The snowboarding Oslo will see this week will be truly 6Star if not from a different world. The Oakley Arctic Challenge arena up at Linderudkollen 15 minutes outside the city is pretty magical. Today’s riding started with a couple of little powder runs with mini cliffs, jumps and the occasional spray to warm up. Terje was the first to drop into Claes’s 10,6m beauty of a quarter and kept building meter after meter on this first hit all day, landing some of the smoothest BS Airs quarterpipe riding has ever seen. Read the rest of this entry »
The Oakley Arctic Challenge – in the belly of the beast with head shaper Claes Högström
On February - 18 - 2008
I slapped myself silly 10 times over , before I realized I was awake and was glaring at what seemed to be the most dreamy quarter pipe setup that anyone could imagine.
Looking over the Oslo township and beautiful harbour the Holmenkollen Arena has an all new inspiring view, it’s called the Oakley Arctic Challenge. 10.2 metres of pure transition perfection. The SIX(6) STAR Swatch TTR event is shaping up to be a highlight on the tour once again.
After 16 days of construction, we caught up with the man in charge Claes Högström as he nears completion of the quarter pipe where we may just see that magic 10m mark broken if not smashed out of the ball park.
A blog about Terje’s Smartfish with no pun?!
On February - 8 - 2008
Coming up soon on the TTR Tour is the SIX(6)STAR Oakley Arctic Challenge. Last season, Terje Haakonsen broke the world record, hitting 9.8m, which still stands to this day. Recently however, Terje made the record books again, claiming the title of “Best commercial appearance by an action sports athlete.” Nothing can really prepare you for this, so it’s probably best to let this speak for itself:
Will we see 10m in Innsbruck?
On February - 1 - 2008
It was really warm out today, highly irregular for the beginning of February in the Austrian Alps, but that didn’t stop the riders from getting in some training on the Quarterpipe the day before the Billabong Air & Style in Innsbruck.
Despite the high winds, riders were still going huge, reaching 7 and 8 m. The question is, will we see any of the riders break Terje Haakonsen’s Quarterpipe record of 9.8 m? Jack Mitrani seems to think so claiming that he’s “trying to go for that 20m mark.” Optimism is always a good thing so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.