DAY 1 - Monday was day one of the Oxbow Back to Powder and Snowbroader is in Areche-beaufort, to cover the event. Areche is a lovely mountain village, dug deep in the beaufortain valley between the mont blanc and the tarentaise. In short, beautiful, preserved…..and packed with Pow!! From the 2 lifts at the bottom you get access to some insane terrain, steep and deep! No wonder Oxbow is here for the second time.
Starting today Lolo Favre and Chris Weber are inviting you for the 3rd edition of Oxbow Back to Powder, the not-to-miss backcountry event of the season, on the ski resort of Arêches-Beaufort, France.
There are 12 invited riders including 6 snowboarders. Present for the week are pretty sick names: Chris Weber of course, but also his pal David Benedek, Valérian Ducourtil, David Livet, Frederik Evensen, and Ryland Bell.
Here’s a new webcomp. This time with a small outdoor brand from Switzerland called PENGUIN.
The guys behind PENGUIN focus on a highly technical approach by merging technical fabrics with vivid colors and creative cuts. Their products represent a modern aspect in technical outdoor wear!
We have pants and jackets to give-away: one for the ladies and one for the guys!
This is what you need to do to take part in the comp!
With a last minute change, the Nikita Chickita Swiss Tour (open to chicks only but adviced to all the dudes) 1st stage will take place today in Leysin. The stage will be held in a slopestyle format with two lines, a blue line and a red line. The conditions on the LeysinPark are per-fect as you can see from the webcams, so ladies gives a run for our money!
To get you in the mood, here is the NCST video teaser and for more information and sign-ups, visit: www.ncst.ch
Here are 9 minutes of video pleasure to sum up a year of snowboarding courtesy of our Bros from Shralp! 2009 was an incredible winter and it delivered epic moments both during contests and in the video releases of the fall.
Attention selectas, Skullcandy is releasing the new Terje Håkonsen Signature Agent headphone this week and we already have 3 of them for grabs!
Founder of The Arctic Challenge and godfather of all things snowboard. Arguably the greatest legend in snowboarding, Terje is the rider who most others look up to. The master of amplitude and style remains one of the most important and influential riders in the world. With multiple board designs and his own event in the queue, Terje shifts focus to creation of a custom on-ear/ear bud signature kit, the first of it’s kind.
UPDATE: Marko Grilc wins the Air & Style. Marko chipped in for the injured Seb Toutant and made the most out of it! He now stands on top of TTR rankings! Congrats.
The starting field of the Billabong Air & Style is complete and the action is ON!
16 pros from seven countries build a Riders-Line up at its best. Worldchampion Peetu Piiroinen and the winner of the straight jump contest in 2006, Travis Rice, will fight on the highest level.
After a couple of years of quarterpipe action, the Air & Style is back on the big air program and will feature the head-to-head knockout format:
Mikkel Bang vs. Elias Elhardt
Pat Moore vs. Iouri Podladtchikov
Chas Guldemond vs. Werner Stock
Antti Autti vs. ?????
Peetu Piiroinen vs. Gigi Ruf
Risto Mattila vs. Eero Ettala
Travis Rice vs. Andreas Wiig
Torstein Horgmo vs. Tim Humphreys
WATCH IT NOW! And ask yourself why chicks don’t get to ride The A&S too…support Anne-Flore Marxer, Sarka Pancochova, Cheryl Maas, Tanja Detomas, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Jamie Anderson, Kimmy Fasani, Hana Beaman, Leanne Pelosi, Bev Vuilleumier, Marie-France Roy by signing this petition.
We have another super duper stylee jacket to give-away on SnowBroader: the DC Hestra Jacket!
This jacket doesn’t do hesitation: the Hestra has 15k weatherproofing and breathability combined with insulation, fully taped seams, and a waist gaiter to keep your upper parts nice and toasty while you’re hiking through waist-deep powder!
Zip up the DC Hestra Jacket, prep for launching sequence, and drop the hammer on park terrain or natural features. Now if you want to be the lucky guy who will rock the Hestra this winter, click below! Read the rest of this entry »
This is it! We are at the Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam and we will be streaming LIVE video clips all the time from now till Sunday! This is where it’s happening!
If there are no live videos streaming when you are watching, just select any video clip from the playlist underneath the player.
Results from 1st Qualification Day!
The motivated shaping-crew around QParks-Parkdesigner Bernd Mandlberger gave their best and provided an awesome set-up. A Kinked-Butterbox, two large kickers with 12m and 18m tables, a snow-funbox with 13m and an all-concluding wallride were presented in perfect condition. In addition there were 2 smaller kickers with 10 m and 13 m tables installed at the take-offs.
At the contest, the international boarders-elite pulled out all the stops in order to land a place in the finals on Saturday. The 87 riders were stoked up by the audience and the male top-ten as well as the female top-five can look forward to the finale spectacle tomorrow.
Absolutely worth seeing was the performance of Braaten Gjermund who made the masses cheer with his stunning tricks (backside 900, Cab 900, Frontside 360) and secured himself a starting place for tomorrow. Simon Gruber could also show his talent with a switch backside 540, a frontside 720, backside 720 and a finalizing handplant at the wall and excitedly looks forward to his finale run-out. No less thrilling and spectacular was the lady’s competition: Aimee Fuller and Basa Stevulova as well as Serena Shaw displayed outstanding moves and made won the first three places.
After such impressions of the first day at the Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam, we can only look forward to the finals! More LIVE action saturday and sunday on SnowBroader!
After the Swiss from eleven, it’s Westbeach turns to organize a webcomp right here on SnowBroader!
Our Canadian bros are giving-away two of their fresh DWR hoodies, - a guys and a girls -, a Canuk Base layer for guys and a tee for girls. This means there will be a lucky dude and a lucky chic rocking some Westbeach clothing soon!
It’s the good news of the winter, the Winter X Games are finally going to happen this side of the Atlantic as well! It will all happen in the French resort of Tignes from March 10-12, 2010. That’s more or less one month after the Olympic games in Vancouver.
There will be eight different competitions over three days, including Ski and Snowboard SuperPipe and Slopestyle for men and women as well as a Snowmobile demonstration.
The first wave of athletes invited to France to compete include:
Mikkel Bang - 2009 Winter X Games Snowboard Big Air &Slopestyle bronze medal winner
Mathieu Crepel - 2008 Winter X Games Snowboard Slopestyle 9th Place
Gretchen Bleiler - Three-time Winter X Games Snowboard SuperPipe gold medal winner and 2006 Winter Olympic silver medal winner
Kevin Pearce - Two-time Winter X Games silver medal winner
Torah Bright - Two-time Winter X Games Snowboard SuperPipe gold medal winner and 2006 Winter Olympian
The organisation just released the promo video teaser of the event, so here it is for you to check out! Make sure to head to Tignes this march for the biggest snowboarding event of the season in Europe!
Here we go! LIVE and direct from the Stubai Opening! SnowBroader will stream live videos during the whole week-end so make sure to check us out!
You don’t want to miss the Skullcandy Trick Session, the O’Neill Candy Girls Contest or Playboard Photoshooting, plus all the parties!
