11, 2016

for further information please contact alex.mattersberger@qparks.com, info@rolandhaschka.com

The Girls Shred Session hit the Vans Penken Park with a blast – this is what happened: Nearly 60 (!) #shredqueens from Austria, Germany, England, Spain and even Australia conquered the park, chased away the fog to make place for the sun and nailed their sickest moves. Due to the massive amount of girl power it’s quite obvious why pro riders such as Silvia Mittermüller, Pilar De La Cruz and Laura Wallner took over the coaching duties and even Miss Anna Gasser paid the Girls Shred Session a visit…

Saturday the 26th of March, countless female snowboarders and freeskiers made their way to the Zillertal area at dawn in order to kick off the Girls Shred Session 2015/16 on time at 10 am. At first the park was still covered in a couple of fog patches, but after the highly motivated girls had taken a couple of warm-up runs with the WSF Pro Women Ambassador Silvia Mittermüller, the obstacles of the Vans Penken Park were sparkling in the sunlight. Time to start the session!

From seven-year-old #shredqueens up to 30+ girls, who were taking their first runs, everyone is welcome at the Girls Shred Session! Thanks to the freeski and snowboard coaches, each of the participants was able to state her personal goal of the day, which some of the girls already managed to achieve during the morning session. When noon arrived with bright sunshine it was time to chill and to recharge the batteries at the Grillhof Alm lodge. The break didn’t last too long, though, because soon the girls were ready for some more shred action and couldn’t wait to get on the park lift again to start the next gunfire – at that time Anna Gasser had already mixed in with the crowd!

At the end of the day everyone was totally stoked and satisfied – the participants even received various cool prizes such as Vans snowboard boots and jackets, QParks t-shirts and gym bags by the Mayrhofen Mountain Railways! After an amazing day of incredible shred action it was time to say goodbye in the late afternoon – but the girls will definitely be back for some more brilliant spring sessions at the Vans Penken Park.

Check out the Snowboard and the Freeski Edit of the Girls Shred Session! You can find current information on the Vans Penken Park till the season finale and onwards on the Facebook Fanpage and the best pics on Instagram on a daily basis! Visit mayrhofner-bergbahnen.com for updates on the current spring session setup and don’t forget to download the brand-new app for Android Smartphones and iPhones! Last but not least – the #shredqueens can be found on Instagram and Facebook as well. Ride on grrrls!

#WSFProWomen is a dedicated women snowboarding event series launched by the World Snowboard Federation. A girls and woman friendly approach to snowboarding that resonates through community based activities and shared experiences on the snow is an integral part of all WSF Pro Women activities.

WSF Pro Women is supported by the most influential industry companies, media and platforms. Many thanks to Blue Tomato, Boardzone.cn and GoSki.cn for their generous donation of give aways for event participants, and a hefty dose of promotional support!

Thanks to the National Snowboard Associations of China, Norway and Germany for their help in organizing and promoting the WSF Pro Women events! www.worldsnowboardfederation.org

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Federico Olivieri and Francesca Fazi are the FSI Italian Slopestyle Champions 2016

Post author By Elisa
Post date March 22, 2016

There could be no better conditions yesterday 20th march 2016 for the conduct of Italian Snowboard Tour 2016 final contest in Marilleva – Val di Sole Trentino Italy!

The contest, valid as the Italian Slopestyle Championship FSI 2016, was the final round of Italian Snowboard Tour, the circuit of 5 slopestyle competitions hosted in 5 different spots around Italy from the Alps to the Apennines (Ovindoli, Campofelice, Obereggen, Pila and Bardonecchia), where riders from different parts of the country had the chance to qualify to the Finals in Marilleva and fight for the Italian Slopestyle Champion title.

Saturday 19th march during the semi-final contest other few riders were selected to be part at the Final. The saturday’s race was an opportunity for everyone to test the challenging but fun set-up of the Snowpark Marilleva created for the event by SPT Snowpark Project shapers.

