If you are close to Stratton/Vermont this week, you have the chance to not only check out the best riders on the TTR Tour battling it out for some of the last 6Star points available, but you should also make sure to check out the photo show with the best images of Cole Barash and Blotto Photto (Dean Blotto Gray) this Saturday March 20, 2010 from
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm at the Barn.

Brought to you by Frends, Okay Okay, Burton, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Kodak, ID-PRINTS.COM

For more information on the photographers, please visit:

www.colebarash.com
www.blottophotto.com

To find out what the Frends cre has been up to lately, head to www.wearefrends.com

Kevin Pearce - photographed by Cole Barash in Japan

Almost two months after Kevin Pearce’s tragic accident NBC did a moving piece on him. It includes some photos showing him smiling at the camera and discusses the long way to recovery in front of him. Due to copyright restrictions and whatnot readers from outside the US cannot view the clip on the NBC Olympics website. However, someone filmed the whole thing off the TV screen and posted it on youtube.

The clip includes short interviews with Kevin’s parents and his brothers, and even though the sound is weak at times it is definitely worth watching. Keep sending your good vibes to KP, his family and friends on the Well Wishes to our Frend Kevin Pearce Facebook page.

Thanks to our media partner Onboard for posting this article – we just copied it in here to give people outside of the US the opportunity to watch it: http://onboard.mpora.com/news/kevin-pearces-family-appears-tv.html

Flow Snowboarding– is proud to announce the inclusion of team riders Scotty Lago (USA), Sarka Pancochova  (CZ) and James Hamilton (NZ) to the list of 2010 Winter Olympic competitors. Vancouver will be the destination for thousands of athletes as the Games kick off this week, and all three of these Flow riders will be representing both their countries and Flow Snowboarding. For nearly 15 years, Flow has stood for progression and excellence in the world of snowboarding, and now it is with great pride that Flow will be present in Vancouver to support their riders in their quest for Olympic gold.

To help fans stay up to date with their favorite Flow riders, the creative department at Flow has been busy building comprehensive rider sites for Scotty, Sarka and resident road-dog Tim Humphreys. These sites are designed to give fans an insight into the working, personal and professional lives of some of the world’s top snowboarders. Ever wonder what Sarka’s favorite local mountain is?  What kind of Harley Scotty rides? Why in the world Humpy likes to build computers so much? Or even if you just want to kill a few hours reading blogs and watching footage of some of your favorite Flow riders, now you can at:

Scotty.flow.com
Sarka.flow.com
Tim.flow.com
Flow.com

We promise you that you’ll be seeing much more of Scotty, Sarka, Humpy and James in the near future, so read up and get a head start to be in the know about these four elite shredders. Check in for weekly updates, photos, videos contest results and more.

For more information on TTR’s Industry Partner, also visit their profile on www.ttrworldtour.com/partners

To see Sarka in action, check out the video below

It’s a foggy Wednesday afternoon in January. The Intercity Express train to Saalfelden, Austria is packed with girls travelling with boardbags and big backpacks. At the train station they get off with their luggage and enter several busses that are waiting for them to take them up to Saalbach-Hinterglemm. They seem a little tired from the long trip, but look relaxed, happy and smile in anticipation when they get off the bus in Hinterglemm to check into their energy efficient hotels. There is very tasty organic, locally produced food for dinner, which powers them for the three long days of hiking the park that lie ahead of them! Those girls are the world’s best female snowboarders and they are traveling to the Roxy Chicken Jam — 2020.

“Don’t destroy what you came to enjoy!” – credo of the Quiksilver Foundation

We write the year 2010 and only very few of the organizers, media or riders came by train and public transportation – among them Kjersti Buaas and Chanelle Sladics. The North Americans and riders from other continents had to take long-haul flights. Food was mostly not organic; overheated hotel rooms and diesel-guzzling snowcats far from energy efficient.

