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Rider NewsView all 757 headlines for Rider News. Love him or hate him, the ginger kid is one hell of a famous person, snowboarding aside. Check out the second breakout from the first TV Show on the 09/10 TTR Bundle: Ever wondered how snowboarding became one of the biggest winter sports? This is story of Snowboarding, the people who progressed it, and genesis of the Swatch TTR World Snowboarding Tour. This part takes you right the way through from the inception of the Oakley Arctic Challenge, the Ticket to Ride system, all the way to a 6star stadium events and a the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour. And with interviews from world class snowboarders like Terje Haakonsen, Reto Lamm, Shaun White and Torah Bright you know your in safe hands. History of Snowboarding and the TTR - Terje, White (Part 2) from ttrworldtour on Vimeo. Check out the latest breakout from the first TV Show on the 09/10 TTR Bundle: Ever wondered how snowboarding became one of the biggest winter sports? This is story of Snowboarding, the people who progressed it, and genesis of the Swatch TTR World Snowboarding Tour. Taking you through from Sherman Poppen through to the beginnings creation of the renown Oakley Arctic Challenge after snowboarding became an Olympic sport in 1996. With interviews from snowboarding legends Terry Kidwell, Jake Burton Carpenter, Terje Haakonsen. History of Snowboarding and the TTR - Burton, Haakonsen, Kidwell (Part 1) from ttrworldtour on Vimeo.
Torah Bright likes to laugh and who wouldn't when there's this much powder around. This is a supposed to be an instructional video for riding in powder, but we can sum Torah's tips up with "go fast, lean back and just turn". We think the video is worth it for the infectious giggling. More Snowboarding >> 12 year old TSA team rider Rowan Coultas is taking part in Quiksilver Radar programme. We need your help to get Rowan sent over to the European X Games so he can compete in the Quiksilver Radar comp. All you need to vote on his video and we can have a British grom representing. You may have already spotted this in the forum, but check out Jamie's mad skills. I have already told him I can't do that sort of thing myself, but wondered whether he might teach me the single corked 5... Tomski is a well known character at Chill Factore. Here's great article from the Daily Mail about how his hip condition stopped him from walking and how snowboarding has led to a dramatic recovery. Eleven are please to welcome the talented snowboarder and skater from Plymouth Lucas Brammall, to the UK team. Lucas joins the likes of Nelson Pratt, Cody Hierons and Wayne Taylor as the team grows from strength to strength. Lucas is currently out in Morzine doing a season and is going to be heading to Laax for this year's Brits.  Check out Tyler Chorlton, one of the most instantly recognisable UK riders out there. Laura Berry is perhaps one of the most naturally talented female snowboarders that the UK has produced in recent years, but a series of unfortunate events has seen her body battered and brooked and left her wondering how she'll be able to bounce back. We at SCUK are very close to Laura as Dunx covered most of Laura's earlier events at SNO!zone MK "before she was famous".  Laura's collarbone with the plate and screws in In September 2009 she had her plate taken out and things got complicated. A couple of weeks after the removal, a lump had formed where her plate had been. Milton Keynes General Hospital X-rayed her and said it was 'probably ok'! A week later Laura had a letter from MK General asking her to pop back in because at a second glance her x-ray didn't look quite right. Fearing the worst from the NHS, Laura decided to return to her private surgeon rather than leave herself in the hands of the NHS Emergency department treatment lottery. A good job too, because her surgeon found that Laura had a massive aneurysm measuring 2cm by 2cm. An aneurysm is different to a blood clot as it's a bubble which the blood continues to flow through and can swell and burst killing you! It turned out that Laura ironically developed the aneurysm when the surgeon drilled the plate to her collarbone, because he also drilled into her artery a bit too meaning when it was removed it left a hole in the artery!  