wow here we are another season is starting up for me. the kaos starts on 23rd with the Czech Big Mountain open followed by a mad dash to Austria to defend my title at the Radical ride the day after the last day of the Czech open. from the Radical Ride it's off to Munich to catch my flight to Norway for the Norwegian freeride cup, starting at Lofoten in the arctic circle, heads to Hemsedal, over to Sauda and finishes at Roldal a stop on the FWTQ.

after that it's back to the arctic circle for the Scandanavian Big Mountain Championships and then  at last it will be home time for a couple weeks of summer and then it's back to the snow again.

I love Big Mountain riding and the people I meet doing this side of the sport. not for all of the money in the world would I ride park EVER!

I am a free soul, a Freerider.



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Hello Snowboard people, I hope you all are doing good and enjoying the Winter. I know it’s a long time since I posted my last blog but I have been so busy with school and snowboarding the last month. But I will blog more the next weeks, promise. Ok since my last Blog I have been to a lot of places with or without Snow... At the end of November, one week before the Air&Style in Munich I went to Köln, Germany with Isenseven for some Streetrail Riding, which was pretty tuff because it was so warm and we just had space to bring barely enough snow for inrun and landing from the Snow stadium in Neuss to the Rails Spots. Which made riding in the city more dirty and painful. But we had a lot of fun with our Friends for a few days. Thanks to the Carhartt boys, to let this all happen!!! At the end of our trip in Köln weh ad our last Isenseven „übermovie“ premiere in Germany, wich was a fun party with our fans. This nice boy Moritz, was so stoked to meet us that he even painted a picture for us with all our movie sponsors. After Köln and a few days school, my best friends Peter König, Marco smolla and me were riding at the Nokia Air & Style in Munich for the Rookie challenge. It was my 2nd year at the Air & Style and I can just say its the most amazeing snowboard Copetition I have ever been. Ist so much fun, noise and incredible snowboarding. Its hold in the Olympic soccer stadium in Munich which is an amazeing location. After the Event Marco and me had a signing session with our sponsor O2, where people could win our boards.. Check out www.isenseven.de for the Air&Style Video footage. After the Air & Style I had a lot to do for school and tried to film fort he Isenseven movie a few times but the snow conditions in Austria, Switzerland and Germany where so bad that we didn`t had much success. When vacations started I went home to my parents and family to spend Christmas with them and a few days of, which was very cool. After this I went to Garmisch Partenkirchen to spend „New Years“ with the Isenseven crew like every year and afterwards we straight went to Austria to find some snow and get some shots, which wasn’t too good because of the bad snow conditions. So we have hit a lot of handrails during this time. And I went to my Sponsor Vans, Park Opening in Mayrhofen, Zillertal Austria with Silvia Mittermüller. The Park is very great with a lot of small and big Jumps, Rails and Boxes for everybody and even a Halfpipe. You should checkl it out! After 2 weeks of family, new years and filming I had to go back to school and write a lot of exams, which took me almost a month of hardcore learning and just snowboarding on the weekends. But its my last year school, so I need to do a little bit more for it. Last weekend we even made an avalance course with a skilled guide in sölden with the whole Isenseven crew, it was very interesting and important for us when we go out filming in the backcountry. Next week I am going to New York and then drive up the whole East Coast of the USA for some urban riding with Michi Zirngibl Chris Patsch and a few other guys from Isenseven. We will stay in the USA for 3 weeks so I think I have to blog a lot of stuff afterwards.... I keep you posted. I wish you all a lot of snow, wherever you are!!! Tobi

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So i finally made it to munich this year =P though drive up there was real tough and tr00 torture…well not all true, but if you go from a party strait to the bus and drive for 6 hours it’s not really pleasant but everything for fame and glory >.< edit: fun anyways ^^

it was around 10 am when we arrived to munich so we went for a mornin’ coffee/tea at fellows (still can’t get over their cinnamon apple tea <3) and then for some shopping and just couldn’t get enough of  those Christmas decorations on the streets. It was kinda magical. But that wasn’t why we were there…nokia air&style!

When we got there I was siked by the size of the jump, it was enormous!! the view on the arena and all the ppl who were already there was also spectacular. After visiting all the tents and participating in every possible award game we drag our self down to the arena (run would be a better term). Just the feeling that you’re there with thousands of ppl who are living and breathing for the same thing it’s simply…amazing. The pressure was rising from the beginning to the end of the event when Kevin Pearce slammed that cab 1260. I was rooting for young Mikkel who came 2^nd, not bad at all. No need for me to say that the whole event was a huge success. With The Hives warming up the crowd just before the finals and Sean Paul ending it in the reggae style.

