Board Fusion – ChillandDestroy meets Rope addicts at the Wake Park in Thulba
When the Wakeboard Rope-Addicts Crew meets the biggest German speaking Snowboard Rookie Tour, the Chill-And-Destroy Team, things may get wild. Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time to PARTY. Lifestyle of the summer meets lifestyle of the winter at a top event including a wakeboard contest, top DJ’s, and a BBQ - entry is free so make sure you check it out. Here are the facts:
Schedule:
18.30 - 20.30 h Qualification Kicker-Contest
20.00 h PARTY: the turntables start turning…
21.00 h Finale Kicker-Contest
22.30 h Wild-Bunch-Jam, followed by prize giving
Where is the Wakeboard Park:
Wake-Park Thulba - Untere Au 5, 97723 Thulba, Germany – Tel. 09736/4726
Sponsors: New-Schnitzel, Jetpilot, TSG, Smith Optics, Bench, O’Neill, Red Bull, Rumplex
Medienpartner: the-gap-magazin.com, Radio Gong, Golden Ride, sport2.de
MANGLO MOVES RELEASE PARTY
MOG Productions presents: Manglo Moves Release Party
TTR’s friends from Innsbruck have created a great movie to show how much fun snowboarding can be. Check it out and find more ionformation below:
On 20th June, 2009, the Tyrolean Snowboard movie production MOG will show the movie „Manglo Moves“ in Innsbruck (Weekender). Other premiere stops will be in Landeck, Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Vienna.
COme and see a banging snowboard movie, win lots of prizes and listen and dance to ChrisFader and Elecity who will be delivering some good sounds.
The movie will come as a free DVD with the Playboard Magazine in the end of June!
You gonna see rider quality, trick quality, film quality and editing quality! Promise.
Your MOG Team
Trailer:
http://www.filmupmedia.at/public_ftp/mog/MangloTrailer.mov <http://www.filmupmedia.at/public_ftp/mog/MangloTrailer.mov>
Check out:
Enter the TTR Giveaway and Win Some Free Snowboard Gear
After a long season TTR has decided to conduct a survey so that we can evalute our performance and improve for next year. The problem is we need you, our loyal fans, to fill it in online. We realise this isn’t a very inticing offer but we can assure you it will only take you five minutes to fill in. In return for you giving us your time we’ve decided to team up with some of our great sponsors at TSG, Zimtstern and Swatch and enter you in a prize draw. So for your chance to win 1 x TSG TTR snowboard helmet with audio, 4 x Swatch watches, 5 x Zimtstern TTR beanies you must complete the entire survey and submit your e-mail address. All your statements are voluntary, will be interpreted anonymously and will not be given to third parties.
THE ZIMTSTERN SNOWBOARD TEAM
You can snowboard somewhere, the whole year round. And soon, when even the after
season sessions will be finished, there are still some glaciers that maintain great parks
in summer or you travel down to the southern hemisphere. The official winter season
in Europe is finished though, the TTR World Snowboard Tour crowned their champions.
Therefore we want to look back on the winter season 08/09 of the Zimtstern Snowboard
Team.
World of Competitions
The absolute contest highlight of the season 08/09 was Colin Frei’s victory at the Swatch
TTR 6Star Billabong Air&Style in Innsbruck! Due to his kamikaze tactics he showed the
ropes to legends such as Terje Haakonsen, Peetu Piiroinen und Antti Autti and can now
call himself an owner of the Ring of Glory. More results of Colin Frei: Riverjump Livigno,
TTR 4Star: 7th Slopestyle, 8th Big Air; 18th at the Oakley Arctic Challenge, TTR 6Star;
O’Neill Evolution Davos, TTR 6Star: 17th Quarterpipe. Colin finished the TTR Worldtour
08/09 as the third Swiss on rank 26.
Lukas Blaser won the TTR 3Star Chill and Destroy Tour Finals in Arosa and hence he is
the current German Slopestyle Champion.
14-year-old Zimtstern Rookie Linus Birkendahl finished the TTR 3 Star Burton European Junior Open 2009 in Laax on the 7th position in Halfpipe and at the Chill and Destroy Tour Finals he styled himself on the 3rd place. Currently he is on rank 411 in the TTR-ranking.
The Ring of Glory:
Colin Frei after his win of the Air & Style
Photo: Air & Style
Lukas Blaser at the Chill and Destroy Finals in Arosa
Photo: facypic
Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam European Champs and the Chill and Destroy Finals in Arosa she finished on the fourth place. In the TTR-Ranking „Heli“ is on rank 79.
Anja Imboden won the Quarterpipe Contest of the TTR 3Star Walliser Tour Belalp.
Alternative Projects
As we all know contests are not everything in the world of Snowboarding. The engagement in diverse movies and other projects is a creative choice of impressing their own way of Snowboarding for the riders. At distinctive locations or just in the middle of nature, far away of any civilisation, shots and sequences arise that will later be presented
as movies or as photos in the different snowboard magazines.
Zimtstern is involved with the international Pirate Movie Production featuring Hans
Åhlund and Björn Hartweger, Reto Kestenholz is starring in the Swiss Dedicated-Project.
Hans Åhlund and Björn Hartweger were on tour all around the world with the Pirates
almost all winter riding in Europe, USA and Canada. They rocked the most different terrains, from the finest powder somewhere in the bumblefuck of Montana to some insane Street Jibs in Sweden. We are so much looking forward to seeing the next creation of the pirates, that they will present personally on their premier tour in autumn.
