HOT ZONE HINTERTUX PARK OPENING 2007
Steve Gruber won the Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl 2towsend7
After bad weather threatened to postpone the Aesthetiker Jam Waengl Taengl schedule, Sunday’s reserve day delivered broken sunny skies and a chance to run the 30-rider Finals. In a best 2-out-of-3 run format the creative slopestyle course, built by the infamous Aesthetiker crew in Zillertal, gave birth to progressive snowboard action through a two line course: the first consisted of three kickers in a row and a huge Taco at the end; the second, a down-box to a high-turn to a flat-down Suzuki box, followed by a cradle, a corner & three rails.
A high level of international and riding talent, including TTR World Nr 9 Henning Marthinsen (NOR) and World Nr 12, Arthur Longo (FRA), challenged the judges. But it was local maverick Steve Gruber (AUT) who stole the show, winning with a Cab 720, switch backside 540 & backside 720 to win himself 850 TTR Ranking Points, 5,000USD cash prize and a Suzuki Quad bike. Close behind, and earning the 2nd place result, Jaakko Ruha (FIN) impressed the crowds with a Cab 900, backside 1080, and frontside 900. Scandinavia took another podium spot with Kalle Ohlsson (SWE) scoring a 3rd place finish through a clean Cab 900, frontside 720 & backside 720.
stated an overwhelmed Gruber (AUT).
Post-crowning the TTR Tour Champions, the calendar continues through to the end of April 2007. All TTR contests attended until then will provide riders with TTR Ranking Points for the 06/07 TTR Ranking List presented by Swatch to add to their overall ranking score until May 01st, 2007.
RESULTS ÄSTHETIKER WÄNGL TÄNGL 2007
1 Gruber Stefan AUT AESTHETIKER SNOWBOARDS, ADIDAS, SP
2 Ruha Jaakko FIN NITRO, SPY
3 Ohlsen Kalle SWE BATALEON, VANS, QUIKSILVER
4 Swoboda Marc AUT NITRO, SMITH
5 Nyvelt Wolfgang AUT SALOMON, BILLABONG, VANS, DRAGON,
6 Holland Anthony SUI VOLCOM, VANS, VON ZIPPER
7 Ville Uotila FIN ATOMIC, BLUE TOMATO, BOLLE, BONFIRE
8 Thaler Herbert AUT LIB, QUIKSILVER, ADIDAS
9 Savela Tomi FIN ICON
10 Stanschitz Michael AUT VOELKL
11 Robbins Quentin NZ VOELKL, VOLCOM
12 Roux Jean Jaques F ARNETTE, ONEILL, UNIC, VANS
13 Kroell Rudolf AUT AESTHETIKER, ACG, HOT ZONE
14 Beer Wolfgang AUT PALMER, RIP CURL, SMITH
15 Longo Arthur F NITRO, OAKLEY, VANS, VOLCOM
16 Kolar Gerfried AUT APO, WESTBEACH, VANS, OAKLEY
17 Huber Patrik AUT NITRO
18 Zeestrat Stefan NZ ALIAN, WE
19 Oesterle Lars GER HOT ZONE,
20 Monsberger Andi AUT K2, PLANETEARTH, VANS, HOTZONE
21 Schmaltz Alexander AUT VOELKL, VOLCOM, OAKLEY, SP, NIXON
22 May Gerfried GER DEELUXE, ELAN
23 Haricot Julien F BURTON, VOLCOM
24 Eberharter Thomas AUT NITRO, VANS, BILLABONG, ARNETTE
25 Mandlberger Bernd AUT K2, ADIDAS EYEWEAR, VANS, SP
26 Cullum Sam UK ARCUS, DC, OAKLEY, RIDE
27 Stroem Peter SWE K2, VANS, ADIDAS
28 Ducourtil Valerian F
29 Purucker Louis NZ BILLABONG, DRAGON, ROME
30 Stock Werner AUT SALOMON, BONFIRE HOTZONE
31 Rieser Reinhard AUT FORUM, SPECIAL BLEND, HOTZONE
31 Marthinsen Henning NOR
33 Fankhauser Stefan AUT
34 Trobas Matthias
35 Loehle Heinz GER
36 Wanner Wolfgang AUT
37 Rasinger Martin GER
38 Wetscher Bennie AUT RIDE HOTZONE REDBULL
39 Takao Shoma JP
40 Mausser Florian AUT
Top Results for the Hot Zone Team Rider @ Ästhetiker Shred Down
3 Hot-Zone Riders in top 6 at the Ästhetiker Shred Down in Westendorf
Ästhetiker Shred Down
Westendorf 2nd to 3rd march 2007
(Westendorf/AUT ─ 3.3.2007) ─ Not that it is something new but snowboarding is still depending on snow. This winter season is not easy in Europe. The lack of snow before a contest means a lot of work for shapers to be able to have a good park setup. Therefore great respect to the well shaped rail line. The open training session on Friday brought a few surprises to shapers and riders. The riders had a fantastic powder session in the woods just above the park whereas the shapers had to completely reshape the park line. The opinion of the park team about the 40 cm fresh snow was consequently very different to the one of the riders. Around midday the untracked runs became less and the park was ready again.
