We had a fireside chat with Lipstick Productions’ Conny Bleicher the other day about what went down and what we could expect. Have a gander at that for the backstory and then peep the full shebang right here.

So distracted were we by all the talk of anally bleaching (don’t ask) that we forgot to ask about the story behind the rather cryptic name of the movie. Wonder no more as we hit up Conny again who dispelled our altogether seedier theory. Kinda… “The name already came up when we were looking for a production name. It’s basically that women always need 5 more minutes. They need 5 more minutes in the bathroom, they like to turn around in the morning and sleep 5 more minutes. Same in snowboarding; it takes them 5 more minutes to jump a big booter, to shovel a kicker… We are just a bit lazy and we enjoy being lazy and not stressful! Don’t take everything too serious!”

Jenny Jones. Photo: Sami Tuoriniemi.

Our new feature lets you listen in to pro riders’ top 10 tunes to make your day way mo’ better (or potentially worse if they are from Scandinavia). Up first is all-conquering British ripper, Jenny Jones. Scroll down for the player…

Snowboarding and tunes go together like any other great double act you can mention: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, Peter North and Jenna Jameson. They feed off each other, compliment each other. Together they become even more awesome.

The riders’ music tastes are as varied as their shredding styles but when pressed they’re always able to narrow their favourites down to a top 10. Some you might find make your ears bleed, others make you lose the will to live, but on the whole they will stoke you the hell out and perhaps introduce you to something fresh.

If you don’t listen to music, get amped and inspired by it on a daily basis then there’s a good chance that you’re dead and therefore not online. Everyone else will hopefully enjoy this, and we’ll say this – we’re digging Jenny’s list. Listen in now…

JENNY JONES’ TOP 10 TUNES

As we like to have fun, don´t take everything too serious and it’s all about looking damn good here our “5 more minutes…please?!” Trailer. So sit back, relax 5 more minutes and enjoy!

Full movie coming October 2011

Starring: Aimee Fuller, Ana Rumiha, Aline Bock, Tini Gruber, Julia Baumgartner, Margot Rozies, Urska Pribosic, Basa Stevulova, Jenny Jones, Lisa Filzmoser, Vera Janssen, Conny Bleicher, Sina Candrian,… and more!

Edited by: Sophie Morawetz (aka Littlestar Films)

Filmed by: Sophie Morawetz, Ryan Smith, Lachlan Humphreys, Johno Verity, Rene Gallo, Julian Pintarelli, Matej Gostinar, Ben Bishop, Stephan Kofler, Steven Kilzer, …

Graphic design by: Kristina Fallenegger

Special credit: Holger Frick

Supported by: Roxy, Billabong, Burn, Nikita, Elan, Völkl, Sweet Dream, Sport Spezial, Cooler, Onboard, Golden Ride

Music by: FM Belfast – “Underwear”

What do you do when the mountain is closed on a contest day? If you are Ty Walker, Jenny Jones, Basa Stevulova, Kirby Kelly, Danger Dave and Aimee Fuller and you are at the Roxy Chicken Jam in Mammoth Mountain you search for the right spot and then launch yourself into a nice huck fest.

The Oakley Arctic Challenge went down in Oslo from 17th-19th February 2011, and this edits shows the riding of the winners and runners-up (among them Chas Guldemond, Tyler Flanagan, Jamie Anderson and Jenny Jones) as well as some rare behind the scenes and party moments.

The Isenseven crew put together this nifty clip of The Oakley Arctic Challenge that went down in Oslo from 17th-19th February 2011.
You’ll get to see some riding of the winners as well as some rare behind the scenes and party moments. Good times!

Chas Guldemond sends a back 10 to victory. Photo: Olav Stubberud

[Update: Check the video highlights of all the action from the Oakley Arctic Challenge.] Chas Guldemond and Jamie Anderson take the honours at the legendary TTR 6Star Oakley Arctic Challenge in Oslo, Norway. Check the report…

With the training sessions and earlier rounds marred by low cloud and snowfall, there was concern that this year’s Arctic Challenge might not get its chance go off to its full potential. We needn’t have worried, Terje had a word with his mate Thor, who duly dropped his hammer and scattered the bad weather for the finals in Oslo’s Vinterpark.

Jamie Anderson boots a back 3. Photo: Eleonora Raggi

Sending it first were the women, where the USA’s Jamie Anderson followed up her recent 6Star win at the BEO with another win here at the Arctic. Her run, on the excellently crafted slopestyle course, went like this:  noseslide, 50-50 to backside 180, a huge switch backside 540, backside 360, tailslide to 270 out and ended her run with a smooth backside 540. Following behind Jamie was Canadian Spencer O’Brien in second and British rider Jenny Jones made her experience count to take third place.

