Although summer has arrived in Europe, the Black Yeti didn’t stop and moved to Val Senales for the Summer Rookie Fest - the only Swatch TTR summer event scheduled in the Alps. The rookie champion Roope Tonteri won after a thrilling head to head final  in the slopestyle contest with new Czech talent Darek “True Crail” Bergmann. The competition was initially scheduled on a 1Star level, but was elevated to 2Star TTR after the display of rotations up to bs1260 in the qualifiers in the amazing Gentlemen Riders Snowpark.

Among the groms, the South Tyrolean talent Markino Grigis proved to be the best with a frontside 1080 on the big kicker. As for the eight competing girls, all of them from the Czech Republic, the best one was the young Diana Augustinova, protagonists of the contest.

The Snowpark set up, built by the Gentlemen’s Riders crew, included a first table top with two jumps of  8 and 12m and a butterbox, a second table top with jumps of 14 and 18m and a 12-meter down rail. The riding level of the contestants from Italy, Austria, Finland and the Czech Republic were very high, but this event was not just about competitiveness. The program also featured skateboard sessions,  video shootings with the pro RedBull who were invited as coaches: Filippo Kratter, Roman Dlauhy and Sarka Pancochova.

As for the contest, the format scheduled a day of training, one of qualifiers and one for the finals, everything in the jam session format. During the competition we saw cab900, cab1080, fs1080 and fs1260. In the finals, the sky-high level of the two final contenders Roope Tonteri and Darek Bergmann brought to an extra final run for a direct play-off where the Finnish won with the fs1260. Unbelievable level.

As in the tradition of the rookie fests, the prizes did not consist of money, but offered the competitors something more valuable for the career of young rookies: photo and video shootings with Entry Magazine and Board.TV, invitations to bigger events and surf camps offered by Protest.

This was the closing event of a season of rookie events all over the world, and the international stops of the next season have already been announced:

World Rookie Tour 2010
Iberic Rookie Fest 2009 – 2Star slope style, Spain, December 2009
World Rookie Fest 2010 – 3Star slope style,  Italy, January 2010
Balkan Rookie Fest 2010 – 2Star slope style, Serbia, February 2010
France Rookie Fest 2010 – 2Star slope style,  France, February 2010
East Rookie Fest 2010 – 2Start slope style and half pipe, Czech Republic, March 2010
World Rookie Finals 2010 – 4Star slope style, Austria, April 2010
Summer Rookie Fest 2010 – 2Star slope style, Val Senales, Italy, July 2010

In addition to 1star level qualifying events in many other Countries. More info will be available soon at www.worldsnowboardfederation.org

Summer Rookie Fest – Final Rank
Slope Style 2Star TTR

WOMEN
Rank Bib G/R Last Name First Name Nationality
1 9 G Augustinova Diana CZE
2 17 G Stenclova Dorota CZE
3 16 G Vankova Michaela CZE
4 2 G Horakova Karolina CZE
5 58 G Prazienkova Eliska CZE
6 39 G Prochazkova Veronika CZE
7 43 G Houvbova Eliska CZE
7 48 G Fidrmucova Natalie CZE

MEN
Rank Bib G/R Last Name First Name Nationality
1 49 G Tonteri Roope FIN
2 6 R Bergmann Darek CZE
3 31 R Weissenbacher Mathias AUT
4 26 R Gurtwirth Filip CZE
5 51 G Dreher Paul AUT
6 46 R Grigis Marco ITA
7 53 R Makarainen Vesa FIN
8 44 R Naccari Ruggero ITA
9 52 G Piller Cottner Filiberto ITA
10 11 R Bisa Michal CZE
11 24 R Porket Ondrej CZE
12 19 R Mikyska Martin CZE
13 54 R Bisol Mauro ITA
14 3 R Vieider Hannes ITA
15 5 G Porket Daniel CZE
16 45 R Giacomelli Alessio ITA
17 22 G Pajer Miki CZE
18 20 R Horak Petr CZE
19 38 G Noire Matteo ITA

source: wsf press office

Die Pirates-Crew hat sich eine neue Homepage geleistet. Ab sofort gibt’s alle neuesten Facts & Figures unter pirate-movie-production.com

