Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

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