Last summer, DCP took a trip to Chile all on his lonesome and bagged himself a bunch of southern hemi pow. Check this second edit, where he camps out, tackles chutes and gets helied in to some awesome terrain…

And if you dug this, be sure to check out part 1 of his Chilean solo mission.

YES. It’s a DCP slaying pow and lumps of Chilean ocean edit. Check out his solo trip to Chile where he rips chutes with Jeremy Jones and the locals and scores some solid waves too.

DCP heads to Chile with a couple GoPros, two snowboards, and a surfboard. He goes with the flow, meeting surf, skate and snowboard legends, surfing big waves and shredding epic chutes. “Thanks to The North Face for making the trip happen,” was what we heard from him – we’d say thanks too if they’d send us on such an epic adventure…

Antti Autti dropped us a line to fire over this webisode from his time in NZ and Chile for his upcoming movie, ANTIOUT. Peepit.

Thinking filming was done at the end of last winter Antti and his filmer made the spur of the moment decision to head to the southern hemi this summer – to NZ and Chile. It turned out to be one of the best times they had shooting for ANTIOUT. Keeping it strictly natural was a challenge but, as Antti says, “it’s the direction I want to go with my riding.”

The man himself says, “the whole ANTIOUT movie will be released November 4th so there is gonna be pretty nice part from southern hemisphere in it. This is just a little taste.”

The World Rookie Fest caravan pitched up in Valle Nevado, Chile for the Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest. Once again, Sven Thorgen dominated… Read on or watch the video…

Riders from Chile, Argentina, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway and Austria competed at the second edition of the Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest 2011, hosted in Valle Nevado, Chile. The event was dominated once more by Swedish talent Sven Thorgren who won the title here for the second time, earning himself a free invitation to the Protest World Rookie Finals 2012, set to go down in Ischgl, Austria, in April 2012. Next week end the Tour will move to Australia for the last stop of the Southern Hemisphere session.

Sven Thorgren on his way to his second South American Rookie Fest win. Photos: Premek Vida

The slopestyle consisted of a kinked rail, 2 kickers and a final transfer kicker, while for the Groms division (riders from 8 to 14 years old) they built a second line with smaller obstacles. In the male Rookies category, Sven Thorgren (SWE) once again rode hardest with solid runs including 720s and his unmistakable backside rodeo. On the male rookie podium also were fellow Europeans Martin Mikyska (CZE) and Harvard Bergheim (NOR). Norwegian rising star Fridtjof Sather, despite being in the Groms age group, decided to compete in the Rookie category and ended up in 4th place – a killer result for the mini man. Thomas Gonazales was the best Chilean rookie and was also awarded with an invitation to the Protest World Rookie Finals 2012.

Among the Groms Federico Chiaradio from Argentina was judged best and won an invitation to the next edition of the legendary Protest World Rookie Fest in Livigno, January 2012. The best girl of the event was the Chilean ripper Magdalena Gonzalez, class 2001.

Fridtjof Sather - a grom to watch.

In the tradition of any World Rookie Tour events also the Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest is more than a competition. In fact, for the next 10 days, the SARF will continue with an exclusive “Freeride Experience” reserved to the European invited rookies and the best riders from the slopestyle contest. This special program will include backcountry sessions in Valle Nevado neighborhoods, skateboarding in Santiago del Chile with RedBull pro, Surfing days in Cachagua, cultural visit in Unesco heritage Valparaiso and much more.

"Men's" Rookie Podium.

The Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest 2012 was organized by World Snowboard Federation in association with Anden, Valle Nevado, RedBull, Santa Pizza, Wave House and Mall Sport. Full list of rookie events, press releases, pictures and video, details about the World Rookie Rank and more is available on www.worldsnowboardfederation.org

Jake Blauvelt’s killer webisodes roll on with this in-depth look at his crew’s trip to Chile. It’s a mixed bag of highs and lows – they score some of the best snow ever in Nevados de Chillan, only for it to become windblown and bulletproof the next day; they meet the friendliest people but the walkway on the house they stay in collapses and the chimney catches fire; they rip awesome sunset pow but constantly struggle with snow chains.

This is far from your quick-fix interwank webisode – it’s a thorough look at what the life of a pro shredder is really all about. Set yourself aside 20-odd minutes to watch this interesting doco and shreddery mashup.

