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Update out of Chillertal

Oktober is nearly over and again good and bad things happened.

We had the Hot-Zone Park Opening on the first weekend of October. Good days on the mountain and a amazing party at night! We also did a Ästhetiker Tell ÄVision show.

Check it out:

Report: http://www.hot-zone.tv/content/469.0.html

TellÄVision:     http://www.aesthetiker.com/

 

After the Opening I didn’t ride to get my ankle better again. And it got better.

I was riding again last week on the 21^stOctober. It was amazing!!

It good cold and it was dumping that weekend and we didn’t see something because it was really foggy. But we didn’t care because it dumped about 40cm and the feeling of powder was back in my veins. Let’s pray for a good winter!

This Saturday I went on the mountain because the Ästhetiker had a 2-day charity event with a school for kids with behavioural problems. The kids were really stoked to go shred with the Ästhetikers! The show will be online soon on the Ästhetiker page.

For myself, I had a good day too but it ended not well. My ankle is better and I was riding the pipe which was fun. In the end I got my backpack and did one more run through the pipe and on the last hit I did a frontside invert handplant. First it felt good but with coming done again I slipped, my thump bent over and I felt something not good.

Now I know that I part ripped or ripped my thumb ligament. Bad luck! I have to figure out if I have to get an operation. So I hope it’s gonna be good again in about 6 weeks.

So lets hope for a better November

Greets out of da Chillertal

Rudi

P.s.: Also check out the other Ästhetiker tellÄvision shows like “The perfect Day”.

Hey everybody

i just came back home from the pow wow railbattle in augsburg, germany!

it´s the biggest railcomp in germany and a lot of people all over europe are comin there every year for having a sick session!

this year there have been a lot of austrian, swiss, belgium, dutch, polish, Czechs, finish and of course german riders!

after the qualification on friday everybody had a sick party on friday night, and some a little bit to much beer...

anyway with a little delate of 1hour the comp was starting on saturday!

at 6pm the finals were goin down and the best 10skiers and 10snowboarders were goin head to head!

everybody did at least 270, 270out or a bunch of change ups!

so the level was quite high and  5snowboarders and 5skiers qualified for the super final which was a 45min jam session!

the level was rising again and everybody was blowing with switch

tricks, switch 270, pretzels, unnatural 270 and even

lipslide270 in or 450in from the side onto the rail!

in the end the ranking was like this:


Freeski Men

 1. Platz: Roy Kittler (Germany)

2. Platz: Benedikt Mayr (Germany)

3. Platz: Oskari Raitanen (Finland)

4. Platz: Szczepan Karpiel (Poland)

5. Platz: Xavier Gehring (Germany)
Freeski Women

1. Platz: Katrien Aerts (Belgium)

2. Platz: Eva Patscheider (Austria)

3. Platz: Caja Schoepf (Germany)

4. Platz: Robina Romani (Netherlands)

5. Platz: Kerstin Weibeler (Germany)

 

 Snowboard Women

 1. Platz: Britte van der Pouw (Netherlands)

2. Platz: Helene Nadig (Switzerland)

3. Platz: Maya Gehrmann (Germany)

4. Platz: Andrea Lucht (Germany) & Mandy Langbroek (Netherlands)

 

Snowboard Men

1. Platz: Gerben Verweij (Netherlands)

2. Platz: Paz Gruber (Austria)

3. Platz: Chris Boehnke (Germany)

4. Platz: Marcus Bernhard (Austria) &  Wouter de Lange (Belgium)



here is also a little edit i´d put together, it´s not evrything on it put quite a bunch of nice tricks, so watch and enjoy!Cheers Roy

 

 

 

 

 

This is my second time trying to write this report as the first one deleted itself and that always gets me down so it has taken me a while to work up the enthusiasm to do it again but luckily for everyone I am now ready...whew I hear you say I really needed to read that report.

So how did it go, well all in all the Freestyle.ch was once again a fantastic start to the season, the sun was out, the course and event village was sick and everyone was there so it was good to see a load of faces again after the summer.

The qualis were on Friday and roy and Paddy were representing. Infortunately neither of them got through even though they were throwing down some good style and moves but it was the first time in the event for both of them so hopefully they will be back next year and really kill it.

On Saturday the big names started riding with the who's who of skiing including Andreas and Rich. andreas stuck some perfect 12's in training along with super stylish flat spins and rich was throwing all sorts of tail grab style as per usual. Once again Andreas was to be thwarted in getting to the final by not quite sticking it in the heats which was unbelievable after the training runs but Rich made it through on his last jump which was a perfect big 9 mute.

This also meant that Rich qualified for the cross-over session on sat night which is live on TV and in front of 30,000 people - a great experience - but unfortunately Rich couldnt quite take it over the superman double front flip which Dumont was pulling out of the bag - especially when the crowd are the judge, who wouldnt scream for that.

On Sunday was the finals and Rich put his shit down and finished 4th for the second year running which was a great effort.

A good weekend was had by all including myself and Knipey even though we didnt quite make the parties, maybe next year.

cheers

G

Hey everybody

i just wanted to drop everybody a line and let u guys know what i´m up to right now!

since 3weeks i´m in hintertux now getting some training done for the upcomin season!

it´s really nice here a lot of austrian skiers and international proriders are here right now, like anti autti or jakob wester!

the park got a double kicker line with 18 and 17m table and a superpipe as well as a corner and some smaller kicker a straight box and a rainbow box!

so right now that´s the place to be to get into a good shape for winter time!

now everything is working again like last winter and i also learned soem new double grabs and tricks!

 

 by the way...i have been to kaunertal on the weekend and did the comp over there, and just won the pipe comp... 

enjoy the pics and the little vid i´d put togerther in a couple of minutes and i wish everybody to have a nice winter and pray for tons of poooooooooow

cheers Roy

 

if the vid is not working just use the link....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyDyC4kFL4 

                            
 

 

Zoe Gillings, Britain's number 1 female snowboarder, began the new 2007/2008 winter season with a bang in the Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup in Valle Nevado, Chile, in the opening event of the new season. Zoe placed 6th overall in the boardercross, her best result in the World Cup Boardercross for three years, and is hoping the result will be a mere stepping-stone towards greater success on the World Cup Circuit.

Zoe won her quarter final heat, and was unlucky to be given a tough draw in her semi-final, causing her to narrowly miss out on the finals but still pick up a creditable 6th place finish. The eventual winner was Lindsey Jacobellis from the USA.

After the race, Zoe said, 'I am absolutely thrilled with this result, as it shows that all the hard work and training over the summer is paying off. I am really looking forward to the next competition on Saturday, and maybe fininshing higher. This is a great start to the season, and I am very excited about the rest of the winter in which I can hopefully achieve a victory in a World Cup - that's my goal for this year. It was a great competition with most of the best ridres in the world here in Chile, so I am pleased to be up there challenging the best in the world.'

It would seem that Zoe enjoys the Chilean event, as she actually won the World Cup Event in Valle Nevado back in 2004, and has battled back extrememly well after a career threatening foot injury which ravaged her past couple of seasons. Zoe does seem to have turned the corner though, and is ready to test herself once again against the world's best over the next few seasons, with her ultimate ambition a medal at the Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010.