A walk in the Park

Well we all thought this winter is gonna be a good one, cause it already started snowing in the alps at the end of October...... compared to the season 2006, where it started like in February 2007 for 2 days, that was realy early.

Far out!!! The so called winter season is becoming more and more a spring like "drytime" in Europe. So what should we do our Crew is waiting in vain for some snow to come so our freeride sessions could begin. More and more agony is widen out in our souls that we have to travel far far away to get that feeling of fresh cold powpow in our faces....

Last weekend we packed our gear again in the hope to finde a "virgin" spot which still coud be ridden..

After a 2 hour drive on Friday night, arriving at the Biberwier cabin at 11pm we gave an ejaculatory prayer to the Loard of the Boards and went to bed. The sun came up and traditionally we got woken up by Dundee with Rocky`s Eye of the Tiger....
Half an eye open I riped the courtains open, in the hope the weatherforcast was atleast one time right.. far out..... nothing like it .... Well at least the sun was shining like in mid summer.
Having had a huge breakfast we got our cameras and equipment together and agreed to go jibbin in the park...
A 10 minutes drive later we were at the ski-lift. Another 10 minutes later we arived at the park ....

It was packed with hunderts of poepel who had the same idea: "No snow, so lets go for the Park...!!"
After a one hour Photo- and Film-sesion with hundrets of breaks , because of uncababel Bananarams lying in the ladinzone, breaking their sculls we finaly gave up with 5 min. film and 6 good pictures in our pokets we left and shaped our style on some nearby hill....


Still though it was a fantastic weekend and the fazit we can give to everyone of you:

If the park is full go and shape yourself!!!

So long in hope for snow to come , keep you tail on the ground!!

Jibb it!!

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Shape Your Style

The longer you `ve been in your bindings the better you board or ski... thats a fact!! So most of the peopel whoe love the feeling of getting smothered in fresh, christall clear, cold powder are eager on doing tricks and landing thoes in the beloved cloud of exploding powder when stomping the trick in the landing zone...... Before we give you an aproximate lesson on how to do rails, flipps, airails and all the other stuff the base for doing thoes is needed.

Lets go and shape that kick!!!

In order to do so the main aspect is the right spot. It should be on a hillside which is steep enough for the inrun, has a sort of tiny flat-part following a nother steep part.

Check for:
Is there enough powder in the landing?

Is the landing zone free of obstacles?

Is the inrun to the kicker too kincked?(this could lead to a heavy compression leaving you out of controll)

Plan the plan:

Befor building the ultimate adrenaline kicker you should be dacor on the hight of the obstacle and how big and far you wanna go. If the landing is quite flat, plan a kicker with less top peak as you dont wanna hit a flat landing from a 5 m free fall (it`ll eventually break your legs), instead you wanna go far which is the basic for good spinns. Opposit counts for steep landings here you can combine the distance of the jump with a good hight, steep landings give you the opportunity of going biiiiiiiig!!!!

Construction:
Depending on the snow conditions there are divers construction strategies. If the snow is kinda wet the easiest way is to roll up big snowballs, as you would do in order to build a snow man. Bring thoes in shape of a kicker and fill up the emty spots with snow. Then start shaping the peak of the obstacle. If the snow has the cosistency of powder, use your boards and skis to build a casing, fill it up with snow, then use one board to jump on top, whilest the others keep the casing tight. This will compress the snow and the kicker won`t collaps when you hit you first airail...
The kicker should be at least as wied as a board is long, in order to do some nice spins and flips.

Fine tuning:

Building the inrun is another imortant aspect. As we said befor a shitty inrun could lead to bad injuries!! Usually the best way is to pull the snow aprox. 7m infrot of the kicker of the surface; this snow could be used to correct unevenesses in the inrun, also it will even out the inrun too.
Last but not least you gotta decal the kicker; run up the kicker and use your boards to plane down the kicker, whatch out that all dents are fully filled.

All set!!!

Go big and wip that tail !!!!!