Will sure come back next year ;)

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Air&Style 2007

On Saturday December 1st, the annual Nokia Air&Style will take place in Munich.

The Live Webcast starts at 17:00 CET and will go on continuously until after price-giving (including the concerts of The Hives and Sean Paul). In between the runs you can watch interviews with riders and chat with Dave Mailman and Mike Basich.

http://www.roninsnowboards.com/airstyle-2007/

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Hello Snowboard people, sorry for not postig blogs for so long but as I told you in the last blog my computer was broken and with all the pictures on my harddrive it was difficult for me. But all problems are solved and now I am back blogging. I wanna continue my last blog which one I wrote during my New Zealnd trip. The last week in New Zealnd which was in the beginning of  September was really fun at the end. As I told you we where skydiving and playing Tennis besides our Snowboard activities. As soon as Fischi the publisher, photogrpher and Photo Editor of Pleasure Snowboard arrived in Wanaka we spent all day with him shooting or in his house own hottub on the mountian. Snowboarding wasn’t too good in the last week according to the very strong wind and clouds. Since I am home in Germany, I haven’t done so much snowboarding so far. My last year school started pretty soon, which I take a little bit more serious  now;) And I am more focused on the beginning of the school year so that I can go snowboarding when the season starts. But on the last weekends beside school I had a lot of other fun stuff to do, I spent more time with my family whom I barely see during the season. And one evening I have been on a concert in munich with my friends Vince, Marco, Christian and Christophe given by the famous Indy Rock Band „Shout out Louds“ which was amazeing. Very great live act! Another day I have been surfing again with Marco & Christophe on Eisbach in Munich. Which was pretty cold according to the season but still fun. Pic Another weekend I have been to Wiesn, Oktoberfest in Munich with my brother Fips, Marco, Peter and Rene. It was my first time at Oktoberfest which is pretty ashamed for an Bavarian like me. But it was so much fun, all it is about is actually wearing traditional Bavarian clothes, drinking Beer out of 1 Liter cans, eating grilled chicken and singing and shouting... sound crazy but after a few beers it’s the biggest fun ever.                                                       The next day after Wiesn was the day ofour world movie Premiere for Isensevens Übermovie which was very important for Alex, Vincent and the whole crew because it ist he result of our main project we spent so much time for last season. But lot of people came, the movie was great, the croud shouted and weh ad a lot of fun at the after party. A few days later there were 2 other Premiers already in Ulm and Innsbruck which were very sucessful too. But our movie tour is still going on in Germany and other countries like Norway, USA, Canada and more so maybe we are coming to your area too just check www.iseseven.de if you don’t wanna miss a great party. Another thing which I am kinda prroud of, I got my first cover in the new Oktober Issue of Whitelines Snowboard Magazine. I made this picture with Marcel Lämmerhirth in Kaunertal last spring/summer. The Snow was already gone in this area but we found this nice drop spot, with a can of snow and this piece of wood in the landing and a little bit creativity we got the shot. I am stoked! Last weekend after the Premiere in Innsbruck, I went fishing with my brither Fips and my friend Andi which was so nice, like back to the child days. It was a little cold but we where successful. Everybody of us catched at least one Fish, mine weight already 1 kilo. Check it out. After fishing I went to Hintertux and Kaunertal in my October vacations for snowboarding which was pretty nice, a little bit icy but cool. Althought it snowed at home already. Next week I will be at Dacvhstein Pleasure Jam. Have a good one... and enjoy the pre-season shred.

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Die lafamiglia Crew hat sich dieses Jahr mit Rome Snowboards zusammengetan um zum Saisonauftakt einen Event der Extraklasse zu veranstalten. In gemütlich bayerischem Ambiente wird am 17.November 2007 der Alpengasthof „Kreut Alm“ im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen erstmals Schauplatz einer gediegenen Jibsession mit anschließender Video Release Party.

Die Session ist offen für Jedermann, die Anmeldung erfolgt vor Ort. Als Belohnung für sicke Tricks gibt’s Sachpreise von Rome Snowboards und Ziener Outerwear. Red Bull sorgt für genug Energie und wird die ganze Sache mit ihrem mobilen Partytruck beschallen.

