Auch wenn der Wängl Tängl in Mayrhofen nun schon einige Wochen zurück liegt, gibt es trotzdem immer wieder Neuigkeiten zu berichten. Heute im Angebot: 3 Videoparts die den Event nochmals zusammenfassen…

Die Jungs von Head haben einen kleinen Streifen ihres Trips nach Italien zusammengeschnitten. Et Voilà!

Head International Snowboard Team Trip Italy from Millhaus on Vimeo.

Watch Eddie Wall this Fall in ‘Forum Forever’.

Forever mit Eddie Wall on .

Was wäre ein Trailer ohne eine Trailer-Fortsetzung…?? Richtig: Nur ein Trailer. Daher gibt’s hier Forum’s zweiten Streich…

Ein Relikt aus der guten alten TB (Totally Board) Reihe, ich glaube TB9 oder TB10, konnten wir in unserall Lieblingslings Zeit-Todschlagmaschine Youtube erspähen…

Hello!

Finally my season is over!! It was a super bad season for me its started with a bad slam - pain all over the season and it ended with a slam (one night hospital in Norway)

Update about my season end trip to Norway:

The first 9 days we stayed at Danny’s place in Oslo because it was super bad weather up in Folgefonna). After 9 days of waiting we drove 7 hours from Oslo to Folgefonna to go shooting on the first bluebird day. First day up on the mountain we had to fight for spots because 4 or more crews where shooting up on the mountain (they did most of the pirate spots from the last years)! We had 5 days of good weather from this 5 days, we shot two spots, shaped 2 more jumps but we couldn’t jump it because of the wind (it was super windy up on the mountain) bad luck again! So we decided to drive to Haugo’s place in Voss, two hours away from Folgefonna.

We stayed 6 days at Hougo’s Place. 4 out of 6 days we had bad weather but on the two days we tried to shoot something! One more time we checked the weather forecast for Folgefonna and finally the weather report was good for Saturday- you know we already built two jumps and they were so nice and we had to try to catch the nice day up there. So we drove up but the weather was not as good as we expected. Our two jumps were not possible to jump. We had to build another one!

Saturday- the day we shot: I can not remember anything from this day- the other guys told me that I tried on my first try a front side double cork and I slammed my head (heelside scorpion) the rotation was good but I opened the spin (bad for me) so make a long story short- 6 hours of talking bull shit, two doctors, one night at the hospital with a head wound. Season Ender!!

All in all it was a super nice trip!

Upcoming plans:

- Meeting with Redbull
-I have to fly next week to L.A. (686 ad shooting) -also I am planning a trip to Chile around August!

- Marco Feichtner

Voller Stolz blicken die Verantwortlichen des Parks in Nesselwang auf
den vergangene Winter zurück. Sowohl das sich ändernde Setup während
der Saison als auch das Nightjibben begeisterte die Fahrer. Vom
internationalen Contest über den Chilligen Railjam war alles dabei…

Der Winter ist vorüber und Du hast trotzdem keine Lust Dein Snowboard in den Keller zu räumen? Dann gibt es nur einen Ausweg: am 30. Mai 2009 öffnet der Atomic Superpark auf dem Dachstein erneut seine Pforten…

Nicht immer klappt bei den Pros alles, was sie auf Contests versuchen. Nur blöd, dass das auf dem Niveau dann gleich mächtig in die Hose geht…

Checkt this LINK für die brutalsten X-Games Slams.

enjoy.

How did you get on over the past season.?
Yeah, we travelled to a few different competitions; I won a big air comp in Switzerland in the first month. I also went to Italy for the first ever world cup slope style at the Olympic slope in Bardonecchia. That was really cool ‘cos the plan is to get slopestyle into the Olympics, hopefully the next one. I did a couple near Mayrhofen, that’s where we’ve been based this season, and there was one when the rest of the British team had gone to China. It was just me left in Mayrhofen, and I decided to go to a comp by myself. It was a big adventure, it was all snowy, and I ended up winning and drove back with 400 Euros.

So, am I right in thinking your original plan was to go to Breckenridge this season?
No, actually, my original plan was to work through the winter and do a full year as a graduate structural engineer. But, when winter came I just had to go snowboarding. I think it was because of the British team; they called me a few times asking me to be on the freestyle team, so I couldn’t say no.

You ended up in the states anyway this year didn’t you?
Yeah, we flew to Salt Lake City for the UK DC team trip, and got to ride the DC Mountain Lab too. That was crazy, we stayed three nights and it’s like your own private park. It was awesome of DC to hook this up. I’m really happy with my sponsors, they’ve invested in me this season, which I’m stoked on, and K2 as well - their boards are awesome.

You did pretty well at the Brits this year right?
Yeah, I came 3rd in the Slope Style and 2nd in the Big Air. Last year, I won both of them, but Jenny Jones came over for the Slope Style and Laura Berry wasn’t injured this year so the competition was a bit harder I guess, but I’m happy with how I did. Next year I want to compete in the TTR so this year was spent trying to build up a slopestyle run, that means getting used to the big jumps and spinning. So at the Brits I only hit the big ones!

Did you get to ride in Scotland much? What do you make of the snow scene in Scotland in general?
I did, it was so good to start the season up north in Cairngorm. Plus, I hadn’t been riding in Scotland for about 5 years before that. It’s really good, we’ve got some really talented riders and the mountains have that authentic gnarly edge.

Do you ever think about climate change affecting snowboarding, does it concern you at all?
I definitely do, especially being a snowboarder and flying around the world all the time, I want to grab it and enjoy it while I can, so it’s difficult to know what to do. But also, I’d say there are different snowboarders like the freeriders, they are going to be more in tune with nature, the environment and therefore much more likely to care, compared to freestyle riders who are just in the park all day. But, we are all outside, and we are all riding snow we all notice when the snow’s not so good, so I think we are all quite aware and we’ve all got little bits that we can do to help.

Are you planning on training at the Snowdomes now you’re back? What do you make of these indoor places?
Yeah, I’ll definitely get the SNO!zone in. They’re just great places, especially for developing rail skills. The UK’s got really good jibbers and that’s pretty much because of the snowdomes, they’re really valuable. It’s where the scene is year round, and you build up your little crew there.

Any summer plans?
I’m going back to NZ to carry on the progression. Also, Lesley McKenna is doing her girls camp over there, so I might be helping out with that. Plus I want to do the NZ Burton Open, and my friend Rupert’s going out, and he’s a photographer so I’d like to get some nice shots in, and maybe some decent filming, cause it’s always good to look at your own riding and see what you actually look like when you are snowboarding. Hopefully I’ll do a bit of filming with the Whitespace guys out there, they seem to be the only guys doing a UK film this year.

source: huckmagazine.com