The plate and screws once removed from Laura's collarbone Unknown to Laura at this time her sponsors were becoming restless with her constant stream of injuries and subsequent 'healing time' leaving her unable to snowboard or compete. In October 2009 Red Bull informed Laura that she was coming to the end of her contract and they were dropping her. Not the best thing to hear when you're suffering all of the above already! The surgeon treating Laura wanted to inject her with a clotting agent to stop the aneurysm, there was a slight risk that it wouldn't work and the injection could worsen then situation, the odds were one in a million. Defying the odds the injection didn't work, the clotting agent started to block Laura's artery and they had to stop because they would leave a blood clot in her arm. After the procedure there was a small clot which she was told would sort itself out in time. After being transferred to Oxford, where the Vascular team is much better, the doctors again tried to closed the aneurysm, this time by passing a tube from her groin to her aneurysm to close off the entrance and then injecting the clotting agent again. Laura describes it as 'the single most painful thing I have ever had in my life. The pain was so bad I passed out'… but again there were complications. Laura came round to doctors everywhere and was rushed into surgery and told that there was a strong possibility that she would not come back out with her HAND! Where they had tried the second procedure they had created another blockage meaning there was literally no blood going to her hand. Luckily that operation went well, meaning that Laura won't be grabbing stalefish with a hook. The doctors put her on a 12 week programme of aspirin to thin her blood, hoping that when she would come off the medication her blood would thicken and the aneurysm will heal itself.  The aftermath of the emergency operation After the operation, Laura left the UK and incredibly went away for the winter to Morzine! Laura returned to the UK earlier this month to see both the surgeon about her collarbone and the surgeon about her arteries. Laura says that, 'For 12 weeks my hand has been cold to the point of my fingers being white and I can't warm them up. Apparently this is because of where I had the emergency operation, I now have a clot in my elbow. My shoulder aches and doesn't move 100% properly. I still have an aneurysm which is the same size as before and my collarbone is still in two bits. The blockage in my elbow is restricting the blood flow to my hand by about 50%, which is in turn, creating the coldness.' It turns out that Laura is in the ultimate catch 22, they can't heal her aneurysm or her collarbone because if something goes wrong then she'll probably LOSE HER ARM! But in the mean time she is stuck with a broken collarbone and an aneurysm! The next step is to wait for the blockage to harden up before putting a tube in her arm to widen the artery. This won't happen for another 12 weeks. Laura is very strangely upbeat; 'Even though I'm probably the most fecked I have ever been, the doctors won't do anything for another 12 weeks, which I guess means that I can still do my season and shred. Hopefully after 12 weeks they can fix it and this drama will all be over, but who knows'. Laura maintains that she is still not riding at 100%, but she's stoked to be riding at all. 'I don't think anyone has ever been told that they are okay to still shred because they're too battered to actually be fixed! I'm just stoked I can still be out riding and doing what I love'.  Laura enjoying her shredding © James North So if you see Bezza out on the shred, just know, there's a slim chance she might drop dead in front of you. But at least you'll know the reason why!!! Everybody at SCUK wishes Laura a full recovery. Written by Sean Miller
Quiksilver & Roxy RadarThis is the first year that Quiksilver and Roxy have launched this European project aimed at discovering the snowboard and the ski freestyle rider of tomorrow. Quiksilver & Roxy Radar is a European contest, open to all boys and girls between 8 and 13 years who snowboard or ski. www.quiksilverlive.com/radar10 Check out this blog from Jenny on her assault and victory on the X Games slopestyle in Colorado last week. Now, all we need to do is get this as an Olympic event and we're laughing. 38 year old British snowboard legend James Stentiford has just finished in 3rd place at the Freeride World Tour event held in Chamonix. Jenny Jones has just won the X Games Slopestyle Gold medal for the second year running! Contract Snowboards lunch the ‘Battle for Britain’ sponsorship competition.  For the increasing number of skiers keen to travel to Europe by train, the journey is now even easier thanks to a new range of advance-bookable taxi transfers in Paris which are now available at www.snowcarbon.co.uk, the new website which promotes train travel to Europe for skiers and snowboarders. The website’s ‘change in Paris’ section is now available to use. “These specific station-to-station advance-booked taxi services make rail journeys into Europe even easier and more relaxing, to the benefit of travellers and the environment. We have had already had constructive feedback on the need for such a service, so we are confident it will be a hit.” Torah Bright, Kjersti Buaas, Lisa Wiik and the rest of the Roxy Team are Walking on Sunshine! The girls sing and dance their way through the streets and the mountains of Morocco, America, Italy, France, Switzerland and Austria to put this smile on your face!
