World Event News

It’s always snowing somewhere, and while some riders are taking advantage of the skate and surf in the northern hemisphere, dedicated snowboarders will soon be trekking down south for the first stop of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour’s 08/09 season, the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open kicking off .. More...

From May 19th to 22nd, the TTR Board Members met in New York City, USA to determine what measures are necessary to best help progress the sport of snowboarding. The most notable changes for the 08/09 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour are as follows: The last 6STR events of the 08/09 Swatch TTR World .. More...

The Burton Global Open Series announced dates for its 2008/2009 international snowboard competition series, which will kick off in New Zealand this summer. Below are final dates and locations for all 2008/2009 Burton Global Open Series competitions. Burton New Zealand Open July 29 – August 2, ....More...

Jamaica hopes to enter the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 with their first competitor since the famous appearance of the country’s bobsleigh team at the Calgary Games 18 years ago which inspired the Cool Runnings movie. This time Jamaica’s hopes are likely to rest upon the shoulders of a ....More...

The Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour to head Downunder with over $100,000 in prize money up for grabs! The Swatch TTR Event applications are over and we are looking forward to a new season of amazing snowboarding performances – with an incredible prize money of over $2,500,000 USD up for grabs at .. More...

Laura Berry (SCUK: Lozza) travelled to Val Senales in Italy with Sam Turnbull last weekend for the final leg of the Burton AM Tour. She finished a lazy 2nd on the day, but was crowned Tour Winner and walked away with a Suzuki 250 Quad Bike. We have a garden the size of a postage stamp so hopefully .... More...

The world’s top snowboarders will once again return to the giant superpipe and slopestyle courses at Snow Park NZ in Lake Wanaka for five days of world-class snowboarding action during the Burton New Zealand Open Snowboarding Championships from July 29th to August 2nd. More...

The last event of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour couldn't have gone more smoothly. The sun was cooking, the music was blasting and riders were going full out at the 4-Star Snickers Classic & Popcorn Wallride in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In his second European appearance this season, Shaun White .... More...

Whistler’s thirteenth TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival launched with an auspicious start this weekend with two hugely successful competitions, the Orage Masters, and the Big Air. The Big Air saw $44,000 in cash prizes awarded to the top skiers and snowboarders, who truly lit up the night ....More...

What a season it’s been. The action began all the way back in July of 2007 and the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour has finally reached it’s final stop of the 07/08 season with the 4-Star Snickers Classic and Popcorn Wallride. Riders have been shreddin’ hard all season long but it’s not over yet ....More...

Following the success of the Westbeach Annual Chinese Downhill at Whistler earlier this year, the Brits at Laax played host to a repeat of the disorganised carnage on Sunday 30th March (not to be confused with the Red Bull Home Run that was an official part of the Brits and happened on Friday 2nd .... More...

The ladies were greeted with bright blue skies for the Slopestyle competition of the Swatch TTR 6-Star Roxy Chicken Jam, the final women’s event of the Tour. Focus, however, was placed on the Tour Title in the tightest battle of the season that hosted the best female riders in the business. .... More...

The sky turned blue and the pipe softened up for high-profile competitive contingent at the 2008 Swatch TTR Roxy Chicken Jam Halfpipe competition at Mammoth Mountain California, USA. The Chicken Jam is the last 6-Star event on the Women’s Tour and things are really heating up with Kelly Clark (USA).. More...

Not long to go until the Nikita Chickita, Europe 2008! We’re all excited about the impending contest, so here’s a few more updates. As sponsors of this year’s event, Cooler and Onboard will be supplying copies of their latest magazines for goodie bags and winners can also expect a Cooler t-....More...

With the Burton US Open spectacle ending last weekend, it is now time for the women to shine at the decisive 6-Star Roxy Chicken Jam. The best and most progressive female snowboarders in the world are gathering at Mammoth Mountain, California, USA on March 28-30th 2008 for the final competition of .... More...

It was a perfect bluebird day for the Halfpipe finals at the Swatch TTR 6-Star Burton US Open, and the temperatures stayed cold making for a nice fast pipe. It was a heated competition with so many transition specialists in attendance, and with his third place finish, Kevin Pearce (USA) has become .... More...

After a full-out season of close calls and flawless victories, US snowboarder Kevin Pearce charged through the opposition, defeating his challengers and rising to the occasion to become the new 07/08 Men’s Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion. Kevin Pearce, a Vermont native, was crowned at .... More...

The sun finally broke out for the Swatch TTR 6-Star Burton US Open Slopestyle finals, but the winds kicked up a notch giving riders another challenge alongside a determined field of talented professional snowboarders. Kevin Pearce (USA), who barely held on to his Tour lead, didn’t make the .... More...

At the final stop of the Freeride World Tour in Verbier, all competing riders of the Freeride World Tour gathered together to look through video footage and voted for two riders, one male and one female, who they thought made the most impressive run over the five FWT contests. Two snowboarders .... More...

The Swatch TTR 6-Star Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships will take place this week hosting highly competitive Slopestyle and Halfpipe formats in the defining men’s contest on the TTR World Snowboard Tour. Professional snowboarders have been traveling all over the world, competing in the .... More...

NMotivated local park crews and an ever growing number of followers help this season’s Burton AM Tour to live up to its good reputation. Europe’s biggest snowboarding amateur contest series has already stopped in eleven resorts in eleven different countries, with another six stops in four more .... More...

