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By The Blogging Tomato, 11.07.2012 14:28

Starting the week with an own summer shooting project sounds exciting!

That was the 3 days plan for us 7 interns, Bijan, Wolfi, Meike, Chris, Flo, Franzi and Sarah (clockwise from the top). So we packed our bags and hit the road from our office in Schladming to the nice university town of Graz.

Leaving in heavy downpour we arrived again in beautiful rainy weather at the Blue Tomato logistics in Graz after a long, but cozy bus trip including nutritious beakfast breaks at McDonalds – of course.

After a short guided tour through the logistics of Graz we finally got down to work: considering our project story, collecting summer outfits for the shooting, checking models and locations, arranging a timetable… We had some hot discussions while the first meeting and thus we were even more excited about the upcoming shooting Tuesday.

Tuesday morning. Departure, a short stop for buying provisions, then straight to the first location – the amazing university of Graz!

Happy about our well-ordered and harmonizing team, the sudden approaching friendly summer weather and the characteristic college location, we finished our shooting after two short hours and could head for the next spot.

We were planning to shoot at the platform of the nice mur isle but we spontaneously changed our decision for another hot spot:

A great beach bar with a corresponding fresh and easy beach feeling – in this situation the better choice!

We were blown away from the results. Everything was going so well that we still had enough time discovering the lovely downtown with its numerous bars, the obvious frozen-yoghurt trend, delicious and opulent food, as well as the old tower called “Urturm” on top of the castle mountain with great view over the city!

Check out our making-of and get into shoot mood!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 09.07.2012 13:02

Die Woche mit einem Shooting zu beginnen klingt verlockend!

So ging es für uns 7 Praktikanten, im Uhrzeigersinn: Bijan, Wolfi, Meike, Chris, Flo, Franzi und Sarah, vollbepackt und wochenendmüde, aber dennoch gespannt auf unseren bevorstehenden 3-Tage-Eigenprojekt-Trip ab in die Studentencity nach Graz.

Losgefahren bei prasselndem Regen und nach einer langen, aber gemütlichen 2 bis 3 Stunden Fahrt mit nahrhafter Frühstückspause bei McDonalds, kamen wir ebenfalls bei schönstem Regenwetter in der Blue Tomato Logistik in Graz an.

Nach einer kleinen Führung durchs Lager ging es dann endlich an die Arbeit: Story/Thema überlegen, Outfits zusammenstellen, Models und Locations checken, Zeitplan erstellen… Da ging es im Meetingraum bei so mancher Abstimmung heiß her und wir waren auf unsern Shooting-Tuesday nun mehr als gespannt!

Dienstag morgen.

Abfahrt, Provianteinkauf und los zur ersten Location – der wunderschönen Grazer Uni!

Happy über unser super harmonierendes Team, das plötzlich aufziehende Sommerwetter und die charakteristische Studentenlocation, konnten wir unser Shooting schon nach erfolgreichen zwei Stunden abschließen und zum nächsten Spot fahren.

Geplant war die schwimmende Plattform der Murinsel, heraus gekommen ist jedoch spontan ein anderer Hot Spot:

Eine tolle Beachbar mit erfrischendem Strandfeeling – in dem Moment einfach die bessere Wahl!

Vom Ergebnis waren wir alle hin und weg.
Alles hat gepasst, mit Applaus konnten wir unser Shooting beenden und hatten am Abend noch genügend Zeit die herrliche Grazer Altstadt mit ihren zahlreichen Bars, dem augenscheinlichen Frozen-Joghurt-Trend, leckerem, füllendem Essen, sowie dem Urturm auf dem Schlossberg mit gigantischem Ausblick auf die Stadt zu erkunden.

Seht selbst unser Making Of und kommt in Shoot Mood!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 07.02.2012 17:30

Girls are sometimes facing a tough job in the snowboarding scene, but nevertheless they keep on going and love what they do: shredding the mountain and just having a good time with friends. We have exclusively interviewed our five female Blue Tomato team riders. Find out what they think about girls riding!

photo by carlos blanchard

Sponsors: Blue Tomato, Billabong, Swatch, Oakley, Neff, 32, Etnies, Dakine, Les Ettes

How did you spend your last season?

I had planned to be filming all winter, but I hurt my ankle on the first shooting day of the season and I got stuck in Europe with no snow. That’s when I got a wildcard for the Freeride World Tour in Chamonix and won. After that event I ended up competing on the whole tour. I wanted to film in between the contests but I got hurt again. So at the end it’s been a full on competing winter. Quite different for me as I hadn’t competed for a very long time, but hey, a World Champ’s Title looks always good on a CV!

What do you think about the progression of girls snowboarding in the last few years?

The level has improved big time! When I started most of the girls you had seen in the ads just look nice and turn a 360. Nowadays girls are ripping with all 720, 900 and double corks…hell yeah ! But I wish it was growing faster and better! Especially in Europe with still very unequal prize money on the freeride competitions and still no girls in all the main city events, like Air and Style and Freestyle CH etc..

Have you ever had a part in a snowboard video?

Yes, I had some in the Psykopit movies at the time and in the Burton videos too. My favorite part was the one in Roshambo. It was the opening part of the movie and really the only year I’ve had a real film crew all winter with me and no injuries. Before and after that I had a couple of shots at trips with Thermos, Anomaly TGR, The Community Project, the Uniquely movie etc..

Do you think girl movies can inspire other girls to put together a crew to show off their riding and start filming?

Of course and that’s what we need! That’s also how all the main “guys film crews” started filming their friends. I think that’s the best way to find motivation, push each other and find sponsors. Projects like Lipstick Production are essential and they will motivate the younger girls to go out and shred!

Check also Anne-Flore Marxer‘s teamrider styles:

Urska Pribosic

Sponsors: Blue Tomato, Rip Curl, Elan, Amplifi

What are the reasons that girls snowboarding hasn’t received as much attention as guys snowboarding?

Why do girls need women’s-specific snowboard gear?

What’s your favorite girls brand and why?

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By The Blogging Tomato, 29.12.2011 16:28

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!

Frontline Clothing x Åre from Dennis Ylikangas on Vimeo.

Felix Engström online part 10/11 from Erik Lindhe on Vimeo.

Check out the fancy FL Clothing stuff in our Blue Tomato Online Shop:

FL Clothing Highback Beanie 10,47 €  14,95 €

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By The Blogging Tomato, 17.11.2011 16:13

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!

Check also his Facebook Fanpage and his official Homepage!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 08.11.2011 14:46

Zitat von Blue Tomato Team Riderin Lisi Gram:

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.

Liebe Grüße

Lisi

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By The Blogging Tomato, 02.11.2011 14:17

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

see ya soon

cheers matt

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By The Blogging Tomato, 28.10.2011 13:36

This is a short taste of what the Ms Racing team experiences throughout their race season!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 21.10.2011 14:45

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

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By The Blogging Tomato, 20.10.2011 16:26

Blue Tomato Geschäftsführer Gerfried Schuller erklärt die Details der neuen Blue Tomato iPhone App!