Prospect Snowboards will be giving out a T-shirt each month this season starting in November.

Prospect's T-shirts aren't just T-shirts. We believe in hand made products where cost and efficiency is second to craftsmanship and character.



Our T-shirts are hand printed by us with screen printing equipment built by us. No 2 shirts are exactly the same, nor are any shirts flawless. However we do believe in kick ass shirts, so we use stylish T-shirts that can rival any premium store brand.


To sign up go to
http://www.prospectsnowboards.com and sign up for our Prospect Newsletter.

*We don't send out useless garbage and we don't sell your
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All Prospect Snowboards offer bamboo sidewalls and longer effective edges for better overall control. The Bamboo sidewalls offer multiple benefits. Specifically it is lighter, stronger, and adds stability to the overall ride. Without getting too technical, bamboo is 25% lighter and its tensile "burst" strength is 2 times as strong as regular core material meaning more pop. Being set at the sidewall, the stiffer bamboo offers torsional stiffness and natural vibration dampening, leading to a faster, more stable platform. Bamboo is being used more in snowboarding not only because it of its high strength to weight ratio but it also lasts because it is continuously strong even when temperature drops. Neil Henderson, the owner of Prospect snowboards says "My goal was to make the fastest, hardest carving true twin snowboard available".

To accompany the benefits of bamboo sidewalls, Prospect's geometry stretches out the effective edge, aka contact points as far as it can go. This adds to the ride stability andactually provides the performance of a longer board. According to Neil, "It's like adding 2 to 4 cm of length without having to ride a heavier, longer board." The longer effective edge puts the contact points closer to the tip of the board giving your edges more surface contact to grip in turns. This means less washing out of hard carves and smooth, stable turns for maximum control. Together, bamboo sidewalls and the longer effective edge Prospect's boards offer harder carves and a ride smoother than other freestyle decks. Neil believes this sidewall and effective edge combination are the most underrated manufacturing techniques that contribute to his goal of making the fastest and hardest carving true twin available.

 

Also underrated in the design of snowboards is rubber dampening, carbon fiber beams, and even more so their placement inside the construction of the board.

Prospect uses rubber in sandwich/sidewall snowboard design to reduce shock and vibration in turns and while landing big hits. According to Neil, rubber stripping is placed around the outside of the board and in the middle sections to act like a shock absorber. He says “Rubber placement is key to a boards ride because it turns the overbearing rigidity into smooth fluid movements.” His smooth ride philosophy on rubber dampening also contributes their boards lasting ride and overall durability. The way snowboards are ridden they are continuously flexed over and over again. Without sufficient rubber dampening the epoxy bonds break down leading to a lifeless board with no pop and it will eventually break. The rubber Prospect places inside the board allows small amounts of flex between the layers reducing wear on the epoxy bonds.

The Carbon laminates Neil puts in Prospect’s boards are common among most snowboards, but he believes his carbon “X-beams” also add to the boards ride. “Our X-beams are placed from the feet to the contact point at the edge. This allows Prospect to have lighter cores with added spring back. The carbon placement also contributes to their tensional stiffness, adding to the overall stability at high speed. Neil’s take on carbon fiber is: “We tried different carbon patterns, stringers, an “A” pattern on each end, Inverted “A’s”; the X pattern is the only thing that directly transfers power from your feet to the edge. There is a small sacrifice in low speed carving, but who rides slow?”

Also on the top of Prospect’s priority list is making bombproof boards. While no one should condone using a snowboard as a bomb shield, the fact is Prospect has developed 2 more ways to ensure Prospect is known as a brand that makes premium snowboards that perform and last. Neil’s philosophy is “I’m a product guy. I believe that the best products are better than the best marketing. Prospect isn’t a statement in style as much as it is a statement in quality.”

There is a few steps Prospect has taken to assure they achieve that quality. First, the Premier Special Edition Models have “Seamless edges”. Their edges are high carbon, hardened steel with no cut seam; a real 360 degree edge. This was developed to reduce edge failures from hard hits against rocks, trees, and rails. Second, the Two-part flexible epoxy serves as a dampening system, increases flexibility, and prevents delaminating. Neil’s take on Prospect’s epoxy system: “Our epoxy mixture adds a rubber like characteristic to the compound. It makes the boards tough as nails. “When we do Prospect Demos we always tell riders Hey, go break this board. We’re still waiting.”

