This Saturday Erik took the victory at the Carnival Snowboard Session in Rijeka (Croatia).

Congrats buddy!

I’m leaving tomorrow for a four day practive in Avoriaz ( HP ) and then afterwards straight to the Youth Olympic Games in Austria . The events are taking place from 13 – 22th January and I’m copeting in HalfPipe and Slope Style. The event is massive since it is expected to have more then 50.000 visitors. I’ll be there with my National Team anc Coaches ( well my parents will join and cheer for me as well ).

It will be a great experience and also have your fingers crossed that I do good.

Lucile

Kisses from Anja and Morena! 

After being in the car during 10 hours, I arrived in Austria (near Innsbrück) to train myself two days in slopestyle and halfpipe, before competiting two FIS events.
The first competiton was a slopestyle. The weather was very bad (low temperature and fog) and it was very difficult to ride. I finally finished second, behind Anja Stefan.
The second day I participate in an halfpipe event ... and again a second place, but I'm really happy, and I think that I increase my level.
I continued the week by training all the days to prepare the Ruka world cup.
I arrived in Ruka, in the north of the Finland last tuesday. This place is very particular, because it's always the night (and it's very strange). On wednesday and thursday we had training, and on friday the qualif and on saturday the final.
Only the 6 best girls could go to the final and I finished first of the qualif ! The next day I trained on the pipe before my last runs and I hurted myself because of a failed BS540. My coach really help me to be very motivated, and I won the race thanks to my second run !
Back to my house, and surprise, medias talked about me on the main french TV news, on Stade 2 (sports news), Eurosport, Tout le Sport ...
It was a very unforgotable experience thanks to my parents, my partner, Charley, the FFS et all the people who follow me.
I stay during two weeks in the French Alps. The first week is dedicated to my wellness (ostheo, massage ...), and the second to train with Stephane Azzola. I'm very happy.
I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
Cheers.

Lucile 

The slopes here are the same as everywhere else in Europe - shity and icy. Nevertheless we managed to get some really good shots...

Now it's time to go home and do a little rehab for a few days.

Cheers
 

Adrian

enjoy :)))

Apparently we're expecting another record snow year like last year.

Hicking around is already in full effect to get some pre-season turns.

boooyaaa!!

And here is the video of first snow in slovenia on 21 october on my home mountain rogla ;)))

Take a look .) 

last weekend the first big air world cup went down at the freeze festival in london.

the riding level was crazy and and i am super happy that i stomped my backside double 1080 in the qualification. i advanced into the finals where i bailed on all three runs and got 11th position. i was super pissed about that but i am looking forward to the next competitions.

now i am back home to relax and hang out with my friends.

cheers

Adrian

what's up? Right now I'm in Saas Fee. Last week I had Europa cup. I did really good! After the qualis I went to the semifinals and I made it to the finals! I stomped my run and ended 6th! I'm preaty stocked abouth this!

There is another competition waiting for me this week (World cup) so wish me luck!

talk to you soon! ;)

Also have to mention that this is my first edit, so its a bit raw but hey i aint no mack dawg.

the moreboards stubai opening went down this weekend and it was really siiick. i have been there with some of my homeboys to have a good time with them and shred together after a long time. 

also the party´s were really cool and i think everybody was stoked about that awesome weekend!

now i am back in hintertux to get ready for the upcoming "London Freeze Festival" next weekend...hopefully the weather stays good.

cheers 

Adrian

(Methoood. Photo: Sev Wegener.)

I'm writing this blog after a briliant day of riding :)  In fact we had a bunch of them these past days.. Here in Val Senales sun is shining for  10 days in a row already!

Love this place!  Easy riding and getting the feeling back. Our motivation is huge. Park is really good .. we even had  a bit of fresh snow!  All in all perfect winter conditions. Past weekend was a big park opening event.  I think almost half of Italy came up here. A bit to crowded .. but it's always nice to meet some new people.

I also tried my new Leeloo snowboard and bindings. Finally I have a snowboard which is small enough for mini me..like it a lot! Bomba:)

Next stop is Dachstein glacier and Horsefeathers pleasure jam.  Can't wait to ride there with my boobish girls.  

greets!

here are some photos from the first snow in september on Hintertux! it was great

tnks miha matavž for the photos!

enjoy! :)

Last week I was riding on Hintertux. We had some prfect days with clear skies and awesome kikers, but unfortunately we had some reeeeeeally bad weather as well.

anyway I had some fun riding with my friends and it was good to be on snow!

cya!

FK

First we drove about five hours to Brno (Czech rep.) to pick up some things and then we had another good three hours to Zvolen. Once we got there we were plesently supprised and knew that this was going to be one of those east european trips were crazy and bizzare things happen all the time. It had everything, the food was good, booze was realy cheap, ladies were looking fine and the setup given on the conditions wasn't bad at all. On the day of the session it was so hot, the snow was melting hard and there were 53 registered riders. There weren't a lot of tries in the qualis because we were split in three groups, and every group had 45 minits that was about 5-6 runs. Unfortunatly Matic and Anze didn't make it in the finals, me and Erik got a bit more lucky and managed to pull up a few tricks that put us amongst the final 12 riders. i had a blast in the finals rode out amost all the things i wanted to, Erik was on fire an took the win, i got 4th which was also ok for the first comp of the season.

Check out this edit from the event on this link: http://vimeo.com/30302116 (don't know if it's the oficial video dough)

When we sobered up from the afterparty, the next day we took it easy decided to go check out the capital Bratislava wich was on the way and also gave our trip some cultural value :D (not realy we just scoped for some more hot girls again)

Some photos of the trip will be added soon!

Thanks for reading!

Dejan

enjoy!!!

cheers

Adrian

Hey buddies
Are you up to taste a great piece of French Snowboarding?
So seat back, relax and enjoy "En voiture Simone".
This our vision of snowboarding and we are stoked to share it with you!

Enjoy

Full movie on: http://www.harakiriprod.com/

Past week I spent riding the Hintertux glacier with my Slovenian friends.  When we got there, only small and medium lines were opened, but during the week they were making the park bigger and bigger.. So at the moment the conditions are really good. It was good to see some snowboarding  friends after a long time.

We were really lucky with the weather, able to ride the whole week in our sweaters. We were trying out the jumps, other pro-riders were checking our humps. Our riding was really smooth, we ate a lot of healthy food. All together it kept me in a great mood! :)

Greets!

http://www.playboard.de/magazine.html

http://www.playboard.de/component/content/article/6-reviews/1533-friedl-goes-ch.html

Beste Grüße!

Friedl

Although summer was great. Did a lot of stuff i didn't even know that they exist :) Dirtbiking, Ropeswing or Caving for example.

besides my search for the ultimate adrenaline kick we finished our new movie 'good times rollin'' - check out the teaser here:

so next stop is hintertux opening - see you there :)

cheers R

Again sketchy summer..  Last days on snow were greaat, we were riding powder on Kanin - Sella Nevea. When the winter ended and all of the snow dissapear  I began to do stuffs for school and started to ride downhill again.. I get hurt two times already this summer. The first injury wasn't nothing, just a couple of stitches, but the second one was hard.  I was spitting blood when I crashed, than I spent the whole day in hospital. I was IR scaned so many times but luckly nothing is broken just hurts like hell :))) The plan is to take it easy  with my bike so I won't get hurt again. I just started to train and getting myself in shape after the injury for the upcoming season..

Here are some pics for  you from those last days, some summer pics with friends at the seaside and a video of me on my bike so you can see what I'm doing when I'm not on my snowboard :)))

Really looking forward for a season to start, I miss snow so much soo.. You will hear from me again after the first days on snow.. Till than have fun and withhout injuries ;)))

Another summer is passing by and here are some of the freshest pics and videos from the Indonesia trip with my girl.

This time we surfed the Sumatran South and then moved on towards Bali.

Pictures are from Rip Curl Padang Padang contest, Bingin and Uluwatu and for the videos I have to thank GoPro.com for the perfect shots from my surf mount!

Anyway less talk, more action this time :)

Hope you like it!

check it out!

cheers

Adrian

Last two weeks I've been riding Val senales glacier park with my young fellow snowboarders from Croatia. Conditions in park are really good, so we're enjoying it up here. It's a kind of easy, relaxing time.

Except of  this great snowboarding part, we are also experiencing  a kind of rural life, staying at an old austrian-italian farm, drinking fresh milk every morning and also helping a bit around. I miss my balkan girls, but I met few really nice chikens in exchange. There is also a donkey who is waking us up every morning with his funny sounds.