Nach dem Flutlicht Finale startet dann die Party mit dem Pricegiving und leckeren 50 Liter Freibier die vom Neokeltic Shop aus Penzberg gesponsort werden. Neben chilligen Beats können die Partygäste noch Grafittis von 3 Münchner Künstlern bewundern. Gegen 23:00 Uhr steigt das Highlight des Abends: die Video Premiere des neuen lafamiglia Snowboard Movies „delicious xxl“.

 

Weitere Infos gibt’s unter www.lafamiglia.de und www.romesnowboards.com

 

 

 

This year the lafamiglia crew gathered with Rome snowboards to hold an extraordinary event for the season start. The canny Bavarian atmosphere of the mountain pasture “Kreut Alm” near Garmisch-Partenkirchen will be the stage for a relaxed jibsession and a video release party.

The session is open to anyone; the accreditation will take place right before the event.

Riders will get awards from Rome snowboards and Ziener outerwear for the sickest tricks. Red Bull cares for enough energy and the right sound with their mobile party truck.

After the floodlight finals the party starts with perceiving and tasty 50 liters of free beer powered by Neokeltic shop from Penzberg. Beside easy beats the guests can watch the grafitties of 3 munich artists. About 11 pm. The highlight of the evening will be launched: the premiere of lafamiglia’s new snowboard movie “delicious xxl”.

 

For more info please visit www.lafamiglia.de and www.romesnowboards.com

 

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Hello People, Sorry this is a very late blog I wrote it like one and a half months ago but according to the Snowboard.com website problems and the problems with my broken Computer I couldn’t post it earlier. Sorryy, but here it still comes. I hope you are all enjoying a good summer wherever you are. Since my last blog where I reported about my last few days in school a lot happened in my life. At first, when summer school vacation started I spent a few days at home to have time with my familie and then I went on holiday to Croatia with my girlfriend Tine and my friend and Isenseven Crewmate Peter König. We had a pretty good time there, a lot of sun, good food, snorkling or just enjoying in the sun to get some Energy for our snowboard trip to New Zealand one week later. Here a few pictures I made in Croatia with my new cellphone Nokia N95 which O2 offered me to picture my trips. Peter and me... rollin Ocean Peter Porec Love After Croatia I had just 2 days back at home to get my stuff done and pack my luggage for New Zealand. Then I went to Munich for my first real Concert in the famous „Atomic Cafe“ Bar, the Band was called „Voxtrot“ from Texas United States and it was just amazeing to watch them playing the tunes. Then the last day before our Flight left, I went surfing with Marco Smolla at the „Eisbach“ river in the centre of Munich. So much fun, there is a big Wave in the middle of the city. It was pretty hard for me the first time but it was real fun. At the next morning, Marco Smolla, Andre Kuhlmann, Peter König and me checked in at Munich Airport. After our last Weißbier and Weißwurst at the Airport Restaurant, we entered our Airplane and left Bavaria. On our trip we stopped at 4 different Airports and one gas station to get to our final destination. Peter and me „Weißwurstfrühstück“ at Munich Airport Marco grabbing his O2 Bag Airplane Wanaka, a small town on the South Island of New Zealand. According to this 2 day long journey we where pretty excited to move our sore bodies and go Snowboarding. Thanks to Marco and Jorma, that they managed everything about the house and rental car before we got here. The mountain where we always ride here is called Snowpark, it’s one hill consisting of one huge Snowboard Park. With a Superpipe, Quarterpipe, a bigger Jump Line and 2 smaller jib lines on each side with different Obstacles, boxes, rails and smaller jumps. Riding there in summer to work on your snowboard skills for the season without any preasure. Snowpark We are here for a peride of three weeks. From now on we have one week left. One day we made a trip to the Western Coast of the country which was very exciting, we had barbecue on the beach with our friends from Switzerland and got a view of New Zealand great Landscape. We had another day off snowboarding, and created our own adventure day. We went skydiving in the morning with our friend Elias Elhardt which was propably the crazyest feeling I ever had, jumping out of a plane in 3500 meter high. After that we played some Golf to relax after this crazy jump. And in the Evening we played some Tennis. This was my favourite day of this trip so far. Fischi the Phographer and Photo Editor from Pleasure Snowboard Magazin just arrived today. So we will focus the next days shooting with him to get some snowboard photos. ... will be continued.