Women's podium - Jones, Anderson and O'Brien. Photo: Olav Stubberud

It all came down to the final runs in the men, with each dude pushing hard to step their game up. When all’s said and done, American Chas Guldemond proved that he’s one of the most fearsome slopestyle riders around by putting down a near-perfect run – Cab 270 to frontside boardslide on the down rail, a switch 50-50 to method on the canon rail, Cab 1260 on the step-down jump, backside 1080 on the step-up jump, a 50-50 to backside 360 on the flat rail and finished with a crowd pleasing double backside rodeo on the last jump. Chas was pushed hard by his young compatriot Tyler Flannagan, who finished a mere 2 point behind in second, while another young up-and-comer, Sage Kotsenburg, bagged third.

Chas was pumped: “I’m really happy with the way I rode and to stay in first place through the last run really means a lot to me. I think it was my day today and it all came together perfect. What an amazing experience.”

Chas and Jamie both bagged themselves a fat chunk of the $100,000 USD prize purse and 1000 Swatch TTR World Ranking points. With only one major 6Star contest left to run, Jamie’s gotta be the bookies’ favourite for another TTR World Tour crown, while Chas’s win bumps him up a couple of places World No. 16, which set him up nicely for a run towards a piece of the $200,000 USD TTR end-of-seaon prize purse.

Having injured herself skateboarding early in the season, it was always going to be hard for Jenny to repeat her efforts from last year and bag the illustrious three-peat, but in true Jones style she gave it her best shot, stomped a stormer, and despite being shorn of snow time this season still managed to place second women’s snowboard slopestyle, narrowly losing out to Finland’s Enni Rukajärvi.

Watch it. Yes, Jones!

Shaun White, Superpipe Gold

Scotty Lago, Superpipe Silver

Kazuhiro Kokubo, Superpipe 5th

Kelly Clark, Superpipe Gold

Nic Sauve, Street Gold

Sebastien Toutant, Slopestyle Gold

Mark McMorris, Slopestyle Silver

Enni Rukajärvi, Slopestyle Gold

Jenny Jones, Slopestyle Silver

And we’ve already posted all big air videos, but here’s Torstein again, stomping the triple:

Torstein Horgmo, Big Air Gold

Results Men’s Superpipe

1 Shaun White 97.33
2 Scotty Lago 92.00
3 Louie Vito 87.33
4 Markus Malin 86.33
5 Kazuhiro Kokubo 85.33
6 Peetu Piiroinen 83.33
7 Mathieu Crepel 64.00
8 Matt Ladley 45.66

Results Women’s Superpipe

1 Kelly Clark 92.33
2 Kaitlyn Farrington 85.66
3 Elena Hight | Watch 80.00
4 Soko Yamaoka 70.00
5 Queralt Castellet 67.66
6 Gretchen Bleiler 27.66

Results Men’s Slopestyle

1 Sebastien Toutant 93.00
2 Mark McMorris 90.00
3 Tyler Flanagan 82.66
4 Chas Guldemond 81.00
5 Mikkel Bang 80.00
6 Torstein Horgmo 47.66
7 Halldor Helgason 20.00
8 Eric Willett 19.00

Results Women’s Slopestyle

1 Enni Rukajärvi 92.66
2 Jenny Jones 89.33
3 Jamie Anderson 86.00
4 Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas 84.00
5 Sina Candrian 81.33
6 Cheryl Maas 70.66
7 Hana Beaman 52.66
8 Janna Meyen-Weatherby 46.33
9 Shelly Gotlieb 44.33
10 Spencer O’Brien 39.66v

Results Street

1 Nic Sauve | Watch 44+41 85
2 Louis-Felix Paradis 36+32 68
3 Simon Chamberlain 35+29 64
4 Jeremy Jones 30+25 55
5 Seth Huot 29+26 55
6 Joe Sexton 23+19 42
7 JP Walker 18+16 34

Results Big Air

1 Torstein Horgmo 38+42 80
2 Sebastien Toutant 44+35 79
3 Sage Kotsenburg 42+35 77
4 Mark McMorris 41+32 73
5 Scotty Lago 38+21 59

Oh, and there was a best method comp, too:

Scotty Lago, Method Gold

1 Scotty Lago 57%
2 Ross Powers 14%
3 Chas Guldemond 11%
4 Mason Aguirre 7%
5 Jack Mitrani 6%
6 Greg Bretz 2%
6 Peter Line 2%
8 Mikkel Bang 1%

Former chalet girl Jenny Jones takes her first of 3 Winter X Slopestyle golds. No biggie.

In his latest contribution to his swelling sack of Gossip from the GoodLife articles, Jon Weaver trains his keen eye on the phenomenon known to people not fortunate to be born at the foot of a mountain as ‘doing a season’, and recounts the tale of one seasonaire who went on to make waves in the scene.

“What you doing this winter?”

“Doing a season, innit!”

That expression, despite taking its cues from some pretty average British TV, is something which means a lot to many of us, especially those of us from the UK and our flatland bredren in Holland and Belgium.