Und noch ein Neuer hat sich eingeschlichen. Heute im Angebot: In Between von S-Cut Productions…

Watch the Video: http://www.pirate-movie-production.com

Two dozen riders from 12 different countries caught on 16 mm, each bringing their unique style and together raising the flag once again for Pirate Movie Productions. The crew chased shots across 3 continents, from the mountains of Salt Lake City to the alpine snowfields of Kitzbuhel to the active volcanoes of Kamchatka. Expect innovative backcountry snowboarding, creative city jibs and shit loads of powder, all wrapped up in the typical analog Pirate style in their new release Jolly Roger.

Song: “The Game” by Alex Gopher. Buy it now on Alex Gopher - Alex Gopher

Locations:
Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Russia, Montana, Utah, and more.

Riders:
Juuso Laivisto, Emeric Front, Gigi Rüf, Hans Ahlund, Tyler Chorlton, Marco Feichtner, Marko Grilc, Drew Fuller, Dimi Fesenko, Markus Keller, Eirik Haugo, Elias Elhardt, Björn Hartweger, Danny Larsen, Teo Konttinen, Kalle Ohlson, Sani Alibabic, Stephan Maurer, Osa, Jocki Köffler, Mike Casanova, Lukas Goller, Filippo Kratter, Blair Habenicht

World Premiere: September 11 - Innsbruck @ MAX

Watch the Video: http://www.pirate-movie-production.com

In der momentanen wirtschaftlichen Lage nicht selbstverständlich ist die Kooperationsverlängerung von LG und FIS.

Der FIS Snowboard Weltcup kann somit ohne Sorgen in die nächste Runde gehen. Los gehts Mitte August in Neuseeland.

Weekend Snowboards darf die Ripmaschine Heikki Sorsa von nun an ihr Eigen nennen. Der Finne hat nach dem Klamottendeal mit Bond Outerwear nun auch einen Brettsponsor gefunden.

Respect!

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Es gibt Situationen nach denen man sich denkt: did that shit just really happen…

This past April, the Rome SDS was one of four brands selected to participate in the first annual Transworld Team Shoot Out. It was a week-long, resort-bound contest to make a short video and shoot photos. Rome teamed up with Big Bear Mountain and brought in Bjorn Leines, LNP, Marie-France Roy, Eiki Helgason, and Will Lavigne to do the shredding. Over the course of a week, the crew spent seven days, or more accurately seven nights, filming a short shred flick called “A Hard Days Night”. The film will be released exclusively through iTunes on July 27th 2009, in a package with the three other videos in the contest.

The Team Shoot Out was a “contest” of progression and creativity, through film, photography, and feature construction. Transworld Snowboarding invited four teams, paired them up with four separate mountains and gave each team seven days to build and seven days to shred and shoot. Each team had five riders, two filmers and one photographer. Once the brands submitted their films in early June, Transworld got together a panel of people they trust to pick the winner based on the creativity of the video and the photos.

You can get a sneak peak of the teaser for the Rome film now by clicking here nd be sure to check back on July 27th to download the entire movie from iTunes.

source: romesnowboards.com

On Monday we announced that we’d give NRc bindings to the first person who showed up at a certain address in Seattle. They had to wear a beanie on so we could spot them and say the password “ass cobra” to our Intern Zach. The next day we announced the address on Twitter and said, “find Zach the Intern there at 2pm”. It was 80 degrees, so we knew if they had beanies on they were there to win.

So we showed up not knowing if anyone would be there. Zach and I were hiding in an alley looking down on the Pike Place intersection, we saw a few beanies down there! Hey it worked! Then out of the blue, we hear “ass cobra” WTF? Zach was spotted. Since we weren’t to the intersection yet, it didn’t count. So we reset and proceeded to sneak through the market to the intersection. We didn’t want to be spotted until we got to the middle of the busy intersection.

Bam, soon as Zach got out of the market near the intersection he got found by about 5 beanie guys and one gal. It was a kind of a tie so there had to be a tie-breaker to give away the bindings. Naturally we had 2 rounds of handstand contests to settle it. Thanks to all who came out.

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