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GERMAN:


Es ist vollbracht. Der Film "Übermovie" ist fertig, eingesperrt in einem stählernen Safe, rund um die Uhr bewacht von einer Snowboard-Franz-Klon-Armee, umringt von einem Becken voller tollwütiger Haie. Ein Film voller Geschichten über Großstädte, Mädchen, Pappschilder und Snowboarden, untermalt mit dem süßesten IndiePopElectroRock seit dem es Snowboardfilme aus Bayern gibt. "Übermovie", die sechste und bisher aufwendigste Produktion von Isenseven, präsentiert die Crew um Basti Kuhn, Michi Zirngibl, Marco Smolla, Chris Patsch, Peter König, Fredrik Evensen, Xaver Hoffmann, Erik Botner, Christophe Schmidt, Tobi Strauss, André Kuhlmann, Fips Strauss, Daniel Ek und Andre Tröltzsch auf turbulenten Reisen zu den schönsten Hügeln dieser Welt. Erst am Abend des 29.Septembers wird der Streifen wieder aus dem Sicherheitstrakt befreit und in der Badeanstalt, Leopoldstr. 250 in München der Öffentlichkeit zum allerersten Male vorgeführt. Ab 21:00 Uhr ist Einlass und wer früh kommt, kann sicher sein, noch einen guten Platz nahe der Hauptleinwand zu ergattern. Diejenigen die Fahrer und Produzenten der Crew aber schon immer mal in echt, in Farbe und nüchtern kennenlernen wollten, seien bereits am Nachmittag des 29.Septembers herzlich zum Isenseven-Kaffeeklatsch im Planet-Sports in der Albert-Roßhaupter-Str. 37 in München-Sendling eingeladen. Für Spätzünder wird dieses Jahr auch noch eine Extra-Leinwand im Außenbereich aufgestellt. Für reichlich Bier ist gesorgt, den Frohsinn dürft ihr selber mitbringen. Und damit der sich auch nach dem Film noch ausleben kann, bedienen die DJs Dominic Holzer vom Helter-Skelter Radio M94.5 und Sir Hannes aus Isen's Lieblingsschuppen, dem Atomic Café in München, eure Ohren mit besten Tanzflächenfüllern, wie man sie aus den Filmen kennt.

BAD GOOGLE ENGLISH ( SORRY; NO TIME FOR TRANSLATION):
It is achieved. The film “Übermovie” is, locked up in a steel Safe, around the clock guarded surrounded by an Snowboard Franz clone army, by a basin of full rabid sharks. A film of full stories over large cities, girls, stick-describe and Snowboarden, under with the sweetest IndiePopElectroRock since that it to Snowboardfilme from Bavaria gives. “Übermovie”, the sixth and most complex production of Isenseven, presents the crew around Basti Kuhn, Michi Zirngibl, Marco Smolla, Chris Patsch, Peter König, Fredrik Evensen, Xaver Hoffmann, Erik Botner, Christophe Schmidt, Tobi bunch, André Kuhlmann, Fips bunch, Daniel Ek and Andre Tröltzsch on turbulent journeys to the most beautiful hills of this world. Only in the evening of the 29.Septembers the strip is released the Sicherheitstrakt and in the public swimming pool, Leopoldstr. 250 in Munich of the public for the all first time demonstrated. Starting from 21:00 clock is inlet and who early comes, can be surely, still another good place close of the main canvas too ergattern. Those the drivers and producers of the crew however always times in genuine, in color and soberly to become acquainted with wanted, are already in the afternoon of the 29.Septembers cordial to the Isenseven Kaffeeklatsch in planet sport in the talking nonsense unit train main he STR. 37 invited into Munich Sendling. For late fuzes this year also still another extra canvas in the external area is set up. For plentifully beer, the sense of glad may you are ensured bring along. And thus also after the film to still live it up, serves the DJs Dominic Holzer of the Helter Skelter radio M94.5 and Sir the Hannes from Isen's favourite shed, the Atomic Café in Munich, your ears with best dance surface fillers, knows how one knows her from the films.


