You know what? Those British guys and gals are getting pretty darned good. Check their highlights edit from the past season.

Billy Morgan is the most recent addition to the back 14 triple cork club, as he stomps one like it ain’t no thang in Breck. Morgan’s already famously whipped himself through a triple back rodeo (discuss the nomenclature at your leisure), but this one – to us at least – looks way more composed and stylish, not to mention the fact that he makes landing one look no more stressful than slipping into a comfy pair of slippers, donning a smoking jacket and firing up a pipe.

These YouTube soccerball people hooked up with British shredders Jamie Nicholls, Ben Kilner and Billy Morgan for a spot of snowboard football. As the footy’s a big part of Boxing Day back in the boys’ homeland, we figured it was as good a time as any to put it out there. Pretty darn sick.

Check this quick edit of what appears to be every single trick at the past weekend’s Freeze Festival in London. The UK’s Billy Morgan walked away with the glory, beating out heavy hits from the likes of Halldor Helgason, Marko Grilc, Roope Tonteri and more…

You should certainly watch this if you want to a) see what went down at the Relentless Freeze in London last weekend, b) want to see what we’re guessing is every trick attempted, both landed or not, and c) want to hear an MC dude say ‘backside’ and ‘land it’ a lot.

The contest was run with the riders needing to put down a style jump, a tech jump and one more of their choosing and combining the scores of tech/style. Billy put down a slow back rodeo and a fast back 12 dub which was enough to crush the hopes of Max Parrot, Victor De Le Rue, Marko Grigis and Tor Lundström.

Nice work B-Mo.

This is the web show we would do if we were as cool as Henry Jackson. We’re not sure if this is episode 2 or in fact episode 3 (depending whether the pilot counts or not), but once again this man excels himself – if that’s possible at all…

This week on Jackson’s Hole we are in Davos for the O’Neill Evolution, where we hook up with extreme snowboard clown Billy Morgan and find out how well Jamie Nicholls can take a slap to the face…

Heavy snow arrived as forecast this morning at the TTR 6 Star O’Neill Evolution Big Air and Rail event in Davos, coinciding with the first round of Men’s Qualification. All three Round 1 Qualification Heats were completed, cutting the Men’s field from 75 to 30 riders who move on to the second round. At times, the fresh snow created speed issues, but did little to dampen the level as British rider, Billy Morgan, put down the score of the day with a double backside rodeo to gapped cab 270 on the kinked rail.

It’s hard to describe the atmosphere here in Davos for the O’Neill Evolution. It’s even harder to imagine how hard it is snowing. A testament to an immense effort from the organizers, shapers, event staff and above all, the riders, the first round of qualifications were completed on schedule. It was a surreal experience to see the look of concentration on competitors’ faces as they focused on their heat, soon replaced by a look of elation as they arrived back at the contest site after a powder run.

The Night Final event lights were illuminated from the start of the first 09:00 training session and remained switched on all day to assist visibility. Before the snowfall intensified, the overnight fine-tuning of the main kicker was tested with broad approval from riders, before speed became an issue resulting in the optional line to rail set up favoured by the contestants.

Lucas Baume at the O'Neill Evolution 2012 Davos

In a two-run, best run counts format, the top 10 riders from each heat made it through to Round 2 of Men’s Qualification. Some of the runs of the day as scored by the judges included:

Heat 1:
Sven Thorgren(SWE)- Backside Double Cork 1080 to gapped stalefish to nose press
Jamie Nicholls(GBR) -Backside 540 crail to gapped Cab 270 to frontside boardslide
EthanMorgan(GER) -Frontside 720 tailgrab to frontside tailslide on the down rail

Heat 2:
Markus Mathis(SUI)- Backside Double Cork 1080 mute to frontside tail slide torevert on the wall
Petja Piiroinen(FIN)- Backside Double Cork 1080 mute to frontside 50-50 on the wall.
Emil Ulsletten(NOR)- Frontside 1080 melon to frontside tail blunt to 270 out on the down rail

Heat 3:
Billy Morgan(GBR) – Double Backside Rodeo to gap cab 270 on the kinked rail
Ville Uotila(FIN) -Frontside 1080 Mute to gapped backside lip slide
Rocco Van Straten(NDL) -Backside Double Cork 1080 to frontside boardslide on the down rail

With the Women’s night training session now underway, the O’Neill Evolution returns tomorrow morning with Round 2 Men’s Qualification, Women’s Qualification, and Men’s Semi-Final scheduled to commence at 18:00. More snow is in the forecast.

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British rider Billy Morgan is the first rider, at least that we’ve seen, put down a triple backside rodeo. Prepare for a barrage of flipping and a bit of spinning. Shitthebed, Billy!

Jamie Nicholls has rightly been turning heads in Europe for his increasingly impressive park and rail wizard-shit, but Britain is more that a one hit wonder when it comes to premium snowboarding talent. As you’ll know if you watched this video of Billy Morgan slaying Avoriaz last spring, you’ll know that this lad has the potential to blow minds (and blow chunks for that matter as the end of this Snowbombing video shows.)

But the other day Morgan proper sent it. He already had a pop at a triple backflip a few years ago at the Jib-Vid, which ended up with him exploding himself and breaking a rib, but at a park session in the US on Friday he took it to another level.

With buddy Ben Kilner in tow as camera guy, he warmed up pulling a couple of ‘regular’ double backside rodeos, Cab double underflips and backside double corked 10s before having a pop a a triple. You can see he’s feeling a bit of the fear when, with the adrenalin pumping, he asks: “You wouldn’t tell me to try it if you didn’t think I could do it?” he asks Kilner. “No, I swear to god,” is Ben’s comeback. And, goddammit, he was right. Billy stomps the hell out of it first try and even manages to dodge someone penguining in the landing.