Prospect Snowboards is on a mission to bring some killer decks to the table. They aren’t well known and they don’t dump their cash into marketing. Instead they stick to their mission. To drive home their point they gave all Prospect Snowboards a 2 year warranty and Neil Assures they stand by their warranty; if you break your board riding we’ll fix it free or you get a replacement if we can’t fix it. Good points, and Neil concludes by saying “Hey, ya know, we’re putting up a true effort here to bring out boards that pushes the accountability of a snowboard company. We listen to what each individual rider wants and we work to build that into our boards.”

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Prospect Snowboards isn't in every snowboarder's daily vocabulary and we don't have a problem with that. Being a non-corporate anti establishment board company, I guess you can say our marketing isn't awesome. Well... our commitment to making amazing snowboards is awesome. While we aren't interested in corporate subculture that comes with being a mainstream snowboard manufacturer it doesn't mean the industry isn't recognizing what makes Prospect rad.

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Yep, there's only 3 days left to enter our Find the Money Line contest.

Pretty easy stuff. All you gotta do is buzz around our new zone map, find the money line logo, and enter to win.

Why Find the Money Line? Because that's exactly what we'll be doing with our Big Mountain Experience trips lined up for later this winter. Pray for some snow and when it comes, we'll be getting lots of it!


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THE MESSAGE  - OCTOBER 2008

Welcome back to another exciting edition of THE MESSAGE.. da da da DUNNNNN.
Good new snow fiends, We got are first dusting on the Sierra's last week, so lets hope that this will be an early season for all us!  THE BLOCK, THE BLOCK is gearing up for Snowboard Season by sponsoring a bunch of snowboard premieres and parties. I just saw the new First Tracks Video,  Knock on Wood at Mont Bleu, and what a great turnout we had, THE BLOCK was soldout and Flick was dope as all hell! 

Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails

If you missed Hot Dawgs and Handrails last month, you done F@cked-up. ! Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails 5th annual snowboarding specatcular tested the skills of some of the best jumpers and jibbers in the world and paid out $15,000 in prize money!  Rio and the entire Bear Mountain Park Staff pulled off the 1st contest of the year with Grand Style!  The Dropin, The Gap, and the rails were epic and riders were stoked to be throwing down for the first time of the Season! Big props to reelcomp.com for broadcasting a live feed of the event besure to check it out on their website.

The winners in the Men's Finals were...
1st Place- Jed Anderson
2nd Place- Chas Guldemond
3rd Place- Scott Vine

and the winners in the Women's Finals are...
1st Place- Desiree Melancon
2nd Place- Marie Hucal
3rd Place- Raewyn Reid

Scott Vine brought home Best Trick. Congratulations riders! Additional Heavy Hitters were Ben Bogart, Scott Stevens, Louif Paradis, Bode Merill, Keegan Valaika, Leanne Pelosi, Elise Borelli, Nick Dirks, Zak Hale and Tim Eddy. J.P Walker, Seth Huot and Hana Beaman were chillin' at Bear and Josh Sherman and Dave Duncan were announcing! If you missed Hot Dawgz this year, we'll see you next September! Big ups to Nam for organizing the afterparty, DJ Slip Matt and Matty Mo held it done hard. If you aint heard Matty Mo got a new mixtape out so be sure to Grab Government Cheese Vol 1. 

THE BLOCK BOOTCAMP 2008

Has been rescheduled to December 1st -13th in South Lake Tahoe. We are selecting 50 lucky recruits from an applicant pool of over 500+ that I received. It has been no easy task going through the applications, so if you were selected congratulations you will be receiving your deployment orders at the end of the week!  Remember that during bootcamp you will be tested to your physical and mental limits. So do yourself a favor and start working out and jogging now. This is not going to be a walk in the park. 