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London – We flew into Heathrow and the plan was to catch a train to Jamies grandmothers house in Oxford but her house was flooded.  So we got a tube to Camden & met up with Jamies cousin David who agreed to let us stay for a few days.  The first night in London we met up with some of Jamie’s friends.   We didn’t really want to do any of the touristy stuff in London, but we did go the National Gallery and Trafalger Sqaure. The exchange rate for pounds to Canadian dollars was pretty brutal so we didn’t spend much.  We caught up with a friend from school, Nicole who was in Kensington.  We walked past Hyde Park but we didn’t go check out the Princesss Diana memorial, so I didn’t get the chance to pee in it.  If London wasn’t so ridiculously expensive I would love to live there, going to the pub for a pint is a great way to spend an evening.

Amsterdam – I knew this would be the highlight of the trip, I’d heard a lot of stories about what we should do and where to go in Amsterdam.   To be fair there is a lot of cool stuff to do if sex drugs aren’t your thing …. we did go visit Anne Franks house, and the Rijksmuseum which has about 1000 Van Gogh and Rembrandt paintings.  But my favorite museum was the Heineken Experience which lovingly tells the story of Hollands favorite beer with interactive displays.  As you make your way through the “museum” there are 3 different pubs where you get to sample the beer.  
The nightlife in Amsterdam is amazing, we went to Boom Chicago which is an improv comedy club.  I was surprised how everyone in Holland spoke English, and the Dutch have no accent.  It sounds a bit American and a bit English, but I would have a hard time spotting a Dutchman.
I wanted to check out a coffee house in Amsterdam, but I was not planning on trying any drugs.  We went into a coffee house on the first night & they had a menu of what you could buy – they had cookies and brownies and doughnuts, and hashie milkshakes.   I tried a brownie, it was supposed to be the equivalent of 2 joints.  I think I was more influenced from the jug of beer we had at boom Chicago.   On our second night in Amsterdam we decided to get a gram of marijuana.  I’m not an expert but it was good stuff.  Amsterdam has to be one of the most interesting places, the people dress like Vogue models.  The red light district was not as sleazy as I expected, it seemed pretty touristy actually.   I was surprised when Jamie suggested we go see a live sex show, I was happy to try anything & everything we could on our trip. It was just regular sex, a guy & a girl, 2 lesbians and then a jungle woman with triple-D boobs having sex with a guy in a gorilla suit.  It was something fun to do as a one-off, but I don’t think it would be something you would do every week, like instead of going to the movies you would catch a sex show.
On our last night in Amsterdam we met up with the rest of our Contiki group.  There were 50 people in our group, mostly Australians & New Zealanders and some South Africans, Canadians, Americans.  There were a couple of Brazilians and Tawainese too, so it was a good mix of people.

Munich – we were all pretty hung over when we left Amsterdam at 6am to drive to Munich, Germany.  Our tour guide was Rachel, a cool chick from New Zealand, she basically talked to us like a school teacher & told us we would have to stay with the group & leave when she told us or they’d leave without us.  We arrived in Munich at about 4PM, just in time to go see the Glockinspeil.  Rachel told us it was the highlight of Munich … basically it’s a huge cuckoo clock. It went for 10 minutes, and there were literally 1000s of people watching.  When the clock finally stopped chiming we went for a tour of Munchen.  In the middle of the city is a park where office workers go & sit and eat their lunch and take their clothes off … it was a nudist park!  We went to a beer hall in Munich for dinner, the very one where Hitler used to go to give some of his famous speeches.   German food is pretty good, the main course was literally just a pork leg … no vegetables, no side dish, just meat!  I had 2 steins with my dinner so I don’t remember miuch else happening in Munich, except back at the hotel half the group went to bed & half the group went to the bar for another drink.  Jamie and I met a local Munchen man who offered to buy us a drink, cos he enjoyed speaking English and just wanted to talk to us …. ahh ok we went to bed pretty quickly then.   We drove to Switzerland the next morning, but we did make a stop at the Dacchau concentration camp, they turned the original buildings into a museum. I have to respect Germany for not trying to cover up their darkest chapter in history.

Geneva / Lucerne / Zurich – the trip itinerary was very full, we spent a lot of time each day on the bus traveling to our next destination.  We arrived in Zurich at lunch time, it’s the one city in Europe that looked exactly how I expected & was looking forward to explore it.  Too bad Rachel gave us 30 minutes to see the city & have lunch …. just enough time to grab a McSwiss burger.  The Swiss Alps were beautiful and I definitely want to go back with my snowboard.  It was funny seeing the Australians and South Africans get excited about seeing snow for the first time.  In Lucerne we saw a yodeling demonstration and had a traditional Swiss dinner.  But the highlight of Lucerne was the hotel, which was basically overtaken by our group.  It’s where the group really bonded, and I leant heaps of new drinking games.

