Snowboard

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.

Our adventures in the mountains actually start at Zurich main station. A train journey takes us to a mountain village, an ascent to a mountain peak. Weightless turns in the powder make beads of sweat disappear. A day out snowboarding with friends. That's what we love.

"Summer in the Stub'n": positive vibes and neon en masse! This year's Longboard Classic in Stuben/ Arlberg was the most summery edition yet: temperatures around 25 degrees, summer slush and ground avalanches in the Albona Face led to a new, shortened route through the Rauztobel. What sounds like a bad "backup plan" turned out to be a stylish Longboard Classic of a special kind!

Alterna Films from Canada bring a solid snowboard flick to the market with "Hello World", the chapters about Bosnia Herzegovina and Turkey really stand out. Unfortunately, there is mainly snowboarding to be seen in the cities, including tricks on bombed-out facades in the Balkans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The former trend sport of snowboarding has fallen into a deep crisis. Anyone who is hip now goes skiing and more and more former snowboarders are switching back to skiing. Ski convert and occasional snowboarder Tobi Kurzeder discusses the snowboard crisis, its causes and the supposed lack of innovation in the snowboard industry with snowboard manager, PG co-founder and ex-snowboard pro Holger Feist.

The big B is out. Is Burton still king of the snowboard industry? The new flick from the "B" team is a colorful, fast-paced film with a good cast. The question that arises is: Is it worth buying a "promotional" video? Is it just advertising or is it actually a snowboard movie?

In the beginning was the picture. It was of a strange mountain formation at night, the likes of which we had never seen before. Matthias had come across it while searching the internet for new winter sports opportunities in the Caucasus. But this couldn't be the Caucasus. Like a lunar landscape, folded mountain ranges formed around a basin that seemed to be filled with a lake of light. The flat ridges of the peaks fell away abruptly towards the viewer, and the evenly sloping ridges descended into the vegetation zone in an almost geometric order. The mountains were massively snow-covered – one striking flank in the foreground was even covered in a layer of ice. The decision was quickly made: We have to go there!