Freeski

PowderGuide reinvents itself once again and keeps its finger on the pulse. Text and its linearity are passé. Moving images are the future. But PowderGuide is not just making a vlog, we are becoming the largest extreme sports video portal in Europe.

State-certified ski instructor. Mental trainer. Freerider. And filmmaker. Hardly any other female skier has as many professional facets as Sandra Lahnsteiner. She has made freeskiing more feminine with Shades of Winter and tells us in an interview why it's worth just doing something, why it's brave to say "no" sometimes and why her films also inspire men to ski.

With the Catamaran, K2 is introducing another asymmetric backcountry ski alongside the Marksman, which was released last season. The ski with a 120mm waist width replaces the Shreditor 120 (Pettitor) in the playful powder ski category. As with the Marksman, freeski legend Pep Fujas was in charge of the development. Find out what the completely new development has to offer and how it compares to its predecessors and competitor models in this test.

Immediately after the Freeride Junior World Championships, the Skiers Cup Big Mountain Competition was held on the same face. So it was certainly interesting for the young freeriders to compete indirectly with the invited freeski pros from Europe and America. Compared to some of the juniors, their performances were not all that different, understandably somewhat adapted to the conditions. Nevertheless, most of them made the best of the conditions - a show worth seeing. It was clear to see, especially in the first run, that the riders had been riding in good conditions in North America over the past few weeks and that almost none of them were tempted to perform bigger tricks or riskier lines in the spring conditions that currently prevail almost everywhere in Europe. At the end of the first day, it was Collomb-Patton's Team Europe that took the lead with 9:7 points, leaving Sage Cattabriga-Alosa's Americans behind.

Part 1 of the ISPO Report 2016: You could almost copy the text of last year's ISPO article, because the biggest trend in ski models is still: 15% lighter. Sometimes even 20%, but mostly with the same shapes. Balsa or paulownia wood in combination with carbon or particularly light fiberglass, depending on the price range, promise the same performance with noticeably less weight on the foot. Weight is now being saved on all wider ski models, not just the uphill-oriented ones.

On February 26, 2015, the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt hosted another edition of the Skiers Cup between teams from Europe and America under powder snow and blue skies. The 5th Skiers Cup offered good conditions for the freeski team competition between Europe and America. The European team managed to win back the Skiers Cup trophy in the form of a ski boot. The overall score is now 3:2 in favor of the Europeans.

After four successful competitions in Chile and Switzerland, the Skiers Cup returned to Zermatt in 2014. In the fifth edition of the intercontinental freeski duel, Team America is now led by Seth Morrison following the death of JP Auclair. The two teams are currently tied at 2:2. The fifth Swatch Skiers Cup will take place from February 21 to 27, 2015.

The European Outdoor Film Tour (E.O.F.T. for short) is now touring Europe for the seventh time and once again offers the best entertainment over around 120 minutes. This year it has nine individual films in its luggage, which provide breathtaking insights into a wide variety of outdoor sports.

For five days in the first week of October, several thousand visitors celebrated freeski culture, film, the sport and themselves at the international Freeski Film Festival in Hintertux and Innsbruck. The iF3 showed over 30 films from the current premiere season, brought many a well-known rider from the scene to Tyrol and ensured exuberant parties in Innsbruck's town halls. The second edition of iF3 was in no way inferior to last year's event and was a complete success in the eyes of the organizers.

Great emotions, breathtaking images: Action and extreme sports fans can look forward to the brand new "Cinemaxx Sports" film series. In line with the motto "More than just cinema", Cinemaxx and Moving Adventures present brand new extreme sports films once a month in selected Cinemaxx cinemas.

Well protected - or well helmeted - the safety margin is simply greater when freeriding. And it should also look good. Can the Hlmt 5 Pro from UVEX convince here?

The riders from Team Europe and Team America have already battled it out twice at the SWATCH SKIERS CUP in Valle Nevado, Chile. After losing at the premiere in 2011, Team Americas was able to equalize in September 2012: The duel between the continents is now tied 1:1. This starting position now heightens the tension ahead of the third edition of this event, as one of the teams is sure to take the lead when the SWATCH SKIERS CUP makes its first appearance in the northern hemisphere: From February 10 to 15, 2013, the freeskiers will meet again in Zermatt (CH)!