More than 150 invited riders from 15 countries beelined to the Czech resort of Špindleruv Mlyn for a long weekend of awesome riding, including Ville Uotila, Niels Shack, Tomas Tuzar and more. It’s a little ong but worth the watch, if only for the heli shots, the hip session and the fact that the Wheel of Fortune is one kick-ass contest concept.

Saturday as the third and main and the most important day of Burton Špindl Spring Sessions brought the clouds, more than 5.000 spectators concentrated around the finish of the main line, a snowboard race for the general public and a Corner session for accreditated riders. In each discipline, there was a ranking of riders which put them into the order not only in each discipline, but also in overall ranking made by jury consisting from media representatives, snowboard professionals and the snowboard riders themselves.

Let’s check the first day and the snowboard wheel of luck – Skullcandy Trick Countdown. In the competition, there were more than 30 riders in the beginning of the contest. The winner, Ville Uotila, threw down a 1080 and beat his Finish mate Jeppe Ronti, who managed all tricks except for the backflip and Michal Ligocki from Poland, who only didn’t land his 1080.

The final order of Skullcandy Trick Countdown:

1. Ville Uotila – FIN

2. Jeppe Ronti – FIN

3. Michal Ligocki – POL

4. Tomáš Tuzar – CZE

Corner Session was the second main discipline counted towards the final ranking of the riders. The Corner was placed at the end of the main line and was super huge with its 12 meters height and 25 meters length. It was definitely a good place to watch the competition as there were many different vertical and horizontal rotations jumped by wide range of riders in excess of more than eight meters. In the end, the best air was performed by Ville Uotila, and the best overall impression went to Jan Zajíc.

There was a Freeride.cz Public Spring Sessions Jam at Burton easy park Hromovka which is a regular part of the event every year. This competition is dedicated to amateur riders, who are keen on snowboarding but not as good as going to the regular park with big jumps and kickers with high difficulty. The results we not included in the overall ranking.

Best rider: Tomáš Raiser

Best girl: Kamila Vlčková

Best junior (10-15 let): Lukáš Pobořil

Best kid (do 10 let): Kristián Salač

The overall ranking contains from Friday´s Skullcandy trick Countdown and Saturday´s Corner session, but the most important for the final order was the overall impression from all disciplines and from the main line, which was long about 800 meters and which includes big jumps, kickers, a line for jibbing and a final huge corner. As the organizers and riders agreed, the snowpark was really well prepared and it was possible to perform a big number of different tricks at a high level. “We were building the snowpark for more than a week and we are happy that it was appreciated by the riders and by the crowd, which counted nearly 12.000 people in the three days,” said Petr Najman, the head of organization team. Ville Uotila had the same feeling, as he said that it was really nice and relaxing to be a part of this competition, enjoying the friendly atmosphere, spring weather and nice crowd of the people. “I was here for the second time and I really like it. For the three days, I was concentrated on sport, now I am looking forward to the party,” said Ville.

Special Prices:                                               Overall results:

1. Pepe Samek – CZE                                    1. Ville Uotila – FIN

2. Roman Dlauhý -CZE                                2. Tomáš Tuzar – CZE

3.Wojtek Pajak – POL                                  3. Jeppe Ronti – FIN

4. Hans Kestila – FIN                                   Best girl: Anja Štefan – CRO

5. Filip Gutwirth – CZE                                Best junior: Dušan Kříž – CZE

6. Michal Ligocki – POL

The last day of the event is a Sunday. Usually, the people chill out, do some rides in spring snow, take in the sunshine and relax after the party night.

After a year, the fifth annual BURTON ŠPINDL SPRING SESSIONS is being organized in the top Czech ski resort Skiareál Špindlerův Mlýn from March 31st to April 3rd. Ahem, Czech out what this sick event’s all about…

As usual, it is the last snowboard event of the season dedicated to all shredders wanting an awesome way to say farewell to the winter. The event is not a contest or competition, but a riding and shooting session, however best riders will be awarded with special product prizes from partners and organizers after partners and media voting in different categories.

More than 150 invited riders together with media representatives and public from many different countries will meet to ride, shoot and party together. Specially designed snow park by the Snowparkdesign crew will be enlarged and completely rebuilt and reshaped to create extraordinary conditions for all, the best invited riders as well as for public, which can use the full park with no restrictions too.

An extra large party tent located right at the end of the slopes is serving the best from Czech and Slovak music night by night. Every day starting Thursday, there are Jägermeister party nights scheduled containing DJs sets and life band performances.

EVENT INFO

Date: 31.3 – 3.4.2011

Place: Skiareál Špindlerův Mlýn, Svatý Petr, CZE

Event type: Photo and Video Shooting, Community Gathering, Season Closing Event

For general information please visit the website www.spindl-spring-sessions.cz.

Anyone from public interested to come, can take advantage of discounted accomodation and lift tickets, information HERE.