The snowpark has been setted with great care and was really appreciated by riders, who after the warm-up of saturday’s contest, pomped up during the three runs of the final contest offering a great show to the large audience showed up.

The set up included various jib structures and multi obstacle structures including a jib table with various rails and boxes, a jib zones quarter, wall, close-out, drop-in, kicker with a ball to bonk, a jump table with two kickers and a kicker with plug.

The race atmosphere was super positive with sun shining and the tipical spring weather: a real treat for all the freestyle lovers!

But we come to the highlights of the race were Federico Olivier and Francesca Fazi won the title of Italian Slopestyle Champion FSI 2016!

Federico Olivieri won the race beating Renzo ‘Tato’ Chiala and Alberto Planchon respectively ranked in second and third position.

The men’s race was characterized by a head to head between the top two riders but the solid tricks and the clean style of Federico Olivieri have impressed the jury allowing him to win the title of Champion!

The men’s podium

“The set up was really nice, the shapers did a fantastic job! The training was good enough then in the race I did my best and I got a great result! I’m very happy, ” said Federico satisfied after the victory.

In the girls category the best rider was Francesca Fazi who took the first place, Cristina Signorini and Jennifer Gregori ranked respectively in second and third place.

“The race was good, I enjoyed it and the setup was so cool, although for us girls it was not easy, was hard to interpret it and try to do the best. I thought I was out of age, however the result arrived unexpectedly! ” said Francesca Fazi.

The women’s Podium

The prizemoney for this final contest was very rich with many cash prizes for the winners (almost 3000 Euros for podiums!) sponsored by Funivie Folgarida Marilleva and many prizes in material provided by the sponsors Nitro, ThirtyTwo, and snow and surf camp from Facciosnao.

Italian Snowboard Tour Final Rank– Marilleva 20th march 2016

Men’s Category

Olivieri Federico
Chiala Renzo
Planchon Alberto
Mowbray Renn
Plank Benno
Dente Lorenzo
Bonapace Alessandro
Tosi Francesco
Nocera Filippo
Ceroli Giuseppe
Corrias Davide
Di Franco Emiliano
Domville George
Giosuè Giordano
Di Ianni Davide
Giosuè Antony
Boccacci Claudio
DNS Botti Roberto

Women’s Category

Fazi Francesca
Signorini Cristina
Gregori Jennifer
Cau Arianna
Ferrario Caterina
Sassi Elena
Conti Katia
Peytavin Berge Elisa
Nassiri Widad

This second edition of the Italian Snowboard Tour ended with great satisfaction of the organizers and sponsors.

A special thanks go first of all to Funivie Folgarida Marilleva and SPT Snowpark Project shapers for made available a really high level set up.

Thanks also to the club Hot Ice Snowboard for the technical and logistical management of all stops of the Tour, to 4Snowboard and Board Action for media support, to Rplus and also a big thank you to the sponsors that believe in Italian Snowboard Tour Nitro – ThirtyTwo, Facciosnao and Trentino.

… Last but not least a special thanks to all the riders who enjoyed the tour with passion and enthusiasm, giving us few beautiful days of pure snowboarding fun!

See you next year!

Look here all the picture from the contest: Photogallery (photocredits Maurizio Morici /Hot Ice Snowboard)

L’Italian Snowboard tour is supported by: Nitro, 32, Trentino, Facciosnao, Hot Ice Snowboard,Rplus and media partners 4Snowboard e Board Action, and we are proud to support Associazione Fulvio Cimarolli

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Billabong Flaunt It Rolls Through the North Shore

Post author By Elisa
Post date March 8, 2016

Billabong Flaunt It made its way to the West Coast stopping on Vancouver’s North Shore at Grouse Mountain this past Saturday. The fog crept in the early morning as the competitors warmed up in practice causing the event to be modified, so the girls started the day off with the Rail Jam. Sarah Gall, road tripping from Oregon made a pit stop at Grouse to compete at Flaunt It, landed herself in first place in the rail jam with a gap front side 270 on the down flat down rail. She was accompanied on the podium with Kiersten Higginson and Katherine Lacroix-Vogel.

