Mini Creative Use of Space 2012 – Burton Canadian Open
Mini have once again teamed up with Burton to to continue their unlikely but seemingly lasting relationship. For the second year running the Mini Creative Use of Space competition will run during Burton’s Global Open Series (BGO) and the duo have released the first 3D draft of the feature that will be making an appearance at the Burton Canadian Open (BCO) in Calgary.
Local park shaper Ryan Neptune was given $5000 to come up with his own unique feature for the BCO and has created a very skate influenced obstacle. We aren’t exactly sure whether the white Mini is a pre-requisite in the design but the snow fun box looks pretty sick and definitely very fun to ride nonetheless. Ryan’s creation will then be judged against features from the the other stops on the BGO tour with the winner pocketing a cool $5000 and the prestigious Creative Use of Space Feature Award.
Ryan and his park crew say that they were inspired by a skatepark feature in Portland and they hope that the fun box will challenge snowboarders who have a skateboarding background, so expect creative lines and gaps. “Riders who are also into skateboarding will understand the obstacle better and will therefore be able to tackle it in an even more creative way,“ said the shaper.
Riders in the BGO Series will also be in with a chance of winning $2500 for the most creative use of the most creative feature (bit of a tongue twister). The BCO runs from January 30 – February 5 and can be watched live here
Friday Find: Ski Ballet. Nuff said.
Seriously, could you get any more mincing than this? Incredibly, as recently as 1988 sequin-wearing plank spankers prancing down a slope counted as an Olympic sport! This marvellously-mulleted German fellow was apparently one of the best in the world. While the dancing’s funny enough, it’s worth watching all the way to the end to see his reaction at the result. Priceless!
Marco Feichtner – Day in the life
For those of you who have always longed to know how Marco Feichtner, or Fichtl as he likes to be known, spends the day then here is the video you have been waiting for.
The Austrian, recognisable from the Pirates Log podcasts, ventures into the plentiful snow of his home town of Montafon to film for the upcoming Pirate Movie. However, Fichtl finds that the copious amount of snow on offer, while welcome, creates its own problems, most notably just hiking to the run in for the jumps! Not that he lets this get in his way as he gets creative over cat tracks and avalanche barriers.
Winter X Games 2012 Live Stream – Watch all the action from Aspen
That’s right, the Winter X Games is back in Aspen this weekend, offering the world’s best snowboarders (and skiers, and freestyle snowmobile riders and all sorts of other folk) a chance to get their hands on some of the most coveted pieces of bling in winter sports. Things kicked off with the opening of the public vote for the X Games Real Snow contest a few weeks back (which has now been whittled down to a final of Halldor Helgason vs. Louis-Felix Paradis) and they’re now getting properly underway. Can Jenny Jones repeat the incredible achievements of previous years? Will Seb Toots repeat last year’s incredible high score? And what about Torstein’s ‘triple’? Well, we’ll find out.
Unfortunately, we can’t censor the skiing action from this livestream but we can tell you that the snowboard events will be shown live at the following times. Oh, and these are all Colorado time, which is seven hours behind the UK.
Friday, January 27th
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Elimination – 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final – 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Men’s & Women’s Snowboarder X Qualifying – 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Adaptive Snowboarder X Exhibition – 3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Snowboard Big Air Final – 8:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Women’s Snowboard Superpipe Final – 9 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday, January 28th
Men’s & Women’s Snowboarder X Final – 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final – 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 29th
Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Elimination – 12:15 p.m. – 1: 45 p.m.
Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe Final – 7:45 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Travis Rice signs with Union Bindings
Hot the heels of his new sponsorship deals with Home watches and Contour headcams, here comes yet another new hook-up for Travis Rice. What, did he just sign a new agent or something? This time it’s the announcement that Travis has signed for Union Bindings. Not so surprising this one, given that for the past few seasons he’s been quietly riding Burton bindings on his Lib Tech pro model and not getting a cent. Union take the Order of the Brown Nose prize, however, for their description of the big man as “one of the most pivotal riders in existence.” If it wasn’t for the word ‘rider’ in there we’d think they were talking about some fundamental new discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. Still, can’t blame ‘em for being stoked at pulling this one off.
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