Here are some photos

P.S. I milked a cow yesterday..fun fun fun :)

Classy and hot. We are fashion! Dachstein- NY - Paris - Milan - London!

 I just got on Elan team and this is my first blog post. I'm really happy to join the team and I will try to keep you posted how my  season is going, where I am , what I'm eating, who I'm dating (or at least I would like to date)... I hope you will find it interesting to read.

  I've been riding Dachstein this past month with my Yugo friends, mostly Ana Rumiha and my team rider Urška Pribošič because they are the BEST (and they forced me to write this). We come here every year and enjoy the after season riding. For me it's the best place to be in this time of  the year. You-go on the mountain, ride until the park gets flooded, after that  go swimming in the lake near our house and chill and then chill again. Another thing we do is trying new recipes and upgrading our cooking skills  so we would be well prepared for start taking care of our husbands and children later in our lives.

Here are some photos of what has been going on here….

my season is over and now its time to repair my body...yesterday i had an operation on my shoulder to fix it...up to then i am going to make a rehab and i hope my shoulder will be good soon to be back on board in maybe 6 weeks.

then its time to shred the glaciers!

see you there ;)

greetz 

Adrian

http://vimeo.com/23119818

Luckily we had few sunny hours on the last day and could get something on film! The park in Val Senales rocks!! Thanks to Gentlemen Riders, Lele and Steven!! YaaaaY!

It's very different then any snowboard interviews I've ever done.

here is the link below.

http://push.ca/blogs/pete/archive/2011/04/20/dominique-vallee-with-loss-comes-perspective.aspx

ciao

dom

Why not? There’s only one way to really find out about the Great Central North and it’s to go and see for ourselves. So e decided to do a Snowboard Canada Mag trip up there. We left Whistler early Monday morning on an 8 hour driving mission just straight north. I hopped in Mercedes Nicoll’s car:Hi-Ho, with Helen Schettini and we caravanned with the boys: Justin VDP, Geoff Andruik and Nate Laverty following us.

We met our best host ever Aidan at Ruins board shop before driving for another hour heading east this time to Bear Paw Heli skiing operation. After driving in the middle of nowhere on to a dirt road we saw a beautiful log house lit with white lights and candles. The owner Kevin and his wife Amber welcomed us with warm hugs, wine and pie by the fireplace before sending us to bed finally.

We woke-up to a breakfast of champions from chef Amber and we were ready to hop into the heli for a powder day that felt more like mid-February goodness then early April. We hit up some little cliffs and pillow lines before hellying back to the lodge late in the day.

With over 1.2 million acres of the Bear Paw Heli terrain to cover in the McGregor range this place was seriously huge.

We left today after playing with some taxidermy animals in a trailer where the boys were staying near by. We still have to keep in real in PG.

Now a quick lunch at Nancy O’s downtown and stocking up to go spend 2 days in Powder King.

We didn’t know what to expect out of this place, but certainly not what we’ve been living the past couple of days.

To be continued when we get cell service and internet again.

Just getting the taste of spring and the wonderfull feeling to go over the water. Just with your snowboard.  

Have fun, open your eyes for new things. That´s not just snowboarding. It´s a way of life.

Peace Out!

Friedl

i just went there to have fun with some friends and to cruise around through the park. 

every day evening we went out for party and every morning we got up very early to go snowboarding....

check out this short edit 

<iframe src='http://player.vimeo.com/video/21554377

cheers

cheers

When we arrived to The Big 3 all the peaks were in clouds, so the first day was more of a search for some possible locations and gullies with some wind blown snow.

On the second day a local guru and photog Rudi Wyhlidal did a great job navigating us amongst the big rooks.The weather was much better, but the sun just could not clear all the clouds away until late afternoon. We still managed to get some shots.

Check out the clip Mitja Legat and some photos from Rudi Wyhlidal!

Peace,

m.

For the past weekend there was this european fis bigair and slopestyle on Rogla Slovenia. Both disciplines were considered as national championship.  I was 2nd on Big Air and Won the Slopestyle, so this make me a state champion in Slopestyle :)))

I was also on this years winter univerziade in Turkey Erzurum, I was there for a week, we sopose to have a slopestyle contest on the last day, but the weather was soo bad and everything was cancelled :(( ouu jea and team mates Morena Makar and Urška pribošič were there too :)))

This winter is soo bad with snow this year I can't believe this.. but we have plans to build some big jump on my local resort Pohorje on 5-0 Snowpark, so I'm looking forward to that! :))))

See you soon! Till than, byee, have fun on snow :)))

Last week I was in Bardonecchia for the WC and it was super fun! The olympic pipe was perfeckt and the slopestyle too! In pipe I ended 22nd. (My run: fs9 bs 5 fs 7 cap7 and fs air) I didn't get my sweet run, everything was a little sketchy so I am not happy whit that.....On slopestyle I ended 19th (whit: cap5 bs7 and bs3). The day of slopestyle contest was really bad. It was windy and it was snowing so I am happy that I didn't kill my self ;)

next week I'm going to Arosa for the last WC this season, so wish me luck ;)

see ya! 

Last week, we had this awsome kicker at Arlberg. Luckily I could join the Crew after not having built the jump;) We were trying awsome tricks for the whole day. Just to get a little bit of an impression of what went down on this day, have a look at the double backflip from aron and the fs rodeo 7 single shot from me. yesssss!!!!

Peace out!

Friedl

http://vimeo.com/20023651

http://vimeo.com/20613425

http://vimeo.com/18367201

peace

Fun Times

Then saturday night thousands of people came to watch the contest which was a jam session. It was quite difficult to ride with the winch but nevertheless we made a good show. The crowd went crazy!!

Finally Patrick got 2nd behind the slovenian Luka Jeromel and I got 3rd. Jakob showed good tricks as well but could not make it onto the podium.

After a unforgettable party night and a hangover on sunday we made a sightseeing tour. We returned back to Austria on monday after a very exciting weekend in a great city.

cheers!

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Blog up-date: Jan 19th, 2011

The holidays went by without a glitch and with just good times to remember. I wasn’t really looking forward to going back to Montreal for the holidays since the past few Christmas had made me pretty bitter about the whole festive holiday season. But the second I hoped on the plane from Vancouver to Montreal I had a feeling that it was going to be one of the best holiday ever. I also think that hit me when I got up-graded to business. Everything just seems better and brighter when you’re sipping on a class of champagne before take-off.

Had great times with my whole family and Montreal, to Quebec City, to Mont-Tremblant. Did everything form snowshoeing to salsa dancing in Montreal’s most popular underground Latin clubs.

Came home on time for New Years where I kept things pretty French Canadian with friends and roomies at Priscilla Levac’s place. So fun! I even went skiing with Elan the other day on Grouse Mountain. Skiing is way more fun then I remembered, must be the new Amphibio skis :)

Now riding Whistler where January storm season has been treating us like spoiled brats with meters of fresh powpow to ride everyday almost. Till last weekend where everything warmed up and the avalanche danger was to an extreme, highest ever in 30 years I heard on the news. You could see avalanche debris everywhere in bounds even.

After the warm comes the freezing January cold and now the mountain is a huge skating ring for the next short while it looks like.

Happens every year…

Here are some cool photos that I took with my new Iphone Apps; from the mountains to Squamish eagles in my back yeard. It's like Discovery Channel sometimes out here.

by

Here is one edit for 32/Etnies. Check some of my Jump action and some rails form Nejc Ferjan.

Hope you like it.

Happy New One!

M.

after the sick summer the winter hit us hard with a lot of snow, here in my homeresort they made the first park with pro line in italy, where we are riding a lot. super nice conditions. the last few days were supersick with a nice sun and perfekt shapet park. I hope the conditions will rest like now the next week since the school starts again.

here some shots from the park
( http://www.fakieshop.com/local/news/backPid/180/article/pro-line-king-laurin-park-alpe-di-siusi-completed/ )

c ya and a happy new year

http://vimeo.com/18169746

I just got to Montreal last night to meet up with my family for Christmas.

Whistler has been amazing so far and feels more like mid-February then December, with a few bottomless powder days that we've had and no crowds yet. The crowd always come for the holidays and it seems more quiet then usual this year for some reason, maybe it's a post Olympic syndrome.....who knows but none of the locals are complaining.

Just finished our cathalogue shoot for Ripzone/Powder Room and it was good times as usual.

This season feels already pretty different then the others since I'm not running from contest to contest and spending a month in Colorado riding a pipe to do a few contests before Christmas already. I'm much happier staying at home in Squamish at last and riding with friends.

Been wanting to do this for years.