The fog and the sun battled throughout the day, with the sun winning out providing visibility for the second half of the day. With the weather battle settled, the girls set their sights on the slopestyle course. Michelle Zeller from Breckenridge, Colorado squeezed out first place in a tight battle, with Kiersten Higginson close behind her in second. Zeller’s run consisted of technical rail tricks including a front board 270 out on the down bar rail, followed by a frontside 720 on the jump, and a nose slide on the rainbow rail.

The grom award was a tie between the two eager 11 year old competitors, Juliette Pelchat & Maggie Crompton.

Billabong Flaunt It is proudly supported by VonZipper, InStance, and Snowboarder Magazine.

RESULTS:

Slopestyle

1^st Michelle Zeller $700 (GNU, Outdoortech, Phunkshun Wear, Flux, Smith)
2^nd Kiersten Higginson $500 (Spy)
3^rd Sarah Gall $300
4^th Chloe Woodruff (Mount Seymour)
5^th Kozumo Yoshizawa (Ride, Adidas Eyewear, Dakine, Collection)

Rail Jam

1^st Sarah Gall $300
2^nd Kiersten Higginson $150 (Spy)
3^rd Katherine Lacroix Vogel $50 (DC, Somewon Co)

VZ Rag Doll Award: Bailey Birkkjaer

Billabong Girls Grom Award: Juliette Pelchat & Maggie Crompton

For all Flaunt It information, including registration, visit www.billabongflauntit.com

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Tourstop Vans Penken Park Mayrhofen / Hippach

Post author By Elisa
Post date February 26, 2016

Not only the winners of the day carried home lots of medals, appreciation and mad-prizes from the third Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride tourstop at the Vans Penken Park. Also the overall winners of the Super Grom Tour Tyrol 2016 got crowned and honored on February 20th and 21st in Mayrhofen, Hippach in the Zillertal. All 100 riders took it with challenging conditions, flat lights and winds that weekend. Nevertheless, the riding level was incredible and riders were pushing the limits once again in the open slopestyle contest, not least because the park shapers were permanently maintaining the course to keep it in perfect shape. All participants, parents, trainers, friends and visitors kept up the unique Zillertal Välley Rälley vibe, as witnessed in the recap video by Andreas Monsberger.

The Vans Penken Park welcomed its guests for the 3rd Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride Snowboards tourstop with a perfectly shaped XXL setup. On the Coaching Day, the Ästhetiker crew members Steve Gruber, Chris Kroell, Friedl Kolar and Klaus Hofmeister took advantage of the entire park setup to train with up-and-coming talents on the jump and jib lines. In the meantime, riders were already warming up for the next day´s competition on the pro and advanced line.

On Sunday, 85 competitors showed up to compete on all different lines in the open slopestyle contest. Top riders from all over Europe pushed the limits througout all categories battling it out on hightest level. No surprise, the stakes were high. Winners could look forward to medals and prize money, mad-prizes and valuable points in the World Snowboard Tour Ranking and Välley Rälley Overall Tour Ranking.

In the super grom category Evy Poppe ( BEL) and Niclas Huber (GER) made it one more time to the top spot. Annika Morgan (GER) and Samuel Jaros (SVK) dominated the groms podium, while Adéla Kreisingerova (CZE) and Billy Cockrell (GBR) took victory in the rookies competition. Gillian Finnerty (GBR) won the women´s contest, while Scotsman Matt McCormick did not only earn in the gold medal in the men´s contest, he also won the Vans Best Trick Award with a clean bs9. Austrian young gun Finally Nico Winkler got rewarded most impressive Grom of the day by the Ästhetiker Judges.

