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The first 6Star event of the season, the Billabong Air & Style in Innsbruck,turned the spotlight on Slovenian rider Marko Grilc, who has been constantly successful on the Swatch TTR Tou but never had the big breakthrough at 6Star contest. To watch him talking about his win, check out TTR’s latest video right here

If you’re from Slovenia, what are the odds that you’ll win the TTR 6-star Air&Style event one day? Hell, they are pretty low even if you are from one of the snowboarding strongholds like the US or Finland! We caught up with Marko Grilc, who has just been crowned the new Billabong Air&Style winner, after pulling off an amazing bag of tricks, including a switch back 10 late cork. Read on to learn the secrets of his success, how many text messages he received after his victory, and why Travis Rice is still crazy…

Hey Grilo, congratulations on this great success. Tell us, at what time into the contest did you realise that you might win it?
It wasn’t until the last jump that I really thought about that. Before that I had too many other things in my mind. First I was just happy that I was in the starting field. When I made the top 8 I thought ‘Wow, I will get an invitation for next year’s event!’, and even when I was in the superfinals I always focused on my next jump. So when I landed my last jump I realised ‘Cool I could win this!’ – and I did!

To read the full interview go to www.onboardsnowboarding.com

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.

It is Lime’s pleasure to announce that the young and talented photographer Bara Prasilova who collaborates with “chics’ only mag LIME” was awarded as the 4th photographer of the year 2008 for her fashion photo series for LIME magazine.This Czech Grand Design award is granted for an outstanding feat in photography in the given calendar period.

This nice news came to our office only two weeks after another success of Mrs. Prasilova. Bara became an ambassador of Quiksilver Women three weeks ago and had a chance to shoot and exhibit in London.“I was awarded by Czech Grand Design as second a year before, I am fourth this year. It could look as a step backwards but the possibility of shooting and exhibiting in London gave me a feeling of my career’s progression. Working and exhibiting in London at the same time is like a dream which came true. That was a fairytale!”, said Bara Prasilova.

However, it is pretty hard to edit NO! mainstream girls’ journal in these days and I am happy that LIME, after only four issues, got the international respect as the local interest of the art scene. My big thanks go to publishers Renda Hrones and Petr Nietsch from Free magazine and of course to Bara Prasilova, who gave a lot of energy to shooting for LIME every time.

Thank you everybody that the LIME baby started to breath and runs in the right direction!
Lets run, LIME! You are our Forest Gump!

PS: Check the LIME history on Facebook under the password “LIME – CHICKS ONLY MAG”.

More:
www.baraprasilova.com
www.limemagazine.cz

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Info:
CZECH GRAND DESIGN awards are divided into eight categories, covering the entire spectrum of events in the field of design, ranging from product design to fashion design to graphic design and photography.
The gala evening for the Annual Award of the Academy of Design of the Czech Republic/ 2008 Czech Grand Design Awards took place in Stavovske divadlo (The Estates Theathre). The telerecording of the gala evening was broadcasted on the Czech TV on March 29, 2009.

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