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The very first LAAX OPEN TAG TEAM Crossover Slopestyle Session took place last weekend, a new showcase with freeskiers and snowboarders riding the upper section of the slopestyle course. 6 mixed teams with 3 riders each had to hit the course together and be creative as a team. The true spirit of Freestyle sports was on display, as it was all about having fun riding together with your buddies. Team SERENITY with Fabio Studer (Ski), Maxi Preissinger (Snowboard) and local rider Xeno Lehnherr (S...

Snowflakes were falling when riders were getting ready to drop into the Halfpipe underneath GALAAXY. In the women’s field the only European rider in the finals, Queralt Castellet from Spain, was clearly in the lead after the first run. She started off with a huge Lien Air, a Backside 900 Mute, followed by a Frontside 900 Melon, Air to Fakie, finishing off with a Switch Backside 540 Mute. She was the rider to beat in the 2nd run but none of the other contestants was able to get close to her ex...

The weather played along another day putting smiles on all faces while witnessing today’s Snowboard action in the innovative course for the highly anticipated Slopestyle finals in LAAX. Julia Marino (USA) & Sebastien Toutant (CAN) are the proud first LAAX OPEN winners of the new decade walking home with a prize purse of CHF 25.000 each. In the women’s field Julia Marino from the US set the bar high with an incredible first run including a Backside 900 Melon, a Cab Double Underflip Mute and a...

First ever Superpipe Night Final up on the Crap Sogn Gion, thousands of enthusiastic fans and world’s best snowboarders: LAAX OPEN 2019 once more celebrated an outstanding snowboarding contest in combination with its side events and freestyle spirit, which created an atmosphere you only would find in LAAX! One week of pure powder action in the leading freestyle resort LAAX: Spectators witnessed awesome top-riding in world’s largest superpipe and on the 550 meters long slopestyle course follow...

The LAAX OPEN 2019 culminated today with the long-awaited highlight, the first ever Superpipe Night Finals up on Crap Sogn Gion. Olympic Gold medalist and top favorite Chloe Kim fulfilled all expectations after winning this morning’s semi-finals and also dominating tonight’s finals. She clearly took over the lead after the first run which earned her 93,75 points which no other finalist was able to beat! Her winning run consisted of a huge Method, Back-to-back 1080s, followed by a Frontside 90...

Silje Norendal (NOR) and Chris Corning (USA) took home the LAAX OPEN Slopestyle titles today here at the LAAX OPEN 2019 Snowboard World Cup. A day to remember also for the Swiss riders at their home event with three podium spots in total. Silje clearly was the best rider today taking over the lead after the first run, and therefore had a lot of pressure taken off her shoulders for her second run, where she was able to improve her score. She started her winning run with a Switch Nosepress at t...

LAAX OPEN has been safely launched in tracks! The world 's best snowboarders have already completed their qualification runs. Scotty James (AUS) took first place in the men's halfpipe qualification, as well as American Chloe Kim in the women’s competition! In the slopestyle contest Sven Thorgren (SWE) was able to secure the top position to qualify for the semi-finals coming up next. The finals on Friday (Slopestyle) and on Saturday (Halfpipe) are getting closer!

The LAAX OPEN will take place for the fourth year in succession from 14 to 19 January 2019 and will include Europe’s most important and prestigious snowboarding competition for slopestyle and the halfpipe. It is based on a tradition of freestyle movement, which LAAX has been establishing with these events for over three decades. Like in tennis and golf, OPEN events are also the most illustrious competitions in snowboarding. With additionally a whole host of side events bringing the LAAX roots...

In this clip two professional snowboarders show and explain how to do their favorite Slopestyle tricks on the rail and box features in the Laax fun park. US snowboard professional Eric Willet explains how to do a Boardslide to 270 out on a rail and UK rider Billy Morgan explains how to do a Backside Lipslide on one of the other features.

US-American riders Chloe Kim and Chase Josey win LAAX OPEN 2017 Halfpipe titles Under blue skies spectators witnessed sick riding of all finalists in today’s event. For the ladies it was Chloe Kim (USA) who was unbeatable. Chloe managed to take the top spot with her best run (90.50 points), which started off with a Method, followed by a Frontside 1080 Tail, a Cab 540 Stale, a Switch Backside 540 Mute and finished with a Cab 720 Stalefish on her last hit. Chloe had this to say about her vic...

The LAAX OPEN 2017 ended with exciting Halfpipe finals today. The perfectly shaped LAAX Superpipe on Crap Sogn Gion was the center of attention, when 12 men and 6 women were trying to grab the Halfpipe crown. In breath-taking finals Chloe Kim (USA) and Chase Josey (USA) walked away as proud LAAX OPEN 2017 Halfpipe Champions. Under blue skies spectators witnessed sick riding of all finalists in today’s event. For the ladies it was Chloe Kim (USA) who was unbeatable. Chloe managed to take th...

