Nejc Puco, Max Weickl, Clemens Schattschneider, Matevz Pristavec, Dominik Wagner, Robert Wallner, Patrick Pitter, Anja Stefan, Jan Necas, Erik Harc, iga Rakovec, Andrej Marincic, Herby Thaler, and Marko Grilc.

 We can look back to a successful and high-class contest season. The QParks Tour was once again the biggest contest series with 11 QParks Tour stops for freeskiers and snowboarders throughout Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Now it’s getting serious, the Tour finalists for the big finals are fixed, the party schedule is all set and we offer cheap sleep&ride packages for all shred-fans.

The TOURminators are fixed…

True to the QParks Tour philosophy – everybody can participate and everybody has the chance to qualify for the finals – the best 60 freeskiers as well as the best 60 snowboarders have qualified for the finals after numerous thrilling battles. However, nothing has been decided yet: At the finals, the Tour points get tripled which means all riders have a chance to make it to the top. Therefore, it won’t do for the currently leading riders to sit back and relax at the finals but will have to show their best skills again.

The winner takes it all…

The freeskiers will open the showdown on Saturday, May 5^th, and the snowboarders will battle for the QParks Tour crown on Sunday, May 6^th. All riders could win twice at the weekend: Firstly, the winners of the day will be rewarded with a total of 3.000,- € and sick goodies from Blue Tomato and Horsefeathers. Additionally, adidas eyewear awards 4 sponsorships for the winners of the Rookie and Girls categories including the brand-new id2 pro MG Versin II, designed by Air&Style winner and superstar Marco Grilc himself! Secondly, the champs of the QParks Tour will be crowned, too. Here, the winners can look forward to a prize money of a total 7.000,- € as well as prizes from amplifi, TSG and Neff. In addition to valuable presence in the media, the overall winners of the Rookie and Girls categories will also get Red Bull Mobile Phone including a 1-year free contract.

Chill & Grill @ the Blue Tomato Shop Schladming

Following the contest, the official prize giving ceremony will take place on both contest days at the Blue Shop Schladming. Blue Tomato will provide a nice BBQ and fresh drinks to meet your bodily needs – proper sound and exciting side events will be taken care of, too, of course!

Get ready for the final party…

All party-addicts are in for a treat, too, this weekend. The party marathon will already kick off on Friday, May 4^th in the Friends Bar in Schladming, starting at 09:00 pm. On Saturday, May 5^th, the party will continue in the Friends Bar with massive sound at the official riders party.

Don’t drink and drive but sleep&ride…

In order for you to be able to enjoy the whole spectacle to the fullest and not having to worry about getting home safely, we are offering you cheap sleep&ride packages:

Horsefeathers Superpark open for all guests…

For the QParks Tour finals, only the contest line will be closed for the event – the Rail Pro-Line, Medium-Line as well as the Beginners Park will be open for everybody! Hereto, enjoying the sun and relaxing in deckchairs constitutes a very attractive alternative, as a barbecue and chilled drinks will be provided for in the chill area of the Snowpark.

SEE YOU ON THE TOP!!

Horsefeathers outerwear planned a shoot in the Dachstein Superpark they sponsor, but bad weather forced them to Northern Italy – Alta Badia – where riders Ville Uotila, Darek Bergman, Michi Ziringibl and more threw down to come up with this video…

In January this year, right after the Burton European Open, two Horsefeathers teamriders Ville Uotila and Darek Bergmann together with photographer David Blazek and PTRSN as the camera guy went to Horsefeathers Superpark Dachstein. They were invited there for Qparks photo shooting session.

The shooting has finally been canceled due to bad weather conditions. They therefore moved to Dolomiti Superski resort in Alta Badia in northern Italy. They picked up Austrian Horsefeathers rider Stephan Wimmer on the way there. Horsefeathers new team member Flo Galler joined the crew in Alta Badia. Unfortunately he had bad luck and he hurt him self on the first spot so he could not finish the tour. The good news was that Michi Zirngibl confirmed his participation in this Italian trip despite his busy schedule.

Moreover the guys from Horsefeathers Swiss team Killian Wiget and Lukino Ramelli promised to come for at least last two days. Even though the weather conditions in Italy were not that good the guys found few interesting spots for shredding and shooting. Check out our brand new video from this trip.

Chris “CK” Kröll, hailing from Mayerhofen, Austria is the latest enforcement of the Horsefeathers snowboard team.

