Watch two great edits from FL Clothing including our Blue Tomato Team Rider Kareem el Rafie! The first video shows some pow riding and the second one is the online part of FL Clothing’ s rider Felix Engströms!
Our new Blue Tomato Team Rider Mathieu Crepel had a nice start in the new season 2011/2012! Watch the great video from him and his friends from France shredding in Austria. Most of the shots were taken at the Dachstein glacier!
Ich wollte nur mal ein kleines News Update bringen!
Bei dem EuroCup in Saas Fee bin ich ins Finale gekommen und schlussendlich bin ich 6. geworden. Ich bin ganz zufrieden, weil es mein 2. Tag in der Pipe war und auch mein erster
Internationaler Contest. Das Beste ist, dass ich jetzt die Fis-Punkte habe, welche ich für die Youth Olympics brauche.
Blue Tomato Team Rider Mathias Weißenbacher about his season start and his win at the 4 Star TTR Nissan Stomp It!
It was a pretty good weekend for me ! After I missed the finals of the Worldcup in London , because I ended in 9th place in the Qualis and just 6 went through, I packed all my stuff and went on the same day to Italy-Modena for the 4 Star TTR Nissan Stomp it !
The Jump in Italy was pretty scatchy so I tried to do my best. It was a Corner-jump but everyone just went over it so it was kind of like a normal Jump with a really soft and scatchy 5 meter landing
In the Qualification I did a BS 720 mute – ended in 10th place and 16th went through !
In the finals we had 3 runs – best counts ! I was thinking about to do a BS 1080 mute grab as my first trick in the finals – The takeoff and In-run got soft really fast, so I thought it would be better to do it in the first run cause that was the only way to get enough speed for this trick!
So I did it and I pretty much overshoot the whole landing– BUT I landed my BS 1080 mute and I got really good points for it !! At the end I won the 4 Star TTR NISSAN STOMP IT in
Italy and I’m really stoked about it !! Wooop!
I think for me it was the best thing to start my season and I’m really looking forward to it Hopefully a video and some pictures are coming soon
Blue Tomato team rider Anna Gasser talks about her amazing summer in Oregon, USA, and her plans for the new season:
Hi guys,
just a few words about my summer in Mt. Hood…
This summer I had the opportunity to go to Oregon and ride four sessions in the Windells Summer Snowboardcamp.
It was one of my best summers so far. I had so much fun and got to know so many amazing people. The weather wasn’t as good as we all have been hoping for, but we made the best out of it!
Now I’m in Hintertux till the end of October to get ready for the new season. Can’t wait to see u guys out on the hill!
Anna
Fresh snow, clear blue sky and three days of sunshine accompanied the visitors through an unforgettable opening – perfect conditions to start the season in the Snowpark Kaunertal with lots of action. The open park and the contest line were perfectly shaped, which was great for the riders to show their best tricks and jumps. The pros and amateurs battled in the contests on the kicker line, equipped with a canon box and a pipe, which guaranteed also jib-fun.
But not only the snow park was full of action. The testival area with 50 brands held out against the big run and people tested their gear three days long. We guess that there was no visitor who didn’t take home some nice goodies from the blue Tomato tent! The people had a lot of fun trying the wheel of fortune and winning some nice Blue Tomato stuff.
The freeski pro Roy Kittler scored with a „right side cork 9 blunt“ at the first kicker and with a „switch left side 900 mute“ at the second kicker and was the winner of the freeski contest. American snowboarder Eric Beauchemin convinced the
judges with a „cab 9 und BS rodeo 7 nose grab“ and won the prize money for the best snowboarder.
Blue Tomato Team Rider Markus Pekoll erzählt von seinem ungewöhnlichen Ausflug in die Ski-Welt:
“Nach den ersten Rennen in der noch jungen Rennsaison war ich für einige Tage mit meinen neuseeländischen Teamkollegen im Zillertal auf Trainingslager! Zur Abwechslung fuhren wir auf den Hintertuxer Gletscher um Brook MacDonald und Wyn Masters das Skifahren beizubringen. Dies machte ihnen sichtlich Spass und als ich dann auch mal etwas schneller fuhr und an der Kuppe abzog, waren sie mehr als überrascht, wie schnell man mit Skis fahren kann;)”
The Blue Tomato Team and Co. are looking forward to the legendary Kaunertal Openingand a fulminant kick-off into the season 11/12!
Goodbye summer… welcome winter! Get out of your flip flops and into your boots! Once more the Kaunertal glacier will open its snowpark with a superlative kick-off for the coming winter season. The legendary Kaunertal Opening will take place for the 26th time and thousands of snowboarders and freeskiers will celebrate the beginning of the shred-season 2011/2012 with an awesome program on the mountain as well as in the valley.
Snowboard and Freeski Action:
The big names show how to do it… again numerous pros will flock to the Kaunertal, compete at the BIG PARK mini shred Pro Contest and show their most spectacular jumps. The pro contest will be one of the highlights of the weekend and will promise sensational kicker- and jib action. Besides receiving plenty of fame the best riders will have the chance to win US $ 7,000 in total. Also the mini shred Contest for amateurs will take place on Sunday in which all snowboarders and freeskiers, who seek more challenge and the thrill of a competition, will have the chance to show theirs skills.
Get yourself into the mood and check out the teaser of the 26th. Kaunertal Opening!