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South America Rookie Fest: the countdown has begun!

From the 9th to the 14th of August the best rookies of the world and the future south American snowboard stars will gather in Valle Nevado to participate to the South America Rookie Fest!

The slopestyle contest will take place on Saturday the 11th in the spectacular Valle Nevado snowpark and beside the competition will be organized two days of backcountry riding, a travel to Santiago where riders will have the opportunity to surf and skate in Mall Sport and take part to a video and photo shooting with some pro athlets.

Have a look at the program!

August 8th – Riders arriving to Chile.
August 9th – Warm up riding in Valle Nevado
August 10th – Training
August 11th  – Slopestyle Contest
August 12th – Weather Day / Backcountry filming
August 13th  – Backcountry filming
August 14th – Travel to Satiago (Skate and surfing in Mall Sport and Dinner at Santa Pizza)

 

About Valle Nevado
Valle Nevado is a modern, international level resort, known for its powder snowboarding, good backcountry access and well maintained slopes for all levels of snowboarders. This  resort is part of the Tres Valles (Three Valleys) along with neighboring resorts La Parva and El Colorado. Combined, the Tres Valles boast the largest terrain (7,000 acres) of South America.

Regarding the weather, it claims up to 80 percent sunny days, but due to its altitude and orientation, it generally maintains good, dry powder snow conditions for riders exploring the groomed slopes, bowls, and backcountry.

 

 

Valle Nevado is situated 3,670 meters above sea level and is surrounded by 6,000 meter peaks! Moreover, it is one of the few places in the world you may see the rare Andean Condor soaring above the pistes!

Click here to watch the past edition of South America Rookie Fest and enjoy some freeriding watching the video here.

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Great Success for the 2016 South America Rookie Fest

The 10th edition of the South America Rookie Fest took place in Valle Nevado, Chile, attended by the best youth riders from Chile, Argentina and United States.

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South America Rookie Fest was a full event of action packed activities surrounding a slopestyle contest: surfing on the beach, skateboarding in the beautiful city of Santiago, an exciting powder day and another awesome surfing day in the Mall Sport wave house. Special thanks to the sponsors Mall Sport, DC Shoes, Valle Nevado, Santa Pizza and Red Bull.

Check out the 2016 South America Rookie Fest wrap up videos here:
https://vimeo.com/180547224  Day1 (Freeride, Surf and Skate Session)
https://vimeo.com/180547228  Day2 (Slopestyle Contest)

2016 South America Rookie Fest – Rankings

Rookie:

  1. Graham Haley USA
    2. Drake Mechigian USA
    3. Lucas Fuenzalida Chile
    4. Lucas Alfonsin Argentina
    5. Lucas Silva Chile
    6. Lucas Russo Argentina
    7. Francisco Arias Chile

Grom:

  1. Alvaro Yáñez
    2. Pascal Uranga
    3. Lolo Machicao
    4. Benja Yáñez
    5. Julian Cortes
    6. Vicente Bañados
    7. Matias Medina
    8. Kasimir Wismeier
    9. Nicolas Villegas
    10. Matias Medina
    11. Felipe Bañados

Girls:

  1. Antonia Yáñez
    2. Teresita Bañados

Photos of the 2016 South America Rookie Fest are available on the WRT Facebook Fanpage:
https://www.facebook.com/worldrookietour/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1282288018450683

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Japan takes over the South America Rookie Fest 2014

A clear blue sky welcomed the 5th edition of the South America Rookie Fest in Valle Nevado , Chile, with participants from Chile and Argentina and the guest from Japan, Keita Inamura World Rookie Champion and Kaito Hamada World Grom Champion.

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The slopestyle well shaped by the Gap Snowpark crew, with a down rail, two kickers and a rail set at the end, gave to every rider the chance to impress the judge. Best run of three counted for the ranking of the event.

Thanks to the sunny day and the good vibe rookies and groms showed a great level.
Local hero Antonia Yanez resulted as best girl with solid 360 on the kickers. In the groms category Kaito Hamada laid down the best run, with a fs3 and a huge bs7, followed by Julian Cortes and Alvaro Yanez.
Keita Inamura confirmed is good condition with an impressive run, bstail 270out on the first rail, fs7 and bs10 on the kickers and 270in fs board slide on last rail set. Behind him, as second in rookie category, came Federico Chiaradio from Argentina stomping cab5 and fs7, on third position team mate from Argentina, Pedro Bidegain.

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Keita Inamura – 1st place Rookie

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Federico Chiaradio – 2nd place Rookie

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Kaito Hamada – 1st Place Grom

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Antonia Yanez – Best Girl

Check it out the video of the contest!

South America Rookie Fest 2014 – Rankings

GIRLS
1)    19    YANEZ    ANTONIA    CHI
2)  11    GONZALEZ    MAGDALENA    CHI

GROM MEN
1)    2    HAMADA    KAITO    JPN
2)    22    CORTES    JULIAN    CHI
3)    18    YANEZ    ALVARO    CHI
4)    24    YANEZ    BENJAMIN    CHI
5)    6    CORREA    FELIPE    ARG
6)    5    MOLLER    PEDRO    ARG
7)    25    SILVA    LUCAS    CHI
8)    4    MONZON    MANUEL    ARG
9)    3    LORENZANI    GERMAN    CHI
10)    14    MEDINA    MATIAS    CHI
11)    12    MOLLER    JUSTO    ARG
12)    13    RUGGERIO    FRANCO    ARG
13)    17    KOONS    SEAN    USA

ROOKIE MEN
1)    1    INAMURA    KEITA    JPN
2)    16    CHIARADIO    FEDERICO    ARG
3)    9    BIDEGAIN    PEDRO    ARG
4)    21    MACHICAO    LUCAS    CHI
5)    7    NATALUCCI    BRUNO    ARG
6)    15    CRESPO    FLORIAN    ARG
7)    50    AEDO    BENJAMIN    CHI
8)    20    LIBCOVKER    AGUSTIN    ARG
9)    8    SCHOBERT    MARCO    ARG
10)    10    RUIZ    RAMIRO    ARG
11)    23    CARDEMIL    BENJAMIN    CHI

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Girls Podium

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Groms Podium

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Rookies Podium

pics: Juan Carlos Labarca jclabarca.com

 

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