Swatch and the TTR World Snowboard Tour are proud to present the winning design of the Swatch TTR Trophy “Art Rules” Design Contest.  The new statuette look and feel of the trophy was sculpted by the renowned “Coarse” toy artist, Mark Landwehr, and the stylish black, white and red “kiss” color application was designed by Axelle Dorado from Switzerland, the winner of the “Art Rules” contest.
Dorado’s winning design was revealed at an elegant gala event in Barcelona,...

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Nikita Chickita USA 2010 went down on Saturday February 20^th 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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The Swatch TTR (Ticket To Ride) World Snowboard Tour is pleased to announce the official tour brand partners for the 2010 season.  On the Platinum level, the highest level of partnership, TTR has joined forces with Burton, Nike 6.0 and DC.  On the Gold level, TSG, Zimtstern and Völkl have signed on as partners and Flow and Oakley have come on board as Silver level partners.
As partners of the TTR, each of these brands are investing in the growth, progression and future of competitive...

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Australian snowboarding star and 2010 Winter Olympic Games qualified rider ...

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I’m happy to introduce you our new digital media totally dedicated to women in action sports … and more.
It includes a website with daily news and a digital issue (already available in English and Italian languages).
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TSG ADDS NEW PRO TEAM RIDERS

TSG starts into the winter season with two new team riders. Snowboarder Elias Elhardt and freeskier Bene Mayr ride now safe with TSG protection.

TSG strengthens its snow sport presence by supporting two new pro riders.

Elias Elhardt inspires with a sensational snowboard season start. At Freestyle.Berlin the crowd went wild during Elias performance. Dominating all other freestyle disciplines he ended up as Crossover...

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The International Ski Federation (FIS) and LG Electronics are pleased to announce an extension of their cooperation whereby LG Electronics will continue to serve as the title sponsor of the FIS Snowboard World Cup for the 2009/10 season.

“FIS is delighted to further build this partnership with LG Electronics in support of the FIS Snowboard World Cup,” commented FIS President Gian Franco Kasper. “Based on the significant success during the first season of our cooperation,...

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Snowboarding and wakeboarding are really expensive sports, so if you are really into it, you have to find out how to make more money. You have to pay your skipasses, trips, sleeping away from your home, you need to buy your equipment, as better you are getting, so much new boards you gonna need. There are few levels on which you can be sponsored.

1. SHOP RIDER

This means that you have to impress the shop owner who will give you some discounts or free gear, or maybe you could work...

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Almost every better snowboarder in Croatia knows how is going with sponsorships here, but I dont know if everyone was thinking about this… How this looks like and what they usually get with just one complete… There is no competing here, because every rider who knows something of freestyle gets some kind of sponsorship and for him, there is no use to be better…

Few days ago I wrote about sponsorships, how to get sponsored… And now I will talk about sponsorships in...

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Snowboarding season is almost here!! So watch this list and prepare yourself! Visit local butcher and pay him 200 Eur so he can let you to sit in his fridge for half an hour.
After this put on fire two bills from 50 EUR just to worm yourself.

Wet your gloves and put them into fridge before u use them.

Put a little, wide, rubber string on your head every night before sleeping.

If you are wearing glasses, put the glue on them to fog them before using.

This moment...

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I left Zagreb 22nd of December with my parents and drove to Krk. On Christmas Eve started my rounded trip to England and Finland… Parents drove me to Trieste and around noon the plane left the airport and I was flying above the clouds on my way to England. I knew that I should not expect the good weather, you know...

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Who the hell knew about them?!?! I was totally out of my minds when I heard that we had Croatian nationals in snowbaording… What? We had Croatian nationals??? No way!!! It is impossible, where, when? Who was informed… Ah, yes, just one club… but it doesn’t mean if some of those riders are some of our best snowboarding riders that they have only right to know and to ride on our nationals! There was no qualifications, nothing! It was unforgivable mistake and no matter on a horrible...

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To write about snowboarding history, means to write about develop of the biggest snowboarding company in the World. Their develop is incredible, everything started from one person, from one small board, from toy and from big love for surfing. Jake Burton was the first person who made the first snowboard for himself, the first person who pushed snowboarding into the ski resorts and today also, between greatest riders everything stayed on love for this sport. Their riders, make models for themselves,...

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After six incredible years of hard work and effort put into the successful creation of the TTR, on Thursday the 24th of January 2008, Drew Stevenson tendered his resignation from his position as CEO of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour.
In response to his resignation, Drew Stevenson stated: “In 2002, a group of people came together who were not happy with the status quo and wanted to see snowboarding have at least an alternative. They believed something could be done against all...

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Swatch TTR (Ticket To Ride) World Snowboard Tour. Since few days ago there have been big changes in TTR organization, Drew Stevenson, CEO of Swatch TTR (Ticket To Ride) World Snowboard Tour, gave his resignation. I liked his vision, so this was really surprising for me, so I had to find out, what happened, cause in PR I got, there were no his words. We caught him shortly online and found out his new plans…
NELLY MANCE: Hi Drew, I got PR from TTR and I heard for your resignation. I didnt...

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