Our countdown of the sickest full online parts posted in 2011 continues with what we decided should be awarded the bronze medal – it’s Halldor Helgason’s part from Hooked. Can you say ‘all-terrain assault’?.

Of course, the Pirates released Hooked to a frothing public in Fall 2010, but it was only in February 2011 that us workshy slackers got to waste time on the boss’s dime having our brains blown by Halldor Helgason‘s amazingly well-rounded part. The kid’s rail riding is so tech and so burly you’d need a manual to work out half his hammers and he’s not shy of sending it off shityerpants park hits or stomping doubles into pow either. This is arguably the most well-rounded part in our Top 10, but the patented Fuck Yeah!* scoring system saw him come out in third place.

Rider: Halldor Helgason
Movie: Hooked
Posted Online: 21.02.2011
Fuck Yeah! Score*: 35

[* We used a complex scientific calculation method to determine the quality of these clips. Every time something stoked us out we had to exclaim 'Fuck Yeah!'. It could be a triple cork, it could be some rail dancing, it could be a face shot, it could be some editing, but once uttered it was noted down and added up at the end. The part with the most 'Fuck Yeah!'s won.]

Gérome ‘Coin Coin’ Mathieu is arguably one of France’s finest snowboarders. The avid snowboard enthusiast will know his skills from the latest Pirates flick Hooked. But even if not no worries: This online video part features lots of Pirates footage as well as his tricks from the Nike 6.0 D-Pad session and other material that’s well worth seeing.

If you’re still reading on (and seriously, we wouldn’t know why) let us tell you that Coin Coin won the 4-Star TTR comp Nissan Stomp-It in Modena earlier this season, owns an FMX bike, and – apart from Nike 6.0 and Apo – is sponsored by PO, Burn, Pull’in, Dragon, Deeluxe, Shark Biscuit, Level, and Ho5.

Now go and enjoy Gérome Mathieu’s 2010 Online Video Part!

Watch Haldor Helgason’s full part from this season’s Pirates movie, Hooked.  If you want to see what it looks like when one of the best riders of his generation is at the peak of his powers, then just press ‘play’.

We’ll admit it: we’re ever so slightly gay for Halldor Helgason. He’s probably been the most featured snowboarder on this website over the past week, but it’s for no other reason than he’s simply put one of the best snowboarders on the planet right now and, moreover, he’s doing it on his own terms.

Check out his heavy, heavy part from Pirate Movie Production‘s movie Hooked if you don’t believe us. But, of course, you do believe us as you’ll not only have been floored by it already, you’ll also have seen his awesome performance at the Nike 6.0 Air&Style Munich, read his team manager’s gushing words, seen him as a grom in Noxious Dreaming and Why Not, or followed him and his brother Eiki’s adventures in internet snowboarding over on their website, Helgasons.com. Whatever, watch that bad boy again. Can’t even figure out that ender…

All hail the LOBSTER!

The height of summer was no excuse for snowboarders to be lazy. The pipes were still full to bursting with fresh snow porn, and we were like the older kid at school who knew by which railtracks the goods were to be found…

AUGUST

Though it’s sweltering in the Northern Hemi, down under it’s deep winter and shit’s going down. At Mt Buller they’re sick and tired of your common-or-garden slopestyle, jib or big air contests and knock together a sheep shed and send it off that bad boy for the Dew Hut Jam. We show off our finest investigative journalism skills by leaking the Transform Gloves range, Northern Germans escape the heat of summer by taking to the big fridge in Bispingen en mass, and with everyone still talking about his triple cork, we decide to talk to Torstein Horgmo himself to see what was in his head when he took on that jaw-dropper. It’s also August that the jock-ish sounding Red Bull Snowboard Performance Camp hits NZ. After a few days of airbag hucking, the kids bring it to the proper booters and put down a succession of double cork firecrackers. That’s what it takes to be a pro these days…

Following on from our session chronicling the funtimes the Forum team had in Les Deux Alpes last month, we sit down and chew the fat with Andreas Wiig and Pat Moore to see what’s up in their world, err, field. Erm. Yes. Kids go wild at the Australian Rookie Fest, it’s still pissing down with teasers as I’m With Stupid, In Color, Hooked and the almighty Euro Gap 3 stand out, whereas in the Yankeedoodle glaciers Mt Hood seems the place to be with several cuts coming out that hunk o’ ice, including a Game of Shred with LNP vs Johnny Lazz, but summing up the vibe and the riding level best is perhaps this bad boy from Windells …

Swinging our lens back down under, the NZ Open wraps up and though the slopestyle’s foggy as hell Christian Haller and Jamie Anderson remember their yellow lenses to take top spots. It’s better conditions for the pipe finals, though, where Iouri Podladtchikov and Kelly Clark take the honours, and the TTR takes the opportunity to introduce the innovative Snowboard Live Scoring system. And here’s how it works in practice…

And the TTR’s Chris Morris hands back to Onboard’s Alan Partridge as we don our finest sports-casual blazer to get the chat from Cheryl Maas, do our finest cross-platforming by bringing you videos of our Riders of the 00s that backs up our mag article that’s out at the same time, and cause a ripple of controversy with our personal pick of the Top 5 Teasers thus far. Stylewars looks set to rock out in Oz again until the weather kicks it in the balls so they have to settle for a rail jam, the Advita crew’s significant jib skills are on show in 2 Alpes, and being that we’ve once been drunkenly serenaded by him in Laax, we’re a little gay for I-Pod and so posting some stalker’s footage of him throwing down and getting wasted in the bar is right up our street…

See, even at the hight of summer this snowboard dog’s a bitch on heat, rubbing herself ungraciously up against all four corners of the earth. Imagine what happens in September…

Even Björn Hartweger, Austria’s finest freeride machine joined the session to try out this in city terrain. See for yourself how they got along with roof drops and rails!

Being that two of the Pirates crew are from here, it was a no-brainer to make the most of local knowledge and hit up downtown to nail some streetstyle hammers for Hooked. Check it out to see how Teo Konttinen and Juuso Laivisto got on showing Kalle Ohlson, Erik Botner and Gulli Gudmundsson around their hood.

This clip is all about a tight crew of the Pirates’ Euro shreds trying to get shots in the can for Hooked in the US of A! Justin Hare, their 16mm shooter from the Mt.Baker area, was on hand to guide Stian Solberg, Juuso Laivisto and Erik Botner to the best spots in the Wild Wild West.

This second PiRATE LOG is all about Europe, our home turf! Watch Marco Feichtner, Gigi Rüf, Sani Alibabic, Tyler Chorlton, Björn Hartweger, Arthur Longo, Danny Larsen and Kalle Ohlson talk about each other and last year’s filming sessions on the old continent.

Get HOOKED including a 100 page artBOOK in your local core shop, or download the flick on iTunes!