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Lisa & Alexis
Time for Burton European Open again! Its always fun to come back to Laax where I had my first ever big contest in 2000. Wow, its already 8 years ago!
I was surprised when I saw all the snow on the trees on my way up to Laax. Last year it was just green fields all over the place…. Hope this season will be whiter then last year ☺
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So you want to drive around in a sick new 4X4 Suzuki, leaving all those tourists in your dust on the steep and windy mountain roads and getting the first chair? Read the rest of this entry »
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Image courtesy of Sander Taphoorn Photography
Today some clouds moved in over the Crap Sogn Gion Halfpipe but that couldn’t stop the 20 men and 4 women that made the cut in Laax’s icy superpipe to move into Wednesday’s halfpipe event. Amongst those lucky 20 are some guys that are well known faces on the tour.
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Today the skies opened up after 2 & 1/2 ft of snow dumped on Laax over the past 24 hours. The junior competitions in slopestyle and halfpipe went down on Friday and Saturday, and today we saw the qualifying runs for the up-and-comers, and the big-dogs heating things up in some training sessions. Read the rest of this entry »
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The riders in China for the 6th Red Bull Nanshan Open have got it made. Christian Reinhardt has been feeding us info from halfway across the world for the FOUR(4)STAR Swatch TTR event, and from what we’ve read and seen, things are going off not only in the park but also everywhere else. Riders arrived on Wednesday and were welcomed with all you can eat dinners, a trip to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen square, a bowling extravaganza and even full body massages! China sounds like the place to be right now while we’re freezing here in Davos! Read the rest of this entry »
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In typical TTR fashion, the crew was set up to begin the filming of Iouri Podladtchikov’s TTR video profile along with some TV content. Iouri was in house when suddenly there was some loud music coming from outside the interview room. Generally speaking, we don’t like it when stuff interferes. We opened the door and try to ask as politely as we can for the noise to decrease, but before we had a chance to stop anything, in comes TTR’s CEO Drew Stevenson along with Iouri’s musically talented brother Igor Podladtchikov! They gave us a quick sneak preview of the duet that was to take place later in the evening after the quarterpipe qualifications.
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