It's going to be a great season indeed.

Wishing everybody the best of holidays,

Filled with love, joy, health, amazing people, really good food and drinks and loads of powder.

Much love

Dom

Pleease, let it happen again!!! I´m dreaming of Powder!

Cheers Friedl

Hey Folks!

I just arrived from an amazing trip to Asia and Southern Hemisphere.

The Playboard just published my Travelstory. I hope you enjoy the text and the slideshow.

go to:

http://www.playboard.de/component/content/article/6-reviews/974-friedl-goes-nz.html

Greetz Friedl

Didn't upload nothing from summer to now, so this is how it was:)

I am again starting my season injured, because I broke my wrist in the end of september on my downhill bike. Later I had a surgery and have this plates inserted and I will have this in for the rest of my life.

Despite all I was already on my first worldcup in the end of october in London: http://www.thefreezefestival.com/index.php, however I shouldn't do nothing with my arm for a month from now, so I hope no doctors will read this hehe

Another big thing was this snowboard movie in witch i'm in came out and we have premiers over Slovenia, in our hometown Maribor and capital Ljubljana, both premiers and afterpartys were crazy, aspecially in Maribor :))) The movie called ''SHUT UP!'' will also be soon online! http://5-0production.si/shut_up/

So now it's almost winter, in my city it's dumping snow for 3 days now. I don't remember this much snow in december in my city, so me and my crew had to atack our first street rail this year (a curved triple kink)
We also set a hand rail at my friends Rene's place to jib it while we wait for the lifts to open mountains.

You can follow more action of me and the crew I film with on: http://5-0production.si/

Till next time! and enjoy the photos! :))

Surfed a couple times a day mostly and ate amazing food. Then I went to meet-up with Annie, Lisa, my roommate Amelie and Korey in Lombok. Since I thought yoga at the beautiful Novotel in June, we had some hook-ups and our friend Didi let us stay in paradise again for a great deal. Novotel is like a dream come true for me and we mostly surfed Segar’s that was just a short walk away from our beach resort. I thought a few yoga classes there during my stay for the guest and to teach the staff some new moves as well.

Ended the trip strong with Lombok Belly, so I was pretty sick for a few days. Came back to Bali to hang out with friends before coming home. Partied-up the last night pretty hard running into my old Canadian friend Rick Wonderlick who was celebrating his birthday. How could I pass that up and it’s always a good time surrounded by a bunch of crazy Brazilians friends on the dance floor.

We came home late after watching the show of Go-Go dancers girls give her on the bar mixed-in with some transvestites. Isn’t it strange that the she-mans are always the hottest “girls”?

I’m home right on time for Whistler’s Opening day Tomorrow and we've been getting snow all week.

here a video from hintertux opening :) hope you like it

and there is a report and another video on methodmag

and another report on massivemoves.com

btw.: SEASON IS FULL ON :)

Right now I am studying in Ljubljana and in a few weeks it's Dachstein time!

Have fun!

Urška

Last week we went to Ohau a little Resort with awsome scenerie. Though there was not that much snow in the backcountry, we found some nice spots to hit.

Next week I´m going on travelling all over New Zealand. See you back home in the pow!

Greetz Friedl

Hintertuxer Glacier opened it's park this weekend - so seasons's back on!!

http://www.methodmag.com/node/7691

It was so good to be back on snow again and see all this faces on the mountain - enjoyed it! 

I also met Conny and Lisa - was a pleasure!! :)

Enjoy your fall - looking forward to coming season!!!

Went on my friend Helen’s family boat last week with her parents near all Vancouver Island.

It was something I wanted to do for years, actually since as long I’ve been living here. There is hundreds of big and small islands from Victoria to Alaska filled with marine life and virgin beautiful land.

We left Squamish to drive down to Tsawwassen to catch the ferry where the boat was just a minute drive away. We set off and within 10 minutes we saw dolphins. Another 15 minutes later we set a crab trap not too far form where we anchored for the night in Sydney Spit.  We started cooking an awesome dinner with wine and after 2 hours we went to check the crab trap and we had 13 crabs waiting for us. After going trough all of them we kept 4 huge males for tomorrow night’s dinner. Killing them with a dull butcher knife was the most challenging and nerve-racking thing ever as they tried to crab the knife while you concentrate on trying to come down with a clean cut. Like a bad horror movie and I almost fell off the boat my first try.

The next day after a long walk on the island and finding chestnut tree and filling up like a squirrel we set off again up to the North. For 2 hours we were fortunate to follow about 20 killer whales. Was unreal!

We went to Galileo Island and had a crab feast with a beautiful sunset and was early to bed to sleep like a rock at the bottom of the water.

Rising to another beautiful day and a walk around we then sent back South where the bad weather was coming in. Helen and I tried to push our luck fishing but after two 15 min sessions we decided that maybe that wasn’t our thing. We went and caught 2 more huge crabs and decided to butcher them like 2 cave women.

We woke up our last morning with fog so thick we could see anything or go anywhere. We finally got back to port in time to catch the 1pm ferry to come back to reality.

Here are a few photos.

 dom

for the teaser:

http://vimeo.com/13360380

...definitely worth getting a copy!! just let me know...

Premiere of the Movie coming Saturday, Sept. 25th in Wr. Neustadt - would be nice to see you there! :)

i just got back from my annual surf trip. this year I went to Galicia in Spain toghether with Lisa, Manu, Bentsch and Poidl. It was amazing! check the pics and the gopro video I made:

http://vimeo.com/15050928

can´t wait to go riding again!!! Yiihhaaaa!!!

...Such an amazing scenerie here in NZ.

Getting started...

Great landscapes, fantastic food and Snowboarding at its finest.

Bene the filmer arrived. We just bought a new car... more Pics are coming soon ;)

See you around!

Friedl

After the long season of traveling to competitions for the World Cup and finishing in overall standings on a great third place, I was really happy to do more stuff with less pressure involved.

First was the end of season project for Red Bull. In the resort of Rogla we were set to build a Red Bull Double Air. My buddy Marko Grilc, the winner of Air & Style, was jumping over Ross Mercer, world record holder for longest jump with snowmobile. It took us 10 day to prepare the jump and in the end we all got some crazy shots.

University time followed and I successfully passed my last two exams. So that meant well deserved surf trip with my girl to the Indonesian archipelago. And the trip was awesome! We traveled from the Bali to Nusa Lembongan and all the way to South Sumatra. A broken surf and some reef bruises was a small price to pay for all the unforgettable adventures.

Check the shots!

Sampa jumpa.
 

Peace Matevz

I tried to find some snowboarding as long as possible...

First, I spend my time in June and July on Dachstein glacier like every year -

it is always so much fun slush riding up there with all the friends... check out our Dachstein edit:

http://www.vimeo.com/13432728

After Dachstein closed, I went to Bispingen (Hamburg/Germany) for some fridge riding with the girls:

http://www.vimeo.com/14174215

By the way, I'm part of an Austrian Girls Crew now, we are 4 girls and are called BWA!

Check out our Blog:

http://bwaonline.blogspot.com/

And Interview on Qparks:

http://www.qparks.com/news/1/16762/3473/

Enjoy the sunny times - hope see you soon back aon snow! :)

http://www.vimeo.com/14192050

http://vimeo.com/13360380

When I'm not on a downhill bike I'm cruzzin in the city Maribor with this oldtimer bike ROG elite spezial :))

In july I'll go for a roadtrip to Barcelona with friends, and than in the august maybe go somewhere to wavesurf, but now we're just chillin at the nearby plankzee in Austria.

Have a nice summer peopleee!!!

That was the first stop of my journey around the southern hemisphere:

Great food, nice surfsessions with my buddy Elias and a lot of relaxing.

Now I am looking forward to get the season started in New Zealand...

See you!

Friedl

http://vimeo.com/13092715

here are some news about the camp http://www.fakieshop.com/news/snow/events/archive/2010/may/article/gentlemens-summer/

JUST Mog goes Hintertux from JUSTyrol on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/11582048

Yup, over 6 weeks in Squamish now, riding Whistler lots with friends, sledding in the backcountry and finishing off the season with the Grenade Games during the Ski and Snowboard Festival. Now I know why I leave here, and it goes beyond the beauty of the ocean meeting-up with the mountains. The people that live here, no matter what they do, are here cause they choose to be, doing what they want to be doing….well most of them. Riding their bikes, skis, snowboards or trails everyday and feeling sick whenever you’re not able to do something physical for a day.

