travisioDecision was in my pocket, we decided to wake up before 4am to start our 5 hours long trip to Tarvisio, small ski resort in Italy. We booked our trip through Izazov.net, our favorite tourist agency....

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Leysin, Switzerland - 6th March 2010: Despite difficult weather condition at the 4Star Nescafé Champs 2010 in Leysin, French snowboarder Johann Baisamy stepped up his game and took the win together with 500 Swatch TTR points. Patrick Burgener finishes in second place, only a point away from the top spot on the podium and now sits in World No. 40 on the TTR World Snowboard Tour. The second Frenchman on the podium was Maxence Tevelle in 3rd place.

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(LAAX, SUI - March 5, 2010) - After 2 days of qualifications in pipe and park, where 200 riders showed their tricks on Crap Sogn Gion in LAAX, the first decisions at the 5. European Freeski Open by Swatch were expected today. Slopestyle Semifinals and Finals should take place, but due to the wind and wheather conditions the competition had to be cancelled. Heavy storms up to 70 km/h made the course with a length of 500 meters too dangerous, especially the kickerline, which makes 20 m airs...

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Perfect sunny winter day, around 100 snowboarders, wild west dresscode(music, guns …) jeah that was Volcom peanut butter rail jam 2010 at Rogla resort in Slovenia on 27.2.2010 . Riders were able to choose between 3 objects: kink box(made out from small kicker), 12m long downrail and plastic “sewage” pipe. Competition was very tough so judges had really a difficult job.

RESULTS:

Women

1) Urška Pribošič

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nikita-1Nikita Chickita USA 2010 went down on Saturday February 20th at Brighton, Utah.  What lay ahead was a super fun day and everyone who made it had a great time.  A total of 46 girls showed...

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Squaw Valley, USA - March 1, 2010 - The third stage of the Freeride World Tour was held today Monday on the Silverado venue in Squaw Valley USA. With its playful terrain the riders put up a great show for the hundreds of cheering locals, pushing the limits with a ‘best of two runs’ format. The high point of the day was the women stepping up the game with a great level of riding, taking the same big cliff jumps as the men and creative line choices. Local Squaw Valley...

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footerSquaw Valley, USA - February 23, 2010 - The pressure is rising with two out of four competitions already completed of the Freeride World...

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White Polo was waiting for us in front of Budget Rent a car (www.generalturist.com) to start our trip to Rogla Showdown 2010 Swatch TTR 2* event in Slovenia. The plan was for Saturday, but because of bad weather conditions it was canceled. It was raining whole Friday and on weather forecast for Saturday was snow.

When we woke up to start our trip everything...

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The World Rookie Tour succesfully did Serbia, where slovenias Tim Kevin Ravnjak resulted the best rider and Aljosa Krivev won the rookie catagory. Among the girls Andrea Ugrinoska from Macedonia resulted the best. Balkan traditions surrounded the event, hosted in Iver Mokra Gora. Inscriptions are now open for the upcoming Protest East Rookie Fest in Splinderuv Mlyn, Czech Republic, from 5 to 8 march.
Riders from 7 nations, from 7 to 17 years old, enjoy the second edition of the Protest...

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In center of town Velenje (SLO) on Tito’s square, crew from TEŠ company (Šoštanje) in three and half days finished the biggest snowboard course construction (35m long, 12m width and 6m high with 15 degrees uprise. 100 m3 of fresh snow was enough for all runs of 22 competitors.

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Iver Mokra Gora welcomed 25 riders from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Austria and Macedonia for the second edition of the 2Star Swatch TTR Protest Balkan Rookie Fest. On the background of Tara Mountain forest area, the event started under heavy snowfalls that bring super positive vibration into the crew while the partnership with Supernatural ensure an enviromental awareness also in this World Rookie Tour stop.

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Hi all,  just before the Halfpipe finals this week at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, we have some exclusive footage for you of our former Swatch TTR World Champion Torah Bright practicing Double Corks in New Zealand. Let’s see if she can manage to stick them this week in Vancouver.


Olympic Hopeful Torah Bright Practicing Double Cork

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The snowy slopes of Mayrhofen, Austria glimmered in the sunshine as 50 girls from thirteen different countries gathered for the Skullcandy Sista Sessions. In one action-packed day the participants could join in on various activities: beginner lessons, small jam sessions and photo shoots, while the main focus was on the 3Star Swatch TTR Slopestyle competition. It was 19-year old up and coming ripper from Slovenia Urška Pribošič who deservedly took the top spot on the podium, while local...

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Only one week more to go for the best italian snowboard event of the year: Swatch Mottolino Snowpark will become one more time the mecca of all avid Italian snowboard fans.

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[Wednesday, January 27th 2010, Horsefeathers Superpark Planai] Jan Zajic, Darek Bergmann and Michi Zirngibl, international teamriders of Horsefeathers, made their way to Schladming to take part at the first film- and photo-shooting in the new year, initiated by QParks.

The day started rather cloudy, as expected. However, at the first sight out of the gondola, the cloud cover was lighting up a little and so we were quite optimistic our way up to the Weitmoosalm....

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