Knock on Wood

Who wants to see some sick snowboarding action for cheap?! Well, South Lake Tahoe based First Tracks Productions is offering a special deal to friends of The Block. If you click on the following link, you'll get to a hidden page on First Tracks' site where you can purchase their new movie, "Knock on Wood" for $10 off retail! http://firsttracksproductions.com/knockonwood091317257375.html If you haven't seen the trailer for Knock on Wood, check it out for free here:

Upcoming Events

Big Bear

October 18th is the last Bear Mountain Job Fair at Snow Summit from 8am-2pm. If you got to ride Bear and cant pass the bootcamp, this is a good option for any shredder.

October 18th and 19th is the 38th Annual Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest! So if you missed the job fair you can atleast Drink it off.

October 19th @ Active Ride Shop in Le Brea - F.O.D.T. Presents "Familia"  and TWS These Days from 7-9pm with DJ Episode! Be there!

Lake Tahoe

Wednesday Oct 15th  Technine's own Eric "MessyHair" Messier aka The Snow Man, will be playing with his group "The Fiz" at Whiskey Dicks with The Mathematicians in South Lake Tahoe.


This Thursday and Every Thursday BAR24 is holding Battle of The Bands until a winner is announced on November 6th, so get down their and show your support!


Saturday, Oct 18th – Late Nite productions brings the Original Wailers back to Tahoe at Moe's Place.


Wednesday Oct 22nd – Collie Buddz  is playing at Whiskey Dicks with Rise of the Revolution and DJ Pee Wee.  Rise kills it so sure to get there early and check em out!


Wednesday Nov 12th – Pato Banton with the Mystic Roots Band and Planting Seeds! Mystic Roots is dope and Pato got love for THE BLOCK so don't miss this show!


Friday November 14th – Finger on Da Trigger presents "Familia" Premiere at Bar24, signing with the Technine Team, Snowbunny Contest, Live Performances by the worlds top VJ; DJ Crime,  Hip Hop by Concise Kilgore from the Cali Agents and more TBA Lots of other bar24 contests for lots of SWAG and giveaways! Be sure you are there!


Saturday November 15th – The Premiere and the team travel to the Sandbar in Sacramento. We got a Snowbunny contest with the Déjà vu Girls and Zsu Swimwear, a Rail Jam in the back, T9 Team Signing and so much more so be there!!!


Tuesday Nov 18th – One Block Radius come to town, Marty James, MDA and Z-Man throw a tough show, pickup there new hit "you got me" and come to the show.


Friday November 28th – Del The Funky Homosapien has been add to host the "Blizzard" Pray for Snow Party with A-Plus and Bukue-one! So mark this one down cuz its going to GO OFF in Tahoe that weekend!


Saturday December 28th– "How The Grouch Stole Christmas" with Grouch and Eli from the Living Legends! I am looking forward to this show the most! So get up on game and go buy his new album that came this past spring and be sure to celebrate X-mas with the GROUCH!!!


Ok that's all I got for ya for now, I am working a bringing a "Familia" premiere to Vegas as well as planning THE BLOCK PARTY 2009 at the SIA Tradeshow. More info when I got it all confirmed but until then, Pray for Snow and see you on THE BLOCK!


-Dirty D from THE BLOCK


PS Check out these Videos:
Live From the PALMS Pools and Bungalows - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3vhbtu7tI
Live From Hot Dawgs and Handrails - http://reelcomp.com/videos/view/6990

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Double Post: We had some server trouble yesterday so here's a nice juicy double post to sink your cyber teeth into. Enjoy!

So we're looking through the All Style Apparel and Active wear catalog here at the office and a couple pages in one of the models start looking real familiar.



I'm like, hey Yvonne give me that. Oh shi*t is that...



Holy crap, its Browner doing a sandal wheelie!

Yeah we have our own Nascar. No biggie..



NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Brian Keselowski # 92 K-Automotive Dodge reppin' IS Eyewear



"IS Eyewear, the fastest gangsta shade in the Nascar game" - Brian Keselowski

So if you read this thing at all you know we have our flow team working hard on their very own video project this season called "Party Snake" of which they pretty much have free rein to do whatever. The only thing I've stressed is to have our updated logo and website on the teaser. At least they pulled through on the logo. Hopefully for the video they can figure out the correct web address.


partysnake from leepipes on Vimeo.

As you can see this isn't going to be a pretty little art snowboard flick. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little worried. We're also gathering footage from the rest of the IS Eyewear allstars (Dev, Wille, Tadashi, Kale, Duff, Andrew Fuller...) for the Party Snake video which will most likely be its own section. Here's the type of footage you can expect from them..