Grenade Games at the end of April was a total gong-show of awesome parties and funny events from the dual mogul event to pipe jib style where only originality is rewarded as snowboarding contests should be. All of Whistler and its visitor’s felt that they needed a serious cleanse after the Festival.

For my birthday a great friend of mine game me a ticket to go visit him in Venice Beach, California for the weekend and what a great weekend it was. I don’t think I could ever live there, but love visiting that’s for sure. Surf, good food and people watching were the main activities. Seems like Groundhog Day there where the sun rises and falls on the not so perfect plastic world. Love to hate.

Came home to a powder day a few days ago, crisp and cold with 20cm of fresh powder on Blackcomb. Rode with Justin, Oli and Phil trying to get some shots for Whistler Mountain but the sun was shy so we savored our last epic pow day of this season.

It closed off the season perfectly as I got organized to leave to Montreal for a week for some family parties and RBC work before I head to Bali again for a month long surf session.

At the airport again right now….

Here are some funny photos of the Festival, Whistler’s backcountry, So. Cal. And last pow day on the chair.

Ciao

I couldn't attend this competition, because of another: volkl snowpark rally, where we had a mission to take the best picture, we were 3rd and we had great time. http://www.snowparkrally.com/index.php?id=475&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=487&tx_ttnews[backPid]=462&cHash=a91286955d

All in all most of the time I was shooting for 5-0 the movie with 5-0 production. http://five0production.wordpress.com/ , http://vimeo.com/7166984  , http://vimeo.com/4262731 .

 This year I rode more powder and street rails than before, visited lots of cool places, mountains and met new people…

My summer plans are to go to Dachstein glacier in Austria for some summer riding and I'll end this season perfectlyJ

Here are some photos so you can see how good this season was……          Enjoy!

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Here we go again. Yesterday I had a parkshooting with LaFamiglia.  Today it was supposed to be bad weather, so I thought of testing my new remotecontroller for the photocamera.

After my first tries to get a nice picture, the sun came out and I managed to trigger the remotecontroller in the air while grabbing and being in the right place to take the picture.

Sounds weird, but I´ve taken the picture while jumping.

At least, it was a really nice experience.

See you in the snow!

Greetz from Mayrhofen!

Friedl

It was amazing, the friends we met, the area and the nest morning we woke-up to 1meter of snow and sunshine for the rest of the week. We hit the best powder turns, backcountry jumps and cliff drops ever. We never thought we woud hit it this good in Greece. After a week there we went to another resort closer to Athens called Parnassos. We stayed in the Van's house and rode the mountain the next day but we were all so sore from our big week that we just wanted to go and live Greece at it's best in Athens and then hit a real Greek party Island: Mykonos.

Off we went to stay at our friend/best snowboarder of Greece: Mike in Athens to visit ancient greece and take the ferry to Mykonos for 3 days before we had to leave back to Canada. We had such good weather everywhere we went and we even had a dip in the beautiful azul blue water of the Greek Island. I was pretty much freezing the whole time but it was sooo worth it.

Great crew, great snow and really greecy.

Best trip ever.

dom

I'm hannes, 16 years old from southtyrol...thats my firs blog. So I dedicated it to that whats most fun: a nice shred with my buddys at Seiser Alm my homeresort. it was a nice day and so our filmer made a short videoclip. http://vimeo.com/10188724 i hope you like it. Check out the park. its pretty cool. 1.5km fun =)

peace 

JUST Kleinwaisertal (...one crew) from JUSTyrol on Vimeo.



hey there, i just got back from the MBM sesssion in Kleinwaisertal. I was there togehter with my teammate Simon Holzknecht and photographer flo jäger, also Macho Much joined us for two days. I has snowed 40cm before we arrived... so we found some nice spots to shoot. I filmed a little bit...check the vid & pics! peace, conny

SARAJEVO

 It began with a Balcan trip to Bosnia in the capital city Sarajevo where  the Europe cup competiton was held. As we arrived in Sarajevo I was suprised to see that most of the city had been rebuilt, with only a few remaining visible ruins from the war. We were staying in a Hostel in the city centre. All 8 of us slept in one big room with 6 3floor beds in it. Bosnian style. As you imagine two of us girls didn't get much sleep with all the snoring around us. New lesson learned: don't go anywhere without a pair of ear plugs and headphones.

 For the next four days we were pretty much eating and drinking. The food was really good, especially the famous meat čevapčiči and burek but not really healthy though. Not a good place for a vegeterian. It was a kind of test how much junk my body can take and it took it suprisingly well! The competiton was also great. I took 1st place and the rest of the team also did good. It was time to celebrate our success! The party was fun. During the day I didn't understand a word the Bosnians were saying but  somehow I managed to speak bosnian the whole night.

MUNICH

The fifth day we went back home. As I got home after 9 hours of driving my friends were already waiting for me and Kaja. So actually I was at home  just to say Hi! and Bye!, repacked my stuff, took the car and left straight to Munich for the ISPO party. As usual we didn't make any plans so we didn't have a place to sleep yet, but luckily our friends offered us a hotel floor and we were more than happy. In the morning we visited ISPO. I was really tired but super excited beacuse it was my first time there. We were pretty much hanging in the Elan booth, chatting with friends and searching for sponsors. In the evening we went back home. I was driving and my lack of rest and my stupidity resulted when I made a wrong turn on the highway and we ended up in Innsbruck.  So that meant almost 300 extra km. So stoked! I started to feel sick so Maja took my place and drove us home.

MAYRHOFEN

For the next few days I was sick so I stayed home but I wasn't getting any better so what's the point of staying home anyway. I decided to go in Mayerhofen for the Sista session with my sister Marina and my friend Maja. As I was there I was thinking that wasn't the best idea. Of course I was feeling worse everyday but I decided to compete anyway. Luckily the weather was good so we didn't freeze. Most of the day I was watching the girls ride qualifications and I was really imppresed with their riding. I was waiting for my qualification heat and then in the end found out that I'm already in the final because of my video contest that I won. Great! Finally it was my turn. Somehow I ended up first, didn't expect it at all. Its a good thing we waited for the prize giving.  After the competition we went straight home. Despite of me being sick it was fun and we were happy to be there.

Take care,

Urška

it was a wonderful sunny day and the pipe was in a good shape!!! My first day riding pipe this season though... hihi

check out the sista session video!!!!

We had a week full of good conditions, nice spots and a lot of fun. Thanks to polish painkillers i was able to ride the whole week even if i bailed a couple of times pretty hard :D

Day 8

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What a halfpipe day that was for the ladies yesterday. It was a beautiful day and I can tell you first hand that the pipe was gorgeous and incredible to ride, maybe the best ever. So many gals trough down their best runs and there was lots of falls as well. Risk it or loose it.

Our Canadians did awesome too. Palmer Taylor fell on both of her qualifying runs on simple tricks, but at 17 years of age, she was just happy to be there. As for Sarah Conrad, she was riding so strong and going huge, but fell both runs in semi-finals placing her in 18th place. Our favorite Powder Room rider, Mercedes Nicoll, peeked at the perfect time. Nothing like riding your best ever at the Olympic Games! Mercedes sailed trough qualifiers and semi-finals riding the best I've ever seen her do. She put down a solid first run in Finals, which put her in 6th! Great runs Mercedes!!!!

Finals were pretty stressful as lost of the top girls fell on their first run. In the end, my favorite for the Gold landed her perfect run: Torah Bright from Australia. No surprise, the American girls were also as strong as their men's pipe team, Hannah Teter took Silver and Kelly Clark won the Bronze. It was a great final show for this sold out event.

Now I have a feeling there will be lots of partying going on starting tonight as both major snowboard events are now completed. Years of work, dreams and expectations for one day are now behind..... till the next 4 years I guess.....maybe.

PGS is next week as we need to watch out for our multiple times World Champion and the most decorated snowboarder in the world: Jaycey-Jay Andersen as he races on the 27th and ladies are on the 26th.

Here are lots of photos with our winning ladies and our top Canadian man, Justin Lamoureux.

dom

DAY 7

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OLYMPIC PRESURE OR JUST BAD LUCK? Seems like both Jeff Batchelor and Brad Martin were feeling the pressure yesterday with perfect weather and pipe in their favor. Jeff, probably the favorite to podium, fell both of his run’s in qualifiers and Brad after falling in his 1st run seemed to have played it ultra safe for his second qualifier lacking some amplitude to score high. Only Justin Lamoureux, the veteran of 33 years of age from Squamish BC, was Canada’s only hope as his technical skills got him into finals.