The 3rd and last part of “YoungGuns in Chile” is all about hitting backcountry jumps in Valle Nevado, visiting Val Paraiso and checking out a BigWaveSession with 12 m high waves! All this with a nice track by Scott Sullivan! Enjoy!

“Surfing on the artificial wave in Santiago, chilling with the Chile locals and shredding the first South American Rookie Fest! Enjoy!

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Ofcourse everyone knows the World Rookie Tour! Last August 4 of the Youngguns (who did well on the rookie fest tour) had the chance to go to chile, to ride the first south American Rookie Fest plus  to experience some freeriding!

Big up to the organizer of the World Rookie Tour to great something like that! Giving this kid the chance to go to chile!

Featured Younggungs (Future Rider):  Marco Grigis from Italy, Sven Thorgren from Sweden, Hakon Hernes from Norway and Georg Huber from Austria!

When you’ve got the expansive natural playground of the Zillertal on your doorstep, we’re guessing it’s hard to motivate yourselves to leave but the Ästhetiker crew got juiced with wanderlust and had CK and Simon Schweiger jet to Japan, while Wolle Nyvelt and Anne-Flore Marxer went north to AK and Mone Monsberger and young gun Georg Huber headed west to Chile. Check out the Travel Show. Ëëëöööh!

Sven Thorgren. Photos: Trojer Meinhard

The first South American edition of the World Rookie Tour kicked off Saturday, august the 14th, in Valle Nevado, Chile.

This event features some European rookies, RedBull’s pro Filippo Kratter as international guest and a bunch of Chilean youngsters. First days saw a snowboard clinic and a rail jam session. The slopestyle contest, scheduled for Sunday august 15th , was postponed to Saturday August 21st because of a wind storm while all the freeride and cultural activities scheduled for the next days are confirmed.

Chilling in the park.

The European crew at the Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest includes Filippo Kratter, Sebastian Geiger and Andreas “Mone” Monsberger, and an EU Squad of selected rookies from previous stops of the World Rookie Tour: Marco Grigis (ITA), Hakon Hernes (NOR), Sven Thorgren (SWE) and Georg Huber (AUT).

Kratter dropping his words of wisdom on the groms.

On Saturday the Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest offered local snowboarders a freestyle clinic with Filippo Kratter from RedBull and Sebastian Geiger from Ride Snowboards. It included a theoretical part to explain Filippo’s carrier from rookie to pro, followed by 2 groups of freestyle clinics.

Marko Grigis front boards the bar.

On Sunday the Swatch TTR 2Star slopestyle couldn’t happen because of a wind storm and it was postponed to the next Saturday (August 21st ). Instead of the slopestyle, a rail jam session was arranged in order to produce photos and film footage with the rookies.

Georgi Huber & squeeze.

From Monday august 16th to Friday 20th the first “Freeride Edition” of the World Rookie Tour will take place. European invited rookies and 2 wild cards from Chile will enjoy a week of sports and cultural activities: backcountry shootings in Valle Nevado, one day surf trip, visit of Santiago de Chile and an environmental clinic with the Chilean “Tell A Vision” premiere of “Respira” from Drew Stevenson project 2010 in Brazil.

The World Rookie Tour is organized by World Snowboard Federation and its member national snowboard associations. The event in Chile is organized in association with Anden, Valle Nevado and Mall Sport. Full list of rookie events, press releases, pictures and video, details about the World Rookie Rank and more is available on www.worldsnowboardfederation.org

Hakon Hernes

Mall Sport South America Rookie Fest – Updated Program

- Monday, August 16th : Start of the Freeride Program with European invited rookies and pros, best 2 South American riders from slopestyle and Anden Crew.
- Tuesday,August 17th : Powder Kicker Session and Photo Shooting with BoardTV and Aestetiker TV.
- Wednesday, August 18th : Mall Sport Freeride Session
- Thursday, August 19th: Chilean Dinner & Party at “A-House” in Farellone by Fabian Giavio and Urban Rail Session in Farellones.
- Friday, August 20th: Night Photo Shooting
- Saturday, August 21st : Slopestyle contest (inscription at 8.00am at Terraza Slalom in Valle Nevado)
- Sunday, August 22nd : final event at “Santa Pizza Wave House” with Chilean Dinner, Skateboarding, Flow riding and Party.
- Monday, August 23rd : Departure day
- Warning: 1 Day Flash Surf Trip to be defined