Cyril NeriThe 13th edition of the Xtreme Verbier was the fifth and final contest of the Freeride World Tour and was held on the west face of Mont Gelé, in the heart of Verbier ski resort. Amongst the world’s best 37 snowboarders and free skiers, were the Nissan Sports Adventure team riders .... More...

The Chevrolet Grand Prix, a 5-Star competition on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, finally got under way today after a foggy weather delay last night. Slopestyle finals kicked off in the morning and Halfpipe finals took place in the afternoon making for an action packed day. Janne Korpi (FIN) ....More...

Entries for the Oakley Jib-Vid 2008 are now closed and the expectation for the event of the season is reaching boiling point. It is our great pleasure to announce the wildcard teams that have qualified, details of which can be found at the official website. The calibre of all the teams that ....More...

The 26th Annual US Open Shall Amount to the Most Righteous Snowboarding Battle of the Ages Secure thine abacus. The sum of the numerals below amount to the most supreme event of the snowboarding season. One snowboarding competition has been run by snowboarders, for snowboarders for 26 ....More...

Team UK, consisting of James Bryant (photographer – assistant editor Document Snowboard) and Vans riders Stuart Horsham and Mark Ruparelia, has scooped 1st place in the Vans Photo Invitation Award that took place at the Wangle Tangle event in Mayrhofen. Winning a cash prize of 2,500 euros, plus 500 .. More...

World Snowboard Tour promises to shake things up in the TTR World Rankings as many world-class riders head to Killington Vermont, USA for the Chevrolet Grand Prix. The two-day competition, taking place March 15th and 16th 2008, offers up two opportunities for riders to bank 850 TTR ranking points .... More...

More video goodness from Freecaster.

The Nissan Freeride de Tignes 2008, France and the fourth leg of the Freeride World Tour which saw the action move from the Swatch Big Mountain Pro around the Alps, to the north face of Pramecou in the resort of Tignes, deep in the heart of the Espace Killy. The UK's James Stentiford With .... More...

The World Super Pipe Championships, a 5-Star Event on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, took place on Saturday at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah USA. The 22-foot Superpipe remained in pristine condition despite slightly overcast conditions. The level of riding was incredibly high .... More...

The snow gods may not have been smiling down upon the Vans Penken Park in Mayrhofen Austria, but that didn’t stop some of the best European riders from throwing down at the Swatch TTR 5-star Ästhetiker Jam Wängl Tängl. Andreas Gidlund from Sweden stood high atop the podium, taking home 850 TTR .... More...

The Red Bull Gap Session is taking place on Saturday in Bavaria. You can check out preparations and previews on Freecaster.tv Red Bull Gap Session 08 - Trailer Red Bull Gap Session 1 Red Bull Gap Session 2

Verbier, Switzerland will host the grand finale of the Freeride World Tour with the Nissan O'Neill Xtreme. 16 snowboarders and 16 skiers from the elite of Freeride will tackle the mythical North Face of the Bec des Rosses, a dauntingly steep and frighteningly jagged 500m rock-face and battle it out ..More...

The replay and highlights from the Swatch O'Neill Big Mountain Pro are still available to watch on Freecaster.tv but now the team are gearing up for the next Live Webcast from the Freeride World Tour 08. The Tour continues with the 4th in the series from Tignes. There will be 44 riders in total, ..More...

The rising sun broke through once again as bluebird skies graced the last day of the SuperPipe finals at the Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open. Keir Dillon took home $15,000 and first place for the men’s and Torah Bright (pictured) repeated her 2007 win in the women’s competition. The Japanese .... More...

At The Oakley Arctic Challenge at the weekend there was no record broken, but there was some super action in the belly of the beast. Dave and Preston guided us through a thrilling finals where Kevin Pearce took home the win and the first place in the Swatch TTR World Tour. If you missed the action, ..More...

Japan has an air of mystery around the islands that collectively make up the country. It could be the spirits in the trees that house the much sought after powder snowboarders are always searching for. However, the mystery of the 2008 Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open so far has been the weather. .... More...

Footage of the 1st Annual Westbeach Chinese Downhill is now available at westbeach.com/chinesedownhill and on YouTube.com for your viewing pleasure. “The only rules are, there are no rules,” said Westbeach GM Jon Cartwright of the 1st Annual Westbeach Chinese Downhill on February 15, 2008. ....More...

The daily Live webcasts of the Swatch O'Neill Big Mountain Pro have kept us up to date with the riders' journey through the Alps in search of the ultimate thrill. From today there will be a time change for the Live Webcast. They will now be from 18:00 to 20:00 (CET). If you want to see the ....More...

Skate Inspired Terrain Awaits Riders at Five(5)Star Ästhetiker JAM Wängl Tängl Mayrhofen is gearing up for the Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl taking place March 1st to 8th, 2008. The Jam format event is packed with skate-inspired action featuring a Slopestyle competition on one of .... More...

The Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open is set to rock Japan from February 26th to March 2nd 2008 at the Alts Bandai resort in Fukushima. Some of the world’s best snowboarders including Shaun White, Antti Autti, Jamie Anderson and Torah Bright will be making the long trip to compete .... More...

Yesterday Terje Hakonsen introduced a new concept in snowboarding, the "Evening Classics". Each rider had a chance to take home some Norwegian Bling in three different Disciplines: Flat Spin, Upside Down and Straight Air. Per run a rider could get up to 1000 NOK per trick, what was left of the 23,....More...

5 weeks to go and limited team spots still available. Five weeks left to go and this year’s Oakley Jib-Vid is set to be a blinder, by far the best competition on the winter sports calendar! If you haven’t already entered then head to the website, www.jib-vid.com, and check out the 2008 event ..More...