The video will available online but we'll most likely be doing a small run of DVD's with tons of video extras which will be available for free at premieres, through friends of friends and online. Kale is working on his own Airhole video this year as well which we're working on including within the party snake DVD. Its gonna be out there so be ready!

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PortersTahoe.com is excited to announce the addition of Chas Guldemond to their snowboard team!Now calling Tahoe home, Chas has decided to ground himself in Truckee, Ca to continue pursuing his snowboarding career. There is no better place to call home base than in Tahoe known for its legendary terrain and bluebird powder days.  Chas decided to affiliate himself with a long-standing retailer, Porters Sports who in the past couple years has made a strong presence online with PortersTahoe.com. 

Chas brings to the table excellent contest results like 1^st 2008 Vans Tahoe Cup Rail Jam, 1^st 2008 Honda Session Rail Jam, 3^{rd 2008} Honda Session Slopestyle and is currently in 4^th in the Ticket To Ride World Tour Standings.  Chas’ impressive competitive career has opened the door to the cinematic side of snowboarding earning him a spot with the legendary Standard Films .

PortersTahoe.com is honored to support Chas in his snowboarding endeavors at the local level and abroad.  “I’m super stoked to be on board, the crew at Porters is all about having a good time and sharing their passion of Tahoe and snowboarding. I really feel like I fit in well with everyone and the whole Porters mission. I just want to share my love of snowboarding and inspire people to go out with their friends and get creative on their snowboard “-Chas.  “We couldn’t be more stoked on such a dynamic individual who is down to earth, willing to work hard and be inspirational to all those young kids out there who want to have fun snowboarding,” says PortersTahoe.com Snowboard Team Manager Eric Asistin.

Chas joins the established Porters team of  Andy Finch and Nate Holland along with the young  blood of Brandon Cocard, Bobby Witty and Johnny Lazzareschi.  Go to the PortersTahoe.com BLOG  to stay updated on what’s going on in Tahoe and abroad as the PortersTahoe.com Snowboard Team looks for an epic and bright season

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BAGJUMP SPRINGBREAK 2008 

Film & Foto Award

presented by  TVB-KÜHTAI

and

VÖLKL,IOU-SNOW.com,BAGJUMP

PLAYBOARD, PLEASURE, ONBOARD, METHOD.TV, SHRALP.com, GRAVIS, ZIMTSTERN, HIMAYA, TOBIS, X-DOUBLE, TOBIS 

  

@BAGJUMP SpringBreak2008 Kühtai- Tirol 6. - 13. April

 

ALL MEDIA AT SITE! GET YOUR COVERAGE!!!

The SpringBreak-Camp:

 

 

This exclusive Spring Camp pushes Snowboarders and Freeskiers to their Freestyle-Limits and beyond! Ride the slushy kickerline and hit the exclusive BAGJUMP Megabag. The Riders can practice in the ‘By Pros for Pros’ shaped SprinBrea-K-Park (Funpark Kühtai) with 2 Tabletops (2x15 Meter), a Spine-Hip and a Pro Rail-line. On top of this everyone can try new tricks into the BAGJUMP MegaBag located right by the Chill Area at the Liftentrance. The exclusive BAGJUMP MegaBag is a never seen before feature on the SpringBreak where Snowboarders and Freeskiers can try new tricks like Double-, Tripple-Corks, flips and spins in any variation. Because of the unique Chamber-&-Air-Release-Safety-System you can go for any trick you ever dreamed of because it doesn’t matter how you land! Go way f%&@ing harder than you’ve ever gone & you’ll even live to tell about it! Grab a Red Bull and eat your BBQ/Grill in the BAGJUMP MegaBag-Area. Chill in loungechairs while listening to sound mixed by DJ SEREN on the Red Bull Event Car. Experience the new limits of freestyle snowboarding & freeskiing!

