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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

 

 

 

 

 

Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl, Mayrhofen, 22-25.03.07

5* TTR Event

Last weekend the Wängl Tängl 07 took place in my home resort Mayrhofen. The park up on the Penken was in perfect shape and I have not seen a park like this somewhere else this season! The Ästhetiker and the Burton Park Mayrhofen guys did a perfect job! I also helped them shaping the park on Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday afternoon the training took place and all the guys checked out the park for the contest.

On Friday was the qualification with about 50 pre-qualified or invited riders. We had sunshine on Friday although the weather forecast predicted bad weather and snowfall. The system was that every rider had 3 runs, 2 got judged and you had to do at least 2 different lines. Like a kicker line and an alternative line (rails, cradles, …) . I got 7^th in the qualification on Friday. I did a kicker line with cab9, bs7,fs7 and a nice alternative line. So I was stoked about that and we had a really nice party that night.

Because of bad weather forecast the semi-finals and finals got postponed from Saturday to Sunday. Perfect decision because we had really nice weather on Sunday again! 30 riders were fighting on an amazing setup to take part in the Final. The riding level was really high. No wonder that the Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl got promoted from a 4 Star to a 5 Star TTR event this season.

Everyone had 4 runs, you had to do 2 different lines and the best 2 runs counted. I did two kicker runs with cab9 to bs rodeo 7 to fs7 tail and fs9 to sw bs 5 to bs 1. And I did two nice alternative lines. As I was pretty unlucky in some of the judge’s decision this season I also was pretty unlucky in the judging decision on the semi-finals. They took 12 guys into the Superfinal and guess what: I got 13^th.

As it really is a very high riding level it’s not a bad result. But for me as it is my local contest and it was one of my season goals to be in the final of the Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl I was really disappointed that moment. But that’s life.

Anyway it was a really nice contest in my home resort and I am happy that I could take part in it!

Yesterday I already was filming again and after a day off today I go to Andorra tomorrow! There is a 3 Star TTR Contest called ”Grandvalira Total Fight” which I will take part in. I’m looking forward for that! I have never been in Andorra before.

So I send u greets from the “Looking like summer again” Chillertal

Rudi

        

Links:

Ästhetiker        www.ästhetiker.com  (Contest results, pictures, etc.)

TTR                 http://www.ttrworldtour.com/88.0.html (Snowboard Tour, Results, etc.)

Method.TV      www.method.tv           (Check out movies from the Quali and the final day)

Hot-Zone.TV Mag      http://www.hot-zone.tv/content/index.php?id=177&langu...