The Nikita Chickita Europe is back for the second year running, opening up yet another opportunity for girls only to take part in the chance to win a year’s contract with Nikita as a fully fledged team member. 5-6 April at Serfaus Park, Austria. More...

From Monday 25 February to Saturday 1 March, 24 of the world's best snowboarders and skiers will have free reign of the European Alps. They will be taking part in the Swatch O'Neill Big Mountain Pro, 8 days of all terrain action, in search of the most thrilling obstacles that nature has to offer. ....More...

The Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia 2008 brings together the best riders and producers of extreme sports films for a week of exceptional filming. Zooming in on a fantastic week and the first results…Packed with amazing shots, the first edition of the Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia lived up .... More...

The North Face®, the world’s premier supplier of authentic, innovative and technically advanced outdoor apparel, equipment and footwear, today announced its presentation of the Freeride de Tignes, the fourth stop on the inaugural Freeride World Tour. Open to qualified snowboarders and skiers, the ....More...

On Thursday 21 and Saturday 23 February, Freecaster.tv will be streaming a Live webcast of probably the most impressive snowboarding contest of the season. The Oakley Arctic challenge marks the fifth of only six SIX(6) Swatch TTR competitions and the drawing of the end of an action packed and awe ....More...

The Nissan Montafon 2008, Austria and the second leg of the Freeride World Qualifying Tour saw the action move from Mammoth to the Vorarlberg in Western Austria, home to some of the best mountains in the country. Nissan Sports Adventure (NSA) snowboarder Eric Themel (AUT) was at the helm of ....More...

Hear ye, hear ye! The US Open Snowboarding Championships, the world’s most prestigious snowboarding contest, will take place at Stratton Mountain Resort, Vermont from March 17-23, 2008. Shaun White, Jamie Anderson, Kevin Pearce, Torah Bright, Scotty Lago, Gretchen Bleiler, Jussi Oksanen, Danny Kass,..More...

ChamonixMont-Blanc, 14th-17th of February, 2008 The first winter edition of the Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia is now ready to begin. The worlds’ best mountain sports athletes gather in Chamonix from today for a new kind of film and photo competition. Here’s a run-down on the teams and on the ....More...

The Slopestyle portion of the sixth annual Honda Session, a Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Event, occurred Saturday night in Vail, Colorado USA. The Session took place under bright lights with the events signature pyrotechnics blasting a huge flame into the air as snowboarders hit the last jump. Andreas ....More...

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We had some words and more importantly, some photos sent from Aspen by Mike Weyerhaeuser. Jenny just missed the podium finishing 4th in the Slopestyle Final, and Zoe made it through to the finals, coming in 6th overall, having been knocked to the ground early in the run in a collision with .... More...

While President Vladimir Putin was skiing on the opposite mountain, the elite of the sport of freeride skiing and snowboarding were putting on a great show at the second stage of the Freeride World Tour, Nissan Russian Adventure, in Krasnaya Polyana / Sochi, the Russian host resort of the Winter ....More...

The Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro will be hitting the slopes once again this year from 24th February to 2nd March and the impressive competitor line-up has already set tongues wagging. More...

Freecaster.tv continue their dedicated coverage of Swatch TTR events. Watch the replay and highlights from a really exciting weekend at Innsbruck. Tune in on Thursday and Friday for further Live coverage from the Crans-Montana Champs Open. Replay 1st Kevin Pearce (USA) 2nd Scotty Lago (..More...

Nissan Freeride Team Hit the Podium at the First Contest of the Freeride World Tour After a difficult week with snow, wind, and poor visibility the first contest of the Freeride World Tour, the Nissan Mammoth Challenge, was finally held in California on Friday 25 January. With cloudy skies and .... More...

The Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria was packed with screaming fans as riders reached incredible heights and laid down some of the sickest tricks ever seen on a Quarterpipe at the Billabong Air & Style. Kevin Pearce (USA) took the Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Title, his second Air & Style win of .... More...

When the Billabong Air & Style Quarter Pipe starts on February 2nd 2008 at 5:00 pm in Innsbruck, 12.000 Fans will rock the Bergisel Stadium and make this event unforgettable. There has been some changes on the Billabong Air & Style Quarter Pipe competitors list. Due to an injury Marco Smolla (....More...

The ninth annual Burton European Open wrapped up today with one of the most exciting halfpipe competitions in recent memory as Kevin Pearce (USA) upset Shaun White’s (USA) near certain victory. Kelly Clark (USA) easily soared into first place, taking women’s halfpipe riding to an entirely new level .. More...

It was a gorgeous day in Laax Switzerland as the leading Men and Women fought for the Tour lead in the Slopestyle finals at the Swatch TTR SIX(6)STAR Burton European Open. Jamie Anderson (USA) took home the BEO Slopestyle Title as did Shaun White (USA), who posted his first TTR result of the season,.. More...

The battle for the Swatch TTR top spot is hotting up at Laax. To watch the Slopestyle Finals for men and women check out www.freecaster.tv/live/beo/ on Thursday, January 17 at 11:30 – 13:30 CET. The Halfpipe Finals will be shown on Friday, January 18 at 11:30 – 14:00 CET.

Markus Malin2002 Olympic gold medalist and three-time US Open halfpipe champion Kelly Clark took charge at today’s women’s semi-finals halfpipe event, easily qualifying first for finals with huge airs and even bigger style. In the men’s halfpipe semi-final, the Finnish riders stole the show with .... More...

