Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

I have spoken to some of the guys in the team and its all go at the moment.

Rich is just back from japan and has been shooting in chatel and has some grreat shots including a rude boy double backflip in the backcountry. He is now on his way over to Austria to the Red Bull Playstreets before continuing his filming with Rage films who are coming over to Europe for a couple of weeks.

Andreas has been in colorado training and doing some park filming, he has not had too many days shooting due to the horizontal snow however the sessions he has got have been killer. Every day for the rest of the season is now booked up with tonnes of filming so its going to be super hectic but loads of fun. A big shout out to Andreas and Jon who have been with Mirjam over in colorado making her recovery as easy as possible after she bust her ACL in the US Open final but still took second.

Henning is also going under the knife this week after getting fast tracked up the waiting list for the operation to get his ankle better. He has used this opportunity to get his school work up to date and is one of the judges for the Norwegian Atric challenge qualifier. If you are over at the Artic challenge then you will definitely see Henning hanging around taking notes so that he can come back and blow minds next year.

Gary and sophie and continually on the comp circuit and are heading over to Calgary for the World cup at the end of the month before the world Superpipe champs in Park City and the US Open. In between this gary has to shoot his sweetspot which is shaping up to be a big adventure into the unknown...fingers crossed but I think its going to be sick.

Ulrik has been filming hard with Factor films and has already stuck a backside 10 and heelside rodeo 7 in the backcountry so a grreat start, he is now back in Mayrhofen on the best kicker line he has ever ridden to put down some big lines. Stoked that it is coming together although he did manage to lose his filmer for a short period of time but thats Ulrik.

Mati and Laurent are off on a major adventure down in Nepal for their sweetspot and it is going to be a beauty but you are going to have to check out the website for when it goes live as it will be a world first.

I am back at home after a month on the road and catching up with the backlog of e-maiils, the season is going great and whenever I talk to anyone they are having a lot of fun with all the snow, long may it continue and I cant wait to get the shredstick back on.

 cheers

G