After a few competitions getting screwed over by bad judging. McRae finally got his confindence back and won the king of the wasatch rail jam competition … MORE HERE at ROCMALONEY’s BLOG.
photo © rocmaloney photography
ARC rider matti Kinnunen, frozen by photographer Anssi Jokiranta. Wanna see more of his digital artwork? Here you go …
The Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah hosted a three-day festival celebrating the New Year. With ice-skating, live bands, DJ’s, and ski/snowboard rail jams, the event titled “Eve” had fun for EVEryone, EVErywhere.
Local skiers lined up to kick off the USANA Rail Jam on Tuesday, December 29th, going head-to-head for a chance to proceed to the final rounds of “The Jam.” Thirty competitors split into two-hour long heats and showed their best jibbin’ skills on three separate features: a tear box on skier’s left, a down-flat-down shotgun rail on skier’s right, and a proper gap-to-down box in between the two … THE FULL STORY HERE AT Newschoolers.com !
Photo: Courtesy of Rock Malony / Newschoolers
Just getting some Rail warmup runs at Diedamskopf, only some Rails and Boxes until now, due to lack of snow.
Hopefully a big dump and big Kickers will be around soon.
Some early season shots, taken by Lorenz Richard, in Saas Fee
All pictures courtesy of Lorenz Richard.
Teddy Berr at R n´D. (Gerlos yesterday)
Greetings,
we would like to thank you for your support in this year! It’s been such a great time and the next year will be even a greater year than this! We would like to wish you a merry christmas and a great start into 2010! Keep your love for music alive and enjoy your time with your mates!
And here is your special X-Mas gift from the Ancient Astronauts for the ARC: DOWNLOAD SPECIAL REMIX HERE …
Listen to what others say: “The Amplid Paradigma is advertised as one of the most versatile boards on the planet. Unfortunately I can’t approve that yet, as I wasn’t able to hit either park or pow with it. But what I can approve is it’s fantastic behaviour on groomers. The Paradigma held an stable edge no matter what surface I layed down a carve on as well as charging down the piste it had no chattering at all! Talking about carves, it is soo (!) much fun to use the whole width of the piste to extend your carves until the very last bit. Doing so, you’ll notice that the Paradigma offers you most, being ridden really actively. If you treat it right, it will endow you with some great liveliness and a poppy carve-feeling. Trying to do some piste tricks, the Paradigma showed me that it is not especially made for this. It has great pop for sure but is just too stiff and un-playful to do what you are used to, using a park noodle.”
Here comes Korean superstar Mr. Ku on his Syntax, followed by Germany’s next Dennis Ehlert during a gunfire in Seoul held city ski session, 2 night ago.
Photo courtesy of Tetsuo.
International since 2007 and af er a third large success in 2008, the World Snowboard Day is back this year again, with even more snow resorts participating and more countries involved, for the pleasure of all snowboard lovers. In Europe, but also in Russia, Asia, the US, Canada and wherever snow falls, snowboarding will be celebrated all over the world! And for the first time, the World Snowboard Day will spread to the South hemisphere! Coordinated by EuroSIMA (European Boardsports Industry Manufacturers Association) and the WSF (World Snowboard Federation), the aim of the World Snowboard Day is to promote the snowboard activity and culture … MORE HERE …
To protect the partners investments in TAC, the organization decided today to postpone the event to March. Warmer temperatures than normal in both November and December has made it impossible to produce enough snow.
The weather forecast for this upcoming week is very good for snow production, but long term weather forecasts are very unreliable. Today TAC needed to activate all arena rig and other investments, totaling several million Norwegian kroners with immediate effect. All this would have been sunk costs if the weather forecasts did not come true. TAC was not willing to take this bet against the weather forecasts. Especially as the bet included other people’s money – being the sponsors.
Sunk costs in this size would have blocked a backup opportunity in March. So TAC choosed the safe option: Postponing the event to March. There are no other TTR 6Star events in the weekend of March 5 to 7. It is also right before the European X Games, and after the Olympics, suitable for the migration of riders from America to Europe. TAC hopes this opens up for riders that are now focusing totally on the Olympic event and qualification.
Yesterday we finished our show, which was so fun. So many motivated people, great organization and 15.000 people screaming loud! Thanks to Amplid Rider “Ku” who introduced us to the Korean Nightlife afterwards. This city is full of people 24/7. Looking forward to come back next year!
peaz
dennis
Things are official now: Ben a.k.a. “Mr. Big Dreams” will now be responsible for Amplid in the UK. Big Dreams has been a core boardshop for decades, now since Ben’s got too much time, he decided expand into the distribution business as well. Wanna get in touch with Ben ? Here you go …
Since Tuesday Nico Zacek and me are hanging out in Seoul (South Korea) for a big Show in the city. Due to bad weather we were so far only able to explore Seoul’s Nightlife and its traditions. But todays our first Show Night, so more stunning informations will follow ;)
Ps: Felix Urbauer on the right joined us this night, it should not has been his last beer!
cheeeers
dennis
Hi all!!