Riders, media and spectators were greeted with another sunny and beautiful day here in LAAX and a perfectly shaped Slopestyle course for the big finals today. Enni Rukajärvi (FIN) and Max Parrot (CAN) are taking home the titles as well as the biggest portion of the prize-money cheque. LAAX proved once again that they deserve to be the favourite resort of many riders with an innovative setup and a course they truly had fun on. 500 meters long, the course consisting of six features had to be...

Enni Rukajärvi (FIN) and Max Parrot (CAN) win LAAX OPEN 2017 Slopestyle titles. The ladies final was truly impressive with all riders showing unbelievable technical runs. Enni Rukajärvi (FIN), who won the Burton European Open here in LAAX in 2010, is finally back on top of the podium with her 2nd run which earned her 84,83 points. She started her top run with a Boardslide Pretzel Out on the rail, a Switch Backside 180 Mute over the roller, continuing with a Frontside 7 Tailgrab, a Backside...

Another beautiful day here in LAAX for today’s Halfpipe Semi-Finals in the legendary LAAX Superpipe. 24 men and 12 women were battling for a spot in Saturday’s big finals. Olympic Gold Medalist Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) won the Semi-Finals in his “home-pipe”, while Chloe Kim (USA) landed the best run in the women’s field. All riders had two runs, with the best one counting. In the Men’s competition riders from Switzerland, the United States and China were clearly dominating the field today....

The LAAX OPEN 2017 continued today under blue skies and a picture-perfect winter scenery. Today’s center of attention was the perfectly prepared and creative Slopestyle course consisting of 6 features. The best 24 men and 12 women from yesterday’s qualification were competing for a spot for Friday’s Slopestyle finals. The men started first and showed their skills in two runs, with the best run counting. The Canadian dominance in yesterday’s qualification continued today with all seven (!)...

On 13th February 2016, the Sick Trick Tour Open took place at Snowpark Kitzbühel. On two contest lines, snowboarders fought a tough battle for the famous podium places of Kitzbühel. Watch the clip and check out the winners as well as all the highlights of this fantastic contest. Many thanks go to the sponsors of the Sick Trick Tour Open Kitzbühel, Blue Tomato, Bergbahnen Kitzbühel, Element3, BMF Hasenauer, Kitzbüheler Anzeiger and the KSC, as well as to the Partners of the QParks Tour Anon...

For 30 years the resort of LAAX in Switzerland has built its reputation as the world’s most progressive freestyle snowboard destination. The culmination of this development is the LAAX OPEN 2016 - a snowboard contest that brought together the world’s best freestyle snowboarders and upcoming riders for halfpipe and slopestyle competitions offering also live music events, acrobatic and mystic shows as well as a pop-up restaurant in the gondola hall to make it a true mountain lifestyle affair.

After another weather delay this morning due to bad visibility and strong winds, the skies cleared to a beautiful final day of competition at the 2016 LAAX OPEN. With 12 men and 6 women taking to the progressive and pristine slopestyle course, we saw one of the most entertaining finals, with the riders knowing there was $75,000 USD for the men, and $45,000 USD for the ladies on the line for first place. The pros had three runs to give it their best shot, but it was ultimately 22- year-old, Ma...

Check out all the action from The North Face Freeski Open of New Zealand Big Mountain Finals in the Alta Chutes at The Remarkables. The event is a 3 Star Freeride World Tour Qualifier, and some of the best Freeriders on the planet come to the epic Southern Lakes of New Zealand to compete. After two days of horrid weather postponing the finals we got a small weather window and every competitor had one run to prove themselves. Great snow, sunny weather and stoked spectators. What more can you a...

The Slopestyle Finals of The North Face Freeski Open of New Zealand provided almost as much awesome action as Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Check out how Russ Henshaw won his first major contest for some time, Jesper Tjader almost challenged the top spot, Frenchman Jules Bonnaire kept things super smooth and steezy all day and Emilia Wint sent the biggest 720 of the day! Music: soundcloud.com/steelychan/mark-ronson-osaka-monaurail

Tanner Hall returns to half pipe competition and takes the win. Jossi Wells was sitting in the top spot after semi finals. Bad weather stopped competition after just one run of the finals with the judges unable to see leaving the riders with the scores they had posted in the first run. Tanner Hall (USA) was on top infront of Torin Yater-Wallace (USA) and Benoit Valentine (FRA) took third throwing a double on his first hit. Jossi was left hanging in 4th place on 78 points but look poised to ta...

