Snowfix : skiing & snowboarding video podcast

It has been brought to my attention that the first ever Snowfix video link is no longer working. So to commemorate the announcement of Snowfix finishing, here it is again in all of it’s wooden, badly presented, awkward glory!

1st - Onboard

2nd - Oakley Snowboard

3rd - Team Animal

4th - Go Pro/Forum

5th - The Undetermined

6th - Whitelines/Westbeach

7th - To Be Continued

8th - UnityProductions.co.uk

9th - Apres Extreme

10th - Roistola

11th - Ironic Beef

12th - Oakley Ski

13th - Headbud.com

14th - S-Cut Productions

15th - The Magic

16th - Screamin’ Semen

17th - Vans

18th - HZUMovieCrew.com

The Cavern 24/7 is a video competition held in Morzine where teams of 3 are given 1 week to produce a max 4 min film. Here are the entrants for 2010:

Jean-Marc Robinson

Mike Austin, Joel Erith & Nelson Pratt (winners!)

Peep Snow

I’m On A Slope

Im On A Slope - Lonely Mountain from will nangle on Vimeo.

Swill Posse

SWILL POSSE - PAPER PLANES from stewart monk on Vimeo.

Snowpolean Dynamite

More Snowboarding >>

Slammin’


Laura Berry & Jo Chastney

ESPN are today proud to announce that the first Winter X Games event to be held outside of the United States will be broadcast live from Europe in March. All competition finals from ESPN Winter X Games Europe Tignes will be shown live and exclusive from 10th - 12th March 2010 on ESPN and ESPN HD.

With Winter X Games 14 from Aspen, Colorado in January and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, 2010 has become the winter of action sports. Now, fans of UK winter action sports can catch what promises to be three days packed with snowy skills in this inaugural European event. Winter X Games Europe expands the global presence of Winter X Games — the world’s top winter action sports competition — and showcases some of the world’s strongest competitors in eight different ski and snowboard events.

Winter X Games Europe Tignes: ESPN UK Coverage Schedule

Wednesday, 10th March

1700 Ski SuperPipe Men’s Final - Live

Thursday, 11th March

1230 Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Final - Live

1530 Snowboard SuperPipe Women’s Final - Live

Friday, 12th March

0830 Ski Slopestyle Women’s Final - Live

1030 Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Final - Live

1230 Ski Slopestyle Men’s Final - Live

1500 Ski SuperPipe Women’s Final - Live

1700 Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Final - Live

English eyes will be on snowboarder Jenny Jones who is down to compete in the snowboard Slopestyle. Jones became the first Brit to ever win a Winter X Games gold medal in 2009, and she repeated her success with another first place finish again this January in Aspen. Fans can watch Jones attempt to make history once again by riding another gold deserving run in one of her most frequented snow playgrounds.

The women’s SuperPipe will see performances from Olympic medal-winners Torah Bright (Australia) and American snowboarding superstar Gretchen Bleiler. Together with other medal-decorated riders in the Slopestyle event, Winter X Games Europe is set to be an exciting competition for women’s snowboarding. Among the athletes to watch in the Women’s Skiing Slopestyle are Germany’s Lena Stoffel and Canada’s Kaya Turski.

Athletes to watch in men’s snowboarding are Olympic silver medallist Peetu Piiroinen of Finland, and local Frenchman Mathieu Crepel who will each compete in both the SuperPipe and Slopestyle events.

The men’s skiing Slopestyle event also promises to deliver top competition from the likes of New Zealand’s Jossi Wells, Australia’s Russ Henshaw, American three-time X Games medalist Colby West and Norwegian X Games multi-medal winner Andreas Hatveit.

With the chance to make winter sports history in Europe’s first ever Winter X Games event, all the top riders will be ready and eager to compete in Tignes. To make sure you are part of this ground breaking occasion catch all the excitement on ESPN and ESPN HD from Wednesday 10th March as Winter X Games Europe prepares for three days of extreme snowy competitions.

Sky 417 / HD – 442, Virgin 529 / HD – 530, BT Vision / Top Up TV – 34, TalkTalk TV – 555

www.espn.co.uk

Welcome to Snowfix.tv’s longest ever post!

We have just been at the ISPO in Munich checking out all of next season’s skis, snowboards and outerwear. Here is a sneak peak of what’s in store for the slopes next winter!

4FRNT

AMPLID

ANON

APO

ARMADA

ART ON SNOW

ATOMIC

BATALEON

BERN

BURTON

CELSIUS

DALBELLO

DC

ELECTRIC

ENDEAVOR

FACTION

FLUX

FULL-TILT

GNU

HAND-MADE SKIS (can’t remember what the brand is, oops…)

ICON

IS EYEWEAR

K2

KASK

LIBERTY

LIB-TEC

LINE

LOOK

MAJESTY

MOVEMENT

NINTHWARD

NITRO

NORDICA

OAKLEY

ORAGE

POC

RIDE

RIP CURL

ROME

ROSSIGNOL

SALOMON

SCOTT

STEP CHILD

SKULL CANDY

SWEET PROTECTION

TECNICA

VANS

VOLKL

WESTBEACH

Sorry for the slow start guys, snow action coming soon!

If you are ready for ski film action, but glued to the internet and saving for the season then fear not, the answer is here!

You can check out the new film Transitions on RedBullSkiing.com FOR FREE! You need to have a code, but I just scoured the interwebnet and managed to figure one out. So I’m sure you can too!

Hit this link:

This is an old code I found on a forum - ‘FAA-737-Q’ - I just changed the middle number and the last letter and manged to find a code that worked, good luck!

It is well worth it, a history of freeskiing including tons of cool old footage from the 90s running right up to last season!

ENJOY!

