Casey just send us this link to a real impressive video he was working on with Mike Montgomery and the Edge Factor crew. The video is 31 min long, but definitely worth to watch.
Join Casey Groves, Mike Montgomery and Jeremy (Host) at Straitline Components’ cutting edge manufacturing facility, the Jump Ship barge in Victoria Harbour and the mind-numbingly beautiful forests of BC, Canada.
This coming weekend Amir Kabbani invites you to join his Fade Away Session on his home spot in Boppard. Expect a great dirt contest with international pros. But if YOU love dirt biking you have the opportunity to show your talent as well. So jump on your bike and join Amir, Sam Pilgrim and more riders at the Fade Away Session.
starting at 9 am, 24th september, 2011 at Bikepark Boppard!
Together with the 2 former snowboard pros Jens Anselstetter and Heinz Löhle, Germany´s reigning ‘Rider of the Year’ and TSG pro rider Elias Elhardt has launched the project elooa Camps which will start in the winter season 2011/2012.
The ideology behind elooa Camps is simple, but the concept unique: International snowboard pros, certificated coaches and the founders themselves offer the participants an incredible snowboard weekend including pro coaching, photo shoots and video analysis. The participants will get an interesting insight into the snowboard scene and at the same time profit from the pro’s experience and passion.
“We would like to pass on our expert knowledge as well as enthusiasm for snowboarding and push the individual skills of each single one, no matter if it is about trying your first 180 or stomping a 720″, says Elias Elhardt, who will be joining the first 2 elooa Camps in Hintertux and Stubai.
We are happy to support eelooa Camps and highly recommend you to visit it.
www.elooa.com is online now and the dates for the first 5 elooa Camps are set!
It was ten years back when Elias Elhardt was in Saas Fee, Switzerland with his family and he got to learn the back flip and got soo much into snowboarding he could not stop it anymore.
Together with best friend and TSG ‘s ambassador team rider Friedl May and Saas Fee local hustler Alessandro Boyens this summer was time for an epic revival, check out here how much fun they had shredding the park and every little bumps in between.
Right after we organized a photoshoot with Elias and photographer Carlos Blanchard for next season’s campaign. Big props and thanks to the Saas Fee tourism and cableway offices for support and great hospitality. If you next trip brings you to Switzerland make sure you get some riding in Saas Fee.
SAM PILGRIM: FIRST EUROPEAN EVER ON THE FMB WORLD TOUR PODIUM
The second of 2 Diamond events of this year’s Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour season is over and gives the World Tour a perfect ending. Even before the Red Bull District Ride it was clear that the official FMB World Tour Champion is called Brandon Semenuk (CAN) and would take home the golden CamelBak Better Bottle.
However, the battle for the top 10 spots remained exciting until the end. With his result at the Red Bull District Ride, last year’s FMB World Tour Champion Cameron Zink came a close 2nd. TSG’s Sam Pilgrim’s victory at the Red Bull District Ride lifted him onto the podium of this year’s World Tour. The overall FMB World Tour ranking is now complete and we have an ultimate list of the world’s best freerideers.
At the end of the FMB World Tour, this is the final top ten ranking:
1. Brandon Semenuk
2. Cam Zink
3. Sam Pilgrim
4. Messere Anthony
5. Martin Söderström
6. Cam McCaul
7. Yannick Granieri
8. Greg Watts
9. Darren Berrecloth
10. Kurtis Sorge
The Red Bull District Ride is the most legendary urban freeride event in the world and a truly deserved final for an extremely successful World Tour. The freeriding cream of the crop gathered in Nuremberg, Germany to battle it out on a course of biblical proportions.
And now Nuremberg has a new hero! In beautiful weather, TSG’s Sam Pilgrim delivered a truly impressive run. Our team rider won 1st place at the final event of the Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour with over 4 points ahead of Martin Soderstrom (SWE) and over 6 ahead of Brandon Semenuk (CAN). Trick after trick, the 12 riders who qualified for the finals raised the bar of the sport; you just don’t see tricks of these dimensions everyday. When Sam Pilgrim took off from the obstacles, all of Nuremberg held its breath at his performance. At every hit he showed another trick and convinced the jury with his consistently high level of tricks throughout all 6 Districts. It was plain to see that he was thoroughly enjoying the course.
