A reliable indicator of who’ll be dominating contest shredding in the future, the World Rookie Fest has wrapped up in Livigno. Check the edit and remember these names… 

Day 3 at the 2013 WSF World Rookie Fest saw many of the most talented under 18 years snowboarders at international level, challenging difficult weather conditions with wind and snow falls. While competing for one of the most wished title of the youth snowboard competitions, they showcased how high is today the riding level of tomorrow snowboard stars.

After 2 lucky qualification days, where snowy forecast turned in clen sky, the snow falls arrived over Valtellina, creating difficult condition for the finals of the 2013 WSF World Rookie Fest in Livigno. Winds and clouds didn’t scare the 42 finalists (16 male rookies, 12 male grom, 8 female rookie and 6 female grom) which were more than motivated to shred the Mottolino Snowpark even with low visibility and powder snow on the slopes. A real challenge for these young riders.

Among the girls Talie Larochaix from France won the grom category, while Valentina Barengo from Italy resulted the winner among the female rookies with a solid run including rotations on every kickers of the largest line in the slopestyle. “It is my third and last year as a rookie and winning here in Livigno is like a dream come true” said Valentina after the prize giving ceremony.

The male grom section showcased an insane level of riding since the qualifications where Norwegian ripper Marcus Kleveland stomped a bs double cork 1260. In the finals the challenge was beetwin Marcus and his team mate Isak Ulstein who resulted the best and conquered the top of the podium. Third place for the new comer Tit Stante from Slovenia, another name to remember.

In the male rookie category the battle for the title was amazing with several changes in top position during the 3 runs. At the end the Norwegian Ole Christian Hagen conquered his second victory in Livigno, followed on the podium by Simon Bürki from Switzerland and Rowan Coultas from Great Britain.

For the 8 time in 8 edition of the WSF World Rookie Fest in Livigno, Norway resulted the best team of the event. Hands up for the Swiss Team which, with its team of 22 rippers, was able for the first time to challange the Norwegian domination.

With 138 riders from 16 nations, and 8 nations rappresented on the 4 categories podiums, the 2013 WSF World Rookie Fest in Livigno resulted the largest and most international youth snowboard event ever organized in the history of World Snowboard Federation and TTR World Snowboard Tour. This event is the place to be if your are looking for tomorrow snowboard stars.

Full results on www.worldrookietour.com

Winning!

Finnish wild boy Roope Tonteri put down a Cab 12, back 9 and boardslide 270 out to take out Ulrik Badertscher and scoop the 2012 edition of the Burn River Jump in Livigno. 

In an exciting and thrilling super-final 19 year old Finnish rider Roope Tonteri was bestowed with the prestigious title, $15,000 and 800 points for the TTR Overall World ranking. Canadian Mark McMorris took the BURN JIB MASTER title and earned $3,000 for his Switch Hardway 270 on 270 out on the down-rail.

Thousands of spectators descended on the course setup near Livigno’s town centre to check the action, and the setup at the Mottolino Fun Mountain Area was in a perfect shape for creative snowboard action. 16 riders made up of guys who’d qualified, bagged a wildcard or were invited threw down hard all night long with an array of heavy trickery.

The judging was divided in two parts: 50% for the action on the main kicker (measures: 20 m, 3,5 m, 60 m), and 50 % for the jump over the river Spoel and the jibbing playground in the finish area that gave riders five different options.

The best four riders passed into the super-finals, based on the k.o. system– Roope Tonteri against Mark McMorris and Staale Sandbech against Ulrik Badertscher. Four world-class freestylers, all who had a good chance of winning. But this night Roope and Ulrik advanced to the final round matching for the victory. Roope Tonteri showed a huge Cab 1260 followed by a Backside 900 over the River “Spoel” finishing with a Boardslide 270 out. That was a hard act to follow for Ulrik, who started with a Backside 1080, a double Backside Rodeo 900 and ended up his run with a cab 270 hardway. 91.33 to 90.33 points in favour of the Finnish was the message of the four judges. Right after the decision smiling Roope Tonteri had this to say: “My heart is beating so fast. I am happy to be here. I feel really good at the River Jump. This morning I had a sauna and then I came to the contest. But I didn’t expect this victory. Ulrik’s run was so strong.” The podium was completed by the 2012 Double X-Games Winner Mark McMorris, who additionally to the third place in the big air competition won the BURN JIB MASTER part.