Check out the cool ways you can win tickets to the London Freeze, snowboards, skis and loads more!

If you want to know what is the latest mostest ground-breakingist tricks that are being thrown these days, check out these two vids.

Pipe riding just went MENTAL! Double-cork-tastic! HOLLAH!

You might have heard of this guy, does ‘Shaun White’ ring any bells?


And here are a couple of Kiwis, ‘what ‘av done proper gud, like!’

Here is some roughcut footage we filmed on the second day of freeski qualifications at Freestyle.ch 2009 in Zurich.

The great thing is we got TJ Schiller, Laurent Favre & Martin Misof to give us their insight into the riders and tricks as they happened.

Plus the riding this year was siiick, as I’m sure you will agree!

Hey guys,

Here is the link for the new Official Snowfix 09/10 Season T-shirts.

We really want to get pics of people wearing them, and if you come to the London Freeze, we are going to try and organise a big Snowfix photo, so we would love to have you involved!

Check them out!

Tim & Jools at Freestyle.ch

Design

Blue Steel

Literally, you have to see it to believe it, just had my heart pounding!

Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska from Chappy on Vimeo.

I’ll tell you what doesn’t suck : the best skiers & snowboarders in the world hitting a monster kicker right in the centre of London!

I’ll tell you what else always tastes nice : FREE STUFF!

Best yet, I’ll tell you where you can find both!

Bingo-bango, hit this link:

You might recognise one or two cheesy grins on there because LG are getting us to do tons of updates at this year’s event!
Which means loads of exclusive interviews with the riders and bands that we will be able to whack on Snowfix AND we can keep you guys in the loop on how to win all the prizes shhhhhhhh

Join their Facebook site and follow their Twitter for all of our updates, and watch this little video we made at the Battersea Power Station.

#What, where The Dark Knight was filmed?#

errrrrr……..YEAH!

This summer our roaming Rasta, Nick Mattia, went to Abersock in North Wales for this year’s Wakestock. It is Europe’s biggest Wakeboard music festival and a great event to check out while waiting for the snow!

Take a look at his video:

ESPN and CANAL + Events Announce Winter X Games Europe for March 2010
First Winter X Games Outside the United States; Tignes to Host

ESPN, CANAL + Events and Tignes Ski & Snowboard Resort will launch the first Winter X Games Europe March 10-12, 2010. The event will be the first Winter X Games held outside the United States. The event will bring together ESPN’s world class X Games franchise with France’s leading pay TV broadcaster and local expertise of Tignes. A definitive list of the world’s top winter action sports athletes will be invited to France to compete for medals and prize money. There will be eight different competitions over three days, including Ski and Snowboard SuperPipe and Slopestyle for men and women as well as a Snowmobile demonstration.

CANAL + Events CEO, Jean Louis Dutaret said, “We are delighted to work with ESPN and the X Games team to bring the Winter X Games to Europe. CANAL + Events and ESPN events team will draw on all their experience to ensure this is the biggest and best winter sports event in Europe in 2010. As for soccer, rugby and many sports, CANAL + Group will consider X Games as a global project, including TV, Internet and mobile. In a Winter Olympic year, and only a few weeks after athletes have competed in Vancouver, fans in Europe will again be able to watch the top names in the world compete head to head.”

”Nothing could be more justified than Tignes as the host resort of the first Winter X Games Europe. Tignes, the sportiest European ski resort, is always at the forefront of action and freestyle winter sports,” said Tignes Ski & Snowboard Resort Manager, Sebastien Merignargues.

Rick Alessandri, ESPN Senior Vice President and Managing Director, X Games Franchise said, “Working with CANAL + and Tignes, and drawing on more than 10 years experience of running the Winter X Games in the United States, we are excited to bring winter action sports fans in Europe the best action sports event they will see in 2010. This first event outside the U.S. reflects the continued global growth of the X Games franchise as well as the progression of action sports in Europe.”

CANAL + Networks (CANAL +, CANAL + SPORT, Sport +) will show the Winter X Games in France and French-speaking territories (Caribbean, French speaking Africa) live (or on-delay) so that those unable to come to Tignes will be able to see the event. ESPN will be responsible for all distribution outside of France.

ABOUT ESPN’s X GAMES FRANCHISE

ESPN first developed its X Games franchise in 1995. The X Games, Winter X Games and All Access are just some of the original action sports programming currently shown on ESPN and ESPN2. In addition to the two U.S.-based events, ESPN has held X Games competitions and demonstration events around the world, including Dubai, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Malaysia, China and Spain. The global franchise has also expanded its reach to both XGames.com and ESPN.com/action, the definitive sites for action sports fans, and to consumer products such as X Games bikes, protective gear, skateboards and DVDs.

CANAL + EVENTS

CANAL + Events is a CANAL + Group subsidiary in charge of events producing and TV rights dealing. CANAL + Group is the first French Media Group with more than four billion turnover. High quality content that can be aired on TV, Internet and Mobile and then sold on DVD is the key word for CANAL + Group. CANAL + Events mission is to create or to co-produce content that can serve that strategy.

TIGNES

Located in the Northern French Alps, in Savoie, from 1,550 to 3,500 meters high, Tignes is linked to Val d’Isère and is a part of the espace Killy, one of the biggest ski areas in the world. With athletic and young clients of whom 54% are foreigners, Tignes is known as the most cosmopolitan and sportiest resort in Europe. Always at the forefront of alternative and action sports and on the look out for new freestyle trends, the resort has a wide experience in event organization. Tignes is a big, white playground where riders enjoy expressing themselves.

Details and a list of scheduled athletes for ESPN Winter X Games Europe will be forthcoming on www.canal-plus.fr for the public.