CHECK OUT THE FMB WORLD TOUR SHOW WITH TSG’S AARON CHASE FROM THE RED BULL DISTRICT RIDE
Congrats to our snowboard lady Silvia Mittermueller, taking gold at the New Zealand Winter Games yesterday.
After a challenging season with a dislocated elbow followed by a rolled ankle, Silvia was happy to turn a page today taking the top spot amongst the women.
She attributed her success today in part to a desire to avoid hitting the knuckle and further injuring her ankle. “I knew I had to go big today to avoid injury,” she said. “After a series of injuries and some bad luck I am really happy with today’s results and hope I’ve shown the German national team selectors that I’m capable.” Silvia also has her sites set on competing in the new Olympic discipline of slopestyle in 2014.
Weirdest part for Silvia was when they played the German national anthem at the price giving. The funniest part was that on TV they didnt show much snowboarding but the part where Silvia spoke about German nudist beaches. Great!
Floriane Pugin finished the world cup season 2011 with another 2nd place at the finals in Val di Sole, Italy.
Her incredible consistency also brought her the 2nd place in the overall world cup, 75 Points behind Tracey Moseley.
Floriane looked unbeatable on this track during the whole trainings, but her french mate Miriam Nicole took her first ever world cup win with a total kamikaze run.
Emilie Siegenthaler also attacked hard and made it to another very good 6th place, finishing the world cup overall on 7th.
SCOTT11′s men didn’t have a very good day as Nick Beer came down with a mechanical problem and Fabien Pedemanaud crashed into a tree during his run.
It was a hot and tough week for all the athletes here in Val di Sole. By the time the race started, the track was blown out and extremely rough.
But you all know what comes now:
One more week to go, and then starts what SCOTT11 has been preparing for during the last 3 years. The one thing that the whole mountain bike world has been looking forward to: The world championships on the steepest track in the world in Champéry, Switzerland!
On September 10th, the 25 best freeriders in the world will meet in Nuremberg for the Red Bull District Ride. At this most legendary urban freeride event ever, they will do their best to impress the tens of thousands of spectators with their most progressive tricks and skills. In Nuremberg, the FMBA will be celebrating the end of the season by crowning the FMB World Tour Champion 2011 among 40,000 expected fans
The FMBA is raffling off a VIP package for the Red Bull District Ride with very special features among all existing FMBA members and anyone who signs up until September 4th:
The winner plus one has free access to the VIP or better FORB “Friends of Red Bull” area, gets to visit the riders’ lounge and a BBQ banquet on Friday and will enjoy an exclusive behind the scenes course walk presented by freeride legend Timo Pritzel. Accommodation for 2 nights and 2 people will be provided as well as a brand new and special edition TSG „FMB World Tour“ helmet that you won’t get in any store yet.
Meet and greet all the riders on Friday, be right at the course watching the athletes shred, chill out in the FORB area and make sure you get that helmet signed.
Apart from the special prize for the lucky winner, the FMBA also offers many benefits to every member. If you join the FMBA, you’ll also contribute towards the association’s effort to support and further develop the freeride mountain bike sport worldwide. Benefits for members include a 15% discount on day passes at the biggest bike parks in the world, up to 50% discount on subscriptions to some of the leading bike magazines and 10% off your order at bike-mailorder.com. along with many chances to win prizes, regular newsletters with updates and your individual FMBA membership card. The FMBA membership fee for regular members is $40 / €25 per year.
For more information about the membership and its benefits go to: http://www.fmbworldtour.com/en/membership/about-membership.html
After the 1st successful edition, the Barbero & Friends is ready to start again!
On September 10-11 @ Alessandro Barbero’s BMX park, the best national bikers will ride on the structures created by Ale, the most famous Italian bmx athlete in the world.
Two-days of fun and sports, where everyone will have the chance to ride in the park located in Priero (CN), the biggest one in Italy, with miniramp, spine, step up, resi jump, foampit and wall ride.
