We received this interview from our media partners at Lime girls magazine and Freeride.cz/girls. Sarka Pancochova is currently in the Swatch TTR World No.1 ranking, and it will be exiting to see if she will keep her lead till the end of the season! If your language is Czech you can follow this season unfolding on Freeride.cz/Girls.

Interview with  Šárka Pančochová

“Sharki” is so short you may stumble over her by mistake in a line for a lift and you won’t even notice it. This girl gets up first in the morning, leaves the hill last and can party hard all night long, riding different tricks than other girls and always speaks her mind. Being a little girl doesn’t mean having little energy.

Šárka comes from a small town in the Czech Republic which lies 200 metres above the sea level. She lives out of a boardbag and is travelling the world while her parents live in the UK.

Being a little girl doesn’t mean having little energy when you do the things you want to. “I’m loving it! I love snowboarding” responded Šárka in the darkness of the car when we were coming back on the highway from the Burton European Open.

We are sitting in your apartment in the Rockresort at the beginning of the Burton European Open but you are not riding today. Why? The main reason is because I’m tired. The second reason is that we filmed with Karkys for a new documentary about me and Martin Černík.

Why are you tired?
I’m tired because I rode three big events in the last five days - O’Neill Evolution, FIS World Cup in Kreischberg and Roxy Chicken Jam.

How is riding FIS World Cup? Is it fun?
Pretty much so, I know most of the riders. But the BEO is much more entertaining!

How was listening to the national anthem after winning the World Cup in Kreischberg?
It was really a big surprise! I didn’t expect it at all.

Was it emotional?
For sure! I listened to the Czech anthem for the first time in my life because I had accomplished something. I was actually singing.

What differences do you see between TTR and FIS?
INCOMPARABLE! FIS doesn’t respect the riders, listens to trainers only, the rider is on the last place. Even the weather is horrible during the event!

Do you think the level of girls’ riding has changed?
The level of girls’ riding has gone a long way in the previous year. Both here in Europe and in the USA. In the semi finals of Roxy Chicken Jam there was nearly nobody who would not do a seven.

What were you plans for BEO?
Doing my run well!

Did it?
Yeah, I was stoked from my runs but judges didn’t really like it but sometimes it is like this. I’m happy anyways!

Would you like to be a queen of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour at the end of the season 09/10?
Yes, that would be great. I’m after it! But we are only in the middle of the winter.

Text: BeeBee
Photo: BeeBee

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL YOU LOVERS OF SNOWBOARDING!

The Swatch TTR crew have come up with a special Christmas treat for you. Along with the launch of our new Swatch TTR Newsletter, we have come up with a brilliant little Christmas time incentive.

Until the end of January, every 50th subscriber to the newsletter will be sent a black and white Zimtstern -TTR beanie. Comfy, warm and stylish, these beanies became hot property last s

eason, as they first emerged at TTR events. So waste no time, the chances are you could be rocking one of these beanies in no time!

Try your luck and take a few minutes to sign up to the newsletter!! http://www.ttrworldtour.com/info/newsletter.html.

This offer is only open to subscribers from EU nations.

To keep up with the fast developing of new tricks in the halfpipe before the Olympics in February, TTR’s new brand partner for 09/10, Nike 6.0, invited some of their team riders there to join the Saas Fee Invitational Airbag Session. Among the riders were two TTR Tour Champions Peetu and Mathieu, plus some of Europe’s finest like Manuel Pietropoli. Check out the video below.

Big thanks to everybody who participated in this competition. We had replies from all over Europe. The lucky winners of a unique and limited edition Swatch TTR watch have been picked out the hat here at the TTR Office.

And they are…..
Constantin Ruge, Romania
Boris Schwager,  Germany
Peter Jones, France
Christoforos Chatzikomis, Greece
Lubomir Iliev, Bulgaria

Congrats to the winners, you will be receiving your Swatch TTR watches soon!

Elias Elhardt winner of the 4Star Pleasure Jam 09

CONGRATS TO  ELIAS ELHARDT (GER) WHO HAS JUST JOINED THE  TSG TEAM!!

Elias Elhardt inspires with a sensational snowboard season start. At Freestyle.Berlin the crowd went wild during Elias performance. Dominating all other freestyle disciplines he ended up as Crossover Champ 2009. Fully motivated he participated at this season’s first TTR Tour stop, the 4Star Pleasure Jam on the Dachstein glacier, securing himself not only the first place but he also won a 3 week’s surf-trip to Bali with his Backside 1080 Double Cork best-trick-performance. Beside contest success, the 21 year old German also shows great riding with his last part in this year’s Pirate Production „Jolly Roger“. After a 1.5 year break forced by health issues, Elias now really kicks off and does so optimally protected by TSG protection. At winter Ispo 2010 Elias will present his first TSG pro model helmet, hitting retail winter 2010.

TSG Snowboard Team: Elias Elhardt, Gian Simmen, Iouri Podladtchikov, Ville Uotila, Etienne Gilbert TSG Freeski Team: Bene Mayr

Watch out for Elias at the 6Star Billabong Air & Style this weekend!!

Diss what ya be doin whenn ya’ll Hood Hustlers of Snowboardin! Yea…!
Hmm..so here is a bit of rappin, rhymin n talking rubbish from some of the Swatch TTR Snowboarding Tours Gangsta Chicks!

The first 6Star event of the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR World Tour is coming up soon and we want to give YOU the chance to get your hands on one of the brand new, fresh, unique & limited Swatch TTR Chrono Plastic wristwatches, especially produced for us.

The slick black Swatch TTR Chrono Plastic is the perfect watch for a snowboarder. It’s built for active people with a comfortable fitting plastic strap that hugs the wrist like a tattoo. Shock proof and waterproof, this watch measures up to the toughest mountain conditions and you can forget about it in the shower, so you never have to take it off. It also features a sophisticated stopwatch function, perfect for measuring your hiking times in the backcountry.

The Chrono Plastic also has “Snowpass” technology built in that allows riders to use the watch as an electronic lift pass. You can load up credit at the resort or skip the lift pass lines altogether and get credit online at www.swatch.com/snowpass. Not bad, eh?

Want to try and snag yourself one of these Swatch collector items? It’s simple: just email us the names of 2 riders you think will make it into the 4 man superfinal at the 6Star Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck taking place December 5, 2009. If you guess correctly and you are one of the lucky 5 people who’s name is drawn in the raffle, the watch is yours!

Please email answers to press@ttrworldtour.com

And, make sure you include: your answer, full name, email address, nationality, home address and age. Please note that this contest is only open to European Union Nationals. We will be raffling out 5 watches to the first 5 drawn correct entries received by December 3, 2009. The winners will be notified on December 8th, 2009.

In late summer 2008 TTR Gold Partner, Zimtstern, felt like expressing sustainability, a subject which has always been a major focus for them and snowboarding as an industry. The collection theme for fall/winter 09.10 ‘Wildlife’ inspired the director Marco Lutz and the producer Stefan Bircher to the idea of ‘Leaves’.http://www.vimeo.com/6376847The Zimtstern Snowboard Pro Team Riders Hans Åhlund, Reto Kestenholz, Colin Frei und Simon Abt declared the woods their playground and in November a crew of about 30 people backed out into the woods for 4 days of shooting. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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