© - Michal Vrbka / Tasty.sk

Once again I want east to check how does Slovakian do the snowboard contest. Apart from hard work on the event and delivering you the news from Drenica I had an opportunity to taste lots of different kinds of Slovakians bears.

Of course most of the riders were from Slovakia, but also there shown many riders from Czech Republic and Poland. Among them there was one German rider (living in Saas Fee Switzerland) who really wanted to take home 550 Swatch TTR points and the joy of victory. Alessandro Boyens has this year mission to conquer central and eastern Europe. After finishing 3rd on BGV in Russia (+best trick winner) Alessandro came to the biggest snowboard completion in Slovakia. He told me that he loves atmosphere of events in this part of Europe and specially the after parties….

On Sony Ericsson Snowboard fest he had to battle with hole bench of Slovakians, Czechs and Polish who are also eager to win this contest. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t helping organizers at all. One week ago it was dumping with snow and conditions ware just perfest, however in last 3 days temperature went up and now it’s about + 8 C . shapers did there best and the kicker looked really good. Day before the event forecast wasn’t very optimistic, clouds and plus 15 C. Organizers had many concerns, however on the event day it appeared that all the forecasts were wrong! And it was really sunny and temperature around 2 or 3 C although it was very windy!

© - Vladimir Procka / Tasty.sk

The kicker was prepared perfectly and some riders told me that it was a best kicker they rode this season. The only problem was the wind – after gaining speed in the forest ( the in run was through the forest and I must say it looked sick!!!) on the approach to the kicker you lost a lot of speed due to the wind. After training session organizers decided to change a bit a format of the event. All riders ware battling in Jam session for 10 places in the finals.

10 riders who made it to the final were:

Alessandron Boyens, Rado Dubrowy ,Wojetek Pajak, local hero Mato Matys, Mateus Hubka, Pawel Wyroubal, Tomasz Tylka, Maciej Migacz and Richard de Ruiter from Holland.

© - Vladimir Procka / Tasty.sk

After sunset wind stopped blowing and temperature went down, so riders had enough speed to go big. Final was also in Jam format and judges were looking on overall performance. Alessandro Boyens won the Sony Ericsson Snowboard fest with stomping cab 9 and his firm trick bs 7 ‘boyens’ and after that he did cab 9 in the same style – which is bs7 with a flip. He was really stoked about it! This set of tricks give him save win over his Slavic opponents! Second place was taken by Polish rider Wojtek Pajak who showed bench of 7 in all directions fs, bs and cab. Third place went to Czech rider Pavel Vyroubal who showed nice front side 7 and 9.

© - Vladimir Procka / Tasty.sk