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.


It was a week full of sun, fun and action at the Roxy Chicken Jam in Mammoth. Kelly Clark took home the Swatch TTR World Champion title and a happy and overwhelmed Lisa Wiik Almost missed the prize giving because she did not expect neither her third place at the event nor being World No. 2 of the TTR Tour. Just like Jenny Jones who was with Lisa at the bar at that time not knowing how good she had done at the event’s slopestyle format. Girls, next time believe in your skills.

Unfortunately, I missed Chanelles’s dance party the last night but maybe some photo footage from that night will be posted by someone else…you never know. Enjoy.

The Men’s Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour title just went to Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen at the US Open in Stratton last weekend. But the TTR Tour is far from over for the girls as the 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam will rock Mammoth next weekend. Jamie Anderson, the women’s Tour Leader for the longest time in competitive snowboarding’s history, injured herself badly and will unfortunately not be able to compete anymore and defend her 07/08 TTR World title this year. (Props to an amazing season to Jamie – Get better very soon!!).Jamie’s no show has serious consequences on the title race. As you can see below there are only 5 (!) more girls that are able to get more points than Jamie at the RCJ, with 2 x 1000 points available for HP and SS. Therefore the riders in contention for the title are:

• Lisa Wiik
• Silvia Mittermueller
• Kjersti Buaas
• Cheryl Maas (05/06 TTR Champion)
• Kelly Clark

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Mason Aguirre © – jakemcbride.com

A world class crew of men and women pipe slayers have made their way to Park City Mountain Resort for the World Superpipe Championships taking place this weekend. Utah has been going off this season with over 500” inches of snow making conditions super fun all over the mountain. Mother nature took a break from puking snow on the Wastach Mountains and greeted the riders with sunny skies today. And needless to say, the Park City Mountain Resort crew had a prime 22-foot pipe in perfect condition for the competition this weekend.

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Lisa & Alexis

Time for Burton European Open again! Its always fun to come back to Laax where I had my first ever big contest in 2000. Wow, its already 8 years ago!

I was surprised when I saw all the snow on the trees on my way up to Laax. Last year it was just green fields all over the place…. Hope this season will be whiter then last year ?

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