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Over 80 representatives from different realms of the snowboard industry gathered together on May 29th and 30th, 2009 in Innsbruck, Austria for the TTR General Assembly 2009.  Over the two days, members of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, the World Snowboard Federation and representatives from snowboard media outlets and snowboard brands voiced their thoughts, concerns and ideas in workshops and meetings to establish measures that will push the progression of competitive freestyle snowboarding and help take the sport to the next level.

The series of workshops held during the General Assembly provided an open forum for constructive discussions on the current state of snowboarding in general.  The workshops generated some great dialogue on varying topics including how national snowboard federations can work together throughout the world and better work in collaboration with independent events, the importance of strengthening the rookie/amateur level of the TTR Tour and how competitive freestyle snowboarding is seen through the eyes of media.  Ultimately, the workshops were a great opportunity to put the competitive freestyle snowboard world under a magnifying glass and the outcome will help to better organize the sport of snowboarding on a global level.

Some of the key changes made for the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR World Tour season are outlined below.

Supporting riders
As a rider-driven organization, the TTR is trying to best accommodate riders in the extremely busy 2009/2010 Olympic season by reducing the number of required TTR results from seven to six results.  This will allow riders to work Olympic qualification events, the Olympic Games and TTR events into their schedules allowing them to focus on both the Olympics and the TTR tour.

Strengthening the amateur leg of the TTR tour
For the 2009/2010 season, the TTR Tour and the WSF will reduce event fees and prize money requirements for 1Star – 4Star events. This change aims to encourage more events to join the TTR and to allow these events to operate more freely with less stress on meeting TTR fee or prize money requirements.  In addition, the “event profiles” section of ttrworldtour.com will be opened up to 1Star – 3Star events so they have the opportunity to present their event under the TTR umbrella.

Creating a more transparent qualification system for open events
The TTR will introduce a qualification system for open events  (such as the Burton European Open, O’Neill Evolution, Champs Open and Burton US Open), which will give the Top 250 male and Top 125 female riders on the TTR World Ranking List priority access when registering for open events until a certain quota is filled. Riders will still need to register by the appropriate event registration deadline to ensure they can take advantage of their priority access.

Broad informational database for media
With the Olympic season quickly approaching, the Swatch TTR will introduce a web-based information database containing all riders’ TTR results and all major non-TTR event results reaching back to 1998.  TTR is introducing this database in an effort to provide media covering Olympic qualifications and the Olympic Games a complete overview of a rider’s achievements without limitations to one organization.

These changes and initiatives were unanimously approved by all Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour members at the General Assembly held on May 30th, 2009.

source: ttr press office

Die Jungs von Forum Snowboards haben sich nicht auf die faule Haut gelegt, sondern haben schonmal ihre Website auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.

Unter forumsnowboards.com kannst Du dich selber davon überzeugen.

Im September diesen Jahres ist es soweit: Der neue Streifen von Alterna Films wird in unsere Läden und Deinen DVD Player geschmissen. Elektro heißt das gute Stück und macht mal wieder Laune auf mehr…vorallem bei dem Wetter und Neuschnee im Ende Juni…

Das Airblaster Team hört einfach nicht auf zu wachsen. Einst eine kleine Marke, boomt das Label mittlerweile förmlich. Von Finanzkrise eher wenig in Sicht.
Die neuen Gesichter hören auf die Namen David Struber und Gerald Fuchs. Beide Jungs kommen aus Österreich und beide Jungs können Snowboarden.

Dazu passend gibt’s einen kleinen Clip. Seht selbst:

David Struber: Airblaster Welcome Clip from GoodQuestionSupplies on Vimeo.

The first of three Bonfire Pipe 2 Pipes went down at Windells during Session 1, and it was a flurry of quality shredding and skating all day. Check out the video for all of the action.

12th Annual Bonfire Pipe 2 Pipe from Windells on Vimeo.

source: windells.com

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VIDEOGRASSaturdays Webisode 1: Justin Bennee from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

Und wieder beehrt uns der Ripper vom Dienst mit seiner Anwesenheit und teilt seine Geistesblitze mit uns.

Und hier ist der LINK dazu.

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Klar, es gibt sie schon, die richtig gut designten Snowboards. Aber wie würdest Du es finden, wenn Du ganz alleine für Dein neues Board verantwortlich wärst…

Kleiner Teaser in HD:

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