Alex Spiller

After two weather-related waiting days, the skiers' final was finally held in Revelstoke, Canada on Wednesday, January 11, 2012. The North Americans showed clear dominance on the "Mac Daddy"face and displayed breathtaking freeriding, just as you would expect from the best freeriders in the world.

The second day of the contest in Revelstoke, Canada, belonged entirely to the world's elite freeride snowboarders. 17 men and 6 women put their skills to the test on the "Mackenzie Face? on Saturday, January 7, 2012. However, the skiers' final scheduled for Sunday, 8.1.2012, had to be postponed due to the weather.

The 2012 Freeride World Tour season starts on January 6 in Revelstoke, Canada. The elite of the freeride world are getting ready to make their first turns in the fresh powder of British Columbia and begin the race for the crown of world champion. The reigning champions Aurélien Ducroz, Mitch Tölderer, Janette Hargin and Anne-Flore Marxer will certainly not have an easy time defending their titles.

The qualifier series of the Freeride World Tour 2010/2011 is over. After an exciting, albeit at times very snow-poor season, eight new riders have qualified for the FWT 2011/2012. This means that the field of riders for the official tour stops of the upcoming FWT 2011/2012 has been finalized. However, the FWT is still keeping a lid on how the tour will present itself next winter.

Together with Mathias Roten, Ueli Kestenholz founded the project "Playgravity" and published the first part in 2007. After the death of his good friend and speedflying partner in 2008, Ueli asked himself how he should continue. He found a charismatic group in many of his friends from different areas of extreme sports, with whom the sequel, "playgravity 2 - the other side", was created.

Aline Bock, 2010 Freeride World Champion (Snowboard), spoke to PowderGuide about the 2011 Freeride World Tour, snowboarding and her goals as a professional rider. After finishing a surprising second in her first year on the tour, she won the title race in 2010, her second season on the tour.

Travis Parker does the honors. One of the greatest snowboarding legends is back to show the film world "Respect Your Elders", a film that focuses on the love of powdering with friends. Together with a group of partly old hands and partly young rippers, the crew embarks on an adventure trip from California to Alaska. The cast includes Josh Dirksen, Ben Lynch, Brandon Cocard and, of course, Traivs Parker himself. This film from Mr. Parker's own production company, Resourcefull Gnome, is very likeable.

If you like fluffy deep snow runs from white sugared peaks just as much as park action, garnished with a few rails, you will also like the new film from Standart Films. The images are filmed in HD quality and are at least as varied as the accompanying music.

With "F it", the Forum Proteam ignites a firework display of top-class air and rail time this winter. Trick snowboarding at it's best is the leitmotif in this pure freestyle film.

On 18.10.2010 the organization of the FWT and FWQ published the official event calendar of the qualifying events. As with the announcement of the FWT stops, there are changes and innovations to be observed. A new category, the 4-star events, has been added to the existing 1 to 3-star events. This brings the total number of events on the calendar this season to 28.

Every year, new freeride films are released that present breathtaking action on the best faces in the world. But what is often missing in these films, or at least very briefly, are the parts of female actors. In view of what is currently going on in the women's freeride sector, it is nice to see that the ladies are taking their fate into their own hands and actively presenting themselves.

The community of old-school snowboarders celebrates itself. On April 17, 2010, the time had finally come. The biggest old-school snowboard event in the world came to Stuben am Arlberg.