In what is a yearly ritual many thousands of eager snowboarders pack up a car (which should preferably be older than some of the people in it), fill it to the brim with their crew, and head for the hills. It’s a ritual many of us know well and have various stories from it, one of my best being when driving in a Ford Fiesta 5 men (Josh Wolf, Nelson Pratt, Tom West and Mark Ruperelia) deep with BOB (boards onboard on the roof) only for the car to break down on the French highways on a stretch without hard shoulder, just as Josh was about to drop in on a good bottle of red. You can imagine the French repair man who came out to see our wagon, complete with Wolfy merrily swigging red wine, thinking his day couldn’t get much worse. It’s the precursor to one of the best times of your life – a season.

It’s a story that all snowboarders know well. Now when I was 18, I wasn’t in any snowboard school, wasn’t already on a fast track by a brand, and was pretty much still learning to snowboard so doing a season with like-minded people was amazing. Off we headed to Val d’Isere to work way too many hours and snowboard every spare minute, drink a fair bit, and sleep as and when it allowed. It was amazing, and sometimes seemed that the people “doing a season” have been consigned to people just drinking and not reall getting anywhere snowboardingwise. Now on the second season in Val d’Isere we would spend many a day building jumps and trying to huck something off them for the rest of the afternoon. On one such afternoon, when I was actually stuck in the kitchen, word came through from a couple of the other kitchen staff of a very good-looking English girl doing a season over in Tignes who was doing backflips left right and center. They were A) Impressed, B) In love, and C) Jealous beacause none of them could really land any of their tricks at the time.

No, this is not Jenny Jones, this is the author back in his seasoning days. Pulling a punter frontflip. To flat.

Throughout the season this girl continued to turn heads with her amazing riding, and information filtered over to in Val d’Isere about her. It turned out she was working in a chalet over there – she was one of us! Remember, this was before Facebook, and pretty much in the early days of email, so information didn’t spread as quickly as today.

Fast forward a couple of months, and she cleans up at the Brits and very quickly we find out this girl’s name is Jenny Jones. That’s right: the Jenny Jones. Her of X Games fame. She didn’t go to snowboard school, she didn’t get special coaching, she wasn’t on some fasttrack by any brands, she was, well, doing a season. That’s sometimes all you need as a snowboarder: not a coach, not some airbag, you just need time on your snowboard.

Jenny went on from there to then win a few more events and become a pretty big deal in the UK, with deals on Salomon and Oakley supporting her from the outset. After a couple of injury setbacks along the way, including one dryslope injury (yes, we hear you scream, why did she try dryslope?) Jenny really started writing her own history a couple of years ago with her first slopestyle gold medal at the X Games. People still say that they are surprised to hear of a snowboarder from the UK living the dream… damn, Jenny is making the dream her own. So a year later, Jenny goes back, and again walks away with a second gold medal in one of the most emotional finals ever. Good work EXPN.

Then with all the hype around an X Games moving to Europe, it was with baited breath that the industry traipsed over to Tignes, France, to check out our very small accommodation, and the ‘interesting’ slopestyle course. They always say, though, “the course is the same for every rider so get amongst it”, and that’s exactly what Jenny did. It was a challenging course but she made it her own, and wrote history by becoming a threepeat X Games Gold medalist. An amazing achievement, which she made even more special by dedicating her victory to the gathered thousands of British Chalet girls on the hill that day. She was effectively saying to them: “Look, if I have done it, why cant you?”  And she is so right. Jenny has become one of the most successful female athletes of our sport, and I know everyone from the British scene is so proud of her for flying the flag for us.

Here's Jenny with one of her 3 X Games golds, and a drunk-yet-impressed member of Onboard's editorial team.

The only sour note of the whole thing was that the day after the X Games I was watching Sky News, waiting for the news report of Jenny’s success… and it didn’t appear. There must have been a problem with the report, or there must have been a delay, so I waited. And nothing. Just more football. I tried BBC, and the same. Checked all the newspapers, and the same. Now I love football as much as the next man, especially when Swansea City are running the Championship as they are right now, but this, well, it was a a joke. We have the most successful female snowboarder in X Games history coming from the UK, and it didn’t make TV or the papers? Our media needs shooting. In Europe sometimes our media is so backwards, and they wonder why kids only want to play football – it’s so damn impossible to get anything else any screen time. Either that or the PR agency for X Games and Jenny need a good prodding.

So what’s the moral of the story? Well, I’m  just saying that winter is here, we are mid-way through a recession, and jobs are hard to find. So if you’re stuck for what to do and can’t find work at home, just sack it off and head for the hills. You will make friends, snowboard a bunch, and have the best time of your life. You might even becomes the next Jenny Jones. It just takes time, and belief in yourself.

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, he identifies what it takes to be one of the best in your sport or chosen fieled, and he found that you need on average 10,000 hours at whatever it is to be prolific. Well, I just think Jenny has probably done 10,001 hours, as she is in a league of her own.

There will be plenty more podcasts to come from the team throughout the season, so stayed tuned and keep an eye out for 2010 episode 3.