Mark McMorris on his way to 3rd place.

BURN RIVER JUMP 2012 RESULTS

1.Roope Tonteri/FIN BURTON 91.33 points
2.Ulrik Badertscher/NOR BURN 90.33
3.Mark McMorris/CAN BURTON 65.00
4.Staale Sandbech/NOR BURN 17.67
5.Stefano Munari/ITA NITRO 71.33

BURN JIB MASTER 2012: Mark McMorris/CAN, trick: Switch Hardway 270 on 270 out

The 2011-2012 Tour finale is drawing nearer, Stale Sandbech is currently leading the TTR Overall Ranking. Jan Scherrer made his way into the top five today, improving from the 7th to 4th position. Mark McMorris dropped one spot, even though he made it to the final and came in third, he was not able to beat his own best Big Air results for the 2011-2012 season. Today’s results will count towards the Big Air rankings for the 2012-2013 season, with the Big Air Tour Champion Seppe Smits crowned at the last 6Star event of 2011-2012, the Billabong Air&Style in Innsbruck.

For the first time, Burn’s shred team convened from every corner of Europe to slay Italy’s best park on the Mottolino in Livigno.

Representing Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Italy and France, the riders showcased their variety of talents on and off the mountain (see Arthur’s cooking section!) with the grand finale taking place at the epic Burn River Jump night contest.

The Burn team house was a hive of activity and provided the perfect backdrop for a killer week of shred and good times. Check it out.

The Burn River Jump is set to go off in a couple of hours, but to keep you ticking over till then we can bring you young American ripper Eric Willett checking the course at practice yesterday. Setup looks sick!

Watch the action LIVE on burnriverjump.it. Hopefully the stream isn’t as bad tonight as it was yesterday…

Though Peetu has got the TTR crown in the bag for the third time, the Tour rolls on regardless with riders battling it out in Livigno at the Burn River Jump. 10 riders made it into the main Big Air event after yesterday’s slopestyle finals, so it’s game on again tonight…

A bright sunny day welcomed the 55 international snowboarders to the 5Star Burn Slopestyle Finals yesterday in Livigno’s world-renowned Swatch Mottolino Snowpark. The course setup was stellar, with a Burn can for jibbing to begin, followed by the choice of a Burn can to bonk or a 2 meter gap box leading in to the big kicker line consisting of a 20 meter kicker, a 19 meter gap jump and a 22 meter kicker at the end.

The three-run final saw a high level of riding throughout the day, despite the weather closing in towards the late afternoon. In the end, it was the Norwegian viking Ulrik Badertscher, who took the win with a backside 1080, a double backside rodeo and a huge cab 1080. In a close second came the young Swiss talent Patrick Burgener with a switch backside 900, a backside 1080 double cork and a frontside 900. Third place went to Jamie Nicholls from the UK with his winning run that included a cab 900, frontside 720 and a backside 1080.

The top 10 riders of the 5Star Burn Slopestyle qualified automatically to ride in the 5Star TTR River Jump Big Air contest this evening to measure thir skills against the invited riders including last year’s winner Yale Cusino (USA) and the last minute invited rider Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) at the River Jump Arena in downtown Livigno.

In the slopestyle contest, riders bagged valuable TTR World Tour Ranking points, counting towards their end of season total and potentially helping to secure an all-important top 10 spot. Ulrich Baderscher was awarded 850 points and he moved up into World No. 23 and Patric Burgener now sits in World No 16. Most notably, despite not finishing on the podium, Eric Willet improved on his Swatch TTR Ranking position significanly and now sits in World No. 9, and with a good result in tomorrow’s 5Star Big Air he could improve on his place in the TTR Top 10.

