Nike Snowboarding: Winter Chosen Recap Ep. 2

The Nike Chosen Crew Video Contest has been exploding with creative edits and proper riding. This first re-cap features The Mystery District, This Must Be the Place and Granny Findas. These crews have been noticed and are on track to being the top crews sent to Austria. You got what it takes? We're excited to check out what your crew has. Sign up, submit a video and create buzz for your chance to live like a Nike Pro. Nike.com/Chosen

The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead, UK set the stage for the first tour stop of the Nike Chosen Series and kicked off the European tour with an unprecedented level of indoor riding. The purpose built kicker in Hemel Hempstead, created by local shaper Norm, his crew and the Nike shaping team, was the Snow Centre's biggest feature to date. With time running out in the final well regarded UK rider Andy Nudds finally laid his contest jinx to rest as he powered through his spins, eventually s...

1ST - 7TH April will see snowboarding take another step into the future as 12 AMs and 3 Chosen video crews ride and compete for the chance to be chosen by the Nike PRO Team at the most progressive snow park ever built. 27 Shapers have worked over 7,000 hours throughout the season to create a ‘next level’ park complete with wall rides, street rails, huge hits, a skate inspired bowl and a whole heap more. The 12 AM winners from the Nike Chosen Series will join the Nike Pros and shred in thr...

The perfect conditions in Funasdalen, Sweden for the second stop of the Nike Chosen Series saw AM riders travelling upwards of 1000KM from all corners of the country to compete. The lollipop and kicker both got a working with Joel Anderson, Simon Ahlvu, Philip Landmark and Karl-Anton Svensson taking care of business. The winner of the MVP was judged to be Anderson who will be given an invite the Nike Chosen Sessions in April to session with the Nike Pros on a purpose built park, and the...

The 3rd and final Chosen Session put the AMs back on familiar Chosen Series winning territory with a straight out kicker session. The perfectly shaped 20m Kicker got a proper working as the AMs stepped up and mixed in with the Nike team, digging deep into their bags and pulling out some of the best AM riding seen all week. Tune In Take Part and Vote by visiting nikechosensessions.com and watching each AM’s Big Air edit and then vote for your favourite rider.

The Nike Chosen Sessions in Silvretta Montafon Austria is a wrap. Your votes helped file it down for the Pros to decide who was ultimately Chosen to Live Like a Pro. Markus Mathis, from Switzerland, took home the esteemed Chosen AM with an amazing week & nailing a few double corks in the Sessions Park.
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Selecting the Chosen Video Crew wasn't an overnight decision. In Round 1, Crews battled it out to be noticed by Nike. We narrowed the field to the Top 9 and put voting in your hands, which sent the 3 Top crews to Silvretta Montafon Austria for the Nike Chosen Sessions.
 It was there the crews had one week to film & edit a fresh video to be judged by the Nike Pros. All the crews put together such amazing videos, but at the end of the day the Nike Pros votes that made it count. It was not an e...

After four months and three grueling rounds, it all came down to this. The top three crews, as chosen by you, traveled to Silvretta Montafon, Austria for the Nike Chosen Sessions. Each crew was given free reign over the park to film a new edit to then be judged by the Nike pro team. In the end, only one could be Chosen. This is the entry from the USA's This Must be the Place. Featuring: Blaze Kotsenburg, Jesse Gouveia, Andrew Aldridge, and Connor Brown To learn more about them and the othe...