An incredible pipe final’s was held last night showing us why half-pipe is the most viewed event at the Olympics. What is there not to like with huge height, tricks and style? All the best riders in the world were giving it their all and risking falling hard with lots of double-cork spins at well over 15 feet in the air. Justin Lamoureux did his best, going bigger then I have ever seen him go, in homage to Canada and to snowboarding. He placed a respectable 7th place.  As for the medal standings, with no surprise at all, Shaun White won himself another Olympic Gold. Going bigger with 3 double-corks in his victory lap proving why he deserves this title yet again. Silver went to the young  Peetu Piroinen from Finland and USA’s Scotty Lago with bronze. It was just surreal to watch till the very last run.

Today is now up to our beautiful ladies to leap to the stars. Mercedes Nicoll, local Whistler girl, has lots of friends and family for support, also Nova Scotia’s favorite rider, Sarah Conrad and young gun, Palmer Taylor, from Toronto. The weather and pipe conditions seem to be the same as yesterday, so picture perfect.

Today’s schedule Pacific Time:

12:30 – Ladies’ Halfpipe Qualification

16:00 – Ladies’ Halfpipe Semifinals

18:00 – Ladies’ Halfpipe Finals

No holding back!

Here is a photo of Justin Lamoureux ready to drop in!

Day 5

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Gold Gold Gold!!!! Isn't that just the most beautiful color in the World right now? And Red and Gold go so well together too. Local girl Maelle Ricker: is the nicest most humble person you'll ever meet. Maelle has won every single snowboard-cross title you can imagine and probably multiple times too, for over a decade, except for that Olympic Gold. In Torino, at the 2006 Games, it was hers to loose as she not only won qualifiers by a long shot, but also every single elimination round till the finals, where she hooked an edge going off a jump and got helicopter evacuated for a head injury putting her in 4th. Just shy of her Olympic dream. There was so much pressure on her today, but mostly from herself, wanting this more then anything in the World.

The snow and weather conditions were tricky for all riders today as lost of rain and fog made the course extremely difficult to maneuver. Maelle qualified 3rd putting her in a good spot for finals. From there, she didn't loose focus, winning to the very last medal round where she clearly rode to the Gold! Ya Maelle!!!!!

Although it's been a battle with bad weather and lack of snow on Cypress, it clearly hasn't affected our Canadian athletes to perform beyond expectations as most golden and silver medals were now won on the mountain's turf in both freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Today, it's up to our Canadian boys in Men's pipe to keep the medals rolling. We have 3 riders to look out for: Brad Martin from Toronto as well as Jeff Batchelor and veteran Justin Lamoureux from BC. They have all podiumed in the most resent World Cups and they are strong contenders for a spot on the podium here.

As for the pipe conditions.... Miracles do happen, especially at the Olympics. The pipe was picture perfect tonight and it held-up the entire practice session as well. It was one of the best and easiest to ride pipes I've ever tried. All the riders were riding at their best and going huge.

Weather looks good for today too. Let the real show begin!!!!

Here is a photo of Maelle and I after her golden day last evening.

Dom

Day 5

What a difference a day makes, well, sort of.... Yesterday's men's snowboard-cross ran as smoothly as possible with Canadian rider Mike Robertson almost taking the Gold till he got boardercrossed at the every end. Such is the sport. Also, Rob Fegan doing us proud my winning the small final and finishing 5th over all. Huge success for this sold out event.

As for the pipe, another evening of training that went better then the first but still not up to par with what a competition pipe should be. With the help of freezing levels dropping over night and some fertilizer the groomers were able to get the pipe walls in better shape but the flat bottom was still a problem as riders would just sink deep riding across. So many riders, after only 30min of riding, were digging their edge in to then slam high speed into the hard pipe wall. Even the side-slippers, who did many laps trying to smooth things out, would catch their edge and face plant.

The riding conditions were hard but still some riders managed to land their competition runs and stand out from the rest. US's golden boy, Shawn White, didn't seem affected by the slushy mogul field and as for the ladies, Australia's sweetheart, Torah Bright, was riding high. I saw our Canadian Team put together some nice runs and Mercedes and Sarah were going big compared to the rest of the girls.

One more day of practice to go today after we watch the women's snowboard-cross. I'm hoping that Maelle Ricker and Dominique Maltais make us proud by jumping on the highest steps of the podium.

The forecast is calling for more rain in the next hours as well as freezing levels going up. Not too good for the pipe crews to try to makes the World's most beautiful Olympic pipe over night.

Here are a few more photos of our pipe team.

Dom

Day 4

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There will be no embellishments in my blog, I will be telling it like it is. Yesterday was the first day of practice finally and there was only one word that the riders used to describe the pipe within only a few minutes into practice: “Shitty”.  The lack of snow, severe rain and now dry conditions has made the snow in the pipe almost impossible to work with for the grooming crew. The dry conditions yesterday have sucked all the moisture out of the snow, which made the snow crumble the minute the riders jumped into the pipe. It was a frustrating site as riders were so excited to finally start training after days of waiting and now were having a hard time doing average size straight airs all the way down the pipe, not even doing tricks. It was definitely the survival of the fittest.

I spoke to the master pipe cutter Steve Petrie by the pipe yesterday and the weather gods have not been on their side these past few weeks. They started working on the pipe at 2:30am yesterday morning knowing that this weather change was going to make it hard to groom a perfect 22foot Olympic pipe. A local pass holder for over 20 years said that this was the worst snow season she has ever seen by far. Getting there yesterday I was surprised in how bare the mountain was looking. Only snow where the moguls and snowboarding events are being held, unlike Whistler Mountain where they are having a record year. The few degrees in temperature really makes a huge difference.

We’ll see how the pipe holds today, as it was able to settle and freeze over night. I’m sure it will be much better. The pipe practice has already been moved to a later time hoping for colder temperatures. The whole Canadian National team was looking really good in their Olympic outfits from RipZone, the best looking team by far. But besides the huge security line-ups and travel complications to get to Cypress, the training session didn’t feel like we were at the Olympics.

Let’s see how the pipe looks for tonight’s session, already the snowboard-cross course looks more then amazing as we watch their qualification rounds.

Dom

Day 3.

Starting off strong with Jennifer Heil winning silver on Cypress in the rain. Now it’s up to our fellow snowboarders to it the slopes today in the first half-pipe training session later this afternoon. Rumors are that the pipe is looking really good even with 60mm of rain to have fallen on the site in the past 24 hours.

Brad Martin has been enjoying his time off, resting and hanging out in the Athlete Village in Vancouver. When I spoke to him last night he was playing Playstation in the athlete lounge with teammates. The past few days have been spent inside the village walls, resting, doing some media interviews and getting fitted for Opening Ceremony clothing. Everybody is loving the athlete village, the huge apartment with only 2 athletes per room are so spacious that Brad sometimes never sees his roommate, Justin Lamoureux, during the day. His apartment will sell after the Games for 5 million $. The food is really good too and luckily there’s a McDonald’s so Brad doesn’t have to go far to get his fix.

Yesterday was the first day that Brad left the “Castle Walls” to go into the real world to meet-up with his mom and girl friend to spend the day checking-out the city. It’s so busy in the streets, buzzing with people and different activities around Vancouver. He was anxious to get back into his comfortable quiet bubble at the Athlete Village. Brad is feeling really good for the first day of training today and he’ll also have lots of support for the Big Day where his mother, father, girl friend, brother and 4 best childhood friends will be there to cheer him on.

Keep you posted on the pipe riding tomorrow.

Dominique

here it goes: I'm starting with day 1.

Feb.13th,

Opening ceremony, and day 2 of The Olympic Games.

The moment has come! After 7 years of planning, building and 106 days of torch relaying across the country, finally, we celebrate the Opening Ceremony at BC Place last night. The Ceremony was a tribute to the beauty of Canada, its native cultures and of course, all the World Class athletes. This time, the athletes came in early so they can enjoy the show as well and be inspired by the performers and speeches such as the very moving words of John Furlong. To finished things off, Gretzky takes off with the Flame, riding the back of a pick-up….. doesn’t get more Canadian then that!

 I did have a chance to catch-up with Mercedes late last night. The Canadian half-pipe team moved into the athlete village in downtown Vancouver on the 10th, in all new spacious apartments with a killer view. Mercedes says it sounds really echo with only her teammate, Sarah Conrad, and the bare minimum to furnish the rooms. After the Games, these high priced apartments will be put on the market.

Mercedes has loved every minute of it since she got here. She did mention that she preferred the uniforms from the Opening Ceremony in the 2006. But her favorite stylish countries were by far Slovenia, looking good in their Green ensemble and Great Britain always dressed to impress.