Hats off Billy, you mental. That was insane.

The season wound down with a bang a couple of weeks ago in Mayrhofen, as the notorious Snowbombing festival once more took over the Autrian valley town. While 5000 or so people mashed it up in the bars and clubs each night, the mountain – specifically the Vans Penken Park – was the scene for that winning mix of serious shredding and debauched carnage that has become the calling card of Snowbombing.

You can read the full report of all the riding action in our earlier Snowbombing post – suffice to say that local boy Peter König walked away with the greenbacks for all three of the ‘competitive’ snowboarding events – and now we can bring you the highlights.

Warning: This video contains nudity, vomit, spankings and even some snowboarding.

Billy Morgan about to get what is known in common parlance as a beat down. Highest ollie carnage.

We had our filmer hook up with Billy last week in Avoriaz to take advantage of the slush-filled funtimes, but we weren’t expecting them to come back with this. Alongside travel bud Andy Nudds (whose online part we just posted), Morgan’s been quietly going about his business, honing his skills to the point that now it’s looking like he can hold his own with the Euro elite.

And it showed at the recent Ride and Seek pro contest at Snowbombing, where he was unlucky not to take the top spot with his back 9 and deeeep double backie just edged out by Peter König’s double front and back 9. We also found out it’s wise not to wind him up after the vodka’s taken hold. Our filmer’s bloody nose would agree.

Have to say, while the back 10 double, double back 180 and the rest of his techness are awesome, it’s the early nose/tail grab hit that had us bugging out most. He even holds the grab on the landing. What?

Watch it, homies.

Chris Kröll, Peter König and Billy Morgan show off their winnings. PK won every dang thang. Respect!

Last week the Austrian resort of Mayrhofen was yet again the target of the annual festival of carnage that is Snowbombing. And it rocked.

A week of music, partying and snowboarding is the timeless recipe for this epic event, which has been hosted by Mayrhofen since 2005. This year the sun was out, blazing, and although the snow was pretty much non-existent the resort was completely buzzing with an awesome festival vibe.

[Stay tuned for the full edit of the carnage. In the meantime - enjoy the teaser...]

The main snowboarding events of the week happened on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday along with all the habitual drinking and partying that accompanied most things during the week. The Vans and Onboard Junk ‘n’ Funk was Wednesday’s event which saw a mixture of pros and ‘bombers (the adopted name for the rowdy party hounds that make up the festival’s attendees) hitting a small kicky tabletop in a highjump contest with an ever rising bar. Before long the bar was well past head height and it was down to the pros to see who could pop the highest. By around 280cm it was left to the UK’s Andy Nudds and Austria’s Peter König who were both eventually beaten by a ridiculous final bar height and who had to go head to head for a deciding best trick award on the waterslide. Judged in true Snowbombing fashion with a loudest crowd cheer, König was crowned the winner after a half cab waterslide to front flip out.

Andy Nudds popping big over the Junk 'n' Funk bar

The next day was the Hotzone Ride and Seek games Pro Am competition which saw the riders team up with a ‘bomber each and session the small kicker next to the waterslide. Each team was knocked out of the comp as soon as the pro in the team fell, and after some slush induced bails it was just down to Billy Morgan and Peter König and their respective partners, with König’s team taking the win with a killer high five front flip.

But before the teams were assembled there was what can only be described as complete madness with riders and bombers alike sessioning the kicker and being given on the spot cash money for every bit of radness they were responsible for. There were some seriously stylish back and front rodeo 5′s going hand in hand with crazy drunken first time snowboarders trying to huck their first back flip. Yes, you did read the latter correctly and unsurprisingly it was not long before someone was airlifted away. But once the madness was (very slightly) toned down the fun continued and ended in a nudity-filled waterslide sesh in the sun. Perfect.

Tom Tramnitz sends it in the Pro comp.

On the Friday the concluding event of Hotzone’s Ride and Seek Game, the Big Air Pro contest, took place despite the diabolical snow situation and luckily only involved fully clothed, fully abled and (almost) fully sober riders taking part, with the exception of a few who had been razzin’ it at Chase and Status the previous night… The kicker itself was not in the best shape with the in run and landings soon becoming rutted and bombed but in the end Peter König completed the hat trick by taking first place with a sick back 9 and a massive double front flip. The UK’s Billy Morgan deservedly claimed second with a back 9 and an insanely huge double back flip and Chris Kröll took third with back 7 and a back 9. A couple of rad gunfire runs later and the huge end of week party had started with MC’s Jon Weaver and Henry Jackson getting all the ‘bombers super pumped for the night of hard drinking and dancing ahead as The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim headlined in town.

A Snowbomber charges into battle. Look at the nose catch!

Special shout outs go to the Israeli rider (deserved winner of the Crazy Fucker award) who, after nearly buying himself a one way ticket to the Pearly Gates with a botched rodeo attempt put in a commendable effort later on and almost stuck it.

And also to the Kiwi who, despite having not slept or eaten for days, continued for probably sixth day in a row to take the party by the horns congo and beer-bong style and ended up having to be helped down the mountain by a mixture of MC’s and riders, too drunk to walk on his own (although not to snowboard!). Mountain safety at its finest. It also goes without saying that he was seen waving his beer bong front row of The Prodigy a few hours later. What the hell is it with guys from down under and being total huckers?

So all in all, despite the summery conditions, Snowbombing 2011 was yet another massive success and every ‘bomber there will no doubt already be booking their tickets for next year.

The Royal Wedding themed street party in all its glory. Lobster represent, Liz!

- Paddy Withams