Shaun White busted out an insane new trick at the final Grand Prix practice under the lights at Park City tonight—a double McTwist 1260. He says, he booked it straight to Park City after the Mammoth Grand Prix and, reminiscent of last winter when he innovated the double cork, he fixated on this new goal. He says pretty much everything came together, the sun came out, the pipe was perfect, and, ” I just looped it a couple times and it just landed itself basically.” He put down five more in a row right after that and then busted it out for everyone to see tonight. He says the trick to the trick is that, “you’ve gotta know right at that right moment to pull back after the first McTwist.” Got it? American snowboarder Danny Davis will miss next month's Vancouver Olympics after suffering a spinal fracture in a quad bike accident. Snowboarder Kevin Pearce (Norwich, VT) remains in critical condition at the University of Utah Hospital intensive care unit in Salt Lake City. Doctors indicate that his condition is stable and that he is continuing treatment for a head injury sustained on December 31, 2009 while training in the halfpipe in Park City, Utah. Pearce was in the process of completing a cab double cork (a twisting double back flip which he has landed before) when he caught his toe-side edge while landing. Pearce was wearing a helmet at the time of his fall. Kevin was airlifted to the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City where he is being treated. Skiers and snowboarders who own the latest iPhone 3GS, can enjoy an ‘augmented reality (AR)’ application that will allow them to navigate ski trails and on-mountain features at selected US ski resorts. Using an application developed by Colorado-based Resort Technology Partners (RTP), REALSKI allows riders to view their surroundings while the app overlays digital graphics showing nearby lifts, runs and resort facilities in real view and real-time. www.Skiinfo.co.uk reports that most of the world’s major ski regions are reporting relatively good snow conditions ready for the season’s peak Christmas and New Year holiday weeks. Low temperatures across the northern hemisphere have allowed for snowmaking to operate a maximum efficiency through the world’s now hundreds of thousands of snow guns, but this has hardly been needed at many resorts where the Alps, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Scotland and both coasts of north America reporting at least a foot (30cm) of new snow in the past week and in some cases as much as 1.2 metres (four feet). In most ski areas the snow is currently still falling.
Conditions in France are continuing to improve in the Alps with most resorts reporting snow over the past few days, and this is continuing right now. La Clusaz appears to be doing the best, posting yet another powder alarm for another 35cm (14 inches) of snow overnight this morning. It has received the most snow in France over the past week, with 117cm (nearly 4 feet) in the past week and now has the deepest reported base in France as a result, with 1.4m (nearly five feet). Many other major French resorts are not far behind however and conditions are currently great at most, with fresh powder on a solid base. Les Contamines Montjoie and Peisey Vallandry each have 130cm (4.3 feet) bases with La Plagne and La Rosière1850 only 5cm (2 inches) less. In common with the rest of Europe temperatures have been very low however, dropping to about -16°C in Le Grand Bornand on Sunday morning. All major French resorts are now fully or partially open. Switzerland continues to top the list for powder alarms in Europe. Today Vercorin reports a remarkable 90cm (three feet) of new snow, and eight out of the top ten snowfall reports in Europe are in Switzerland. Andermatt-Gotthard claims the most snow in the country with 2.5m (over eight feet), St Moritz has 1.8m (over 6 feet), Laax 168cm (5.6 feet) and Engelberg 165cm (5.5 feet). After Vercorin with 1.6m (5.3 feet), Champoussin on the French border in the Portes du Soleil has had the most snow in the past week with a metre of fresh. Italy continues to have the greatest snow depth in the world at the Presena (3.8m/12.7 feet) and Marmolada (3.2m/10.6 feet) glaciers above Passo Tonale and Arabba respectively. The country has also seen some of the heaviest snowfall in Europe through the past week. With the north-western regions of Piemonte and the Aosta Valley doing especially well and snow falling in Turin. Bardonecchia and Macugnaga both reported 50cm (20 inches) of new snow each yesterday, Cervinia and La Thuile 40cm (16 inches) each. Austrian ski areas typically received another 20-30m (8-12 inches) of snow at the start of the week, Wilma Himmelfreundpointner of St Anton Tourism commented, “I had the pleasure to enjoy the perfectly prepared slopes and the great mountain view on Sunday and I can only say it’s a winter’s dream.” St. Anton currently has 28 lifts opened and 68km of slopes prepared. After the powder alarm on Monday (20 cm) and 5cm of new snow so far today (Wednesday) the resort has 130cm (4.3 feet) of snow on upper slopes now and 30cm (a foot) in the valley. Across Austria the Mölltal glacier continues to have the most snow with 230cm (7.6 feet) , the Kaunertal glacier 191cm (6.3 feet) and the Hintertux glacier 170cm (6.6 feet). Großglockner/Heiligenblut has had the most snow in the country in the past week with 40cm (16 inches). A quarter of it falling today. Bad Kleinkirchheim had 30cm (a foot) yesterday. It snowed all weekend In Germany. The Allgäu Alps reported the biggest snowfalls in the country, but there were many powder alarms in the central uplands, too. Temperatures