Check out all the action from the slopestyle qualifiers at Snow Park NZ, and some fun times had in Queenstown doing some luging, canyon swinging and zip-lining. Goooood times! Filming by: Jason Hancox, Basket Productions, & Sean Balmer, Distillery Concepts and Creation Edited by: Sean Balmer

Check out the Snow Park Slopestyle course check for The North Face Freeski Open of New Zealand. Many of the world's best freeskiers have decended upon Snow Park to get ready for the Slopestyle competition, and to say that the comp is going to be off the chain would be an understatement of gross proportions. Song: Igene, by Suhov soundcloud.com/the_peppermint Filmed and Edited by Mark von Roy Distillery Concepts and Creation - distillery.cc Flashmodern Creatives - flashmodern.com

Roope Tonteri (FIN) unfortunately was unable to stomp what could have been a first place run, landing a cab900 indy but reverting out on his impressive bs1260 mute attempt – still finishing his run off in style with a switch boardslide 270out on the polejam and a lipslide 270out on the downrail, enough for third place. The TTR Worldtour Slopestyle Ranking sees Roope Tonteri still holding on to his leading position, followed now by newcomers in the top 3 Sam Hulbert an Maxence Parrot (CAN).

With judges including Michi Albin, Ingemar Bachman and Scotty Wittlake in charge of narrowing yesterday’s 12 top-ranked riders down to four for the afternoon’s Super Finals, the level of riding was significantly elevated from the qualification round as riders gave their all for promises of fame, glory and of course the TTR points and prize money. After two runs each, USA’s Sam Hulbert would enter the Super Finals ranked first, followed by Juuso Laivisto, Roope Tonteri (FIN) and Teddy Koo (KOR...

In his third appearance at the event, Finnish rider Juuso Laivisto claimed his second first-place finish at China’s 5Star TTR Red Bull Nanshan Open. “It’s been awesome to see how the event has grown the last years, since I won it the first time, when it was still a 4Star. I was stoked with my win, it was definitely heavy competition today. The others were just a little unfortunate I think.” Juuso said.

Celebrating its tenth birthday this year, the legendary Red Bull Nanshan Open becomes a 5Star TTR event in 2012 to become the largest slopestyle event in Asia. Twenty-two international invited pros will compete with seven locally qualified riders on a specially designed slopestyle course in the Nike Nanshan Park. The two day competition held January 14th - 15th attracts widespread international media attention and national TV coverage, making a huge impact on the nation's snowboard scene. Cat...

Jossi Wells and Kim Lamarre won NZ Freeski Open 2011, slopestyle... To wait video of finales, just take a look at qualifications video ! coming next : halfpipe finale on saturday !

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The men dropped into the pipe in the afternoon and perfect weather conditions continued for the men’s field.  Iouri Padladchikov (SUI) had a little trouble on his first run but came back to take the top spot with his second drop putting down a huge crippler, double McTwist 1260, frontside 1080 tailgrab, and a Cab 720.  With today’s result, Podladtchikov moved into World No. 1 in the Swatch TTR Rankings sitting behind current leader, Gjermund Braaten (NOR)   Japanese riders were out in full fo...

As the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour descended on Laax for the 6Star Burton European Open we saw a tour de force from Finnish rider, Peetu Piiroinen, who managed to place first in both slopestyle and halfpipe. Norwegian wunderkind Mikkel Bang threw down an exceptional performance on the fantastic slopestyle course placing second, while Iouri Podladtchikov managed to place 3rd in the pipe which moved him up to 5th on the TTR World Snowboard Tour Rankings.

As the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour descended on Laax for the 6Star Burton European Open we saw a tour de force from Finnish rider, Peetu Piiroinen, who managed to place first in both slopestyle and halfpipe. Norwegian wunderkind Mikkel Bang threw down an exceptional performance on the fantastic slopestyle course placing second, while Iouri Podladtchikov managed to place 3rd in the pipe which moved him up to 5th on the TTR World Snowboard Tour Rankings.

Watch the full runs from Peetu Piiroinen and Paulina Ligocka, the male and female 6star TTR Burton European Open halfpipe event winners. This year Laax, Switzerland created one of the best Halfpipes in Europe especially for Burton. So make sure you dont miss these stunning runs from two of the worlds best snowboarders.

Watch the full runs from Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajärvi, the male and female 6star TTR Burton European Open slopestyle event winners. This year Laax, Switzerland created one of the best slopestyle snowboarding courses in Europe especially for Burton. So make sure you dont miss these stunning runs from two of the worlds best snowboarders.

At the BEO, amateurs from around the globe get the chance to challenge the world's top pro riders at the “White Arena” in Laax, Switzerland, from January 9th to 16th, 2010. Celebrating the 11th annual Burton European Open Snowboarding Championships, event organizers have created a “Circus” theme to highlight the fun and daring spirit of the sport! Today’s and tomorrow’s stars will dazzle viewers with their bag of tricks and wow you with their perfomance in the slopestyle and halfpipe. The bes...

A round up of all the action from this years AFO, including practice and finals and all the action from the Banana Bar

At the BEO, amateurs from around the globe get the chance to challenge the world's top pro riders at the “White Arena” in Laax, Switzerland, from January 9th to 16th, 2010. Celebrating the 11th annual Burton European Open Snowboarding Championships, event organizers have created a “Circus” theme to highlight the fun and daring spirit of the sport! Today’s and tomorrow’s stars will dazzle viewers with their bag of tricks and wow you with their perfomance in the slopestyle and halfpipe. The bes...