So it’s to the River Jump proper this evening, when the riders will be throwing down the heavy hammers. It’ll be going down from 20:30 to 22:30 and if you can’t make it to Livigno, you can check out the live streaming on: www.burnriverjump.it. Hopefully the quality is better than yesterday, when it looked like they were filming with cellphone cameras from 1999 and broadcasting it over the dial-up internet connection from 1999.

The TTR 5star Burn River Jump is coming back to the Swatch Mottolino Snowpark this weekend, February 22nd-25th, 2011.

And pilgrimaging to the land of pasta and pizza will be Swiss talent Christian Haller, currently World N.6 of the TTR World Ranking, Norwegian rookie Ståle Sandbech, as well as locals Giorgio Ciancaleoni and Marco Grigis, to name just a few.

Together with many more eager shred heads, they will battle it out on the 4 huge kickers on the XL line in the Mottolino snowpark, followed by the Mottolino Metro Area for jib lovers. The Gran Finale of the Burn River Jump will be set in Livigno down town tho, where the finalists will hit a massive 20 meter kicker, followed by two rails to cross the Spoel River as well as a stairset, a Burn can and a pole jam to show the best skills in order to be crowned Burn Jib Master.

For more info go to burnriverjump.it and ttrworldtour.com

Don’t miss the official video highlights from the Protest World Rookie Fest 2011 in Livigno, Italy. A three and half minute quick edit to show the best actions from the finals of the most progressive youth snowboard event.

Watch out the winning run of norwegian ripper Emil Andre Ulsletten including fs1080, cab1080, boardslide 450out on the cannon-ball and switch bs900. The highlight also include tricks from Peder Midttomme and Havard Bergheim, both from Norway. As well as the best rookie girl Anna Gyrmati from Hungary, and the top male and female groms: seamus O’Connor from Ireland and Maria Delfina Maiocco from Italy.

Martin Mikyska on a rail. Photo: Eleonora Raggi

Results of the Protest World Rookie Fest 2011
Livigno, Italy
3Star Swatch TTR Slopestyle

ROOKIE MEN FINAL RESULTS
1 ULSLETTEN EMIL ANDRE NOR 1993
2 MIDTTØMME PEDER NOR 1993
3 BERGHEIM HÅVARD NOR 1993

ROOKIE WOMEN FINAL RESULTS
1 GYARMATI ANNA HUN 1993
2 RUSIN KATARZYNA POL 1994
3 THOMPSON NORA NOR 1993

GROM MEN FINAL RESULTS
1 O’CONNOR SEAMUS IRL 1997
2 KOCH LUCIEN SUI 1996
3 ROISLAND MONS NOR 1997

GROM WOMEN FINAL RESULTS
1 MAIOCCO MARIA DELFINA ITA 1996
2 VOJACKOVA KATERINA CZE 1997
3 SILLIERES CHLOE FRA 1998

Next international stop of the World Rookie Tour 2011
Protest Pyrenees Rookie Fest – Vallnord, Andorra – 3Star – 17.20 febbruary 2011
East Rookie Fest – Splinderuv Mlyn, Czech Republic – 2Star – march 18.20, 2011
Transilvania Rookie Fest – Arena Platos, Romania – 2 Star – march 25.27, 2011
Protest World Rookie Finals – Ischgl, Austria – 4Star – 6-10 april 2011
Rookie Camp – Val Senales, Italy – 25 june – 9 july 2011 (www.rookiecamp.eu )
Summer Rookie Fest – Val Senales, Italy – 2Star – 1- 2 july 2011
Australian Rookie Fest – Thredbo, Australia – 3Star – july 2011
South America Rookie Fest – Valle Nevado, Chile – 2Star – august 2011
Plus many other 1star rookie event all around organized by WSF National Snowboard Association .

Complete list of world rookie tour events avaible on www.worldsnowboardfederation.org.