Because of difficult snow conditions, the first 2 days of practice for the pipe event has been cancelled up on Cypress. So today is another day off for our favorite pipe riders Brad Martin and Mercedes Nicoll. Tomorrow is where it all begins. Men’s pipe event is on the 16th and women’s on the 17th.

Let’s just hope the weather is on our side.

More news to come.

I didn't make the Canadian Olympic pipe team after all this. But lots has happened in the past little while and I guess it's time to go ride powder with friends finally and leave the pipe contests on the side for now. I'll be forerunning the pipe so I'll still get to hang out with all my friends during the training and event and live it live. 

It's really crazy that after 7 years of Olympic planning for British Columbia that it's all finally here and happening.

Keep you guys posted, 

I'm running with the Olympic Torch in a few days in Squamsih. That will be pretty amazing and stoke-up the Olympic Spirit for sure. 

later 

dom

after a break of 3 years, the psychoboarders (Patrick Wörle, Jakob Messner, Harald Wendlinger and me) are back!!!!

the new video will be finished next week. check out the trailer: 

after one month without snowboarding (because of a broken arm) I am very motivated and I will be back on the slopes soon!!

cheers

cheers Patrick

JUST one day in ehrwald from JUSTyrol on Vimeo.

hey there, what´s up? long time no news! sorry for that... here is a lil vid of "double-last" saturday. I was riding in Ehrwald, which got a real nice park set up! check it out... more news gonna follow!

I made it threw the qualies to the finals and ended up on 7th place. After I sticked the Cab9 I went for the BS10, but the jump was a bit to small to make it perfect.

This result got me to the 3rd place in the Standings, so I was happy never the less.

Check the photos.

But we weren’t that lucky for weather in August, we all went back home to go take care of business for a month. I spent lots of time in Toronto for the first time ever, doing fun stuff with MTV for our new documentary show “Over the Bolts”. Then I came back once again and did a week session with the RBC Olympians. For 4 weeks I was running around on the East Coast and getting everything sorted out with my dad in Montreal. Oh, and I moved back in with him as well!

Finally, I hopped on a plane to go back to NZ to go meet-up with the rest of the National Team that were already here. I was so tired from my month at home that I couldn’t wait to get back here and sleep at last. Who goes on a snowboard trip to catch-up on Zzzzz’s really?
Finally, after a little detour in Tokyo….not the most direct route to NZ from Canada let me tell you… I landed once again in Queenstown where Sarah picked me up with Hugo to drive us back to our new house for the next few weeks. There is still so much snow here; I think that there is even more snow then when I left a month ago.

Get to the house and it’s ….how can I describe it??? There are 12 of us staying here: Brad, Jeff, Justin, Dustin, Hugo, Charles, for girls: Sarah, Palmer and myself and coaches: Jesse Fulton, Chris Decoste and Brian Smith. All living together under a same roof and it actually works great. We’ve only been here for 4 days now but it’s been amazing, perfect weather, perfect pipe. We get sled rides up to do pipe laps. There aren’t to many pipe riders here but a few Euros’, from Poland to Spain. Japan is getting here next week with France and Shawn White has been nailing his double to double every run.

Here a re few photos of our XXX-Treme day where we went to do the bridge bungy, jet boating and canyon swing.

So far, this might be the best snowboard trip ever!

Talk soon.

Beginning of June 686 invited Marco and me to come over to LA to shoot the new Ads and get some website filming done. Although it was a long trip for just three days it was definitely worth it! We had one day off where we went shopping and to the beach… I can´t get enough of the smell of the ocean! Hihi! So I think I´m heading to France soon to get my surfboard out of the cellar back to action… have a nice summer!!
 

long ago since my last blog, but I haven't really been riding and mostly exercising for my knee ....

Last weekend I finally got back on board on Dachstein Glacier and it was good!!!

It's always so nice when Dachstein season finally starts... meeting all the people again, having fun in the super nice park, sun, slush... :)

 The weather was not perfect the first 3 days, but on sunday it cleared up and it was the first bluebird since Dachstein opened... awesome!

I'm still a bit handycapped but it's getting better and I hope I can start all over again in fall.

 In the afternoons we went somewhere in the woods/fields/waters to do some lifestyle shooting which was always very funny...

 maybe see some of you there in the next weeks. would be great!

 have fun

We visited

- Northstar

- Sierra

- Squaw Valley

- Boreal

- Mammoth

We met Lisa Filzmoser and Friedl May filming for the new Famiglia movie there and a lot of other friends we didn't expect to meet a few thousand kilometers away from home.

After our snowboard trip we did a little sightseeing tour. We went to Death Valley, Las Vegas, LA and San Francisco. Also the tourist part of our trip was AWESOME. 

On the next day, Saturday, it continued with the Halfpipe Semis and Finals. It was another sunny day with a perfect shaped pipe - for Europeans standard – haha. I had tons of fun riding it and even did pretty good. I made it into the Finals and in the end I got 8th. Stoked! Sunday was supposed to be the Slopestyle day, but due to heavy storms it got postponed to the next day. Our bodies were happy about a day off though. The wind was gone on Monday and the competition could take place as planned. The park consisting of a hip, a jib, three kickers in a role and two wallride options in the end, was fun to ride. Nobody out of our crew made it into the finals even some had really nice runs, but the level was pretty charging. Our young rocker Sarka broke her collarbone on her first run… Another injury bummer! I’ve never seen such a tough girl like her – no tears, no complaining, nothing as a big smile still!

Chicken Jam was over – MS Superpark was on. The next three days we spent riding in June. We were a bit tired of the last days so we started the whole thing pretty slowly. Besides that half of the crew was injured, Julia was suffering from a bruised heel as well. Anyways on the second day we had a great sunset hip session and on the last day we were handplanting the quarter… Last night – party night! After a delicious sushi dinner we were dancing the night away at the Nikita party in Lakanuki… Our “holidays” were almost over but there was still another day in LA to go: We love Veniceeee! Peace, love & happiness, conny
 

After the Europe trip I went back to MOntreal and did a NSowboard Canada trip called Eastern Pipe Trip with 4 boys and me. Was so fuuny not matter what we did and even if the weather wasn't really on our side we got some pretty good stuff. From Vermont, I went straight to MOnt-Tremblant to do our NAtionals. I finished 3rd after hurting myself in qualifyers hooking my heal edge on top of the not so perfect pipe and doing a scorpion to the bottom. I was able to suck it up for the Finals to finish the day off. The next day I went to see all my friends at the Empire Shakedown event. Was so fun to see everybody on my way to Quebec City for our National Team Qualifyers. Nest year is the Olympic year so we have to do everything by the book and not miss a step. The pipe in Stoneham was amazing and 22 feet but we had to hike all day since the moutain was closed but they kept grooming the pipe for us. Really tireing but still great riding. Finished the camp pretty tired on the day of my birthday but we still managed to go to Maurice in Quebec City and have an amazing time dancing the night away till the wee hours of the morning......... The next day I was being tired and I enjoyed that day off more then ever with my family for Easter.

I finally came back to Squamish a few days ago not having been here all year right on time for the Ski and Snowboard Festival her ein Whistler. Also known as the best time of the year but more then the slopes to enjoy everyday. The village in booming and everybody is out ready for the next concert to play, art show to happen and also the Grenade Games are starting on Monday 4/20 of course.

Been up sledding a little trying to get some last back-country action before everything warmes-up for good. I always forget how sore you get when you're not used to sledding.

ONly have a few funny photos of friends.

Talk to you soon.

happy Spring.

dom

sorry for not writing so long. Jetlack hit me pretty hard. Jasmin and me travelled to California for  weeks to meet our crew there. We are staying at Agent-G's place...Thanks for that dude. IT's AWESOME. Parks here are unbeliveable and we also did some street stuff. And we met a bear. 

for more infos check out bamboomp.wordpress.com - this is our blog for our trip to us :-D

 cheers

The following week I spent in bed: sick times! I felt better on Saturday and could take part in the Frozen Water Jam at Nordpark, but unfortunately I couldn’t do the surfing part of that event as the recent years. It’s a team challenge and the KIT-Girls were the only girls team. We won! WoOoOoW!

Yesterday I just went riding in Serfaus with friends… It was awesome! It’s been a long time riding a park though and that park is just amazing. An entire slope with obstacles of any kind… it feels a bit like riding in US… Apropos US I’m leaving on Tuesday to Mammoth and June! Wohoooo…
 

There was another TTR 3Star Event in Alpendorf 2 weeks ago.

It was so cool to have a international Starterfield, from Norway, France, Ecuador, Bulgaria, Germany and for sure Austria.