First Contest of the Freeride World Tour: Nissan Mammoth Challenge From 22 to 26 January 2008 56 male and female skiers and snowboarders are soon to take part in the Freeride World Tour on the gruelling McGee Mountain in Mammoth Mountain, California, Wednesday 23 January. Freeride World ....More...

Jenny JonesMany of the world’s best slopestyle riders, including Shaun White (USA), Jenny Jones (GBR), Jamie Anderson (USA) and Antti Autti (FIN) competed in today’s BEO slopestyle semi-finals, doing their best to earn a spot in the final competition of this 6-Star TTR event. The women were .... More...

This coming February, 24 of the best snowboarders in the world will return to this special venue to write the next chapter of the sport’s history. More...

Tyler EmondLinn Haug (NOR) placed first in today’s women’s halfpipe qualifiers and Nick Larson (USA) took the top spot in the men’s halfpipe pre-qualifiers. 43 women competed in today’s qualifiers for only four spots in the halfpipe semifinals, where they will compete against top champions .... More...

Fifteen-year-old Canadian rider Sébastien Toutant, who also won the BEO junior slopestyle event this weekend, had the highest score in today’s men’s slopestyle qualifications. 2007 Air & Style Rookie Session winner Tim Humphreys qualified in second place. And 16-year-old Zak Stone, who won the BEO .... More...

Things are getting intense on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour. The Burton European Open, hitting Laax Switzerland from January 11th to 18th 2008, is the fourth SIX(6)STAR stop on the Tour, but is the first event this season to host both men and women riders. The race for Tour leader is getting .... More...

After thrilling qualification runs, Freecaster is changing its live webcast schedule and will bring you the highest air contest today at 17:00 CET. Immediately after the highest air, we will show the Superpipe semi and final runs. On Saturday 05 January the live webcast will start at 18:00 CET. .. ..More...

Dan Wakeham, British World Cup Halfpipe Team member, kicked off his 2008 competition season in fine form on Tuesday 2nd January after qualifying in 3rd place to reach the Superpipe semi finals at the SIX(6)STAR TTR, O'Neill Evolution Event in Davos, Switzerland. Dan will be joined by the .... More...

The Burton Global Open Series announced today that live event webcasts will be available on Go211.com. Webcasts will feature the halfpipe and slopestyle semifinals and finals at the Burton European Open Snowboarding Championships taking place on January 11-18, 2008 at Laax, Switzerland. Go211.....More...

In less than a month the world’s best riders will gather in Laax, Switzerland from January 11-18, 2008 for the 9th Burton European Open, Europe’s biggest Snowboard event. The BEO is part of both the Burton Global Open Series and the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour (6 Star TTR-Event), and riders ....More...

O'Neill Evolution is kicking off today in Davos. Freecaster.tv will be broadcasting Live from the Superpipe Finals on Friday, Jan 4th at 20:00 CET and the Quarterpipe Finals on Saturday 5th at 20:00 CET. More...

After some unfortunate weather causing the postponement of competition on Saturday, the skies opened up and the sun shone brightly on the DC Central Park, midway on the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier, which was reshaped for the Swatch TTR SIX(6)STAR Roxy Chicken Jam. The girls were pumped and loving the set .. More...

Jenny Jones looking to become TTR No.1. The world’s best female riders, including the 06/07 TTR Women’s Top 5, are ready to tear up the Roxy Glacier Park located 2900m above sea level. The Kitzsteinhorn Glacier in Kaprun, Austria hosts the first all-girl SIX(6)STAR event of the 07/08 Swatch TTR .... More...

IrishSnowboarder.com Ireland's snowboarding community website & IrishSkier.com is proud to announce the 1st Irish snowboarding and skiing championships on snow this coming winter season. This historic event will take place between the 8th and 15th March 2008 high in the Italian Alps. The hosts .... More...

The young guns were unable to hold off Travis Rice (USA) in the land of the rising sun as he blew away all contenders with jaw-dropping manoeuvres that sent the entire Tokyo Dome of 35 000 spectators into a cheering frenzy. His combined results from the Quarterpipe and the Big Air landed him the .... More...

Recently announced, www.ttrworldtour.com and www.method.tv will be broadcasting exclusive footage on the 2007 Nissan X-Trail Jam taking place this weekend at the Tokyo Dome, Japan. The videos and reports will be released first thing Sunday and Monday morning, European time. Results will be ....More...

I took Jake to Madrid for the weekend to compete in the Spanish leg of the Burton AM Tour, getting there was a bit of a mission on a Friday afternoon, with a flight that was late, a taxi that got stuck in the Madrid rush hour night traffic we finally got there. The place is massive, the shopping .... More...

NISSAN X-TRAIL BRINGS SUSPENSE TO JAPAN AS YOUNG GUNS BEGIN TO TAKE OVERThe Nissan X-Trail Jam inches closer as nine riders who competed in Saturday’s Nokia Air & Style in Munich fly to Japan to continue the race for tour champion at the second SIX(6)STAR event of the 07/08 season. A total of ten ....More...

Kevin Pearce (USA) nailed a cab 1260 to win his first Nokia Air & Style at the Olympic Stadium in Munich Germany on Saturday night. Check out video clips of the good stuff. More...

The Nanshan Open, the first snowboard contest in China, has announced the return of Red Bull as the official sponsor for the second year in a row. The annual professional snowboard competition is to be held at Nanshan Ski Resort January 5th and 6th, 2008 for the sixth consecutive year.As the title .. More...