World Rookie Tour 2010 consist of a global series of youth snowboard events all over the world, from 1 to 4star level. Over 500 kids from 20 nations join the tour in order to challenge for the title of World Rookie Champion and get their chance to became professional snowboarder: infact instead of prize money the rookie tour offer the winner tickets to world class events, photo shooting with international media and video session with film production company.

The kick off event of season 2010 was in Livigno, Italy, with the most progression youth snowboard event in the history of snowboard: the Protest World Rookie Fest. A Swatch TTR 3Star slopestyle which attract 100 of the most talented under 18 years old riders from 20 nations, challanging in one of the greatest snowpark of the season. The winner, Roope Tonteri, got a ticket for the legendary Oakley Artic Challenge in Oslo, Norway, the event founded by Terje Haakonsen, the god father of modern snowboard. Roope hit the TAC with solid run ending the event on 7th place: well done Roope!

Then the tour moved to Andorra, Serbia, Czech Republic and arrived to the end of season big finals: the 4Star Protest World Rookie Finals 2011 in Ischgl, Austria.
Only pre-selected riders from previous stops and from World Snowboard Federation national associations,had the chance to compete in the rookie finals and challenge for the World Rookie Champion title and won amazing prizes: trip to Chile, a ticket to the Air&Style, a filming session with Pirate Movie Production and photoshootings with Onboard Europe.

Roope Tonteri resulted again the best rider of the event and conquered his second World Rookie Champion title: everybody will now look at his name as an upcoming international pro rider!
After the finals a buch of the best europea rookies where invited to the first ever Rookie Fest in South America, to be host in Valle Nevado, Chile. It was an unforgettable trip, with pros, slopestyle contest with the locals and some freeride shooting.

The rookies grew during the season and are now ready to became international pros: the dream is coming finally true.

The biggest rookies-only event is coming back to the Swatch Snowpark Mottolino in Livigno, Italy this winter.

Registrations for the TTR3Star Protest World Rookie Fest, that will be going down from January 15th-19th 2011, are now open! Whether you’re a Rookie (born between 1 January 1993 and 31 December 1995), a Grom (born after January 1, 1996), male or female, there’s a bunch of amazing prizes to be won, including tickets to the Oakley Arctic Challenge, the Ride Shakedown or the Rip Curl Sista Session, a trip to Chile, an invitation to the Onboard and Cooler Rookie Shootings, a surf camp in France and loads of goodies.

A new addition in 2011 is the Rookie Training Camp, that will be held immediately after the event from January 19th-22nd. With international pros and media people, this camp is dedicated to progression, filming and photo shoots to learn new tricks, get pictured by Entry Magazine and be filmed by Board.tv.

Participants are pre-selected through regional qualifiers in their in their home countries, ensuring that only the most promising riders come to this event to present you with a fireworks of tricks like double corks, front flips and all other kind of spins again. This ‘Rookie to Pro’ system and attracts the best youngsters and many international team managers scouting for future stars: Snowboarding, THEY are coming!

So if your dream is to be snowboard pro one day, your future starts at the Rookie Fest!

For info and registrations go to worldsnowboardfederation.org, email rookie@worldsnowboardfederation.org or call +39.340.3285569

After last year’s successful European Summer Camps Tour, the SnowBroader Crew decided to hit the Spring Parks yet again with a nice tour around some of the best spots in the Alps! The plan was to start with Hintertux, then move to Kaunertal, later check Stubai Zoo, then visit Gentelmenrider’s park in Val Senales and for the end Mottolino Snowpark in Livigno.

This Spring Tour 2010 was one of the best this year. Perfect parks, blue bird sky and tons of fun. To read how it was just click HERE and for a moving picture click PLAY…

Thanks to Hintertux, Stubai, Kaunertal, Gentelmenrider’s Club, Val Senales and Livigno for making this trip possible. And BIG UP to Keti, Matic, Denny, Jan and Kris, without you this trip would not  be the same! THANKS AGAIN!!!