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Park Session Mayrhofen

Published on February 28, 2007. 12:40

Hi Guys

Last week I was invited to film with the Hot Zone dudes in the park in mayrhofen.

It was amazing, to shoot with the crane camera at this big kicker. The skills of Rudi pushed me extremely. I did some crazy stuff which I never tried before and it worked. What an awesome day, crazy!!!!

I was so stoked that I tried a cork 9 on the last day, but it didn’t work, I think ähm yeah!?!??!

Now I´m sitting in my room and look at the footage which we shoot. Sick man!!!!!!!

flying high

This days we got the most snow of the year (50cm), but it´s raining right now.

!!!what a fuck man!!!

see ya

roman

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Arlberg BC and Mayrhofen Park Session

Published on February 26, 2007. 21:40

Hi everybody!

Arlberg:

From the 16^th to the 18^th after it dumped I was at Arlberg to shoot for the next Fat Gipsy Movie. I was there with Simon Schwaiger and Michi “Stani” Stanschitz. First time in the season we really found some good powder and were able to build and shoot two powder kickers. Sick!! We found some really good spots. Also did some runs, turns and cliff drops. We also took some nice pictures. I hope it wasn’t the last time.

Check out: www.fatgipsyproductions.com

Mayrhofen Penken Park: 20.& 21.02.07 As it was spring last week I was at the Park in Mayrhofen for two days and filmed there with the Hot-Zone.tv Team for the next Season Team Movie. The guys from Hot-Zone designed and built a camera crane with 11m height. Haven’t seen the footage yet but has to look sick.

So check out the report on Hot-Zone.Tv:

http://www.hot-zone.tv/content/12.0.html?&tx_ttnews[t...

Lets pray for Pow

Rudi

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Rich in Japan

Published on February 23, 2007. 15:59

Rich is over in Japan at the moment and after the Nippon Open he has stayed on to do some filming with Level 1 productions for next years production. He says that it is super sick in Sapporo where he is with 1m50 of powder, in his words 'ici est trop enorme, j'ai le meilleurs shoot de mon vie en powder'.

I am looking forward to seeing the photos and film from the trip.

posted by Graham

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8th world cup, japan

Published on February 23, 2007. 03:52

i competed in the world cup in furano, japan and i placed 8th.
check out the video

Dan Wakeham Snowboard World Cup Furano Japan - Click here for more home videos

in other news, part 1 of the extreme channels "dan wakeham show" pipelife is available to watch online now
http://www.extreme.com/news/news_article.asp?SID=867

and here i talk about pipelife on the snowfix podcast

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???Who hunted the elk from ACG???

Published on February 21, 2007. 20:00

Finally I killed him

It was me

Sorry guys

Hi, my name is Roman Rohrmoser, I´m 21 years old and I´m from the chillervalley (Austria)

I´m the 2^nd rider from ACG who is qualified for the O´neill Freeride Quest in Flain.

Sverre has already a ticket from the Verbier X-treme from last year.

My buddy Flo Köfer and I qualified at the Rookie Quest in Schruns/Tschaguns.

He took the 3rd place and I finished 5^th at the contest (but at the party team ACG defenitly took the 1^st place).

Thanx and peace out to the police from Schruns for the free ticket which I got from them.

Yeah, so now I´m sitting in my room and looking at the powder pics from last year.

Crazy what an awesome winter - This year is pretty poor till now.

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So hopefully next week the winter will come back, or will start finally!?!?!

I did some nice shoots last days with the guys from K2 in Adelboden and Kitzsteinhorn, but only in the park.

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pics from the park

Published on February 21, 2007. 19:40

Oh. a mistake!?!?Me again.

This are pics from the park.

This week Rudi Kröll and I will do

some crane camera filming in the

park in mayerhofen.

medium_medium_wave_Low.4.2.jpg The park is shaped really well and

hugh, so probably see you in the park!!!!!!!!

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pics coming soon!

Greets from the chillervalley

Cheers roman the elk hunter

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Dan Wakeham 's Pipelife

Published on February 21, 2007. 17:25

medium_Dan_Banner_Main.2.jpg Nike ACG Team Rider Dan Wakeham has teamed up with the Extreme Channel and ACG to make a series of small webcasts documenting his life as a professional snowboarder. It s called Pipelife

PIPELIFE is a six part documentary, which follows Dan through every waking minute of the day, as he prepares for the World Championships in Arosa, exposing the guts and determination it takes to compete at the top level.

Catch a brand new Pipelife chapter from Mr. Wakeham every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks at:
http://www.extreme.com/video/video.asp?sWhich=latest&...

or just go to the Extreme Channel website and look for pipelife.

Sweet.

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Henning's Interview

Published on February 19, 2007. 16:30

Last month Nike ACG rider Henning Marthinsen came second in the Quaterpipe at the O'Neill Pro Freestyle event in Avoriaz. Henning was naturally super-stoked and since then has moved up to 5th position in the TTR rankings.