The 3rd Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride tourstop in Mayrhofen was also a part of the AustriaCups and the Final event of the Super Grom Tour Tyrol 2016, organized by the N.ASA. As the best overall grom girl Emma Lantos (AUT) got rewarded with the first place. Nico Winkler (AUT) won the trophy of the overall winner in the grom boys category and Leonardo Cerato (AUT) took home the super groms overall award 2016. All results are available at www.powdern.com.

With the 3rd tourstop, the Välley Rälley Overall Ranking starts getting exciting. Ride Snowboards team rider Roland Tschoder and local ripper and Greenroom shop team rider Patrick Fankhauser, both from Austria, are currently sharing the lead with equal score in the men´s category. The actual top spots in the overall ranking qualify for the N.ASA Shred Down Austrian Masters. All rankings and results are available at www.valleyralley.at.

“Despite the changing weather conditions, we witnessed another perfectly organized tourstop of the Zillertal Välley Rälley at the Vans Penken Park,” Marketing Director Gotthard Schoepf from the Mayrhofner Bergbahnen explains. “You can see, that the event is enjoying increasing popularity by riders and sponsors, while fun factor and professionalism don´t come to short. This formate delivers exactly, what snowboarding needs these days: fun, action and a lot of smiling faces!”

The Vans Penken Park will be open and daily maintained until the 10th of April, 2016. All info on the setup is available at www.mayrhofner-bergbahnen.com/de/highlights/vans-penken-park. With the brand-new App you can always look up the latest news from the Vans Penken Park on your Android Smartphone or iPhone, where ever you are.

Partners of the 3rd tourstop: Zillertal.at, Ride Snowboards, Vans, Red Bull, Mayrhofner Bergbahnen, Tourismusverband Mayrhofen / Hippach im Zillertal, Grillhof Alm, N.ASA, Greenroom Mayrhofen, Black Eye, Dana Beanies

The forth and final Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride tourstop and finals will go down on April 2nd and 3rd in Hintertux, where the overall tour winners will be crowned prince, princess, duke, dutchess, king and queen of the valley 2016!

More Info and registration at www.valleyralley.at

Credits: Matt McHattie for Coaching / Gustav Ohlsson for Contest Day

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elooa CAMP GOOD TIMES People’s Republic of China – Successful Premier At Dolomiti Resort

Post author By Elisa
Post date February 19, 2016

From January 3rd until 8th 2016 the first elooa Camp in People’s Republic of China took place at Dolomiti Resort in Chongli Country. Over 20 motivated Chinese snowboarders signed up to spend a week with Snowboard Pro Wang Lei at the elooa CAMP GOOD TIMES People’s Republic of China presented by Nitro Snowboards. Together with the Nitro Global Teamrider WANG LEI elooa decided to push Snowboarding in People’s Republic of China by implementing the concept of elooa Snowboard Camps!

The whole week was dominated by perfect weather conditions with not a single cloud at Dolomiti Resort. YIBU Snowparks built an incredible snowpark that covered all needs for the camp. After warm up sessions in the morning, the participants were split up in small groups to work on progressing their individual riding skills. The international elooa coaching team was hand picked by Wang Lei just for that camp and was composed of snowboard professionals and certified instructors who made sure to help each camper as good as possible. In the different groups the important basics of snowboarding where instructed and a fast progression was recognizable.

From riding the slopes with turns, first jumps and rail riding to different sessions in the snowpark, a big variety of snowboarding was shown to the participants. In the evenings the new learned tricks were analyzed through video coachings to work on the specific aims of each camper. Besides that, everyone had the chance to test brand new NITRO SNOWBOARDS of the season and to learn more about the different features of each shape. Day by day everyone got better and the camp vibe was awesome and nothing but good times. As a final highlight, the campers got to see the documentary of Nitro Snowboards Pro Eero Ettala, ENDER, during the last evening accompanied by a nice BBQ and beers.