This weekend on Saturday December 1st, the annual Nokia Air&Style will take place in Munich. The Live Webcast will start at 17:00 CET. So tune in this Saturday to watch the best snowboarders compete in the first major TTR event of the season. Quicktime 7 is required to view the Live Webcast.

Breaking News! The legendary Terje Haakonsen is proposing a TTR World Championship in Oslo, Norway in 2009.Haakonsen, who needs no introduction, showed up at Oslo Town Hall to present his case. Armed with a few tons of snow, and with the help of some up and coming riders including Ulrik Badertscher,..More...

Saturday 1st December sees the Nokai Air & Style roll in to the Munic Olympic Stadium in Germany. The 43m high drop in and 25m gap are just the start of the stats that make this event so awesome. More...

Burton Snowboards and CODA’s Canada Olympic Park today announced that they have decided to cancel the upcoming Canadian Open Snowboarding Championships due to recent above-freezing temperatures. After careful consideration, all parties agreed that current snow conditions prevent the construction of ..More...

The Burton European Open (BEO) announces key riders and confirmed music acts for this year’s 9th annual snowboard competition, taking place in LAAX, Switzerland from January 11-18, 2008. Snowboard superstar and 2006 Olympic gold medallist Shaun White has confirmed that he will compete in both the ....More...

Get ready for pure freestyle heaven in Mayrhofen this Winter. To kick off a new partnership with Vans, a duo of designers (Icelandic, Bjarni Thor Valdimarsson and Austrian Stefan Plattner) have revamped the snow park to include features such as demanding obstacles, new lines and have turned the ....More...

The top athletes representing the extreme sports of skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, speed-riding and BASE-jumping will be in Chamonix in February 2008, to dispute the Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia film and photo competition. After three very successful summer editions, the event which has .... More...

Well, it wasn't just McNab's crew that stormed the Burton AM Tour in L2A. Here's a story from iLoveLegion on Glasgow regular Neil Stead who finished in 10th place. More...

The McNab junior squad have this week been training in Les Deux Alpes for the upcoming season. The young groms started the week by taking part in the Burton AM comp with 4 of the guys making into the finals in both the Junior and kids categories. Neil Stead and Ollie Jackson both finished in the ....More...

For the first time ever, The Burton European Open will award Suzuki cars to both the male and female BEO Overall Champions on Friday, January 18 following the halfpipe finals. This season’s BEO will take place from January 11-18, 2008 in LAAX, Switzerland, where the crew at LAAX will once again .... More...

Burton Snowboards, market leader in snowboarding, is proud to announce an European-wide cooperation with Suzuki, independent manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and outboard motors. Suzuki has supported snowboarding continuously over the last years which now culminated in the partnership with ....More...

Three-Year Strategic Deal Includes 250,000USD End Of Season Prize Purse .In one of the most significant partnerships in winter sports to date, Swatch, the world-renown Swiss watch brand, confirms its three-year participation as title partner of the leading global snowboard initiative, the Ticket To ..More...

Celebrate the start of the season with Freestyle Concepts and For Boarders By Boarders in Les Diablerets, Switzerland on 3rd November. More...

Online competitor registration is now open for the first ever Burton Canadian Open, taking place from December 3-9, 2007 at CODA’s Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. The third stop on the 2007/2008 Burton Global Open Series and a four-star Ticket To Ride event, the Canadian Open will include ....More...

The famous Air & Style snowboard contest will return to Innsbruck this winter for the first time since 1999. The competition was first staged in Innsbruck in 1994 and was attracting about 50,000 fans by the time it was last staged there, but there was a crowd crush that year as fans tried to leave ....More...

The 2008 Burton European Open has a "BEO Airlines" theme - check out the calendar for more details. Chocks away! More...

The 2007/2008 Nokia sponsored Snowboard FIS World Cup will kick off this season in New Zealand for the first time. On August 31st and September 1st, the first Halfpipe contest will be held in Cardrona.Riders from about 20 nations will fight for the first FIS World Cup points in the Johnny Superpipe...More...

Southern Hemisphere snowboarding took a huge step forward at the Halfpipe contest of TTR FIVE(5)STAR event Burton New Zealand Open, held at Snow Park NZ, Wanaka, over the weekend. Defending Women’s TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion Torah Bright (AUS), posted her first title win of the season, ....More...

Jenny Jones has taken first place in the women's Slopestyle event at the Burton New Zealand Open. She stormed through the Semi-finals above Hana Beaman and Torah Bright to qualify first for the finals. Unfortunately, high winds called a halt to proceedings meaning the Semi-final positions stood as ....More...

The Burton Global Open Series announced dates for its 2007/2008 international snowboard competition series, including a new event in Canada, which will kick off the snowboard competition season in North America. Below are final dates and locations for all 2007/2008 Burton Global Open Series ....More...

Perisher Blue will set the stage for what is positioned to be the biggest event on the Australian freeride calendar – the Garnier Fructis Australian Open 2007 Snowboarding Championships from the 21st to the 25th of August.The Open is part of the world-class Burton Global Open Series Snowboard ‘....More...

Burton’s fourth annual Abominable Snow Jam snowboarding competition wrapped up yesterday with Torstein Horgmo claiming the event’s top prize, the Volvo Overall Rider Award. Torstein will be driving home a new 2008 Volvo C30 for having the best overall performance at the event, which included first ....More...

