http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter/nyhetskanalen?videoId=1.1543536&selId=1.1045384&currPage=1
What a surprise!! Prime time at the sports news sunday evening! Lots of fun that they shows interest in big mountain freeride. Really happy with that one 
This is how we roll. Five people, four ski bags, way too much luggage and a 11 hour drive to Tignes for Euro X-games. Awesome!
Squished in the back
We got bored, so decided to play dress ups
As you may have heard, European Open got canceled due to bad weather conditions. We got up on the mountain about 0830, and had to wait there around 3-4 hours before we got the message. The contest was canceled, but they wanted to have something, so they made a rail contest on a staircase… yey.
I got really fed-up, so I packed my bags, and went strait to Zurich airport and bought a new ticket home to Oslo. Felt good to go strait home after a fiasco as the European Open was this year. But when I think about it… It`s like this every year in Laax. Bad weather, year after year. Why not move the whole thing to another resort? Where the weather is more predictable. I guess we`ll never know… Cause I don’t think they would move the event anytime soon.
Anyway, the day after I got home I jumped in the car and drove to Kongsberg for the SnowStock bigair contest.They had built a really good kicker, and we had alot of fun the while day! Thumbs up!
Read about it here(norwegian only): http://friflyt.no/index.php?pagenr=12&articlenr=58634
in about 1 hour I´m going to a meeting with Dragon, and then pick up Jan Petter Aarskog. We`re gonna drive to Lillehammer for some urban shooting with field the next few days. Hopefully get some shots! Urban crew: Even Sigstad, Anders Backe, Kim Boberg and me. Kim will actually shoot with us for the first time today! Cool to have him with us… As you may know, his a really good skier!
I tried to put up some pictures, but it didn’t work, so that will come up later tomorrow…
And one last thing. For all you norwegian readers: There will be some contests put up soon, so stay tuned. Cool softgoods and goodie bags from Sweet Protection will be sent out.
-A.A
Hi all,
I come with this little post to share with you my 2nd victory on a FWT Qualifier.
This one was the FWQ Freeride Battle of Kanin, Slovenia.
Despite the snow conditions, I managed to stick to my line, fly my FlightSuit and stand on my feet !!
3rd comp, 3rd podium =)
Here you got a little resume of the competition day, enjoy !!
Now, I hope they’re gonna accept me in Nendaz !!
Some update very soon,
Greetz from Slovenia,
Mati
A trip to Europe is always filled with chaos, drama and unexpected events.. or in this case non-events.
After a night stopover in Gstaad after the Austrian Open, we stuffed our little Rav-4 with luggage until it was almost bursting, then set off to Laax for the European Open. We made a quick stop at the Zurich airport to pick up Charis, our photographer and filmer, then another stop at the Volkl factory to pick up skis for JF, then finally made it to Laax in time to settle into our ghetto style accommodation. I think there were 8 of us in a one bedroom apartment!
Girls chair at training
The first day of training on the course passed by with no issues. Qualifying for slope-style was the following day and this is where the event began to go downhill. The girls were slotted in at the very end of the day after 80 boys had already shredded up the course. The light was flat, landings icy and the wind began to pick up. I was lucky enough to be pre-qualified, but stayed to watch my friends compete. The girls skied as best they could in the bad conditions but I witnessed a fair amount of knuckling and nasty crashes. My good friend Kim Lamarre was carted off the course with a broken arm after not making the landing due to high winds.
The third day training was scheduled for the finalists, but heavy fog made it impossible to hit any of the jumps. We ended up hiking the rail features for four hours.
Day four was finals day for slope-style. We all made our way up to the course, but after waiting around for what seemed like eternity, we were told that the event had to be cancelled due to high winds and poor visibility. It was a good call as conditions were way too dangerous to jump, but everyone was super disappointed.
Hiking
To replace the slope-style event, a rail jam was organised down in the village. Rails are fun while shredding round on the mountain, but standing in line for 15 minutes to hit a bar of metal, then repeating that process for 2 hours is not. I found it all a little frustrating. This feeling soon passed after a beer and a boogie with my friends at the outdoor concert.
Sliding that metal
Line up
Girls’s podium
Mens’ podium- Sweet riders JF Houle and Tom Wallisch got 1st and 2nd
At the moment 5 of us (Franca, JF Houle, Alexis Godbout, Charis and myself) are squished back into the Rav-4, on route to Tignes for the European X-games.
