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Air & Style

Bergisel, Innsbruck
02.02.2008

This year the Air & Style came back home to Innsbruck with a Quaterpipe Contest. 2 weeks before the contest i got a call if i want to be a Backup rider for the contest. I had to think about that because i didn’t ride Quaterpipe for more then 3 years. But how could i say no to be part of the home coming from Air & Style!
So i confirmed and on wednesday before the contest they finally told me that i just made it to the main contest. So the pressure was on.

We didn’t really had that much training that we supposed to have because the weather was really warm and they were afraid that the Quaterpipe gets fucked. So i had to go for the Contest with not a lot of training.

To stand up there at the start gate was amazing!! 12.000 people were going crazy in the arena while i was droppin in and hit the quarterpipe with 90 km/h. I was pretty high on the second run and because i did pop a little bit to less i landed on the couping after a 6m Backside Air. So i bruised my right knee. I still did the third run but didn’t really feel it after that slam. I got just 21th but i was really stoked to be part of the Air & Style. It was an amazing expirience with an incredible crowd and „Queens of the Stone Age“ as LiveAct! Siicckkk!!

I had to take 2 weeks off riding to get my knee better again. I went riding after 10 days at the Penken Park and did some jumps while i had a little short landing on a BS 720, i felt the bruise in my knee again.
Anyway i went fort he Check the Ripper on the Seegrube.
 

Also check:

- http://fm4.orf.at/michael/221625                                                 FM4 Report

- http://www.tirol.com/sport/sportmix/innsbruck/76297/index.do            Tirol.com

Check the Ripper

www.nordparksessions.com 

Seegrube, Innsbruck
23.02.2008

Last weekend the Nordpark Sessions took place again on Seegrube in Innsbruck. A Photo Session on Thursday, a night pipe Session on Friday and the Legendary Check the Ripper contest on Saturday. It’s all about finding the best allround shredder.
The setup is a run which includes a kicker, a lot of banks, little bumps and a about 250 meter long and steep freeride slope with about 8 gates for the directions.

The whole thing runs on time. At the kicker you can get up to 12 seconds off your time depending on what trick you do. On my first run i did cab 900 and my time was 01:42:56. That seemed allready pretty good. But i wanted to be faster on my second try. So i did cab 900 again to get a lot of time off. I had a pretty good run. My second run was 4 seconds faster with 01:38:88! I was really stoked espacially because a german tourist crossed my way and i had to scream at him and shred around him.
There was another guy who also did cab 900 on the kicker but he didn’t know his time because someone else crossed the goal line. He said that he didn’t feel to good on his second run. So i thought it could be possible to take the title of the Ripper. I was really stoked and also a lot of other guys said that i won that shit!

So we went to the price giving at 9 pm in the Jimmy’s in Innsbruck. It was unbelieveable. but the other guy really kicked my ass by 0,13 seconds!!!! I couldn’t believe it. So i got 2nd again like i have been last year already! DAMN! Seems like thats life.

And it also seems like i have to go there again next year to try to finally get the Title „The Ripper“!
 

Greets from the Chillertal

Rudi

P.s.: WÄNGL TÄNGL is coming up! Check www.aesthetiker.com 

Falkertsee, Austria Dec 27, 2007

Yeah fellows!!
Long time no c... but back online now. HAPPY NEW YEARl!!
CHECK the NEW clip 70°NORTH from my trip to Norway in April on my website www.skiflo.com
I already got some perfect days of skiing on the Arlberg last week and I was pretty bussy with shootings. I did some epic shoots with Peter Mathis, it was just awesome to ski with my buddys and work with one of the best photographers!!! 

AHHH! YYEAH!! Let me proudly present my new Sponsor! VÖlkL skis, Marker bindings, Tecnica boots !!! I am so happy to 
be part of one of the strongest freeski teams out there!! Lets say hello to Zigo DAddy!!! Cheers
Now I am at home in the Carinthian mountains, supporting my buddys in the skischool and my brother in the hotel :-)I will head over to Mammoth CA on the 8th of Jan for the WORLD TOUR Qualification. I am looking forward to a cool trip with my brother Luke and my buddy HAUNI :-)Party hard!!