Shaun White’s double corks wrote history this Saturday, August 15th, in the Snowpark NZ halfpipe during the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open Snowboarding Championships. Despite sick, stylish and high runs, some of them also including a double cork (e.g. Vito’s) no one could get past Shaun in the pipe finals. The Mitranis, Kazu, Mason, Antti and even current Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion Peetu Piiroinen all watched Shaun laying down the pipe run of the year (if not the century) which might make history again later this season, if no one can step it up. Only 2 years after David Benedek brought double corks to competition at the Air&Style and Travis Rice mastered them in the backcountry they entered the pipe stage – Halfpipe Snowboarding has reached a new level!Don’t miss to watch the TTR Special on Shaun’s double corks and check back early next week to get the TTR lowdown from the NZ Open with the latest ranking developments and behind the scenes content.Link to the video section: http://www.ttrworldtour.com/multimedia/video.html

Never has the Swatch TTR 5Star Burton NZ Open seen such a rider list for the Halfpipe Finals that will go down in Wanaka tomorrow morning. With Shaun White, Peetu Piiroinen, Jamie Anderson, Kelly Clark and Cheryl Mass no less than 5 former and current TTR World Champions will be competing in the pipe besides halfpipe legends like Danny Kass, Masion Aguirre, Scotty Lago, Antti Autti, Danny Davis and many many more. Even riders like Torstein, Seb Toots and Charles Reid that usually prefer booters to transition riding are on the start list. A Swatch TTR Season has never started with such a fulminant battle – here are the chances of the attending riders to shake the world ranking.And don’t forget to check the

• NZO event bio page
• and the Live Webcast page

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Season 09/10 of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour will see its first event go down in Cardrona NZ this week. And it’s a crucial decider of who will lead the Tour going into the Northern Hemisphere winter! So with an amazing field of riders taking the trip down under it will be an amazing show starting with the slopestyle on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Every season we try to improve www.ttrworldtour.com and adapt our services to an ever changing web environment and the needs of our users. Besides fixing some minor bugs and slightly improving navigation, this time around we came up with some very special features that we are proud to share with you now:

• EVENT CALENDAR: Big international non-TTR Events are now included on the calendar (TTR event schedule)
• RIDER REPORTS: Implementation of a non-TTR results tab and a filter with ALL historic TTR results on the rider reports and a new  field called “website” containing a link to the rider’s preferred own website on his profile (Link can be edited by clicking on “myTTR” on the respective profile)
• TOP NATIONS: A mouseover the TOP NATIONS in the ranking column on the right now shows you the national TOP5 who are making up the cumulative score of each nation Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a long time coming: Next week, the Burton New Zealand Open will mark the major kick off of the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour season.Reason enough for more than half of this season’s Swatch TTR Top 10 to make the trip to Downunder and collect some crucial early season points. On board are not only TTR’s current male Top 3 riders, Peetu, Chas, and Antti but also Kelly, Lisa and Jami, TTR’s current female Top 3 riders – they all will be battling it out for the early Tour lead. But winning won’t be easy with the best riders from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia/New Zealand also keen to collect points – Up for the taking: two times 850 Swatch TTR ranking points!To find out who else is coming to the show and what’s going on next week check out the latest news release right here. If you don’t wanna miss any action, watch semis and finals live on 14th and 15th August go211.com.

Well, the seasons over, the snow is melting and the champions have been crowned. Are you having withdrawl symptoms too? Just incase TTR has decided to air its 26 minute Television show wrapping up the entire season exclusively on ttrworldtour.com. From Chas’ knock out down under, amazing double corks in Japan and Canada, as well as the clash of the titans at the European and US Opens. Read the rest of this entry »

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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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.

The Swatch TTR 4Star Total Fight Masters of Freestyle is about to take off in Grandvalira, Andorra.  Ulur, The God of Snow, has been kind to the event organisers and it looks like we are going to be blessed with blue skies.  Riders have trekked in from as far as Argentina and everyone is amped to step it up in Andorra.  Last years winner Ville Uotila has also arrived to see if he can repeat the show of last year. Stay tuned as the Total Fight gets under way and Riders chase end of season ranking points.Above Left – Local Merlin Balfour (AND) calling upon his Wizard powers to bust some airtime (C) Alex GosteliBelow – The Park Setup – Just waiting to be shredded…(c) Alex GosteliAbove – Rudi Kroell (AUT), Seppe Smits (BEL) and event organiser, Claudia Almonderos (Snowplanet)  on route to Total Fight 09.Above – Jaakko Ruha (FIN) and Alessandro Boyens (GER) discuss the ’spin to win’ debateAbove - The masked avenger of Total Fight looking scary with a butter knife. If you are Spanish check aut Claudias blog http://asiplanchaba.wordpress.com/

Left: Peter (Freecaster), Verena (TTR), Nico (Snowbroader.eu) and TTR-Ted.

Right: TTR PR having a friendly chat with Ted our friendly pin-up model.

Left: Jon Weaver the live-commentator of the Air&Style showing the party people how to crowdsurf.
Middle: Crowds escaping the hecticness of ISPO to the calmness of the TTR Stand.
Right: Important meeting with Rasmus (Method), Henning and Hilde (TAC). Read the rest of this entry »

The 18th edition of this event is about to take place. They have
prepared more than 30 000 m3 of snow for this unique contest.  150 riders
have signed up with some pretty big names showing up, such as Risto
Mattila, Gian Simmen, Andy Finch and Ville Uotila.  Come and check it out
and chill in the lounge chairs set up by the course if you are in the
neighbourhood!

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