The first riders of Friday used the obstacles to get warmed up. A small quarterpipe, a wallride, a straight box, a long downrail and a fat kinked box offered more than enough possibilities for the riders to get ready for the contest day. Impressing was the riding of Michael Stanschitz, Herby Thaler and Wolle Beer with 270 variations showing their motivation for the contest on Saturday.
After the successful warm up party on Friday night in the ‘Kegelbahn’ the contest continued on Saturday with the qualification and the finals. The weather comparing to Friday was everything else than predictable. Riders and organisation were confronted with very changeable conditions. Rain during the training, strong snowfall during the first qualification heat, light snowfall during the second qualification heat, sunshine at the beginning of the finals, fog in the middle of the finals and bluebird at the end of the finals. On top of it wind that was dismantling tents and banners. But none the less the contest with a high level of technical riding could successfully be implemented. During the qualification it was a tough job for rookies and not directly qualified riders to show their abilities over the straight box, down rail and Suzuki kinked box. The best seven riders of every heat qualified for the finals that was carried out in a jam session format. During the qualification the rookie Simon Pircher convinced everyone with his stylish and technical runs that he was ready for the finals.
His solid performance during the finals and especially thanks to his fantastic result in qualification made him the deserved winner of the Shred Down 07 rookie award. As for Simon Pircher the Friday training was a great warm up for Michael Stanschitz. In his second run in the finals he showed an alley oop rock’n roll on the wallride, nosepress bs 180 on the straight box, tailslide 270 out and gap 270 on the kinked box. On top of it Mone Monsberger and Reini Rieser made everything very exciting. Reini Rieser showed a huge frontside air on the quarterpipe, nosepress bs 180 out, bs 50/50 180 out and gap 270 on the kinked box which put him on the second place. The Ästhetiker Mone Monsberger with a huge fs 3 mute on the quarter, cab 270, switch fs boardslide and gap 270 became second. At the end last years winner Michael Sranschitz won the Ästhetiker Shred Down 07 with his first run of the day. For the first time in the history of the Ästhetiker tour a rider defends his title and wins the same contest in two consecutive years. The first three riders received with their results a highly desired wildcard for the Ästhetiker Jam – Wängl Tängl held from 22nd to 25th of March in Mayrhofen. Friedl Kolar proved his style qualities and won the legendary Style Award.
At the end the culmination of this contest weekend was the Shred Down to the valley. The name of the contest is part of the program and therefore riders, shapers, organisers and media partners shredded down the mountain together. With a smile in their faces everyone arrived at the bottom with the memory of a great freestyle snowboard weekend.
RESULTS SHRED DOWN 2007
1 Michi Stanschitz AUT
2 Andreas Monsberger AUT
3 Reini Rieser AUT
4 Herby Thaler AUT
5 Matias Radaelli ARG
6 Lars Oesterle GER
7 Youri Jansen RUS
8 Friedl Kolar AUT, Style Award
9 Simon Fliri AUT
10 Stefan Fankhauser AUT
11 Lukas Draxl AUT
12 Wolle Beer AUT
13 Seppe Smits BEL
14 Phillip Gruber AUT
15 Anthony Smits BEL
16 Tomas Orol ARG
17 Alex Walch AUT
18 Simon Pircher AUT
18 Martin Bisi ARG
20 Marco Hafez AUT
21 Hannes Metzler AUT
22 Manuel Lindmoser AUT
23 Zoran Nuzdic AUT
24 Martin Rasinger AUT
25 Michael Schatz AUT
26 Thomas Tramnitz AUT
27 Matthias Trobos AUT
28 Bennie Wetscher AUT
29 Manuel Bernert AUT
29 Stefan Kröll AUT
29 Thomas Hörhagger AUT
29 Flo Hasenauer AUT
29 Tobias Margreiter AUT
Seppe Smits Won the Forum Snake Session @ Nordpark
It was the first Snake Sessions tour stop at Innsbruck’s local resort, Nordpark on last Saturday and the park was in relatively good shape for the current snow conditions. Previous night we had a nice late-night-session at the park, so we decided not to hurry up to the mountain, just up for the finals.
