Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

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 

yesterday was the day of Slopestyle Semi´s and Finals,nearly all Nike ACG Skier made it to Semis!
the semi´s were made of two heats!
Andreas, Thomas and me made it straight up to finals with top scors and sick tricks!
the most surprising fact was that a lot of the prequalified pro´s didn´t made it to the finals instead a lot of scandinavian riders made it to the finals!
at the end Jon Olsson did the sickest run of the day witch included a left misty 9 to sw misty left 10 to switch right 9 to kangaroo! PK Hunder came in second while Andreas made third place, with sick back to back 10´s and blindside 360change up´s and 630 out on the rails!
Thomas Dolplads came in 7position!his consistant riding was awesome!
I ended up in 9th position after crashing on my second run!I was a bit unlucky while I was in 4position after the the Semi´s!
All in all it was a pretty good comp with the sickest riding level I had ever seen!
tonight will be the big air and tomorrow the halfpipe finals so stay tuned for more updates!
cheers Roy

yehaw here we go!
today was the second day of qualification!
yesterday heat 1 and heat 2 showed there skills. Normally Rich would be in the 2heat but he hurt his back during the training on thuesday and was relaxing in the hotel for beiing completly recovered for the upcoming X-Games!

today was the turn of heat 3 and 4! Martin was in heat 3 but just ended up in 12place after hurting his calf on the up rail! otherwise he would have done better for sure!

heat 4 was up to Thomas Dolplads who ended up second, with sick switch 10´s and consistance on the rails! I ended up first with sw 10`s, switch unnatural 7`s and a gap 450 to box!

so tomorrow will be semi finals and finals!
Team Nike ACG will kill it there for sure!

watch out for the report of the semi`s and finals!
cheers Roy

hey everybody
today was the first day of the US Open,
just practise but still good!
the set up is about 4kickers and after you can choose between a straight to down box, a gap to rail and a straight rail after you can choose between a double kink and a straight to down rail and the last obstacle is a A-frame box!
the kickers are really fun but the rails are really strange!
so will see how it works tomorrow!
one more shitty thing is that they announce the heats at 7, tomorrow in the morning!means you have to wake up so early!
the riding level was really high so look out for the first heats tomorrow...

cheers Roy

Hey
here we go first day of training in the staates!

today everybody went to Keystone, Andreas, Jon, Jakob... even the weather was not that good!
the park is amazing and everybody was killing it today!
for me it was my first day back on skis after my injury and it went really well, exept that I broke my helmet while landing on my head during a switch 7....haha
after we played loser on the rails and had a great session!

tomorrow will be on more day of training and than Team Nike ACG will going to kill it as the Open!!!!!!

stay stuned for some new updates!

cheers Roy