 

 

Another highlight at the Springbreak are 4 special Backcountry obstacles by IOU-Snow built throughout the resort Kühtai for the Film & Foto Award. These 4 Spots are ‘unbranded’ and can be used for any kind of foto and film shooting. The obstacles fit to the natural terrain in a special way and the set up is guaranteed for some never seen before action. The K-Park,BAGJUMP-MegaBag, the 4 special obstacles and of course the rest of the whole resort Kühtai are the Playground for the Film & Foto Award presented by TVB-Kühtai.

 

During the Springbreak week there will be 2 NL Holdem-Pokertournaments with Cashprizes (Monday 7th April and Friday 11th April, 3pm at the BAGJUMP Chill-Area) and daily new Mini-Contests with Prizes. On this feature everyone has the chance to win prizes from our sponsors (Völkl Snowboard, Völkl Freeskis, Gravis Backpacks, etc.). Daily Mini-Contests will be announced a day before they will be executed at the Office@Schirm by the Dreiseenbahn / Kühtai, Office@Marlstein and on the BAGJUMP.com website. Our own Poker-room will be open daily for games. Or hang out in the Riders-Lounge with Plasma-TV, Homecinema, XBOX360, over 200 DVDs and Sound by DJ SEREN. At night you can party hard at the Bagjump parties in Hotel Marlstein or just relax in the Sauna and Wellness.

Furthermore the campers and daily visitors have the possibility to test the 2009 Völkl Snowboards and Völkl Freeskis at the teststands by the MegaBag Chill-Area. There you can also sign up for the ProCoaching presented by the Völkl International ProSnowboard and ProFreeski Team. Videocoaching for everyone on the BAGJUMP-MegaBag will be analyzed daily in Hotel Marlstein before Dinner.

 

For the Springbreak CAMP please register until the 5^th of April 2008 at www.BAGJUMP.com or mail to office@bagjump.com. After the 5^th of April please register on site at the Office@Schirm by the Dreiseenbahn / Kühtai, Office@Marlstein during office hours or email to: office@bagjump.com.

 

The Film & Foto Award presented by Kühtai and BAGJUMP

2000.- EURO Prize Money!!!

This is a great challenge for filmers, photographers and riders to get the best Picture, Sequence and 3min VideoClip shot anywhere in the whole resort Kühtai during the SpringBreak-week!

 

 

The Foto Award

 

Every participating Photographer is shooting 1-6 days in the whole resort Kühtai with Snowboarders and/or Freeskiers.  Every participating photographer can hand in his/her best 5 pictures/sequences. All pictures handed in must be taken during the SpringBreak week and from the whole Resort Kühtai. Hand in deadline is Sunday the 13^th of April 5pm. The pictures will be judged by Richard Walch (professional Photographer), Sami Tuoriniemi (senior editor Onboard) and Markus Fischer (senior editor Pleasure). Every Judge can give a maximum of 50 points per picture. Winner is the Picture with the most points out of 150 and will be posted on www.BAGJUMP.com.

 

The Film Award

 

Every participating Filmer is shooting 1 to 6 days in the whole resort Kühtai with Snowboarders and/or Freeskiers.  Every participating filmer can hand in his/her best 3-Minute Video Clip. The whole Clip which is handed in must be taken during the SpringBreak week and from the whole Resort Kühtai. Hand in deadline is Sunday the 13^th of April 5pm. The Clip will be judged by Helge Zirkl (Playboard), Richard Prendergast (Method.TV) and Christian Miessner (Shralp). Every Judge can give a maximum of 50 points per Clip. Winner is the Clip with the most points out of 150 and will be posted on www.BAGJUMP.com.

 

Categories:

 

-Best Single-Shot Snowboard (Cash, Publication in Pleasure Magazine + one subscription for the rider on the picture)

-Best Sequence (Cash, Publication in Onboard Magazine + one subscription for the rider on the picture)

-Best Picture Freeski (Cash, Publication in Skiing Magazine + one subscription for the rider on the picture)

-Best 3-Minute Video Clip (Cash, Publication on Playboard DVD, Playboard Webplayer, Shralp.com, Method.TV, BAGJUMP.com)

Registration on location starting Sunday 6^th of April 1-7pm and then daily at Office@Schirm by the Dreiseenbahn / Kühtai or Hotel Marlstein at office hours.

Pictures and Videos can be handed in anytime during the week until Sunday the 13^th of April 5pm.

