European ONLY Freeride World Tour Causes Stir for Athletes | by Griffin Post This past April, the Freeride World Tour announced that its 2015 tour would have zero North American stops. Is it an insult to North American freeskiers? Yes. Griffin Post is a tried and true competitive skier. He’s likely competed in more freeskiing contests than just about anyone anywhere. He’s always been a huge advocate of freeskiing comps, until now. Griffin could no longer hold his tongue and gives us a quality education on just why the Freeride World Tour is so wrong to have robbed North America of any stops on its 2015 [..] SnowBrains | June 27, 2014 2 Comments
Who Qualified for the 2015 Freeride World Tour: The Freeride World Qualifier Tour (FWQ)is a tour that allows skiers and riders to qualify for the Freeride World Tour (now, the Freeride European Tour, as there are no American stops). In 2014, there were 36 FWQ stops in Region 1 (Europe, Asia, and Oceania) and 7 FWQ stops in Region 2 (North & South America). Here’e who qualified in the 2014 FWQ […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 23, 2014 0 Comments
VIDEO: Verbier Freeride World Tour Highlights & Crashes The best skiers and riders in the world charging on one of the world’s best venues: the Bec de Rosses in Verbier, Switzerland. This highlight/crash reel shows us the best of what went down this year in Verbier. All the best Xtreme Verbier Ski and snowboard memories featuring Loïc Collomb-Patton, Ralph Backstrom, Matilda Rapaport, Emilien Badoux, Jonathan Charlet, Kevin Guri, Reine Barkered, Drew Tabke, Sascha Hamm, Lorraine Huber,Ian Borgeson, Silas Chickering-Ayers, Xavier De Le Rue, […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2014 0 Comments
Freeride World Tour Becomes Freeride EUROPEAN Tour | All North American Stops Dropped The Freeride World Tour has now become the Freeride European Tour. There will be 5 stops on the tour next year with no Kirkwood and no Revelstoke (both of which were canceled this year). Of the 5 stops 4 of them will be in Europe with onE strange stop in Alaska. This Alaska stop won’t be at a ski resort, no one will be able to watch it, and we aren’t sure how they’ll be judging it. The top 60% of mens skiers and snowboarders will be qualified for the Alaska stop. Then, of that top 60%, 60% of them will be taken to the finals at Verbier. […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 10, 2014 3 Comments
Avalanche Danger Cancels Freeride World Tour’s Final Stop @ Revelstoke, B.C. It’s been a rough year for the Freeride World Tour (FWT). The Revelstoke, B.C. stop was postponed 3 months in December due to high avy danger and low snow. The Fieberbrunn, Austria stop was moved last minute to Kappl, Austria due to extreme avalanche danger. The Kirkwood, CA stop was moved to Snowbird, Utah due to lack of snow. […] Avalanche SnowBrains | March 11, 2014 0 Comments
VIDEO: Best of Freeride World Tour @ Snowbird, UT Snowbird skiers and riders clearly missed having big mountain competitions at their home mountain. The snowbird spectator crowd is by far the rowdiest, most costumed, drunkest, and funnest crowd at any big mountain comp on Earth. We love that this video shows the ‘bird in all it’s glory: skiing hard, partying hard, snowballing hard, along with a deep appreciation for big mountain skiing and riding. We’re going to have to figure out how to get comps going in Utah once more. […] SnowBrains | March 10, 2014 1 Comment
VIDEO: 1st Place Run @ Freeride World Tour @ Snowbird, UT Here’s the 1st place run at the Freeride World Tour at Snowbird, UT yesterday. They had to move to Snowbird because of the lack of snow at Kirkwood. Then, they had to move the venue from North Baldy to Silver Fox due to an 8-foot deep avalanche (biggest inbounds at Snowbird in 20 years). Silver Fox isn’t a big nor very exciting venue, but they had no choice. This winning run only has two airs in it and is mellow by FWT standards, but it is certainly skied well and skied smooth. Congrats Lars! […] SnowBrains | March 6, 2014 0 Comments
8-Foot-Deep Avalanche @ Snowbird Postpones Freeride World Tour The Freeride World Tour (FWT) can’t catch a break this year. The Revelstoke, B.C. stop was postponed 3 months in December due to high avy danger and low snow. The Fieberbrunn, Austria stop was moved last minute to Kappl, Austria due to extreme avalanche danger. The Kirkwood, CA stop was moved to Snowbird, Utah due to lack of snow. Now, the Snowbird stop has been postponed due to […] Avalanche SnowBrains | March 5, 2014 2 Comments
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