The Burton Global Open Series has announced a stellar line-up of the world’s leading professional snowboarders for the 2007 Burton New Zealand Open Championships. Olympic gold medalists and X Games champions are among the athletes who will compete at Snow Park NZ in New Zealand’s biggest ....More...

The latest dates for the upcoming Nokia World Cup events in Halfpipe and Big Air are now on the calendar. More...

Burton’s fourth annual Abominable Snow Jam snowboarding competition will take place from July 10-12, 2007 at High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Timberline Resort on Mt. Hood, Oregon. Featuring a quarterpipe, halfpipe and slopestyle competition, the Abominable Snow Jam brings top international riders ....More...

It may be eight months away, but we have confirmation of the dates for the Winter X Games 12. Just check the calendar for more details. More...

Local hero Steve Gruber (AUT) pulled off an inspiring Slopestyle win at TTR FIVE(5)STAR event Aesthetiker Jam Waengl Taengl, Mayrhofen, Austria, 22nd-25th March, 07. ‘What can I say - I’m the happiest guy on earth at the moment. The park was in an insane shape and it was pretty much one of the ....More...

After a successful Nikita Chickita Snowdown in Big Bear, USA back in February, Nikita are ready to rock in Europe, with online registration in full swing. Girls have already signed up for the event from Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Latvia, Czech Republic and Italy. More...

Bathed in golden light and title glory, an elated Torah Bright (AUS) was proclaimed the second Women’s TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion 06/07 at TTR SIX(6)STAR Roxy Chicken Jam, 22nd-25th March, 2007, in Park City/Utah, USA. Perfect spring conditions prevailed at Park City as the Slopestyle .... More...

Under sunny skies, at Park City’s infamous Superpipe, Manuela Laura Pesko (SUI) successfully delivered back-to-back 720s to win the first contest title of TTR SIX(6)STAR Roxy Chicken Jam, 22nd-25th March, 2007, at Park City/Utah, USA.With just one more day to go ahead of Saturday’s Slopestyle ....More...

Stay tuned to this web page Sun 25 March 2007 11:00CET for all the LIVE action from the O’Neill Xtreme Verbier by Powerade.The Xtreme Verbier remains the ultimate freeride event in the world after 11 years. Set in the Swiss Alps, the best riders come together to select and ride their most extreme ....More...

You can watch & relive the full replay of Shaun White (USA) with his incredible win of the US Open and becoming Men's TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion 06/07. Check out Travis Rice (USA) nail the first spot in the slopestyle final. All the action in full replay from the Burton US Open, Stratton ....More...

Based on his first place position in the Halfpipe Result in the TTR SIX(6)STAR 25th Burton US Open Snowboard Championships, Shaun White (USA) is the new Men’s TTR World Snowboard Tour 06/07 Champion.Shaun White (USA) was crowned on Saturday at 17.30 U.S. EST at base camp in front of a mass of .... More...

Travis Rice and Jamie Anderson won today’s slopestyle competition at the 25th Annual US Open Snowboarding Championships held at Stratton Mountain Resort. Travis and Jamie each took home $20,000, Motorola cell phones and $5,000 each for winning the Snickers Best Trick Awards. “I’ve been competing ....More...

Jenny Jones has just finished on the podium at the US Open in the Slopestyle event. From the US Open website...."British rider Jenny Jones rounded out the podium with a solid mix of spins including a Cab 540 and corked frontside 3, and some extra large straight airs. Results 1st - Jamie Anderson (.... More...

Stay tuned to this web page from 16 Fri – 19 Mon March 2007 for all the LIVE action from the Burton US Open, Stratton Mountain, Vermont.The US Open is the longest standing and one of the most exciting snowboard events in the world – this year celebrating it’s 25th year of uniting the best riders ....More...

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Franck April (Canada, 20) and Marie Hucal (USA, 15) became today the 2007 World Junior Champions of Slopestyle at the Billabong World Junior Pro Leysin, a 4-star TTR event.However, the event was not completed due to strong winds on the snowpark of the Mont de Chaux. Organizers eventually called the ..More...

Welcome to our first sunny day in Leysin! Weather forecast finally proved to be right with temperatures around 0°C and a light wind that kept the park in good conditions all through the day. There was a lot of action today at the Billabong World Junior Pro Leysin as 25 out of 44 guys were still to ..More...

The Swatch O'Neill Big Mountain Pro 2007 moved into the Italian Alps on Monday evening, in search of fresh snow and clear weather conditions. Contest organizers were keen to find the best possible conditions in the area in order to stage the first official day of competition following the ....More...

Welcome to the second day of the Billabong World Junior Pro from Leysin. This morning, the fog was all over the 3.200 people village of Leysin climbing all the way up to slopestyle park on the Chaux de Mont. Not exactly the best conditions that everyone was expecting for a world championship event. ..More...

American Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour top event TTR 5 STAR World Superpipe Championships, finalises its preparations to welcome the world’s most progressive Halfpipe superstars to the infamous 22-foot wall Eagle Superpipe at Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, on 10th March, 2007. More...

The Billabong World Junior Pro 2007 has kicked off in Leysin, Switzerland.Bonjour de Leysin and welcome to the Billabong World Junior Pro 2007! The Billabong World Junior Pro Leysin is the official contest to determine the World Junior Champion in slopestyle snowboarding within the TTR Series (....More...

After more than half of the stops of the pan-European amateur contest series Burton AM Tour it has already been drawing more riders and a bigger audience than last year’s successful kick-off. Despite poor snow conditions, which also affected the Burton AM Tour and resulted in three cancelled stops (..More...