Click on www.BAGJUMP.com for more Infos

For accommodation and low priced lift tickets please contact office@bagjump one day prior to your arrival at Kühtai. Travelers to Pleasure-Springsession!: We have an extra contingent of rooms and lift tickets until 9^th of April available.

Filmers / Photographers and Riders coming longer than a day and want to stay one or more nights at SpringBreak please register until 5^th of April at www.BAGJUMP.com. Or during the week at Office@Schirm by the Dreiseenbahn / Kühtai, Office@Marlstein or mail to: office@bagjump.com

 

 

Included:

 

Day-Package:

 

-Accomodation with Breakfast and Dinner(*)

-Breakfast Buffet(*)

-4 Course Dinner(*)

-1 Day Lift ticket(**)

-ProPark

-BAGJUMP MegaBag training

-4 Special Obstacles

-Video coaching

-1 Mini-Competition entrance (Guitar Hero Madness, Best Trick MegaBag)

-1 NL Holdem Poker Tournament  (Monday 7th April OR Friday 11th April, 3pm at the BAGJUMP Chill-Area)

 

(* only on bookings WITH accommodation)

(** only on bookings WITH Liftticket)

 

Week-Package:

 

-Accomodation 7 Nights (*)

-Liftticket 7 Days (**)

-Breakfast Buffet (*)

-4 Course Dinner (*)

-Free Red Bull

-ProPark

-BAGJUMP MegaBag training

-4 Special Obstacles

-Video coaching

-ProCoaching by Völkl International Team

-Party

-All-Mini-Competition entrance (Guitar Hero Madness, Best Trick MegaBag)

-2 NL Holdem Poker Tournament (Monday 7th April AND Friday 11th April)

-Bagjump ‘GOODYBAG’

 

 

(* only on bookings WITH accommodation)

(** only on bookings WITH Liftticket)

 

 

 

REGISTER at www.BAGJUMP.com

OR office@bagjump.com

OR on Location:

-Office@Schirm by the Dreiseenbahn Kühtai

-Office@Hotel-Marlstein

 

For urgent questions please email to:

office@bagjump.com

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how to find all six Still b's secret bonus sections

If you own the Still Bastards DVD what you're about to read may be of interest. We've hidden bonus sections throughout the movie. I'm not going to tell you exactly where they are right away but I'll tell you what you're looking for and what to do when you find it. If you really pay attention you'll notice very discrete Wildcats logos randomly pop up here and there throughout the movie. There are six of them in total. If you press enter on your controller while one of these Wildcats logos are visible it will take you to its specific hidden bonus. They're really hard to see so you'll have to stay focused to catch them. If you can't find all six keep posted because I'll slowly start revealing where they are over the next week. Good luck and make sure your mommy isn't in the room when you watch them..

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Para la temporada  2007 el Snow Park de Valle Nevado, Monopark in Memory se viene con varias novedades. 
 

Nuevas graficas y nuevos logos a cargo de Martin Avendaño "Cucho" y su equipo de Normal Arte & Diseño. 
Estas graficas se utilizaran en toda la imagen corporativa del Snowpark y también en nuestras barandas creando un nuevo concepto artpark para diferenciarnos de todos los snowparks en el mundo. 
 
Nuevo Team park 07.

Por primera vez vamos a tener nuestro team para representar a nuestro snowpark en competencias, demos, fotos y películas.  El Team será conformado en primera instancia por Manuel Díaz, Felipe Parker y una mujer que nos falta confirmar.  
Tambíen queremos hacer un pro jr team con los riders del futuro. 
 
Nuevo Spot, nuevo Andarivel y Monopark House. 
 
El Snowpark se cambia de lugar, la nueva ubicación queda abajo de la silla de Andes por esas lomas natural en dirección al prado.  
El nuevo spot estará dotado de un andarivel de arrastre que cumple las funciones de andarivel del park y de conexión entre prado y andes express.

 
Página web  
Estamos desarrollando la web del snowpark para que puedan ver todas las noticias, novedades, fotos y productos  que el Monopark ofrecerá  para la temporada  2007 
 
Ahora solo esperar que caiga más nieve  
 
Saludos  
Arnau  
Monopark Valle Nevado. 

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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  

Links:

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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

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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 1^st 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..

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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



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