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Register to compete at the 2010 Burton European Open

Oct 23

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Some early snow has arrived in Europe and the global snowboard circus is getting ready for the 11th Burton European Open (BEO) in Laax, Switzerland, from Jan. 9 – 16, 2010. The BEO is the second stop of the Burton Global Open Series 09/10 and a Swatch TTR 6Star event. It offers riders the chance to earn their share of the US$ 125.000 prize-money and to gain valuable points towards the Burton Global Open Series title as well as the Swatch Ticket to Ride World Tour title.

Registration is now open for all riders from October 22, 2009 to November 27, 2009. Head to www.opensnowboarding.com, go to the BEO website and click on “Info”, and follow directions to register online for the BEO 2010. The BEO is a true open event for every rider out there – from juniors who want to gain their first contest experience to up- and coming riders and the world’s elite. LAAX is well-known for the amazing setup they prepare every year in both halfpipe and slopestyle.

Interestingly enough the LAAX Halfpipe is shaped with the Zaugg Pipe Monster Laax Edition, designed by Laax local Reto Poltera. The same version of the pipe dragon will be used to shape the Olympic halfpipe in Canada next February.

Make sure to register now to compete with the likes of reigning Swatch TTR World Champion 08/09 Peetu Piiroinen from Finland who won the BEO in the Junior category years before raising to fame. He set the mark in 08/09 and claimed nearly every title possible. Go and prove your skills in a field of the world’s top riders.

For more information visit www.opensnowboarding.com .

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Get Real?

Oct 19

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The Get Real crew serve up some honest shred footy… Jed Anderson has a stand out part. Full fim available soon.

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All girl shred flick premiers in SLC: STANCE

Oct 13

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You’ve seen it on the small screen now join us for the World Premier in Salt Lake City on the Big Screen. After a year of hard work, all the ladies along with Stan and Jeremy would like to invite you to a night of fun to celebrate STANCE!!!!

We will be starting things off with a brief meet and greet for VIP’s, Media and cast accompanied by an acoustic set w/ Caroline Bybee. After the movie a rousing set by DJ’s Nickel and Dime will tear the roof off!

When : October 17, 2009 - 8pm

Where : The Depot – 400W. South Temple, Salt Lake City UT www.depotslc.com <http://www.depotslc.com>

Drink Specials, Product Toss, Live Music, Special Appearances by the riders, raffles and few surprises!!!

Come Check it out!!!!

If you can’t make it check out – www.stancemovie.com <http://www.stancemovie.com>

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Takahara Nakai leaves Burton for Salomon Snowboards International team

Oct 9

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Takaharu Nakai brings his big technical riding to the already stacked Pro team at Salomon Snowboards including Wolfgang Nyvelt, David Benedek, Louif Paradis, Annie Boulanger, Josh Dirksen, Jenny Jones, Sylvain Bourbousson and Scotty Arnold.

“Takaharu’s ill. I heard he filmed his part in the Alterna movie in just more than a month. I’ve seen it and it’s heavy. He’s on some next level shit and it won’t be long for the world to see that. He is a loose individual and I’m so psyched to have him on the team. Welcome Takaharu,” said Global Team Manager Java Fernandez.

See for yourself here.

Takaharu Nakai grew up riding the legendary powder of Hokkaido, Japan and first gained international notice at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. He currently rides the varied terrain of Whistler Blackcomb where he combines technical precision with big lofty airs all over the mountain.

“I decided to join the team after really enthusiastic talks with Rio Tahara, Bonfire and Salomon’s Sports Marketing Manager in Japan. He helped me see a bright future with both the brands. I look forward to riding and hanging out with the international team and the team in Japan. It’s an awesome crew,” said Takaharu.

His departure from Burton and Analog was based on his decision to ride for Salomon Snowboards and Bonfire Outerwear.

Salomon Snowboards makes snowboard equipment for snowboarding in the backcountry, front country, flat country, city, and other snowy parts of the world.

Ride for Real. salomonsnowboard.com

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Jeremy Jones is proud to announce his latest contribution to the world of snowboarding – Jones Snowboards.

Oct 6

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Squaw Valley USA, Professional Big-Mountain Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is proud to announce his latest contribution to the world of snowboarding – Jones Snowboards.

Based in Squaw Valley, CA, Jones Snowboards is the product of Jones’s desire to develop a line of snowboards catering specifically to freeriders.

Drawing on over 25 years in the snowboard industry and the peer proven talent that won him Snowboarder Magazine’s Big Mountain Rider of the Year Award an unprecedented eight times, Jones will combine his passion for freeriding with his vast research and design experience to deliver authentic products that far exceed today’s standards of freeride snowboards.