reached a low of - 28C and immense snowfalls caused traffic chaos while hundreds of skiers and snowboarders entered the slopes in the Sauerland region and enjoyed up to 35cm (14 inches) of new snow that had fallen over the past week. Dozens of powder alarms have been issued by German resorts in recent days, mostly for 20-30cm (8-12 inches) in 24 hours. Ofterschwang reported 25 cm of new snow last night. The resort is open partially and will open completely on Christmas Eve tomorrow. Rainer Hartmann, manager of Ofterschwanger Bergbahnen was happy about the cold temperatures allowing snow production and also about the great snowfalls last night: “Now we can offer our guests a great ski resort for Christmas!” he said. The Zugspitzplatt has the most snow in the country with 170cm (5.6 feet), Oberstdorf – Nebelhorn has 110cm (3.6 feet). Heavy snow and low temperatures across most of Eastern Europe has allowed about 75% of the ski areas to either fully open or at least open some slopes in Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia to open at the weekend. In Bulgaria, Pamporovo and Borovets have joined Bansko in opening their slopes this weekend, a week after Bansko. Snowfalls of up to 430cm have been reported and Bansko has the greatest base depth of up to 70cm (2.3 feet). Romania's leading resort of Poiana Brasov has partially opened following fresh snow there, it is currently reporting temperatures in double digits below zero. Most of Slovenia's ski areas also opened at the weekend too, after the warm snap that affected much of mainland Europe finally ended. Krvavec, which has been voted the best resort in the country by a Croatian Ski Magazine for three years in a row, has a 55cm (22 inch) base. Most of Slovakia's leading ski areas have also opened at the weekend, the new Kosutka ski centre which opened last winter has 40cm (16 inches) of snow. To the north some serious snow arrived last week in Scandinavia, particularly from Thursday through to Tuesday. In Sweden Bydalen got the most with 45cm (18 inches) of new snow, followed by Vemdalen with 39cm (16 inches). Hassela got 30cm (a foot) and Tandådalen 22cm (9 inches) Vemdalen and Ramundberget have the greatest snow depths in the country at the moment with 80cm (Nearly three feet) to enjoy off-piste. The forecast shows really low temperatures all over the country for the upcoming Christmas Holiday.  Hemsedal on 20th DecemberIt’s a similar picture in Norway with cold crisp weather (25 below zero this morning in Hemsedal) and fresh snow. Voss was one of the main beneficiaries, issuing a powder alarm at the weekend. Spain has also had snowy news and the very cold weather currently common across Europe. A succession of Atlantic fronts has brought a mixture of snow and rain in the last few days. Now ski resorts are looking to the Christmas holidays optimistically. On Monday it snowed again in Madrid and snow is expected again all over Spain's Ski resorts in the next few days. Baqueira currently has the most terrain open in the country with 77km. Formigal is a few kilometres behind with 71km and has some of the deepest snow at 90cm (three feet). Conditions have improved a lot in Masella (25-55 cm powder and 41km) and has opened today a new ski area served by a new chairlift called La Pia Express. Sierra Nevada is reporting 20-100 cm of powder snow but it is currently closed due to the strong wind. Andorra has had a little new snow too but snow depths could still do with a perk up – they’re currently in the 30-60cm (1-2 foot) range. Western Canada is still receiving plenty of snow after the record falls of November. Red Mountain in British Columbia says it has received 73 cm (29 inches) of new snow since last week and Fernie 35cm (14 inches) in the past 48 hours. Whistler continues to build its incredible base ahead of the Olympics, with healthy falls through the past seven days meaning another 1.2m (4 feet) has fallen. Whitler’s seasaon-to-date snowfall is noew already nearing 7 metres (21 feet) and its mid-mountain base 2.5m (8.3 feet). Currently it recommends The saddle Gs course as one of the best on the mountain. Eastern Canada is also looking good. Mont-Sainte-Anne has the largest open terrain in the Province of Quebec with 30 slopes open and nearby Stoneham Mountain Resort is following close by with 9 slopes. In total, almost 50km of slopes are available to skiers and riders, in addition to the 109km of XC trails open at the Mont-Sainte-Anne Cross-country Skiing Center!  Mont-Sainte-Anne a few days ago The low temperatures of last week allowed Mont-Sainte-Anne to pursue its snowmaking efforts with 100% of its system in operation. Snow guns have now been moved to the mountain’s expert terrain to open a maximum number of runs for the holidays. So far the resorts have received 143 cm of snow. It’s a similar picture in the US where, like in much of Europe, cold temperatures and heavy sow have brought chaos to metroplitan areas as well as plenty of snow to the si slopes of New england in great time for christmas and the New Year. Whiteface mountain reports it has “a ton” of snow, most other resorts in the region are claiming several feet of new cover (30-60cm). At Squaw Valley USA in California it just won’t stop snowing. Three weeks into December and the resort has already received 100 inches (2.5m) of snow. Days-on-end of snow accumulation have allowed resort operators to get the mountain 100% open for the Holidays. Revelers can catch Santa and his Elf in the Village or out on the slopes, enjoying the phenomenal conditions. View all 757 headlines for Rider News. |
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