Volcom offers you the chance to win an all inclusive trip to Laax for the finals of the Peanut Butter & Rail Jam 2010, but you’re obviously going to have to work for it!

You just need to ask yourself one question: Do you have what it takes to be a PBRJ champs judge?

If you think you have, go to the Volcom PBRJ page and watch the video. Name the 24 tricks on the PBRJ 2009 mix recap you’re going to see, and put them in order in the text box.

Best entry will win an all expenses paid trip to the European PBRJ champs in Laax, Switzerland (April 10, 2010), to come help judge the contest and hang out with the Volcom team Riders. Top 15 runner up will win a special PBRJ prize pack. No needs to be a snowboarding nerd: BE CREATIVE!

The Volcom PBRJ prize pack

VOLCOM STONE’S EUROPEAN PBRJ TOUR 2010

9/01/10 Gaissau Hintersee, Boardshop snowpark, Austria
23/01/10 Luz Ardiden France
23/01/10 White-Elements snowpark, Grindelwald, Switzerland
28/01/10 Bialka Tatrzanska, Poland
30/01/10 Parnitha, Greece
6/02/10 Trysil, Norway
13/02/10 Horni Mysecky, Czech
13/02/10 Hammarbybacken, Stockholm, Sweden
20/02/10 Laichingen- Alb, snowpark Salzwinkel, Germany
27/02/10 Kuutsemäe, Estonia
27/02/10 Rogla, Slovenia
6/03/10 Serena, Finland
6/03/10 Oberstdorf, Fellhorn Park, Germany
6/03/10 Port Ainé, Spain
14/03/10 Alagna, Italy
20/03/10 Les 2 Alpes, France
27/03/10 Innsbruck, Nordpark, Austria
4/04/10 Madonna di Campiglio, Italy
10/04/10 Laax, European PBRJ Champs, Switzerland
24/04/10 Mammoth, Ca World PBRJ Champs, USA

Volcom’s site

Where: Val d’Isere, France

A brand new girls event, supported by Roxy, is going to take place in the beautiful resort of Val d’Isere, from the 14^th to the 16^th of March. A pretty good bunch of pro riders amongst the best in Europe will compete on an invitational slopestyle, with an original format of teams of two to three girls in jam session, with especially designed features on the park.That’s for the end of the event. Before this, the Val Park will witness a giant photoshoot.

For the public, a mini village will be set in the center of the park, where everyone can get freestyle snowboarding lessons, eet the pros, test some Roxy get, enjoy a BBQ. And from 8PM till 10PM, it will be time for the bravest girls out there to show their skill on the big Air Bag, placed at the bottom of the slopes. And of course the traditional prize giving ceremony, followed by a signing session at the Roxy shop and a party with Djettes.

Programme:

Sunday 14^th of March:

Freestyle lessons and Roxy tests

10am-12am: Freestyle coaching

12am-2pm: BBQ

2pm-4pm: Second coaching sessions

Monday 15^th of March:

Photoshoot on the Val Park – including heli shoot

Tuesday 16^th of March:

Pro Slopestyle

10am-12am: Jam session slopestyle, teams of 2 to 3 riders, qualifications

1pm: riders BBQ

2pm-4pm: Finals

Evening: Prize giving at the Roxy shop and signing session

Party

Go shred with the girls!

Where: Saint-Lary

Coin Coin, Poney 2008, will want his title back...

The 8th Edition of the infamous Poney session promises another round of gnarl and fun on the park of Saint-Lary, Pyrenees, from the 19th to the 21st of March.

As the only TTR 3 star event in the Pyrenees, Poney session got its credibility wings along the years, and a pretty interesting line up of Euro talents will be fighting to take the supreme title from current Poney champ Victor Delerue. And the likes of Gerome ‘Coin Coin’ Mathieu, Eric Bottner, Sylvain Bourbousson, Jano Cramps or will be going rad on laser shaped kickers design by artist Bizmut.

The Denjo Brothers, organisers of the event, have put together a friendly Viking vibe to this year’s event, as well as some epic parties with the Funky sound of Bernards Band and some DJs from Radio Nova.

JJ Roux, proudly representing the Alps in the Pyrenean contest

Here’s the program folks:

Friday 19th March: Training

Saturday 20th March: Freestyle contest on the Saint-Lary snowpark, and ‘Las Poneykitas’ Party at the Salle des Fêtes de Vieille Aure

Sunday 21st March: Best Tricks session on the park

Who’s gonna get the Walhalla and put his hands on the 2010 Trophy? The answer very soon!

www.poneysession.com

Now that the Oxbow Back To Powder 2010 is wrapped up and we have the videos of the jazz, here’s what went down over the five days  in Areches-Beaufort, France.

The idea of Oxbow’s Back To Powder event is a straightforward one, albeit with the übermotivational prize of a trip to Hawaii at stake. Two of Oxbow’s premier riders, Christoph Weber and skier Lolo Favre, were allowed to invite six riders each to head to the small but epic terrain of Areches-Beaufort in France to battle it out on the steeps, put it down on backcountry kickers and get their jib on in the wood zone. With a fresh dump just before the event began and renowned shaping crew hO5 in charge of features, it was bound to be legit.

For the snowboarders, Weber had recruited German buddy and snowboard innovator David Benedek, Norwegian styler Fredrik Evensen, and Frenchies David Livet, Alicia Bonnaud, Thomas Delfino and Valerian Ducourtil. Each night the crew would meet to discuss forecasts, safety and to review the day’s footage with two guys to be awarded with ‘Lines of the Day’. Here’s the haps in words and video, and a gallery of shots at the bottom…

Day 1

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Day 1 was Freeride day with all the riders heading up to Les Tetes Rouges (which sounds suspiciously like a Frenchie nickname for the English) to rip the smoothest lines they could and mix in some creativity on the ride down. Unfortunately the afternoon’s plan of hitting the backcountry kickers had to be postponed as the big wedges were buried by the recent snowfall but a team effort saw them dug out in, well not quite no time but they were ready to be sessioned later in the week.

Day 2

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The second day saw the riders take it to the jibs with some feeling the effects of a few too many Genepis from the night before. There’s no better way to blow away the cobwebs than getting the shred on, though, so before long everyone was taking on the wood zone with Fredrik Evensen and Valerian Ducourtil standing out.

Day 3

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The third day was set aside for the highly anticipated Perfect Jump day. The 21-metre rounded shaped tabletop built by hO5 didn’t seem to cause many problems to David Livet and Fredrik Evensen, despite the long airtime and the high speed required on the in-run. Thanks to the soft landing created by the perfect shape of the jump, some solid riding went down.

Day 4

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Day 4 involved a short hike in the beautiful surroundings of Areches. When they got to the drop in zone, riders faces were split into grins that would have the Cheshire cat envious: the riding area had 6 kickers in a row on the same backountry slope, radness. An epic end to a killer week of rider-focussed competition and fun.

Day 5

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The last day was the rider’s vote day, to determine who ripped the hardest. And coming out top was…. Fredrik Evensen who got voted by his peers as the standout rider of the contest and will accompany skier Arnaud Rougier to a trip to Hawaii, surfing with all the Oxbow surf team.

See you next year for the BTP 2011.

Gallery

All Photos: Elina Sirparanta/Oxbow
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