A great week was coming to an end with a lot of riding, new tricks, tired legs and most important new friends, good times an a lot of fun.

elooa likes to thank especially GO SKI, CORE POWER ASIA and NITRO SNOWBOARDS for making CAMP GOOD TIMES People’s Republic of China happen! We are looking forward to more camps in and a very bright future of Snowboarding in People’s Republic of China!

elooa.com

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Report #BillabongFlauntIt Mount St Louis

Post author By Elisa
Post date February 9, 2016

The sun was peaking its rays through Saturday morning, shimmering over the course at Mount St Louis as Billabong Flaunt It kicked off another season of all girls events. The beats were jammin’, the vibes were hype, and all of the girls definitely brought their stoke.

Ontario’s very own Samm Denena slayed the Slopestyle course in commanding style. Her run started with a front side tail press on the down bar followed by an under flip 540 melon grab on the first jump, then linked up a cab under flip melon on the second jump and topped off her run with a gap to nose slide on the down flat down. Mount St. Louis local, Baily McDonald scored herself a well-deserved second place and all the way from Breckenridge, Colorado, Michelle Zeller in third place.

Fueled up and ready for the afternoon session the girls destroyed the rail jam course, which was comprised of three options; a down flat down rail, giant rainbow rail, or flat tube. Samm Denena cleaned up again with a super technical trick on the down flat down, a front side 50-50 to front side 180 switch up, backside 180 out. Baily McDonald held onto second place with a switch boardslide down the double kink in and Quebec’s Elizabeth Hoskins finished in third. 10-year-old Kaitlyn Adams from Ohio earned the Billabong Girls Grom Award with her fearless gap to 50-50 on the double kink.

Billabong Flaunt It is proudly supported by VonZipper, InStance, and Snowboarder Magazine.

RESULTS:

Slopestyle

1^st Samm Denena $700 (Adidas, VonZipper, GNU, Kuhuna, Vitaly)
2^nd Baily McDonald $500 (Roxy, Smith, Tropical North, Muskoka Woods, Stance)
3^rd Michelle Zeller $300 (GNU, Outdoortech, Phunkshun Wear, Flux, Smith)
4^th Oceane Fillion (Yes, Now, RipCurl, Spy, S3 Boardshop)
5^th Elizabeth Hoskins

Rail Jam

1^st Samm Denena $300 (Adidas, VonZipper, GNU, Kuhuna, Vitaly)
2^nd Baily McDonald $150 (Roxy, Smith, Tropical North, Muskoka Woods, Stance)
3^rd Elizabeth Hoskins $50

VZ Rag Doll Award: Valentina Gazzola
Billabong Girls Grom Award: Kaitlyn Adams (Arbor, Phunkshun Wear, Sun Bum, Go Pro)

For all Flaunt It information, including registration, visit www.billabongflauntit.com

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Record numbers for the 2nd Tourstop at ZILLERTAL ARENA

Post author By Elisa
Post date February 1, 2016

When it comes to numbers, the second Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride Snowboards tourstop on January 23rd and 24th 2016 at Zillertal Arena broke all records! More than 120 riders and teams from all over Europe showed up at the Snowpark Gerlos to learn new tricks in the coaching sessions and take home lots of prizes, medals and prize money in the open slopestyle contest, sharing the good times with the Ästhetiker crew.

The video gives a short recap of the good times in Gerlos:

The shapeteam from Uniqueparks.com had been working day and night to get the Snowpark Gerlos ready for the second Zillertal Välley Rälley tourstop hosted by Ride Snowboards at Zillertal Arena. Gerlos welcomed all riders on Saturday with a versatile setup, good weather and perfect snow conditions. Teams from all over Europe had come to the Zillertal Arena to train and participate in the Snowboard Pro Coaching Sessions with the Ästhetiker coaches Steve Gruber, Friedl Kolar, Klaus Hofmeister and Chris Kroell. From super groms to old dogs, everyone was working on improving their skills, learning new tricks while having a good time on the mountain together.

