The first South American edition of the World Rookie Tour kicked off Saturday, august the 14^th, in Valle Nevado, Chile. This event features some European rookies, RedBull’s pro Filippo Kratter as international guest and a bunch of Chilean youngsters. First days saw a snowboard clinic and a rail jam session. The slopestyle contest, scheduled for Sunday august 15^th , was postponed to Saturday August 21^st because of a wind storm while all the freeride and...

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The final day of the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open went off today featuring men’s and women’s halfpipe finals at Cardrona Alpine Resort.  The weather cleared from the previous day and the sky popped blue making for a perfect day up on the hill for the event.  The women took to the pipe first and Kelly Clark (USA), for the second consecutive year, dominated the field finishing in first place.  The men’s competition kicked off after the women and it was a heated battle for a podium...

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Slopestyle finals went off today at the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open at Cardrona Alpine Resort in Wanaka, New Zealand.  The organizers had to modify the format due to weather delays, but the competition was able to run and riders made the best out of the low-visibility day.  On the men’s side, Christian Haller (SUI) put together a clean run on the challenging course to take first place and slopestyle specialist, Jamie Anderson (USA), took home the top spot for the women. Haller and...

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On June 19^th 2010, competitors from all over the world including New Zealand, England, France, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland made their way to Germany for the 6th edition of the slopestyle contest ONE BIG PARKZEIT in the JEVER SKIHALLE Neuss. For the first time ever, the contest was also part of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour and as 3Star event handed out valuable TTR world ranking points. Elke Cogghe from Belgium and Florian Heim from Austria stood atop...

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After a season of rookie events all over, the World Rookie Tour landed in Ischgl, Austria, for the end of season final where the Champion was crowned. Riders from 15 nations took part at the event showcasing tomorrow’s future stars in the well designed snowpark by Klaus Marcus’ shaper crew.
After a succesfully season, Roope Tonteri won also the finals, conquering is second World Rookie Champion title with an amazing run consisting of cab900, fs720, bs720 and double bs rodeo on...

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As the saying goes ‘all roads lead to Rome’. Well on Saturday 10th of April, sixteen Nikita Chickitas took the road to Serfaus where the 4^th Nikita Chickita Europe contest took place. Us here at Nikita would like to think that there are many different ways of doing something and Nikita Chickita is our way of organizing an event where competing is totally secondary and having fun together on the slope is what counts! And once again, this was achieved with a day that could best be...

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After an action packed few days at the Ruka Battery Park in Northern Finland, snowboarding’s upcoming star Enni Rukajärvi took the victory at the 3Star Oakley Girlsessions. The event had attracted a crowd that was curious to see the local rookie talent, who had last month been crowned Swatch TTR World Snowboard Champion. In second place came Saana Pehkonen (FIN) and in third Claire Frost (GBR) who all got a piece of the $10000 USD prize purse.

Once the morning fog eased up, the...

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Here we go again. The fifth Quicksilver Luža Contest was once again held on Krvavec on 3th of April. Bigger, Better, colder and longer Luža was waiting for people ready to give us the best snow show for season close up.

A nice sunny day after a long rainy week brought 3.000 visitors on Krvavec, about 80 competitors on skis and snowboards and other stuff. But most of all it brought us fun, fun, fun, fun, fun…

Forecast was very promise. On early Saturday morning air temperature...

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Another Finnish snowboarder ends the 2009/10 season as World Champion: Roope Tonteri becomes the first rider ever to take the WSF World Rookie Champion Title for the second time with his victory at the 4Star World Rookie Finals in Ischgl, Austria last Saturday, April 10^th 2010. With Finnish Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajärvi crowned male and female Swatch TTR World Champions, Finland was able to take home all Swatch TTR World Champion Titles as well as the WSF World Champion...

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The 4Star Protest World Rookie Fest Finals from April 7^th to 10^th 2010 in Ischgl, Austria features the future stars of the Swatch TTR Tour battling for some of the last points available this season. All throughout the season, upcoming snowboard talents from all over the globe have been competing at international 1, 2, and 3Star World Rookie Fests that were held under the wings of the World Snowboard Federation in corporation with National Associations. Now the 4Star...

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Mammoth, USA – March 28^th 2010: This winter the 19-year old rookie from Finland, Enni Rukajärvi took the snowboarding world by storm by appearing almost out of thin air and dominating the top slopestyle events. Fresh from finishing high school, she begun competing a few years prior at her home mountain and it became clear that she had a talent. With her textbook style and fearless mind Rukajärvi cleaned up almost every slopestyle title she...

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The Central Park of Thyon was reserved for the girls this weekend. The resort of the canton of Valais welcomed – under the sun (!) – the final of the NIKITA CHICKITA SWISS TOUR 09-10, the first Swiss circuit of exclusively femine “freestyle” competitions. 24 girls, coming from the five qualifying rounds, took part in the event. The level of the riders was very impressive either in snowboard or in ski !
The girls were honoured this weekend on the Central Park in Thyon...

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Holly Crawford (AUS) and Fredrik Austbo (NOR) have won the season’s last halfpipe contest of the 2010 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup. In La Molina, Spain, Holly Crawford secured a back-to-back win after having triumphed in Valmalenco (ITA) last weekend. With 38.4 points Crawford relegated Canada’s Mercedes Nicoll (CAN, 37.5) to the second rank.  Paulina Ligocka (POL, 35.5) finished third. On the men’s side of things Fredrik Austbo celebrated his career’s first World Cup win. The Norwegian...

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After the men’s final competition was postponed Saturday, due to bad visibility, the world’s best freeride skiers and snowboarders once again took on the mythical 600 metre North face of the Bec des Rosses. In perfect conditions the 24 male riders put on the most spectacular show with the fastest and most committed edition of the 15 years of the “Xtreme”. Several first descents were opened on the face. With this high level, the battle for first was extremely tight. The breathtaking...

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