A quick one to present you the RedBull Line Catcher 2010, in Vars, FR. I confirmed my participation to this event, and wanted to present you the concept. “Send some tricks in the middle of a Big Mountain venue” … Easy, isn’t it ??? I would say that this kind of event represents the next level of Skiing !! Enjoy the teaser ;-) right here !! Greets, Mati.
Amplid is proud to annouce their official partnership with the 2010 Chill and Destroy Tour. Where it goes down? Here you go – CAD Freeski Tour 2010:
Registration, detailed information, etc. at the official CAD website.
Last week i had the honor to meet up with a bunch of funny guys in Zürich. Beside some wine and mortifying games of chess we shot the new and stunning ELEVEN Winter collection 2011.
Ps: Leandro, next time you lose! no doubt!
Pies, dennis!
This has nothing to do with the ARC, except that it’s revolutionary as well … enjoy this newsline:
Boscombe’s long-awaited surf reef is now ready for use and conditions this last week have been perfect for surfing the reef. The RNLI undertook their training at the weekend (Sunday 1st November), and following this, it was just a case of waiting for the right weather to declare the reef officially open.
Jon Weaver, Marketing and Events Manager for Bournemouth Tourism said, “For once, the weather appears to be on our side. Almost no sooner than the RNLI have completed their training, the final stage we had to go through before we could launch, the swell is perfect – decent waves, around eight seconds apart with a gentle breeze. (more…)
Still waiting for the big dump, but a lot of fun anyways. Yesterday at Stubai Glacier with Big Earl (a.k.a. “Earl Grey”).
Just a little view on how great Austrian powder can be in November!
A taste of the full Breathe Documentary due out in November. A taste of what the real deal will be like without giving too much away. Huge thanks to all of the crews that worked with us, participated, supplied footage and helped make it happen…. We hope it it motivates thought and conversation – but most of all action. Special thanks to TAYLOR (we love you and forgot earlier) Curt Morgan and Travis Rice, Absinthe Films, Method TV and all who contributed….
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Another shot of the category “awesome light”, showing ambush rider Martin Reicht in New Zealand.
Photo: Clemens Neumann
Matti Kinnunen Dominating
the TTR “Nissan Stomp It Big Air”
in Modena / Italy
In the best conditions that Modena has ever seen, Amplid rider and new Finnish superstar on the rise Matti Kinnunen took home the title of the TTR 4Star Nissan Stomp It in front of screaming Italian fans and European top riders. With a Double Backside Rodeo 900 he impressed the judges and landed in front of Stephan Maurer (SUI) in second and Tobias Karlsson (SWE) in third place.
After having won the Finnish Open last spring, Matti is looking forward to having a full throttle season. With 8000€ more on his bank account, an overwhelmed Kinnunen raves on, “My first time at this event. It has been awesome. The set up is great and the women are beautiful. I will definitely be competing more this season.”
Results:
1. Matti Kinnunen, FIN
2. Stefan Maurer, SUI
3. Tobias Karlsson, SWE
4. Mathieu Gerome, FRA
5. Mattias Nyberg, SWE
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Barcelona will be the scene of an innovative and spectacular event in the world of sport. BARCELONA SNOW SHOW is a snowboard and ski competition held in the modality of Big Air, the most attractive and current discipline. From the modular construction of a springboard for large jumps and using the most advanced systems for creating artificial snow, BARCELONA SNOW SHOW creates the opportunity of having snow in the city. A premier sports infrastructure ensures the participation of the best world experts in the most successful modality and projection: freestyle. The snowboard competition will be part of the World Cup International Ski Federation (FIS). This competition is the proof test of the World Championship which will be held in La Molina in 2011. Besides being an exceptional sports competition, the event is also a fantastic visual show that will feature other activities, and a large shopping area. BARCELONA SNOW SHOW will achieve transporting viewers to a ski resort in the same mountain of Montjuic, offering a unique experience of the hand of the best riders of the moment.
Watch the ARC rocking BCN ! Exact rider’s list soon …
Snowboard Review caught up with Co-owner of Amplid, Peter Bauer to find out a bit more about the brand…
Amplid have been going for 5 years, in that time owners Peter and Anian have created some incredible skis and snowboards, but more importantly, they’ve created a brand that has earnt respect and admiration from both camps, a tricky tightrope to walk. Peter’s illustrious history with snowboarding, his understanding of riding, knack for pushing snowboard design and an incessant desire to find the latest and highest performance materials means that Amplid Snowboards are some of the most technologically advanced rides on the planet… we were blown away by them at the snowboard test. Snowboard Review caught up with Peter to find out a little more about Amplid.