Reto Kestenholz, one of the worlds most experienced Snowboarders, rarely participates
in competitions nowadays. A journey in the airplane he declines on principle. That
doesn’t mean that he is not active anymore. Far from it! He is self-actualising in projects
such as the Gravity Park in Zermatt which he and his buddies are shaping passionately
for some years or in stories he is initiating with the Dedicated-Crew or with Zimtstern.
A jump over the 45 meter long Gran Masta Gap in Adelboden, running in with an insane
speed of over 100km/h and styling a sick backside seven – match that if you can!
We wish you all a beautiful summer, summer-shredding, skating, surfing…whatever! Stay tuned! See ya next season!
Zimtstern Snowboard Pro Team Zimtstern Snowboard Rookie Team
Colin Frei, Schweiz Helene Nadig, Schweiz
Hans Åhlund, Schweden Julian Fürsinger, Schweiz
Reto Kestenholz, Schweiz Nico Kurz, Schweiz
Björn Hartweger, Österreich Chrigel Bertschi, Schweiz
Lukas Blaser, Schweiz Anja Imboden, Schweiz
Simon Abt, Schweiz Carmen Beccaro, Schweiz
Melanie Camastral, Schweiz
Linus Birkendahl, Deutschland
SEASON WRAP UP TV SHOW FROM THE TTR WORLD SNOWBOARD TOUR
Well, the seasons over, the snow is melting and the champions have been crowned. Are you having withdrawl symptoms too? Just incase TTR has decided to air its 26 minute Television show wrapping up the entire season exclusively on ttrworldtour.com. From Chas’ knock out down under, amazing double corks in Japan and Canada, as well as the clash of the titans at the European and US Opens. Read the rest of this entry »
HEAVIEST PRE-SEASON SNOWFALLS IN MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY IN AUSTRALIA
Perisher Blue - Yabby Flats - Mid station Forester quad express (webcam shot: 29.04.09 @ 0° Celsius)
Due to severe weather in SA, Victoria and NSW half a meter of snow has already fallen on Falls Creek’s slopes and it’s still only April down under. With resort openings still 5 weeks away this is quite a historic happening in Australia and phones won’t stop ringing with people asking for passes to go snowboarding. The same story for Perisher where it’s already possible to get some cheeky powder runs in if you are willing to hike a bit (if your car makes it up there). Overnight temperatures dropped to -5 degrees Celsius. Mt Hotham has had a similar snowfall.
(addendum: just heard on the news that the European April has been the hottest April in 50 years as well as a very hot fall in Perth, Western Australia, with basically no rain at all - welcome climate change! New headline: TTR Tour soon to expand to Africa…) Read the rest of this entry »
SOURCE EUROPEAN SNOWBOARDRING INDUSTRY FORUM
The Source, Europe’s b2b magazine for surf/snow/skate is organizing the fifth annual snowboard industry forum from the 24-26th of April in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany.
Following on from the success of last years forum which over a hundred industry personnel attended, this years Forum will continue to be the unique platform that brings the key players together to discus the European snowboard market and its unique issues.
The opening dinner on Thursday evening and will be followed by two days of seminars and workgroups. This years topics include: European and North American 2008/9 snowboard figures, European and North American 2008/9 freeski figures, Sustainability or slow death, A review of theseason and plans for the future for TTR, WSF, Freeride Tour and a European on snow Demo tour proposal, The Czech market-the fastest developing market on our doorstep,Workgroups to formulate plans that can be used as working documents for the Mountain Division during 2009/10, The Future of ecommerce for Branded Manufacturers: Zero or Hero? and Marketing strategies for tough times.
Friday night is this years Snowball evening to raise money for environmental causes and includes the presentation of the European Snowboard Industry Awards. Sunday the 26th is an optional riding day.
Help shape your industry at Europe’s only snowboarding’s conference, obtain knowledge that will enable you to make better business decisions while networking with snowboarding’s key players.
Look forward to seeing you in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Clive Ripley and Remi Forsans
Download the full program here:
BOARDFORCE.NET WITH A NEW DESIGN
Boardforce, wakebaording and snowboarding portal has new face since this month. Now it is offering much better news, much more content, and what is most important, now is everything much easier to research. Two sports split on two websites, appart from the home page, offering different categories. Now you are able to see super calender with both sports… weather forecast, in the best snowparks and ski lifts all around the world…
New forum is waiting for you to be discovered… and best from all is that we are looking for BoardForce team. It doesnt matter if you are Pro or Amateur, you have chance to upload your trips on our website… give trick tips, send us videos and be part of future development of this website.
You can also click and leave us short answer in our surveys. Sometimes it will help us to progress.
If you are event organizer, ski resort or camp organizer add us to your mailing list to receive all the news from you…
If you are brand, maybe you want to advertise with us… if so, contact us on boardforce (at) boardforce.net and send us all questions, suggestions and ideas.
THE TTR MID-SEASON TV SHOW - A NEW APPROACH TO SHOWCASE COMPETITIVE SNOWBOARDING
http://www.vimeo.com/3483193
Check out all the snowboarding action from the early season in the Southern Hemisphere and catch up with all the current Swatch TTR title contenders as they discuss their plans for the season. The show also examines a different side of snowboarding with footage from Nicolas Mueller filming in Alaska with Absinthe Films, and by […]
MAMMOTH PICTURE WRAP UP
It was a week full of sun, fun and action at the Roxy Chicken Jam in Mammoth. Kelly Clark took home the Swatch TTR World Champion title and a happy and overwhelmed Lisa Wiik Almost missed the prize giving because she did not expect neither her third place at the event nor being World No. […]