“I have started Jones Snowboards to develop the highest performance all-mountain snowboards on the market,” says Jones. “Freeride boards that reflect everything I’ve learned both on the snow and in the factory. Every snowboard we produce will be born of my passion and our designs will mirror the performance demands of my riding matched with the environmental demands of my conscience.”

The 125-year-old, family owned Swiss manufacturer Nidecker was chosen to engineer and manufacture Jones Snowboards because of their long-standing reputation as one of the most innovative and technologically advanced snowboard producers in the world.

“Jeremy’s talents have always inspired us here at Nidecker,“ says Henry Nidecker, company president. “We are excited to collaborate with him on this new project and offer Jones Snowboards both the award-winning technologies and the commitment to quality that we’re well known for after 25 years of building boards.”

With prototypes already in production, Jones Snowboards will make their first appearance at SIA and ISPO 2010. Expect worldwide distribution for the 2010-2011 winter season.

I’m excited to see what comes of this. Nidecker is one of those brands that I’d bet 8 out of 10 kids on the snow at your local hill have ever heard of, and most of them think crazy progressive Burton rider when they hear Jeremy Jones. I, as a non-jobbonker rider with some weight behind him, am excited to see what happens when someone focuses exclusively on all-mountain boards. From a financial perspective I’m far less bullish on what they are trying to do, but I’m guessing they went into it knowing it was more of a niche play regardless.

You know if it was 95 this would be photochopped onto the side of a soda bottle and on a t-shirt

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Setting the standard in snowboarding filmography

Sep 7

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Standard films has consistently delivered high class cinematography to its snowboarding audience. A main focus has been backcountry riding at its roots. What will Black Winter bring?

Conversley, Forum has historically pinpointed an urban freestyle assault with progressive rail riding and some creative street snowboarding. Forum will no doubt showcase its fine team in their new film Forever.

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Olympic snowboarder Danny Kass making noise in NZ

Aug 26

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Danny Kass, the world class snowboarder from the States has been causing some controversy on his latest shred trip to New Zealand.

An Olympic snowboarding silver medallist has been fined after being charged with carelessly driving a van on Cardrona’s ski slopes at Wanaka.

American Danny Kass, 26, who won silver medals at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, four United States Open Championships and seven Winter X Games medals, was fined $400 and $130 court costs after entering a guilty plea.

Kass drove his snow-chain-equipped van up the alpine resort’s crowded main trail for a photo shoot, The Press reported. The vehicle then got stuck in soft snow, in such a way it could have rolled down the slopes, Sergeant Stephen Burke told the court.

The Olympian, who made his court appearance shortly before flying out of the country, had already apologised to the field manager, done voluntary work for the skifield and given the van to a Wanaka snow park, his lawyer Jonathan Eaton said.

Kass was “very remorseful, but relieved it’s only a careless-driving charge.”

“Although there was some risk, there was no immediate danger.” (source: Otago Daily Times NZ)

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Seb Toots & Jamie Anderson win NZ Open Slopestyle 2009

Aug 14

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LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 14, 2009) – Another day of bluebird skies graced Cardrona Alpine Resort, which remained impervious to the clouds, sitting above the inversion layer once again for men’s and women’s slopestyle semifinal and final competitions today. Part of the Burton Global Open Series and the Swatch Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour, the seventh annual New Zealand Open showcased some of the world’s best riders as they took to Cardrona’s 800m long slopestyle course, which featured up and downrails, boxes, three kickers and a unique upstair feature to quarterpipe.

A field of 42 men and 16 women were battling it out for a piece of the $24,000 slopestyle prize purse and the top spots worth $6,000 each. An international field of riders from nine countries included New Zealand’s own Shelly Gotlieb, James Hamilton, Stef Zeestraten, in addition to BGOS Champions Chas Guldemond and Jamie Anderson, Olympians Danny Kass and Mason Aguirre, and many more.

The women were first to drop and competition was stiff through semifinals, but it was Kiwi Shelly Gotlieb that came out on top, killing it on the course with a run that featured style and variety on the rails, a Cab 5 indy, a backflip and a backside 360 tailgrab. Gotlieb continued to ride strong through the finals, taking third, being outdone by Janna Weatherby (USA) in second and 2008 NZO slopestyle champion Jamie Anderson (USA) in first. Anderson impressed the judges with a run that started with a street style tailslide, 5-0 to fakie on the box into a switch backside 360 on the first kicker, followed by a Cab 540 melon into a front 360 melon, followed by a 5-0 on the uprail, to a tail stall on the quarterpipe, finishing with a 50/50 frontside boardslide on the kinked rail. “I had a blast,” said Anderson of her win. “It was a beautiful day, we lucked out with the weather, and I was happy with my riding, I had so much fun today.”

