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By The Blogging Tomato, 10.01.2013 10:08

With its 1.800 meters, the Blue Tomato Kings Park in Mühlbach am Hochkönig is most likely the longest snowpark of its kind. The British park designer Karl Sanderson and his shape crew have done an outstanding job in the last few weeks in decorating the majority of the 1.800 meter long playground with new obstacles.
So it was time for our snowboarders and freeskiers to check out the park at the Hochkönig! And they did a good job!

On December 29th 2012, a team of filmmakers and photographers and some of our teamriders went to the Hochkönig to put the park’s rails, kickers and boxes to the test. The results of the session at the Blue Tomato Kings Park were tons of fun, freestyle action and fresh shots, which were compiled to a Snowboard Clip and a Freeski Clip.

Have a look at the pics and the clips and check out our teamrider Flo Galler, Diz Pichler, Dominik Wagner, Miriam Hoffmann und Sebastian Huber in action!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 09.08.2012 16:46

Shiny day, motivated riders, great sessions! It was time again for a big Blue Tomato team shooting!

The weather is beautiful, the sun is burning down, but the lovely Dachstein always keeps everybody cool for beeing active for some spring freeskiing!
So the choice was made to go for a huge one and invited the great Blue Tomato family of team riders.

Of the Blue Tomato freeski team Luca Tribondeau, Martin Hauck, Daniel Walchhofer, Stefanie De Menech, and Josh Absenger were in on it.

Have a look at some vibrant freeski action (shot by Severin Wegener):

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A nice little team edit was made for you, too – enjoy it:

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By The Blogging Tomato, 20.02.2012 14:46

Im Rahmen der „Powder and Bass“ Eventserie veranstaltete Blue Tomato am 18. Februar einen sicken Freeski & Snowboard Railcontest im Innenhof der Arena Wien mit einem extra vom Blue Tomato Shop Wien und Snowpark Stuhleck aufgebauten Rail Setup und einer großen Menge an Schnee. Ein fettes Preisgeld und Goodies im Wert von insgesamt € 2000.- garantierten Action pur!

Knapp 50 Rider lieferten in der Arena Wien beim spektakulären Railcontest, dem „Battle in the Arena“ eine super Show. Selbst Pros wie Marc Swoboda gaben sich hier die Ehre.

Auch die Preise waren sicherlich ein Ansporn für jeden Teilnehmer, denn zu gewinnen gab es einiges: 1000€ in Cash, Freeskis und ein Snowboard von Völkl, eine Bindung sponsored by Marker Völkl, für den Best Trick Men und Best Trick Women gab es je ein Surfbrett sponsored von Moskova, eine kostenlose Teilnahme am Völkl Young Blood Camp, Snowpark Stuhleck Tageskarten, für den Best Rookie des Tages einen Red Bull Mobile Friendsvertrag, eine Wildcard für den TTR Event Jibbendales und ausserdem fette Goodie Bags gesponsert von Moskova, Völkl, Blue Tomato und Snowpark Stuhleck.

Jetzt aber zu den Gewinnern in jeder Kategorie:

Snowboard Men: 1. Flo Galler (BT Team), 2. Marvin Salmina, 3. Marc Swoboda (BT Team)

Freeski Men: 1. Luca Tribandeau (BT Team), 2. Martin Kocher, 3. Martin Hauck (BT Team)

Blue Tomato Teamriderin Steffi De Menech belegte den 1. Platz bei den Freeski Girls. Maja Lövenmark überzeugte mit ihrem Style und ihren Tricks, belegte Platz 1 bei den Snowboard Girls und gewann auch den BEST TRICK. Den BEST TRICK Freeski holte sich Yannick Back mit dem One Ski 360° off übers Rail.

Old School next Generation! Auch bei den Snowboard Rookies gab es einiges zu sehen. Little Helgason alias Matthias Dornaus gewann das Finale. Dicht auf den Fersen war ihm Rookie Pauli Steiner.

Und wie es sich zu jedem Contest gehört, gab es auch hier wieder eine geschmeidige Aftershowparty, bei dem Rider und Zuschauer ihre Tanz moves auspacken konnten. Im Rahmen von Powder & Bass begann die Commercial Suicie Night mit KLUTE, S.P.Y, NYMFO, BODY& SOUL sowie MC LOWQUI.