A mix of nice pictures from Squaw Valley. I really love this place and it feels kind of sad leaving but i look forward coming back to the alps with even more challenging skiing!!
Wonderful view from the mountain.
The roof we could start jumping off in the competition.
Me before crashing:(
The avalanche that went off right before supposed start at Tram face.
Early morning with huge line of people waiting hours before the lift opens after snowfall.
Last day of skiing 2morrow, i will miss the playful terraine, all the sweet and happy people, the Sushi and offcourse Starbucks!! Big thanks to Patric and his friends in “the bunker” for letting us feel like at home!! Even i had a worthless competition i had a lot of fun:)
Today was training day for all semifinal athletes… It was really foggy, so we hiked the rail section at the beginning of the course. Everybody was trowing down the best tricks possible, including the Norwegian boys. Really technical rail tricks…! Switch tail-first 270, butter 450 and 450 on to the flat rail to mention a few! They decided to have the up-box and c-rail in the course, so we had to train on that too, but I guess that’s fine…
And yeah, since Hans Jacob Brandt barely missed the semis, he got a spot after all, because of some invited riders not coming. Congrats…
Looking forward to semis, and hopefully finals tomorrow!
Some photos from today:
The first two rails, the c-box and up-box and the drop-box
The infamous wallride
Into the 3 jumps… Picture taken today, so as you can see it was really foggy! You cant even see the last kicker…
Stay tuned for more pictures and results after the semi and final tomorrow!
-A.A
I just came home from the mountain here in Laax, and quali is over. They decided to cut the c-box from the course, cause you cant really do anything on it… I came 3rd in my heat, so I get to ski semi on friday. Other norwegians that qualified: Espen Bergh, Fridtjof Fredriksson and the norwegian swede Kim Boberg. We get to train tomorrow, so we`re looking forward to that…
My run: Switch lip on the first rail, misty 450 of the drop-box, hitting the wallride switch to forward, Left 9 nose, switch 10 japan to switch right 7 mute. I guess I`m gonna stick with my run for now, but probably need to do a switch right 10 on the last kicker to have a chance to get into finals… We´ll see tomorrow.
Check out som pics from today
The rail section
Jumps… and the wallride
Erik wearing the ISPO winning jacket. Check it out here
Stay tuned!
-A.A
Sweet Protection cancels this winter’s Sweet Rumble – and goes big with a new event in November 2010. Since the winter of 2004 top international riders have gathered in Trysil for Sweet Rumble, Sweet Protections own big air competition extravaganza. Right before Christmas Sweet announced its plan for a new event setup. Sweet Rumble will be moved to Saturday November 27th 2010. At the same time, starting Tuesday 23rd of November to Sunday 28th of November, Sweet introduces Sweet Camp, where rookie riders can ride with top level Sweet Protection team riders and other pros.
Sweet Rumble. Photo: Ola Matsson
- This winter’s international calendar is fully booked and the competition schedule for both our team riders and other and the other top level riders is packed. However, we are super excited about the Sweet Camp and Rumble in November and planning’s already started. Our goal is to make the Sweet Camp and Rumble the events that kick starts the winter season, says Sweet Protection CEO Atle Enberget.
Riders joining the Sweet Camp can except a fully loaded and easy going action and hang out package, including lift tickets, healthy food, coaching and other activities. All the happy campers will stay at the new Radisson Blu Resort in Trysil.
Sweet Rumble. Photo: Ola Matsson
More info on Sweet Camp and Sweet Rumble will be released shortly. Stay tuned!
Just a short note about the contest yesterday on Silverado, Squaw Valley, USA. It was really an amazing show up there, girls went bigger than some of the guys and the guys were throwing tricks out of everything!! A short run but really interesting venue, like a playground! The concept was best run of 2 thats counted, for me it ended like a disaster, big crasch both runs…. Feels pretty stupid and i am really disappointed at the moment. Now i am not in for Verbier and the final of FWT, ended up as nr 6 on the ranking after yesterday and just 3 girls qualify 
Look at some of the highlights!! http://www.freerideworldtour.com
3 more days over here before its time to head back to Europe again, they say a storm is coming in so hopefully we get some sweet skiing last days in american pow!!