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Last weekend many pilgrims of the snowboard industry flocked to Livigno/ Italy to see the messiah for his short come back to the scene. At the Source Industry Forum, Drew Stevenson - the godfather of Onboard, Method, TTR and all the party heads out there - received the Life Time Achievement Award for all he did for the sport that we all love so much.
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Swiss rider Colin Frei has had an amazing season of shredding and has certainly established himself as one of the best Quarterpipe riders in the business. He ended his 07/08 TTR season in 50th by competing in only 5 and 6 star events and earned a reputation to go big. Really big. We’re talking over 8 m. TTR caught up with Colin at the Snickers Classic in Saas-Fee Switzerland for a few words on his recent accomplishments: Read the rest of this entry »
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Laaaaaiiiiiiiid Baaacckk © Jeff Green Photo
With the Slopestyle portion of the Snickers Classic finished on Saturday, it was time for riders to take on the big, red, gargantuan, beast of a wallride conveniently constructed in front of the Popcorn bar at the top of Saas-Fee. (I guess that’s why they call it the Popcorn wallride - I always thought it had something to do with riders ‘popping like corn’ but hey, this works too). By competing in both the Slopestyle and Wallride sessions, riders fought to dethrone the previous 07 king Nicolas Mueller and become the 2008 King of Popcorn.
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Matthias clucking about the weather
Crazy weather has been following the Swatch TTR World Snowboard tour for the last couple of weeks and the Roxy Chicken Jam, being held this weekend at Mammoth Mountain, California, has been no exception. The first day of the Chicken Jam (the last 6-Star event on the women’s tour) was delayed due to some unexpected snowy weather today.
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© - Total Fight
Riders are going off in Andorra at the 4-STar Grandvalira Total Fight. Blue bird skies and one sick park is all any one needed to tear it up and set the bar for the next few days of competition. The qualified riders listed below threw down today and made the list to compete against the invited riders in the Expression Session on Saturday. Look forward to a heated finale in one of the best snowboard contests on the Spanish scene. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Jake McBride
So, the men’s Swatch TTR Tour finally concluded at the Burton US Open 2008 after a season full of thrills and spills, pipes and powder, and more drama than Broadway. Kevin Pearce prevailed in a nail-biting finale, beating out Peetu “3rd Place” Piiroinen, Risto Mattila, and a late surge from Shaun White to take the TTR Title along with the Swatch TTR’s behemoth 20kg trophy. Pearce fully deserved the title after proving himself to be master of all condition and terrain taking wins in multiple TTR formats: Stadium Slopestyle, Quarterpipe, and Halfpipe.
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© - Artem Derbenev
Oh what a journey, after leaving Innsbruck at night and departure from Munich at 7am I landed in Moscow around noon. It was just stop over, but Sheremietievo airport is a legend. The international terminal is probably as chaotic as any other airport in 12mln city. Unfortunately to get to Chelyabinsk I had to catch my flight in internal flight terminal. The problem is that it’s on the total opposite site of the airport, almost an half an hour by bus. Flight to Chelyabinsk is another couple of hours. From Chelyabinsk is another 4h drive to Magnitogorsk. It’s an amazing scenery, after driving couple of hours you finally see the Ural mountains, dividing Europe from Asia.
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Chas Guldemond wins rail session © TTR
The Honda Session, a Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Event, went off last night in Vail, Colorado, USA. A good mix of riders came out to Vail despite the crazy weather that has been making travels a bit difficult in Colorado. Things kicked off at the Session, with the Steel & Sky rail jam, getting everyone pumped up for Saturday’s Slopestyle contest. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mattieu Crepel - © Florent Ducasse / Quiksilver
A wind of innovation blows on the Tour these days. After the Quiksilver Natural Selection in Trice’s homeland, the Tour hosts the MC Invitational, a solid three star event introducing the “trick list” format, a brand new concept for a competitive freestyle event.
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Benedek Pow’ Slash - © Tim Zimmerman
A down day for the FOUR(4)STAR Quiksilver Natural Selection competition meant a good day for riders to get out in the deep pow and get some shots with the multitude of photographers and cinematographers on site for the event.
The TTR crew was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at tomorrow’s contest venue, Casper Bowl, as Travis Rice and all the riders competing packed out a couple of hits in preparation for the last day of competition. The guys packed down a run-in for a huge hip jump and a couple of other booters on the course.
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