Chris kicked off the new partnership by winning the Gloryfy Bastards contest in Gerlos and flying to Japan for some fresh pow the next day. CK is well known for his participation in the Ästhetiker crew and has been well recognized in all levels of snowboarding from park to big mountain.

Stay tuned on his blog and horsefeathers.eu

While the winter got us in full grip, our buddies at Horsefeathers were feeling very generous and decided to wrap two of our users in some brand new outerwear to enjoy the mountains with.

One lucky guy will have the pleasure of not only staying super comfy and warm in the technical Regor pant and Dorado jacket with 10/15k waterproofness/breathability and fully sealed seams, but also look super stylish, just like Bavarian gigolo Michi Zirngibl.

And the ladies can be happy as well, because for them we got a Proxima jacket and Avior pants combo up for grabs, which is from the Horsefeathers Diamonds line as well.

To get yourself a new functional look on the mountain, simply answer the question below!

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Proxima jacket & Avior pants

Horsefeathers have prepared a new edition of their snowboard camps, this time from Feb 5th – 12th in the Horsefeathers Superpark Planai in Austria.

Expect great tips, tricks and advice from Horsefeathers pros such as Michi Zirngibl, Frankie Woerndl, Dominik Brunner or Mata Molnarova, who will be ready to help you with anything you might need, starting from explaining easy tricks to teaching you how to do technical rail tricks or big rotations. Besides that they have a Nitro test center in the park, videocoaching evenings and a photoshooting day, where you’ll have the chance to get your action shot taken by a pro photographer.

The price of 310 EUR includes accommodation for 7 nights, 7 day ski pass, coaching, access to the test center as well as internet connection. Capacity of the camp is limited to 25 pers.

For more info got to horsefeathers.cz/snowboardcamp

There might or might not be an official video of the 2010 Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam. We figured over here that this short edit by Elias Elhardt and friends is way more fun anyhow.

Check Elias, Philipp Strauss, Marco Smolla, André Kuhlmann, Markus Keller and Werni Stock shred the slopes, hit the park and Elias eventually take home the victory!

The Horsefeathers crew were denied on Iran, so their crew hit up the urban terrain way closer to home. Check out this sick jibbing from Tadej Valentan, Killian Wiget, Ville Uotila, Darek Bergmann and Tomas Tuzar as they cruise spots in the Czech Republic.

“‘Shit happens’ could also be the title of this obscure mission into the depths of Iran. Well, almost. As the plans to visit this country which very few associate with snowboarding were coming to the final stage, all involved were more and more excited. And then half of the crew did not get visa. Shit.

Riders ready, video crew ready, photographer ready. After brainstorming through numerous alternative plans a consensus was reached: lets explore unridden and overlooked parts of the Czech Republic, a country where snowboarding is strong and parks can be found even in the smallest resorts still hides many options which many would not even consider rideable, droppable, jibable, grindable, or whatever else. Initially, as the snow cover cumulated and heaps of powder covered the whole country a grand plan with road gaps, castle drops and freeride shots was put into place. And then the rain came. Shit.

Everyone lined up: Tadej Valentan from Slovenia, Killian Wiget from Switzerland, Ville Uotila from Finland, Darek Bergmann and Tomas Tuzar from Czech Republic plus David our photographer and Vit with Peterson with all the video gear. An alternate plan was produced and a new mission was out there – to ride what no one has ridden before even if all the powder has turned into a sucky, heavy blanket. Not an impossible feat, but definitely a project needing a lot of effort and energy on all sides. The crew started their search for unique spots in a mountainous region called Ore Mountains sitting on the border of Czech Republic and Germany. Numerous spots were found and hit including old uranium factory, a historical lime kiln and a wind power plant. After several days of discovering the unlikely the course was set east towards the biggest Czech resort called Spindleruv Mlyn. There the exploration of stairs, balconies and other mountain city landmarks continued.”

Cirka month ago, more exactly last week in March we promised to you a short clip from Horsefeathers Planai Superpark. Why did it took so long? As always some “Technical Difficulties” ruined our promise…but we can say better late than never, right?

This year Horsefeathers Planai Superpark showed in a marvelus light. We were up few times and park was always in a good shape. Despite high temperatures and slushy conditions Q-Parks shapers did awesome work and contributed a big time that we could make this clip for you. And not to forget Domen Bizjak and Nejc Ferjan who were ready for one of last Snowbroader’s Spring shreds…

Watch it HERE or HERE or perhaps HERE…where ever you want, just check it.

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