I had 2 perfect runs in the final with bs 7 to fs 9 and fs5 to sw bs 9.

At the end I was very happy about the 2nd place and the cash for sure.

See ya soon!

Greetz Friedl

I've been looking forward to this since 3 months and today the day has come... after my surgery in December I was riding again :D

I was disappointed to miss the Elan Chicas Camp in Italy (waiting for some pix), I'd really like to finally meet all the girls! But it would have been to early for me by then... I was training like crazy every day the last 2 weeks... cycling, jogging, swimming, gym... But it went better every day and I'm quite strong again. I still can't fully bend the knee but my doctor said it will still take a few weeks...

So I had to be careful today but I nevertheless had so much fun and it felt better with every run! It was SOO good to back on snow again! Besides, the weather was perfect today and I was riding with 5 other girls, all good friends of mine, with whom I'd never been riding all together... It was so much fun! It was a really good day today, it gave me a lot :)

... it already started positive in the morning, as a police officer let me go without paying after getting me way to fast and without driving licence available... ;)

Now I'm looking so much 4ward to my next trip, which will already start in one week, when I'll be going to San Francisco :) ... Lake Tahoe *jippie*

Keeping u update..

Cheers, Jasmin

ps: more pix coming soon

We arrived back home in Innsbruck at Saturday night. Julia and I competed on the next morning in the Austrian Masters Halfpipe. Julia got 2nd and Austrian Master, I won! How crazy is that! Tomorrow I’m off to Italy for the Elan Chicas Photoshooting. Sweeeet!

Liebe Grüße,

conny
 

 last weekend we had some shootings around my hometown. Pretty sick cause there is SSSSSSOOOOOOOO much snow some obstacles was fully covered with snow. so we tried a wallride over a fence - you see what happened - so we turned it into a bombdrop. Then there was a session on a scetchy rail with a latern at the end which i hit like 4 out of five timesand a session with absolutly no snow over a wall.

 This was the funny part. on Thuesday a message hit me like a slap in my face. A good friend died in an avalanche in Flachauwinkl. R.I.P. buddy --> never forget your.

In two days I’m gonna fly to Lebanon together with Julia, Diana, Thea and Carlos the photographer. We are doing a story for some Euro girls’ mags!! I’m so excited! I’ll hit you up when I’m back in town! Hope you got some snow as well! Smile

P.S.: Did I mention that I’ve submitted my thesis to the examination office?! Done!!

hope you’re all enjoying the snow!

It’s going pretty good with my knee. I started therapy a week ago and I must say I’m really happy with the improvement. I tried to train my muscles on my own, because there wasn’t a free space for therapy and I got it very late. So I’m quite strong again. The problem was I couldn’t fully stretch the leg (so I was walking awkwardly) and bend it only 90° or sth. Now after one week I can fully stretch and bend about 115°. I’m training every day and I’m positive for a “quick” recovery.

I got the chance to judge a contest a few weeks ago. I was brought with a sleight because I couldn’t walk well by then (picture). It was funny to participate such an event from an different perspective but it was also hard to watch the kids jibbing around while sitting still and arguing about stupid points…

I visited ISPO as well, but did’t stay there very long because it was pretty exhausting for my knee... just to meet the people and say hello to everybody. It was also nice to meet Dragan!

What else? Well, I finished my bachelor degree at university and got a part time job… It’s really impressing how much spare time I have now when I’m not able to snowboard… but that will hopefully change soon ;) I booked a flight to San Francisco at the end of March and plan to go riding at Northstar and Sierra. I really hope I’ll be fine by then and looking forward to it very much.

So have a nice time,

cheersy

At the Wallride everything went wrong. At my first try i broke my bindings :-( so i decided to film. after a while the generator went out of gas. We had a little bit left in a canister. Finally we ripped off the starter of the engine of our brandnew Winch, which pulls you up to 40 km/h. So i was pretty happy i got a (even if not perfect) shot at the first try.

By the way i just got my Elan Answer back so i had to go with the nitro board of a friend of mine.

 last saturday i went to rijeka (croatia) for a rail contest. it took me like 5 1/2 hours to get there. It was a good session with a lot of good rider like Baszi from Hungary, Wojtech from Poland, Nejc, Langus and Tim from Slovenia, Lazyo from Bulgaria and so on. I was pretty stoked to get into the finals but messed up the final runs so i got 9th at the end. 

Back home we did a few street spots. The last spot was the ugliest obstacle ever. it was a flat-down ledge without inrun and without landing. Oh there was i landing...a small river. I wanted to go over it....i guess you can imagin what happend...

Before this trip we were in Switzerland for the BEO. I competed in both disciplines: slopestyle and halfpipe. In the slopestyle I couldn’t get my run done, but in the pipe at least I qualified for the semi-finals, but didn’t do too well then. Sometimes it’s like that… it was definitely fun riding and worth going there.

So, now I´m back home, gonna watch the Air&Style, heading to Munich for the ISPO for 2 days and then going on a trip direction east… still gotta figure out more! Stay tuned…
 

We were at the Volcom Peanut butter railjam where i reached the finals...you can see fotos and video here: http://www.volcom.com/pbrj/eventArticle.asp?articleID=199

After that i was a lot of street riding in and around vienna. The highlights were a downrail on hirschenkogel which took us until half past 5 in the morning to finish...i was soooooo exhausted cause i was working the whole day but at least i've got a shot :-D

the following day we were at a downrail which really pissed me on. So i didn't clear it at all. 

Then a nice session with a good friend of mine in my homevillag in lower austria in a fence :-D VERY VERY SKATCHY but i did it. 

Last weekend i was 2 days on stuhleck. In the evening we wanted to go streetriding again. First i had to go 20 km in the wrong direction to get our brandnew generator. than 30 km to the spot, just to recognize that i forgot the camera. so back 10 km and back again with the camera. when i was there my friends already prepared everything. First speedcheck than we were chased away by some local guys... 

 That were pretty much my last few weeks. On Friday i'm going to Rijeka for a railcontest and than ISPO....

They were hosting the World Championships here so I came to do the pipe event.

It was so fun to ride in the warm sun for a change and the pipe was small but really good. Was great to see everybody at last and even Matevz and Slovenian company who came to do the Big Air. 

Besides riding, Kareoke, bowling and Dance Dance Revolution video game was what we usually didin-between sessions. Its the hardest thing ever to test your dance skills with a machine and with a local KOrean kid that grew up bouncing up and down and learning all the dance moves.

Anyways, I didn't do to good in the pipe, but such is life,  I'll just have to redeem myself later . But the rest of the Canadian Crew did really well in BX, Race and pipe. Jeff Batchelor got second in pipe so that ended with more debauchery that night.

A few girls and I decided to ends things at the fabulous resort at last and go to Seoul for some serious shopping. We left early yesterday morning to find ourselves trying to figure out our hotel downtown somewhere, asking people and walking aorund in -20 something. So cold there it was amazing.

But we found our home for the night, dropped our stuff and went on our missiona and were quite succesful. We evenhad amazing food finally and ended our Korean trip with an Idian Feast last night.

So we all came to the airport early as we all had different flights all over the World and now I'm left alone with my luggage since it's way to early to check in for my Montreal flight.

Here a re a few photos from there.

Ciao

dom

After I get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to bring Jasmin home and pick up a friend of mine we arrived in the park at about 10 o'clock. The Park and every slope was sooooo icy it wasn't fun at all. So i didn't really care about the contest. everything that counts was NOT BAILING.

The first Run i did a Onefooted run through the Park. This was maybe not the best idea cause i had my jibboard with me which doesn't have edges at all. The second run was a little bit better. 

After the Qualification i was riding the park until the end. Then they told me i'm in the finals. Very cool but i was sooooo tired already and totally unmotivated. 

The Finals took place at the parking space on a hugh double kinked rail a pipe and enormous kinked box. 

In the training i tried all obstacles but everybody concentrated on the pipe and so did I. During the Finals it had like -18°C and it was even harder than on the mountain. So i was more unmotivated than in the qualification and finally got 17th :-(

The week before Christmas I was riding deepest powder on my home mountain with friends. Wohoooo!! Then I went home to Munich to celebrate Christmas with my family. Coming back after three days to get back on board… But where?! The powder got a crusty layer and the slopes and parks were pretty icy. Anyways I went riding at Nordpark and Vans Penken Park, which is pretty amazing. Going back there the next days before leaving to Laax for the European Open… Happy new year to everybody!!

P.S.: More pictures gonna follow. They are still developing. Analog is the new 2009!
 

