Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

Nike ACG Skiers were out in force last weekend at the Freestyle.ch in Zurich.

Our riders included Andreas Hatveit, Rich Permin, Roy Kittler, Martin Misof and the UK’s Paddy Graham who all competed in the Freestyle Ski comp. Freestyle.ch is a fantastic event with packed crowds and a cross over action sports format including Snowboard, Freestyle skiing, vert skateboarding and FMX.

Andreas was of course one of the favourites for the event but disaster struck when he pulled up 4 feet short on the knuckle in training and had to be taken to hospital for what looked like a bad knee injury. We are all hoping it’s not a serious as it looked and hoping for a speedy recovery – get well mate.

From a Nike ACG standpoint, the weekend belonged to Martin. He’s absolutely the crowd pleaser and really steps it up in big crowd kicker events like these. His switch back-flips and stylish switch 10’s had the crowd going ballistic. Martin sweeped through to the Cross-over jam on Saturday night along with Simon Dumont (Nike 6.0 rider). This year, Skaters took the honours in the cross over with Sandro Diaz putting down enough amplitude and tech in his run to gain the biggest cheers from the 45,000 strong crowd.

In the ski finals on Sunday, no one could compete with Jacob Wester who won the super-final with an incredibly stylish double cork 12.

The next big snowsports event will be in London and again we’ll have a big team of Nike ACG athletes riding in both ski and snowboard. Check it out and get your tickets at www.londonfreeze.com .