After his podium placing Henning gave a rare interview in which he discusses the fundamental issues of todays professional scene..well, not really, but its a good crack so check it out at

Check da Jacket!!!

http://www.ttrworldtour.com/index.php?id=89

go to the page and look on the left hand side for a thumbnail of Henning, below Miss Bleicher.

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helmet camera

Published on February 17, 2007. 07:13

I have been filming with the extreme channel. we have been working on a six part feature that will be on the channel, web site and their snowfix podcast.
i spent a day in bardoneccia experementing with a helmet camera. here is some of the footage that i have edited.

Look Through My Eyes While I Snowboard In The Halfpipe - video powered by Metacafe

Dan Wakeham Sponsors - video powered by Metacafe

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Rudi Kröll - Playboard Style Session 07.-12.02

Published on February 13, 2007. 21:25

I just came back from St. Jakob im Defereggental. I was there for the Playboard Style Session and I had a really nice time there. The guys from the 24-7 park (Markus Gasser and Daniel Gama) had it all very well organized and made it not just a session but a familiar producing with a lot of opportunities for the current snow conditions. They organized accommodation, dinners, breakfast and also a two day trip up on a mountain lodge where they pre-build kickers, a box with a drop into the powder, a quarter with a box on top and also gave us a lot of informations about the backcountry which surrounds the lodge.

Big shout out for this to the 24-7 park guys!!!!!

They organized a house a little bit up the mountain where you had to drive up with the car. As I arrived (01:30 AM) it snowed already a little bit and I tried to drive up there but got stuck somewhere half way. It was really icy so I started to slide back with the car and ended up diagonally blocking the entire road so I had to put my chains on to come up there. At the same time all the other guys arrived to. But it turned out that I was pretty much the only one with chains so it was really funny to watch all the guys trying to get up the mountain road.

On Thursday Walter “Woidl” Fanninger, Tomi Savela and I went to the ski resort to check it out. It was cloudy and a little bit more snow would have been fun. The mountains look very nice but it was hard to find spots for this snow conditions. We found a concrete dam where we did some bomb drops. It was crazy because the landing was only rocks with a little bit of snow on it. I stomped an Indy drop. It was very difficult to stomp this transition.

On Friday after a 20 cm dump over night we went up on the “Alpe Stalle” lodge where they had already prepared some stuff to ride. Sick! There are two huts. One is called “Top Spot” and is leased by Andreas Leitner and Chris Heinzle which supported us with accommodation and drinks in his reconstructed bar. The other hut is called “Alpe Stalle” and is farmed by Bruno Gasser. He is a really nice guy and he provided us with one of the best meals I ate for a long time. I recommend the local speciality “Schlipfkrapfen”! He also brought our stuff with the sled up to the hut and made us breakfast. Thanks a lot for the extraordinary hospitality and the effort you guys put into this session! We had two days of relaxed producing at an amazing spot with a lot of possibilities. Two days of blue bird.

On Saturday evening we went back down and up again to our other accommodation. Sunday was very relaxed. It was cloudy. Late breakfast at 10 while watching the Austrians lose at the Men’s downhill in Ǻre. We checked out some spots afterwards but I ended up taking pictures of the other riders. I did a nice picture of Woidl. The only shot I did that day was a backflip off the telephone booth.

On Monday we packed our shit because we had to get out of the apartment. The weather was nice first but when we got on the mountain it turned cloudy so we just did two runs. I hit a rock with my brand new Ästhetiker board “Gruber Libre” which pushed my edge in a little bit. What a bummer! I love the new Gruber Libre. I was riding it for five days now and it feels so good to ride! No matter if normal or switch. Also the nose and tail feels great shredding the powder. And it looks sick! Well done Steve! Eeööhhhh

Afterwards I did some nice shots with Alex Papis down in the village. First spot a wallride setup in the yard of Lupo Troger which runs the Intersport Troger together with his brother. Thanks guys for doing groundwood and services on our boards. It helped a lot. The second spot was at a church. I got a very nice shot there. After this I went back to the Zillertal but actually it was a bad idea because it dumped 30 cm overnight in St. Jakob.

So watch out for the port in the Playboard Magazine. I look forward to it.

Hhhmmmm where else did it dump…….

Rudi

P.s.: One of the nicest sessions I have been too

P.p.s.: On my way back on the top of the Gerlos Pass I met this guy! He is from Zürich and he was on his waz from Murau to Innsbruck. How crazy is the world?!

Links:

St. Jakob im Defereggental www.stjakob.at

St. Jakob Bergbahnen www.bergbahnen-stjakob.at

St. Jakob Tourismusbüro www.defereggental-info.at

24/7 park www.24-7park.at

Playboard www.playboard.de

Ästhetiker www.aesthetiker.com

Fat Gipsy Production http://snapshot-themovie.com

Hot Zone www.hot-zone.tv

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