Cannes / Nice / Monaco – it was a long drive from Lucerne to Cannes, with a short stop in Zurich.  When Rachel gave the group the choice of having a quiet night at the camping grounds or going to Monaco we unanimously voted for Monaco.  Jamie & I were dressed up to hit the Grand Royale casino …. I wanted to order a vodka martini, Jamie wanted to bet 10∍ on black.  There was a 20∍ cover charge to enter the Grand Royale, so we hit the mini-casino next door.  Jamie was insistent that he was going to gamble in Monaco so he put 10∍ in the giant slot machine … and won 950∍! Back in Antibes we got a bottle of vodka to celebrate.  The funniest moment of the trip was in Monaco when Rachel pointed out Prinicess Stephanie’s palace to us, and Aussie Dave yelled out ‘jeez its bloody nice hey, I thought my house was nice but this is bloody beautiful!’.  We got to spend the next day in Cannes, you feel like a schmuck seeing all the sports cars and huge yachts and villas.  The only other interesting thing that happened in Cannes was a guy in our group nearly got arrested for taking photos of topless women on the beach.  There was a circus with lots of carnival rides next to the campgrounds where we were staying.  After a few beers a bunch of us went on the giant drop, it wasn’t until we got to the top when Derrick reminded everyone about the 13 year old girl who lost her feet on the same ride.  But we survived and went back to the huts for more beer and card games.

Barcelona  -  Spain was the last stop on our contiki trip.  I’ve always thought that Italy has the worlds most beautiful women, but Spain is a serious challenger to the title.  The architecture in Spain was amazing.   It was the groups last night & we went to a flamenco demonstration & to a nightclub which was I was looking forward to doing for the whole trip.  I tried Sangria in Barcelona, which was pretty smooth so I drank more and more.  Maybe it was the alcohol but everybody was pretty emotional about it being our last night, a bunch of us are planning on reuniting for another contiki trip next year.

Paris – Jamie & I flew to Paris the next morning .  Air travel in Europe is realy cheap, our tickets were $30, the same that it costs me to get a train to Toronto!  I’d been to Paris twice before & Jamie had been a bunch of times before too. We had 3 nights in Paris and Jamiie said he wanted to blow his 950 winnings from Monaco on a fancy hotel, but we eventually decided to stay at a hostel.  We got a room at the Woodstock, a pretty famous hotel near the Sacre de Couer.  We’d planned on doing a lot in Paris,, but we were both pretty knackered, so we ended up going to the Louvre and Les Invalides.  We met a Scottish guy at the Woodstock who spoke fluent French and he & Jamie explored the Latin Quarter.  I thought the Parisiens were pretty rude, but I would have been disappointed if they weren’t.  We got kicked out of out hotel room at 10:30 (they have a rule you’re not allowed in your room between 10:30 and 5), and our room got flooded from the sun roof that was left open.   Our last night in Paris was the best night of the trip, we were planning on a having a few quiet beers at the Woodstock, but the bar was full of tourists participating in a drinking Olympics.  

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Dev&JF in Munich, Mr. Cool Ice and Kale TV...

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Vegas 2007

Vegas is always a good time.... well at lest the first couple nights. The problem is when ever we go we're there closer to a week. A week of no sleep peppered with large amounts of adult beverages tends to get to you after awhile. Its the same thing every year but for some reason the lesson is never learned. Oh well... maybe next year.



The photo above was taken just after Dev took us out for one of the best stakes I've ever had. I think I had dreams of how good it was that night. As you can see things are just getting fired up.

This is the view I had when I left the HardRock on my way back to the Hotel for my one hour power nap before the show.



We're in Germany now and will be meeting up with Dev and JF in Munich on Monday. Get ready for some good stories and photo's from the encounter. Last year JF flipped over a table with over a hundred drinks on it then called Steve our sales manager a pre madonna! Good times!

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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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www.ttrworldtour.com

 

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..

 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



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Things I´m going to miss in Garmisch:
- The Lodge
- Powder Runs on Alpspitze
- Hobis Bakery
- Dodge and his nice dudes
- late night snacks at Sophies
- how close Innsbruck was
- the mountains
- Evergreen
- La Baita
- Eibsee!!!!

probably a bunch of other stuff as well, but I can´t think of it now.

MUNICH, HERE I COME!



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