French Canadians Sebastien Toutant and Charles Reid clinched the top two spots in men’s semifinals, Toutant taking the top spot by wowing the judges with his signature “Toutsie Roll,” a backside doublecork 1080 melon. Reid couldn’t stick his run in the finals, dropping him to the back of the pack, but Torstein Horgmo (NOR) threw down in his third and final run with back to back 1080s, giving him an edge and finishing second. Eric Willet (USA) stuck back-to-back 900s and had smooth style on the rails, giving him an edge and riding away with third. But in the end, Sebastien recreated his winning run from semis by starting off with a backside 270 on the first rail to 50/50 backside 360 on the second rail, into a backside rodeo 540 indy, into a Cab 900 stalefish, followed by a backside 1080 double cork melon, followed by a noseslide on the uprail to alleyoop backside 50/50 on the quarter, finishing with a frontside boardslide on the kinked rail. “I’m so stoked to win my first contest of the year,” said Toutant. “It was a great course, very different. I had fun trying new things and am so happy to do well.”

With 850 TTR ranking points, both winners of today’s slopestyle finals took over the world number one spots on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour. The Burton New Zealand Open is a perfect opportunity for riders to get a jumpstart heading into the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Tomorrow the New Zealand Open will come to a close with halfpipe semifinals and finals, don’t miss your chance to see Olympic Gold Medalists Kelly Clark and Shaun White, in addition to two-time Olympic medalist Danny Kass, past Olympians Mason Aguirre (USA), Cheryl Maas (NED), Antti Autti (FIN) and Olympic hopefuls like Jiayu Liu (CHN), Peetu Piiroinen (FIN), Jamie Anderson (USA), Justin Lamoureux (CAN), Lisa Wiik (NOR), Danny Davis (USA) and Sina Candrian (SUI).

Burton would like to thank Cardrona Alpine Resort, Go211.com, Speight’s Summit Golden Lager, Juice TV, The Edge FM, Anon Optics, High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Nature Valley, goodbars.co.nz, Joe’s Garage, SolRX, McKenna, Smirnoff Ice Double Black and Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour for their support of the New Zealand Open.

Results
Slopestyle Final Women
1 Jamie Anderson         USA     Billabong
2 Janna Weatherby        USA     Volcom
3 Shelly Gotlieb             NZL      Burton
4 Joanna Dzierzawski     USA     686
5 Silvia Mittermueller      GER     Oakley
6 Hana Beaman             USA     Vans

Slopestyle Final Men
1 Sebastien Toutant       CAN     O’Neill
2 Torstein Horgmo         NOR     DC
3 Eric Willett                  USA     OMatic
4 Tore Holvik                 NOR     Sweet
5 Seppe Smits              BEL      Burton
6 Stef Zeestraten           NZL      Oakley

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Burton NZ Open 2009 attracts solid turnout of big name riders

Aug 11

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The seventh annual Burton New Zealand Open is officially underway at Cardrona Alpine Resort, after a day of men’s and women’s slopestyle practice and rider registration. The impressive field of global talent is stacked with riders like Torstein Horgmo (NOR), Chas Guldemond (USA), Antti Autti (FIN), Jamie Anderson (USA), Peetu Piironinen (FIN), Cheryl Maas (NED), Janna Meyen (USA), Charles Reid (CAN), Takaharu Nakai (JPN), Dustin Craven (CAN), Chanelle Sladics (USA), Lisa Wiik (NOR), Shelly Gotlieb (NZL), Hana Beaman (USA), Daisuke Murakami (JPN), Tim Humphreys (USA) and Mitchell Brown (NZL) among many more, all of whom registered today.

Mother Nature served up some challenging conditions in the morning, but the skies cleared and made for pleasant, albeit windy afternoon of training. “It wouldn’t be proper to kick off the first day of this season of competition without a bit of winter weather,” said Liam Griffin, Events Director for Burton Snowboards. “Riders were pretty anxious to get some time on the course since most people are just getting their snow legs back after some mellow summer riding. Once people get warmed up, I expect to see some pretty solid riding go down, especially since this looks to be one of the best turnouts of big name riders we’ve ever seen in NZ.”

Competition will get underway tomorrow with men’s slopestyle prequalification and qualification rounds, followed by the women’s slopestyle qualifications. That night, be sure to catch the world premiere of Burton’s new and highly anticipated movie, “The B,” which showcases the riding of some of the world’s best. Thursday, August 13 will see men’s halfpipe prequalification and qualification rounds, followed by women’s halfpipe qualifications. The Gravis Open Sessions will kick off that night with music from Black Sun Empire (NL), State of Mind and Truth at the Lake Wanaka Center.