Blue Tomato bedankt sich auch nochmals bei den Sponsoren: Moskova, Marker und Völkl sowie Snowpark Stuhleck und der Arena Wien sowie bei Mainframe!

Der Event Clip is coming soon….

Pics by Simon Vanhal

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By The Blogging Tomato, 20.01.2012 10:48

On January the 15^th 2012 the Blue Tomato Kings Park has been flooded by flashlights! The reason for it has been the 1^st Blue Tomato Shooting Time “Rock the Kingdom”! No freestyle addict didn’t let this opportunity let go and showed their best tricks at beautiful bluebird! Professional photographers were there and shot amazing pics!

Here you’ll find a small overview of the great pictures made at the “Rock the Kingdom” on January the 15^th 2012:

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You also wanna join the next Blue Tomato Public Shooting? Note following events:

13.02.2012 – “Roxy Freestyle Chicks”
26.02.2012 – “Nike Chosen Shooting”
31.03.2012 – “Hot Iron Shot”

Here you’ll find more information about the upcoming events!

Continue reading 'What a great weekend: the 1st BT Public Shooting at the BT Kings Park Hochkönig has been a great success!'»

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By The Blogging Tomato, 16.01.2012 17:25

Incredible!! Our Blue Tomato team rider and freeski rookie Lisi Gram (15) got 1st in halfepipe at the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck!

Our rider and tyrolean native Elisabeth Gram has won Austria’s first Gold Medal of the Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Women’s Ski Halfpipe Final on Sunday.

After a suprising 1st place in the qualification where she has already dominated her competititors, she amassed 84.75 points to win the Gold in front of a delighted crowd.

All the time Lisi  looked natural and smooth on her way to the Gold as she linked a straight-edge safety with a 540, then finished with her signature hand-plant.

“It’s my special trick,” Lisi said of her hand-plant. “That’s my trick and if I do it everyone knows, ‘Yeah that’s Lizzy’.”

As she had hip pain beacause of a bail she had to pull herself together. ” I was a bit nervous, but relaxed, “she admitted at the finish and could not realize their succes after the run, “but it’s mega cool.”

Many fans from her homestown, including parents and friends, have seen Lisi in a unknown role, as she had to answer so many interview questions, “quite unusual,” admitted the winner.
After this, she celebrated her triumph in a small group. Besides, it was another premiere too: the first time freestyle skiing in the halfpipe as an Olympic sport!

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By The Blogging Tomato, 19.12.2011 15:56

To keep your snowboard in good shape – so that it always provides you with what you need and want, with perfect grip and lots of speed, you need to do a little workout from time to time!
Grinding the edges and waxing the base of your board, that’s what you need to do! Therefore you need some special equipment, which can make your time in the park and the powder so much better! This is not something to be stingy with, you would regret it!

Continue reading 'What do you need to prepare your snowboard properly?'»

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By The Blogging Tomato, 21.11.2011 09:42

Kurzer Video-Edit von Blue Tomato Team Rider Luca Tribondeau:

“Ich war diese Saison schon oft im Schnee! Unter anderem auch mit Jon Olsson und seinem Photographen Oskar Bakke, der auch schon viele gigantische Portrait Fotos von mir gemacht hat!

Hab auch schon wieder neue Tricks gelernt wie den Kangaroo Flip oder den Double Cork mit Double Grabs. Ich fühle mich eigentlich schon wieder richtig wohl im Schnee und meine Contest Planung ist auch schon fast fertig!”

LG

Luca

Check the video: Luca Tribondeau’s Kangaroo Flip

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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, 18.10.2011 11:53

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.

Freeski:

1^st men – Roy Kittler (D)

1^st woman – Lisa Zimmermann (D)

Snowboard:

1^st men – Eric Beauchemin (USA)

1^st woman – Julia Baumgartner (A)

Continue reading 'What a great weekend: bluebird and a lot of fun at the 26th Kaunertal Opening!'»

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By The Blogging Tomato, 12.10.2011 16:03

Blue Tomato Team Rider Luca Tribondeau is jibbing in Hintertux! Watch awesome tricks in his short edit!