Our review of the highs and lows of snowboarding’s rickety rollercoaster continues today with the month of March under the microscope…

MARCH

So Bill Shakespeare warned us to ‘Beware the ides of March’, did he? Luckily we cut class that day and don’t know what he was banging on about so we were fully able to enjoy 2010′s third month. If you thought the Olympics being done and dusted meant some time off the contest merry-go-round you’d be wrong, as we bring you news of Peetu Piiroinen adding another hunk o’ bling to his bulging sack by winning the Toyota Big Air and Yale Cousino bagging the Burn River Jump in Livigno. Thankfully Franck Moissonnier dropped over a sweet full part of his Nike 6.0 protégé Victor De Le Rue‘s bangers to give us some competitive respite – this year every man and his dog is chowing down at the ‘Full Online Part’ table, but back then it was something of a novelty. VDLR went on to score an interview in the mag later this year, so you know he’s a bit tasty on a shred sled. Watch it…

In our irregular quest to find the wisest pro riders in the game, we hit up Nico Droz and Tonton Holland to see who’s got The Knowledge, Scotty Lago continues to live the dream on TMZ, Nicolas Müller allows us to poke our noses round his new pad and gives us the lowdown on signing for Nike in his Day in the Life, and Peetu gets the TTR World Tour title in his special Finnish headlock by winning the Arctic Challenge and making a mockery of the ‘Tour-defining US Open’ by securing the crown with time to spare. Shaun White may have put on a show at the Olympics and money-shotted with the double McTwist 12, but Iouri Podladtchikov quickly steps up to bat and learns them for himself to become at the time the only other rider with this mind masher in his armoury. Here’s how he stomped his first one…

From that madness, we get back to the roots as The Farm session at the backyard Heisä Park gets the video recap treatment, marvel at Peetu’s consistent sickness and the rad new judging format at the Arctic Challenge, face-off Chris Sörman and Hampus Mosesson in the latest edition of The Knowledge, and the Winter X-Games makes its European debut in Tignes, with Jenny Jones & Eric Willett taking gold in Slopestyle, and Kaitlyn Farrington & Iouri Podladtchikov getting the business done in the halfpipe. We laugh at American pronunciation in our Minute-by-Minute report of the men’s pipe, but seeing as a picture paints a thousand words a movie must be like a million, so we figure it’s easiest for you to just watch I-Pod put down the highest scoring pipe run in X-Games history…

Over in Austria the Wängl Tängl, one of our favourite contests like ever, wraps up with the locals owning the always-creative setup, while in the US we get some great news as Kevin Pearce posts his first update to let us know in his own words how his rehab is going. For those who care about pro riders’ sponsor deals, Anne-Flore Marxer cushed up with DaKine, our favourite internetting Icelanders, the Helgason brothers, hopped on Skullcandy, and Head Snowboards drop another slick webisode, this time making us jealous we weren’t on their Japan trip. In fact we liked it so much we’ll drop it here for you to enjoy…

Up north in Sweden Nils Arvidsson steps his game up by getting his landing gear under a switch back 12 double cork. Say what? The revered US Open goes off once again in Stratton, with Candrian & Bang taking the Slopestyle and Clark & Kokubo winning the pipe. As everyone knows Peetu had the TTR World Tour in the bag already but he picked up his trophy and still managed another payday by securing the BGOS title, though. Another hundred thousand dolleri, moi. This side of the pond it’s JibVid time in Mayrhofen, which goes off again, and the Onboard team wins. Again. As a wise man once said, “It’s not going to suck itself…” so here’s how Tom Elliott, Fredrik Evensen and Ethan Morgan came out on top for us…

Damn, March was busy so to wrap the month in a quick-fire manner… DCP reminds us all of the need to be aware in the backcountry, Xavier De Le Rue shows he is clearly mental in this clip of his Verbier line, Enni Rukajärvi is awesome, winning the Women’s TTR at the first time of asking, and to finish it all off, the Oxborn Session in Sweden was insane, with some of the most progressive kicker riding to date on show. Here’s how it played out…

So that was March. And if you think April was any less awsome you’d be a fool so come back tomorrow for the full what-went-down…

After 6 great years the JibVid is taking a year off due to a lack of Title sponsor. Event organisers GMC Events are very disappointed about being unable to hold the 7th edition of this event in 2011 however after 3 very successful years with Oakley, Mayrhofen and our other partners we are confident that we can find another sponsor to take up the position for 2012. We had a good run of form in this contest, with the Onboard team lead by Isenseven filmer Tom Elliott, bagging first on two occasions and making the podium the year he didn’t win. Graham included this in the press release, so with only a small amount of own-trumpet blowing, here’s our winning JibVid from 2010′s contest…

JIBVID 2010 – 1st PLACE

2010 saw the best JibVid yet with the standard of films at an incredible level and team entries from over 15 countries before the final cut was made for the start spots. You can check out the films at www.jib-vid.com if you have not yet seen them. To warm everyones cockles during this cold spell we are having we have put together a JibVid 2010 highlights film [at the top of this post] which will put a smile on your face, beautifully hosted by the one and only Henry Jackson.

We have also put together a little Mayrhofen resort check which gives you all the information you need to know about this beautiful Austrian town and another sterling performance by Henry, a must see for anyone who knows Mayrhofen, is planning on going there or just wants a laugh.

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