In the open Snowboard Slopestyle Contest on Sunday, riders of all categories pushed the limits, battling it out in a fierce competition and spectators witnessed an excellent snowboard show throughout all age groups. Beside medals, prize money and mad prizes, valuable points for the World Snowboard Tour Ranking and Välley Rälley Overall Tour Ranking were up for grabs.

Niclas Huber from Germany and Evy Poppe from Belgium took the top spots on the podium of the super groms category, while Marie Kreisingerova from Czech Republic and German ripper Niclas Bothe won the groms contest. With Michaela Tiefenbacher and Manuel Metzger, two Austrians ruled the Rookie class. Belgian shredders Djoelie Ectors and Ben Theunissen took victory in the women´s and men´s contest and their countryman Kevin Trammer won the Vans Best Trick with a stylish BS Tail – Sex Change – 450 out.

Supergrom Fabian Nehring celebrated his comeback after an injury with learning new tricks and raking in the most impressive Grom award. With the second tourstop, the Välley Rälley Overall Tour Ranking starts changing and the run for the tour lead begins! All results and rankings are available at www.valleyralley.at.

„As every year, the Zillertal Välley Rälley Tourstop was a great highlight in the event calendar of the Snowpark Gerlos / Zillertal Arena,“ Heike Schoof from Zillertal Arena Marketing reveals. „The high number of participants and excellent atmosphere are indicators, that such an event is highly accepted in the boardriding scene and we are already looking forward to next year´s event!“

From now on, the snowpark Gerlos will be daily maintained until April, all infos and updates at www.zillertalarena.com and ww.uniqueparks.com.
Partners of the 2nd tourstop: Zillertal.at, Ride Snowboards, Vans, Red Bull, Zillertal Arena, Gerlos, Uniqueparks.com, N.ASA, Greenroom Mayrhofen, Black Eye Lens, Dana Beanies

Two more Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride tour stops will follow in 2016. The next event takes place in February at the Vans Penken Park in Mayrhofen and the great Finals will go down in early April at Hintertux Glacier. At the forth and final event, the overall winners will be crowned prince, princess, duke, dutchess, king and queen of the valley 2016!

Check out www.valleyralley.at for more info and registration!

Photos: Gustav Ohlsson

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Andrew Wilde Wins The Nitro Open At Lake Songhua Resort

Post author By Elisa
Post date January 8, 2016

The Nitro Open 2015 in Northeastern China, Jilin Province, a WST Regional Level Event, saw Kiwi Andrew Wilde take the top spot, tightly followed by locals Lin Xiaoyun and Rookie Su Yiming. Mellow Parks provided a perfectly shaped park offering very good options to let the riders choose their individual runs. The top six riders shared a $ 1,500 cash prize and gear offered by Nitro / Dragon / Mizu / L1.

The Nitro Open as part of the WST encourages local riders to participate in competitions. The spirit of everyone having fun riding together is the motivation that makes everyone go out and ride – everyone was a winner that day in our eyes!

The official season opening event in China saw -despite being a Male only SS – some awesome Ladies shredding in the park: Sun Zhendong, Cheryl Yang Rui, Wang Nan and Yu Yang. Celebrating World Snowboard Day, the 10th anniversary no less, was on everyone’s mind that weekend at Lake Songhua.

TOP TEN STANDINGS of the NITRO CHINA OPEN 2015:

1.     Andrew Wilde
2.     Lin Xiaojun
3.     Su Yiming
4.     Andrij Sydorenko
5.     Song Junliang
6.     Jia Xin
7.     Zhang Peng
8.     Zhang Jiahao
9.     Chen Weiyou
10. He Wei

For further information get in touch with Miriam Deller, info@chinasba.com

Photogallery here
Image credit: Da Bai / GoSki.cn

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