At least no cars had to be used for the duration of the event as hotels, snow park and parties were all walking distance from anyone’s accommodation. After all there were some first very important steps towards a greener Roxy Chicken Jam. It’s called going carbon neutral! And it’s about taking initiative and starting somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Not only thousands of people in Kopenhagen care about our planet. You can also find initiatives and people who care among those many snowboard companies and riders out there. Beside Drew Stevenson and his Breath Foundation, also the Roxy Chicken Jam is making a strong effort to keep our planet the same as it is now. The event, a Swatch TTR World Snowboarding 6Star event, scheduled for 8th to 10th of January in the Austrian resort of Saalbach Hinterglemm has set out on a mission to add Carbon Neutrality to its cash prize of $50,000. Then first Woman’s event to pick up the mantle of adding a deep respect for the nature surrounding the event, they have teamed up with the Suddenrush Atlantic Rainforest Institute that already has other conscious internationally renown snowboarder ambassadors such as Terje Haakonsen(NOR) and Nicolas Mueller(SUI) representing the dire need for preservation of one of the worlds threatened biodiversity hotspots. Outside of setting an example for other events, the commitment from the Roxy Chicken Jam will ensure reforestation and preservation of forest for 100 years.

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Check out this funny video that we just found. Dude! 1080s are so 2009. We might see some 9000’s  soon at TTR events!!!

Article in one of Germany's biggest newspapers in November 2009

With the Air & Style coming up in Austria and Elias Elhardt kicking a*** on the Tour, I started thinking about the snowboard scene in those two countries mentioned. Also, if you are capable of the German language, you may have noticed that the German snowboarding scene, especially the Olympic team, has been in the spotlight in the media lately (like the article of FAZ you see above).

Why? Well….because apparently there is no German snowboarding scene???!!! Prove me wrong, but at least this seems to be the opinion of some skiing guys that sit in some pretty powerful positions and who, apparently don’t give a darn about supporting the sport and its young athletes. Or how can a country with such a great interest in the sport and so many fans of snowboarding not have a whole lot of successful riders out there at the comps. Austria is the same I guess, especially in regards to the upcoming Olympics: neither Germany nor Austria have a halfpipe hopeful in place. I mean riders like Silvia Mittermueller and David Benedek from Germany, the Aesthetiker crew, Julia Baumgartner, Lisa Filzmoser from Austria and loads more…they are rocking it but mainly in Slopestyle! And still they are underrepresented in the mainstream especially.

Again WHY????? No good possibilities to practice (halfpipe especially), are the good riders mainly going for photoshoots or are we (as in: I am German, too, as you might have guessed by now) simply not good enough??!! I hope to explore this question a lil bit more over the season so watch out for some more blogs coming out. And those of you that are not interested in this topic – go and read another blog

You might have noticed that the TTR World Snowboard Tour Homepage changed over the weekend. Most notably the new Facebook box. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. We want your visit to the site to be a better experience – no matter if you are here to get your job done or to sit back and enjoy the latest video.
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Some of the most inspirational women within boardsports, coming from all over Europe and overseas, will be gathering in Saas-Fee for a long weekend of networking, learning and sharing. Participants will also get to enjoy the unique Saas-Fee resort with spa treatments, yoga classes, delicious food and of course some snowboarding.

There will be panel discussions with women in the insutry including media, events organisers, professional athletes and brand representitives. There will also be open discussions and feedback groups discussing various topics such as careers, media representation, ways of balancing work and personal life and ways to work together.

Attendees include Corinne Tache-Berther from 7th Sky magazine, Sam Haddad from Cooler magazine, Donna Carpenter and Birgit Gruebler from Burton Snowboards, professional snowboarders Nicola Thost and Anne-Flore Marxer, photographer Vanessa Andrieux and Verena Bossman from TTR.

This event is open to ANY girl working in the industry or has an interest in one day working in the industry.

For more information and to join the go to womeninboardsports.blogspot.com

EuroSIMA (European Boardsports Industry Manufacturers Association), and the EuroSIMA Cluster, launch a call for Innovation projects 2009. Open to all, creative and inventive persons, this call for projects aims to stimulate and support technological and ecological innovations in the boardsports sector (surf, skate and snowboard).

Finalists receive either individual or collective assistance in the form of follow up of the project, a grant of 10 000 euros as well as the integration in to the network of active innovators and boardsports industrials in France and in Europe.

In order to select finalists, a jury of professionals and experts will meet on mid-September 2009.

For more information and the application forms go to eurosima.com