Severe snow storms causing technical complications forced organizers of the TTR FOUR(4)STAR event, Xbox Big Day Out, to cancel the slopestyle night session Finals in Val D’Isere, France, 01st March, 2007. More...

As we showed you on Friday, competing against the world's best snowboarders, Terje Haakonsen (NOR) pulled off an Backside 360 9.8 metres off the quarterpipe to claiming a groundbreaking new World Record - beating Heikki Sorsa's previously unbeaten 9.3m air from The Arctic Challenge 2001. More...

When you thought you had seen it all.View this video of Terje at the Arctic Challenge on www.method.tv right now! Video is still smoking hot, never shown to the world. Thanks Maurino for capturing this moment! More...

Twenty five years ago, snowboarders were still using ropes to steer their boards, riders were banned from almost all resorts and Shaun White wasn’t even born yet. But in 1982, the spirit of snowboarding was alive and well when a core group of riders including Jake Burton Carpenter gathered to ....More...

Here are the final halfpipe and park style results for the Global Open Series presented by Motorola, 2007 Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open. Olympic gold medalist Shaun White and Australian Torah Bright dominated Sunday’s halfpipe competition while Kevin Pearce and Hana Beaman took the top spots in ....More...

All the way from Oslo Norway we will show you the entire event live. You can tune in on the 2nd & 3rd of March at 16:30 CET to watch the best snowboarders on the planet come together to show their skills on the mother event of TTR. Follow TTR FIVE(5)STAR The Oakley Arctic Challenge live on your ....More...

Event moulds both quarterpipe and potential new TTR Top 10 changes.As the snow falls thick and fast in the sub-zero temperatures of Oslo, organizers work around the clock to create the piece-de-resistance of Quarterpipes to welcome global riders for the upcoming TTR FIVE(5)STAR top snowboard event, ..More...

Victories for Americans Shaun White, Kevin PPearce, Hana Beaman and stand-out Aussie, Torah Bright.The largest snowboard contest from the land of the rising sun, TTR FIVE(5)STAR Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open, finished with an exciting line-up of results as both Superpipe and Slopestyle formats ....More...

Chris Moran & James McPhail (ex Whitelines) are out at the Nippon Open updating a blog of the event... click the headline for the latest. More...

Organisers of the Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro 2007 contest have finalised the competitor line-up for what will be the inaugural edition of this innovative mobile freeride snowboarding and skiing competition. Kicking off in the Swiss resort of Laax on 1st March and wrapping up in Innsbruck, ....More...

Entries are rolling in for this year's Protest Jib-Vid contest and with only 2 weeks left before the contest entries close on the 1st March. So for your chance to win some of the 6000 euro prize money or one of the many other prizes get your team together and before you know it your film could be .... More...

Sam Cullum recently entered the 5* TTR Rip Curl slope style/big air event in Crans-Montana and came 16th out of 80+ riders, beating the current leader of the TTR. Jack Shackleton came 58th. We think that's worth a mention. Go Sam!Here's the top 20 places:1 Markus Keller NITRO, REDBULL, VOLCOM SUI (....More...

With four weeks to go before the start of the Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro 2007, contest organizers have finalized the competitor line-up for what will be the inaugural edition of this innovative mobile freeride snowboarding and skiing competition.Kicking off in the Swiss resort of Laax on 1st ....More...

Blue skies and sun welcomed all HP finalists today up on Crap Sogn Gion for the BEO final event day! What a perfect day after inclement weather over the last week. Canadian Crispin Libpscomb took home the title and $ 10.000 prize-money. In the women’s event it was Australian Holly Crawford who was ....More...

An open 'Girs-Only' event in Austria in April, with the chance to win a two-year contract with Team Nikita. The full details are on our calendar, check it out. More...

Congratulations to British wonderkid Jamie Nicholls who took 5th place in today's boys' halfpipe event at the Burton European Open. More...

Josh Knox sent us a few pictures of the riding from the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland where is brother Sparrow is competing. The event has suffered from the bad weather. More...

Dangerously high winds and low visibility forced event organizers and competitors to cancel today’s Burton European Open slopestyle finals for the safety of the riders. Slopestyle course conditions at 3000 meters on the Vorab glacier deteriorated to a point that it was far too risky for riders to .... More...

The TTR 6STAR Burton European Open Halfpipe Finals will be available for webcast viewing live through www.lat34.com/beo on Saturday, January 27th 2007 direct from Laax, Switzerland. More...

Only 10 more days before the Burton European Open 2007 kicks off. Top riders from around the globe get ready to gather in freestyle Eldorado Laax, Switzerland from January 20-27, 2007.The Burton European Open is part of the Burton Global Open Series presented by Motorola which unites 5 events .... More...

Nicolas Mueller made it a night to remember for Swiss snowboarding at Saturday night’s O’Neill Evolution Quarterpipe finals in Davos. With the home crowd support behind him all day long, the 24-year-old had the thousands of spectators cheering his every move during the climax of this prestigious 6-....More...

The O’Neill Evolution Superpipe finals played out in front of a crowd of thousands in the Swiss resort of Davos on Friday evening, with Finland’s Antti Autti claiming his first ever TTR win thanks to a faultless aerial display in near perfect conditions. Autti’s maiden voyage to TTR success began ....More...

Bring on the year of the world record! That’s right boys and girls at the 2007 Xbox® Big Day Out we are going to set the first official world record for the highest ‘Air.’ More...

Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, Mason Aguirre, Natasza Zurek, Danny Davis & Elena Hight to Attend the February EventToday the Burton Global Open Series presented by Motorola announced top riders planning to attend the Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open 2007 Snowboarding Championships, taking place ....More...

The O’Neill Quarterpipe qualification heats for both the men and women went down a storm today. If ever spectators were looking for signs of evolution at this prestigious 6-star Ticket To Ride competition, Switzerland’s biggest ever Quarterpipe provided them with all the evidence they needed.....More...

Three days of heavy snow gave way to glorious sunshine today for the first day of competition at the 6-star O’Neill Evolution. Having spent the morning clearing powder snow out of the Superpipe, the shapers provided qualification riders with the kind of pipe that has made the Swiss resort of Davos .... More...

Nissan ArctiX is an invitational big mountain freeride contest for skiers and snowboarders. The event will take place in Tamok, Lapland from 31st of March to 9th of April. Located 400km north of the Arctic Circle, Tamok is an undiscovered freeriding Mecca featuring spectacular natural wonders such .... More...

Jaime Anderson (USA) wins Roxy Chicken JamKaprun, Austria. A rock-steady slopestyle victory went to 16-year-old Jamie Anderson (USA) this weekend as the Women’s TTR World Snowboard Tour first all-girl 6 Star event of the season, the Roxy Chicken Jam Europe, proves women’s snowboarding hits a new ....More...

With only a matter of weeks to go before the start of the inaugural edition of the O'NEILL EVOLUTION, O'Neill and the Swiss resort of Davos are gearing up to host what will be one of only six 6-star freestyle snowboarding events on the 2006/07 Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour. With the New ..More...

The details are in the calendar of the Billabong World Junior Pro in Leysin, Switzerland this March. More...

The UK's Laura Berry will be amongst the competitors lining up for the weekend's Roxy Chicken Jam, despite her KO'ing herself and fracturing her cheek at the SCUK Christmas Bash at the weekend. It's also Laura's 18th Birthday today. So happy birthday and good luck Laura from everybody at SCUK.Blue ....More...

10th –26th February 2007.Over the years Rip Curl has become one of the world’s leading names in Surf & Snow through its desire to push the performance limits further and further. To reinforce this status, Rip Curl is preparing an exclusive event that has never been seen before… When sporting .... More...

The Land of the Rising Sun experienced a star-studded, hotly-contested two-day snowboard showdown as the 6 Star Nissan X-Trail Jam resulted in title victory for Shaun White (USA) based on overall Quarterpipe and Big Air performance, and his first 1000 TTR points of the season, in front of a ....More...

TOKYO DOME PREPARES TO HOST THE ELITE 6(SIX) STAR NISSAN X-TRAIL JAM THIS WEEKENDThe TTR tour drama continues with back-to-back 6(SIX) Star snowboard action as the Tokyo Dome, Japan gets ready to welcome Nicolas Mueller (SUI), Travis Rice (USA), Risto Mattila (FIN), Antti Autti (FIN), Shaun White (....More...

On December 2nd 2006 25,000 enthusiastic fans turned the Olympic Stadium in Munich into a seething cauldron for a freestyle performance of a level never seen before in stadium contests. More...

We've teamed up with Freecaster to bring you simply the world's biggest snowboard event, right to your computers live this Saturday, 2nd December! The Nokia Air+Style. More...

The final program of the Burton European Open 2007 (BEO) is fixed: for the third time the international Snowboard scene is gathering for Europe’s biggest Snowboard event in the Swiss Freestyle mekka Laax. The days from January 20 – 27, 2007 are offering a week full of action and entertainment. A ....More...

All the up-coming dates and disciplines of the Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup have been added to the SCUK calendar. More...

The first 6(six) Star event of the 2006/2007 TTR World Snowboard Tour kicks off next month in Munch at the Olympic Stadium with the Nokia Air+Style takijng place on 2nd December. With one defending event champion, a current Olympic Halfpipe champion and the current reining TTR World Champion .... More...

The O’Neill Pro Freestyle is poised to celebrate its robotic return to Avoriaz, France from 28th January – 3rd February 2007 - now upgraded to a 5-star event on the TTR World Snowboard Tour. More...

The Burton European Open is Europe’s biggest event open to all riders. From January 20-27, 2007 in Laax, Switzerland, more than 500 riders will compete. More...

SnowFlex are happy to announce that registration for the International Ski and Snowboard Jam on Saturday, 7th October at Loisinord ski slope in Noeux-les-Mines, France is now open. More...

A gigantic ramp will be built at the Olympic arena Stockholm Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden for November 10 and 11. With 40 000 USD in the prize purse, free entrance and world class artists both in music, skiing and snowboarding, Stadium Winter Jam will without doubt be the riders’ event of the year..... More...

Male and Female Global Open Champions to each win $100,000The 2006/2007 Burton Global Open Series presented by Motorola will award the largest single title payout in snowboarding history - $100,000 cash to both the female and male Global Open Champions. The series champion will be crowned at the US ..More...

Americans, Scotty Lago and Ellery Hollingsworth lead the TTR World Snowboard Tour Championship race as it leaves the Southern Hemisphere and heads up to Europe in November. More...

The worst winter snowfall in recent history in Australia has forced the cancellation of the TTR 4(four) Star event, Stylewars, scheduled to run over the 5th to 12th of September at Falls Creek, Australia. The first Southern Hemisphere event to join the TTR World Snowboard Tour last season, .... More...