When we got up to the park, it was only 8 young guns left in the finals. We caught up with the judges; Forum team captain Jon Weaver and team/host rider Peter König, sat down with them and followed the finals. It was a relaxed one hour jam session at the park that consisted of rail, 10m kicker and a rail box at the end of the slope.
It is pretty amazing how many times you could jump that kicker. The short chairlift takes you up in 30 seconds, and then if you hit it straight from top to bottom, you can manage to do the lap in less than a minute.
After following these kids with big clothes(apparently a current fashion) pirouetting one after another from the kicker, I realized that most of them had some killer style. And we’ve been wondering why they call these guys youngbloods. They definitely are the future.
Soon it was time for the prize giving and Peter König announced the winners. It was Seppe Smits who took the 1st place with solid riding leaving his brother Anthony Smits on second place.
Seppe Smits first Place
Hot Zone ISPO 2007 Report
The biggest qualified visitor trade show in Europe the ISPO 2007 in Munich has opened the doors. All theóß
big board sport company’s, are there to show us the new collections of 2008 and also some unknown little company’s are here to get a place in the market. To show you some exclusive products of 2008 I have made a trip to Munich to give you the first report of it.
Munich 05.07.2007 10:30 Uhr.
It’s hard to wait for your Christmas presents but my anticipation onto the ISPO is so big you can not realize. What will happen this year?
My first route starts at the biggest hall A1, all the big named company’s are there like Burton, Forum, Foursquare and many more. Sensory overload is my first thought when I was going in the hall. The first companies I visited were Forum, Foursquare and Special Blend. Austrian The Program sales rep Daniel has decided to give me and you a little fashion show, to represent his exclusive collection. Thanks for this Daniel. After a couple of shots I completed my first mission, and made my way to Nitro Snowboards, they always got a sweet looking booth. I felt like a paparazzi when I was taking the pictures, but anyway, amazing designs, crazy colours and like the years before more stylish than Paris Hilton in her best Gucci outfit. After a couple of tacos I found a little booth with a brand directly from Canada, the name of it is “Nomis”; if you ask yourself, what the hell is Nomis? I show you! This little company was born in Vancouver (Canada) and they produce zip hoodies, sweatshirts, hoodies, caps and much more. But the sensational of this is the love in the details and function. Mat Chamberlain has shown me the hottest products for the next season, and I mean literally hot.
One of the exclusive products is a heater in the zipper, its true so if you getting always cold like a girl, wear this on and you can regulate the warmth with the control panel in the pocket. And it’s washable. Thanks Mat for showing me these hot ass products.
After my lunch brake I found some Ride bindings behind bars, to hot to let them out. For 2008 Ride didn't care and built a collection you can not imagine. To give an insight check the pictures.
Colourful, powerful and awesome ideas! Who is this? This can be only the Neff Headwear Company. With crazy colours, crazy designs and love in the details Neff is showing us the new collection. Hats, Caps, Scarf’s, Shirts, Zippers, Headphones and much more is what makes Neff the unique company from California.
Also Salomon was working hard on there products. With fresh styles and colours they are showing us how creative a bunch of snowboarders are. In other words, basically the company hands them keys to there factory and they go bananas.
SP United, bindings, boots company deluxe. Fresh on board with there new team rider Danny Kass and a Pro Model binding. They also created a binding for the Austrian Zillertaler Crew “Ästhetiker” artless white with the big Ä logo on the highback. They always got some secret stuff, but nobody was thinking that the secret stuff can dance on smooth beats. With the words of my colleague “sex sells “.
