TTR welcomes a new and exciting format on the Tour. With this new addition, the race for the Tour Championship title will become even harder and nerve racking than ever before. Skiers beware – snowboarders are taking over cross country now. May we introduce you to CROSS COUNTRY SNOWBOARDING 
Last weekend’s Swatch TTR 6Star snowboard mega-event, the Billabong Air&Style Innsbruck 2009/II was one of the highlights of the 09/10 Season for sure. The double cork factor has changed snowboarding in a groundbreaking way and there is no end in sight in terms of variations. We made a little slideshow about the Rider’s draw on Friday and Saturday’s event night with focus on the riders for you to enjoy below.
To watch all the great video content including individual runs from pretty much every rider in the contest go to: http://freecaster.tv/ttrworldtour
For all the infos and results about A&S go here: 6Star Air&Style TTR Event Bio Read the rest of this entry »
One girls has been featured in many magazines and websites worldwide. She is only 19 years old but has already achieved so much. Of course we are talking about the current Swatch TTR World Tour leader Sarka Pancochova. Soon, she will be heading the 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam to try to defend her Tour lead against some of the best female riders out there.
She was not only featured in the November issue of Onboard Magazine (hope you didn’t miss that one!), but lately also on www.sport2.de. To read the full interview, click here.
(c) Carlos Blanchard
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
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 
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.
It was a sad day for women’s snowboarding: in early December, the 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam Europe, one of the most popular events on the Swatch TTR Tour, was cancelled due to….strong winds??!!
You all have heard of secret conspiracies that already were responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, Area 51, the moon landing and others? Well, it doesn’t end there and we can prove it: This year’s Chicken Jam trophies were deviously pinched by no other than some of snowboarding’s most powerful men: a former TTR employee who now resides in Costa Rica (wonder why?), the event organizer himself, and the master of shapers who is now trying to hide in China (at the Nanshan Open).
With rumours about a hiding place in a castle nearby, the event organizers tried hard to get the trophy back all night without success. And we all know how this story ended…no Roxy Chicken Jam.
Now, if you boys out there think we will just let that happen without revenge….YOU ARE MISTAKEN! The payback will be ours.
Being on tour with some of the world’s best snowboarders, riding, hanging out and partying together doesn’t sound too bad, does it?! However, it also means being on the road for months and months straight, going from competition to competition, getting time and travel schedules together and at the end of the day, being the one who has to make the tough decisions which contest his riders (mostly Shaun White) will attend. Adam Moran dropped his skis for a snowboard when he was a little boy – all it took was a snowboard for Christmas from his dad and as you may have guessed: he has not gone back to the skiing ever since. He has been working for Burton Snowboards for the last 6 years and loves his job as Riders Manager and Photographer (ok – it is not really a job that you can hate doing). Read the rest of this entry »
Recently at the Roxy Chicken Jam contest TTR caught up with riders to see what was at the top of their christmas wishlist.