We were there with Wojtech from Poland and Baszi from Hungary. Also Jocki Köffler from the pirates joined us for one day...

Jasmin, my girl, hurt her knee really bad and had to go back home earlier and had a surgery on 23rd of december. The rest of us returned on 24th of december which was a little bit stressy with christmas. 

From 12th Dec. on I was on nassfeld for 3 days cause i won a trip to a giant studentparty with two days of snowboarding. Everything started on Thursday evening we were on a party in vienna. Went to bed at 6:30 and get up again at 7. So no sleep...

 There was a partytrain going to nassfeld where i didn't stopped partying until we arrived. But then the fresh air knocked me out :-D so i slept from 18 hours in a row and was 100% fit for a good powder day. So it was the best thing for me to sleep during the first party there. 

In the morning we had some awesome powder runs with up to 3 meters of snow. SOOO sick. in the afternoon i joined Rob Mathera, Rudi Kröll and Fuchsi a good friend of mine at a kicker show for the students there which was also pretty sick. It's been a while since i jumped kickers last time. But i enjoied it for sure. tried some bs 5's and 7's....

In the evening there was a heavy party and on the next day hangover powderruns...

 all in all it was pretty funny 

So I know that you guys in Europe have been really lucky with the snow and that is so amazing. In Whistler and all of West Cost Canada, we have nothing, a few cm only and it keep raining to the top of the glacier. Hopefully this is change soon since it only takes one good week but still.

So I just finished my intensive 500 hour yoga course, sort of the PhD in yoga and it was amazing, lots of work but learned so much about so many different subjects.

I graduated on Decmber 1st then flew the nest day to Colorado where there's lots of snow and a pipe in Copper mountain. So crowded, I think that every pipe rider in the world is here right now. I rode for a few days, then flew back to Clagary to go do our cathaloguy shoot with Powder Room/Rip Zone and like every year it's a non stop party and good times along with lots of make-up. I just came right back here to Colorado for the Grand Prix that is tomorrow and I wished I had a few more days to get my tricks back on track. Oh well, it's all good, first contest of the year right?

Here are a few photos of my yiga graduation that was pretty amazing yet sad to leave everybody after all this time and then from our photoshoot.

HOpe to see some of you guys soon.

ciao

dom

 i haven't got any action fotos cause we were just filming over there but it wasn't that exciting at all...

how's everyone doing? winter has started now definitely *jippie* ... snow has even fallen in Vienna! :)

 Last weeks I've been to Dachstein every weekend, the park is so perfect there!! You find loads of kickers and boxes for each level and the shapers do their best!

However, this weekend I haven't been there 'cause I've been invited to a Jib Contest in the city Martin, Slovakia. It was a really funny session at an unusual location. It was held in front of the screen of a massive open air cinema. I needed some time to get used to the set-up because of the sketchy inrun but I felt more comfortable with every run. After the qualifications I was one of the 3 girls that were going to the finals. There was a quite long break before the finals and it was pretty cold. I didn't expect that it was going good for me in the finals but when they started I was really excited and had fun. In the end I won the contest and even if I smelled like a bottle of champaign after the price giving I was really happy about that :)

I also got to know a bunch of really cool girls from Poland, that invited me to a contest in Zakopane... I'm looking forward to that :)

... until that I'm happy about the fresh snow at home and looking forward to the week before christmas, when I will be in Sofia, Bulgaria, for another Jib Contest and some shooting.

 Hope you all had a nice season start and enjoy the powder!! 

cheers

I arrived at 13:00 and there was a session going on on a kinked box. I was getting a little nervouse but Radim (the organizer) told me, that this is a public contest and there will be a session afterwards on the other obstacles. 

So we went in town again to get ourself something to eat. when we returned everything was finished. PERFECT setup consisting of a 20 stairs downrail, a downbox and a gap box. We had a fine session from 17:00 until 21:00. Sick riders from cz, sl, sk and me and a friend from austria. 

 After the session there was a big party going on in a bunker :-D never session such a crazy location. 

 I really liked the session there. Hope i can provide you with some pictures in the next days. 

Btw.: Andi Wiig won the Pleasurejam. Eero Etala won the best trick with a switch double backflip but only got 5th place. For details visit http://www.pleasurejam.at/

It was so much fun, we were filming with some guys and it was great. We got some sick tricks on tape but unfortunatly we had no photocamera there. but i will provide you with a short video within this week. 

Since I got the summer season card of Dachstein glacier, which is valued until end of November, I’m mostly hanging there at the moment…

This weekend I wasn’t sure if I would make it to the mountain, ‘cause it was my daddy’s 50. birthday weekend. My elderly relatives are more party tigers than I thought, so I was in this restaurant dancing to funny songs with my uncles till 6 in the morning…

One hour after going to bed my phone rang and I was told to be ready in 10 minutes for going to Dachstein… jippie :)

I didn’t expect that I could even go up in the gondola, but it was a surprisingly good day. A little foggy though, but not many people.. liked it!

After riding, the guys who took me there went home and I was “on my own” again, like last weekend, after my friends went home on Saturday… Fortunately, I found a place to sleep where I got delicious dinner and breakfast as well… THX to Hawa!!

Sunday was excellent but many people again. It’s really warm up there and the snow is untypically slushy for this time of year. Hopefully that will change soon…

After riding I got to know 3 nice local girls who drove me down to Ramsau, where a friend picked me up and drove me home to Vienna…hihi… THX to all of you!

Curiously waiting for next weekend!

Cheers and have fun

How is everybody doing? I'm so jealous of you guys that are already riding the sweet Euro Glacier.

Snow is falling to the villgae here in Whistler ut it's still not time yet. I think the mountain will open on November 28th, so long time form now.

So since September, I've been doing really really, and I mean really intense yoga sessions. I got certified to be an international yoga teacher in September, so that was 200 hours in 25 days. Then a few days later I started the second level were you learn more about breathing, energies, paraspychology, and even tantra. That's another 300 hours and this all end's at the end of November. 6days a week and 8 hours a day. So As you can guess I pretty much don't have a life outside of this yoga world for now. I'm doing all this in Vancouver at this really amazing school where there is people from all over the World that come to study here. All ages and proffessions. It's a really great group and it's crazy the things that you learn about your body that you didn't know and let's face it, you've been with your body your whole life so it's pretty fascinating.

Well just a quick hello to everybody that I miss so much form the snow world.

I teach a few of you this Winter my new yoga skills. I already have some offers to teach on the road. We'll see were all of this leads.

Sorry, no photos during yoga.

ciao

...is ready to be shred again!! :)

Even if it’s only beginners park at the time, I had much fun there at the weekend! Unfortunately, it’s still too less snow for the pro park and the conditions in the beginners park are a bit icy. On Saturday there were many people on the mountain, so the queue was quite long at the lift. But on Sunday it was much better, less people and softer snow in the park. I really enjoyed the little jibs, which are perfect for the first days of the season!

Weather was perfect both days… check the pix.

Hopefully, it will dump as soon as hard as possible!!

… the pro park really needs it and there are few weeks to go for the Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam...

  Hope to see u there!

It’s been a while since my last blog…

After my trip through Europe nothing particularly interesting happened. I did my usual summer working to save money for winter and besides that I was studying like crazy for Uni. Thinking like “what you can manage in summer won't bother you in winter” I prepared for 2 big exams which were held on the same day at the end of September… It was really interesting, all about anatomy, injuries, therapy… but I’ve never ever studied as much before and I’m really happy it’s over now

… to start into the new season *jippie*

Season start this year for me meant Hintertux Opening…

Conny (was nice to meet you again :) ) pretty much catched the point:

Saturday dumping and fog at the mountain, but still had much fun… sooo nice to be in the snow again!

Then sunshine on Sunday and monshine on Monday ( monshine is the new word for “sunshine” plus “less people in the park than on Sunday”… ;) )

So I was really happy to stay until Monday, it was the perfect start into the new season… good conditions, much fun in the park, meeting all the dudies again… AWESOME!

Next weekend unfortunately won’t be a riding weekend, but I’m still looking forward to it…

It’s time for the Premiere Party of our new Movie, Bamboo Motion Pictures ‘Together’, in Wr. Neustadt. So if you’re hanging near Vienna next weekend… would be happy to welcome you  :)

The Movie is available at

http://www.x-tremevideo.com/snowboard/index.cfm?ccs=89&cs=1515&highlight=together

Enjoy the first flakes,

c u at the mountains

It feels so good to back on snow – amazing! I can’t wait to go again, but so far the weather kept me away… let it snow, Santa!