All eyes will be on the slopestyle course on Friday for men’s and women’s slopestyle semifinals and finals, when 2009 BGOS Champions Chas Guldemond and Jamie Anderson take to the slopes. Men’s and women’s halfpipe semifinal and final competitions will go down on Saturday, August 15 when Olympic medalists Kelly Clark and Danny Kass can be seen riding the 22’ halfpipe, which is the same size pipe that will be featured at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Later that night, Tiki Live with support from DJ Reno, will wrap up the weeks’ festivities.

If you can’t make it to New Zealand, watch the semi-finals and finals live on Go211.com, where webcasts and highlights of the competitions will also be available for on-demand viewing once the event is over.

Pre-Qualification Start (Men)List HERE

Pre-Qualification Start (Women) List HERE

Tags: Antti Autti (FIN), Chanelle Sladics (USA), Charles Reid (CAN), Chas Guldemond (USA), Cheryl Maas (NED), Daisuke Murakami (JPN), Dustin Craven (CAN), Hana Beaman (USA), Jamie Anderson (USA), Janna Meyen (USA), Lisa Wiik (NOR), Peetu Piironinen (FIN), Shelly Gotlieb (NZL), snowboard magazine, snowboardmagazine.org, Takaharu Nakai (JPN), Tim Humphreys (USA) and Mitchell Brown (NZL), Torstein Horgmo (NOR)

Rome SDS Ask the Rider ? – Live Interview with Eiki Helgason – Win Rome 390’s

Aug 4

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Eiki Helgason is gearing up for the third installment of Rome SDS, Ask the Rider, a live interview that will go down on Twitter. Eiki will be behind a computer screen answering all your questions in real time from 3pm to 5pm eastern time this Friday, August 7^th.

Just by doing a little Google research on Eiki, there’s a lot you’ll be able to find out. He’s a sick snowboarder. He can definitely skate. He also has a pretty amazing vowel to consonant ratio in his first name. But there’s a good chance you’ll have other questions that these interviews and videos don’t touch on. Are there any flips he has trouble with on a snowboard? What kind of riding does he like to do on reverse camber boards? How long has he been making his own music, and where can you download said music?

Really ask whatever you want, and as an added bonus, we’ll be hooking up one random question-tweeter with a new pair of 2010 Rome 390’s.

Here’s how it will work:

1 Log on to Twitter at the designated time
2. Submit your question in the “What Are You Doing?” box
3. End your question with a #Rometeam
4. Eiki will fire back his answers to your questions

So if you need some tips on your front boards, want to know Eiki’s go to tricks to win a game of skate, or are just looking for the best spot to get some food in Iceland, make sure you’re at a computer during the interview and get your questions answered.

3-5 Eastern
2-4 Central
1-3 Mountain
12-2 Pacific

Stay tuned to www.romesnowboards.com and www.twitter.com/romesds for more updates on the happenings of the Rome SDS.

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Register to compete at the 2010 Burton European Open

Get Real?

All girl shred flick premiers in SLC: STANCE

Takahara Nakai leaves Burton for Salomon Snowboards International team

Jeremy Jones is proud to announce his latest contribution to the world of snowboarding – Jones Snowboards.

Setting the standard in snowboarding filmography

Olympic snowboarder Danny Kass making noise in NZ

Danny Kass, the world class snowboarder from the States has been causing some controversy on his latest shred trip to New Zealand.

Seb Toots & Jamie Anderson win NZ Open Slopestyle 2009

Burton NZ Open 2009 attracts solid turnout of big name riders

Rome SDS Ask the Rider ? – Live Interview with Eiki Helgason – Win Rome 390’s

Eiki Helgason is gearing up for the third installment of Rome SDS, Ask the Rider, a live interview that will go down on Twitter. Eiki will be behind a computer screen answering all your questions in real time from 3pm to 5pm eastern time this Friday, August 7^th.

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Eiki Helgason is gearing up for the third installment of Rome SDS, Ask the Rider, a live interview that will go down on Twitter. Eiki will be behind a computer screen answering all your questions in real time from 3pm to 5pm eastern time this Friday, August 7th.

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Eiki Helgason is gearing up for the third installment of Rome SDS, Ask the Rider, a live interview that will go down on Twitter. Eiki will be behind a computer screen answering all your questions in real time from 3pm to 5pm eastern time this Friday, August 7^th.