Last but not least, I have visited the Shop Summit booth. Now you will ask yourself what is the Shop Summit? I will tell you.
Shop Summit, discuss your answers! Interact with shop owners and get advice from experts. Question yourself: Does your shop have an image? Is your Shop just a sales area? What does your turnover have to be for you to make money? Can your Shop compete against larger shops? To reduce the risk you can talk with experts like: Muck Müller (AT), Jeffrey Harbaugh (USA) Stefan Dongus & Thimo Kilberth (GER).
An awesome, hard day is over, after a long day I will go back home. I hope you have got a little insight of the Products for next season. Enjoy the winter and pray for snow!
Have fun. See ya.
Sincelery Tom
 
Neff Headwear SP Bindings
 
Nomis Heatable Hoodie thansk Mat! Special Blend thanks Daniel!
 
Ride Bindings Shake ya ass..
Nitro Snowboards
Rudi Kröll reports from the European open!
Tuesday I came back from the Burton European Open 07 in Laax. I went there to ride the Slopestyle Competition which they moved up to the “Vorap” glacier due to bad snow conditions at lower levels. The park, which included 4 kickers, looked really perfect but it was a very difficult setup to ride.
You had to speedcheck every single kicker whereas there was not a lot of time between the kickers which made it pretty hard to get the right speed. Besides the kicker takeoff’s where very steep and the landings too which made it not easier to neither have a precision landing nor to stomp it. That means it was perfect airtime for the photographers.
Furthermore I had to notice that this bad winter also makes me a victim because I didn’t ride a kicker like that in 1,5 month. And there have been 4 kickers in a row at 3000m.
On Saturday there were really good weather conditions during the first heat of the Qualification which I was riding in. My brother “CK” was not really lucky. He was riding the second heat where all the kickers were in the shadow already and also the wind picked up and affected the shredding.
So I qualified for the semi-final which they planned on Sunday. Well, I was checking the weather forecast on Saturday night and it predicted strong wind and snow. So the Chillertal “Hot-Zone.tv” Crew decided to make party and hope for postponing the semi-final. And the plan turned out perfect! I slept till midday till I noticed that the semi-final got postponed to Monday. Sweet! Also Reini Rieser didn’t step out of his bed till the afternoon that day.
So, it was the same then in the BEO 06. No semi final. Everyone of the semi-final moves to the final on Monday. We took the second gondola up on the glacier. It was cloudy but there was no wind when we came up. So we started to train and I was doing 4 or 5 runs. I also tried a bs rodeo 7 on the first jump which I slammed. I was so high and when I came around I couldn’t see the landing at all. It was all white in white and I didn’t see the landing coming. And after 5 runs when the wind was picking up to about 80 km/h it was just impossible to do a safe contest there! So I think it was kind of the only decision to cancel the Slopestyle of this years BEO. It could have been postponed to Tuesday but as Shaun White and some other guys have to go to the X-Games that day it seemed like that wouldn’t be a possibility.
For me it sucks, because this would have been my first TTR result and it would have been a 6star.
Now I am back home and because the park caused some tension in my back I already have been to the masseur twice. In the moment it is dumping and I hope the winter will come finally!
Greets from the Chillertal
Rudi
protect ya self ... RK in Action..
Rudi and Werni Checking the Course and Line...
Qualifikation Run from Rudi.. sick man..
Reini Rieser, Werni Stock & Rudi Kroell in Round 2 @ Burton European Open
Reini Rieser, Werni Stock and Rudi Kroell qualified today for the round nr 2 at the burton european open in laax, switzerland.
Reini Rieser, Werni Stock and Rudi Kroell qualified today for the round nr 2 at the burton european open in laax, switzerland.
120 riders were competing, 40 came into round number 2 and the hotzone riders were one of them.
Congratultations boys as it was not too easy, we all hope to see you in the finals!
We got 40 names of riders going through to slopestyle semi-finals, the schedule has been changed a little bit, since there was no time to run te Qualifications today. Therefore 24 best riders from Pre-qualifications Heat 1 and 16 best from Heat 2 advance straight to the tommorow’s semi-finals against 32 invited guys. Here are the names of riders continuing at BEO Slopestyle:
Rider: Reini Rieser Photo: Christian "Eli" Eberl
ROCK ON GUYS, YOU ROCK THE WORLD...In Love with the Dude forever!!
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